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Thursday, August 27, 2020

Republican National Convention Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech

My Take on the RNC2020 Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech 

I wonder any of you have seen all four episodes of the 2020 Republican National Convention? 

As for myself, I watched the first episode out of curiosity, the second one towards the end to hear what Melania have to say about her wayward husband. 

I skipped the third one entirely because Mike Pence’s sanctimonious preaching, hovered over constantly by his mother wife Karen, the Karen of all Karens, often bores me to sleep. 

For the last and the least, I wanted to see how the circus barker Donald Trump juggled all those pandemic, economic and sociopathic hot irons he himself manufactured out of thin air, a virtuoso performance of and by itself.  He never disappointed. 

His speech was preceded those by a parade of men and women drunk with Trump’s brand of kool-aids spiked with hundred-percent-proof Russian vodka, especially one concocted up by his besotted Ivanka.  All suffered end-stage symptoms of Fake Patriot Disease, a performance issue where they could only raise their flags at half-staff; their Second Amendment infatuation and their gun-wielding urges were left half-cocked. It’s just not a good feeling, they would say, if you ask them. 


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Here is my take on the RNC 2020 Donald Trump’s Acceptance Speech in a poem: 

Time for the grand finale to hit the fan, 
In came the orange man in orange tan. 

Up waddled this fake man with pompous airs, 
And  heart seething with spawns from viper lairs. 

Jittery, fidgety flashed his tiny hands, 
Off teleprompts he took to his own stands: -

An arson’s creed to set the world on flame,

And glib conjuring of blame-shifting game. 


‘Tis a circus show none ever could live down: 
A court jester’s mad grab for monarch crown. 

His spews of garbage met with up-rolled eyes, 
The day Donald Trump won the igNoble Prize. 

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My commentary on the RNC2020 Donald Trump's acceptance speech continues below: 

All in all, it was a four-ring circus where lots of spins, juggling, contortions, magic tricks, elephant parade, the disappearing acts and the escape-clause artists, trying their best to distract and deflect the viewing public from all those past transgressions that were Donald Trump’s and to razzle-dazzle their base. 

What is more, tried as they might, all those lion and tiger trainers, engaging in confusion, distractions, evasion, and all the tricks of their trade in their guild books, failed to tame the inner animal demons that have already escaped long ago from Donald Trump’s dark lair of a heart and still continue now to wreak havocs far and wide. 

In other words, the circus barker’s orchestrated, discordant concert of blame-shifting, deflection, avoidance, omission, questionable cures and various mind hacks have only reinforced the impression of Trump as an aging, blow-hard snake-oil salesman now exposed to the world. 

His first term has been a complete disaster. His dystopian vision of America in his 2016 inaugural speech has come to full fruition, beyond his own expectations. His indolence, neglect and dereliction of presidential duties endanger our national interests and security. 

His persistent insolence towards our rules of law and his outright violations of our Constitution threatens our democracy and the credibility of our public institutions. His Twitter-happy fingers and their proximity to the nuclear button often send the world and his senior officials into tipsy, topsy-turvy world of frantic frenzies and bewilderment. 

His words now strain credibility and the office of the president a laughingstock of the world community. His rule by proxies, cronyism, unqualified personnel and attack dogs create a government ungovernable and in complete chaos and unable to handle and manage incessant crises that often come our way. One glaring example is the pandemic that ravish our social fabric and render our economy, social well-being and health care system asunder. 

His mauling packs of attack dogs of white nationalists, supremacists, militia groups, racists and misogynists, fanned by and emboldened by the vitriol of some conservative TV and radio talk show personalities and conspiracy theorists, personally sanctioned by the president of the United States. They take to the streets and parade publicly in full military garbs and with military-grade automatic attack weapons. These “very fine people” deemed by Donald Trump, is the modern day version of the Ku Klux Klan and could be the brown-shirt stormtroopers of his future regime. Here’s the Trumpian dystopian future in a snapshot. 

The re-election of Donald Trump as president of these United States must not succeed. His second term not only would corral us down a dangerous path of environmental disasters, authoritarian rule, the obliteration of our Founders’ dreams, and the loss of our American way of life as we once knew it. 

It would also usher in the world a dark era of strongman rule and eventually would result in a world dominion of autocracy. The only major democracies in the world like Germany, United Kingdom and France would not be militarily strong and united enough to resist the territorial ambitions and militaristic adventures of countries like Putin’s Russia. 

The first country to feel Putin’s grab for territory conquests would be Ukraine, followed by Belarus, and then Kazakhstan, and Georgia, countries with heavy ethnic Russian population or strategic importance. His success would encourage other countries with similar ambition to subject the world to their horrific doctrine of what I would call the New World Colonialism. 

