Charlie Kirk Funeral Orations

 From The Old Testment:

Leviticus Chapter 19 Verse 4:

Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

From THE GUARDIAN 

Donald Trump Jr tells crowd 'we don't silence' opponents as dozens penalized for Kirk comments

Secretary of state Marco Rubio addresses the crowd, compares Kirk to Jesus

Secretary of state Marco Rubio was the next speaker, following suit from previous speakers and comparing Charlie Kirk to historical figures including Jesus

Pete Hegseth:

You see, we always did need less government. But what, Charlie understood and infused into his movement, is we also needed a lot more God… On this Sunday morning, I’d like to think we’re all in Charlie’s church.

J.D. Vance:

“My friends, for Charlie, we must remember that he is a hero to the United States of America, and he is a martyr for the Christian faith. May our heavenly father give us the courage to live as Charlie lived. That is what we must do. For Charlie, you ran a good race, my friend. I love you. We’ve got it from here. Thank you.”

Marco Rubio:

“God took on the form of a man and came down and lived among us, and he suffered like men, and he died like a man, but on the third day, he rose unlike any mortal man, and then, and to prove any doubters wrong, he ate with his disciples so they could see and they touched his wounds… And when he returns, there will be a new heaven and a new earth, and we will all be together, and we are going to have a great reunion there again with Charlie and all the people we love.”

Tulsi Gabbard: 

“Charlie, he chose our schools as his arena because he knows that they are meant to teach, to train our young people to think critically, to debate ideas, to test their strength through a clash of reason. But too often, these schools silence debate, saying words are violence and dissenting voices are hush and those who speak of God, those who speak the truth, simple, objective truths like there are only two genders in these schools, they are told you have no voice.”

New Poem: POST-CAR-T THERAPY, POST-HOSPITAL

 after 30 days in and out of hospital 

 getting to briefly know doctors, nurses and custodians

 I come home and feel beatific 

 trying to love just about everyone 

 taking my medication regardless of aftertaste

 gathering strength 

 becoming a day person instead of night owl

 hoping to re-engage with the outside world 

 for as long as possible 

New Poem: SPEAK WITHOUT BEING SILENCED OR KILLED

Don’t want to have a gag in my mouth placed by the Donald Trump administration dur to dissenting speech.  I believe in expressing opinions whether it's left or right, and nobody should die for dissenting speech. Nobody should die for thoughtless, hate-stoking or overheated speech. I believe that people should be able to debate thoughtfully and not be treated like pariahs.  I believe in speech that doesn't have ball gags over the mouth and passports and visas taken away. I believe people should take very deep breaths and tell themselves: Well, it's that person being that person, and there's no reason to maim or kill that person over what that person says.

DONALD TRUMP COSPLAYS KILGORE IN APOCALYPSE NOW RAMBLE

 Chicago doesn’t deserve this horrible stupid visual meme the city and state should be left alone to cope with crime, it’s root causes and fallout instead of being federally big footed and used for a photo op of Guard troops wandering around the Magnificent Mile while more hard working regular people have to tread anxiously and, circling back to the dumb shock and awe meme, one can be disgusted anew by how Donald Trump who called soldiers suckers and losers and chose to avoid Vietnam not out of principle but expedience chooses to be exploitive and again counts on an unthinking unreflective core group to wave him through to the next outrage

GHISLAINE MAXWELL’S GREATEST PARDON SEEKING HITS

 1. I Saw Nothing 

 2. Me, Andrew, Virginia and the Fake Photo

 3. Donald’s So Good To Me

 4. Don’t Ask Me About Nubiles

 5. Jeffrey Told Me Nothing I’ll Share With You 

 6. Jail Is Better With Privileges

 7. Glory Days 

 8. Take Me Back To London

 9.  No! No! Capitol Hill

10. Donald’s So Good To Me (Reprise, duet with Todd Blanche)

New Poem: CALIFORNIA GERRYMANDER REFERENDUM RAMBLE

 can’t get around the California referendum system where the issues aren’t decided by actual study of the issues instead we’re going to have right wing consultants crank out commercials that will scare no information voters into believing their voting rights will be taken away and of course Gavin Newsom will fundraise off this and perhaps rasp his way through a few public announcements about the Importance of 2026 maybe selling the notion that this will check some of Donald and J.D.’s worst behavior 

then if it passes and it likely will, Gavin and the Democrats who love holding power will resume triangulation making trans and homeless demonized like Bill Clinton doing this to Sister Souljah in 1992

and we’ll return to Oh What Will The Republicans Think. No Social Programs and Can We Get The Joe Rogan vote

New Poem: TEXAS LET DOWN RAMBLE

 hear the cartoon voice from what Molly Ivins used to call the Texas Lege and that voice says if we let them vote they’ll vote wrong so my former home state which used to acknowledge the existence of Democrats now dyes the state some hue of salamander red and applies the branding iron hoping for air conditioned passivity unquestioning faith state sponsored narrow version of Jesus Christ in the school system 

and here’s Beto O’Rourke fund raising and that’s not much of a bulwark against chicken fried fascism

New poem: STATE OF AMERICA RAMBLE

 He's going to Alaska to waste the world's time. He's going to Alaska to polar bear a hug to Putin Trump Wilsonagain, say, "Papa Bear.” Putin will say, "Hello useful idiot. And bring the American business back to Russia, No, I'm not stopping the war and in I still want my partitioning in part of all that stuff. is happening. The district of Columbia is now the. Well, no other way to say it, but the police district of Columbia. with Pam Bondi, coming down hard, hard, hard. at the DOJ who snapped and threw a sandwich at somebody who shouldn't even be patrolling the streets of D.C. And this.. at 858 p.m. Pacific time, August 14th, this is the state of America. And. God keeping helping us get from one day to the next.