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Return to the US -Reflections
Reflections on returning to the US and recent poems
I have returned to the US for the summer. I will be in DC then Oregon a,nd California. So far I have mixed feelings. The political madness is there, but otherwise things are looking good.
entry was a breeze. The facial recognition AI powered software blinked and I was in. Just like that. It is nice when technology works. Some people have had problems entering the US as DHS agents never known for being customer friendly have bother and detained some foreign visitors but we had no problems.
The Trump-Musk bromace ended in a spectacular blow-up with both sides blaming each other.
Trump is going to get his big military parade next week.
I went out to Annadale the other night and had a delicious dinner at Taco Sam a K-Mexican restaurant. K-Mexican food is a fusion of Korean and Mexican food. It originated in Korea town LA which has a lot of Mexicans as well as Koreans. Koreans and Mexicans discovered that they liked each other food and there were a number of Korean-Mexican couples. Over time some people open K Mexican restaurants. The one in Annandale is typical. We had bulgogi and chicken fajitas. Quite good actually.
It looks as if I will be returning to DC area next summer and residing there for a few years. I am looking forward to that and hope we can continue to live in Korea part of the year.
Here then are some of my reflections and recent poems to enjoy.
Return to the US blog Sam Adam’s Decision Fight Fascism
Sam Adams
Watching the news unfold
Seeing daily the beginning
Of the fascist take-over
Of the United States,
He had a dilemma
and decision to make,
Did he allow it
to happen quietly
Of did he join
the resistance and rebellion?
Lost and Found
When we met
My dear,
I was lost
And you found me.
You mesmerized me with your love.
You saved my benighted soul
And gave me love and comfort,
In a refuge in a cold uncaring world.
I am reading “it Can’t Happen Here” which is prophetic novel written in 1934 about the rise to power of a fascist dictatorship. Very timeley reading.
It Can’t Happen Here is a dystopian political novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935. It explores the rise of a fascist regime in the United States, led by the populist senator Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, who wins the presidency and quickly dismantles democratic institutions. The story follows Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who resists Windrip’s authoritarian rule.
Characters:
Doremus Jessup – A liberal newspaper editor and the protagonist.
Buzz Windrip – A charismatic senator who becomes a dictator.
Shad Ledue – A former handyman who rises in the ranks of Windrip’s regime.
Lorinda Pike – A feminist and outspoken critic of the government.
Sissy Jessup – Doremus’s rebellious daughter.
Lee Sarasin – Windrip’s manipulative advisor.
Julian Falck – A young student and Sissy’s love interest.
Mary Greenhill – Doremus’s daughter, who joins the resistance.
Notable Quotes:
“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”
“It isn’t what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.”
“So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.”
“A country that tolerates evil means—evil manners, standards of ethics—for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.”
Other Works by Sinclair Lewis:
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)
Elmer Gantry (1927)
Dodsworth (1929)
Ann Vickers (1933)
The Prodigal Parents (1938)
Gideon Planish (1943)
Kings blood Royal (1947)
Books with Similar Themes:
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer
1984 by George Orwell
The Iron Heel by Jack London
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Stay Positive15 line version With all the gloom and doom Like Frank Zappa’s famous Senator Manchin reached a deal He took the deal |
President Trump Doubles Down on his Crusade Against Top Universities
He declares that the top universities in the US have become a disgrace and should be shutdown as hotbeds of radical, left win fanatic down starting with Harvard and in his opinion there are too many damn universities in the US and too many foreign students, declaring that the temporary ban on foreign students will continue and become a reduction of total foreign students. He said that if Harvard and the other top universities were to shut down that would be a great thing. He called for a revolution in higher education promoting patriotic pro-American values, American history, patriotism, ending DEI programs, gender studies, ethnic studies and other left wing programs, anti-white programs, anti-American programs and working closely with industry to ensure that graduates are prepared for the world of work. He called for a boycott of the top universities declaring that the Federal government will no longer hire Harvard graduates and other graduates of elite universities and hire instead graduates from conservative universities who are committed to the MAGA world view.
Trump Doubles Down Vows to Arrest Anyone Who Stands in the Way of his Mass Deportation Drive
Millions of people begin marching across the country wearing the new uniform of the resistance a TACO hat which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. The president goes berserk ordering the mass arrest and detention of any people who wears taco hats or otherwise disrespect the President and the Government.
In a sign of mass protests every democratic member of congress show up wearing TACO uniforms and refuse to back down Speaker Jeffries makes an impassioned speech denouncing King Donald and calls for mass civil disobedience and announces that the entire democratic caucus will walk out in protests and calls upon his Republican colleagues to join them in protest.
The Republicans in congress split and one quarter joins the Democratic party in the mass walkout and protest action as millions of people gather in front of the White House wearing TACO uniforms and demanding that he arrest the entire country.
Donald Trump is Not Amused
Donald Is not amused
At the latest news
At the growing protests
At the constant mockery
TACO man goes viral
As Trump Always Chickens Out
Becomes a killer meme
Taking the world by storm
TACO Goes Viral
The joke meme
“Trump
Always
Chickens
Out”
TACO Man
Takes the world
By Storm
Ten Cheritas
There is nothing more to be said
Nothing more I can add
Nothing more than this
I will love you
Until the end of time itself
and death does us part
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There is always one more time
There is always a second chance
For love and happiness
In this dark world of ours
We will find each other
Til the end of time itself
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Time waits for no one
That is what they say
That time waits for no one
But that is a lie
Time waits for you
And time waits for me too
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I will Love you until the end of time
That is all I need to say
That is all that there is
Nothing but love in my heart
Waiting for me to say it
And for you to believe it
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In the beginning of the world
I saw you there
Walking off that bus
And that was the beginning
Of my life with you
And the end of the rest of the world
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Love Endures
the longer I live
the more I learn
that nothing endures in life
other than the love
I share with you
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The Future of NYC
In the distant future
the world will end
with a massive flood
and NYC will slowly sink
beneath the waves
and mankind will die
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69 Years Young
I am 62 years young
62 years around the sun
37 of those years
I have spent
with the love of my life
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Married the Girl of my Dreams
I married the girl of my Dreams
first dreamt of her
back in 1974
Eight years later
she walked off a bus
and into my life
As submitted without Titles
There is nothing more to be said
Nothing more I can add
Nothing more than this
I will love you
Until the end of time itself
and death does us part
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The Cicada Invasion
the Cicada invasion
has begun
in Northern Virginia
billions of them
flying about
making an out-of-this world
alien Sci-Fi like racket
loud enough to wake
the dead from their slumbers
looking for a mate
to keep the species alive
as soon as they mate
they die
what a fate
they have
The Grim Reaper Gathers His Posse
It was Halloween night
A night that all the denizens
Of hell loved.
For on that night
All of hell would break out.
They would celebrate their annual escape
On Halloween, they are allowed
To go to the surface sunlit lands.
For a night of drinking,
Drugging and wilding
As bad craziness descends
Upon the land.
The Grim Reaper and his posse
Dressed up as cosmic court jesters
Dressed as fools.
They descended upon the world
And a night of chaos fell upon the land.
Thousands died, as the Grim Reaper
Added to his quota.
Bonus kills were bonus points.
He returned to hell with his minions,
And the souls of the dead
Who soon became mere ghosts.
Their voices crying in the wind
Echoing through time.
