Socialism
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Masked as democracy
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Satiating an ideal cloaked in delusion
By using a bogeyman word that frightens
With just four syllables and no thought
That it is occurring right under their noses
Demonizing something misunderstood
Which is easier than opening eyes, minds
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When the government bails out
Auto manufacturers
That is socialism
When the government bails out
The banks
That is socialism
When the government bails out
Insurance companies
That is socialism
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When the government
Sustains the military industrial complex
By building and never using the products
(Products, a euphemism for wmd’s)
For the simple sake to keep people busy
To have money to spend, taxes to pay
That is socialism
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When the government
Sustains an unnecessary standing army
That is socialism
When the government
Frees corporations of tax obligations
To build sports stadiums
That is socialism
When the government
Bails out corporate farms due to
Bad international intentional trade wars
That is socialism
When the government
Passes discriminatory laws that
Purposefully fill “For Profit Prisons”
That is socialism
When the government uses the media
To disseminate its own soap opera of
Keeping eyes glued, sides chosen
Who dunnit, who’s guilty, who cares
With nary a mea culpa or youa culpa
To get you to buy unnecessary products
In a vicious cycle of buying, selling, trying
Returning, consuming, disposing, wasting
Not sharing, breaking and burying
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Sponsored by hyperbolic claims of
If you buy this, injest that, get a faster
One of these, a shinier one of those
Drink a colder beverage, eat a better
Faster, more topping, artery clogging
Cheesier, tastier, heart stopping, hot pizza
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Then you’ll be able to sleep on a better
Mattress, a cooler pillow, in a clean house
With a bigger appendage, a sexier bra
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While your credit cards get maxed out
Causing you to become stressed out
Imbibing enough so you’ll be passed out
That is socialism
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Plus
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When the government
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Wants to save a fetus
But kill a sovereign citizen or
Murder the wrongly accused
Or even the guilty as charged
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That is hypocrisy
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When the government
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Presents the working class with a tax cut
That primarily benefits the wealthy
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That is hypocrisy and theft
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When the government
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Has an alleged leader who averages six
To seven truth misrepresentations a day
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That is charlatanism
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Masquerade!
Every face a different shade…
Masquerade!
Look around –
there’s another
mask behind you!
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Drink it in, drink it up
till you’ve drowned
in the light…
in the sound…
But who can name the face…?
(Of socialism)
“Masquerade”
Phantom Of The Opera
– Andrew Loyd Webber
To the “Theys”
And to
“The Donald”
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“They” say you can’t / won’t change
Till you hit rock bottom
Before you can pick
Your self up and shine
“The Donald”
Is merely accelerating our descent
Into the dark abyss
So we can hit rock bottom sooner
.
Oh wait there is no bottom
In an abyss
Shit
Aaah
. Aaah
. Eeeee
. Helllll
. Llllllp
. Puh
. Leazz
Joe Rogan was right
“We are mold on toast”
Or as Bill Hicks said
“We’re a virus with shoes”
A malignant growth
On a defenseless host
Am myself guilty
For contributing
By default
“Someone created me”
– Doug Stanhope
Yet exonerated
For not accelerating
The spread
“I have no (biological) children”
– Doug Stanhope
However, when
She is ready,
“The planet will shake us off
Like a bad case of fleas,
A surface nuisance.”
So, till then
“Take care of yourself
and take care of somebody else.”
– George Carlin
“Her love rains down on me
as easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing
it sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her,
burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness
the earth was on fire
She could take it back,
She might take it back some day
So I spy on her, I lie to her,
I make promises I cannot keep
Then I hear her laughter rising,
Rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me,
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit
To see if she will break
She might take it back,
She could take it back some day
Now I have seen the warnings,
Screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them and
God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation,
It turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger
Or hear the rising tide
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day
She can take it back,
She will take it back some day”
– Pink Floyd
“Take It Back” from The Division Bell
“No cure for cancer” is the title of a Dennis Leary cd.
