POISON…

by séamas carraher, global rights | 2026-10-02 4:53 pm

..words, fetid, foul, noxious, / oh, how they fall, furious, fearful, frantic/from this Government of Greed, its Secretary /of War and Sadism, / its carnage of dread and drone / of missile and mass-murder, falling now / on the helpless heads of all those waiting – A poem by Séamas Carraher

 

“Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses / he toys with the tributes of half-men.”  (Osip Mandelstam)

 

1

Listen now

 

so you may welcome,

your daily dose of this

Loudmouth’s lies

 

just more icing

on the cake

of their crude confessions

or like nails that nail truth’s

coffin-lid shut tight.

 

Observe,  

(“treasonous SCUM”),

 

all these grand gestures

(“Quiet, quiet, Piggy!”)

from the sickest circus in a

sad sick world

 

…and Beware

 

this loud-mouthed mendacity, its fabrications,

his posturing, how they prevaricate and proliferate,

how they hover in the air, like a poison or a promise

of worse-to-come…

 

(“A whole civilisation will die tonight.

Never to be brought back again.”)

 

2

Watch carefully

 

…for here is another surly soliloquy

we ourselves will soon sing,

our shameless song to the Glutton’s

endless greed,

to their smug ceaseless death and destruction

their pestilent pogroms of power and petty profit

 

for here and now, watch,

watch carefully these cynical words

(“Fake news. Fake news. Fake news”

“from Piggy, Stupid, Incapable”

 “Stupid and Nasty”

“Ugly, both inside and out”)

 

…words, fetid, foul, noxious,

oh, how they fall, furious, fearful, frantic

from this Government of Greed, its Secretary

of War and Sadism,

its carnage of dread and drone

of missile and mass-murder, falling now

on the helpless heads of all those waiting

 

for Remember

 

all the rest today rest sleepless beneath rubble

or are fleeced naked by wind and rain and

the rotten politics of another rotting empire

 

while we sleep…

 

3

So think

 

what is worse?

The lies we are force-fed on

or our own fearful delusions

as endlessly they copulate and conspire,

contagious to lay claim

to what was once a beautiful world?

 

Once upon a time, then,

no longer now nor not ever again?

 

4

Wake up.

 

Wake-the-fuck-up!

 

So we may come to know

there is this tribe

the one to survive from the

cataclysmic mud of beginnings

 

to become man-animal-bipedal

tooth-and-claw, money-and-führer crazed

“ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses…”

“ten thick worms his fingers”…

This must soon-to-be our own starvation’s lethal breakfast.

The only one we are promised, the one we will digest like

wordless maggots,  more savage settler-colonists, here,

…of the mouth.

 

Yes,

and even while our world starves

and the greedy grab it all and teach you

to be grateful.

 

5

… Take note then

 

This is no way to live

with the puppets and the pimps and

“…the tributes of half-men”

pestilent, and profane, these shopkeepers

and stockbrokers of profit-and-loss

their noxious speech, virulent, like

a venom unleashed

 

those who think everything can be

bought and sold

and soon with everything bought and sold

they will bury us all in their mountains of

blood and garbage and shit…

 

more cannon-fodder, redundant, dispensable,

superfluous-in-our-stupidity: so says the ideology

of the Rich,

a bible for billionaires, rapists and buffoons.

 

6

Consider then…

 

Every day, despite it all,

the sun comes up and the sun sets.

Every day the lies get bigger and bigger:

 

Great Replacement (Le Grand Remplacement) / Remigration (Ersetzungsmigration) / Lügenpresse (Lying Press) / Fake News / Volksgenosse / “Kafirs” / “Vermin” / “Marxist” / “Communist” /

“Traitor”, Etc. Etc.

 

Every day…

mouths grow more careless, eyes widen

with bewildered belief, ears grown deaf

with hate and fear and foolish faith

 

while the dead keep on dying, mechanised

in their murder

mindless and meaningless in both silence

and slaughter and

 

so, you,

the hungry ones,

you must eat your own hunger,

taste its savagery, vomit its violent algorithm,

insatiable, vindictive, vicious…voracious.