Joe Lewis Meets the Grim Reaper
Joe Lewis died one day after drinking too much in Soi Cowboy, Bangkok, Thailand. He found himself in a dark, forbidding jungle, hot and humid, with a foul smell of death and decaying vegetation everywhere. He had a sense that there were creatures in the jungles looking at him with evil, hungry, malicious intent, then he saw them as the moonlight lit the jungle forest.
They are addictive assholes, Aliens, Apes, Banshees, Bats, bewitching beautiful yet deadly Siren, bureaucrats, Big game hunters,. Bigfoot, Boa constrictors, Centaurs, Cerebus, Cheetahs, Cobra, Chupacabra, clones, coyotes, coydogs, crows. Cthulu, delusional dolls, demons, Devils, Dinosaurs, Dagon, Dragons, Dwarfs, Electric eels, Evil elves, Faded jesters, Frankenstein monsters, Freaks, Gangbangers, Gangstas, Gators, Ghosts, Ghouls, Giant ants, Giant lobsters, Giant spiders, Giant wasps, Giants, Goblins. Godzilla, Gunmen, Headhunters, Hell hounds, Holocausts, Illuminati throwbacks, Imperials stormtroopers, Imps, JD Vance, King Kong. Leprechauns, Two-headed monsters, Lions, Lucifer, Lying libertine, mafia made men, masked marauders, Minions, Moms for liberty, Monsters, Numbed naves, naked incubi, Odious officials ,orcs, Donald Christ Trump
Pot filled pleasuring, Quarantined Quartermasters, Radiated X-ray technicians
Ravens. Rapist, rappers, raving lunatics, reporters, Republican Jesus, Republicans, Satan. Satyrs, Serpents, snakes, Supply Side Jesus, special forces soldiers, Drugged youth, Stung youth, Stone youth, succubi,succubi,terrifying tarantulas ,tigers,Trump,unidentifiable underlings,Vicious vultures.warlocks,werewolves,wild things,winged monkeys,witches,wolves,
Wraiths,Yesterdays,yellow jackets, Yeti, and zombies.
With only a vestige of humanity left, These monsters are engaged
In all sorts of foul evil deeds, Murder violence death around, and non-stop
Violent drug-fueled orgies, as these creatures, half-human half monsters
Half male, half female creatures, Snort coke, cocaine, speed,
Drop acid, Smoke weed, drink vodka shots, scotch, bourbon, beer.
The Trumpian Pig leads the charge and starts engaging in sodomy with Putin
Who chases after people, cutting off their heads with his sword, they turn on to their fellow creatures raping and killing each other, and eating their fellow creatures all night long, howling and growling like escaped banshees from Hell’s insane asylums. Then they attack me screaming,
“Jews will not replace us”
The Putin-Trump pigman yelled out, “After him. All humans must die. Kill Sam.
”
Even the trees came alive, trying to trip him up, as the nightmare creatures ran after him, the hunters, and soldiers firing flaming arrows and semi-automatic weapons lighting up the night sky, and the birds dive-bombing him trying to get his eyes and face, and the other creatures getting closer and closer screaming at him.
They were gaining on him when he came to a dark foul-smelling river. There was a ferryboat filled with hundreds of evil, depraved people on board floating down the river. Many of them were infamous figures, including anti-vaxxer crusaders, bar owners, celebrities, corrupt politicians of both American parties, including Governors, Representatives, Senators, drug dealers, members of the British parliament and parliaments around the world, criminals, crooked cops, fake news reporters, gangsters, gangbangers, gangsta rappers, internet bloggers, idiots in both high and low places, “Criminal Lawyers ” media darlings, pharma bros, scumbags, scoundrels, wall street executives, thugs, Italian, Korean, Japanese Yakuza, and Vietnamese Mafia figures.
They were all standing around as if they were at a cocktail party of the newly damned, drinking, smoking dope, snorting coke, and meth, dropping acid, and flirting up a storm, enjoying the free food, drinks, and drugs provided by the” Hell Catering “company using robots and demonic slave labor. They were partying as if it were their last day on earth, and they knew where they were going. Many of them felt that they would somehow manage to thrive in Hell and were looking forward to it. None of them felt remorse or regret for the actions they had taken in their life. They were mostly entitled “rich people,” the self-proclaimed “masters of the universe.
Just as the creatures were about to pounce, he swam into the water, the boat stopped, and two strange-looking men pulled him out of the water. The human monsters on the ship looked at Joe and dismissed him as a loser, a refugee fleeing the monstrous welcoming committee, and not worthy of their time.
The two gentlemen who had pulled him out of the water were strange-looking people, rough-edged but better than the party people who continued to ignore him or made mocking references to the refugee. Charon, the conductor, an elderly Italian man dressed in a black suit, stood in front of the boat. The Grim Reaper, dressed in a dark suit wearing ray beans, looking oh so cool, stood next to him. The Grim Reaper had a pan-ethnic look, could be almost any ethnicity in the world, but also looked like a space alien.
When he came aboard the ferryboat, he asked the two strange gentlemen who had rescued him,
“Thanks for saving me. Where am I?”
Handing Joe, a cup of Hell whiskey, the older of the two introduced himself saying, “I am the Grim Reaper, and this is Charon, and you are on the ferry to Hell. You are floating down the river Styx, heading to Hell and beyond. We saved you from the welcoming committee. Normally they kill our visitors and take their dead bodies to Hell where they receive a bounty, and then you are reborn as a zombie slave, possessed by demons, becoming a ghost, or a ghoul, or are sent to Hell for punishment. But sometimes, virtuous people manage to escape and per our SOP we are obligated to take in the refugees and take them to Limbo for processing. Stay here my friend, because if you go to the party, you may never return to earth.”
We are taking you and Mr. Alvarez to Limbo for further processing. He may be going upstairs but being an attorney, I have my doubts. You know what they say about lawyers in heaven, there are almost none and Hell is filled with lawyers, crooked police officers, and mafia figures. Limbo is filled with bureaucrats and the red tape takes forever, and the computer system is always crashing. What can you expect? Well, it is hard to get tech support in Heaven or Limbo, all the tech folks tend to go to Hell. “
Mr. Alvarez was an elderly Italian attorney, a lifelong fighter against corruption, the mafia, and organized criminals, and a famous human rights attorney based in Rome.
They chatted about his life and Joe’s life. Mr. Alvarez said, “My friend GR said that I might be the only lawyer getting into heaven in a long time. Most lawyers end up in the other place.”
The river was black as it was after midnight. There was a stench of decay and death, fire and brimstone, and fires burning in giant pits in the distance. The welcoming committee of nightmare creatures followed the boat shouting obscenities and jumping in the water to retrieve partiers who fell off the boat, taking them to shore where they tortured them, murdered them, and ate them.
The other people walked off to the basement of 666 5th Avenue, where there was one of many secret back doorways to the world above Hell. Demon functionaries dressed in Matrix Mr. Smith-style black suits met them at the ferry terminal. They disappeared into the depths of hell. A punk rock band played punk anthems.
The Grim Reaper took Joe and Antonio to the next step, Limbo. A giant black building reached the sky, filled with demonic bureaucrats dressed in Matrix-like Mr. Smith black suits.
The Grim Reaper said, “Wait here. It should not be too long; I like you so we will put you in front of the line.”
He saw hundreds of lost souls wandering around. There were signs in multiple languages saying.
“Wait your turn. You will be processed in the order received. No drinking, drugs, food, phone use, or sexual activity allowed. And no sleeping either. It should not be too long.”
Just then a demon functionary came up to him, hissing. “Joe, and Antonio, follow me.” And took him to where the Grim Reaper was waiting.
