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Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Insurrection Day, January 6 2024 (Three Years Later)
Going back in time to that insurrection day, January 6 2021, reflections come. As with this poem (off by one year, mea culpa s'il vous plait) Donald and Dear Dad Fred interacted, his father still in his mind today impelling him to Never Surrender. Relect with me, with credits to Mary Trump, psychologist and niece of Donald . . .
2024-01-06
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
'When I Get Emotional (for Jimmy Buffett)'
Jimmy Buffett helped us change our latitudes and our attitudes as we followed his beloved, happy, sometimes philosophic, energetic music. Millions of us Buffett fans around the globe are still grieving while listening and celebrating Jimmy's tunes. When I watched the spontaneous Key West parade for Jimmy during Labor Day weekend 2023, it inspired me to write my personal reaction to this vast gulf that had opened up in our lives when Jimmy surprisingly (to me and many others). 'When I Get Emotional (for Jimmy Buffett)' may express your emotions and perspective. It is a 3-minute embellished video with...
2023-09-29
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Claude Mayers Featured Poet (Claude Starts at 8:30 into the Recording) Feb 11 2023 ZOOM! Second Saturdays Poetry Readings All Souls
Claude Mayers -- featured poet @ the Feb 11 2023 All Souls Second Saturdays Poetry Reading. He reads for 20 minutes after the introduction by host/poet Dan Kerr, & the welcoming // two poems from Suffolk County (LI, NY) Poet Laureate Richard Bronson. Claude starts with 'Change The Plumbing To Poetry' @ 8:30 on the timeline, from the beginning of the recording. Then he returns for 5 more minutes, reading 3 poems: one about viewing a tsunami wave from a safe height; then two sequential short poems about surf from Thanksgiving & the Next Day, November 2002. There are a few audio glitches which we hope to pre-emptively...
2023-02-21
49 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Claude Mayers Interviews Jeffrey Smith -- Concerning Everyday Dangers of Genetically Engineered Foods & Microbes 10-22
Jeffrey Smith, the leading spokesperson concerning the dangers of genetically engineered food and microbes, is interviewed by Claude Mayers. GMO = Genetically Modified Organism Your 'foods' can be killing you! Synthetic foods produced in labs using the latest imprecise technology of gene-editing is discussed -- which Mr. Smith calls “GMO 2.0.” Resulting mutant microbes and toxic foods can threaten our health and that of the planet. Cancer-causing chemical poison glyphosate (main ingredient in “Roundup”), sprayed a few days pre-harvest on currently non-GMO wheat, oats, garbanzo beans, etc., without any labelling/indication for the consumer, in addition to being sprayed...
2022-11-11
58 min
Live Healthy Be Well
Don't Let the Genetically Engineered Gene out of the Bottle
Jeffrey Smith, the leading spokesperson concerning the dangers of genetically engineered food and microbes, is interviewed by Claude Mayers. The latest imprecise technology of gene-editing is discussed, which is part of what Mr. Smith calls “GMO 2.0.” Resulting mutant microbes and toxic foods threatening our health and that of the planet, are delineated. Cancer-causing chemical poison glyphosate (main ingredient in “Roundup”), sprayed a few days pre-harvest on currently non-GMO wheat, oats, garbanzo beans, etc., without any labelling/indication for the consumer. In addition, it is also sprayed on GMO “Roundup Ready” crops like corn, canola, soy, cottonseed (many of you eat th...
2022-10-27
59 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
The Magicians of Atrocity - in Honor of Arrested Georgia Representative Park Cannon for Knocking On The Door When Horrendous Voter Suppression Bill Was Being Signed Into Law
The spirit of Trump is still with us in the halls of white supremacist power. Gov Brian Kemp of Georgia signalled to the white policemen present in the Georgia State Capitol last week on 3-25-21 to arrest Ga Representative Park Cannon for daring to knock on the closed doors where/while Kemp was signing the state's racist voter suppression bill into law, flanked by six old white men, with the idyllic painting of a sunlit slavery plantation behind them as a backdrop. 244 other similar bills have been proposed all across the USA in 43 states, by Republicans who cannot...
2021-03-29
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Document The Insurrection 1-18-21
Well, the nightmare of being weighed upon by the vulgar racist denigrating consciousness of the now-departing #45 should be over today. Joe Biden and a new era begin this afternoon. This poem was written Jan 18, 2021. May we all unite and love one another again. There's reason. Even if the major factor in the vacuum is the negative of Donald departing from any significant power over 330 Million Americans.
