There is much fake handwringing about fake news today, but if we didn’t have fake news we wouldn’t have any news at all. Not surprisingly, fake news is not new. Quite possibly the first published fake news occurred more than three thousand years ago when the Pharaoh Ramses II, returning home with the remnant of his shattered army after being smoked by the Hittites at Kadesh, had a series of large stone reliefs erected on the outer walls of the Ramseum at Thebes, depicting an Egyptian victory over the heathen. The fake story was believed by historians until the late 19th century when archaeologists discovered the Hittite capital of Hattusa and found, in the palace library, baked clay tablets and seals signed by the Egyptians setting the terms of the suspension of hostilities, with the terms highly favorable to the Hittites, indicating that the Pharaoh had not been entirely truthful. Naturally enough, many archaeologists refused to believe the evidence of their eyes and disputed the accuracy of the signed agreements, preferring to remain enchanted with the lie rather than believe such an outcome could have occurred. We find this attitude prevalent today in people who still maintain that CBS News anchor Dan Rather’s fake documents designed to unseat President George W. Bush in the 2004 election were genuine, or if not genuine, then at least accurate. And now the Democrats have orchestrated a fake news blitz claiming, without a shred of evidence, that the Russians elected Donald Trump, and we can expect more fake news as Democrats are now trying to get a recount of the vote in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania so that they can steal the election, as they have so successfully stolen elections, by fraudulent recounts, in Washington State and Wisconsin in the very recent past. I include myself in the list of believers in fake news so long as the fake news is delivered by someone I trust not to do so. And therein lies the rub. I have watched documentaries of WW2 and listened to the voice over state the most absurd things I know to be not true but will watch a documentary on polar bears, about whom I know nothing, and believe every word.

If all the news we hear is fake
And all the fakes are news
What disposition can we make
Of one another’s views
I read the Internet of course
And television too
And yet while I believe the source
That doesn’t make it true
I scratch my head and think aloud
Did Cronkite in the booth
Did Walter Winchell do us proud
Did either tell the truth
I know so little when compared
To what there is to know
So that is why I am prepared
To take my news real slow
And wonder if those fake reliefs
On modern temple walls
Reflect not news but false beliefs
And juggled bowling balls

Jill Stein, Green Party nominee for president, has been joined by the Hillary Clinton campaign in asking for a recount of the vote in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. It is clear Stein is a stalking horse for Clinton and the radicals in the Democratic Party who want to turn the United States into a banana republic. No recount will overturn the votes in Michigan and Pennsylvania to give Hillary 270 electoral votes, so the reason for the recount is clear: send the election into the House and Senate when the recount delays those three States from certifying the results before 13 December, in which case Trump will not have 270 votes when the Electoral College meets on 19 December. The Republicans control the House and Senate so they will doubtless vote for Trump, but if that happens, and the precedent has been set, then no president will ever again be elected by the people unless his party also controls the House. And maybe, just maybe, Hillary can win this in the House, despite the odds against. One State, one vote. Would a Soros billion be enough to persuade the persuadable?

Jill needs some jack to climb the hill
And Hill needs time for her to kill
The vote denying her the prize
That shone so brightly in her eyes
Unjustly taken by the rubes
That sent her reeling down the tubes
Hill cries Delay! All will be well!
And we’ll survive election hell
A Clinton never knows defeat
A Clinton never will retreat
We’ll win this thing by hook or crook
Just give those votes another look
And maybe money can’t buy love
But cash and favors just might shove
A GOPer to change sides
I love these roller coaster rides
And on the day I take the oath
Back to the White House for us both
And when I raise my clenched right hand
I’ll tell you all to go pound sand

Donald Trump heads the revolution against the Washington establishment, but he did not create the revolution, the revolution created him. For there to be a revolution there must first be a movement, and the movement must then find a leader or create one. The anti-establishment Tea Party movement was crushed by the Republican Washington establishment, forcing the Tea Party and its supporters to look elsewhere for leaders, and they found that leader in Donald Trump. The descendants of the people who built this country were faced with having their country taken from them by the Democrat and Republican establishment and given to people who had no part in its history or construction, and the finally aroused people elected Donald Trump and are marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks, determined to keep their country by pitching the establishment in the Potomac.