“Joe, Antonio, glad to see you. Please tip the demon.”
Joe paid him 100 dollars and Antonio 100 euros. The demon demanded more. The Grim Reaper swore at him in Demon speak and he disappeared into the crowd.
The Grim Reaper consulted his handheld computer, saying, “Hmm just as I suspected. You are wanted upstairs, and a guardian angel was watching you. But you almost did not make it in time. The computer program has a glitch, and you are being sent back to Earth. Your time for final status determination will be sooner than you think. I hope you and I can be friends. I can hire people as my assistants. We had a lot of fun. Think about it when you come back.”
Joseph Lewis woke up in bed next to his wife, he got up and turned on his computer, and read the following message,
“Mr. Joe, I hoped you enjoyed your tour last night. But unfortunately, there was a computer glitch in the matrix system that controls limbo, heaven, and hell. It is hard to get tech support in Limbo or Heaven, most of the engineers end up in hell. But in any event, we determined it was not yet your time.
Your friend made it fine and sends his regards. The drinks are on him when you and your wife finally make it. Oh, contrary to the old song, “In Heaven, there is no beer” we have the finest beer, wine, and spirits you can find in Heaven, and Hell as well.
As for the others, you saw, they too will visit the ferry for the last journey within a few years for most of them. But you know where they will end up.”
Your friend.
Mr. GR the Grim Reaper.
Sailing to Hell
After a long night drinking
In the Cosmos Bar
Sam Adams
Woke up
And found himself
On a barge
Filled with hundreds
Of strange looking people.
The barge was being driven
By a large black man
With dreadlocks.
Along with oars men
Pulling the boat
Along a dark river.
The landscape swept by
Hellish nightmare on land
Fires burning everywhere.
The smell of fire
And brimstone ever present
Screams of the condemned
Filling the air.
The heat and stench
Made it
Hard to breath.
Sam asked the captain
“Where the hell am I?”
The captain laughed,
“I am Charon
And you are on your way
To Limbo.
For your judgement
Day is nigh.
Be afraid my friend
Be very afraid.
Abandon all hope
For those
who find themselves here.
Here never return
To the sunlit lands
Of their birth.”
And he handed Sam
A glass of hell brew ale,
One of his fellow prisoners
A big burly fellow
Who had a pan-ethnic look
Could be anything.
Grabbed the ale
And threw it
into the stinking river,
and said,
Once you drink hell ale
You can not return
To your homeworld.
You have but one chance left
Convince the powers that be
To give you another chance
To return to the world
Right the wrongs you made
Atone for your mistakes.
And hope
The computer
made a mistake
As they often do.
Hell is filled
with corrupt systems techs
And they can be bought.
I have been here before
Let me be your guide
Sam Adams of Earth.
And they sailed on
In the sturgeon darkness
Where it is always
O dark hundred.
TACO Pivoting
TACO Pivoting
President Trump
is known nowadays
by acronym
TACO
Which stands for
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
A nickname he hates
With passion
He got the nickname
because
Of his constant pivoting
Away from his previous positions.
As he adjusts
and changes
His policies
on a whim.
My Computer Hates Me
My Computer Hates Me
Sometimes it seems
That my computer
My laptop hates me.
As it is constantly
Doing things
To frustrate me.
It crashes without warning
It loses data all the time
It often post cryptic
Haiku like error messages.
“General Failure
Reading disk drive”
Who is this General Failure
And why is he reading
My disk drive anyway?
But my computer’s
favorite trick
Is to without warning
When I am trying
to copy and paste
it copies the previous text
making me repeat the operation
several times
and sometimes
it copies and replaces
the entire document
without warning.
and disabling
the save feature
just to fuck with me
some more.
Yes it seems
my computer
Hates me.
Who Is Master?
In the beginning of that fateful day
I awoke with a painful way
And looked about me with disgust
All around me were objects to distrust
Screaming, meaning, deeming, dreaming
Who was master here
Me or my objects – machinery of fear?
I dreamt I was on a street corner
Walking down a street
The thought occurred to me
What if all that I saw or seemed to be
Was but a trick designed to deceive me?
Everywhere I looked
Was unreal, empirical, nightmarish real
I awoke to thunderous applause
When will I awake from my dreams
Can I live without my nightmares?
Can I be sane while everyone else is insane?
Who is master of my life,
Me or my machines?
Wild Things Run Amuck
4 am
O dark Hundred
Bewitching hour
Time for wild things,
To come out to play
Wild things, and addictive assholes, Aliens, Apes, Banshees, Bats, bewitching beautiful yet deadly Siren, bureaucrats, Big game hunters,. Bigfoot, Boa constrictors, Centaurs, Cerebus, Cheetahs, Cobra, Chupacabra, clones, coyotes, coydogs, crows. Cthulu, delusional dolls, demons, Devils, Dinosaurs, Dagon, Dragons, Dwarfs, Electric eels, Evil elves, Faded jesters, Frankenstein monsters, Freaks, Gangbangers, Gangstas, Gators, Ghosts, Ghouls, Giant ants, Giant lobsters, Giant spiders, Giant wasps, Giants, Goblins. Godzilla, Gunmen, Headhunters, Hell hounds, Holocausts, Illuminati throwbacks, Imperials stormtroopers, Imps, JD Vance, King Kong. Leprechauns, Two-headed monsters, Lions, Lucifer, Lying libertine, mafia made men, masked marauders, Minions, Moms for liberty, Monsters, Numbed naves, naked incubi, Odious officials ,orcs, Donald Christ Trump
Pot filled pleasuring, Quarantined Quartermasters, Radiated X-ray technicians
Ravens. Rapist, rappers, raving lunatics, reporters, Republican Jesus, Republicans, Satan. Satyrs, Serpents, snakes, Supply Side Jesus, special forces soldiers, Drugged youth, Stung youth, Stone youth, succubi,succubi,terrifying tarantulas ,tigers,Trump,unidentifiable underlings,Vicious vultures.warlocks,werewolves,wild things,winged monkeys,witches,wolves,
Wraiths,Yesterdays,yellow jackets, Yeti, and zombies.
Intending to unleash chaos
Leaving their prisons
Deep inside the mind
The wild things
Have come out to run amok
In the light of the full moon
Nightmarish foul creatures
Great demons, werewolves, goblins,
Monsters, hell hounds
Escaped banshees
Straight out of Hell
Howling at the lunatic light
Of the full moon.
To escape
From their prisons
Deep in the mind
Of the sleeping man.
The wild things
Sniff the air
Saying it was time
For some wilding
The wild things
Jump out the window
And run amuck
Spreading chaos in their wake.
Killing everyone they see
Raping women
Vandalizing buildings
Yelling screaming
As the wild things
Run amuck
Led by a half man half horse
Centaur-like creature
With a Putin Like the mask
And the voice of Donald Trump
The wild things run amuck
All over the town
Spreading chaos
Until the dawning sun
Turns them back
Into vampire-like creatures
And werewolves
Howling at the full moon
The wild things
Come back
And enter their prison
Deep in the sleeper’s head
And the wild things
Fade into a nightmarish image
As the sleeping man
Awakes to recall the dream
And the night of terror
When the wild things
Came out to play
At o dark hundred.
Blame Games
Politicians
Love to play
The blame game
It is always
The other fellows fault
Never the politician’s
They all play
The blame game
None better than
The President
Who is always right
Reflections on returning to the US and recent poems
I have returned to the US for the summer. I will be in DC then Oregon and California. So far I have mixed feelings. The political madness is there but otherwise things are looking good.
