Schrodinger’s Lame Duck — refusing to concede the election while simultaneously vowing to run against the victor in another four years.
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Christ, I’m funny.
Trump supporter friend: “Now is the time for Christians to share the good news of the Gospel and get as many to accept Jesus Christ as we are able…..He’s coming back very, very soon!”
Me: “Don’t wait up. He’s at my house celebrating the election results.”
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,/ Americans voting a lot!
Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
Americans voting a lot!
The president’s lying, corruption and treason
has not been forgot!
The Donald, The Donald, ’twas his intent
to topple elected government.
He rallied a mob of gun-toting hayseeds
to bolster his own autocracy.
But good people braved the long voting lines
and remembered to mail their ballots on time.
Most of the voters were not confused
by InfoWars, O.A.N. or Fox News.
Joe Biden’s poll numbers are closing in!
Holler boys, holler girls, let the bells ring!
— Eric Robert Nolan 🙂
Not sure where to go with this.
Being a writer, I’d like to think I have pretty good understanding of the nuances of words.
If you try to prevent votes from being counted, that makes you a LITERAL enemy of democracy, right?
You would be an enemy of democracy IN THE SIMPLEST AND MOST LITERAL SENSE of that term.
People are using the word “coup.”
As of this writing (2:46 AM), Biden is reportedly still ahead in both the electoral and popular vote.
Yet I’m reading that Trump declared victory and says he is going to go to the Supreme Court to have voting stopped.
“This is a major fraud on our nation … so we’ll be going to the US Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop.”
He seems to be making no effort to hide the fact that he simply wishes that certain votes not be counted. As far as I can tell so far, he’s not even offering a rationale …
Stopping voting by fiat? Even if he wins legitimately (which is quite possible), this is still the action of a despot.
If I am reading this wrong, please feel free to correct me.
Update: most of you all are already aware that conventional wisdom says that mail-in ballots will favor Biden.
Update 2: This is is insane.
From CNN: “It is a distressing moment for me as a long time Republican to see a call to disenfranchise so many people,” said [Republican election lawyer Ben Ginsberg.] “…What the President said tonight is not only unprecedented and it not only lacks any basis in the law, it really is a disservice to all the other men and women who are on the ballot as Republicans today.”
When asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper whether he’d every seen anything like this from a President, he replied, “No. Not even close.”
Donald Trump Limericks!
I’m sharing these again just for fun before Tuesday. People really seem to like them.
Donald Trump Limerick #1
If Don was unloved by his Mama,
it would explain a lot of the drama —
his low self-esteem,
and his feverish dream
of being more loved than Obama.
Donald Trump Limerick #2
There once was a doltish aggressor
who lied at his pandemic presser.
He figured he’d use
his tried-and-true ruse
of blaming his black predecessor.
Donald Trump Limerick #3
There once was a man who was slow
who got caught in a quid pro quo.
He was following orders
from outside our borders
from a KGB agent and foe.
Donald Trump Limerick #4
There once was a dumb demagogue
whose thoughts were always a fog.
He was ever perplexed
by dementia’s effects
and came off like a sputtering hog.
Donald Trump Limerick #5
There once was a man from Manhattan
whose pockets he wanted to fatten.
He couldn’t predict
that the law was so strict
and Pelosi’s as tough as George Patton.
Donald Trump Limerick #6
And now the disordered goon
is hell-bent on mining the moon.
The strange new digression
leaves us the impression
that he’s a distractible loon.
(c) 2019 Eric Robert Nolan
Down in the Dirt releases its November 2020 Issue: Pipe Dreams
Down in the Dirt released its November 2020 Issue: Pipe Dreams today; if you get your hands on a copy, then please check out my poem “An Ode to the Paintings of a Newly Discovered Artist.”
You can order a hard copy of the magazine right here over at Amazon.
Or, you can read the poem for free in the magazine’s online edition right here.
Thanks, as always, to Janet Kuypers for selecting my poetry for this outstanding literary magazine!
Happy Halloween!!!
I hope you’ve got something fun planned. Granted, I don’t exactly look terrifying in my discount glow-in-the-dark hockey mask, but hey.
I DO have an excellent Halloween pun for you.
If I summon two demons today to do my bidding, but instead elect to lease them out to you, why is that a GOOD thing?
Because it makes me the lessor of two evils.
Damn, I’m good.
The Piker Press features “Contagion is a Despot Poet”
I’m honored today to see my poem “Contagion is a Despot Poet” appear over at The Piker Press. You can find it right here.
Thanks as always to Editor Sand Pilarski for allowing me to share my voice there!
I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but …
… it looks like they’re still not wearing masks at the Trump rallies.
(It’s okay not to laugh. This is such an obscure movie joke that only 40-something horror nerds will get it.)
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 