Five Years Ago

Five years ago this week

Trump incited a deadly riot.

Many who condemned him then--

What a surprise!--now are quiet.

 

In fact, they're siding with White House lies,

For Trump's administration claims

That the January 6

Rioters had praiseworthy aims--

 

That they were simply "protesters,"

"Peaceful and patriotic." Say what?

Trump's rewriting history,

And once again, he's off his nut.

 

What a slap in the face that is

To officers who were injured then--

Who were defending democracy.

THESE are praiseworthy women and men.

 

What is happening here is atrocious:

Trump is rapidly chipping away

At democratic freedoms that

We cherish in the U.S.A.

 

Worried, the autocrat in chief

Continues to raise baseless objections

About our voting system, for he

Doesn't trust our country's elections.

 

And now we are invading other

Countries! What have we become?

Russia? Watching the nonsense that

Is going on here leaves us numb.

 

The Trump administration is giving

Different reasons for the invasion:

Drugs. Oil. Regime change. It seems

That Trump will look for any occasion.

 

If we are talking regime change

In our western hemisphere,

The place where it is mostly needed

Is undeniably right here!

 

-by Bob B (1-7-26)