Laura Ingraham
And # 45
Do not understand why
NFL Players “take a knee”
There is no “state” paid
Group of people who’s
Main job it is to
“Protect and to serve”
All the people in the
Community regardless
From which a smaller
Faction of that group
Who’s job it is also to
“Protect and to serve”
Take it upon themselves
To discriminate against
A disproportionate number of
Earthlings with ebony epidermis
Because it goes mostly unpunished
And arbitrarily do not do it to
Well to do wealthy whites
Based on their pink pigmentation
To murder and maim them solely
Based on their pink pigmentation
If in the unlikely event that
Were to occur, you can bet
That they would appreciate it
If NHL players “took a knee”
During the National Anthem
To bring attention to their plight
So, before they might be randomly
Harmed in the wrong place and time
The awareness would be raised
Hoping to garner enough attention
That it might be systematically stopped
As “that” discrimination would be “unfair”
Time to put on an
Old pair of shoes
Somebody else’s
And walk their mile
Better yet, get in touch with
That WWJD contemplation
If Jesus would do similar
Before rambling racist rants.
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I like your Christ,
I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so
Unlike your Christ.
(Recently observed bumper sticker).
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“My ayyya, temple should be eea
A house of prayer
But you have made it
A den of thieves”
(walled in with racism, mysogeny, xenophobia, deception and distraction.)
– Ted Neely aka “Jesus Christ”
“Jesus Christ Super Star”
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So instead of Ingraham, Hannity, Carlson, the Donald, all the Faux Friends and their unenlightened minions working towards a solution.
They opt to double down on ignorance, shift the focus on disparaging the military, which “taking a knee” has absolutely nothing to do with it.
So they can pit human beings against each for their own sadistic pleasure or a distraction from their shenanigans.
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“In youth sports, players take a knee when another player is hurt. It is an acknowledgment of the vulnerable humanity that, for the moment, has been obscured by the intense competition of the game. Taking a knee in that context is, like a religious genuflection, a gesture of self-surrender before the greater reality of human suffering.
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Likewise, when black players take a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence against African-Americans, they are making a gesture of pain and distress.
They are putting America in a more honest context — our “Star-Spangled Banner” dimly seen through the mists of deep injury. It is like flying an American flag upside down in a moment of emergency.”
– NY Times
By LEE SIEGEL
September 25, 2017
“We should just make it a little bit more difficult for people with known violent tendencies to be able to get a gun.
And I’m not talking about the cops. No. Not talking about the cops.
I’m saying, let’s make it a little bit more difficult for mentally unstable people with known violent tendencies to be able to get a gun.
And again, I’m not talking about the cops.
If you can go on their Facebook page and see that this guy is a virulent racist, right?
Make it a little more difficult for virulent racists, who are mentally unstable with known violent tendencies to be able to get–
And again, I’m not talking about the cops.
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I think we can all agree that Blue Lives Murder.
Now… Not all of them, not most of them,
But a bunch of em, murder. [scoffs]
They’re murdering us.
Well, not us. We’re white, but….
You know who doesn’t like that bit?
Cops.
They don’t like it. They don’t like it. And I think its important — I’m being sincere.
I think its important that we acknowledge, all of us, that there are plenty of good, decent, ethical, very brave cops, who put their lives on the line every day, and they don’t appreciate being painted with this broad brush as being violent predators just because of the actions of a minority of their brothers.
They don’t like being stereotyped so that when you see blue, you just think “Oh, violent thug.” They don’t appreciate it.”
– David Cross
Unending Sadism of Victimhood
Whaaaa I can’t lead.
My predecessor made it too difficult for me, being I’m an outsider, who promised I wouldn’t golf, or use executive orders.
Tried to coerce our neighbor to the south to say he was going to pay for a wall. Unfortunately couldn’t bait him. So now I have to bully congress into wasting money on something that won’t work.
If they had built it sooner, wouldn’t have had to play chess with those out of the womb grown human embryo pawns.
Plus the person I ran against to get here (oh shit, she lost) it is still her fault for what I have to contend with. Poor me, I’m being investigated and she’s not. NOT FAIR.
Therefore I am just going to simply scrap the constitution, wipe my tears with the flag. Boo hoo, then I’m going to fly around the globe looking for autocrats and dictators who understand me
How long can I sustain this facade of being, so great, so grating on truth’s last nerve. Before I am discovered, caught behind the curtain. Pulling levers, making noise, sending up smoke and scaring everyone, just like the wizard of Oz?
Good thing I am the head muckety-muck miscreant and have my Machiavellian merry mob of malleable misfits.
Who would and will applaud all of my chicanery. Strange noise applause makes, sounds like the bleating of sheep. For I am their SAD flock master.