2021-01-20
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Haven't We Had Enough? - - Last Lame Duck Days
Jan 20 can't come soon enough? At least Trump is hiding away so we don't have to hear that voice of his and all his hateful incapable blaming denigrating words. Even the tweets are toning down. But he is President. And he does have a job for which he is responsible to all of us Americans. Shedding ruination on our nation as he throws his garbage all over the floor as he slowly heads out the door. In spite. And despair. He knows what challenges are ahead of him. So he's sucking the money out of his supporters to pay...
2020-12-21
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
34 More Days
It's almost over. The worst presidential reign in history has 34 days left in which to torture us. Betrayed followers ready to kill for their conman. The veil still covering their corneas in a coat of white pus. Why have decent people been subjected to such gross lying destructive autocratic behavior? And never a word to Putin while having a bullyname for everyone else? Mankind is not what we think we are. Not when we see this specimen leading 70 million fools to treat him like a cult leader. Abandoning us in the face of the worst pandemic in a century...
2020-12-18
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
The Spirit of Trump
Yes he and his spirit are still with us. Ruth Bader Ginsburg's spirit still lingers in the ether.....Perhaps the oppressive spirit of Donald Trump will fade and wane, and acceleratingly so - on and after Jan 20th 2021. . . . . Meanwhile it hisses like a snake and smogs over our cities, ranting in our overladen ears from enough is enough....do we EVER want to hear that voice again? OY! . . .
2020-12-06
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Going Out In A Blizzard of Lies and Lawsuits
Trump loses. Lies that he won. As if there are no such things as mail-in or absentee voting. Continuing his insanity. Probing bombing Iran. Putting incompetent people into offices in the Pentagon. America threatened by this loser. Going Out In A Blizzard of Lies and Lawsuits - - - today's Trump Poem, the first one podcast AFTER Election Day Nov 3 2020. More will be arriving in your podcast feeds . . .
2020-11-18
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Trump And Nixon
Trump and Nixon: Two self-labelled 'law-and-order' presidents - who both were/are crooks. And publicly denied/deny it. Throw in Ronald Reagan, our third modern-day law-and-order president, with his Iran-Contra Scandal and the cocaine smuggling along with guns and money and our supposed enemy in the Ayatollah Khomeini reign of the 1980s, the country of Iran. All three presidents acted as if they were above the law. Trump and Nixon actually had a correspondence going on pre-social media, with handwritten letters. Many of these are being preserved in the Richard Nixon Library. The letter exchange continued for ab...
2020-11-01
04 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
He Doesn't Care About You
Trump only cares about one person: himself. He revels in rallies. Where people don't wear masks, and pack themselves together. While the number of new Covid cases keeps rising, setting records almost every day, along with hospitalizations. And with his administration doing as bad as it is with Covid, he lies to his followers over and over again, lately telling them "We're rounding the corner." Do these people read or watch the news? Don't they realize how badly he is lying? 47 out of 50 states have rising numbers of new Covid cases today. Have they heard that Trevor Lawrence, the be...
2020-10-31
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Unrepentant Republican (Kristi Noem - South Dakota Governor) (Written 4-18-20)
Covid-19 is hitting its highest heights in the USA. And of all the places on Earth, the two Dakotas, North and South, are leading the charge, with the highest per capita incidence of new Covid cases. Kristi Noem, South Dakota's Governor, rules her desolate state fiefdom. With her unrepentant approach to mitigating Covid-19's relentless march across her state. Which is no masks, no mitigation. Stubborn. Defiant. Unrepentant. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is telling his rallyists that as far as Covid goes, we are turning the corner. How can his followers actually believe him on this...
2020-10-26
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Abandon The Reverence
It must be getting a bit thin - the Reverence. For Donald Trump. With Covid-19 the worst it has been so far in America. And Trump just lies as if he has no idea of what the facts are and the charts show, saying 'we're turning the corner . . . .' Lie Lie Lie A reflex he has, as natural as breathing. Breathing lies. And never admit to any mistakes. Thank you, Roy Cohn! 'Abandon The Reverence' is today's very short Trump Poem, esp for Bernie!
