Porky

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This is the age of the porky;

This is the age of the lie.

Big men who wield power

No longer even try

To utter one word

Which might just be true.

They know they don’t need to;

They’re laughing at you.

 

They’re laughing at you

Because you lap it up,

As if you read tea leaves

In their plastic cup.

They make up the numbers,

They make up the quotes,

They’re act like musicians

Who won’t play the notes.

 

But none of this matters

If black becomes white,

And checking the facts

Is seen to be spite.

How many fingers

Do I hold up, please?

Give me the right answer,

Or get down on your knees.

LiesSpinEconomy with the truth

◄ Johnny Exit

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Thu 15th May 2025 23:16

Correction..............."Island of Strangers".

"No Man is an Island", eh, Mr. Genocide!

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Wed 14th May 2025 09:21

You forgot Starmer, Stephen; they're all birds of a feather.
The UK electorate have consistently been fed a diet of porky pies, up to and after his election, on virtually every single issue.
Porkies helped bring the Tories down; now Starmer’s outdoing them, not a ciggy (or should that be piggy?) paper’s difference between ‘em - never has been.

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Stephen Gospage

Wed 14th May 2025 08:42

Thank you, Uilleam.I tried to use a silly, child-like rhyme to make a serious point. It's a question of degree, I think. The regimes of Putin and Trump lie as a matter of routine, so that no one now expects them to tell the truth.
Spin and bending the truth to one's advantage are a part of normal democratic politics. What is important is that we have an open society with sufficient checks and balances to call out misinformation and hold people to account. From this point of view, what is happening in the US today is truly alarming.

Thanks to Yanma for liking this.

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Tue 13th May 2025 23:47

They're laughing at us because their propaganda's "Ideology of Fear" plays on our prejudices, it actually works.

We should fear the black man having "the Whip Hand", in Enoch Powell's "Rivers of Blood" speech;
We should fear UKIP / Reform's "Men of fighting age in small boats";
and now Starmer, who's trying to outdo the lot of them, wants us to fear a "Nation of Strangers"! (I've not spoken to my next-door neighbour for months, I'd better check my doors and windows.😕)

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