 

Every day, the sun comes up and the sun sets.

Every single day

another recipe for revulsion.

 

7

Oh, and then

 

this loud mouthed “mountaineer”,

another old man with his dark despicable habits

who floods the air with poison and the promises

that we are all now no better than mud-creatures

dumb-thoughtless-monsters, half-human, senseless,

endlessly marauding, rapacious, repellent,

repulsive…

 

And so, the poet said:

“He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries.

He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home.”

 

(“Thank you for your attention.”)

 

séamas carraher

https://seamascarraher.blogspot.com/[1]

November 24, 2025 – September 29, 2026

 

IMAGE

Donald Trump and Lisa De Pasquale. CPAC day 1

Date February 2011 – by Mark Taylor

CC Attribution 2.0 Generic[2]

 

Alternative Quote 1

“Fascism is capitalism with bared teeth.”

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor From ‘End Times Fascism’

Naomi Klein[3]

 

Alternative Quote 2

“The Radical-male encompasses the worst aspects of the human: destructive in its idiocy, calculating in its ignorance, self-righteous in its wanting. The Radical-male includes a wide spectrum arising from the dark matter at the heart of masculinity, and encompassing all that sterilises life, including the obedient in their feminine counterparts. Its ancestors are those who burned women alive whenever the power structure was threatened by chaos and igniting the fire to cleanse the world of complication was deemed necessary. Today it is being organised and mobilised by the wide grin of the new fascism and is spreading across the globe. It is everywhere. If the act will consolidate their power, its leaders – whether in Moscow, Washington or Ankara – utilise the extreme piety of religious conservatism to inflame hatred against women, regardless of their religion. The capitals are falling one by one into hands more used to groping female bodies. The only way that the Radical-male can interact with the world around it is through wanting and seizing yet more power. But in that lies its weakness.”

Ece Temelkuran[4] – “Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World” ‘Choose Strength over Power’[5]

 

References & Context

 

Lines, (not by DJ Trump) used are from:

The Stalin Epigram (…the poem that cost Osip Mandelstam, 1891 – 1938, his life)

 

“Our lives no longer feel ground under them.

At ten paces you can’t hear our words.

 

But whenever there’s a snatch of talk

it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer,

 

the ten thick worms his fingers,

his words like measures of weight,

 

the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip,

the glitter of his boot-rims.

 

Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses

he toys with the tributes of half-men.

 

One whistles, another meows, a third snivels.

He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom.

 

He forges decrees in a line like horseshoes,

One for the groin, one the forehead, temple, eye.

 

He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries.

He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home.”

 

(From Against Forgetting, edited by Carolyn Forché, translated by W. S. Merwin and Clarence Brown, published by W. W. Norton & Co. Copyright © 1989 by W. S. Merwin. (“Fair Use”)

The Stalin Epigram – Poets.Org[6]

 

Notes – “Death & Killing?

 

How many deaths is Donald Trump personally “responsible for” as U.S. President:

 

Apart from the Gaza Genocide armed and supported by both US Administrations:

 “As of 28 August 2026, at least 77,036 people (74,997+ Palestinians and 2,039+ Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including 270 journalists and media workers, 120 academics, and over 560 humanitarian aid workers, a number that includes 393 employees of UNRWA. A study by OHCHR found that 70% of the Palestinians killed in residential buildings or similar housing were women and children.”

 

COVID-19 Pandemic Estimates:

“The most prominent estimates of preventable deaths are tied to the Trump administration’s COVID-19 response:

Dr. Deborah Birx’s estimate: The White House coronavirus response coordinator testified that at least 129,000 lives could have been saved if the administration had implemented measures like mask mandates and increased testing more effectively

“Trump Death Clock” estimate: A public art installation in New York Times Square estimated approximately 50,000 preventable deaths based on epidemiological models that suggested early action could have prevented a significant portion of early deaths.”