The Trump-Musk bromace ended in a spectacular blow up with both sides blaming each other.
Trump is going to get his big military parade next week.
I went out to Annadale the other night and had a delicious dinner at Taco Sam a K-Mexican restaurant. K-Mexican food is a fusion of Korean and Mexican food. It originated in Korea town LA which has a lot of Mexicans as well as Koreans. Koreans and Mexicans discovered that they liked each other food and there were a number of Korean-Mexican couples. Over time some people open K Mexican resturants. The one in Annandale is typical. We had bulgogi and chicken fajitas. Quite good actually.
It looks as if I will be returning to DC area next summer and residing there for a few years. I am looking forward to that and hope we can continue to live in Korea part of the year.
Here then are some of my reflections and recent poems to enjoy.
Return to the US blog Sam Adam’s Decision Fight Fascism
Sam Adams
Watching the news unfold
Seeing daily the beginning
Of the fascist take-over
Of the United States,
I had a dilemma and decision to make,
Did he allow it to happen quietly
Of did he join the resistance and rebellion?
Lost and Found
When we met
My dear,
I was lost
And you found me.
You mesmerized me with your love.
You saved my benighted soul
And gave me love and comfort,
In a refuge in a cold uncaring world.
It Can’t Happen Here is a dystopian political novel by Sinclair Lewis, published in 1935. It explores the rise of a fascist regime in the United States, led by the populist senator Berzelius “Buzz” Windrip, who wins the presidency and quickly dismantles democratic institutions. The story follows Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor who resists Windrip’s authoritarian rule.
Characters:
Doremus Jessup – A liberal newspaper editor and the protagonist.
Buzz Windrip – A charismatic senator who becomes a dictator.
Shad Ledue – A former handyman who rises in the ranks of Windrip’s regime.
Lorinda Pike – A feminist and outspoken critic of the government.
Sissy Jessup – Doremus’s rebellious daughter.
Lee Sarasin – Windrip’s manipulative advisor.
Julian Falck – A young student and Sissy’s love interest.
Mary Greenhill – Doremus’s daughter, who joins the resistance.
Notable Quotes:
“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”
“It isn’t what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.”
“So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.”
“A country that tolerates evil means—evil manners, standards of ethics—for a generation, will be so poisoned that it never will have any good end.”
Other Works by Sinclair Lewis:
Main Street (1920)
Babbitt (1922)
Arrowsmith (1925)
Elmer Gantry (1927)
Dodsworth (1929)
Ann Vickers (1933)
The Prodigal Parents (1938)
Gideon Planish (1943)
Kings blood Royal (1947)
Books with Similar Themes:
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45 by Milton Mayer
1984 by George Orwell
The Iron Heel by Jack London
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine Albright
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
| Stay Positive
15 line version With all the gloom and doom Like Frank Zappa’s famous Senator Manchin reached a deal He took the deal |
President Trump doubles down on his crusade against top universities
He declares that the top universities in the US have become a disgrace and should be shutdown as hotbeds of radical, left win fanatic down starting with Harvard and in his opinion there are too many damn universities in the US and too many foreign students, declaring that the temporary ban on foreign students will continue and become a reduction of total foreign students. He said that if Harvard and the other top universities were to shut down that would be a great thing. He called for a revolution in higher education promoting patriotic pro-American values, American history, patriotism, ending DEI programs, gender studies, ethnic studies and other left wing programs, anti-white programs, anti-American programs and working closely with industry to ensure that graduates are prepared for the world of work. He called for a boycott of the top universities declaring that the Federal government will no longer hire Harvard graduates and other graduates of elite universities and hire instead graduates from conservative universities who are committed to the MAGA world view.
Trump Doubles Down vows to arrest anyone who stands in the way of his mass deportation drive
Millions of people begin marching across the country wearing the new uniform of the resistance a TACO hat which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out. The president goes berserk ordering the mass arrest and detention of any people who wears taco hats or otherwise disrespect the President and the Government.
In a sign of mass protests every democratic member of congress show up wearing TACO uniforms and refuse to back down Speaker Jeffries makes an impassioned speech denouncing King Donald and calls for mass civil disobedience and announces that the entire democratic caucus will walk out in protests and calls upon his Republican colleagues to join them in protest.
The Republicans in congress split and one quarter joins the Democratic party in the mass walkout and protest action as millions of people gather in front of the White House wearing TACO uniforms and demanding that he arrest the entire country.
Donald Is not amused
At the latest news
At the growing protests
At the constant mockery
TACO man goes viral
As Trump Always Chickens Out
Becomes a killer meme
Taking the world by storm
TACO Goes Viral
The joke meme
“Trump
Always
Chickens
Out”
TACO Man
Takes the world
By Storm
Ten Cheritas
There is nothing more to be said
There is always one more time
Time waits for no one
I will Love you until the end of time
That is all I need to say
In the beginning of the world
Life Endures
The Future of NYC
69 Years Young
Married the Girl of My Dreams
Ten Haiku
There is nothing more to be said
There is always one more time
Time waits for no one
I will Love you until the end of time
That is all I need to say
In the beginning of the world
Life Endures
The Future of NYC
69 Years Young
Married the Girl of My Dreams
Ten Tanka
There is nothing more to be said
There is always one more time
Time waits for no one
I will Love you until the end of time
That is all I need to say
In the beginning of the world
Life Endures
The Future of NYC
69 Years Young
Married the Girl of My Dreams
Without titles as submitted
There is nothing more to be said
Nothing more I can add
Nothing more than this
I will love you
Until the end of time itself
and death does us part
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There is always one more time
There is always a second chance
For love and happiness
In this dark world of ours
We will find each other
Til the end of time itself
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Time waits for no one
That is what they say
That time waits for no one
But that is a lie
Time waits for you
And time waits for me too
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I will Love you until the end of time
That is all I need to say
That is all that there is
Nothing but love in my heart
Waiting for me to say it
And for you to believe it
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In the beginning of the world
I saw you there
Walking off that bus
And that was the beginning
Of my life with you
And the end of the rest of the world
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Love Endures
the longer I live
the more I learn
that nothing endures in life
other than the love
I share with you
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The Future of NYC
In the distant future
the world will end
with a massive flood
and NYC will slowly sink
beneath the waves
and mankind will die
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69 Years Young
I am 62 years young
62 years around the sun
37 of those years
I have spent
with the love of my life
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Married the Girl of my Dreams
I married the girl of my Dreams
first dreamt of her
back in 1974
Eight years later
she walked off a bus
and into my life
As submitted without Titles
There is nothing more to be said
Nothing more I can add
Nothing more than this
I will love you
Until the end of time itself
and death does us part
——————————————————-
There is always one more time
There is always a second chance
For love and happiness
In this dark world of ours
We will find each other
Til the end of time itself
—————————————————————-
Time waits for no one
That is what they say
That time waits for no one
But that is a lie
Time waits for you
And time waits for me too
——————————————————————
I will Love you until the end of time
That is all I need to say
That is all that there is
Nothing but love in my heart
Waiting for me to say it
And for you to believe it
——————————————————————–
In the beginning of the world
I saw you there
Walking off that bus
And that was the beginning
Of my life with you
And the end of the rest of the world
————————————————————–
Love Endures
the longer I live
the more I learn
that nothing endures in life
other than the love
I share with you
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The Future of NYC
In the distant future
the world will end
with a massive flood
and NYC will slowly sink
beneath the waves
and mankind will die
————————————————————–
I am 69 Years Young
69 years around the sun
Still alive and kicking
42 of those years
I have spent
with the love of my life
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I married the girl of my Dreams
first dreamt of her
back in 1974
Eight years later
she walked off a bus
and into my life
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the Cicada invasion
the Cicada invasion
has begun
in Northern Virginia
billions of them
flying about
making an out-of-this world
alien Sci-Fi like racket
loud enough to wake
the dead from their slumbers
looking for a mate
to keep the species alive
as soon as they mate
they die
what a fate
they have
The Grim Reaper Gathers His Posse
It was Halloween night
A night that all the denizens
Of hell loved.
