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MichaelSoE

(1,576 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2023, 09:12 AM Mar 2023

I'm WOKE and have an agenda

I hate the Right's appropriation of WOKE and how they have turned it into their new "Let's Go Brandon"

I starting mulling over "What is their agenda and which word rhymes with WOKE that would be most appropriate?"

I narrowed it down to 3 words. BROKE, JOKE and SMOKE.

First I considered BROKE

verb
a simple past tense of break:

The Right is BROKEn but their agenda is not BROKE because they do have an agenda. It is to destroy anything that threatens their fading grasp on power and to cow-tow to the basket of deplorables that keep them there.

Next came JOKE
noun
something that is amusing or ridiculous, especially because of being ludicrously inadequate or a sham; a thing, situation, or person laughed at rather than taken seriously; farce:

I agree that the Repug's are a JOKE but by not having an agenda besides their BROKEass agenda, they are not particularly amusing.
But it does roll off the tongue easily if used as an adjective.
They are so JOKE

Last is SMOKE
noun
the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter:

SMOKE can kill you. SMOKEing tobacco can be deadly.
SMOKE can obscure and hide. They put up a SMOKE screen
SMOKE can trick you. The entire agenda was SMOKE and mirrors.

And it just sounds good. They are SMOKE. The MAGAts succumbed to SMOKE. The GOP's SMOKE agenda.

I also thought a quasi-mathematical equation would be perfect to print on buttons and bumper stickers.



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