Tag: United States
Trust the Process
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MITCH SPEAKS and satisfies all those of us who wonder why Republicans never speak up when we need them to speak!
Senator MCCONNELL
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“So let’s talk about where we are now.
“According to preliminary results, voters across the nation elected and re-elected Republican Senators to a degree that stunned prognosticators.
“Likewise, the American people seem to have reacted to House Democrats’ radicalism and obstruction by shrinking the Speaker’s majority and electing more Republicans there.
“And then there is the presidential race.
“Obviously, no states have yet certified their election results. We have at least one or two states that are already on track for a recount. And I believe the President may have legal challenges underway in at least five states.
“The core principle here is not complicated. In the United States of America, all legal ballots must be counted; any illegal ballots must not be; the process should be transparent or observable by all sides, and the courts are here to work through concerns.
“Our institutions are built for this. We have the system in place to consider concerns. And President Trump is 100% within his rights to look into allegations of irregularities and weigh his legal options.
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Twenty years ago, when Florida came down to a very thin margin, we saw Vice President Gore exhaust the legal system and wait to concede until December.
“More recently, weeks after the media had “called” President Bush’s re-election in 2004, Democrats baselessly disputed Ohio’s electors and delayed the process in Congress.
“The 2016 election saw recounts or legal challenges in several states.
“If any major irregularities occurred this time, of a magnitude that would affect the outcome, then every single American should want them to be brought to light. And if Democrats feel confident they have not occurred, they should have no reason to fear any extra scrutiny.
“We have the tools and institutions we need to address any concerns. The President has every right to look into allegations and request recounts under law.
“And notably the Constitution gives no role in this process to wealthy media corporations.
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The projections and commentary of the press do not get veto power over the legal rights of any citizen, including the President.
“More broadly, let’s have no lectures about how the President should immediately, cheerfully accept preliminary election results from the same characters who just spent four years refusing to accept the validity of the last election.
“And who insinuated this one would be illegitimate, too, if they lost again.
“Let’s have no lectures on this subject from that contingent.
“In late August, Secretary Hillary Clinton said, quote, ‘Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances… I think this is going to drag out, and… he will win if we don’t give an inch.’
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That same month, Speaker Pelosi and the Democratic Leader both stated, quote, ‘[President Trump] needs to cheat to win.’
“In October, when Speaker Pelosi was shopping some conspiracy theory about the Postal Service, she recklessly said, quote, ‘I have no doubt that the president… will lie, cheat, and steal, to win this election.’
“Does this sound like a chorus that has any credibility to say a few legal challenges from President Trump represent some kind of crisis?
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At this time last week, small-business owners in cities across America were boarding up their windows in case President Trump appeared to win and far-left mobs decided to reprise their summertime rioting.
“Suffice to say a few legal inquiries from the President do not exactly spell the end of the Republic.
“Here’s how two professors from Fordham Law School and New York Law School put it:
“ Quote: ‘For centuries, we have asked people who are unhappy with their fellow citizens or government agencies and institutions to bring their claims to court.’
“President Trump’s is ‘a traditional response that affirms rather than undermines American institutions.’
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“This process will reach its resolution. Our system will resolve any recounts or litigation. In January, the winner of this election will place his hand on a Bible.
“Just like it’s happened every four years since 1793.
“What we know for sure is that the outcome is guaranteed to delight tens of millions of Americans and disappoint tens of millions of Americans.
“But we also know that we will wake up on January 21st, still blessed to live in the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
FROM LANCE: Be strong. Stay informed. Don’t let the INFORMATION warfare overpower you. It’s now LAWFARE as court cases advance. Don’t pray nervous PRAYER’S but pray for the exposure of the hidden works of darkness.
OUR YESTERDAYS
Our yesterdays become today’s poetry
What mis-guided steps we took in earlier days
Become the compass to guide or mis-guide us through life’s tempests in later years
Our flood of tears that overwhelmed us as babes
Water and keep fertile our heart’s soil in our golden years
Our early attempts at art:
Our stick figures we clumsily drew and our finger paintings
Become the force behind master strokes
On the masterpiece we paint of our whole life
The notes we failed to carry when we were tone deaf
Become the notes angelic beings carry to and fro
Up and down Jacob’s ladder
Aligning the celestial harmonies
Between our heavenly residence and our earthly abode
The multitude of our unanswered questions
We asked while at our parent’s knees
Become our song’s lyrics
The stuff of our novels , stories and poems
We are greater than the sum of earth’s square footage
We are greater than the power of all rulers, past and present combined
Our greatness emanates from the Divine!
