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Writer's pictureHowie Klein

Dayenu— A Timely Adaptation Of The Passover Seder Song



-by Princess Ozma



If he were only a racist,

Dayenu!


Xenophobe and misogynist,

Dayenu!


And not such a twit,

Dayenu!


Who assaulted women

Dayenu!


And even bragged about it.

Dayenu!


If he didn’t put children in cages

Dayenu!


And pardon war criminals

Dayenu!


While mocking the disabled,

Dayenu!


And didn’t praise child molesters,

Dayenu!


Coddle dictators, trash allies,

Dayenu!


And abandon friends,

Dayenu!


If he didn’t threaten civil servants,

Dayenu!


Congress, and even the Vice President,

Dayenu!


And didn’t incite a mob to overthrow a free and fair election,

Dayenu!


If he didn’t also threaten the press,

Dayenu!


Lie constantly to the American people,

Dayenu!


And were only a thug,

Dayenu!


Coward and bully,

Dayenu!


Instead of also a leech and parasite

Dayenu!


Reliant on unsavory fixers and unprincipled attorneys 

Dayenu!


To avoid the law.

Dayenu


If he were only the king of debt

Dayenu!


And only bankrupted casinos

Dayenu!


Instead of bankrupting the country

Dayenu!


Both fiscally and morally,

Dayenu!


While boasting about the “greatest economy the world has ever known”.

Dayenu


If he had only caused a few deaths on Fifth Avenue

Dayenu!


Instead of contributing to tens of thousands of deaths across the land

Dayenu!


While taking no responsibility for his actions or lack thereof,

Dayenu!


And not even having the decency to express regret.

Dayenu!


If he really cared about anyone besides himself

Dayenu!


And didn’t exploit the most vulnerable,

Dayenu!


Instead of being a cheap con artist,

Dayenu!


Corrupt politician, reality TV host,

Dayenu!


And general plague on society,

Dayenu!


If he didn’t stiff his contractors,

Dayenu!


Use “charities’ as scams,

Dayenu!


To avoid paying taxes, and cheat others

Dayenu!


Who played by the rules,

Dayenu!


And had done him no wrong.

Dayenu!


And if he didn’t use the Attorney General of the United States as his personal attorney,

Dayenu!


Stack courts with judges who enabled his corrupt ways,

Dayenu!


And if he didn’t stoke hatred and discord every day,

Dayenu!


And didn’t use the Legislative branch of government

Dayenu!


To hide his corrupt deeds and crimes from public view,

Dayenu!


And shield himself from legal consequences

Dayenu!


If he didn’t trash science

Dayenu!


Trash the planet,

Dayenu!


Had a shred of decency

Dayenu!


And didn’t ignore the warnings,

Dayenu!


Wasn’t an insult to decency itself,

Dayenu!


And believed in democracy and justice,

Dayenu!


Instead of actively suppressing the vote

Dayenu!


Undermining the election 

Dayenu!


And trying to steal what he couldn’t subvert,

Dayenu!


While accusing others of his own dastardly schemes,

Dayenu!


If he believed in a free press

Dayenu!


Instead of propaganda outlets

Dayenu!


Staffed by flunkeys trained in the art of distraction,

Dayenu!


Singing his praises,

Dayenu!


Promoting fake news and conspiracy theories,

Dayenu!


To avoid revealing the truth,

Dayenu!


If he didn’t believe he was above the law,

Dayenu!


And was merely Putin’s puppet,

Dayenu!


Instead of also being such a pig

Dayenu!


And poor excuse for a human being,

It would have been enough!!


Day Dayenu, Day Dayenu, Day Dayenu, Dayenu, Dayenu!

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2 commentaires


ptoomey
a day ago

We owe an enormous debt to Samuel Alito. Were it not for his Dobbs opinion, Dems would've never held the margins down in 2022 and they'd be in deep s**t now.


Roberts tried to get the Fab 5 join his opinion upholding the MS statute at issue in Dobbs while not expressly overturning Roe/Casey. Thankfully, the Fab 5 ignored Roberts.


The resulting threat to reproductive rights has fueled the donkey for 2 straight cycles now.

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hiwatt11
a day ago

Not surprised to see the guestcrapper even interjecting his sociopathic criticism (or worse) about someone else's prayers and faith but thank you Princes Ozma for reposting this so many years later. I remember the first time you posted it and I was moved by it. It's sad that it's even more relevant now.

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