For on that night
All of hell would break out.
They would celebrate their annual escape
On Halloween, they are allowed
To go to the surface sunlit lands.
For a night of drinking,
Drugging and wilding
As bad craziness descends
Upon the land.
The Grim Reaper and his posse
Dressed up as cosmic court jesters
Dressed as fools.
They descended upon the world
And a night of chaos fell upon the land.
Thousands died, as the Grim Reaper
Added to his quota.
Bonus kills were bonus points.
He returned to hell with his minions,
And the souls of the dead
Who soon became mere ghosts.
Their voices crying in the wind
Echoing through time.
Sam Adams died one day after drinking too much in Soi Cowboy, Bangkok, Thailand. He found himself in a dark, forbidding jungle, hot and humid, with a foul smell of death and decaying vegetation everywhere. He had a sense that there were creatures in the jungles looking at him with evil, hungry, malicious intent, then he saw them as the moonlight lit the jungle forest.
They are addictive assholes, Aliens, Apes, Banshees, Bats, bewitching beautiful yet deadly Siren, bureaucrats, Big game hunters,. Bigfoot, Boa constrictors, Centaurs, Cerebus, Cheetahs, Cobra, Chupacabra, clones, coyotes, coydogs, crows. Cthulu, delusional dolls, demons, Devils, Dinosaurs, Dagon, Dragons, Dwarfs, Electric eels, Evil elves, Faded jesters, Frankenstein monsters, Freaks, Gangbangers, Gangstas, Gators, Ghosts, Ghouls, Giant ants, Giant lobsters, Giant spiders, Giant wasps, Giants, Goblins. Godzilla, Gunmen, Headhunters, Hell hounds, Holocausts, Illuminati throwbacks, Imperials stormtroopers, Imps, JD Vance, King Kong. Leprechauns, Two-headed monsters, Lions, Lucifer, Lying libertine, mafia made men, masked marauders, Minions, Moms for liberty, Monsters, Numbed naves, naked incubi, Odious officials ,orcs, Donald Christ Trump
Pot filled pleasuring, Quarantined Quartermasters, Radiated X-ray technicians
Ravens. Rapist, rappers, raving lunatics, reporters, Republican Jesus, Republicans, Satan. Satyrs, Serpents, snakes, Supply Side Jesus, special forces soldiers, Drugged youth, Stung youth, Stone youth, succubi,succubi,terrifying tarantulas ,tigers,Trump,unidentifiable underlings,Vicious vultures.warlocks,werewolves,wild things,winged monkeys,witches,wolves,
Wraiths,Yesterdays,yellow jackets, Yeti, and zombies.
With only a vestige of humanity left, These monsters are engaged
In all sorts of foul evil deeds, Murder violence death around, and non-stop
Violent drug-fueled orgies, as these creatures, half-human half monsters
Half male, half female creatures, Snort coke, cocaine, speed,
Drop acid, Smoke weed, drink vodka shots, scotch, bourbon, beer.
The Trumpian Pig leads the charge and starts engaging in sodomy with Putin
Who chases after people, cutting off their heads with his sword, they turn on to their fellow creatures raping and killing each other, and eating their fellow creatures all night long, howling and growling like escaped banshees from Hell’s insane asylums. Then they attack me screaming,
“Jews will not replace us”
The Putin-Trump pigman yelled out, “After him. All humans must die. Kill Sam.
.”
Even the trees came alive, trying to trip him up, as the nightmare creatures ran after him, the hunters, and soldiers firing flaming arrows and semi-automatic weapons lighting up the night sky, and the birds dive-bombing him trying to get his eyes and face, and the other creatures getting closer and closer screaming at him.
They were gaining on him when he came to a dark foul-smelling river. There was a ferryboat filled with hundreds of evil, depraved people on board floating down the river. Many of them were infamous figures, including anti-vaxxer crusaders, bar owners, celebrities, corrupt politicians of both American parties, including Governors, Representatives, Senators, drug dealers, members of the British parliament and parliaments around the world, criminals, crooked cops, fake news reporters, gangsters, gangbangers, gangsta rappers, internet bloggers, idiots in both high and low places, “Criminal Lawyers ” media darlings, pharma bros, scumbags, scoundrels, wall street executives, thugs, Italian, Korean, Japanese Yakuza, and Vietnamese Mafia figures.
They were all standing around as if they were at a cocktail party of the newly damned, drinking, smoking dope, snorting coke, and meth, dropping acid, and flirting up a storm, enjoying the free food, drinks, and drugs provided by the” Hell Catering “company using robots and demonic slave labor. They were partying as if it were their last day on earth, and they knew where they were going. Many of them felt that they would somehow manage to thrive in Hell and were looking forward to it. None of them felt remorse or regret for the actions they had taken in their life. They were mostly entitled “rich people,” the self-proclaimed “masters of the universe.
Just as the creatures were about to pounce, he swam into the water, the boat stopped, and two strange-looking men pulled him out of the water. The human monsters on the ship looked at Joe and dismissed him as a loser, a refugee fleeing the monstrous welcoming committee, and not worthy of their time.
The two gentlemen who had pulled him out of the water were strange-looking people, rough-edged but better than the party people who continued to ignore him or made mocking references to the refugee. Charon, the conductor, an elderly Italian man dressed in a black suit, stood in front of the boat. The Grim Reaper, dressed in a dark suit wearing ray beans, looking oh so cool, stood next to him. The Grim Reaper had a pan-ethnic look, could be almost any ethnicity in the world, but also looked like a space alien.
When he came aboard the ferryboat, he asked the two strange gentlemen who had rescued him,
“Thanks for saving me. Where am I?”
Handing Joe, a cup of Hell whiskey, the older of the two introduced himself saying, “I am the Grim Reaper, and this is Charon, and you are on the ferry to Hell. You are floating down the river Styx, heading to Hell and beyond. We saved you from the welcoming committee. Normally they kill our visitors and take their dead bodies to Hell where they receive a bounty, and then you are reborn as a zombie slave, possessed by demons, becoming a ghost, or a ghoul, or are sent to Hell for punishment. But sometimes, virtuous people manage to escape and per our SOP we are obligated to take in the refugees and take them to Limbo for processing. Stay here my friend, because if you go to the party, you may never return to earth.”
We are taking you and Mr. Alvarez to Limbo for further processing. He may be going upstairs but being an attorney, I have my doubts. You know what they say about lawyers in heaven, there are almost none and Hell is filled with lawyers, crooked police officers, and mafia figures. Limbo is filled with bureaucrats and the red tape takes forever, and the computer system is always crashing. What can you expect? Well, it is hard to get tech support in Heaven or Limbo, all the tech folks tend to go to Hell. “
Mr. Alvarez was an elderly Italian attorney, a lifelong fighter against corruption, the mafia, and organized criminals, and a famous human rights attorney based in Rome.