The people with the pitchforks claim
Corruption is thy middle name
To be burnt out by torch and flame
The Republic thus restored
We have our man, his name is Trump
And into baskets heads will thump
The bodies to the city dump
And death thy cold reward
The people with the pitchforks know
That slime filled swamps with offal flow
If not cut down will only grow
And now it’s to the sword

The German magazine Der Spiegel ran a cover story explaining how the election of Donald Trump meant the end of the world. And they were absolutely correct. The election of Donald Trump, along with Brexit, shows that the growing fear, loathing and anger in Europe at the open borders policy of the Leftist elite governing class that has flooded Western Europe with unassimilated and unassimilable third world Muslim foreigners into their midst has resulted in the people of Europe preparing to replace the current elitist ruling class with people who care about the future of Western civilization and the safety of European populations. And to that extent Der Spiegel is correct – the world as they know it, the leftist elitist run socialist world that Der Spiegel knows and approves of, is dead.

Der Spiegel cries, The end is near!
Not knowing that end is here
For fascism in smiling guise
And so to them the big surprise
Will come when shortly they’ll be gone
As surely as the coming dawn
Will usher in to Europe wide
Renewal of the nation’s pride
In what the West means to Der Welt
The art and science that has spelt
Extended lives for all of us
All without fanfare, boasts or muss
The rise from poverty of those
Whom nature and bad leaders chose
To keep in bondage to the soil
Dependent on incessant toil
To end their lives as old young men
Who choose not to remember when
With Brussels gone, forever dead
And future reads what Spiegel said
They’ll smile and wonder how it felt
To be there as Trump changed Die Welt

When Lord Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington, and as the redcoats stacked their muskets after the battle of Yorktown in 1781, tradition has it the British Army band played a ballad called And The World Turned Upside Down. Yesterday, with the Trump victory over the established order, the American political landscape has been turned upside down. The entirety of the Western world is turning upside down politically as we watch, fascinated. First Brexit and now Trump, and soon the creaky progressive Leftist Western European Blue Model European Union is dissolving as the Left elites watch helplessly. And it truly is the world that is turning upside down, for the West is still the leader in science and technology, and without the supine Left allowing that science and technology to be turned against us by people who could not, by their unaided efforts, pour a concrete patio. The people of the United States and Britain have voted for Nationalism, and Germany and France are soon to follow. How long will it be before the velvet glove again covers an iron fist.

The world is turning upside down
Long nightmare at an end
The people want a king and crown
Not everybody’s friend
Who says the borders do not mean
That we are separate
And so we welcome the unclean
The mad, the desperate
The people of the West have spoke
They want their countries back
They view their countries as one folk
And so the Left must pack
And leave most quickly in the night
From every Western town
And province till they’re out of sight
And the world’s turned upside down

Anthony Weiner, a man who has given sexual perversion a bad name, may be the unlikely savior of the Republic. Ironic that the marriage of convenience to Huma may lead to Hillary wearing a permanent orange pantsuit. The revelation that 650,000 Hillary emails resided on Tony Weiner’s laptop, causing FBI Director Jim Comey to send a letter to Congress a week before the election saying he was re-opening the Clinton email case might have been just the straw that broke the back of the Clinton camel and moved enough swing state voters to vote for Trump. I believe Donald Trump would have been elected even had the emails not surfaced on Weiner’s laptop, but we will never know how much of an effect the Comey letter had. But Donald Trump is president-elect, and the country is saved. And what is more, unless Hillary is pardoned by Obama, she will face charges of violation of the espionage act and obstruction of justice, among many other crimes she thought she would never have to pay for.

For little girls there is no keener
Man alive than Tony Weiner
He likes ‘em short, he likes ‘em long
And now his emails sing a song
Of Hillary and email docs
That puts her now in a tight box
But will she squirm and wiggle out
Or run in circles, scream and shout
And will the Times and Post declare
The timing surely is unfair
Forgetting that we all despise
The folks who spring the big surprise
Just days before elections loom
To send the GOP to doom
What’s in these emails we don’t know
We’ll just sit back, enjoy the show
It’s over now, election done
The bitch is gone and Trump has won

College snowflakes are so distraught at the election of Donald Trump that the schools are offering crying spaces and comfort dogs. I walked the neighborhood shortly after Trump was announced the next president of the United States, and encountered a young woman curled up on the curb, unmoving and sobbing quietly. In a tear-choked voice she spoke a single word. Why?

I said the blame is all on you
Your comfort dogs, professor’s hugs
Your crying rooms, safe spaces too
Your spastic tremored heart string tugs
You cannot face adversity
You win if you still finish last
Attend a university
Emerge know nothing of the past
Believe diversity is all
That matters in this mixed up world
And at the final judgement call
The firmament will be all girled
I asked if she was sad Hill lost
She said that Hillary was god
And now the country to its cost
Had given Donald Trump the nod
She dried her tears and sobbed, You’re right
But know my grief I cannot hide
I feel so bad, just like the night
That horrid night my puppy died

The reason for Donald Trump’s victory is simple – the slovenly, lazy and stupid peasants of flyover country spat in the face of the media, the pundits and most of all we spit in the faces of the criminal Left who fancied themselves as elites, intellectually and morally superior to the great unwashed clinging to their guns and religion thirty-eight thousand feet beneath them. It’s jail time now, baby.