 

Climate policy:

“A joint analysis by The Guardian and ProPublica projected that Trump’s climate policies could contribute to up to 1.3 million additional heat-related deaths globally over the 80 years following 2035.”

 

Healthcare policy:

“An NYU analysis noted that the repeal of a Biden-era nursing home staffing mandate could be linked to an estimated 13,000 lives that could have been saved annually under the previous regulation.”

 

Key Reported Civilian Casualty Incidents – The most extensively documented incidents occurred during Trump’s second term in 2025 and 2026.

“Iran School Strike (February 2026): A U.S. Tomahawk missile strike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran, resulted in a major loss of civilian life

While figures vary, reports indicate a death toll of over 160 to as many as 175, with the vast majority being children. Investigations suggest the strike resulted from a targeting error using outdated intelligence, though the U.S. government has not formally accepted responsibility

Yemen Strikes (2025): Over the course of 2025, U.S. military action against Houthi rebels in Yemen resulted in at least 153 civilian deaths and 243 injuries, according to a Pentagon report to Congress.”

 

Broader Strike Data:

“According to a survey by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), between January 20, 2025, and January 5, 2026, the U.S. was involved in 1,008 military events in at least nine countries, which resulted in an estimated 1,093 fatalities

The survey notes that over 80% of the strikes in that period were directed at Houthi rebels in Yemen, accounting for over 530 deaths. This total figure includes both combatants and civilians, as well as individuals like alleged drug traffickers targeted in separate operations…

Military Strikes on “Drug Boats” in the Caribbean and Pacific:

Based on official reports and legal filings, at least 120 deaths at sea have been linked to U.S. military actions authorized by the Trump administration as of early 2026

These figures primarily come from a series of naval strikes against suspected “drug trafficking” vessels, and the actual number may be higher, as new incidents and litigation continue to emerge.

Total Reported Deaths: According to a lawsuit filed in January 2026, military strikes authorized by the Trump administration on civilian vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific have resulted in over 120 deaths since September 2025:

Specific Incidents: Several distinct events have been highlighted, including one on October 14 that killed six people, and another on November 9 that killed six more.

The October 14 incident is now the subject of a federal lawsuit by the victims’ families, who allege the attack on the civilian fishing vessel was ‘clearly illegal’”

Legal and Ethical Controversy

“‘Kill All’ Orders: A report by The Washington Post alleged that Defense Secretary Hegseth issued a verbal order to “kill everyone” on a suspected vessel. The report claimed that after the first strike left two survivors clinging to debris, a second strike was ordered to eliminate them

Lack of Evidence: The Trump administration has not publicly provided evidence that the targeted vessels were actually carrying drugs or that the crew members were affiliated with designated terrorist organizations, which critics have used to question the legality of the operations.”

 

Elon Musk Death Counter (24 September, 2026)

“Estimated deaths attributable to the dismantlement of USAID and related foreign aid programs by Musk-led DOGE, beginning January 20, 2025. Based on peer-reviewed mortality projections.”

Estimated lives lost since Jan 20, 2025:

1,173,897 – people who would have survived under prior funding levels.

Projected by 2030

9.4 – 14 Million

Accountability Tracker[7]

 

REFERENCES [TEXT]

 

1 & 2

Quotes from DJ Trump:

all these grand gestures

(“Quiet, quiet, Piggy”)

The Hill – November, 2025[8]

(“A whole civilisation will die tonight. Never to be brought back again.”)

Trump Threatens Iran: ‘A Whole Civilisation Will Die Tonight’

 WION  News – April 7, 2026[9]

 

our shameless song to the Glutton’s

endless greed

“The White House, replicating the mob style shakedowns of Atlantic City’s casino culture, demands huge payouts from corporations and billionaires in exchange for political favors and deregulation.” [4:47]

Don Corleone Trump

Chris Hedges Channel – September 23, 2026[10]

 

from the sickest circus in a sad sick world

(“Stupid and Nasty”

“Ugly, both inside and out.”

