The MAGA Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

For most of us, Donald Trump was fully transparent in his views. We saw clearly a misogynistic and pedophilic human being, unqualified morally, ethically, civically, and professionally to serve as president.

For most of us, judging his character was not difficult, because Trump is an unnuanced, open book with a detailed public record of abhorrent, narcissistic, and criminal behavior. Most of us understood that handing immense power to an individual with all of those disgusting and disgraceful traits would have a disastrous outcome for not only our country, but the world.

It was an easy call—for most of us.

Nowadays, all over social media, we’re seeing former MAGA voters trashing Trump for betraying them. I’m not quite sure what to make of these people. I don’t understand when they say “they’re shocked and disappointed because the President lied to them.” First of all, how can any person with eyes, ears, and the ability to think be “shocked” that Donald Trump lied? Donald Trump is a lie in a suit. He has a long public record of lying. Trump’s lies are central to how he conducts himself personally and politically.

I think the “shock” these people are feeling is from the realization that Trump’s lies and cruelty are affecting them personally – whereas before, those lies were affecting only “other people.” They were fine when all the ineptitude and cruel and draconian policies injured “other people.” Yet, as soon as the consequences of those lies and policies disrupted their lives – that’s when things became intolerable.

I don’t feel sorry for anyone who was OK with electing a convicted felon as president but now are upset when the actions of the felon they voted for come back to bite them in the ass. It’s not only that they were poor judges of character, but that they didn’t care enough to learn and understand what electing a narcissistic, misogynistic, racist, and power-hungry felon would mean to women, immigrants, the gay and trans communities, government and educational institutions, science, the environment, and our Democracy – they only cared about how electing this horrible human being might benefit them.

Now we’re in this terrible mess, and Trump and his cohorts will inevitably use the levers of power against the will of the people in November.

At the very least, every disillusioned MAGA voter in America should be doing everything in their power to get anti-Trump voters to the polls in November, because you are largely responsible for creating this nightmare.

America Needs to Look in the Mirror

It seems America is more comfortable calling out and dealing with authoritarian and fascist regimes outside its own borders. We’re still trying to find our footing when it comes to dealing with our own authoritarian regime.

To be fair, this is relatively new territory for America. Not since King George tried to keep us in line have we been ruled by a tyrant.

For more than two hundred and fifty years we’ve managed to keep Fascism and authoritarianism at bay in America. But that streak is over. Today we have a Fascist in the white house, buttressed and supported by a criminal DOJ and a feckless Congress.

It’s time for Americans to take a good, hard look in the mirror—and if they do, they’ll see what everyone else sees: a country that, instead of fighting authoritarian regimes like Russia and North Korea, stands shoulder to shoulder with them. If we look at ourselves objectively in the mirror, we’ll see an ugly reflection staring back at us – one of aggressive behavior towards our allies and targeted violence against vulnerable communities inside our own borders.

America no longer stands for protecting the underdog and promoting and expanding civil liberties and rights for all human beings — we’ve become the ugly “might-makes-right” bully on the world stage, throwing our military and economic muscle around to intimidate every nation (friend of foe) we take umbrage with.

In addition, we’re being led by a pedophilic moron with a Sharpie addiction, crossing out and renaming territories and bodies of water like a petulant man-child with no sense of decency or morality.

If we don’t get this right in November, we can kiss the America we used to know goodbye forever.

Be prepared to fight for your right to vote this November, because as sure as shit, Donald Trump and his gang of goons in the DOJ and Congress are going to do everything in their power to suppress the vote and stay in power through acts of intimidation and violence.

They understand that accountability is on the ballot, and that scares the crap out of them.


November is Coming – By Sapient Rain

Lyrics by Geoffrey Reilly, Music by Suno. Here is a link to the song on Suno.