They chatted about his life and Joe’s life. Mr. Alvarez said, “My friend GR said that I might be the only lawyer getting into heaven in a long time. Most lawyers end up in the other place.”
The river was black as it was after midnight. There was a stench of decay and death, fire and brimstone, and fires burning in giant pits in the distance. The welcoming committee of nightmare creatures followed the boat shouting obscenities and jumping in the water to retrieve partiers who fell off the boat, taking them to shore where they tortured them, murdered them, and ate them.
The other people walked off to the basement of 666 5th Avenue, where there was one of many secret back doorways to the world above Hell. Demon functionaries dressed in Matrix Mr. Smith-style black suits met them at the ferry terminal. They disappeared into the depths of hell. A punk rock band played punk anthems.
The Grim Reaper took Joe and Antonio to the next step, Limbo. A giant black building reached the sky, filled with demonic bureaucrats dressed in Matrix-like Mr. Smith black suits.
The Grim Reaper said, “Wait here. It should not be too long; I like you so we will put you in front of the line.”
He saw hundreds of lost souls wandering around. There were signs in multiple languages saying.
“Wait your turn. You will be processed in the order received. No drinking, drugs, food, phone use, or sexual activity allowed. And no sleeping either. It should not be too long.”
Just then a demon functionary came up to him, hissing. “Joe, and Antonio, follow me.” And took him to where the Grim Reaper was waiting.
“Joe, Antonio, glad to see you. Please tip the demon.”
Joe paid him 100 dollars and Antonio 100 euros. The demon demanded more. The Grim Reaper swore at him in Demon speak and he disappeared into the crowd.
The Grim Reaper consulted his handheld computer, saying, “Hmm just as I suspected. You are wanted upstairs, and a guardian angel was watching you. But you almost did not make it in time. The computer program has a glitch, and you are being sent back to Earth. Your time for final status determination will be sooner than you think. I hope you and I can be friends. I can hire people as my assistants. We had a lot of fun. Think about it when you come back.”
Joseph Lewis woke up in bed next to his wife, he got up and turned on his computer, and read the following message,
“Mr. Joe, I hoped you enjoyed your tour last night. But unfortunately, there was a computer glitch in the matrix system that controls limbo, heaven, and hell. It is hard to get tech support in Limbo or Heaven, most of the engineers end up in hell. But in any event, we determined it was not yet your time.
Your friend made it fine and sends his regards. The drinks are on him when you and your wife finally make it. Oh, contrary to the old song, “In Heaven, there is no beer” we have the finest beer, wine, and spirits you can find in Heaven, and Hell as well.
As for the others, you saw, they too will visit the ferry for the last journey within a few years for most of them. But you know where they will end up.”
Your friend.
Mr. GR the Grim Reaper.
Sailing to Hell
After a long night drinking
In the Cosmos Bar
Sam Adams
Woke up
And found himself
On a barge
Filled with hundreds
Of strange looking people.
The barge was being driven
By a large black man
With dreadlocks.
Along with oars men
Pulling the boat
Along a dark river.
The landscape swept by
Hellish nightmare on land
Fires burning everywhere.
The smell of fire
And brimstone ever present
Screams of the condemned
Filling the air.
The heat and stench
Made it
Hard to breath.
Sam asked the captain
“Where the hell am I?”
The captain laughed,
“I am Charon
And you are on your way
To Limbo.
For your judgement
Day is nigh.
Be afraid my friend
Be very afraid.
Abandon all hope
For those
who find themselves here.
Here never return
To the sunlit lands
Of their birth.”
And he handed Sam
A glass of hell brew ale,
One of his fellow prisoners
A big burly fellow
Who had a pan-ethnic look
Could be anything.
Grabbed the ale
And threw it
into the stinking river,
and said,
Once you drink hell ale
You can not return
To your homeworld.
You have but one chance left
Convince the powers that be
To give you another chance
To return to the world
Right the wrongs you made
Atone for your mistakes.
And hope
The computer
made a mistake
As they often do.
Hell is filled
with corrupt systems techs
And they can be bought.
I have been here before
Let me be your guide
Sam Adams of Earth.
And they sailed on
In the sturgeon darkness
Where it is always
O dark hundred.
TACO Pivoting Trump
TACO Pivoting Writer’s Digest
TACO Pivoting
President Trump
is known nowadays
by acronym
TACO
Which stands for
Trump
Always
Chickens
Out
A nickname he hates
With passion
He got the nickname
because
Of his constant pivoting
Away from his previous positions.
As he adjusts
and changes
His policies
on a whim.
My Computer Hates Me Computer
My Computer Hates Me Writer’s Digest
My Computer Hates Me
Sometimes it seems
That my computer
My laptop hates me.
As it is constantly
Doing things
To frustrate me.
It crashes without warning
It loses data all the time
It often post cryptic
Haiku like error messages.
“General Failure
Reading disk drive”
Who is this General Failure
And why is he reading
My disk drive anyway?
But my computer’s
favorite trick
Is to without warning
When I am trying
to copy and paste
it copies the previous text
making me repeat the operation
several times
and sometimes
it copies and replaces
the entire document
without warning.
and disabling
the save feature
just to fuck with me
some more.
Yes it seems
my computer
Hates me.
Who Is Master?
Posted on all poetry
In the beginning of that fateful day
I awoke with a painful way
And looked about me with disgust
All around me were objects to distrust
Screaming, meaning, deeming, dreaming
Who was master here
Me or my objects – machinery of fear?
I dreamt I was on a street corner
Walking down a street
The thought occurred to me
What if all that I saw or seemed to be
Was but a trick designed to deceive me?
Everywhere I looked
Was unreal, empirical, nightmarish real
I awoke to thunderous applause
When will I awake from my dreams
Can I live without my nightmares?
Can I be sane while everyone else is insane?
Who is master of my life,
Me or my machines?
Wild Things Run Amuck
4 am
O dark Hundred
Bewitching hour
Time for wild things,
To come out to play
Intending to unleash chaos
Leaving their prisons
Deep inside the mind
The wild things
Have come out to run amok
In the light of the full moon
Nightmarish foul creatures
Great demons, werewolves, goblins,
Monsters, hell hounds
Escaped banshees
Straight out of Hell
Howling at the lunatic light
Of the full moon.
To escape
From their prisons
Deep in the mind
Of the sleeping man.
The wild things
Sniff the air
Saying it was time
For some wilding
The wild things
Jump out the window
And run amuck
Spreading chaos in their wake.
Killing everyone they see
Raping women
Vandalizing buildings
Yelling screaming
As the wild things
Run amuck
Led by a half man half horse
Centaur-like creature
With a Putin Like the mask
And the voice of Donald Trump
The wild things run amuck
All over the town
Spreading chaos
Until the dawning sun
Turns them back
Into vampire-like creatures
And werewolves
Howling at the full moon
The wild things
Come back
And enter their prison
Deep in the sleeper’s head
And the wild things
Fade into a nightmarish image
As the sleeping man
Awakes to recall the dream
And the night of terror
When the wild things
Came out to play
At o dark hundred.
Blame Games
Politicians
Love to play
The blame game
It is always
The other fellows fault
Never the politician’s
They all play
The blame game
None better than
The President
Who is always right
My computer hates me Writer’s Digest
My computer hates me
It is plotting against me
Trying to drive me mad
As it constantly
fucks with my head
My computer hates me
It constantly plays games
Can’t open files
Can’t find the printer
My computer hates me
It crashes all the time
Displaying haiku error messages
My computer hates me
My computer is an evil mofo
My computer hates me
You are everything
You are everything
You are my happiness
You are my love drug.
