American Satire: PROLONGATION #3

previous posted poems (prolongation #1)

archival

classified (Espionage Act)

criminal lying

crasscracy

deceit, social

defunding the FBI

deserved (schadenfreude)

distortion

previous posted poems (prolongation #2)

electoral count

FBIer

felony

gov by dopes

grift

hokum (election denial)
home schooling

honest truth

CURRENT CONTENTS: (prolongation #3)

Legal precedence

MAGAciousness

National pique

Obstruction of justice

Special master

Stupidest coup

Taking the Fifth

Unhinged

Voting from abroad

Authors' Note: The 'Mitt' in the above verse is  allegorical, unrelated to any real current person or long-serving Republican US senator.

Authors' Note: The reasons are not clear, but in Canada, compared to the US, a much smaller proportion of place-names are copies of names used geographically in the 'Old World'. The same also seems to be true for Australia and New Zealand. Just saying.

Folly Beach (name derived from an old English word for dense vegetation) is a seaside resort suburb of Charleston, South Carolina.

In the US, any proposed name-change would have to be reviewed by protocols of the Board of Geographic Names.

Mount Denali, at 6190m (20,310 feet), the loftiest peak in the United States, is discussed by the prodigious limericist SheilaB on the OEDILF website.

And, just in case you wanted to know for comparison, the loftiest peak in Canada is Mount Logan, at 5960m (19,550 feet).       

And for more views by Canadians on current related issues, poems in the series "Stand on Guard" can be viewed HERE.

Author's Note: 

A.G.: Attorney General, a political appointee heading the US Department of Justice   

prez: casual term for president, used in lightweight discussion of the American political situation

Forty-Five: a sequential numbering system is used in the United States for successive holders of the elected office of President; we are currently on number Forty-Six (Joe Biden)

capo: 'head', or 'boss' in Italian, frequently used in connection with the Cosa Nostra (Mafia)

 

Readers who desire more of this tomfoolery might proceed to our collection  "American satire: cabinet confirmation" by clicking HERE.

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