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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.” Bertrand Russell
Making Waffle
The hubris riddled party hack
wandered the vaulted halls as
if he owned them,
sniffing at intrusions,
throwing disdain at the press,
ignoring widows and orphans,
hating on foreigners,
making excuses for the inexcusable,
and feathering his nested future,
waffling to a groaning sundry
of his pointless achievements,
to the point that he was anaesthetic,
and ended in a jam.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
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Sorry to say, I can’t tell if whose ego-driven country authoritarian you are talking about: North Korea, US, Russia or Australia?
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Well it is for all really, it would be a shorter list of who doesn’t fit this description 😦
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Sad but true.
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Agreed. Hoping by tomorrow it will change for the better.
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Indeed!
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Yes.
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My money’s on floppy hair for acting stupid; the orange one doesn’t need to act. Good one, Paul!
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He is a self-proclaimed stable genius.
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Nothing like self-proclaimed 🙂
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Ours thinks he’s brilliant, yawn, seems everyone has got one. Many thanks Chris.
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Why are these characteristics of all current leaders
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The barrel is low.
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Agreed. With you and Russell… 🙂
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That quote made me laugh.
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It made me laugh, too.
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Sure is good.
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🙂
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Tis a goodun. Russell was a real wit, and so right.
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Worth re reading instead of watching Question Time.
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Thank you so much, yes, question time has become such a misery.
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Such a mess.
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There’s not too many places to run to.
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No. There are not. Can’t imagine where it is all leading.
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No, trying not to prefigure that as that will only be negative I feel, waiting for a miracle.
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Boom! Direct hit.
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Thank you Liz, not hard to hit though, it’s all so blatant.
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I suppose you’re right, there.
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Sadly
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Oops looks like a global truth 😀
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It is, wish it weren’t so, but there it is.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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🙂
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Very true
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🙂
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