Eva Santiago copyright 2016
Keep ’em Kids in Line
You there, in that prison cell
You amaze me
You’re free
Freer than a free man
They put you away
Sent you to the pen
For 7 years
Thinking they could annihilate
And Destroy you
But you won’t give in to your fears
Yeah I know you shed tears
I feel them in your letters
You shed many tears
But not for yourself
You’re beyond all of that
You did what you did
You’re paying with your time
You know what’s what
The tears you shed
Are all for your children
You committed the crime
You made your bed
Those tears you shed
You hope will keep ’em kids in line.
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2013
Fly the Friendly Skies
Have you ever looked up at the sky
There, way up high
Miraculously suspended
The Most amazing of inventions
Held together by nuts and bolts
Painted with pretty logos
Taking us here
Taking us there
Taking us everywhere
Tiny windows all in a row
Heads the size of pins looking out
I see you up there
So jealous of you
Looking down at me sitting here
Stuck on the ground with nowhere to go
But you!
You get to fly!
You’ve got your wings
You are free!
I look up at you
Whoever you are
Right now you shine brighter than any ‘ole star
For you have what I desperately want:
Wings to fly
Where are you headed?
Who the hell cares!
At least you’re going somewhere
A funeral?
A wedding?
You just got divorced?
Starting a new life someplace new?
Perhaps you’re headed for college?
Or maybe a long deserved vacation?
What a marvelous feat
When I fly
I lose myself in the clouds
Once I wandered into a great white forest
Stayed there for three hours
Another time I played hide and seek with a rainbow
I remember dancing with angels
Careful not to step on their wings
They don’t take too kindly to that
I have ridden on elephant’s backs
And followed the course of my wild imagination
I was six when I first flew
Nothing in life back then made sense
Until I stepped into a jet plane
And there was where I got a clue
That day so long ago
I remember thinking:
Angelic beings were my friends
For the first time in my short life
I felt like a real princess
They served me the food I liked
They gave me nice smiles
They gave me a pillow
Even held my hand when I got scared
I fell in love with the friendly skies
I told the creatures in the clouds:
“I will always come back
So long,
Fare thee well
I’ll return!”
And time after time
Though I wish to fly more often
To the friendly skies
I have kept my word!
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2013
The Displaced
To be homeless is nothing more than to be displaced. They are no different from those of us who have a place of our own. They wake up the same as you and me. They need love and affection like you and me. What is to be displaced?
Is it a choice a person makes?
Is is a curse?
Is it random?
Does it choose you?
Do you choose it?
I’ve been close to being homeless at one time in my life. I was kicked out of somewhere to land on some one else’s door-step;only to find out I was not welcome there either. I literally had no place to call my own during that brief time. I was displaced because of my family‘s lack of concern for me. Who of you are bold enough to admit you’ve been home less at one time or another? It could have lasted an hour,a day, a week , a month or even a year. No matter the length of time,,or for whatever set of circumstances, you know what feeling homeless is like.
The United States of America is The Great Land of Pretenders. When I was displaced, I held a full-time job, I wore nice clothes, I ate everyday. I just lacked my roof. I went to work and wore the same happy face; no one knew of my plight. I pretended all was well with me and kept going because well, that is what one does in the land pf pretenders.
To be homeless mean so much more than to lack a roof over your head at night. In my view, to be displaced is to be without family. Family tossed me out;I ended up living with a bunch of strangers . I was cut off from my rightful place and role in my family. So I struck out on my own;left all those people behind because that’s when I knew I had to forge my path and find my family.
Displaced people wander about looking for acceptance and connection. I sure did. You can be a wealthy person and still merit the title of displaced soul only because you’ve no family, no ties . No true bonds to family whether it’s your blood or family made of close friends. You can own the whole world and all its treasure but if you have no true connection to another soul, you’re a displaced soul. I have met many in that plight who were so full of the pride of life and the total sum of their possessions. Yet they had no one who checks up on them at least once a day to see if they’re ok.
In the land of pretenders they teach children everything about the value of material things and nothing about the value of life. Generation after generation children are not shown to pursue love and to attain peace at all costs.
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2013
Flavorless Salt
Too many people
Think they know too many things
Fact is they only know facts
In the end we know nothing at all
What happens when we fall?
We fall from:
Grace
Our place
A tree
We fall out of:
A window
LOVE
An Airplane
Hot air balloons
We fall into:
Arms
Beds
Chairs
Water
We fall into:
Despair
When we think things aren’t fair
Then we feel sorry for ourselves
And some one should kick us in the rear
We fall into despair
When a shit we don’t give
And we think no one cares
Then we go molly grubbing
And we stay there a while
Think it’s ok
To not one single fuck give
And let’s never again smile
What we forget is:
To give is to live
Take what’s not yours
And die a little inside
Take and not give
You become full of holes
Like an old sieve
And now life sifts right through you
You’ll have to be thrown out
Like flavorless salt.
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2013
Eva Santiago 