We used to be the land of generosity and grace
now we’re the heavy hand of venomosity and mace

We push women to the ground
and shoot nurses in the head
we put children in detention centers
and feed them moldy bread

We’re terrorizing immigrants
and sending horses off to slaughter
we’re disregarding sovereignty
and blowing boats out of the water

[Chorus]
When we look into the mirror
Are we pleased by what we see
Are you living in a land of hope
or of deep disparity
Look at what he’s doing
The transformation taking place
By the king of grift and screwing
with the caked-on orange face

Empathy and kindness
have been shattered and replaced
by a callous lust for power
that leaves America defaced

We hate all the gilded greed
and the malice in his heart
all the rotting farmer’s seed
and his “war of fits and starts”

We’re embarrassed and ashamed
At what our nation has become
At the hands of grifting Don
And all his pedophilic scum

[Chorus]
When we look into the mirror
Are we pleased by what we see
Are you living in a land of hope
or of deep disparity
Look at what he’s doing
The transformation taking place
By the king of grift and screwing
with the caked-on orange face

With a grip on power slipping
an awakening occurs
we see the cheap
gold paint is chipping
and our sights no longer blurred

Because our eyes are finally open
and we’ve woken from the spell
we can see the naked fascist
and hear the ringing of the bell

A foreboding constant drumming
Drowns out all the ifs and buts
He knows well
November’s coming
And that people hate his guts

[Chorus]
When we look into the mirror
Are we pleased by what we see
Are you living in a land of hope
or of deep disparity
Look at what he’s doing
The transformation taking place
By the king of grift and screwing
with the caked-on orange face


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.

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 LinkSummary and Commentary
A Lot More Shirley ChisholmsAsharp, frustrated lament about America’s moral drift, its fractured information ecosystem, and its abandonment of civic ideals.
Mapleton or MiracleA 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 ClosetA 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 AtA 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 TimbuktuA 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 PulpitA 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 BlueA 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 AvenueA 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 DementiaA 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 GravelA 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 SpotifyYouTube 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

[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


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.

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.

Let’s Ask Arty About the Lead-Up to the War with Iran

Let’s Ask Arty uses existing Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to query LLMs about politics in these troubled times.

Q1 – What did US intelligence reporting suggest about Iran’s threat to the United States before the US joined Israel in their bombing campaign against Iran?

US intelligence reporting, as reflected in publicly available accounts and statements cited in news coverage, suggested there was no clear imminent threat to the United States from Iran in the period immediately before the U.S. joined Israel in striking Iranian targets.

The most explicit articulation of this came from Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who resigned on March 17, 2026, stating that “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.”

Q2 – Can you break down America’s core intelligence assessment before the strikes?

No imminent threat to the U.S. homeland: Joe Kent’s resignation post directly challenged the administration’s justification for military action, asserting that intelligence did not show an immediate danger to the United States.

Critics argued the U.S. acted without a triggering intelligence warning: Analysts at institutions like Brookings and media outlets such as The Guardian described the strikes as a “war of choice,” implying that intelligence did not support claims of an urgent threat.

Q3 – What Did the US intelligence reporting say about the long-term threat that Iran posed to the United States?

While not indicating an imminent threat, reporting emphasized a persistent, long-term pattern of hostile Iranian activity, including:

  • Iran’s IRGC and proxy network had killed more than 1,000 Americans since 1979.
  • Over 180 attacks on U.S. military bases in 2023–2024 by Iranian-backed groups. These were cited by some analysts as part of a broader argument that Iran represented a continuous threat, even if not an immediate one.

Before the U.S. joined Israel in bombing Iran, intelligence reporting—at least as described by senior officials and public sources—did not indicate an imminent threat to the United States. Instead, the intelligence picture pointed to a chronic, long-term pattern of Iranian hostility, not an immediate trigger requiring urgent military action.

Q4 – If the Intelligence reporting did not indicate that Iran posed an imminent threat to the US, why did Donald Trump commit to join Israel in attacking Iran?

The Trump administration justified striking Iran by publicly framing the attack as an act of self‑defense against “imminent threats,” even though intelligence briefings to Congress and internal assessments did not support the existence of such an imminent threat.

The justifications shifted repeatedly in the days surrounding the strikes, creating a patchwork of sometimes contradictory explanations.

Q5 – Arty, can you provide a breakdown of the various reasons the Trump Administration gave for attacking Iran?

Sure!

