Donald Trump – bendingtheneedle

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The reason people hate Donald Trump with such fervor is that a day doesn’t go by that we don’t witness his unpunished assaults on the rule of law, decency, integrity, and truth.

This man with no moral compass lives in a consequence-free world, with zero checks on his power from the confederacy of cowards that inhabit the co-equal branches of government – and we have to sit back and take it.

Even his supporters are seeing it now, but they hedge their opinion of Trump and rationalize his behavior with ridiculous comments like “all politicians are crooked” or “he’s no different than < insert the name of any Democrat>,” which is categorically and demonstrably false. Prominent historians have stated with great specificity exactly how Trump is different, documenting with examples of how Trump is forcing fascism on a democratic people.

So, when I read about the President being stuffed into an airplane food cart to escape potential assassination, I imagined a frightened felon wafting in the stench of his shit-filled diaper. To me, that felt a little bit like justice for a criminal thug who has wreaked havoc on our political system, terrorized the immigrant community, lied about vaccines, protected pedophiles, wooed war criminals, trampled the constitution, destroyed trust, threatened our allies, and promoted policies and ordered military strikes responsible for the death of thousands of innocent people around the globe, including citizens here at home, with zero accountability for his actions.

If genuine justice isn’t an option — and it doesn’t feel like it is– then we can at least revel in knowing that this crumb of a man is being forced to feel a little uncomfortable in his remaining days on this planet.

“A Lot More Shirley Chisholms” is Live on Streaming Services

“A Lot More Shirley Chisholms,” the latest single from Sapient Rain, is live on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine, Suno.

You can listen to “A Lot More Shirley Chisholms” for free on Suno.

A Lot More Shirley Chisholms

Thoughts skewed by algorithms
caught in thought complacency
dumbstruck and stuck in schisms
of moral rot and latency

We’re lost in planes and prisms
we’re distracted by our screens
we need a lot more Shirley Chisholms
in the land of the obscene

A greedy bigot runs the show
we all get painted by his brush
America’s lost that special glow
and the world’s been stunned
into a hush

[Chorus]
We’ve gone from taking huddled masses
yearning to be free
to terrorizing humans
trying to earn their currency
We’ve tamped the lamp of freedom
we closed the golden door
that shining city on the hill
is just a giant Walmart store

We choose a news that won’t refute us
we set up camps, we pick a side
we seek a truth that won’t dispute us
we all refuse to swallow pride

Lady Liberty has vanished
in a MAGA world of hate
she’s a dead idea in bronze and stone
we can’t resuscitate

We’ve become constant politickers
never doubting what we see
walking talking bumper stickers
with no humanity

Sapient Rain is best categorized as a human–AI hybrid musical project — specifically, a lyric‑driven, politically charged, genre‑fluid collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno.

For a free listen, check out the library of publicly available Sapient Rain tracks on Suno.

New Songs from Sapient Rain

I’ve been busy writing lyrics and using Suno to put music to them.

The following table lists my most recent works, which are available on music streaming services and on my Songs page on the Suno website.

Feel free to let me know what you think of these songs by dropping a comment on this post!

Song Title and Link	Summary and Commentary
A Lot More Shirley Chisholms	Asharp, frustrated lament about America’s moral drift, its fractured information ecosystem, and its abandonment of civic ideals.
Mapleton or Miracle	A song that merges grief, spiritual disillusionment, and socioeconomic critique into a single, bitter meditation on what people do when the world stops making sense. It’s a lament for communities hollowed out by trauma and a condemnation of the institutions that claim to offer comfort but instead deepen the wound.
The Tyrant’s Closet	A grotesque inventory poem that exposes corruption, cruelty, and vanity through the metaphor of a closet stuffed with incriminating artifacts. It’s vivid, vicious, and darkly funny. It’s one of Sapient Rain’s most visually imaginative political tracks — a grotesque diorama of authoritarianism, vanity, and moral rot.
Like I Don’t Know Where I’m At	A breakup song built on blunt emotional disorientation, mixing dark humor, self‑laceration, and surreal metaphor to capture the numbness that follows sudden abandonment. It’s Sapient Rain in narrative mode: wounded, sardonic, and unfiltered.
My Porch in Timbuktu	A haunting meditation on death, disorientation, and the ache of separation. It’s a song written from the far side of life — a voice speaking from the grave, or from some liminal after‑place — trying to make sense of absence, memory, and the dissolution of identity.
Usurpers in the Pulpit	A fierce, articulate condemnation of religious authority used as a political weapon. The song’s core message is that faith becomes dangerous when it’s commandeered by those who seek power rather than truth.
Generation Blue	A critique of digital-era malaise that blends social commentary, nostalgia, and self‑aware humor. It’s a song that understands both the seduction and the suffocation of modern life, and it captures that tension with clarity and bite.
Along the Avenue	A breezy, sunlit collage of domestic surrealism that quietly smuggles in a meditation on time, mortality, and the fragility of ordinary life. It’s a song that feels light until you realize how heavy it actually is.
Donny on Dementia	A grotesque character study delivered through blistering satire, exaggeration, and dark humor. It’s intentionally abrasive, intentionally uncomfortable, and intentionally over-the-top. The song’s power comes from its commitment to the bit: it never softens, never hedges, never pulls back. This is political cabaret with teeth.
Liar’s Spit and Gravel	A sprawling, venomous protest piece that blends satire, lament, and cultural indictment. It’s a song that feels like a pressure valve releasing: a long exhale of frustration at political rot, moral cowardice, and the vacuum of leadership. The writing is sharp, relentless, and intentionally abrasive. This is Sapient Rain’s political maximalism — a panoramic critique delivered with poetic teeth.

