1-43 White (1789 – 2008) 219 years
44 Black (2008 – 2016) 8 years
45 Orange (2016 – 2020) 4 years
46 Rainbow (2020 – ?)
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Go Pete go
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If for nothing else
Nothing else at all
At least
The guy can speak
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So yes, it is out of
Pure self interest
That my ears will
Quit bleeding plus
Dry up the tears my
Soul’s been weeping
Ok, that might be a
Little exaggerated
But you get the picture
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“It is what makes it scary when you think how old most of the people who run this f@#! %g country are.
There’s a minimum age to be the president, there should be a maximum age to be the president as well.
I wouldn’t mind having a 25 year old president. Sh!# would be weird, but it would at least go forward.
– Doug Stanhope
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Mayor Pete 38 (close enough)
Let’s move forward
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Not exactly a
Resounding reassuring
Campaign slogan
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“Vote for Pete”
“He can speak”
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However given the current
Leadership degradation of
Morality, decency, diplomacy
Not using the office for personal gain
It is at least one step above
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” Any Functioning Adult “
” 2020 “
Broadcast into your living room
Or the satellite radio in your car
Well placed words mining the mind
Like a carrot on the proverbial stick
Down a dark yet primrose path
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Constant and consistent
Pervasive and persuasive
Detrimental and disturbing
Suspenseful and suspending
Rationale and reasoning
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Like an electronic crying of wolf
That we should simply ignore
No matter how often we check
The danger simply does not exist
Lest we be the slaughtered sheep
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Cliffhangers meant to keep people
Focused on the distraction
Instead of guiding them
To their birthright divinity as
Evolutionary sublime experts
When you are a kid
That is where
You are put
As an adult
That is where
I wish I was put
Enjoying the
Laughter and creativity
Fun and spontaneity
Inhibition with regularity
Instead of hearing
Medical maladies
Political tragedies
Workplace woes
Can’t touch your toes
Alzheimers uhm (forgot)
Still better yet to
Get a much longer table
Remind the elders of
What they were able
Eat quietly while dining
Absorb the lights shining
From young-uns smiling
Without life deciphering
To an intended audience of one
Along with 45’s cult (base)
Not only do I want
To hear both sides
I want to know
The inside and
The outside
But nooooooo
Like our
Alleged democracy
There is only
Left or right
Right or wrong
Allies or enemies
Masculine or feminine
Chaos or catastrophe
Up or down
When the sphere
We are on
Of which we are
Its spawn
Has none of that
No matter
The direction
We are headed
It follows a line
Back to ourselves
The narrow casting
Is getting more focused
Only to discover we’ve
Been hocus-pocused
Into a singularity of thought
Whether doing the dial dance
Or pressing the programmed presets
Always looking for balance
Nuanced perspectives
That hopefully enlighten and inform
But noooooo, that’s not happening
Merely opinions based on conjecture
Forecasts foisted in fear of facts
Malignancy instead of mindfulness
Shouting as opposed to searching
Noticing that one side (fox) isn’t
Any better than the other side (msnbc)
Both gearing their material for their
Audience as a way to keep them both
In concentric instead of connected circles
Meanwhile selling the same products
Between well scripted dialogue
Saturated in subtle suspense
Fooling the viewers / listeners
That what is coming up next
Absolutely can not be missed
Accomplishing the same goal
Hooking one in make purchases
Wasting the earth’s resources
Hocking (intangible) tangibles
(A better night’s sleep) aka new beds / sheets
(Safety and security) home video surveillance
(Magic money) suing pharmaceuticals
After profiting enormously to have
Enough left over for the talking heads
At least one side got their employees
Seemingly from broadcast schools
The other from schools of shouting
Just a reminder for “shouting” Sean Hannity
Shouting will not
Propagate a truth
From a lie
No matter how loud
Or how many
Times it’s repeated
We are all criminally complicit
Whether detractors or defenders
Kneeling at the alter of consumption
It continues because it works
Honing new skills each administration
Hunkered down in a den of iniquity
Why? Cause you can’t fight city hall
We’ve given away our power to the thems
With no clear way to take it back
Save some internal revolution
That transcends external authority
Guided by love, laughter and truth
Instead of the cruel rule of law
That adheres neither to rules or law
Merely the whims of the enforcers
@ Home
On a -“brand-“ named
Stationary bike *
Under the watchful
Telescreen voice
Instructing one
To move faster
Work harder etc….
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Winston Smith
Heard the following
‘Thirty to forty group!’ yapped a piercing female voice. ‘Thirty to forty group! Take your places, please. Thirties to forties!’
Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.
‘Arms bending and stretching!’ she rapped out. ‘Take your time by me. One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! Come on, comrades, put a bit of life into it! One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! …’
– “1984”
– George Orwell
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Who knew so many people
Would unintentionally invite
Their Big Brother into their home
For a simple $2,300 down and
A $40.00 monthly “maintenance” fee
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“Orwell’s fictional society is one of absolute subservience to the will of the Party. The Physical Jerks are but one component of the Party’s strategy for total control.”
– enotes.com
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You have no doubt, heard the ads
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* The hyperbolically
Relentlessly promoted
Exercise equipment
That at anyone’s worst guess
Has about maybe
$ 100 worth of materials
$ 200 worth of robotic manufacturing
$ 225 worth of shipping and handling
$ 75 per unit advertising expense
$ 2,300
– $ 600
= $ 1,700
Whole lotta profit
For a modern day coat rack
Seeing how 45’s behavior at the
National prayer breakfast is
The metaphorical equivalent
Of him preforming an abortion
At a pro-life rally
Right after Arthur Brooks suggest that the audience of one or many, do what Jesus did, and “love your enemies”, even if you have to fake it. But noooo.
That is not in 45’s “Christian” playbook.
Of which of the two
To save your daughter
Or send the other one
Off to certain slaughter
Like a day in the life
Occupied by stress and strife
Like the TV series “24” plot/s
Close to reality it’s not
Filled with anxiety derisions
Benign and dull decisions
Are given the life and death
Importance of life and death
Crafting concrete conclusions
From malleable opinions
Building reinforced mind prisons
Worse yet malignant moles
Churning out convincing polls
Constantly modifying your role
Focused hyperbolic intensity
Over and again leads to insanity
Only expediting soul’s depravity
Presented with useless options
With little or no corroborations
Ingested rhetoric regurgitations
Amazing what they’ll conceive
Repeated again until you believe
By those best equipped to deceive
Easily frightened again and again
By changing the face of bogeymen
Spooked either by a tion or an ism
Scared by immigration and socialism
Not by violence or destruction
Accepting deaths and corruption
Always following wrong instructions
Choices you think you have to make
By talking heads on the take
Are they real or are they fake
Best to ignore for heaven’s sake
Where as just going about your day
It’d be peaceful w/o emotional sway
Just listen to your inner voice
Realize there’s no Sophie’s choice
Please use literally and figuratively in two sentences, giving example meanings of both.
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Nancy Pelosi literally tore up a government document which could land her in prison for three years.
Likewise 45 has been figuratively tearing up the constitution (a government document) since he entered office, which could land him in the White House for another four years.
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Nailed it.
For bailing on 45’s SOTU Speech
“Should” have been any time anyone
Heard a provable lie / falsehood
They could’ve immediately got up &
Left the room in an orderly manner
It would have looked like something
Triggered a silent fire alarm
Of course the Republicans would
Have to have been hooked up to
Cattle prods and electric collars
For the person they despised in ’15/’16
Is now their de facto saviour
Because they have jobs to keep
Though their job is to perform
For an audience of one otherwise
Closeted skeletons will be revealed
Looking at the world through a windshield. 