2020-10-24
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Idealistic Leaders
Wouldn't it nice to have peace in the White House? Instead of chaos and the casting of blame and hate to violate anyone and everyone not on Donald Trump's wavelength? Today's Trump Poem 'Idealistic Leaders'
2020-10-23
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
38 Trademarks
38 Trademarks applied for by Donald Trump were approved by China, after he was elected President. Spring Chang was Trump's Beijing-based lawyer for the transactions. Emoluments Clause in the Constitution, just in case you can't quite recall it word for word: From Article I, Section 9: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any KIng, Prince, or foreign state. I...
2020-10-23
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
You Have To Believe What You See And Hear
You can't continue to be fooled by the demagogue, the cult leader, who tells you to believe him, not what you see and/or hear. With your own functioning senses. A spiritual poem. 'You Must Believe What You See And Hear' is today's Trump Poem.
2020-10-21
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Preet Bharara
As Donald Trump freaks out, holding his maskless rallies and tweeting about how he could garner multimillion dollar donations from corporations for favors he could do for them, it is a good time to commemorate Preet Bharara, former US Attorney for the Southern District of NY. The New York Times called him one of the "nation's most aggressive and outspoken prosecutors of public corruption and Wall Street Crime" during his tenure. Bharara had been asked to remain in his post by the Trump transition team in November 2016, but on 2nd thought decided to fire him instead in M...
2020-10-20
04 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Short Attention Spans
Well, we made it to the future! And look at where we find ourself. Too much technology, some people don't even know their own phone numbers. We have to rely on our phone, atrophying our memory. Impairing our ability to think? Be critical of what is transpiring before our eyes. There so many lies to weed through. Especially those from our President. Who hit the 20,000 mark back in mid July. The Washington Post has been tallying them up. I'll post the new count when I read the upcoming report. Meanwhile, Trump is so bad, Michael Cohen in...
2020-10-19
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Exiled To Siberia
Getting closer to the elections, our candidates are out on the campaign trail. Trump at his rallies. Saying anything that comes into his head to please and excite his base of followers. A stream of consciousness emerging from his lying mouth, wherefrom over 20,000 lies and false claims have been spread to those in earshot of his voice. Yesterday saying if he loses to Joe Biden, who he said was the worst presidential candidate ever in the history of the USA (projecting again), maybe he should leave the country. Why did he offer such words? Freudian slip? That would make...
2020-10-18
05 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Lies Flowing Like An Infinite River
Donald Trump in front of an audience, cannot stop himself from saying anything to please, to connect with his audience. Lies abundantly flow like an infinite river. We now have a CURE for Covid-19 he told his NBC interviewer on television last night. Untrue. We have drugs that ameliorate symptoms, like he received Regeneron and Remdesivir, with a little anti-inflammatory steroid on the side: dexamethasone. He doesn't know who QAnon is. He just re-tweeted someone else's tweet. He had something going on in his lungs, but he wouldn't say it was pneumonia, or when he last tested negative for...
2020-10-16
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Campaigning For The Veteran
We're getting close to Election Day. 10 million people have already voted. The candidates are out there trying to win your vote, those of you who have not voted yet. They are saying all kinds of things that are not true; making promises they want you to believe. This poem is especially for you veterans of all sorts. But especially those of you who served our country. And made sacrifices that many of us can never imagine. 'Campaigning For The Veteran' is today's Trump Poem.
2020-10-16
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Ask Jared (Kushner) 4-21-2017
Remember the craziness of the beginning of the Trump Administration? (That is still going on today!?) Like Donald heaping all those important political functionings onto his son-in-law, one Jared Kushner. And don't you love the number of that most expensive building ever sold in America: 666 Fifth Avenue!? 'Ask Jared' tonight's Trump Poem Podcast #51.
2020-10-15
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Halt The Hearing - Object!!! and Filibuster!!! - Indivisible - 4 Spiritual Sayings Of Kahlil Gibran
It is time to stand up! Object to Senate 'Unanimous Consent' that accelerates Senate proceedings!!! Filibuster!!! One Senator saying 'I Object' obliterates the unanimous consent and forces the Senate to proceed much more slowly through its business, if it can proceed at all. - with frequent 'I Objects' being expressed by patriotic Senators! We must use the tools we were given 'to protect the minority from being trampled by an irresponsible majority' - as Indivisible says.' We can gum up the Senate until Inauguration Day by using these tools we have been given. To prevent this unfair Supreme...
