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jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · 5d

Greed is a kind of narcissistic selfishness.
Greedy humans live for permissiveness.
Permission to acquire more stuff
Even if the effect on others is rough.
#SNAP isn't needed by the rich
The poor don’t matter a stich.
Donald has all the cheeseburgers he needs
The poor disappear in the weeds.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · 7d

With SNAP, Healthcare & immigrants it dawns
That most of us are simply pawns.
Congress refuses to go to work
The king plays with his ballroom perk
Billionaires see their stocks soar
The rest of us struggle and stay poor.
It’s shows America is really great
At cruel chaos, it’s checkmate.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · 12d

A perfect example of democracy’s destruction
Is the #EastWing’s ugly construction.
For a guy who claims to be a builder
His tearing down America does bewilder.
He wallows in breaking law and stuff
And more for him is never enough.
Building a ballroom palace
He reveals his inner malice.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · 24d

Please give my town some more #Pollution
We know that’s the business solution.
Destroy our water and air. Go ahead.
Bring on the #PFAS and the #Lead.
Those subsistence jobs will suffice.
Our kids understand the sacrifice.
We know it’s all based on merit
For those cancers we'll inherit.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Sep 23

Return the #PublicInterest standard says #BrendanCarr
Excellent idea but, if you’re serious, how far?
Will you restore localism and require local news,
Or end satellite stations with no local views?
Will you insist on the #FairnessDoctrine’s restoration,
Or reduce monopolies’ airwaves’ domination?

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Sep 21

Trump is hunting for critics to slay
#Comedians are his current prey.
The #1stAmendment is no protection
He ignores it without introspection.
#McCarthyism was a stain on history
That it was filled with casualties is no mystery.
That now seems like a little bump
As #MAGA attacks all foes of Trump.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Sep 17

Independent agencies were created
Because Reps saw stuff was complicated.
A complex society can’t operate
Without experts advising the state.
Essential regulation can’t be made
Unless knowledge is gathered & relayed.
The Courts and Congress aren’t qualified.
Disrupting agencies is cockeyed.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Sep 12

Obviously to heal our #NationalDivision
We need a social discourse revision.
It’s long been true of course
But, each death points to preferring force.
To disagree without being disagreeable
Remains, sadly, unforeseeable.
Until we arm civility & disarm trolls
We’ll live violence & lost souls.

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jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Sep 9

The #King and his #Court share the same page
Trolling precedent with gleeful rage.
They undermine the institution
Ignoring plain words in the #Constitution.
An emasculated GOP buries its head
And gives away power as if dead.
So much for the balance intended
As the #Founders’ genius is upended.

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jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Sep 3

Trump goes after #Crime on the street
But he forgets the grime on Wall Street.
Embezzlement and fraud lighten our purses
Much more than misdemeanors’ curses.
Big corporate malfeasance he ignores
To protect the rich buddies he adores.
Don’t expect the #NationalGuard
In any CEO’s back yard.

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jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trump’s "piece of #Intel" deal
Reads like a #Communist spiel.
The #StateOwned means of production
Is the heart of #Marxist construction.
Free market capitalists should cringe
When Donald goes to the fringe.
There’s no more “radical” left to troll.
When Trump imitates Lenin’s control.

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jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Aug 27

The extraordinary world of thought
Is a wonderful and messy knot.
Untangling its threads of mystery
Is a life-long reveal of human history.
If #Banning ideas is your agenda
It’s just thoughtless #Propaganda.
Our inalienable right to never lose
Is the right to read what we choose.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Aug 26

He claims to want peace overseas
#DayOne in Gaza & Ukraine was the tease.
But he sends troops to LA and D.C.
And threatens more cities we see.
He can’t stop the wars over there
So, he’ll start some here without care.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Aug 8

The #IRS now says pastors can endorse
Politicians from the pulpit til they’re hoarse.
It’s been a given that tax-free #Churches
Can’t take sides from those perches.
If they can now bless one side
Why should they keep a tax-free ride?
With the freedom to endorse
Comes paying taxes of course.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Aug 2

The #BureauofLaborStatistics
Helps make decisions realistic.
Since 1884 its job has been
To measure who, what and when.
Firing the leader won’t change what’s real.
But the King needs toadies with MAGA zeal.
If he gets the fakes for which he’s lusted.
He’ll tout stats that can’t be trusted.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Jul 24

#DearJustices:
You gave presidents broad immunity
Then he cuts with impunity.
Is he accountable for any decisions
He makes about recissions?
So the Senate’s power of appointment
Can be ignored for executive anointment?
Did #Originalists read Article One?
Or, is that section just for fun?

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Jul 17

#Power is the greatest #Aphrodisiac
For the bright, ignorant or political hack.
Policy, no matter how cruel or fallible
Is fine when principles are malleable.
One’s soul, flawed and seeking control,
Is for sale, as power is the goal.
If there’s a fiery hell
It’s for those in power’s spell.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Jul 17

#FossilFuels are thrust upon us by fossils
Those old, head-in-the-sand #PetrolApostles.
Their insistence on carbon fuel
Makes modern #Luddites drool.
Their retro appetites won’t be sated
Til their bones can be carbon-dated.
They’ll continue to foul our nest
Until their gilded greed is put to rest.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Jul 15

#Tariffs are a #regressive tax
Judge the unequal impacts.
As toy and coffee prices rise
Rich folk won’t feel the size.
Most will see a bigger bite
And must choose to buy or red light.
Lower classes get the pain
The rich just buy another plane
And sip their espresso besot
While the rest get squat.

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jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · Jun 5

The re-naming of the USS #HarveyMilk
Shows the ugliness of #Hegseth and his ilk.
They fear those unlike their kind
An abomination in their mind.
Bury heroic history of the gay or black.
Erase them and take us back
To when only white dudes were heroes
And all #Others were zeros.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · May 26

It’s #MemorialDay, a celebration
Of those who gave lives for the nation.
Did they suffer fear and pain
and fight and die in vain?
As their government attacks democracy
And acts like patriotism is kleptocracy?
Hollow salutes at #Arlington miss
The fact #Vets deserve better than this.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · May 25

Soon they’ll build a monument to #McCarthyism.
He fits well into the #MAGA vision.
Fling charges like a mad demon
Hope they stick to help their schemin’.
#AlCapone must be on the statue list.
All the fraudsters, you get the jist.
Own the Libs at any cost
As real American values are lost.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · May 24

#CEOs cozy up to the #Trump
Hoping they’ll get a bump.
Then #Tariffs ruin their bottom line
So they let prices climb.
Which punishes Donald’s hope
That folks will buy his dope.
Trying to butter Donnie’s bread
Is a circle game of dread.
Public good is slammed
In a spiral of the damned.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · May 21

The #GOP/MAGA seems to be made for
Figuring out ways to eat the poor.
Cuts to #Medicaid and #SNAP
Reveal just part of this crap.
Why do they have this fixation
On hurting the vulnerable in the nation?
This long time urge is not a glitch.
It’s an obsession to feed the rich.

jerrydunklee.bsky.social @jerrydunklee.bsky.social · May 16

One Country, Indivisible says the Pledge.
No national injunctions build a wedge.
If one court rules #BirthRight must stop
And another no, it creates slop.
One area’s babies are citizens at birth
Another’s are not, so have no U.S. worth.
The implications are divisive
The Court must be dismissive.