Tom Toles for February 18, 2020

Not sure if it’s so much a kleptocracy as a kakistocracy. Though, if the discussion actually gets to this point, we’re already in deep poo.

Bernie Won’t Adapt – {4 beats/line}

Weak-kneed pussycats cringe and “adapt”

when money-backed pols on us People have cr*pped, -

- but Progressives like Bernie instead are apt

to have the Plutocrats’ bank-accounts tapped

to pay their fair share // for the wear-and-tear

which their profit-fixation // has cost our nation.

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“Some Crazy ‘-Cracy’ Terms”

Even with grim effort of flunkies like Barr,

We are not the greatest Kleptocracy by far.

Foreign despots have ruled thus from ages ago.

The U.S. still has therefore a long way to go.

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A blend of “-cracy’s” is what our country’s become;

Those who think else-wise are either foolish or numb.

A smorgasbord of weird word foods here is thus served,

But by no means all that can be widely observed.

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Ostrichocracy and Sheepocracy are in a class

With Lemmingcracy and Asinocracy (by a—).

Webocracy and Foxocracy — not by spiders and foxes —

Unless you put bloggers and pundits in similar boxes.

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Mediaocracy is a term with sort of two meanings,

Theocracy and Evangelocracy have similar leanings.

Poor Democracy gets hardly any respect at-all,

From philosophers going back to Aristo-tle.

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I see this theme is more than one short rhyme can spew,

So it’s now cut short, further lines I eschew —

Except: Demonocracy is what we’ll have in this nation

If the Pandemonium White House is an indication.

The 0.1% do not care what it is called as long as it does not affect anything they want or need to be done for them.

SOME OF US have noticed and are fighting against trump and his crime cartel!

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Dark Unconscious – {4-3-4-3 beats}

A “dark unconscious” The Donald taps,

in the minds of his Hitleresque troops

who menace and march while America naps

as if we were nincompoops.

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Ken Burns about Trump: https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/documentarian-ken-burns-warned-trumps-rise-would-be-hitler-esque-heres-what-else-he-predicted/

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“Greatest” is used here in the sense of “largest.”

Where does one go when there’s nowhere to run to; nowhere to hide?

…and he keeps on fracking, strip mining, destroying national parks, lands, oceans, rivers, water supplies, environment, etc etc etc…..a train wreck that can’t be stopped….unless we unite and V O T E !

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Words which Rhyme with “Crass” – {limerick}

This Prez is loutish and crass,

and in Speeches he brays like a nass, -

- but don’t Give ‘im no sass

that ‘e Ain’t got no class,

lest ‘is Fury ag’inst you amass.

… Coda: – {2 beats/phrase}

Your a*s is grass // and Trump is the mower

who o’er you will pass // with a vengeful roar.

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Vicious anti-Constitution Republicans have become stupid lying thieves who are ramping up all the earth destroying programs the people took 50 years to create. They are selling our public lands and elections to foreigners, they have turned their backs on the promise of America.

Speaking of kleptocracy and sand, the world’s beaches are becoming seriously depleted of sand as it is taken away for industrial use.

Bonespurs and his crew need to adapt to life in an island paradise, Guantanamo.

Not much we can do with this shit poke nation.

Can’t quite tell if he’s aiming for ostrich or worm.

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Thorn in our Flesh – {limerick}

While Donald toots his own horn,

we cringe: – in our flesh he’s a thorn.

He’s an object of scorn.

We’re hopeless, forlorn.

He’s a burden we’ve reluctantly borne.

… Coda: – {4 beats/line}

Of patience with Trump, quite out we’ve been worn,

so Let’s give him back to the queens of porn.

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We’re Biting the Bullet – {4 beats/line}

The Trumpites post postings so vapidly trite

that they shed more shadow than illumining light

on America’s plight // re our Trumpism blight, -

- re The Donald’s causing us the bullet to bite.

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Was it ever really a Democracy?