Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate it.
It's the Year of the Snake, according
to the Chinese zodiac, though not all countries that observe the
holiday follow that zodiac. But since we're on the theme of
snakes, I think it's a good time to recycle the song lyrics that I originally wrote and published
back in 2016, shortly after the
disastrous election that rocketed #NotMyPresident Donald John Trump to
undeserved power the first time. I've only changed a few words in
order to update it.
As you may know, this was inspired by Trump's
abiding obsession with a poem -- actually song lyrics -- about a
tender-hearted lady and a nefarious, deadly snake. Trump always loved to read it on the campaign trail,
taking pains to ensure that his audience understood that the
snake represented immigrants. If you want to sing along, here's
a video of Al Wilson performing the snake song.
The Orange Snake*
by Cosmic Connie
On the road to ruin one morning
Down the path along the lake
Some angry voters came upon a huge and leering snake
His skin was orange and glowing and he wore a bright red hat
"Oh my, " the voters cried, "Here’s something
new! Let’s vote for that!”
“Vote me in, o angry voters
Vote me in, for heaven’s sake
Vote me in, unhappy citizens,” smirked the snake.
They welcomed him so warmly even as he bared his fangs
They cheered his glowing orangeness and his odd combed-over bangs
They clapped and cheered at every hateful diatribe he spewed
For they believed that under him the realm would be renewed.
“Vote me in, unhappy voters
Vote me in, for heaven’s sake
Vote me in, you angry voters,” grinned the snake
And they did so with malicious glee. “Our hero!” they all
cried
"If Kamala had won, our dear Republic would have died!”
They cheered the huge orange reptile till reality intruded:
They saw he’d granted favors but that they were not included.
“Stop your whining, loser voters
Suck it up, for heaven’s sake
I’ve made our country greater,” leered the snake.
“We loved you, " cried the voters
“And you've screwed us so, but why?
You know the things you’re doing might just make our nation
die!”
“Oh shut up, stupid losers,” said the reptile with a grin
“You knew damn well just what I was, but voted me back in
You bought my lies, you losers
Every lie, for heaven’s sake
And now I’m here forever,” jeered the snake.
© 2016, 2025 by Connie L. Schmidt
Unfortunately the prediction
implied in my lyrics, regarding Trumpcult members becoming
disillusioned with their idol, never came to pass during that
first disastrous term. In a sane world, they would have awakened
en masse back then -- or at least at some time during the four
years he was out of office but continued to wreak chaos and
incite violence -- and we wouldn't have been where we unfortunately are today. And the final line in my lyrics, regarding the snake
being "here forever," would have been moot.
This time around, however, there are signs of a growing
possibility that some Trump voters are maybe beginning
to experience voters' remorse as they see him and his new, much
more powerful, well-funded, and meticulously organized wrecking
crew at work destroying America.
At least some Trump voters are expressing shock at what he and
his cartel of thugs are doing, for they're seeing that his cruel
policies and actions could very well ruin their lives,
not just the lives of those they hate and fear.
Take immigration, f'rinstance. Although scads of hateful MAGAs
are nearly orgasmic because Trump appears to be keeping his
promises and threats to rid the republic of the
"illegals" who are "poisoning the blood of our
country," there are some Trump supporters who are saying,
"Oh, shit."
As God Himself put it in a January 29, 2025 piece about Trump supporters getting
deported or fearing that they or loved ones will be, "Leopard, meet face." That of course is a
reference to the popular social media meme about people voting
for the Leopards Eating People's Faces party and then expressing
shock that the hungry cats are coming for their own faces.
Then there's the totally illegal funding freeze that Caligula and the Cost Cutters attempted to foist
upon the American people, to the potential detriment of millions
-- including some of the poorest of the Trumpy poor. Despite a
court injunction to delay the freeze, the wrecking crew
apparently opted to go full speed ahead with it, but blowback was
so fierce that the White House actually pulled back -- for now, anyway.
But don't think that this battle is over. It will very likely
rise again in some form -- indeed, the White House claims that
their pullback is merely a rescission of the original memo issued on the evening of January 27. Moreover, even that surprise move was enough to cause
widespread panic and confusion and chaos, even among republicans.
In any case it's all straight from the Project 2025 playbook; indeed,
Trump's choice to head the Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
Ross Vought, is one of the chief architects of Project
2025. Despite the cabal's cover story
about reducing government waste, freezing many billions of
dollars in aid and benefits is actually in the service of
centralizing power to the president in dangerous new ways.
And let's not forget Trump's outrageous wholesale
pardoning/sentence commutation of the violent January 6 offenders
who tried to overthrow the government, defaced the nation's
Capitol, threatened the lives of lawmakers of both parties, tried
to murder the Vice President, and viciously attacked numerous
police officers for doing their job. Even the largest cop unions, who for the most part had been reliably
Trumpist, were appalled by the pardons.
All of the above are just a few of the atrocities that Mango Mussolini has perpetrated, or
tried to perpetrate, in his first week and a half back in office (follow that link for more).
Given all of this, a growing tide of disillusionment with Trump
-- even among the more devoted MAGAts -- is not completely beyond
the realm of possibility. They may even acknowledge that yes, the
horrors were Trump's doing and not that of Biden/Obama/the
Democrats et al. And perhaps (oh, we can dream, can't we?) the
devotees will finally rebel in numbers large enough to actually
help move the country away from disaster.
Unfortunately, if Trump and his thugs have their way, the
uprising, should it happen, may very well be too little, too late. The damage will
have been done, and much of it may be irreparable. It's too early
to say. But make no mistake about it, these guys are hard at work
plotting to fix it so that they stay in power indefinitely,
transforming the land of the free and the home of the brave into
an oligarchic, white Christian nationalist Turd Reich. One
particularly devoted Trumpanzee, Representative Andy Ogle of
Tennessee, is so serious about it that he has proposed to amend the 22nd Amendment to allow his
idol to serve a third term.
"And now I'm here forever," jeered the snake.
* No offense is intended to actual
snakes, which serve a useful purpose in nature.
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