NACHOs for Breakfast
Poet Dale K. Nichols lends some rhyme and rhythm to the pro-democracy movement. Proceeds from paid subscriptions go to support pro-democracy legal organizations
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Dale K. Nichols
NACHOs for Breakfast
On Wall Street, TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out — has abruptly been replaced as a favorite meme by NACHO — Not a Chance Hormuz Opens. As a result, oil futures have soared.
—Paul Krugman
The Strait of Hormuz is closed—
a Mexican stand-off of sorts—
with TACOs replaced on the menu
by NACHOs as Trump exhorts
his base that all is well.
Don’t worry, the price of oil
is just a blip, he says
No way I’ll let it spoil
my party—Iran will blink
before my fearsome stare.
So continued will be his embargo.
His ego couldn’t bear
the thought of ever admitting
the fact that he has lost.
Concessions are needed—a fig leaf—
whatever the ultimate cost
allowing him to snatch victory
from the Persian jaws of defeat.
So for now it’s NACHOs for breakfast
till his victory is complete.
Editor’s Note
by Michael Broder
A trader told Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas that the most fitting acronymic epithet for President Trump is not TACO but rather NACHO, and NACHO has now usurped TACO and gone quite viral, sprouting some mouthwatering memes.
In the past 24 hours, Pakistan has transmitted a new proposal from Iran to the U.S. The proposal calls for the sources of the conflict to be resolved within 30 days and aims to end the war rather than extend the ceasefire, according to Iranian news reports.
Yesterday (May 2), President Trump said he was reviewing the new Iranian proposal, but expressed doubt that it would lead to a deal.
For their part, a spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on today that the U.S. faces a choice between an “impossible” military operation or a “bad deal” with the Islamic republic.
NACHO indeed, it would appear.
—MB
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About the team
In the words of Dale K. Nichols, Poet
Whatever I might feel about the merit of particular aspects of the MAGA agenda, I believe that Trump, as the movement’s standard-bearer and chief instigator, is a clear and present danger to the future of America and our way of life. That we the people decided to elect him to a second term points to certain dark undercurrents in our nation’s psyche that had been pushed to the shadows for decades until they were recently coaxed back into broad daylight. For those of you who are Harry Potter fans, I believe that Tom Riddle has reemerged as Lord Voldemort, and we Muggles are in the midst of an ugly Wizarding War that has already suffered many casualties.
In the words of Michael Broder, Editor
I am a gay white male and lifelong registered Democrat. I took this project on because I believed Dale’s work could create community around the kind of satiric political poetry that used to be more prevalent in American life.While I am indeed a Harry Potter fan, my pop-culture metaphor for the Orange Menace is Burgermeister Meisterburger, the sadistic, oppressive, and abusive mayor of Sombertown who despises toys—and will arrest anyone who plays with or owns a toy—in the classic 1970 stop-motion Christmas television special, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town.
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