“‘Cause people want to hear bullshit. Because reality is too #ucking scary. Reality is too scary.
That is why, in this country, if someone just talks slowly……… and clearly……..and confidently. ……., there’s people that will listen. That’s how wacky we are.
That is some leftover monkey shit, that’s what it is, the Alpha, the one that gets to talk” (or Tweet)
– Joe Rogan
Who knew that the cell phone would be the modern day conch to the Lord of the flies?
No gaffes in this administration.
“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.”
– Michael Kinsley
Who knew
That the
Cell phone
Would be
The modern day
Conch
To the
Lord of the flies?
Faux News complaining about the media
Is like those identity protection plans to
Save you from nefarious goings-on on
The “dark web” by sending you to the web
“Hello…..
Is anybody
#ucking
Home???”
– Lewis Black
An out of sequence follow up to
US of H
Unbridled Systems of Hypocrisy
False dignity
And morality
At what “another” country
Does to another country
It’s a shame we don’t see
What our tax dollars at work
Have destroyed and killed
In the name of democracy
A fluid euphemism for
Capitalism and imperialism
Or when less than half the people vote
It becomes the tyranny of the minority
Being aghast that Russia
Had “elected” a KGB leader
When it was not so long ago
That the equivalent happened
In this country under our
Very and varied noses
Right in front of our blind eyes
Below our poorly used brain
It was “okay” for us to “elect”
The counterpart equivalent
From “our” super spy agency
The “head” of the CIA GHWB
Why is it we can see our faults
When projected on to others
Which is how we become aware
Expecting them to change but
When the accuracy is in the mirror
We are either too lazy or too
Righteously defensive to bother
Seems a double standard to me
Would you want Rudy Gulliani to be your attorney?
Hmmm?
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Yes and No.
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If I was guilty? Yes
If I was innocent? No
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Here is the most truthful thing he’s uttered..
.”Nobody can be sure of any thing.”
– Rudy Guilliani
.Well, no shit.
.I do not know if I am the excremental residue of a tick turd, lodged in a pine tree pinecone awaiting the next forest fire. To. obliterate me into a smelly speck of ash drifting into the atmosphere lifted higher and higher riding the heat wave.
Then getting wedged in the rubber seal around the copilot’s window taking full advantage of my confinement to get some much needed rest.
Before air turbulence jolts my slumber to realize I am a third of the way through a four year nightmare, or perhaps a sixth of an eight year night terror.
Realizing the disturbance was caused by a flock of seagulls with strange names like truth, facts, honesty, decency and compassion getting ripped into shreds through the jet turbines.
Causing it to spin out of control into a vertical nose dive, screaming towards the planet……
Catch myself daydreaming at the diesel island fueling my work truck, wiping a gray speck out of my eye, then washing the windshield realizing I listen to too much news.
So yeah, I agree with Rudy.”Nobody can be sure of any thing.”
Right in line with the philosophical contemplation “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”
If there is no special prosecutor to investigate collusion, obstruction, money laundering, conspiracy to work with or be blackmailed by a foreign adversary, did you do anything wrong?
.Yes or Nyet ?
Is not a precept divided along party lines
That’s if you expect people to follow rules
Instead of adhering to moral relativism as
Do what I say, don’t do as I do suggests or
Turning a blind eye to questionable deeds
Done by a questionable leader in question
Acceptable to those with an (R) tagline
Unacceptable if name is followed by a (D)
Those are not variants deciding morality
Had 44 done any thing at all even close to
Similar he’d been impeached immediately
“Waiting” for the “midterms” only allows
The pendulum to continue to swing again
Making it okay for different wrongdoing to
To manifest from the other side but it’s ok
Sufficing an opposing tyranny of a majority
Who would have just finished placating to
The Tyranny of a minority…..Captain # 45
Just because he opted to be an (R) and
Hanging on to the economic coattails
So they too can remain in pseudo power
Knowingly led by Captain # 44 previously
That had been tanked by Captain # 43
And his quieter money and power grab
It is time to stop the pendulum from
Swinging to either side long enough for
Both sides to stop and find their center
Where everyone can meet in the middle
Find common ground getting grounded.
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“It’s just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love.
The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.
Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
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– Bill Hicks
Looking at the world through a windshield. 