2020-10-14
10 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Science Takes A Hit Plus 3 Spiritual Sayings from Kahlil Gibran
Science has been taking a hit ever since Donald Trump became President. He taboo'ed 7 words that the CDC could not use henceforth,* in the early days of his administration. He wants that magic vaccine for Covid-19 to be blessed by science before Election Day, November 3rd. But that will not happen. Especially with the news today that Johnson & Johnson is suspending their vaccine adventure due to an untoward undisclosed problem occurring with one of the vaccine volunteers. Creating a vaccine requires testing at three levels, to ensure the vaccine is safe, before allowing it to be given to millions...
2020-10-13
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Leader's Considerations
A leader has many considerations within his consciousness, low or high, narrow or wide minded may he be. Even Donald Trump. Though vindictiveness and venom flavor what The Donald spouts to his subjects. Errrr, fellow citizens. Of America. Home of the brave, land of the free. We know he thinks the press is the enemy of the people, like a bad cliche dictator. George Orwell, role your eyes and turn over in your grave. Sorry. That is our unbelievable reality in the modern future where he have arrived in 2020, to have to experience. Shout-out in this poem...
2020-10-12
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Covid Poem June 8 2020
How we are perceiving and treating Covid-19 has been changing and evolving. First it was no, masks did not help. Then by June 2020, yes, we said, masks do help. That includes the World Health Organization or the WHO, saying as late as the end of March that masks do not help. And even saying today that aerosol infection is not significant. We shall see. This poem is a snapshot from June 8 2020 when the USA had exceeded 100,000 deaths from Covid, due to our paralyzed President and his scientific ignorance interfering with our nationwide response. Not helping procure and p...
2020-10-11
04 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Preserve The Old Days (I'll Strangle The Golden Goose)
The Vice Presidential debate pitted two white people against one woman of color, as the rules and chidings were not enforced equally. Pence interrupted Kamala Harris repeatedly, though not as psychotically as Trump interrupted Biden. But result was that Pence received more time to talk in the end. Caroline Randall Williams, the poet, and author of the brilliant NY Times Opinion piece 'You Want A Confederate Monument? My Body Is A Confederate Monument.' observed on the Lawrence O'Donnell show October 8, 2020 that Harris seemed to be looking ahead into the future with optimism. Talking to the youth of today...
2020-10-09
04 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
The Inevitable Had To Happen
The inevitable had to happen/Karma kept skirting the edges/And now everything is collapsing. Even our favorite most intense White House racist Stephen Miller has contracted the coronavirus. Along with ALL the heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, all five men self-quarantining, which of course has never happened before. Meanwhile our probably still infectious Leader has demanded his way back home, to endanger everyone in the White House with possible Covid infection. He has to have his way! And remember Hope Hicks, we hear, found out she was positive last Tuesday, 8 days ago, Sept 30. She...
2020-10-07
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Invincible
Donald Trump appears to have survived his hospital visit and bout with Covid. He probably should make it. Though he still is infectious, and will be for at least a few more days. And can spread it to other people, as before he actually tested positive. For one is infectious 2.5 days before symptoms appear, research is showing us; and the infectiousness peaks 0.7 days before symptoms appear. And typically lasts about one week. There have been patients whose infectiousness lasts longer, up to a few weeks. And then there are the critical patients on the ventilators in our hospitals who...
2020-10-06
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
The Beast (Looking In Every Air Force One Window) 11-4-17
Donald Trump contracted the Coronavirus. At first they said from Hope Hicks, whom they reported tested positive first. Then they added Melania into the picture, plus Kellyanne Conway. And a bunch more Republicans who often didn't wear masks at various events. They mentioned that Hope had flown on the President's plane with the usual entourage. And now everyone fears for their life. Everyone that was in contact with Donald J. Trump over the last several days when he was most infectious. Exhaling plenty of virus particles, while his audiences sat maskless for the most part, right next to each...
2020-10-05
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
I Am A Virus
In honor of President Trump being stricken with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, and being treated with two new drugs that apparently have produced improvement in his medical status, here is today's poem 'I Am A Virus.' Remdesivir and Regeneron should help the President, especially at this early stage of his disease. He will be watched over the weekend in the hospital. And he may be infectious for another week or so. Though some people have remained infectious for up to 27 days. This poem on re-listening to it seems to be a personification of Mr. Trump...
2020-10-04
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Be Nice (For Donald Trump)
Be Nice? Are we talking about Donald Trump!?? But, why not be chivalrous and uplifting, rather than disgraceful and embarrassing? We are post - 'debate' three days, more lying from Trump not knowing who the Proud Boys are when his son Don Jr. has been pictured with one of their leaders. He can't stop. He can't control himself. What a model for our nation! Our kids will be thinking that lying is normal, as is viciousness and intimidation and bullying and racist hate. But we do know Donald is insecure. Especially if we listen to his niece, psychologist Mary...