For dictators could not function in isolation, they need alike company to reinforce each other’s positions and to justify their strenuous hold on the people they enslaved. That we must not allow to see the light of day. So go out and vote Trump out of office and hopefully into an institutionalized facility. For our sake and the sake of our children and their children’s children and the world, please exercise your right and vote early!!!


#DonaldTrumpsAcceptanceSpeech #RepublicanNationalConvention2020 #RNC2020 #AcceptanceSpeech #TrumpSpeech

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Trump and Putin’s Upcoming Summit



News flash:
On July 3rd, 2018, Scott Dworkin, Co-founder of “The Democratic Coalition” and the #DworkinReport, tweeted: “Trump is planning on meeting with Putin without aides before their summit. This makes it a lot easier for them to collude even more for the 2018 election. Republicans cannot hold on to the House and the Senate without Russia’s help. And they all know it. Bunch of damn traitors.”

This image of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin riding a horse shirtless is going viral in Russia


So Trump is to meet up with Putin mano a mano, up close and personal, without a third party to interfere with their flagrante delicto.

Holy Jiminy Cricket! That means that lying sprouting-nose Pinocchio Trump is now answering the summon of his maker & puppeteer Putin, who will formally turn him into his real boy toy. There goes my celebration of #IndependenceDay2018.


via GIPHY


Remember our nation's #independence was won out of our #Resistance to foreign influence & control. Hopefully, this November the #BlueWave2018 and #ImpeachTrump will be cause for our real celebration of #IndependenceDay2018. #Resist!!!

#TrumpPutinSummit #Pinocchio #JiminyCricket #HelsinkiSummit


Saturday, June 30, 2018

Star River Night (My attempt at Chinese poetry)


星河夜


斜陽西落別彩霞
燈火螢點照人家
一碧銀河浮天際
猶似春流飄浪花

(English translation :)
The westward sloping sun bids the colorful clouds farewell,
(Only by) The lamps’ light and flashing fireflies reveal the presence of human dwellings;
A (swath of) silver river floats above the blue horizon,
Just like its foamy sprays flutter upon a spring stream.


#ChinesePoem #StarRiverNight #MilkyWay ##MilkyWaySerenade #StarryNight #ChinesePoemTranslation #CountrysideNocturnal

© By Paul F. J. Chow 6/30/2018

Friday, May 4, 2018

A Tale of Two Republican Presidents: Ronald Reagan and Donald J. Trump



Although both belong to the trickle-down school of economics, their similarity ends there, Trump and Reagan can be any more different. Reagan was a staunch anti-communist, anti-Soviet Russian hegemony crusader. Trump is a Putin-Russian hegemony colluding stooge.

Trump famously called on the Soviet leader, while giving a speech near the now defunct Berlin Wall: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Trump foolhardily continues to call for a U.S.-Mexican Border Wall. A wall to rival the Great Wall of China, if not in strength but in length, Mr. Trump? This serves little purpose but gives our enemies and detractors a pretext and rallying cry: "Uncle Sam, tear down this wall!" It's outright unneighborly, in this case, a good fence doesn't make good neighbors to our south.

Reagan was held captive by an arcane policy of supply-side economics and the Iran-Contra scandal. Trump is allegedly held hostage by Putin Russian complicity in our 2016 presidential election and a pee-pee tape showing a hooker giving Trump a “golden shower” in a St. Petersburg hotel. If proven true, this is not a kind of "show and tell" you want your kids to do in their history class but in the trash heap of our national saga or for the future Trump Presidential Library, if there is going to be one. Because Trump is known to detest reading and books, the only type of properties, the intellectual kind, he manages to fail bigly to develop any, if at all. But it is a fitting legacy to the Trump presidency, whose 2016 candidacy was never fully vetted for the voting public, but now, ironically, only to be fully vetted, uh . . . wetted by a working girl in a Russian hotel. What a tale to tell in dallying, imbibed and imbued company!

Reagan, although twice married, was a faithful husband to Nancy, a model of modesty. Trump, thrice married, is a cavorting husband of playmate and porn-star to his current trophy wife, Melania, a former model of nudity. So much for Republican family values and Christian right righteousness.

Reagan was a real actor who stayed in character of a U.S. president and followed the script to the crossing of every T, steadfast and solid. Trump was just a mere third rate reality TV star, who stays in character of an apprentice in the White House, but often strays off scripts, or makes up scripts of falsehood or unreality to a stream of pee. Feeble and exposed.

