PHOTO PROMPT- Copyright – Jan Wayne Fields
POLITICAL GAMES FOR POLITICAL GAINS
He said
She said
They both lied
Deleted emails
Mexican wall
Polarised positions
Confrontation, not co-operation
Donald hates Muslims
Hillary loves photo-ops
Gunfire in the streets
Politicians in public washrooms
Clinton’s no lady
Trump’s an egomaniac
NRA and oil pipelines
Freedom and fairness
sacrificed to political expedience
Democracy’s dilemma decision
between bad and worse
No ‘leaders’, only selfish pedagogues
No discussion, only entrenched positions
Nobody’s right, when everybody’s wrong
Aching ears from raddled rhetoric
Public apathy – or anger
Drip….drip….drip
Make it stop
Please, make it stop!
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Does Lady Liberty look like She’s hitchhiking?? Her tablet reads “Canada – or Bust” 😳
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You can click on ‘Nobody’s right,’ above, to hear The Buffalo Springfield, from 1967, tell you how nothing really has changed, except maybe got a little worse.
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Yes, she may indeed be hitchhiking! 😄
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There’s no hope of staying and becoming the next Mrs. Trump. Like Cher, he likes them younger and younger. The next one will be a fetus. 😉 😯
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When I saw the underlined text, I thought: “I hope that’s a link to “For What It’s Worth” – thanks.
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I put that line in, and then realized/remembered where it came from, and couldn’t resist the link. Glad you liked it. 🙂
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For American voters a choice between bad and worse is something they can only hope for. In this case it’s a choice between worse and OMG.
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Just hold your nose and vote, and then hope for the best. 😯
Progress will be defined by how much more slowly we’re losing ground. 😳
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Aching ears from raddled rhetoric
This line pretty much says it all.
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No more great speeches like FDR’s ‘We have nothing to fear’, or JFK’s ‘Ask not what you can do.’ More like Charlie Brown’s teacher, ‘Waah, waah, waah.’
This is going to be the looonggesst summer; and the election is still four months away. 😦
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Every four years, we pick the least-worst candidate. Sorry about that unsightly spill-over.
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Oh! I thought those were Comedy Channel Specials. I keep expecting Ashton Kutcher to rip off the rubber Trump face and fake hair and yell, “America, you bin punk’d!” Never mind. 😉 😯
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From the other side of The Pond, where we have our own political mish-mash, your words resonate.
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Oh dear, yes. You folks are having your own version of ‘fun.’ Any who wish to row across, should do so without delay. We expect quite an influx of those who’ve heard The Final Trump soon. 😯
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A clear message, well said.
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It’s like the optimist who fell off the observation deck of the Empire State building. People at open windows, all the way down, heard him say, “Okay so far. Okay so far.” It will be a long fall, and a nasty bump at the bottom. 😯
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Dear Archon,
I didn’t need the link to Buffalo Springfield.Now I’m humming. Well said.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Next time, perhaps I could have Tevye get you humming, “If I were a rich man.” 😀
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I almost wanted to sing Johnny Cash’s I’ve Been Everywhere to this thing. I was a toddler when Buffalo-Springfield came out, almost in kindergarten and I didn’t have older siblings, so …
This was really good, Archon. I enjoyed the 60’s type feel.
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Thanx, but I’m into my 70s now. 😉
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🙂
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