We simple folk know not what gives
Our simple minds are so like sieves
We do not process what we’re told
Too dumb to come in from the cold
We still believe in simple things
Like baby girls and wedding rings
We drive old beat up clunker cars
And spend our paychecks in the bars
We go to church and praise the Lord
And go through life both dumb and bored
But this election we betrayed
Our betters voting to degrade
The country with our stupid votes
For Trump and all that that denotes
But please don’t think our point of view
Means that we have stopped loving you
Our betters yes, in every way
We treasure everything you say
And we sure hope you’ll let this pass
And as you leave just kiss my ass

Bill and Hillary Clinton are two commoners who believe themselves royalty, and thus beyond the law and beyond all consequences. Like all pretenders, it does not have a happy ending.

In Arkansas where he was king, and Hillary his queen
They ruled with arrogance and unquenched greed
The law was for the little folks, and opening the scene
Whitewater showed how both the Clintons feed
On honest people who believe the law is true and fair
And cattle futures bets will always win
With payoffs made at dead of night with not a witness there
With Clintons honesty’s the only sin
Our secular society has but one holy site
The Oval Office ringing with great names
And greater men who worked for us through both the day and night
And Billy’s semen now one of the shames
A Senate seat for Hillary that’s paid for with the lives
Of innocents at lunch in park-side grille
Whose killers then got pardoned so that they, their kids and wives
Would lead to Puerto Rican votes for Hill
As Sec of State our Hillary set secrets to be hacked
By enemies who gladly paid the price
Of tens of millions to the Clintons where the cash was stacked
In piles while AG Lynch said ain’t that nice
The Democrats rewarded treason with their highest prize
The nomination to be Chief of State
The vote was rigged but the black veil was ripped from the disguise
By emails that produced a Wikigate
And when the Congress sent subpoenas asking for emails
The Clintons then destroyed them with a smile
And claimed that no one here on Earth would see the fine details
Of wedding plans and yoga lessons while
The White House and the AG Lynch forbade the Feds to look
Into obstructing justice, then a crime
For had the FBI looked into matters then the crook
We know as Hillary would do some time
The Clintons left the White House in 01 and said they’re broke
So broke they stole some furniture en route
While quite forgetting millions for the pardons Bill bespoke
And stealing White House furniture was cute
The FBI asked Hillary some questions and she lied
Another crime that would put you in jail
In fairness there were some who knew all this and fairly tried
To see the law obeyed but always fail
And so the polls show people are okay with sending crooks
And traitors to the White House, c’est la vie
Where Hillary can use BleachBit to sanitize the books
And smile and say there’s nothing here to see
But Trump has won and now a new AG is nemesis
That follows at a distance and then strikes
And now that she will not be safe within the premises
She may find that the law does what it likes
She thought she would be safe within the White House sacred halls
But now we’ll see that justice, law, prevail
And when the wheels grind fine enough the stone gray prison walls
Will see our Hillary at last in jail

In the weeks and days before the election I wrote, in these pages, that Donald Trump would win the election. But I also believed, and wrote, that the Trumpian epoch would be but a temporary interruption in the inevitable triumph of demographics and the re-gaining of power by the progressives, and the continuation of the inevitable decline of the United States into a two tiered nation, half third world and half first world, with the inhabitants of the first world half de facto second class citizens, all leading, again inevitably, to secession and possible civil war. I have changed my mind about the dystopian future of the country, and now believe, due to the nature of the Trump win, and the predictable nature of a Trump administration, that the grievance and identity politics of the Democrats has led to the destruction for generations of the Democratic Party. White voters have taken their country back, and are not in any mood to return it to those who had no hand in building it.

The future is a misty land of bright uplands and roses
And as we travel through the mist the future then discloses
Reality and truth for all to see and know and follow
And in the misty beauty touch the golden bright-winged swallow
The misty future holds for us a promise of tomorrow
Where dreams are ours forever and the stars are ours to borrow
Just for the night or for forever, dreams are for the reaching
And lessons of the blighted past are all there for the teaching
The misty land now reaches out and bids us come and find it
For it is ours to keep so long as good strong men will mind it