Billionaire oligarch Elon Musk raises his hands as he takes the stage during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024, in New York City. Photo: by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
“In a time of universal deceit—
telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
—George Orwell
Who got the whole deck
In his hands?
Who got the whole deck
In his hands?
Who got the whole deck
In his hands?
Who got the whole damn deck
In his hands?
Who got lil bitty Greenland
In his hands?
Who got all of Canada
In his hands?
Who got a canal in Panama
In his hands?
Who got the whole damn deck
In his hands?
Who can slap tariffs on twisters
Square Dance them down to
Cuba and keep the confederacy
Out of harm’s way? Who?
Who can build a wall and stop the
Invasion of wildfires and floods?
Who? Who can fire droughts and
Layoff atmospheric rivers? Who?
Who can declare hurricanes Chinese
Hoaxes—deport them as enemy aliens—
And make governor Woke Smoke
Oversee their torture in Gitmo? Who?
Who can order the worm-eaten brain of a Mengele
Medicine Man to sprinkle do-do dust; mumble
“Mumbo Jumbo, Abra-cadaver, Crypto Currency!”
And mass arrest measles in the Lone Star State? Who?
Who have the biggest, best-est, most-est of
Everything and anything? Who?
Who have the biggest and best bootlickers
And brown-nosers? The most yes-men? Who?
Who find the most fools, knaves, grifters
And career criminals? Who? Who give the
Most pardons to police and soldier thugs
Posing as patriots? Who?
Who build the biggest wall? Who might
Take the biggest fall? Who? Who execute
The most in the least amount of time? Who’s
Life is a career of white collar crime? Who?
Who have the biggest, whitest rallies and parades?
Who tryin to kill the most Africans with AIDS? Who?
Who say find me the most votes in the Peach State?
Who say DOGE-sim make Amerikkka grate? Who?
Who hire the most corrupt and the whitest—
Who fire the best and the brightest? Who?
Who wanna be wise guy? Who hire the most
DEI? (Drunkards Embezzlers Incompetents!)
Who slap the most and biggest tariffs?
Who fog horn the racist sheriffs? Who?
Who do the most Mussolini moves? Who
Wedge the marked cards in his hooves? Who?
Who still calling for more, more oil and coal?
Who stripped the Kennedy Center of its soul?
Who make the most phone calls for remote
Control? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who? Who?
© 2025. Raymond Nat Turner, The Town Crier. All Rights Reserved.
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