Sapient Rain is a human–AI musical collaboration created by writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly working together with the AI music engine Suno.

Sapient Rain’s music blends political fire, surreal storytelling, and nostalgic autobiography, delivered through lyrics that read more like literary vignettes than conventional songcraft. Sapient Rain’s growing catalog is thematically dense, with each track functioning as a miniature narrative or social critique.

Check out Sapient Rain on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

You can also listen to Sapient Rain songs for free on Suno.

“Just Fucking Go Already” by Sapient Rain

Sapient Rain’s “Just Fucking Go Already” is a power-pop-punk rock hybrid lament about the frustration felt by millions of Americans from the non-stop deluge of corruption and moral and ethical decrepitude emanating from the felon in America’s White House.

Under Donald Trump:

Armed and masked men are murdering people in the street with impunity.
Innocent civilians are being bombed and slaughtered.
Children are dying by the thousands because we pulled USAID funding.
Environmental protections are being eviscerated.
Free and fair elections are under assault.

My exhaustion is surpassed only by my anger. “Just Fucking Go Already” is an expression of that anger. The song is coming to streaming services on 07/24/2026, but you can listen to it for free today on the Suno Website here.

Just Fucking Go Already

We’re all tired of you
wreaking havoc by decree,
Running roughshod over Congress
and our democracy

Your malice and ineptitude
are rank and off the chain
From a palace of decrepitude
You host the greedy and the vain

You kill children with impunity
you stab our allies in the back
you want absolute immunity
you’re a rapist and a hack

You bastardize religion
by saying God is on your side
you’re ramping up division
your hate is bona fide

[Chorus]
Just fucking go already
we’re all tired of your crap
you’re the Freddy
in our nightmare
who never shuts his yap
Just fucking go already,
you total waste of space
no one’s gonna miss you
when you finally leave this place

You grant pardons to your donors
you seek vengeance all the time
you’re a walking talking boner
awash in grift and crime

You’re a wrecking ball of hatred
a word salad in decline
you’re a bigot and a moron
who thinks he is divine

A denier of due process
and scientific facts
He’s all over Epstein’s files
With those lewd and
vicious acts

He lies about ICE killings
and global climate change
He keeps ranting about drilling
And the New York Stock exchange

About Sapient Rain

Sapient Rain is a collaborative music project in which Geoffrey Reilly writes the lyrics, themes, and narrative concepts, and Suno’s AI model generates vocals, instrumentation, and production based on those lyrics. This hybrid workflow allows extremely rapid creation of fully produced songs while maintaining a consistent artistic voice.

Sapient Rain’s music blends political fire (see Liar’s Spit and Gravel), surreal storytelling (see Hawking Talking), and nostalgic autobiography (see Seeped in the Seventies), delivered through lyrics that read more like literary vignettes than conventional songcraft. Sapient Rain’s growing catalog is thematically dense, with each track functioning as a miniature narrative or social critique.

Sapient Rain songs are available on music streaming services, Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

You can also peruse the Sapient Rain catalog on Suno.

“A Lot More Shirley Chisholms” by Sapient Rain

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between lyricist / writer Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno

The song “A Lot More Shirley Chisholms” is about the heartbreaking transformation of America from a country that welcomed and benefited from immigrants to a country led by a xenophobic nationalist who traffics in racial tropes and bigotry.

“A Lot More Shirley Chisholms” is coming to music streaming services on 07/20/2026. You can listen to it for free today on the Suno Website here.

