Signs of the Times—Again

 How many of us wake up each morning and exclaim, “Is he still here?” And wonder, “Why?!!” The guy just keeps getting worse and worse and he was about as terrible as you can get to begin with. As one friend said, “I’m ashamed to be in the same species as him!”

But on the bright side, the good-hearted clear-thinking people amongst us are continuing to speak up and rise up. (And lest you folks who think us “libtards” are arrogant, wake up. Every day there is less and less reason to defend your brainwashed choice and shame, shame on you.)To be completely honest, I had a wedding reception that was on the calendar long before the Women’s March was on the calendar and by the time I got back to San Francisco, it was mostly done. I really missed being out on the streets again and feeling the energy of the people of all ages, colors, persuasions, etc. voicing their disgust and determination to reclaim a more humane America. But I did get to scroll through some 50 plus photos of women’s marches around the world, including places like Iraq, Ghana, Jackson, Mississippi and Antarctica! Amazing!!!

So it’s a good time to re-post the rap I wrote after the women’s march last year. Everything sadly is still relevant and though I could write a few more verses to bring events up to date, it’s already long enough. See if any of the signs you carried are included! (signs in bold font)

SIGNS OF THE TIME RAP

©2017 Doug Goodkin

The slumbering giant is startin’ to stir,

Out marchin’ in the streets, sayin’ I’m with her.

Four million people who feel that things ain’t fine

Expressing themselves with their personal sign

50 countries ‘round the world, in cities and in towns

Sayin’ they ain’t happy with what’s been goin’ down

So listen up, Mr. Trump, we’re talkin’ to you

We ain’t takin’ lying down what you planning to do.

You run a campaign all based on hate,

Calling all who aren’t like you an enemy of state.

Standin’ up there and rantin’ every day,

Talkin’ about a wall to keep Mexicans away,

Then register the Muslims to kick them out,

But the people standin’ up and marchin’ while they shout,

“You’re a mean hombre, your thinking’s kind of hazy

Calling all Muslims terrorists and Mexicans lazy

Your hands are small and so’s your heart,

You make the Grinch look good, so we’re doin’ our part,

To let you know that we’re here to stay

We ain’t gonna go, and we just gotta say

Hey Mr. president, respect our existence

If you can’t do that, expect our resistance. 

You’re a liar and a cheat, an illegal resident

It’s for damn sure you ain’t my President

You sign up for a job, but you ain’t got no credential

You think that making money can make you Presidential

Hey Hey! Ho Ho! You’re incompetent and you got to go!

You think you’re the big cheese, the chairman of the board

But yesterday we got up and democracy roared

Can’t make America great again

By making America hate again 

The only person who’s an enemy of the state

Is the one who’s fannin’ the flames of hate.

That’s you! That’s you! Watch what we’re gonna do!

We said it! We meant it! We’re here to represent it!

You think that you are free, to be gropin’ and grabbin’ it

If someone is incompetent, you appoint them to the cabinet,

Are you crazy? Don’t you know that’s a terrible i-de-a?

They makin’ better cabinets in I-ke-a

You givin’ out all kinds of misinformation

Tryin’ to keep the people stupid in this here nation

Things ain’t true just cause you say it’s so

This ain’t no reality TV show

We’re goin’ to wake the people up with a just education,

Deport DeVoss and open immigration

Don’t you think for a minute that you’re gonna do it

We won’t take people like your Steve Pruit

You shootin’ your bullets like a crazed loose cannon

Neo-Nazis, really? We say no to Steve Bannon!

Well, Humpty Trumpty, wanted a wall

Humpty Trumpty, get ready to Fall,

We gonna take you down, one way or another

You got to deal with my pissed-off nasty grandmother

Dump the Trump, dump dump the Trump 

You’re either on the bus or off the bus

It’s all of us or none of us.

No hate! No fear! We all are welcome here!

No fear! No hate! That's what makes us great! 

We don’t like what you’re doin’ and that’s a cold fact

So we’re getting’ together to ovary-act

We know you can’t feel, don’t care what we think

But you gonna have to deal with the women in pink

You spending all your time with your orange hair

Thinkin’ you can take away our Medicare

Keep your hands off our health, stop thinkin’ ‘bout your wealth.

Get off your spinnin’ axis, reveal your taxes!

Martin Luther King was our American hero

You tryin’ to take his moral arc and bend it back to zero

Hear our anger, feel our care, listen to our rage

Don’t drag us by the hair back to the Stone Age

Get out of the Oval Office, vacate the West Wing

Unless you pay attention to the words of Dr. King

 “Injustice here is injustice everywhere.”

We were shocked and shaken, like a nightmare wild

That people vote for someone who behaves like a child

A child leader’s dangerous, like nuclear fission

You should wear a sign, “Needs adult supervision.”

All you care about is you!, livin’ in some swampy bog,

You think we can trust you? You don’t even own a dog!

You’re a super callous Fascist Racist Extra Bragga Docious

Every change that you propose is really quite atrocious,

Every thing you say is alternatively factocious,

Super callous fascist racist extra bragga docious.

Um-dittle-ittle, um did ya lie? Um-dittle-ittle, um did ya lie?

Uh –huh, you did! Who you tryin’ to kid?

You never say a kind word, all you care about is power,

Sittin’ high and mighty in your tall Trump Tower.

Now you in the white house looking out at your plantation.

Thinking that who you are will define our nation.

But, Mr. President, we beg to disagree

And so do the four million who came out to see

All who do their best to listen and be kind

But we’re just so damned mad that we even made this sign.

 Dump the Trump, dump dump the Trump

We’re sittin’ at the crossroads, meetin’ at the junction,

Then you get elected by electoral dysfunction

Tinkle tinkle little Czar, Putin put you where you are

You lost by 3 million, but you think you won

You don’t know that girls just want to have fun–

damental rights, not be rated one to ten,

So we’re rising up and singing songs, then singin’ them again

 You shall overcomb, but We shall overcome…

Climate change is real, how can we make you see

That we better pay attention, there is no PLANet B?

Take out the mock in De-mo-cra-cy. R-E-S-P-E-C-T,

that’s what you should be givin’ to me

So listen up and stop your tweets, or tweet me with respect

From the leader of this land, it’s the least that we expect.

We’re turning up the heat, put that on your tweet.

We’re gonna keep on marchin’ on our 8 million feet.

We need a leader, not a creepy tweeter.

If you’re elected President, your job is to represent,

To respect this institution, you got to read the Constitution

It’s of the people, by the people, for the people, true?

All the people, not just the ones who voted for you.

So listen up good, pay attention. Mr. T.

You gotta deal with all of us, people like me!

I’m a big bad music teacher and I’m ready to talk

Get out of your Trump Tower and let’s go for a walk.

Let’s go to every corner of this here nation

Listen to the people and get an education

Gotta talk to the workers, the women and the gays,

All the colors of the rainbow and not just the greys,

From the Statue of Liberty to the good ole Golden Gate

People in the land are getting’ tired of hate.

There are no easy answers, it’s a monumental task,

Want to know what's goin' down? All you gotta do is ask.

Yes, the slumbering giant is startin’ to stir,

Out marchin’ in the streets, sayin’ I’m with her.

And she's with him and he's with they, 

U.S. means us! We're gonna make it that way.