{"id":2116,"date":"2024-04-23T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:38:16","slug":"dumb-da-dumb-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/04\/23\/dumb-da-dumb-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb Da Dumb Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oh what ghastly blithering leaders surround us with whom we must contend <br>for they claim ignorance to why the masses do not gratitude to them extend. <br>They bumble and mumble and act numb and dumb as dumb as a bird with no brain, (lame)<br>worse than the witless ostrich unable to find the sand in which to stick its head; <br>worse than a thrown rock that still can find its way down, and the rock is brain dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cop you know and who trusts you, confides in speaking of the many favors granted crime <br>to tend to social justice, with price paid by victims to whom we&#8217;re blind. <br>Dumb leaders allow more crime in the streets with the ease of catch and release; police<br>no need to wait in line to pay, just smash and grab and run away. <br>Dumb leaders say if you&#8217;re caught, shed a tear &#8211; and you&#8217;re free by end of day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh yes the border, where&#8217;s our nation? Erased by millions who break our laws. <br>Most are sadly saddened people; yet in their ranks hide predators with claws <br>with no fear to use them; or are rapists, terrorists, kidnappers or thugs. <br>And they have weapons and know how to use them, and of course pills &#8211; all kinds of drugs. <br>With bipartisan protest at the border, we need an undumb executive order! <br>Manage the thousands coming our way &#8211; time to act is still growing shorter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abandon the airbase, leave munitions and rockets, release angry prisoners with grenades <br>in each pocket; what could go wrong with the combat troops gone? <br>And spy balloons floating from Montana to Jersey as dithering leaders only are mumbling <br>and just staring skyward with slack jawed indifference, never to notice their bumbling and stumbling.   <br>&#8220;What&#8217;s there to worry?&#8221; How can this be? Who can stand up to Xi? <br>So recruitment has tanked cuz of fools holding rank, folks wonder how this can be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our spending is like there&#8217;s no tomorrow, where&#8217;s a leader to say something like this &#8211; <br>&#8220;Stop spending money we don&#8217;t have!&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s just one silly wish. <br>&#8220;For today &#8211; all still is fine!!&#8221;, so best to avoid all the nasty speeding addicts who whine. (shine)<br>You know &#8211; for each singlar hour, leaders spend 3 million more deficit dollars. <br>When things finally get tight, and start to get right, then all the dumb leaders will holler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our leaders are dumb because of course they do not see we are not dumb.        <br>That is to say &#8211; they believe we are dumb &#8211; perhaps even believing as dumb as they.    <br>But dumbness of voters is not as pervasive, most would shoot down a balloon that&#8217;s evasive,         <br>most would remove combat troops last; and most would not give criminals a pass.  <br>Dumbness let&#8217;s hope will not win the day, best our dumb leaders just go away.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(The Random Poet: 02152024<br>www.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh what ghastly blithering leaders surround us with whom we must contend for they claim ignorance to why the masses &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2024\/04\/23\/dumb-da-dumb-dumb\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dumb Da Dumb Dumb<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-verse-blank-verse-fractured-elizabethan","category-general-observations","category-pre-nov-5-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}