My love connection.
Ever since
I first saw you
In my dreams.
You messermized me
With your love
Turning me
Into your love pabo (fool).
As your love mojo
Worked overtime
Casting a spell on me.
And ever since
From that moment
Looking at you.
Made me
the happiest man
In the whole universe.
Summer in DC Flash
summer in DC
hot humid tropical days
madness on TV
Trump V Musk Failed Bromace
Trump
War against
Elon Musk first Buddy
No longer bromace, over
Musk
War
MAGA civil war erupts
Both are disloyal
They proclaim
Hate
MAGA is President Trump’s movement Make America Great Again
Musk and Trump Paku
Musk and Trump
fight
no longer friends
Trump, Musk La Pensa
Trump, Musk
Co-presidents
Bromace now over for good
It was bound to happen someday
Ending in warfare
Elon Musk was called the first buddy in charge of taming the Federal government bureaucracy through his DOGE Department of Government Efficiency which has caused tremendous damage to the Federal government, until the epic break-up recently both sides blaming the other for being disloyal and both sides threatening dire consequences, Trump saying he fired Musk, Musk saying that Trump owes him without his money Trump would have lost. Who will win?
Musk is arrested by DEA and ordered deported by DHS. On grounds that he overstayed his visa and worked illegally 30 years ago. The DEA shows off the illegal drugs found at his house.
Trump is forced to back down on tariffs with China, The EU and chickens out as the nation’s CEO and Chamber of Commerce declare that the Trump Recession ends. The damage is severe, and it takes months to restore some degree of sanity. The end result was that countries around the world agreed to pay 5 percent tariffs and US exporters would also pay 5 percent. In the end it was months of total chaos ending with a humbling backing down.
It Can’t Happen Here remade becomes a huge Hit
Trump Declares Martial Law as protests across the country reach a peak after his military parade causes huge outrage
Steven Miller embraces elements of It Can’t Happen here – calling for the proud boys to assist in the deportation of illegal aliens.
And shutting down Congress, and remaking State boundaries to eliminate once and for all Blue State’s independence.
Civil War 2.0 is launched with California leads the West Coast out of the US and joins forces with British Colombia, and joins Hawaii, Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado in a new West Coast Federation
The East Coast Federation joins in forming a new Federation including DC!
Michigan, Chicago and Ontario form Chicagoland.
Trump Doubles Down Calls for an end of the elite universities starting with Harvard
declaring that the elite universities are now run by anti-American, Anti-Christian, radical leftwing marxists consumed with DEI, CRT, gender ideologies and other fascist leftwing nonsense. They must be reformed, the faculty cleansed and most foreign students sent home. They must get rid of ethnic studies, women studies, queer studies, and anti-American history programs. They must teach patriotic history instead. The Department of Education will have a new mission – to purge academia of all such divisive anti-American, cultural Marxism and other ideologies. The President of Harvard must resign immediately and must apologize to the nation and promise to reform. All foreign students and faculty must be fired, and only patriotic Americans allowed to teach or work at Harvard.
If they refuse to comply then the nation should respond by boycotting Harvard and the other elite colleges. The Department of Education will rate all universities in the country and publish the results in two weeks. Those deemed to be unpatriotic will lose the right to enroll foreign students, and hire foreign faculty and staff, and receive no federal grants or contracts, and also their students will receive no student loans. Universities will have until August 15 to comply or face the consequences.
President Trump Goes On A Rampage Calling For A Crack Down On Home Depot
This includes ordering ICE shock troops out to conduct “Operation Home Depot”. Home Deport announces that they would stand aside and let the raids occur but promises to provide legal assistance to anyone who is detained illegally while working at or shopping at Home Depot. Trump responds by calling for a boycott of Home Depot charging them with being informal sanctuary for illegal aliens providing a safe space for them to find employment.
We are shopping at Home Depot in Alexandria when the raids are announced. The goon squads stop Angela and start hazing her. I stand up for her telling the agent
“Hey dude, back off. She is a retired US army major and I am a retired US Foreign Service office so show us some fucking respect bro”
They threaten to arrest both of us for resisting arrest and I laugh and spoke
“Go ahead, make my day. I am a grumpy old man and don’t give a fuck. But it would make a great youtube or ticktock don’t you think? ICE agents haze ling old man and old female army vet, and tazing them. Great PR, man.”
They laugh and warn us to watch our attitude.
“Roger that dude. Everyone tells me that for some reason. Thanks for pointing it out. I will work on that. Thank you for your service dude. “ ]
and they walk off.
The whole incident was captured on video and goes viral.
The War on Civil Service Expands
Most federal employees are now classified as scheduled F and most will work on renewable five year contracts. All Federal employees must pass new stringent security standards
This include signing a loyalty oath, banning trans gendered people, LGBTQ members, overly partisan people, excessive alcohol use, excessive gambling, engagement with prostitution, or pornography, drug usage even where it is legal, and reading prohibited political content online or at work, and must exhibit exemplary moral conduct with including church services being a big plus and being an athiest or non-religious member a big negative but not banned per see. And they must past stringent financial disclosure requirements and finally pass a drug test annually.
Hiring Only Religious College Graduates To Staff The Federal Government
The office of Personal Management announces that the Federal Government will focus on hiring only from religious colleges, state colleges, and home schooling academies instead of hiring from elite colleges, and HBUC from now on. This would apply to all Federal hiring authorities. Furthermore Harvard and elite college graduates need not apply for federal positions with State, CIA or law enforcement agencies either. The expectation is that people will serve six to seven five year renewable contracts before being eligible for retirement which will be required at age 65. .
Foreign Service Test Ended
The Secretary of State announces a fundamental change to the State Department. The foreign service is ended, instead all employees will be hired based on an AI review of their resume, past education and experience. This will include current employees and new employees. All employees will spend 40 percent of their career overseas and 60 percent domestically, including working in field offices. While overseas they will be given diplomatic status, while in domestic assignments they will be given civil service status and work on five year renewable contracts.
All State Department employees are now classified as scheduled F and most will work on renewable five year contracts. All Federal employees must pass new stringent security standards
This include signing a loyalty oath, banning trans gendered people, LGBTQ members, overly partisan people, excessive alcohol use, excessive gambling, engagement with prostitution, or pornography, drug usage even where it is legal, and reading prohibited political content online or at work, and must exhibit exemplary moral conduct with including church services being a big plus and being an athiest or non-religious member a big negative but not banned per see. And they must past stringent financial disclosure requirements and finally pass a drug test annually.
The Visa Function And Consular Affairs Positions Will Be Transferred To A New Cabinet Level Immigration And Naturalization Service
This new agency will staff embassies and consulates overseas as well as domestic POE positions and back office opperations, again on five year schedule positions and meeting the new security standards. While overseas they will be given foreign service diplomatic status and while in domestic assignments serve as civil service positions.
The expectation is that people will serve six to seven five year renewable contracts before being eligible for retirement which will be required at age 65. .
But most visa applications will now be handled through an expanded EVA process with only first time applicants requiring interviews. All visa applicants will undergo ideological vetting but the expectation is that 90 percent of applicants will be granted entry visas which will be valid for five year renewable contracts.
