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Tag Archives: Politics
FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Senator ROB Portman “The GRINCH” Putting The ROB in Christmas
This free political poster is inspired by the pathetic and horrific tax cuts for the rich that congressional Republicans are pushing like crack for the wealthy this Christmas season. The Senate Republican bill even includes a repeal of the individual … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, News, Political Action
Tagged Christmas, Citizens, Debt, Economy, Equality, Fear, free poster, Free Posters, God, Grace, Greed, Grinch, Health Care, Health Insurance, Holy, Hope, Income, Love, Money, Obama, Outrage, Parity or Parody, Political, Politics, Poor, Republican, Revolution, Rich, Satire, Sen. Rob Portman, taxes, Toledo, Voters
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POSTER: Partisan Man – Senator Rob Portman – Mitch McConnell Made Me Do It!
This free poster is another installment in my “Parity or Parody in Democracy” series. This poster features Sen. Rob Portman as Partisan Man, yet another white man. This political cartoon was inspired by Sen. Portman, white man among white men, … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Health, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cartoon, Democracy, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, Health Care, Parity or Parody, Partisan, Partisanship, Political, Politics, Poor, President, Reconciliation, Republican, Sen. Rob Portman, Time
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CLIMATE CHANGE POEM: Donald Trump Has Gone Buggy
Donald Trump has gone buggy As in big ass hoarse drawn carriage Making hay and whips With great industry As unbelievable As nuclear-powered Amish A trial balloon Only to be led By nothing butt A horse’s ass Here is another … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Change, Climate Change, Donald Trump, Environment, Environmental, Poems, Poetry, Politics, President, Short Poems
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Democracy Day : 5 Minutes of Democracy
Today is Democracy Day, mandated by a people’s resolution to Toledo City Council, spearheaded by Toledo Move To Amend, declaring that corporations are not people and money is not free speech. Today’s forum in Toledo City Council chambers, albeit with … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged budgets, Citizens, Commercial, Democracy, Family, Free Speech, Gift, government, Heart, Love, Mind, Money, Move to Amend, Oligarchy, Play, Plutocracy, Political, Politics, Power, ProMedica, Sacred, Silence, Sleep, Time, Toledo, Trust
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POLITICAL POEM: Fighting Exclusively
It was his thing Fighting exclusively Battles he could win His crowning I deal Never finding himself On-the-cide of losers Whirled why’d Naught ails But win Filling his sales Whatever He could bye A captain of destiny In habiting the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Absolute Security, Amorality, Awe, Business, Capitalism, Change, Character, Culture, Democracy, Donald Trump, Dreams, Equality, Ethical, Ethics, Greed, Heart, Helplessness, Hope, Human Rights, Ideals, Justice, Loss, Megalomania, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, President, Privilege, Sacred, Security, skin in the game, Sociopathy, Solidarity, Status, Success, Suffering, Truth, Values
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POLITICAL POEM: The Bus of Times, The Worst of Times
His political career Hung in the balance Throw a certain number under the bus Or see bus production drop precipitously This short poem recognizes a brutal utilitarianism in politics, which is present at most any level. Using people as means … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Balance, Business, Capitalism, Economic, Economy, Efficiency, Human Rights, Humanity, Impersonal, Meaning, Modern, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Present, Radical, Relationships, Religion, Respect, Sacred, Short Poems, Time
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POEM: Of Coarseness
Don’t put won over me F every won Flunk sexism Flunk racism Flunk classism Flunk nationalism And sow on And sow on In effability Of coarse They say Vulgarity vulgarity Every ware I look In just US The capital of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Alienation, Awareness, Awe, Capitalism, Classism, Crude, Employment, Experience, Farce, Injustice, Law, Life, Morality, Nationalism, Poems, Poet, Poetry, Politics, Power, Privilege, Propriety, Racism, Sacred, Sexism, Society, Status, Superficial, Surreal, Tao, Virtue
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Managed Democracy And The Illusion Of Politics
This article pretty much sums it up. Managing the air, apparent electorate, and the “for most” illusion of politics. Great contribution from The African American Intellectual History Society, Managed Democracy And The Illusion Of Politics: Now that another sordid election … Continue reading