A Lot More Shirley Chisholms

Thoughts Skewed by algorithms
Caught in thought complacency
dumbstruck and stuck in schisms
of moral rot and latency

We’re lost in planes and prisms
we’re distracted by our screens
we need a lot more Shirley Chisholms
in the land of the obscene

A greedy bigot runs the show
we all get painted by his brush
America’s lost that special glow
and the world’s been stunned
into a hush

We choose a news that won’t refute us
we set up camps, we pick a side
we seek a truth that won’t dispute us
we all refuse to swallow pride

Lady Liberty has vanished
in a MAGA world of hate
She’s a dead idea in bronze and stone
we can’t resuscitate

We’ve become constant politickers
never doubting what we see
walking talking bumper stickers
with no humanity

If you haven’t had a chance yet, please check out my book, My Paper, My Words: Rantings from a Progressive Boomer and Peeved Parent, from Amazon. And if you feel moved to write a review of the book, on Amazon, or anywhere else, I’d be honored.

My Paper, My Words is a collection of essays, stories, and poems that reflect the challenges of a middle-class husband and father trying to navigate a rapidly changing political, religious, and technological landscape of post-911 America.

Can America Get Back on Track?

Racist-fueled hatred, intolerance, and mistrust have a well-documented history in America. Since our inception, these social and psychological forces have threatened national cohesion, slowing America’s march towards that “more perfect union”.

Keeping racist-fueled hatred, intolerance, and mistrust at bay requires a conscious and continuous effort, because people don’t evolve out of these forces on their own – because the thought patterns associated with them are passed down from generation-to-generation, dressed in “heritage” and promoted and protected under the guise of “freedom of expression or religion” often by loved and trusted parents, pastors, or community leaders.

Throughout our existence, America has won hard-earned progress against the forces of hatred and intolerance, achieving greater equality, diversity, equity and inclusion, inching us closer to a society that ensures the promise of America is accessible to immigrants and citizens alike, regardless of religion, race, or identity – it required a constant battle by ethical private citizens and elected public officials to better ourselves and to keep pushing America towards that more perfect union, where “the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice” – and all it took to slow our progress to a halt was a single charismatic narcissistic felon dragging his pointed finger along America’s ugly scab of racism, with lies aimed at our deepest fears and insecurities, for that hate to pour out from under our skin like a teeming swarm of rabid rats, gnawing at our social fabric, setting America back generations.

I don’t know about you, but I’m still stunned at the number of Americans who continue to support this hateful (and harmful) administration. I’m exhausted by the contortionist-whataboutism explanations and rationalizations for their support.

The latest despicable display of MAGA-maleficence and the normalization of hate spewed by a participant of that God-awful and trashy UFC spectacle on the White House lawn, where a UFC fighter told the crowd that former first lady Michelle Obama was a man.

Just when you think they can’t possibly stoop any lower, the crew of fucktards running this country goes subterranean.

Normal folks are exhausted by all of this.

Hateful people are energized by it.

What adds to the exhaustion is the realization that our government is no longer partnering with citizens to stamp out racism, intolerance, and mistrust – instead, they are actively engaged in fostering hate, promoting distrust, and dividing Americans along racial lines. Fighting for the ideals that made America a beacon of light and hope becomes exponentially harder when our government stands in opposition to these ideals.

With midterms on the horizon, this Government will do whatever it can to prevent America from getting back on track. A Democratic-led Congress means the Trump administration will be held accountable for the first time since taking control of the government. We need to continue to speak out against the administration’s systematic dismantling of the rule of law right up to election day — and then we must turn out in massive numbers – numbers that cannot be refuted by false claims of a rigged election.

“The Tyrant’s Closet” is Live on Streaming Services

“The Tyrant’s Closet,” the latest single from Sapient Rain, is live on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine, Suno.

You can listen to “The Tyrant’s Closet” for free on Suno.

The Tyrant’s Closet

In the tyrant’s closet
a telling wardrobe grows
to push aside
the narrative
that the emperor
has no clothes

Shined shoes for
hungry bootlickers
smeared with virgin honey
tailored suits
for traffickers
breast pockets
lined with money

A leather box
and flag pins
some strewn on a stack
of bibles
hoods and sheets
and bank receipts
for settlements
of libel

A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled
on its pages
swastika bands
and spray tan cans
scrapped plans
for ballroom stages

In the tyrant’s closet
behind a rack of ties
a stack of notes handwritten
on the effectiveness of lies

A row of paper shredders
to make sure we never see
Love letters from North Korea
and those pics from Vlady P

A leather box
of flag pins
some strewn on stacks
of bibles
hoods and sheets
and bank receipts
for settlements
of libel

A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled
on its pages
swastika bands
and spray tan cans
scrapped plans for ballroom
stages

In the tyrant’s closet
behind pictures
from teen pageants
and a grainy
torture video
of enemy combatants

an open bag of diapers
a case of diet coke
a Chappaquiddick
windshield wiper
and written warnings
to the woke

A leather box
of flag pins
some strewn on stacks
of bibles
hoods and sheets
and bank receipts
for settlements
of libel

A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled
on its pages
swastika bands
and spray tan cans
scrapped plans for ballroom
stages

Sapient Rain is best categorized as a human–AI hybrid musical project — specifically, a lyric‑driven, politically charged, genre‑fluid collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno.