Human Rights Reports Ended
The State Department announces the annual human rights reports are ending once Congress approves the new procedures This will also mean a cutback on a lot of other onerous reporting requirements on Embassies and consulates. The final HR reports will be due in April 2026 and ceased afterwards assuming congressional approval. Labor officers, EST officer positions will also be eliminated as will refugee admissions officers, as these positions should be conducted by the Department of Labor, and the new Immigration and Consular Affairs Department. And the INR bureaus will be phased out as that should be done by the CIA, and INL positions will be transferred to DEA. Total staffing for the State Department will be cut by 40 percent effective immediately.
JD Vance And The Leaders Of The Congress And Cabinet Agree After A Week Of Unhinged Rants By President Trump That They Had Enough And Removed The President
After a weekend of unhinged rants, JD Vance and the cabinet agree that the President is obviously suffering from Alzheimer’s and getting worst. JD Vance announces that the President has been removed due to his inability to handle the responsibilities of the job. JD Vance promised to review everything and make some changes to what President Trump had proposed in a more rational manner, in full consultation with congressional leaders, the cabinet, and with the support of the public. Beginning with tariffs, which will be lowered to five percent, but the trade deals consultations will continue leading to new deals by the end of the year.
All revenues from tariffs will be divided into three tranches of money – paying down the debt, general revenue for the government, and a new infrastructure bank to fund continued improvements to physical infrastructure across the country. At the end of the process, there would be free and fair trade with most countries around the world, with some countries paying zero, and most paying 5 percent and US exporters generally pay five percent on exports to other countries. Existing free trade agreements will be revised, and new ones negotiated with EU and Asia Pacific trade partners.
The DOGE office will be converted to a formal advisory committee and continue working with government agencies to make the government more transparent and efficient, including using AI technologies throughout the government.
Reorganization plans will continue with the goal being most Federal government office relocated outside of DC, with only headquaters functions in DC remaining which was what the intention of the founding fathers.
Federal lands will be made available for logging, mining etc with the exception of already authorized wilderness areas, national parks, and monuments. Some Federal lands could be transferred to state control and that would be subject to further discussions.
Support for NPR and CPR will be ended.
USAID will become part of the State Department and continue to play a role but at a reduced level than before.
Visa policies will be revamped. A new Department of immigration and consular affairs will be created merging units from DHS, State and Labor into a new agency. Most visa decisions will be made via EVA except for new applicants and people living in countries that have problematic issues who will require visa interviews.
Student visas will require social media vetting but most students will not have a problem and most applicants will be approved remotely and for first time applicants an interview at the US embassy or consulate.
The US still wants foreign students and we will ask Congress to enact a new law that will allow foreign students who wish to stay in the US, have a job offer and can of course speak English be allowed to convert their status upon graduation into green cards like many of our foreign competitors due.
We will also overhaul the immigration system as part of the reorganization with a new immigration act enacted.
Re deportation we are open to changing the law so that aliens married to US citizens and or have US citizen children can petition to stay and convert their status provided they have no criminal background, speak Engish and are working or have job offers. It makes no sense to deport people with US citizen relatives. Deportation should be focused on criminal aliens.
Other aliens who have been working in the US for decades can apply for temporary green cards provided they speak English, have no criminal record and have employment offers. This amnesty will be limited.
The border will be sealed otherwise with US military forces helping to patrol the border region. Entry will be limited to authorized check points only. Amnesty applications and refugee applications will be handled through normal channels.
There will also be an expanded guest worker program. These visas will be renewable visas and after ten years can be converted to permanent residency.
There will be those who scream this is amnesty. So be it. It is time for a rational review of immigration and those who are here contributing to the US should be allowed to stay. New visas should be easier to obtain but limited. The F4 sibling category will be eliminated but those in the queue can apply provided they do so within one year.
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President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a freeze on federal funding to the state of California — but Gov. Gavin Newsom has hit back with a threat of his own.
“Californians pay the bills for the federal government,” wrote Newsom in a post to X on Friday. “We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realDonaldTrump.”
Studies have repeatedly shown that Democratic-voting states like California tend to produce more in taxes for the federal government than they receive back in benefits and federal spending, due both to the fact that many of these states contain some of the largest and wealthiest cities in the United States, and the fact that many Republican-voting states rely on military spending and employment.
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Former Trump White House aide turned podcaster Steve Bannon slammed the White House for not having its eye on South Korea ahead of the country electing left-wing leader Lee Jae-myung, who has signaled frustration over President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.
“You heard there at the end about the Korea situation we’ve been covering. The winner got 48 and a half or 49% of the vote. ‘South Korea trusts in end to turmoil with Lee’s sweeping election victory,’ sweeping election victory,” Bannon said, reading and holding up the frontpage headline of the Financial Times.
And right there, for those in the State Department not paying attention or the White House have not been paying attention to this, they gave two F-Us. Number one, we’re going to take our time on a, you know, we are not going to be the first guys. And we’re going to take our time on a trade deal,” Bannon continued, adding:
President Trump put out another ultimatum, I think last night, or Bessent or Lonick, hey, we need them all in like immediately. They’re under new ownership in South Korea. And yeah, we’re gonna have, under the table, we got step-by-step better relationships with Beijing. Everybody that was asleep on the watch on this thing, payback is gonna be bad, folks. Gonna be bad. Just one of many things.
Bannon sounding the alarm on South Korea turning toward China and slow-rolling a trade deal on Trump’s tariffs highlights a major failure of Trump’s current foreign policy. South Korea, the world’s 12th largest economy, has long been a key U.S. ally in Asia. South Korea is one of the world’s largest exporters of products targeted by Trump’s tariffs, including automobiles and smartphones.
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South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae-myung, has secured a storming victory, but his honeymoon will barely last the day.
The former opposition leader is not getting to enjoy the two-month transition period usually afforded to new leaders, so they can build their team and nail down their vision for the country.
If these tariffs take effect “they could trigger an economic crisis”, a seasoned advisor to Lee’s Democratic Party, Moon Chung-in, said.
Before Trump’s announcements, South Korea’s economy was already slowing down. The chaos of martial law constricted it further. Then, in the first quarter of this year, it contracted. Fixing this has been voters’ number one demand, even above fixing their beleaguered democracy.
But without a president, talks with Trump have been on hold. They cannot be put off any longer.
And there is much more than South Korea’s economy at stake in these negotiations.
The US currently guarantees South Korea’s security, by promising to come to its defence with both conventional and nuclear weapons, were it to be attacked by its nuclear-armed neighbour, North Korea. As part of this deal there are 28,500 US troops stationed in the country.
The new president must move quickly on all fronts, added Mr Revere, arguing that Lee’s first homework assignment should be to come up with a list of 10 reasons why South Korea is an indispensable partner and why American dollars are being well spent; reasons that can convince a skeptical and transactional Trump.
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One Ace card South Korea is hoping to play is its shipbuilding prowess. It builds more vessels than any other country bar China, which is now the world’s dominant ship builder and home to the largest naval fleet. This is a frightening prospect for the US whose own industry and navy are in decline.
Last month I visited South Korea’s flagship shipyard in Ulsan on the south coast – the largest in the world – where Hyundai Heavy Industries builds 40-50 new ships a year, including naval destroyers. Sturdy cranes slotted together sheets of metal, creating vessels the size of small villages.
Seoul is hoping it can use this expertise to build, repair and maintain warships for the US, and in the process convince Washington it is a valuable partner.
“US shipbuilding difficulties are affecting their national security”, said Jeong Woo Maan, head of strategy for Hyundai’s naval and ship unit. “This is one of the strongest cards we have to negotiate with”.
In his campaign for president, Lee Jae-myung declared he did not want to rush into any agreements with Trump. Now in office, he could quickly find himself without this luxury.
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