Posted in Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged African American, America, Business, Capitalism, Change, Control, Crises, Democracy, Elite, Facts, Heart, History, Humanity, Inequality, Integrity, Meaning, Media, Mind, Police, Political, Politics, Power, Questions, Reconciliation, Republican, Revolution, Society, State, Terrorism, Truth, Virtue, War
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ACTIVIST POEM: Our Ayes Will Have It
She had Enough Of half-baked politicians She kneaded democracy Here and now As the yeast she could do Sounding off To those who might Listen Wee choir not A grand stand To lift every voice and sing Wringing well The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Change, Death, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Faith, Fear, God, Greed, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Minorities, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Present, Privilege, Reactionary, Work
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Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
If you want to make sense of the failure of neoliberalism, as typified by Hillary Clinton, and its vomiting up of proto-fascist leaders like Donald Trump, then author and journalist Chris Hedges nails it again, in this piece, Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Advertising, Authoritarian, Bernie Sanders, Capitalism, Children, Christian, Citizens, Commercial, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Conundrum, Cruelty, Culture, Cynical, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Economic, Elite, Enemies, Failure, Fascism, Heaven, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Hypermasculinity, Hypocritical, Identity, Ideology, Integrity, Justice, Liberal, Misogyny, Mitt Romney, Moral, Narcissism, National, Nazi, Neoliberalism, Police, Political, Politics, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Rage, Reality, Religious, Republican, Rhetoric, Security, State, Superficial, Trust, Truth, Violence, War, Women
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POLITICAL POEM: Buy Partisan Ship
If you knot for me You agin Me Oh my They would halve US Believe In a New York minute Weather 60 second ads Or master debating in public For ours To won party Or buy partisan ship That teeming … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awareness, Change, Children, Conflict, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Counter-Cultural, Enlightenment, Evolution, Freedom, God, Hubris, Humanity, Identity, Injustice, Intersectionality, Jesus, Job, Justice, Life, Love, Mock, National, Nationalism, Partisan, Partisanship, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, Radical, Republican, Solidarity, Spiritual, Status, Status Quo, Trust, Unity, Violence, Wisdom
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THIRD PARTY POEM: A Door Number Three
A Door Number Three Caught a mist The cross Fire Between partisan streams Shooting for number won Too put out In A narrow mined field Wear white is anti-black And black is nonwhite So fanatical about your stripes Yet no … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Business, Celebrity, Choices, Citizens, Control, Cynicism, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Dreams, Elite, Exceptionalism, Failure, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Hope, Humanity, leadership, National, Oligarchy, Partisan, Plutocracy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Power, Powers that be, President, Privilege, Reality, Republican, Resistance, Revolution, Status, Status Quo, Surreal, Sustainable, Third Party, Time, Wealth, Worship
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POEM: Gone, For Good
He is gone For good A martyr defined Not buy his death Rather buy living Not confined by what is left Rather liberated by what is right That singular question What heir will you breath After being Punched in the … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Death, Experience, Inspiration, Life, Love, Martyr, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Possibility, Transcendence
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POEM: Pâté Time Is Soon Over
She re-lied Over And over Up on safety in numbers A calculating codeness Betraying her art Sow low and be holed In common denominations A loan in security As helled together Buy fences And dam banks A laundering cache Never … Continue reading
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION POEM: Mad ’em Presidents
Knowing either jack or Jill Raze your Stein As Donald Trump sucks The “Oh too” out of the room Plenty of space In the huge check Box Of which to think out of Beyond first lady and commander-in-chief Paid in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Choices, Crises, Democracy, Democrat, Donald Trump, Fear, Feminist, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, Jill Stein, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, President, Progress, Republican, State, Surreal, Third Party, Top Pun, Values, Voters, Voting, Women
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Anti-Trump AND Anti-Hillary: What’s a Voter To Do?
