What’s this in the coveted 13th spot on the #ExecutiveDisobediences list?
Why, it’s an alphabet of approved terms for placards to welcome Pseudo-Imperator #Trumpo II with on the occasion of his 2nd State Visit.
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‘The white-man bias there ye fill,
Wi’ bigotry as auld as hills,
Yer grin wad see to crush an’ kill
In oor time o’ need,
While malice thro’ a’ pores distils
Pure hate an’ greed.’
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It’s a rattlin version of the Burns poem as repurposed by Marianne Berghuis to satiric ends, which shows ‘parody’ is a restrictive concept: Marianne’s version respects Burns but finds a way of redirecting his energy. Because, aye, #Trumpo’s a pudden…
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Next in #NewBootsAndPantisocracies’ series of #ExecutiveDisobediences is this magnificent takedown in the style of Burns’s ‘To a Haggis’ of the hauf-Scottish orange pudden himsel (nou en route tae a golf course near you) by Marianne Berghuis:
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Tom Phillips follows a certain palindromic canal past #Trumpo’s carbuncular towers all the way to a book-burning:
It will have, at either end, a replica of the Statue of Liberty
ennobled with the traditional spent shells of artillery bombardment.
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Here’s #TomEdwardPhillips cocking a snoot at #Trumpo’s Presidential Memorandum 8485: PROMOTING BEAUTIFUL FEDERAL CIVIC ARCHITECTURE!
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To be honest, we’re not sure #Trumpo has time/the capacity to read _all_ our posts/to read, but we press ahead ever hopeful…
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Next in our series of #ExecutiveDisobediences is by Gordon McInnes and takes exception to EO 14162: ‘Putting America First in International Environmental Agreements’, weather #Trumpo likes it or not:
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Disobedience of the execrable exec seems to be in order, as #Trumpo throws his weight about probably illegally in California.
This, from Mandy Macdonald, plays on the terms ‘alien’ and ‘invasion’ from EO 14159:
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. @nick-allen-poet.bsky.social’s sonnet touches on the great delusion of Manifest Destiny before wrapping up with this scathing couplet:
I know you’re in thrall to a Great White moneyed ideal
but brother, Moby Dick was a warning, not a life goal.
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That inaugural speech:
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Its key inversion:
…a new generation of Americans
has been born. Hard and bitter,
unwilling to be tempered by our ancient heritage,
proud to witness the slow undoing of human rights,
to torch friend or foe alike.
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It seems appropriate that Karen Macfarlane’s détournement of #JFK not only fits #Trumpo’s topsy-turvy world view, but that, as we run this series of #ExecutiveDisobediences in parallel with the #EcoSonnetChain, her poem is a sort of inverted sonnet.
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This latest poem in our series, #ExecutiveDisobediences, is of course in response to Presidential Proclamation 10887: GRANTING PARDONS AND COMMUTATION OF SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATING TO THE EVENTS AT OR NEAR THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6, 2021.
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#MayDay’s a good time to reconsider the meaning of old customs. Here’s Peter Childs’ clarification of the clemency:
‘You may forget these details, friends, so here’s the nitty-gritty:
When the turkey does the pardoning, you know the world’s turned shitty.’
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It’s #MayDay and so, as Peter Childs has it, let he who pardons the turkeys cast the first hamburger wrapper.*
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*By ‘turkeys’ he means ‘rioters’ and by ‘hamburger wrapper’, ‘Executive Order’.
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New Boots and Pantisocracies brings you #6 in a series of #ExecutiveDisobediences. This one’s a tragicomic ballad from our on-the-spot rhyme correspondent Peter Childs. It’s a real turkey.
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There’s an ironic call-and-response in @anneberkeley.bsky.social’s poem in which it seems one half of the page can’t hear what the other half is saying:
There’s a grim, seemingly-inevitable how to the way things are falling apart. As @anneberkeley.bsky.social notes, that involves us being discouraged by the who* from protesting the why:
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Here’s No.7 in the #ExecutiveQuatrains series, steaming along in the wake of both our #EcoSonnetChain and the #ExecutiveDisobediences (more of which this Thurs).
Today’s verses are tariffic, with an added whiff of brimstone:
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*‘RESTORING NAMES THAT HONOR AMERICAN GREATNESS’
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Once you start responding to Executive Order 14172* you just can’t stop, Andy Jackson finds:
Paddled on an upturned whale to America,
from Putingrad to Tin City, across the American,
Strait, waded knee-deep in the West American
Ocean, into the 51st State…
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Are you now or have you ever been American enough for #Trumpo? @azjackson.bsky.social sets out the new parameters in Executive Disobedience #4:
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‘Pick up the unexpected, then the unsuspecting.
Find types with different coloured skins.
Include any that you can’t quite place or name.
The windfalls. The misshapen.
The shrivelled and the small.’
(Beth McDonough, #ExecutiveDisobediences #3)
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When life gives you ghastly orange buffoons you don’t have to make ghastly orange buffoon marmalade, says Beth McDonough - especially not cruel and inhumane ghastly orange buffoon marmalade.
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#ExecutiveDisobediences #3 is by Beth McDonough and is in the form of a recipe written in opposition to Executive Order 14160: ‘PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP’:
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Re #Trumpo grubbing about in the archives:
Conspiracy theories are really quite fun –
It’s only facts that are left to smoulder.
Where is the string, and the smoking guns?
Our truth must be hiding in manilla folders!
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Usually posting on a Thursday (and alternating with our #EcoSonnetChain) is our new series of #ExecutiveDisobediences: small acts of resistance to the attempt to bully the world.
First up, Andrew Leggett:
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First in a series of #ExecutiveDisobediences addressing one of the recent Presidential Executive Orders.
Andrew Leggett gets us started. For contributions, our email address is on the New Boots and Pantisocracies site. Write, baby, write!
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