Fake news…”

“Piggy, Stupid, Incapable” )

The Independent – February, 2026[11]

 

Also:

“Trump calls reporters “treasonous SCUM” over reports of low munitions: In response to recent reporting on the U.S.’s diminishing munitions stockpiles, which some experts have characterized as “dangerously low,” Trump called outlets that reported on the topic “treasonous SCUM” and claimed the reports were inaccurate, saying the U.S. was producing munitions at “levels never seen before” and has “far more than we could ever use.” Dropsite News – September 4, 2026[12]

 

4

while the world starves

A global food crisis

“The scale of the current global hunger and malnutrition crisis is enormous.

“A staggering 266 million people are already facing crisis levels of hunger or worse, according to the Global Report on Food Crises. The conflict in the Middle East is deepening this food crisis to an alarming degree, with the World Food Programme warning of record numbers of acute hunger if it continues.

“In 2025, two simultaneous famines were confirmed in parts of Gaza and Sudan – a devastating first this century. Many food crises involve multiple overlapping issues that are building year on year.”

World Food Programme[13]

 

5

the ideology of the Rich

“That means we cannot understand today’s version of fascism exclusively through the rearview mirror, because it has changed as we have changed. For example, the people advancing fascist goals today are far more individualistically entrepreneurial than their predecessors. The supremacy they believe in most is the superiority of extreme wealth, a eugenics of markets. They are billionaires with cult followings whose Lebensraum is in space and beneath Greenland’s melting permafrost; they are online influencers trying to sell us crypto and energy drinks; and they are politicians who are masters of meme warfare. ”

Read: ‘End Times Fascism’ – Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

Naomiklein – end-times-fascism[14]

 

6

Every day these lies get bigger and bigger:

“The language used by far-right and neo-fascist groups is often characterized by a mix of overt slogans and coded “dog whistles”—terms that appear innocent to the general public but carry specific meanings for insiders. Research points to several key terms and concepts, including remigration, Great Replacement, ethnonationalism, nativism, and the myth of palingenesis.”

 

“Dog-Whistles”[15]

“…the use of coded language that appeals to specific audiences while remaining ostensibly benign. The term itself is derived from ultrasonic sounds heard by dogs but not by … in U.S. political discourse as a strategy to mobilize electorates by capitalizing on latent racial anxieties while avoiding explicit accusations of racism.”

See

The Distinctive Vocabularies of Right-Wing Populists

Cambridge University Press – May, 2024[16]

 

Key Words and Coded Language

“Here are some specific words and phrases frequently used in these circles:

Remigration / Ersetzungsmigration: A central concept advocating for the forced or incentivized return of immigrants and their descendants to their purported countries of origin.

The related term Ersetzungsmigration (replacement migration) frames this as a necessary response to a demographic crisis.

Great Replacement (Le Grand Remplacement): A conspiracy theory stating that Western populations are being deliberately and systematically replaced by mass migration from Africa and the Middle East.

This myth is a major driver of far-right violence and rhetoric.

Lügenpresse (Lying Press): A historical term from the Nazi era that has been revived. It is used to delegitimize independent media and sow distrust in democratic institutions

Volksgenosse / Nationals: Terms used to create an “in-group” based on an ethnocentric and exclusionary definition of community, contrasting with “outsiders”

Kuffar / Kafir: Arabic terms for “unbeliever,” used to stigmatize and dehumanize those outside the in-group

Vermin: A dehumanizing term used to describe immigrants, political opponents, or other marginalized groups

Woke / Cultural Marxism: Used as a pejorative umbrella term to attack progressive social justice movements, feminism, and anti-racism efforts, framing them as a conspiracy to destroy traditional Western culture…”

(Summary provided by DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence project and the name of its open-source large language model).

 

See Also: The 2024 Republican Party platform

 

“… It is a forward-looking Agenda that begins with the following twenty promises that we will accomplish very quickly when we win the White House and Republican Majorities in the House and Senate.”

