CambirdsongBreathing deeply and holding on to #hope that today will end with #ANewWayForward.
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Wait, what?In sales it’s said that once you get the first yes, it’s easier to get the second. Perhaps we’ve gotten that first yes from Republicans for Harris, and we can use that to build our new way forward. #LetsTurnThePage #ANewWayForward
Clay TFurther to my recent post on having two poems published in the anti-Trump What Rough Beast anthology, I am pleased to write that one of these poems, “Where Donald J. Trump has been Jumping the Shark” (about the January 6 Capitol attack), has been selected by the publisher, Culture Matters (UK), as one of their four ‘sample’ poems from the anthology that they will use in their ongoing marketing of the volume.
This is a bit of a coup – if you will excuse the pun – and an international boost for my work, so I’m appropriately humbled.
“Where Donald J. Trump has been Jumping the Shark” was first published on January 6, 2023 at The Five-Two (with thanks to editor @sogerald ). The poem also appears in my recently published collection After Spruce.
With thanks to Culture Matters editors Merryn, Mike and especially Rip, you can read the poem and three other poems from What Rough Beast here:
https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/4705-three-poems-from-what-rough-beast
(photograph: AFP: Win McNamee)
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Four poems from 'What Rough Beast'
The following four poems are taken from the What Rough Beast anthology of poems about Trump and Trumpism, available to download here. Image above: Rise Up My Pretties, by Martin Gollan, who also made the drawings below. Trumpet So bashed from its last fall I can’t removethe mouthpiece. A mouthpiece...
With thanks to the indefatigable editor, Rip Bulkeley, I am honoured to have two poems (one from my just published After Spruce, another from my just completed ‘American Geegaws’) in this anthology of anti-Trump poetry. Published by Culture Matters in the UK, This Rough Beast is a searing indictment of Trump and Trumpism and is currently available for a limited time as a free ebook (click on the link):
https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/4702-what-rough-beast
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What Rough Beast
In the summer of 2024, Culture Matters put out a call for poetry and artwork related to Donald Trump and Trumpism. Taking the title from WB Yeats’ ‘Second Coming’, the resulting anthology explores the havoc that a second term would unleash on the US and the wider world. With unjust policies, the dem...
Former #POTUS #DonaldJTrump frequently speaks about #InsaneAsylums and #MentalInstitutions. I can see why they’re on his “mind”: he’s headed for one.
It’s just over two weeks to #Nov5 and instead of prosecuting a case, the #Republican #presidential #candidate is talking about:
#cows ( #FoxAndFriends ) (1)
and the #genitalia of the late #golfer #ArnoldPalmer ( #Latrobe #Pennsylvania ) (2)
Every time he calls #KamalaHarris a #lunatic he’s actually describing himself. It’s called #projection
Anyone who watches these videos would acknowledge that - at this critical point in the #campaign - what Trump is saying is #JustPlainNuts
(1) https://www.instagram.com/foxandfriends/reel/DBRUVnfRmCu/
(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diw3aKjDJKg
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FOX & Friends on Instagram: "“I love cows.” Former President Donald Trump reveals what his favorite farm animal is to a young Fox & Friends viewer."
2,934 likes, 198 comments - foxandfriends on October 18, 2024: "“I love cows.” Former President Donald Trump reveals what his favorite farm animal is to a young Fox & Friends viewer.".
Further to this disgraceful story, Politico’s Scott Waldman & Thomas Frank write in their recent article that “Trump initially refused to give California wildfire aid because it’s a blue state, ex-aide says” (1).
I repeat, for the benefit of #American readers, our experience of this kind of #politicisation of #disasters in Australia: we had a #conservative prime minister that in 2022 was faced with massive #floods and #politicised the response to them: #funding his party’s seats and states but not the other party’s seats and states (2). What happened to that prime minister is instructive: he led his party to the next #election and was soundly #defeated: recording the worst result for Australia’s #centre-right #governing parties in seventy years. The state #government that benefited most from the disaster funding also lost office.
When the election results begin to come in on Tuesday #Nov5 and the former #POTUS inevitably starts #lying about another ‘stolen election’, spare a thought for those in states affected by #Helene who #flipped their #vote #blue after Trump’s disgusting behaviour following the #hurricane: it will be these #voters, amongst many others, that he will be trying to #disenfranchise.
(2) https://www.sstuwa.org.au/WesternTeacher/20/volume-513-april-2022/man-who-should-not-be-pm
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The former #POTUS #DonaldJTrump has made an outrageous claim that the #Democrat #Governor of #NorthCarolina, #RoyCooper, and the #Federal #Government, are “going out of their way to not help people in #Republican areas” following #HurricaneHelene (1).
Remember that every accusation is a confession. During the early period of #COVID the Republican #Trump #Administration reportedly baulked at a large-scale national plan in response to the #pandemic because the #virus seemed to initially favour #Democratic #states and was not (then) affecting Republican states (2, see also image).
Here in #Australia, we had a #conservative prime minister that in 2022 was faced with massive #floods and politicised the response to them: funding his party’s seats and states but not the other party’s seats and states (3). What happened to that prime minister is instructive: he led his party to the next #election and was soundly defeated: recording the worst result for Australia’s centre-right governing parties in seventy years.
(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw7H6BLmtHg
(2) https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/did-trump-kushner-ignore-blue-state-covid-19-testing-deaths-ncna1235707
(3) https://www.sstuwa.org.au/WesternTeacher/20/volume-513-april-2022/man-who-should-not-be-pm
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North Carolina governor speaks out after Trump criticized his response to Hurricane Helene
The eloquent Dr #MaryTrump writes of her uncle, former #POTUS #DonaldJTrump, and his recent proposed “one real rough nasty day” to let police do whatever they want to alleged perpetrators, warning that under a second #Trump administration, violence would become normalised: just like it was on #January6
#J6 #Jan6 #January6 #CapitolAttack #ThreatToDemocracy #DomesticTerrorism #Facism #2024Election #uspol #uspolitics #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 #HarrisWalzLandslide2024 #HarrisWalzBringHope #WereNotGoingBack #ANewWayForward #VoteKamala #Harris #KamalaHarris
In this disgraceful press conference former #POTUS #Trump repeatedly calls President #Zelensky a “piece of steel”. Utterly obsessed with his own #victory in November and not even mentioning the suffering of the people of #Ukraine, the twice #impeached, four times #indicted, #convicted #felon instead shows the world what a piece of sh - - Trump truly is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwKlcy2w6g
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BREAKING NEWS: Trump Meets With Ukraine's Zelensky At Trump Tower And Takes Reporters' Questions
Durff, PhDAs we face the most important election in our country's history, make sure that you are prepared to make your voice heard. #HarrisWalz2024 #ANewWayForward