2020-10-02
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Thicket Of Racists
After the agonizing irritating disruptive interruptive unrespectful unpresidential debate where Donald Trump could not get his lips together to condemn white supremacists, like the Proud Boys et al, but had the prepared phrase 'Stand back and stand by' stated quite clearly, we see Trump most clearly as the racist he is. For all the people who had hopes we were at the tipping point to deal with our centuries of endemic racism, those who marched peacefully, with respect for everyone, those who continue to suffer at the whim of racists who still rule this country, or do not condemn...
2020-10-02
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Trump And Giuliani Doing Their Best Kamikazees
After the extremely rude interruptive debate behavior of Donald Trump in 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Sept 29, Rudy Giuliani professes what a great performance Trump gave the nation. He is tweeting it widely, to much derision and annoyance, if you read the comments to his posts. But Rudy has been in Trump's corner before. Sinking to the level of the conman when he once had been a respected prosecutor. I'm not sure how respected he was as a Mayor of NYC, nor as a faithful husband. Michael Cohen's book 'Disloyal' is prominent right now, with much personal information that is very informative...
2020-10-01
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
When I Exhume The Truth
Exhume: definition >> dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground* This poem was written on February 16 2017, and is very appropriate for today. With the details of Donald Trump's taxes finally available for examination via the New York Times. Donald's grandfather, Friedrich, from whom the family fortune was founded, was deported from Bavaria after returning home at the beginning of the 20th century. The government of Bavaria was displeased that he had avoided serving his military obligation. The truth is always a casualty of Donald Trump's >>20,000 false claims/lies spoken, since assuming th...
2020-09-29
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Trump And HIs Followers - with an excerpt from 'Disloyal' by MIchael Cohen on Trump's Racism
Make that 'Archie Bunker racism,' per Michael Cohen in his book 'Disloyal.' Which is proving very interesting with insight into Trump's motivations and aspirations, that he shared with - or foisted upon - Michael Cohen, Especially his disdain and jealous hate for Barack Hussein Obama. Always spoken by Trump to Cohen as all three names with the accent on the Hussein. 'Trump And His Followers,' today's poem, is in the moment with what is going on today with how much Trump's followers will allow themselves to accept. In their own decrepitude, as this man...
2020-09-29
06 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Extinction Competes With Fiction 10-12-17
Extinction of a species unique to a biome or perhaps a virome. This occurs every day, but is accelerated by the massive plundering and destroying of our environment, our planet, to the point today of now threatening our very existence. 'Rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.' That is what Vandana Shiva writes in her new book 'Oneness and the 1%.' From which I am sharing a couple of paragraphs in today's recorded podcast. Sound l...
2020-09-28
05 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Invisible Sorcerers Working For Secret Contractors 9-29-17
Our democracy is in danger. Donald Trump is tipping us into his autocratic rule, aided by Mitch McConnell. 200,000 dead from the Coronavirus and he wants a mandate to continue acting out as badly as he has so far?! Now trying to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) while 2020 voting has already started, after McConnell and the self-righteous Republicans declared in March 2016 that Barack Obama nominating a replacement for Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court could not be accepted! It was too close to election day!! 8 months away. And now we are actually in the process of the elections with Election...
2020-09-27
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
America Double-Crossed/Thieves (both poems written 2-1-17)
Both these poems were written on February 1, 2017 - a few weeks after Donald Trump was inaugurated. With the biggest crowd ever! Right? Trump our P.T. Barnum. Always the superlative. Always the best. The biggest. Now we are bearing the fruit of our subjection to this venal cheat and conman. As he pushed Sean Spicer run out there to lie about the inauguration crowd, unable to even to properly tie his tie, now he lies and cheats about his performance with the Covid-19 epidemic. Two hundred thousand dead and he's doing a fine job. Sabotaging the post office to...
2020-09-26
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Never To Concede
When questioned this week, Donald Trump would not agree that if he loses the November 3rd election, there will be a peaceful transfer of the Presidency to his victor. This is shown on youtube for all to see via the link below to Chris Hayes 'All In' post of his open to his Sept. 23 2020 MSNBC show. VERY IMPORTANT!! Today's Trump Poem podcast is one that I wrote today, in reaction to this next troubling event on the Trump road to authoritarian rule. Hayes is interviewing author Baron Gellman who wrote a very essential piece in the November A...