 

11 of the 20 “Promises”

 

1. SEAL THE BORDER, AND STOP THE MIGRANT INVASION
2. CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY
3. END THE WEAPONIZATION OF GOVERNMENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
4. STOP THE MIGRANT CRIME EPIDEMIC, DEMOLISH THE FOREIGN DRUG CARTELS, CRUSH GANG VIOLENCE, AND LOCK UP VIOLENT OFFENDERS
5. REBUILD OUR CITIES, INCLUDING WASHINGTON DC, MAKING THEM SAFE, CLEAN, AND BEAUTIFULAGAIN.
6. STRENGTHEN AND MODERNIZE OUR MILITARY, MAKING IT, WITHOUT QUESTION, THE STRONGESTAND MOST POWERFUL IN THE WORLD
7. CUT COSTLY AND BURDENSOME REGULATIONS
8. CUT FEDERAL FUNDING FOR ANY SCHOOL PUSHING CRITICAL RACE THEORY, RADICAL GENDER IDEOLOGY, AND OTHER INAPPROPRIATE RACIAL, SEXUAL, OR POLITICAL CONTENT ON OUR CHILDREN
9. KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN’S SPORTS
10. DEPORT PRO-HAMAS RADICALS AND MAKE OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES SAFE AND PATRIOTIC AGAIN
11. SECURE OUR ELECTIONS, INCLUDING SAME DAY VOTING, VOTER IDENTIFICATION, PAPER BALLOTS,AND PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP

Documentcloud – 2024[17]

 

Also: “Mandate for Leadership, 2025 – The Conservative Promise”

“In 2023, the game has changed. The long march of cultural Marxism through our institutions has come to pass. The federal government is a behemoth, weaponized against American citizens and conservative values, with freedom and liberty under siege as never before. The task at hand to reverse this tide and restore our Republic to its original moorings is too great for any one conservative policy shop to spearhead. It requires the collective

action of our movement. With the quickening approach of January

2025, we have two years and one chance to get it right.”

Heritage Foundation – 2023

“Mandate for Leadership – Project 2025” (PDF)[18]

 

See also:

A brief dictionary to help understand the US far right

Al Jazeera – October, 2017[19]

 

6

eyes widen

with bewildered belief, ears grown deaf

with hate and fear and foolish faith

“The eyes and ears are bad witnesses for men with barbarian souls”

Heraclitus (Diels, Die Fragm. der Vorsokr., B. 107)

Nikos Gatsos – ‘Amorgos’[20]

 

7

another old man with his dark despicable habits

“She detailed that one incident took place while Trump was developing a casino in Atlantic City. She was led to Trump in a “very tall building with huge rooms.” Trump allegedly told others to leave the room, and told her, “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” before unzipping his pants and forcing her to perform a sex act. She told the FBI that she “bit the (expletive) out of it,” which angered Trump, who slapped her and cursed.”

13-Year-Old Trump Accuser Has Key Details of Her Story Verified

The story appeared in an FBI interview in the Epstein files.

New Republic – March, 2026[21]

 

And so, the poet said: Osip Mandelstam

“In the autumn of 1933, Mandelstam composed the poem “Stalin Epigram”, which he recited at a few small private gatherings in Moscow. The poem deliberately insulted the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin:

“…In the original version, the one that was handed in to the police, he called Stalin the “peasant slayer”, as well as pointing out that he had fat fingers. Six months later, on the night of 16–17 May 1934, Mandelstam was arrested by three NKVD officers who arrived at his flat with a search warrant signed by Yakov Agranov. His wife hoped at first that this was over a fracas that had taken place in Leningrad a few days earlier, when Mandlestam slapped the writer Alexei Tolstoy because of a perceived insult to Nadezhda, but under interrogation he was confronted with a copy of the Stalin Epigram, and immediately admitted to being its author, believing that it was wrong in principle for a poet to renounce his own work. Neither he nor Nadezhda had ever risked writing it down, suggesting that one of the trusted friends to whom he recited it had memorised it, and handed a written copy to the police. It has never been established who it was.”

Wikipedia – Osip Mandelstam – Political persecution and death[22]

 

No Hope for the future?