Anti-Trump AND anti-Hillary: What’s a voter to do? This seems to be an endemic quandary in the current presidential campaign. I have my own views, which I have blogged, ranted and wrote poems about. My views are considered too radical … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Apathy, Argument, Ballot, Change, Choices, Crazy, Democracy, Donald Trump, Elections, Ethical, Evil, Hillary Clinton, Intellect, Logic, Moral, Philosophy, Poems, Political, Politics, Power, President, Radical, Respect, Revolution, Third Party, Top Pun, Voters, Voting
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Anti-Trump, Anti-Hillary FREE POSTER: Newsflash — Stockholm Syndrome Renamed Washington Syndrome, Voters Held Hostage
This free Anti-Trump, Anti-Hillary poster announces the sad, traumatic news: NEWSFLASH — Stockholm Syndrome Renamed Washington Syndrome. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are the presidential candidates with the highest negative ratings in modern U.S. history. Voters are held hostage in an … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, anti-Trump, Compromise, Democracy, Donald Trump, Economic, Empathy, Envy, Evolution, free poster, Green Party, Hillary Clinton, History, Human Rights, Jill Stein, Kindness, Modern, Political, Politics, President, Progress, Rationalization, Resistance, Revolution, Risk, Time, Top Pun, Values, Voters
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REAL POLITICS, REAL CANDIDATE: Jill Stein 2016 Platform
IF you want a progressive presidential candidate that you can get excited about voting FOR, then Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate is worth serious consideration. Jill Stein has selected her Green Party running mate, Vice President choice, Ajamu Baraka. … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authority, Ballot, Business, Capitalism, Change, China, Choices, Citizens, Citizenship, Climate Change, Commercial, Community, Congress, Constitutional Rights, Control, Corporate Personhood, Courage, Creation, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Culture, Death, Death Penalty, Debt, Defense, Democracy, Democrat, Disarmament, Discrimination, Disease, Diversity, Doctrine, drone, Economic, Economy, Education, Elections, Employment, Environment, Environmental, Equality, Family, Fear, Food, Free Speech, Free Trade, Freedom, Future, Gender, government, Green Party, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Housing, Human Rights, Humanity, Immigration, Income, Israel, Jill Stein, Job, Jobs, Justice, Kids, Labor, Law, Learning, LGBT, Life, Living Wage, Meaning, Media, Medicare, Medicare for All, Mental Health, Military, Money, Mother Earth, National, NATO, Nonviolent, Nuclear Power, Nutrition, Obama, Palestine, Partisan, Patriot, Police, Police Brutality, Political, Politics, Pollution, Poor, Poverty, Power, President, Prevention, Prison, Progress, Public Health, Racism, Rage, Refugees, Religion, Responsibility, Rich, Russia, Security, Social Security, State, Status, Substance Abuse, Sustainable, Tar Sands, taxes, Terrorism, Violence, Voters, Voting, Wall Street, War, Wealth, Women, Work, Workplace
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Comedian Jesus: Any TRUMP? NO, Go Fish, I’m Not Playing That Game
This Comedian Jesus cartoon combines the contemporary unwanted news cycle of Donald Trump with the timeless question of: Precisely what game are you playing? This Comedian Jesus cartoon is an inspired hybrid of a pun on “Trump,” and my poem, … Continue reading
Posted in News, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings, Political Cartoons
Tagged America, Cartoon, Change, Courage, Cynicism, Disenfranchised, Donald Trump, Elite, Equality, Exceptionalism, Fear, Hillary Clinton, Human Rights, Humanity, Jesus, Play, Politics, Privilege, Propaganda, Reality, Respect, Solidarity, Time, timeless question, Transcendent, Truth, Values
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