National Strike

National strike, General strike

Call it whatever a thing you might like

Society’s getting poorer each day

Poorer in  figur’tive and lit’ral ways

And for tools to change it, we’re almost bereft

I’m dearly afraid we have but one left

We’ve got to hit hard in the one place it hurts

If ever to give out and get just desserts

Though it may seem drastic, nothing works like

National strike. National strike

The system is rigged. That's established fact

Elections are tilted, the courts are all stacked

Wealth buys power. Simple enough for ya?

We see it before us. It’s not paranoia

And it’s wrong. No denying. It’s foul and it’s strange

But from inside the system the system won’t change

We must force the rulers who rule to amend it

By using the only leverage that can bend it.

Violence won’t work. Don’t need heads on pikes

National strike. National strike.

80 percent want background checks

Can’t get that done

60 percent want a green new deal

Can’t get that done

Two-thirds want to vote by mail

Can’t get that done

The problem with democracy?

We don’t have one

Protests are fine Protests are great

Something to do when we all get irate

But when media’s run by Billionaire jerks

The narrative’s sidelined and they just don’t work

They can always deflect to get back to the norm

As long as Fox News has it’s well-heeled platform

The Truth is our ally in this class war

But they’ve made sure there isn’t Truth anymore

Until we at least get a turn at the mic

National strike. National strike.

This won’t get solved by folks out in the streets

Or timely facebook posts nor viral tweets

Or angry op-eds or vocal objections

Or blog posts or Insta or Zoom comment sections 

This will get solved only once we take ‘way

The thing we still hold that still holds any sway

The only thing the ruling class cares about

Their making of wealth in obscene amounts

Sometimes you must take away the addict’s pipe

National strike. National strike.

We’ll never outspend them, never out sway them

That’s not a thing we can do

But our labor they need. They live on our backs.

When we kneel, they have to kneel too.

In a more perfect world, with a more perfect we

Democracy fixes it all One two three.

But the system’s corrupted in way that’s not funny

Pols don’t chase votes anymore, they chase money

And money, my colleagues, my homies, my friends

There ain’t much of that to be found on our end

So with a system so brutal corrupted

The labor supply needs to be interrupted

With the one thing our overlords really dislike

National strike. National strike!

Trump is an Alien

When it finally comes out that Trump is and always was an alien from outer space sent down to destroy humanity from within, we’re all gonna feel pretty stupid. I mean, the dude is bright orange for crying out loud! It’s gonna be quite the head slapper. We really should have seen that coming.

He’s not even that good a simulation of a human being, right? That simulation is flawed. They messed up the software. He’s clearly still in beta testing, but they rolled him out anyway and 44% of us fell for it.

Would you really be surprised if he was just what an alien thinks a human being is sort of like? “I don’t know. Humans talk about how great they are all the time don’t they? They aren’t capable of compassion are they? Because programming compassion would take a lot of time and 2016 is right around the corner… Tell you what, we’ll give him spite, vanity and vengeance as far as emotions go, but nothing complex. Tight skedj here!”

The fuckers didn’t even bother making him a NATURAL HUMAN COLOR! And we (well, 44% of we...) bought it.

And he’s working out perfectly for them. He’s warming up the planet to just the temperature they want. “It’s all a Venusian… I mean a Chinese hoax!” He’s got everyone mistrusting everyone by race, ethnicity, and population density. Divide and conquer. No way humanity is rising up Independence Day style. Nope. He ain’t no Bill Pullman. (I would totally swap Bill Pullman for him right now, no questions asked. Straight up trade today, no backsies.)

It is the perfect blueprint for taking over another planet, if we ever get to that level of advancement. (Which thanks to Trump and his fear of science, we likely never will now.) 5 easy steps:

1. Install a “leader” in the planet’s most powerful country.
2. Lie 18,000 times in 3 years.
3. Let him work his orange magic teaching that the only way forward is to hate, fear and divide.
4. Make sure he never wears a tan suit. Oh the scandal! The scandal!
5. Make Pluto Great Again!

We’ll have them drinking bleach in no time.

They Drown

New poem:

There’s a child in a pool

Water it can be so cruel

See him there, for the third time, he’s going down

Oh he’s not doing well

So he’s raising holy hell

And while you ask, “Why’s he screaming?”

He drowns.

While you ask, “Why’s he screaming?”

He drowns.

There are people on a boat

Trying hard to stay afloat

It’s aflame and taking water all around

They send up an SOS

Reasons for which you can guess

And while you ask “Why are they screaming?”

They drown

While you ask, “Why’s he screaming?”

They drown.

It always seems quite telling

That we fixate on the yelling

And we never seem to ask why that’s the case

Folks scream out that they’re boned

All we’re concerned with is the tone

And that there is our national disgrace

See the frogs in the hot water

How we tell them that they oughta

Get out of there, their situation stinks

But they boil and they choke

They quite literally croak

We ask “Why the screaming?” as

Their precious species go extinct.

It isn’t so heroic

To think yourself quite stoic

And cop a laissez faire attitude

To watch them desperate trying 

Then tell them “while you’re dying,

Could you please spare us all the drama there dudes?”

As The ocean levels rise

To absolutely none’s surprise

And many of us see what’s going down

Because we’re going under

Lord, we raise a royal thunder

And while you say “Why are they screaming?”

We all drown.

While you say “Why the screaming?”

We all drown.

While you say “Why are they screaming?”

Everybody drowns