I post more-personal news and photos on Facebook; this blog gets my darker, more-political musings & images. Sorry!
I'll move over a few brighter images. Aloha!
I post more-personal news and photos on Facebook; this blog gets my darker, more-political musings & images. Sorry!
I'll move over a few brighter images. Aloha!
Imagine if Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, with Russian assistance, unilaterally declared a new American nation. Preposterous - but that is essentially what happened in Honolulu on January 17, 1893. Damn Yankees.
Trump demanded murderous rioters stop Congress counting votes. His nasty legacy to the world: the middle finger.
It is US law to "support reconciliation efforts between the United States and the Native Hawaiian people" (Public Law 103-150) but GI Joe has parked himself all around Hawai'i and stolen lands and harbors. 7 military golf courses on Occupied Oahu!
But in Toronto, Canada, youth has taken peaceful action. Government seems to be listening.
City of Toronto spokesman Alex Burke: "The City supports such initiatives & recognizes the rights of the members of Wiigwaasikaa & others to gather and participate in peaceful protests and acts of political expression. The City also appreciates that Wiigwaasikaa's mandate is relevant to current political issues & ongoing efforts to advance reconciliation."
The Pussy by Genki
Them fancy folk cry "coup d'etat"
But we screech loudly "CHEAT!"
If Biden folk can vote when Dead
We can ignore defeat.
They called me dum "Deplorable"
In MAGA red chapeau
Melania is adorable
Yet often labeled "Ho"
The antifa would change our ways
And take away our guns
Abortion loving lib-dem gays
God Bless Our Führer's sons!
They say our President's perverse
Grabbed sex with pedo mates
George Soros raised the Covid curse
With help from rich Bill Gates.
This plague repeatedly was beat!
Now Die - ...Without a sound!
No work, no funds; His toxic tweet:
Let's golf another round!
It's make-believe Egyptian swim
I backstroke in denial
The body count looks queerly grim...
A second term? - Sieg Heil!
President Trump could greatly advance his personal chances for reelection by promptly nominating Merrick Garland for the US Supreme Court. Garland is chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit; Garland was first nominated by the previous administration in 2016. 😊 💓 😯
Why simply wait for a new administration? The President's personal star would rise, with minor downside (as Republicans control the Senate confirmation process).
Perhaps Trump's true choice is Garland plus another term for Trump, vs. Ruthless Barrett and Biden? Even if Trump were voted from office, the Garland choice is perhaps the best option to minimize recriminations for The Trump Organization.
Centuries of favoritism, prejudice & neglect fuel RACISM today.
We still place whitey front & center if using terms such as "white privilege" or "non-white" -- we dodge the fact that race is often a handicap.
Uprooting the weeds and clearing garbage is a tough process when a community was built on theft & genocide.
McKinley High School in Honolulu honors US President William McKinley. But the continuing US military occupation was (and is) unwelcome, and remains widely condemned by Hawaiians.
Take your foreign arrogance & aggression, and your statue of ugly McKinley, and
Yanki Go Home!
At the 1964 Republican National Convention, Ronald Reagan claimed there's no Left and Right, only up or down to more or diminished FREEDOM. Aiming at the dream of "the ultimate in individual freedom" he modified: "... consistent with Law & Order."
The clarification highlights key problems. What if Law permits making soap from enemy fat? Should we be allowed to enslave? Is it OK to steal the property of heathen savages? The more fortunate can perhaps squeeze the disadvantaged till their pips squeak, but is this wise? Law & Order are moving targets. Communities that sacrifice women, cripples, the incautious, etc. are built on shifting sands.
Serial cheater Lance Armstrong and scumbag Harvey Weinstein each survived by intimidation. America's NOT built solely on bluster. Freedom includes reassessment: questioning what's not (yet) illegal; exposing the NOT OK.
Mythic imagery may get tarnished? Let's drain the swamp.
"One outsider, pissing in ..."
Original, often strident essays
(more await added courage)
My poetry is written under the penname Genki 元気 meaning 'original spirit' or healthy/happy