2020-09-24
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Belittle Belief
This is a Trump Poem I wrote today, reflecting many of the things going on right now. With marchers protesting in the streets of Louisville. Because no policemen were indicted with the invasion of Breonna Taylor's home in the middle of the night. Three policemen killing her in her bed. Trump preparing to steal the election in many devious Trumpian ways - including arranging several states to appoint electors to the electoral college that will be loyal to him. Whether the voters vote predominantly Republican or Democrat. Trump already hiring 1000 lawyers to organize chaos and hanky-panky around November 3rd...
2020-09-24
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Prelude To Theocracy
Theocracy - a form of government in which a country is ruled by religious leaders or divine right. Vocabulary.com >> 'not a lot of room for dissent in a theocracy.' Betsy DeVos, still current Secretary of Education, is noted to have come from a family of fundamentalist extremists. Betsy's husband Dick founded Amway, which was determined to have run a pyramid scheme (or a scam) to manipulate its employees. This poem was written January 4, 2017, a few weeks before Donald Trump was inaugurated as President. We can take it as a look ahead, from back then, to wha...
2020-09-23
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Our Conscience Must Be Awakened - For America and Our Sense of Justice & Fairness in Considering Replacing RBG Before A New President Is Installed
Our conscience must be awakened. We know it's there. Mitch McConnell denies President Obama a hearing for his nomination of a Supreme Court replacement for Judge Antonin Scalia in February 2016, eleven months before the inauguration of a new President. Now he wants to approve someone 6 weeks before the November 2020 election, ignoring his self-righteous rule . Our conscience usually reminds us to do the right thing, weigh right and wrong, act in the spirit of Justice & Fairness. Almost all of the Republicans have reversed what they said concerning Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland in 2016, saying YES they will hear President Trump...
2020-09-22
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
When Those Who Know
When those who know/Reject interjection/Justice Violated/Thoughts deceptive. Like Mitch McConnell, trying to pull a fast one. After what he perpetrated in February 2016, preventing President Obama from even getting a hearing for his nomination for a replacement Supreme Justice - February too close to the next election and inauguration of a new President???. But now when Trump is President, he lacks the integrity to treat the situation equally, as to how he and the Republicans treated Obama. But the American conscience exists. It just needs to be awakened. It knows what is right and wrong. Time for i...
2020-09-21
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Additional Evidence Trickles In . . .
Trials and Tribulations for the nation. Lawyers, Guns & Money (ty Warren Zevon) to fight the battles in court. Trump usually having about 70 suits going on every year of various sorts. But if he loses the election on Nov 3rd the next cases may be more serious in nature. Individual #1 with Michael Cohen in Stormy Daniels bank fraud / illegal campaign contribution case, and who knows what will be revealed relative to Putin, Russia, our elections, and the Orange one. Especially as Additional Evidence Trickles In . . . .
2020-09-20
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Senate Circus (For Lindsey Graham and Brett Kavanaugh . . . and now RBG)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg is watching . . . another Senate Circus will be brewing as the hypocrites and the sycophants battle it out to replace her, against the precedent set in 2016 rationalizing what they did to President Barack Obama replacing Antonin Scalia who had died in Feb 2016 and Obama nominated Merrick Garland in March and the Republicans racistically prevented Obama's nomination from even being considered in the Senate! What malarkey will they pull now? As observed for example with Brett Kavanaugh, and also with the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Great loss tonight for women's rights, cracking the glass ceiling for women...
2020-09-19
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Smoky Sunset Sky
Smoke from West Coast wildfires spreads across the country. Remember that orange sky in San Francisco that you saw on TV about a week ago? Or were you taking your morning walk in Oakland at 10 AM that day, and the sky still seemed dark? These wildfires demand a national and perhaps international response. Where is our President when we need him?
2020-09-18
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Facts, Lies
The dichotomy. Trump tells 20,000 lies/false claims since he became President in 2017. That's a fact! - - Washington Post tallying
2020-09-17
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Scott Pruitt - Disgraced Former Director EPA
Disgraced former Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Scott Pruitt ordered a $65,000 SUV that had a siren installed to get him and his 24/7 security entourage through traffic to vaunt themselves into Le Diplomate, Pruitt's favorite restaurant in Washington D.C. And then there were the two days of partying in Paris en route to Morocco to lobby for Cheniere Energy. A poem to help you remember: Scott Pruitt, of Oklahoma, Evangelical, A bit light on his morals....almost became Attorney General!! but now we have his spiritual brother installed instead: William Barr.