Despite Trump's personality faults, moral defects and intellectual flaws, some GOP (and some people, victims of Reaganomics) still support him because he is an extremely rare breed of demagogue who was able to grab the rein of power at our nation's highest office and whom they can call one of their own: by the “Koch brothers-Carl Icahn” oligarchs, the "Last Great White Hope" white supremacists, the “religion, social class and gender” bigots, the "America über alles" ultra-nationalists, and the “pro-land development, pro off-shore oil-drilling, climate change denying and anti-conservation” conservatives.

#DonaldTrump #RonaldReagan #BerlinWall #USBorderWall #MexicoBorderWall #TricleDownEconomics #2016Election

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

A Tribute to Stephen Hawking



Stephen Hawking, you were a giant star that illuminated a far dark corner of our universe and brought to light our further understanding of its many deep mysteries.

He is a testimony to the enduring spirit of human courage and aspiration. He defied all odds and outlived some 50 more years after a diagnosis of ALS, a debilitating nervous degenerative disease at the age of 22. He refused to allow the restriction of his freedom of movement imposed by physical disability to limit the expanding scope of his mental ability to wander among the galaxies. All the while, he maintained his sense of humor and his enthusiasm and love of life. For all these, thank you, Stephen Hawking, Rest in Peace among the stars.

P.S. Some interesting facts about Stephen Hawking: he was born on the 300th anniversary of the death of Galileo Galilei and died on the 200th anniversary of Albert Einstein's birthday. I don’t mean to make a mountain out of a molehill, uh . . . in this case a galaxy out of our meager solar system. But it does beg the question: is there some truth to the claim of a sentient and conscious universe (aka panpsychism) as proponed by some scientists and physicists, an order in this seemingly random, chaotic universe after all?

#StephenHawking #panpsychism

On the life of Stephen Hawkins, go to http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008

Sunday, January 28, 2018

The Trump’s Border Wall, aka Trump’s Folly


Unlike grandma's nightgown, but similar to Donald Trump's own hair, the proposed Trump’s Border Wall doesn't cover everything. It'll never be built high enough, dug deep enough below ground or extended far out beyond our border coastline to be effective. They can always get in by air, sea and underground tunnels. When there is a will, there is a way in. Even grandma’s Victorian-style nightgown will not cover all that, Donald.

It Donald succeeds, it will become a National Monument Of Shame, and unlike the Stalin’s "Iron Curtain", it will be a porous Orange Curtain, like his hairpiece. It will be ugly symbol for America and a rallying cry for people south of our border and our detractors all over the world: “Uncle Sam, Tear down that wall!" It's Déjà Vu, Berlin Wall and Ronald Reagan’s aphorism all over again. Except this time, the ball is in our court, uh . . . turf, it will be a mulligan Donald Trump will never be able to pull off.

Like China’s Great Wall or the Roman Hadrian’s Wall in Britain, it will never be able to fulfill its promised promise, keeping outsiders out, only to keep divisiveness and xenophobia in. Like the Hadrian’s Wall, this wall will have Trump’s name attached to it, the Trump Wall, not in the same proud vein as his Trump Tower in New York. In an ironical twist, Trump demolished some national monuments by executive orders only to build another monument of infamy to himself. It will be etched in our collective memory long after Donald Trump or even the Wall is gone. Sic semper tyrannis!

That $25 billion of' proposed wall money, footed by U. S. taxpayers, not Mexico, as Trump insists, are better served to repair our crumbling infrastructures, which are still salvageable, unlike Trump's hair. If his wall of thwarted dreams . . . uh nightmares, crumbles, it will be known as the Trump’s Folly and relegated to the trash heap of history.


#TrumpsWall #BorderWall #NationalMonumentOfShame #OrangeCurtain #IronCurtain #TrumpsFolly

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Reflection on #EarthDay 2017



Whenever I can, I often remind myself to put
my Body in the solace embrace of Mother Nature,
my Spirit on the uplifting flight of Music,
my Belief in the sentience & sanctity of All Life
my Hope on the redeeming grace of Mankind,
my Faith in the regenerative power of Planet Earth,
my Life's Pilgrimage on steadfast guide of my Purposeful Compass,
and my Soul in the beneficent hands of All-That-I-Am, One-And-The-Same!

When we say "Save Our Planet", we are actually saving ourselves. Earth has survived many cataclysms before during its formative years without us, countless of asteroid bombardments, upheavals of land masses, volcanic activities and climate extremes. Life always finds its way, whether we are going to be in that picture in the future is entirely up to us.

Stop #ClimateChange, Reduce #CarbonEmissions, Plan #UrbanDevelopments, Increase #OrganicFarming, Control our #Biomass with #ZeroPopulationGrowth, Tread lightly on our own personal #CarbonFootprints.