Claim: Iran was close to nuclear breakout: President Trump argued that Iran was rebuilding its nuclear program and was “probably a week away” from bomb‑making material or would have a “very powerful nuclear weapon within a month.”

However, reporting noted that these claims contradicted U.S. intelligence assessments, which said Iran was years away from such capabilities.

Claim: Iran was developing long‑range missiles that could soon reach the U.S.: Trump said Iran was developing missiles that could “soon” reach the American homeland. A 2025 Defense Intelligence Agency assessment, however, projected that Iran might be able to develop an intercontinental missile by 2035, if it chose to pursue one.

Claim: The U.S. needed to preempt an Iranian attack: Secretary of State Marco Rubio initially claimed Iran posed an imminent threat because it would retaliate against U.S. forces once Israel struck Iran. The next day, Trump shifted the explanation, saying Iran was going to attack first, independently of Israel’s actions.

This shift created confusion because it contradicted both earlier statements and intelligence briefings.

Q6 – Arty, can you help us understand what the intelligence actually indicated about the Iranian threat?

Private briefings to Congress: No imminent Iranian attack: According to ABC News reporting, Trump administration officials told congressional staff that U.S. intelligence did not indicate Iran was preparing a preemptive strike on U.S. forces or the homeland. They described only a general regional threat, not an imminent one.

This directly conflicted with the administration’s public messaging.

Q7 – What was the messaging about Iranian threats from the Trump Administration after initiating strikes against Iran?

Claim: Iran refused to halt uranium enrichment: Some officials later said the strikes were ordered because Iran would not agree to stop enrichment altogether. This justification was offered after the operation had already begun, which reporters noted was unusual for a major military action.

Claim: The U.S. was acting in collective self‑defense with Israel: In its Article 51 letter to the U.N., the U.S. framed the strikes as lawful self‑defense. Legal analysts argued the justification was weak because Article 51 requires an armed attack, and the administration had not demonstrated one.

Q8 – Arty, can you help us separate the Shit-from-Shinola regarding the Trump Administration’s threat assessment leading up to the war with Iran and after the war began?

The Trump administration justified the strikes by invoking imminent threats, nuclear danger, missile development, and preemptive self‑defense. But intelligence reporting shared with Congress did not support the existence of an imminent threat, and several of the administration’s public claims contradicted both intelligence assessments and earlier statements by its own officials.

My Take

Good god, the toxic mix of incompetence and callousness from the Commander in Chief has painted the United States into a corner so completely that the only way the President feels he can get us out of said corner is to threaten bombing an entire civilization into extinction.

The President’s attention deficit to reading, assessing, and understanding intelligence reports is eclipsed only by a morality deficit fed by greed, the lust for power, and the President’s narcissistic personality disorder.

At a recent White House Event, President Trump said that he “automatically loves people who are nice to [him], even if they’re bad people.” Knowing this about our President, all Benjamin Netanyahu (or any other leader for that matter) has to do to curry favor with President Trump is blow a little sunshine up his boxer shorts.

So, we have an American President on the public record saying that a person’s character or behavior does not influence his support for them; it’s their loyalty that wins him over. It’s why our President fawns grotesquely over Viktor Orban, Vladimir Putin, and Benjamin Netanyahu, a known anti-democracy authoritarian and two war criminals, each of them showering Trump with favorable press.

So, when Benjamin Netanyahu sits at the head of the table in the situation room at the white house, he understands that all the loyalty showered on President Trump over the years is about to pay dividends (regardless of what our US intelligence reporting says). He makes his pitch to Donald Trump for launching a joint US–Israeli war against Iran, a pitch that included the following assessments as reported publicly:

  • Iran’s ballistic missile program could be destroyed within weeks.
  • The Iranian regime would be too weakened to close the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Regime change was achievable, with street protests resuming and Mossad operations helping topple the government.
  • He presented a video montage of potential post‑theocratic Iranian leaders, including exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi.

What was the reaction of US Intelligence officials to Benjamin Netanyahu’s pitch? A whole lot of push-back:

  • CIA Director Ratcliffe called the regime‑change scenarios “farcical.”
  • Secretary of State Rubio summarized the assessment as “In other words, it’s bullshit.”
  • Gen. Caine warned that Israel routinely oversells its plans and that the proposals were not well‑developed.