For a free listen, check out the library of publicly available Sapient Rain tracks on Suno.

The Penny-wise and Pound-foolish President

A fully funded international screwworm monitoring program very likely would have improved early detection and slowed the spread, reducing the scale and speed of the current outbreak, perhaps even preventing the disease from reaching the U.S.

Historically, the U.S. kept screwworm from reaching our border by applying a three‑layer defense:

Panama biological barrier (sterile‑fly zone)
Central American surveillance (USAID/FAO programs)
U.S.–Mexico border surveillance (USDA APHIS)

The 2025 Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts removed layer #2. When layer #2 fails, layer #3 becomes a last‑minute firewall — and by the time screwworm reaches the border, eradication is much more difficult.

So, how much money did the US save when DOGE cut programs that included screwworm monitoring? The savings from cuts, which eliminated thousands of USAID grants (including more than 100 FAO animal‑disease monitoring projects), were never quantified. The Trump administration said the cuts eliminated “waste,” but no budgetary analysis or savings estimate was released publicly. What we do know historically is that FAO/USAID animal‑health surveillance projects cost millions, not billions.

While the savings were tiny and unreported, the potential cost of failure is massive:

Texas cattle industry losses could reach $1.8 billion per year if screwworm spreads.
USDA has already invested over $1 billion in emergency response and sterile‑fly infrastructure after the outbreak.

And if the U.S. fails to contain the outbreak, projected costs balloon to an astounding $675 billion dollars.

So, the U.S. “saved” an unreported amount—likely in the low millions—while exposing itself to billions in economic risk.

Good job, Mr. President!

“The Tyrant’s Closet” By Sapient Rain

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between lyricist / writer Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno

“The Tyrant’s Closet” is coming to music streaming services on 06/22/2026. You can listen to it today on the Suno Website here.

The Tyrant’s Closet

In the tyrant’s closet
a telling wardrobe grows
to push aside the narrative
that the emperor has no clothes

Shined shoes for
hungry bootlickers
smeared with virgin honey
tailored suits for traffickers
breast pockets lined with money

A leather box and flag pins
some strewn on a stack of bibles
hoods and sheets and bank receipts
for settlements of libel

A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled on its pages
swastika bands
and spray tan cans
scrapped plans
for ballroom stages

In the tyrant’s closet
behind a rack of ties
a stack of notes handwritten
on the effectiveness of lies

A row of paper shredders
to make sure we never see
Love letters from North Korea
and those pics from Vlady P

A leather box of flag pins
some strewn on stacks of bibles
hoods and sheets and bank receipts
for settlements of libel

A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled on its pages
swastika bands and spray tan cans
scrapped plans for ballroom stages

In the tyrant’s closet
behind pictures from teen pageants
and a grainy torture video
of enemy combatants

An open bag of diapers
a case of diet coke
a Chappaquiddick windshield wiper
and written warnings to the woke

A leather box of flag pins
some strewn on stacks of bibles
hoods and sheets and bank receipts
for settlements of libel

A copy of Mein Kampf
notes scribbled on its pages
swastika bands and spray tan cans
scrapped plans for ballroom stages

“Usurpers in the Pulpit” is Live on Streaming Services

“Usurpers in the Pulpit,” the latest single from Sapient Rain, is live on Spotify, YouTube Music, and Apple Music.

Sapient Rain is a musical project that blends human creativity with artificial intelligence. It is a collaboration between writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine, Suno.

You can listen to “Usurpers in the Pulpit” for free on Suno.

Usurpers in the Pulpit

They pray in Megachurches
In the heartland on a hill
With Mic’d-up MAGA pastors
Pushing lies and poison pills

The preachers fret to scare you
but tell you God is on your side
The trap they set ensnares you
And takes your lost soul for a ride

After wine and half-truths whispered
And communion wafer snacks
The paid-for-MAGA pastor
Launches fascist-fueled attacks

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds

Pals in persecution
The grievance-driven crowd
Bathed in absolution
And a bigotry allowed

The violence that awaits us
Is sectarian in its hate
Gun toting bible thumpers
To make the US Great

They’ll legislate their creed
And burn the rest in smoke and ash
Put their ten upon the wall
Tossing yours into the trash

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds

They’d rather force you to your knees,
Than let you worship as you wish
Live your life by their decrees
And Donny T as your commish

It’s not about the Magi
Or the Christ child in the manger
But how Jesus loves America and
Beware the stranger danger

Look at who they’ve chosen
To be the leader of their flock
An impetuous empty vessel
who has never taken stock

In alliance with the devil
In accordance with their greed
Usurpers in the pulpit
Twisting sermons into screeds