“It doesn’t matter if Trump or Erdoğan is brought down tomorrow, or if Nigel Farage had never become a leader of public opinion. The millions of people fired up by their message will still be there, and will still be ready to act upon the orders of a similar figure. And unfortunately, as we experienced in Turkey in a very destructive way, even if you are determined to stay away from the world of politics, the minions will find you, even in your own personal space, armed with their own set of values and ready to hunt down anybody who doesn’t resemble themselves. It is better to acknowledge – and sooner rather than later – that this is not merely something imposed on societies by their often absurd leaders, or limited to digital covert operations by the Kremlin; it also arises from the grassroots. The malady of our times won’t be restricted to the corridors of power in Washington or Westminster. The horrifying ethics that have risen to the upper echelons of politics will trickle down and multiply, come to your town and even penetrate your gated community. It’s a new zeitgeist in the making. This is a historic trend, and it is turning the banality of evil into the evil of banality. For though it appears in a different guise in every country, it is time to recognise that what is occurring affects us all.”

Ece Temelkuran,  “How to lose a country” [23] (Introduction).

 

“The events of 2025 made one thing painfully clear: the world’s super-rich have not only accumulated more wealth than could ever be spent – they have also used this wealth to secure the political power to shape the rules that define our economies and govern nations and the world. As this chapter will show, the super-rich have built their political power in three main ways: by buying politics, investing in legitimizing elite power, and directly accessing institutions.

“Many billionaires are seeding a philosophy of division that spreads racial, sexist and anti-LGBTQI+ hate, and seeks to divide the working class and all others who oppose billionaire power. A range of state and religious actors in the Global North are capitalizing on this to reorient state power towards a reassertion of an often racist and sexist system that favours the wealthy, privileges men, and harms and disadvantages women and LGBTQI+ people in the name of ‘traditional’ family values.”

Resisting the Rule of the Rich

Oxfam Ireland  – January, 2026[24]

 

“This collection of claims is a pure distillation of the promise at the heart of what we are calling end times fascism: world-ending horrors are imminent, but they should be embraced, even actively accelerated. Why? Because you are among the chosen. You will not only escape the suffering others are forced to endure, held safe in a celestial bunker, but you will ultimately be rewarded with an eternal existence, free of all strife and friction.”

https://naomiklein.org/end-times-fascism/[25]

Finally: Hope for the future?

“I now understand is that it is useless to fight against the magical power of the human that only faith can generate. And hope is just a timid code word that implies this need for faith. Today’s political movements, the ones that are determined to set a new direction for humankind or are proposing an exit from our political and moral maze, should not neglect the people’s need for and ability to have faith. As explosive as the word faith may be it also sits at the very core of the question of political action. We should all come to terms with the fact that faith is and can be the only reason to act when all is lost.

Because believing gives us the ability to make promises and the determination to fulfil them – to create beauty, all sorts of it. My hand does not pat yours while you are reading the menu of Restaurant Hope. I seize the hope-menu from you and put my finger on your chest, saying, ‘I believe in you. And you can believe in me. You must.”

“Choose Faith over Hope” : Ece Temelkuran. “Together: A Manifesto Against the Heartless World”.

Palestine will outlast Blair and his grotesque ‘Board of Peace’ | Soumaya Ghannoushi

MEE Opinion – September 4, 2026[26]

 “In too many contexts, daring to dissent increasingly means risking arrest, intimidation and even your life. Calling for equality has never cost so much. That is why we must stand together and take measures to build and protect the voice, choice and power of the many fighting for a more equal future.

Working in solidarity and collaboration across our movements and organizations is vital to tackling our common challenges and changing narratives. We must seek out allies and emerging progressive movements, and work in partnership to build a worldwide people’s movement to defend our rights, fight for a more equal world, and demand an end to inequality and oligarchy.” (CHAPTER 4 – BUILDING A MORE EQUAL FUTURE)

Oxfam Ireland  – January, 2026[24]

 

#Make #thewrittenword a #subversive activity in an age of Resurgent #Fascism.

 

 

 

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