The US Intelligence assessment was that:

  • Iran could be struck militarily,
  • But regime change was unlikely,
  • And Iran could still close the Strait of Hormuz or retaliate in a significant way.

A true leader would have huddled with experts on his team and with officials from the intelligence community and would have done a deep dive into all the data and reporting. Instead, immediately after Benjamin Netanyahu’s presentation, and with total disregard for the gravity of the situation, Donald Trump said: “Sounds good to me.”

According to reports from people in the room, Trump appeared focused primarily on killing Iran’s Supreme Leader and destroying Iran’s military capacity, rather than on regime change. He dismissed concerns about the feasibility of replacing the Iranian government.

Of course, we now know that many of Netanyahu’s predictions have proved to be incorrect, including the assumption that Iran would be unable to close the Strait of Hormuz or mount significant retaliation.

And so, here we are, in a terrible mess that we could have avoided if we had an ethical, moral, and competent President.


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.

Liar’s Spit and Gravel

I took a poem I wrote several months ago, titled Spit and Gravel, tweaked the wording, added a chorus, and used Suno to set my words to music under the artist profile Sapient Rain.

Sapient Rain is a collaborative musical project that pairs me, the lyricist, with the AI music platform Suno.

Liar’s Spit and Gravel is available on music streaming platforms on April 12th, 2026, but you can listen to it today on Suno.

Liar’s Spit and Gravel, by Sapient Rain

Carpet bombing
Pedophile
The trashy king
Of tacky tiles
Pushing sneakers
Selling bibles
Names all over
Epstein’s files

Hawking watches
Hats and tees
What’s the price
Of dignity?

It seems that what
We value most
Is the loud and proud
Who like to boast
About dropping bombs
And making ghosts

When all that matters
Is what we’ve grossed
When hate and greed
Are double-dosed
Our nation’s veins
Become thrombosed

We need a Dylan
Of our own
A collective moss
Around the stone
We need a Martin
For the day
To gather us
To make some hey
We need a Bobby
To inspire
To fight injustice
To light a fire
Where are the leaders
Of today
As dead as Caesar
and JonBenét

Autocratic
In his tone
His swelled-up ego
Overblown
A head that’s crammed
With nothing known
Cuts lady justice
To the bone

He snaps her picture
With his phone
He loves how she’s
Become so prone
To misogyny and
Testosterone

Bibi, Don,
And Vlady P
Selling war
To you and me
Killing, stealing,
And getting rich
Double-dealing,
Bait and switch

End-time preppin
Sneak attacks
Their Jesus Christ
Ain’t comin back
They drop his name
While talking smack
And stab our allies
In the back

We need a Dylan
Of our own
A collective moss
Around the stone
We need a Martin
For the day
To gather us
To make some hey
We need a Bobby
To inspire
To fight injustice
To light a fire
Where are the leaders
Of today
As dead as Caesar
And JonBenét

Hegseth, Miller, RFK,
On the news
To fuck my day
Lindsey, Marco,
And Pammy Bee
Spewing lies
For all to see

See JD’s Maybelline
Eyeliner
Trump on the hunt
For vagina
Wraps himself
In stars and stripes
Pretends he’s cool
Like Wesley Snipes

Cocky, brass
In midnight rants
Surrounds himself
With sycophants
Marco, Graham,
And JD Vance

As lies unfurl
And we unravel
As truth
Gets bashed
By Johnson’s
Gavel
The blood-soaked
Trail on which
Truth travels
Gets paved with
Liar’s spit
And gravel

Fuck the Prez
And his crew
Screwing over
Me and you
He’s full of shit
A fucking liar
Making us
The world’s pariah

We need a Dylan
Of our own
A collective moss
Around the stone
We need a Martin
For the day
To gather us
To make some hey
We need a Bobby
To inspire
To fight injustice
To light a fire
Where are the leaders
Of today
As dead as Caesar
And JonBenét


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.

Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead

We’re living in a world where the rules of decorum from the office of the president have gone out the window. Decorum won’t return until Trump is pushing up daisies.

