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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 22h

Johnson’s meant
To represent
The people—me and you

But all his lies
No big surprise
Speak just to you-know-who

He bends the knee
He flees DC
It’s all one big charade

And while we sweat
Our rising debt
Guess what? He still gets paid

#governmentshutdown #mikejohnson

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 6d

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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 6d

Trump got right to work
Tearing down the East Wing
And the pay-for-play perk
Went to friends of the king

Now the ballroom he sold
Is a cinch to describe
The room’s garbage, not gold
Cause it’s just one fat bribe

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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 6d

Trump got right to work
Tearing down the #EastWing
And the pay-for-play perk
Went to friends of the king

Now the ballroom he sold
Is a cinch to describe
The room’s garbage, not gold
Cause it’s just one fat bribe

#peopleshouse

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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 7d

Trump’s suing the government
So I just heard
Which is far from absurd
When all boundaries are blurred

He wants one quarter billion
Because in a word
He’s not yet a jailbird
Also: #bitcoin preferred

#230M #ethics #DOJ

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 8d

The people are hungry
So let them eat cake
Trump could care less cause he’s
Got a #ballroom to make

While the government pauses
He tears down our house
Proud of the pain he causes
That cheap waltzing louse

#governmentshutdown #whitehouseballroom

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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 9d

The biggest news below the fold
Oh GreyLady for shame
Has FitToPrint been put on hold
Is free speech just a game?

The country is on fire
And you’re adding fuel to flame
So when our shrinking rights expire
You’ll be with those we blame

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 10d

The biggest news below the fold
Oh #GreyLady for shame
Has #FitToPrint been put on hold
Is #FreeSpeech just a game?

The country is on fire
And you’re adding fuel to flame
So when our shrinking rights expire
You’ll be with those we blame

#NoKings @nytimes.com @gsargent.bsky.social

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 11d

It’s #DiarrheaDon now
And to me that seems just right
Because the sh**show he’s put on now
Shows a gut that’s far from tight

It seems he just can’t stomach bravery
Or truth from me and you
And when confronted with his knavery
He lets loose with a poo

#NoKings

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 13d

No thrones
No crowns
#NoKings
No clowns

No felons
No kleptocracy
We’re showing up cause what we want
Is a democracy

#NoKingsOct18 #indivisible

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 14d

I want #NoKings
Common-sense things
Not worshipping
The whole right wing
Am I a terrorist too?
Boo hoo
Boo hoo

I want morality
And less venality
No more brutality
Total legality
So I’m a terrorist too
Boo hoo
Boo hoo

R’s new go-to
Push through their view
That I’m a terrorist too
Boo hoo
Boo hoo

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 20d

Trump says #Portland’s a mess
Chi-town also I guess
So he has to suppress
The law—and #DueProcess

See he wants to oppress
Which to him is progress
So our path to success
Is: never acquiesce

@govpritzker.illinois.gov #keithwilson #Chicago

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 23d

It’s a beautiful #ballroom
And all trimmed in gold
And it glints like the fairytale
You’ve all been sold

It’s been built with your money
But that’s A-OK
So you struggle while Trump
Dances the night away

#poetrycommunity

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 27d

I’m shocked, really shocked
At the email reply
Has the #shutdown not locked
The keyboards, by the by

If the Rs need to show
They’re the villains, and mean
Whelp, the tantrums they throw
Now fill my inbox screen

#governmentshutdown

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 28d

I’m pretty sure the military
Knows what’s really true
They serve they #Constitution
Not the whims of you-know-who

But if there’s any doubt
About allegiance, loyalty
I hope their oaths will let us see
The best in our country

#USMilitary #Quantico

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · 28d

You kill and break
You’re not polite
You don’t give in
Without a fight

Intimidate
Demoralize
Here’s #Hegseth ’s hate
In macho guise

But real strength’s more
Than guns and fear
And peace, not war
Is what’s most dear

#HegsethSpeech

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 29

Trump’s Department of Justice
Is no longer just
Indeed, its whole new thrust is
To feed its blood lust

So it comes after #Comey
#AdamSchiff, #Soros, and #TishJames
Tyranny now set free
As truth goes up in flames

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 25

He rode an escalator down
But couldn’t ride one up
Forget the traffic jams cross town
Here was the real dust-up

It’s sabotage, said Karoline
Investigate the scheme
But retribution was sublime
It was their own damn team

#UNescalator #UnitedNations #EscalatorGate

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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 24

He’s not braggadocious
He’s merely precocious
And stable, as geniuses are

He thinks he’s ferocious
But he’s just atrocious
The worst on the world’s stage, by far

#UnitedNationsGeneralAssembly #UnitedNations

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 23

We’ll knock off the boats
Says the prez with real glee
And besides, the court notes
I’ve got immunity

So though murder at sea
Is a joke, says JD
The whole point of this rhyme
Is this time, it’s a crime

#extrajudicial #poetry

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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 19

Trump has such thin skin
That he can’t take the heat
And he knows he can’t win
So he’s happy to cheat

So when Carr plays the goon
Who boots stars from TV
Just image how soon
He’ll axe you and gag me

#JimmyKimmel #BrendanCarr #FCC #freespeech

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Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 18

#KingCharles pulled out all the stops
To show Trump how to be a king
He used each prop, each photo op
To show the bling a throne can bring

But here’s the rub: the colonies
Threw off that mantle long before
So if that lesson stuck at all please
Show this tyrant to the door

#royalfamily #NoKings

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 17

Hey Greene wants a divorce
Which I think A-OK
Although Lincoln of course
Didn’t want it that way

So blue states won’t pay tax
To Marj Greene and her king
They’ll have each others’ backs
While the reds have…nothing

#NationalDivorce

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 16

If Trump says it’s #HateSpeech
Then hate speech it is
Though I’d say overreach
Because words are my biz

When one party defines
What’s allowed to be said
We’ve crossed all sorts of lines
And rights hang by a thread

#freespeech #FirstAmendment #WordsMatter

Adverse Verses @adverseverses.bsky.social · Sep 15

Violence is bad
Says the right with a grin
Though we’ll never be sad
If it helps our cause win

In which case we’ll promote it
We’ll quote it, showboat it
Also sugarcoat it
And then vote it
In

#freespeech #wordsmatter