2020-09-16
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Bot Attack On America
The Russians are still at it: hacking at our elections via social media. Trump & Co. seem to welcome this, at the same time denying it is happening. One word here: Helsinki. The photo on the left features Valery Gerasimov, Chief of Russia's Armed Forces - he is the man with the headphones on. He and Putin have decided to wage cyberwarfare at a 4 to 1 ration to physical warfare. A troll is a person or entity on the internet who/which sows discord by starting quarrels or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory information, or extraneous or off-topic messages...
2020-09-15
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Hoofbeats In The Dust
Each rambunctious galavant/Shining in a tainted spotlight/Overshadowing what has happened yesterday/One episode replacing another/The previous drama fading into a future past/There so many crises/Created by the chaos maker/Who remembers the significance/the sequence/Of specific events in a swirling history
2020-09-14
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Works Well With Others - For Donald Trump
Micromanage what you do not know very much about. Insecure from childhood up to today. Never really learning much about anything important, except being a conman, not paying people who did work for you, nickle and dimer, keep a google of lawyers like Michael Cohen who will sue who you wish as an act of intimidation. Works well with others? Kindergarten kids try to; most workers try to. But Donald J ??????
2020-09-13
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Trump And His Bassists On 9/11 Friday
For Donald Trump And His Band of Craven Followers. On 9/11 Anniversary #19. How will he co-opt it? While he still brings his followers together en masse packed together no masks. After just about everyone has heard the Bob Woodward [RAGE] tapes where Trump told that he knew the virus was 5X worse than the flu, and was more worrisome because it was contracted thru the air. And there he is with his sacrificial followers. His base. Whom he cares not a whit for. Including the evangelicals. A minute of silence please for the victims and their families of 9/11 day. And...
2020-09-11
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Conmen Chiselers And Thieves
Donald Trump is a conman who historically avoids paying people who do work for him. It's a kind of thievery. But we don't want him stealing the country and giving it to Putin, do we? Election Day 2020 arrives Nov 3. Russia is already at work with her hacking teams influencing our social media minds for their better outcome. Manipulating Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Don't be oblivious! Trump wants to be President for Life! Michael Cohen told us that. Putin's got something on him. Compromised says Peter Strzok (pronounced Strock) in his new book. About Trump. And maybe our country too.
2020-09-11
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Arrival Of Injustice
The train is pulling into the station with injustice onboard. Donald Trump the Liar-in-Chief. Pulling the whistle loudly. When the nation needs responsibility, intelligence, desire to perform his duty to protect the American people. He is derelict. Like a bum on the Bowery.
2020-09-10
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Donald Admits To No Mistakes
As taught to him by his heartless father, Fred, Donald learned his lesson: never admit you made a mistake. That's why he can't deal with Covid-19, to start with. Science doesn't often flow on a straight line when you are dealing with the unknown. It's trial and error. Assumption and theory. Experiments and studies are devised. Some bring revelation. Some bring disappointment. Adjustments have to be made. As mistakes are realized. One must be adaptable. It also helps to be intelligent. And perhaps not showing what a conman you are to your all-in followers. Who make little demand on...
2020-09-09
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
You See The Inevitable
It's coming. What will you do about it? Duck it? Welcome it? You see the inevitable . . .
2020-09-08
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Another Poem For Donald - With Vehement Ridicule
Happy Labor Day! Be safe! Drive safely! Some lines here: To explode when consumed/With vehement ridicule/You still capable of giving/Instead of your heart/That empathy requires/You lying like a maggot/On the deck of a yacht/Squiggling from Truth . . . .
2020-09-07
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Believe Me / Trump's Militia Haiku
Title Poem to the book "Believe Me" - Trump Poems Volume One - is what Donald Trump often says before or after he lies to us. The 20,000 threshold for false claims/lies made/said was crossed as President by our Commander-in-Cheat in July, as tolled by the Washington Post since Trump took office in 2017. That phrase Commander-in-Cheat, btw, is the title of a book about Trump cheating in golf, a game of honor. Which is missing in action in this President's character. Then follows a haiku which is 17 syllables in total. This Trump haiku addresses his secret police he h...
2020-09-06
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
For Donald - Vote Twice?
