Short Take Politics:

Short Take Politics
The lead-in from Facebook where I published this separately:

Posted here so as to not offend the Dittoheads who are easily offended. The people Rush Limbaugh called "snowflakes" and "libtards" wonder what happened to their 1st and 4th Amendment Rights and why it is OK to start wars by whim, ignore the separation of powers defined by the Constitution and disrespect our fallen soldiers. They also wonder why hawking merchandise during a dignified transfer of "suckers and losers" is not offensive to people who claim to want to Make America Great Again.

Afroman wins suit
Police sued the rapper after he used their raid of his residence, together with security camera footage including a lemon pound cake to poke fun at them. The court found he was not liable for his art hurting their feelings. https://apnews.com/article/afroman-police-raid-lawsuit-ohio-first-amendment-309accc1ce068620e19cfd7d0f70dae1

About that lemon pound cake
Ok, on second thought, now I want some Lemon Pound Cake. Here’s the offensive video. This is the funniest thing since DDemetreus Nixlive-streamed from McDonald’s while the State Office of Cannabis Management raided Honeycomb Hive on Pine Avenue and found 2 ounces of weed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xxK5yyecRo

This is hell on earth.
By Will Crois

Special to the Express

A war goes unchallenged,
waged in the shadow of a malignant ego,
its choir fed on hubris.

A girls’ school reduced to rubble.
Lives erased, injuries multiplied,
all buried beneath the sterile phrase: collateral damage.
Precision, they claim,
as if accuracy could absolve the act.

At home, investigations circle Medicaid fraud,
while a paper king gathers billions
through schemes as thin as the promises that built them.

Race and women,
targets in a quieter war,
enough, you would think,
to make a nation turn away.
But many stay,
blinded, or unwilling to name their mistake.

Prices climb without mercy.
And the counterfeit commander boasts,
“I could end it anytime,”
as if suffering were a switch.

And still,
the blockade of Cuba,
millions left in darkness,
without power, without food.

This is America now:
far from the days
when pride was worn openly,
when the flag was lifted high
and the anthem carried
without hesitation.
Will crois