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'Give Peace a Chance' 55 Years Later

~ To the tune of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1969 song, 'All We are Saying is Give Peace a Chance' ~ Diversity and equity Nothing but green energy Electric car subsidies All we are saying is Give Woke a chance No more homeless in the cities With Rent control and hearts that bleed Burn the flag and take a knee All we are saying is Give Woke a chance Immigration, aliens GOP Jail-ins Blame AI for all our failins All we are saying is Give Woke a chance Free Iran and Palestine Restaurants all serve free wine Doesn’t cost a cent to dine All we are saying is Give Woke a chance Concentrated union power Starting wage, 60 an hour 50-cent whiskey sours All we are saying is Give Woke a chance Immigration, emigration Integration, segregation Race-based taxation, caucasian All we are saying is Give Woke a chance Witches and Wiccans Muslims and Imams Satanists and Atheists All we are saying is Give Woke a chance Zohran Mamdani, Ayala Pressley Omar Ilhan, Rashida Tlieb Next President - AOC All we are saying is Give Woke a chance All we are saying is Give Woke a chance…

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Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib

Date: 7/22/2025 6:33:00 AM

There’s no money in peace, I suppose there’s none in woke either. Going back to sleep.

Maureen McGreavy The Insolent Rib
Date: 7/23/2025 6:41:00 AM

I miss the time before woke broke, when we were just poets, contemporaries, comrades.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/22/2025 8:06:00 PM

On the contrary... There's a lot of money backing 'woke' these days.

Sara Baker

Date: 7/21/2025 4:29:00 PM

this country spent four years 'giving woke a chance'--nearly destroyed our country. Being 'woke' isn't diversity, its obliteration of American values, pure and simple. Yes, my soap box! :-)

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/22/2025 8:03:00 PM

I actually think that a little diversity for the sake of diversity is a good thing -- except when it comes to dentists, airline pilots, radiologists, oncologists, engineers, car mechanics, carpenters, architects... Ahem, I take that back. Diversity = Mediocrity!! ~ gw

Kim Rodrigues

Date: 7/21/2025 12:24:00 PM

For a nation to have a sound mind, it cannot have a free-for-all.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/22/2025 7:59:00 PM

Mens sano in corpore sano. ~ Little Caesar

Sara Baker
Date: 7/21/2025 4:28:00 PM

agree

I Am Anaya

Date: 7/21/2025 8:52:00 AM

All I am saying is give it a break. Lol. Diversity, equity inclusion, sounds like the American melting pot. Give me the opposite and I'll give you musellini! Ball of confusion that's what the world is today, ayhey, can you did it?

I Am Anaya
Date: 7/22/2025 8:12:00 PM

Oops, you are right, sir

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/22/2025 7:56:00 PM

I think you meant, 'Can you dig it? ... Like far-out, groovy...

John Lawless

Date: 7/21/2025 7:10:00 AM

We better WAKE the "F" up soon.....hey...the captcha is ...KVN as in "cave in"

Gershon Wolf
Date: 7/22/2025 7:55:00 PM

Well, maybe it's a 'man-cave.' ~ Me, Tarzan