If at First You Don’t Succeed Try Again?
The Supreme leader and most of his clan met a violent demise
But the regime remains even nastier shouldered by nepo baby who lives witnessing yet another sunrise
Didn’t someone promise to perpetually escape the Middle East quagmire
Well that election promise certainly encountered a flat tire
But will it draw MAGA electoral ire?
Robert K. Stephen
Galen Weston Jr. Did You Forget About Kraft Dinner?
What family wealth estimated at 9 billion
With all this inflation heartfelt thanks for your “concern” freezing prices on Loblaws house brands showing concern for Canadian’s COVID induced ill financial health
But please at Loblaws and your subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart $2.99 for a box of Kraft Dinner
And $4.39 for four at competitor Metro makes you kind of a sinner
I am shopping at Metro instead of Loblaws and Shoppers just to show you I am a winner!
Sorry to make your profits a bit thinner!
Robert K. Stephen
The Social Relevance and Contribution to Society by the Kardashian Clan
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Robert K. Stephen
“She suddenly remembered that hectic party and the first glimpse she had of Nicholas, looking miserable because old Mme Essini was talking to him t very close quarters and giggling girlishly. Nicolas was pressed up against the bar, with no hope of escape. The scene had amused her at first, then she had looked at Nicholas with increasing interest and cynical speculation. These cocktail parties were like horse fairs or cattle shows. One almost expected to see mature ladies lifting the young men’s upper lips to examine their teeth.”
Françoise Sagan, “The Gigolo”, 1975.
“Not that she respected him more than the others: she kept him completely, dressed him, gave him expensive presents which he didn’t throw back in her face. He never went in for those stupid, boorish ploys the others indulged in, those sulky moods when they wanted something or felt they were the injured party in the bargain stuck between their bodies and her money-that was it, really, they felt hard done by. They would get her to buy them all manner of expensive trinkets which they didn’t even want, simply in order to restore their self-esteem. The word esteem made her laugh inwardly. It was none the less the only word for it.”
Françoise Sagan, “The Gigolo”, 1975.
“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage-torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral character when it is committed by “our” side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”, 1945.
“As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit. It is difficult if not impossible for any nationalist to conceal his allegiance. The smallest slur upon his own unit, or any implied praise of a rival organization, fills him with uneasiness which he can only relieve by making some sharp retort.
All nationalists consider it a duty to spread their own language to the detriment of rival languages…..”
George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”, 1945.
Somewhere in the Amazonian Basin
Nine-hundred-dollar shoes
Certainly not from factory 961in the PRC
Adorn the religious spreader
Words as thick as peanut butter
Sticky
Difficult for the anyone to digest
Bring God to the dispossessed Amazonian indigenous in some squalid drug and crime ridden town
The great resurrection of Elmer Gantry
Gathering souls in the Christian pantry
Hot breathed babblers
Exploiting and “saving” the miserable
A Joan of Arc messianic mission to oust the devil into retreat
A Veritable Billy Graham feat!
Robert K. Stephen
“By “patriotism” I mean a devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best place in the world but has no wish to force upon other people. Patriotism by its very nature is defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality.”
George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism”, 1945.
“At the international level sport is frankly mimic warfare but the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators and behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe-at any rate for short periods- that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.”
George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism-The Sporting Spirit)”, 1945.
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