Donald Trump said he was glad that Robert Mueller, a decorated soldier and respected public servant, was dead. In true Trump fashion, he went to his Truth Social platform and posted:

Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP

Of course, there was an immediate backlash to the president’s comment from decent people and public servants, which was in stark contrast to the all-too-familiar silence from the testicle-free, scared-shitless Republican representatives in Congress.

After Trump’s post, I got to thinking, if I’m lucky enough to be around when Donald Trump dies, will I celebrate? Will I dance in the streets with the millions of like-minded Americans? If I do, does that make me a hypocrite for chastising the President for celebrating the death of Robert Mueller?

No, it does not.

In the same way, I would have celebrated Hitler’s death and been saddened by President Roosevelt’s death. In the same way, I would be heartened by the death of Vladimir Putin and crestfallen at the death of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In the same way, I would have celebrated with my Munchkin brothers-in-arms at the death of the Wicked Witch of the East.

It’s natural to celebrate the death of vicious people.

Vladimir Putin attacked a sovereign nation without provocation, murdered civilians, kidnapped children, and committed war crimes. I’ll be glad when he’s dead.

In America, we celebrated the life and actions of Claus von Stauffenberg cinematically in the movie Valkyrie. Claus von Stauffenberg attempted to kill Adolf Hitler. If he had succeeded, would we have mourned Hitler’s death, or would there have been a global three cheers to Claus?

I did not feel glad or elated when Mueller, a decorated soldier and public servant, died. Robert Mueller was a decent man who served his country with honor.

Under Donald Trump, America has become the kind of nation we used to despise and oppose on the world stage — a loud-mouthed aggressor nation that denies the sovereignty of other countries and the rights of citizens and immigrants in its own, a nation that shows a blatant disregard international law, attacks the free press, bastardizes and uses religion as a tool of the state and cozy’s-up to other leaders of other authoritarian states. That is the America we’ve become, and it’s not even debatable.

To put it in a simpler context that Trump supporters might understand, Trump’s America is the Biff to Marty McFly, the Darth Vader to Luke Skywalker, the slimy Nazi general in Raiders of the Lost Ark to Indian Jones. We are officially the bad guys, and no amount of “USA! USA! USA!” chanting can cover up that fact.

And the main reason we have become the bad guy is pretty fucking simple to understand – it’s because we’re being led by a morally decrepit criminal, a convicted felon, a credibly accused pedophile and rapist, a seditionist who gave a blanket pardon to violent convicted felons who attacked our democracy. So yeah, when that guy dies, I might raise a glass.

Unfortunately for us, after Trump passes, there’s a fresh bumper-crop of the morally crazy waiting in the wings and they’ve got a blueprint in hand.


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.

Wounded Teaser 4: Donny Shakes the Jar


Donny Shakes the Jar
Donny stirs the pot
Donny knows that hate and fear
are really all he’s got

Insurrectionists as martyrs
the freedom fighter lies
“A fraudulent election!”
his fake-ass battle cry

He’s got minions on the take
and congress in his pocket
FOX to help him spin the lies
Vlad Putin in his locket


On 02/26/26, the single “Donny Shakes the Jar” from the album “Wounded” comes out on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and iTunes under the artist profile “Sapient Rain.”

Sapient Rain is the artistic collaboration of writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno.

Click here to pre-save Wounded on Spotify.


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.

Wounded Teaser 3: Neo-fascist-oligarchic-expialidocious



We cannot be afraid to speak at what is being done
Trump’s a bully and freak who wants to shock and stun
With fascists in our government, this isn’t a dry run
And so, we have a song to sing, a song that must be sung

GO!

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Elon-Bezos-Zuckerberg are really quite atrocious
We need to fight them in the streets and call them on their grossness
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On 02/26/26, the single “Neo-fascist-oligarchic-expialidocious” from the album “Wounded” comes out on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and iTunes under the artist profile “Sapient Rain.”

Sapient Rain is the artistic collaboration of writer/lyricist Geoffrey Reilly and the AI music engine Suno.

Click here to pre-save Wounded on Spotify.


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.