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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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Sara Etgen-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 Etgen-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