'When I'm President' - Labor Day Music for You, from Ian Hunter of the U.K. https://youtu.be/RMsrwP8pCgk Yes, the President says vote twice. William Barr, the Attorney General, who is supposed to be defending the constitution for the people of America, when Trump says vote twice, Barr says I don't know what the law is in North Carolina. . . . Who is working for whom?
2020-09-05
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Let's Be Blatant
The Trump Code: Why be blatant/Why hide it/Why project humility/There no upside to failure
2020-09-04
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Trump Believers Don't Want To Know The Truth
Trump believers don't want to know the truth/They've been conned by a blowhard/Who lies and cheats workers/Out of money they've earned. Going amoral, as is his m.o., now he suggests his voters cheat for him, as he cheats for himself - suggesting they should vote twice in the Nov 3 election. What kind of model for decency and justice do we have for President right now? This currently is his America. Shaped by his ruthless unscrupulous nature, while his dedicated 'base' takes whatever he dishes out. Impunity goes unpunished . . . As he always s...
2020-09-03
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Kim Jong-un (of North Korea Post 6-12-18 Summit)
Donald Trump said he trusts dictator Kim Jong-un. He trusts him to denuclearize North Korea. The two met at a summit in Singapore 6-12-18 when Trump said the dictator told him he would do this. Jong-un is still making nuclear weapons, and has not denuclearized North Korea.
2020-09-02
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
The Sycophants Will Awaken
Sycophant - Merriam Webster defines as: servile self-serving flatterer Donald Trump Surrounds Himself With Sycophants
2020-09-01
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
America My Country !
Donald Trump has been culling down and reorganizing his team of sycophants so he can be Alexander The Great, or The Vladimir Putin type of authoritarian he wants to be . . . A rather possessive poem . . .
2020-08-31
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Pathological Liar
President Donald Trump has loosed over 20,000 false claims - aka - lies - since he has been in office. As tabulated by the Washington Post. That number has increased since that ignominious milestone was reached in July of 2020. This does not seem to bother his followers, his 'base' - for whom the concept of 'truth' has to have been redefined/?altered under his administration.
2020-08-29
00 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Falwell The Philanderer
Jerry Falwell Jr., (former) President of Liberty University, was the first evangelical leader to endorse Donald Trump for President in 2016. Now he has fallen like a Falwell will, partying and sinning on yachts with young women-not-his-wife. Not setting a very good example for the students at the religious university - where prohibited premarital sex and extramarital sex will not get you closer to Christ. The latest is: the young pool boy the Falwells met in Florida, and then flew around with them in their jet and received $1.8 million in support money for a project of his, has been interviewed...
2020-08-29
03 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
N-Word On LeBron's Gate - 2 days after Jason Whitlock's Accusatory Tweet & Police Shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Though the painting of the N-Word on LeBron's Gate occurred in May 2017 just before the NBA finals were about to start, today the same, perhaps MORE inflamed racism, is still flaring. Especially after another police shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. 7 bullets into his back with his three young children in the car - and LeBron speaking out about it. And Jason Whitlock tweeting this Uncle Tommery about LeBron: 'I'm black. I'm not scared. I'm not terrified. Neither is LeBron James. He's lying. He and the political activists controlling him want black people...
2020-08-27
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Dismantling The Post Office To Sabotage The November Elections - A Trump Poem
It's frightening what is going on. Secret police throwing peaceful protesters into unmarked vans; racism being inflamed and amplified as a campaign tactic by the President; dismantling the post office: destroying and then throwing into dumpsters amazing expensive magnificent sorting machines that can sort 34,000 pieces of mail in ONE MINUTE! culling overtime pay; generally slowing the distribution of the mails. Already affecting delivery of important documents and checks and prescription medicines, especially in rural areas. This all done to put in place a chokehold on the delivery of mailed-in paper ballots to thwart what could happen in the November...
2020-08-26
02 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Anti-Vaxxers and Meatpackers
They're in the same boat When they float Through the aerosols
2020-08-25
01 min
Claude Mayers Interviews Influencers, Scientists, Activists, Poets
Integrity On A Bender - A Trump Poem
Integrity, I reckon, is very important to most people. Honor Thy Word. Behave honestly. Short poem here. Especially for my ocean people . . . Integrity: the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness "he is known to be a man of integrity." or alternately - the state of being whole and undivided "upholding territorial integrity and national sovereignty" [not the TPP] both above definitions from Oxford Languages Bender: a wild drinking spree
2020-08-24
00 min