Oct 26 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Our king’s SAUTɆ and lost fortunes but this one’s infinite, Can’t spend it all so carves his name like a petroGLYPH, Through GEEKY machinations, King’s goons have rigged elections, Keep him aMUSED with prizes boGUSS, Yt is their grift.
Yesterday's apposite Wordle limerick
Yesterday's apposite Wordle limerick
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Oct 25 nytimes.com/shared/comme... See the king morph into itsy bitsy senile DITSY, Humiliated with no periSCOPᵉ Above his sea, To see his Royal FLUSH appalls, Poutine served up all his meatballs, King’s monument’s a DRESSing room theRᴀᴘɪꜱᴛ tapestry.
Oct 24 nytimes.com/shared/comme... His fans laugh at his mockery of all that’s HOLEY, Now he’s above the GRADE of God, his words controlling, BOW ELeven times to your king! But what? King bows to Musk oxen! Who sells a hasbᴇEN NUIsance’s griSLEE Tales of fun.
Oct 23 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Ol’ King Cold Heart boasts of his exTEMPOraneous rants, Get him a venTRILLoquist to amuse devotee plants, With LUCᴷ A Surrogate will step in, At least a coherent spokesperson, But will any RAIN Yn his world-ending destructive plans?
Oct 22 nytimes.com/shared/comme... “RESETtlement” masks the cruelty of eviction, “UNSETtled” politely describes fleeing the ɪᴄᴇmen, On all sides the people are BESET, Even while his fanbase gives tASSET Approval for his jet rides into sUNSETs again.
Oct 21 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Kill a bug, then a PENNY for my thoughts: A bit sad, yes, So I’m not psychotiC, OUGHt to run for Pᴏᴛᴜꜱ, I guess? It’s not that he’s Old GrandPEPPY, It’s his talk is PATLY rapey, Thinks SIREN’s🧜♀️an attraction not a warning to run fast: ⚠️🏃🏻♀️➡️
Oct 20💕 nytimes.com/shared/comme... King thinks he’S QUIZmASTER of the Jeopardy we’re in, Spreading memes of himself WRESTling tigers with a grin, While the poor are increasingly disTRESSed, With the middle class needing a WREST, HiS QUIZ̴otic campaigns go on til they aWREST him.
Oct 19 nytimes.com/shared/comme... and: nytimes.com/shared/comme... Stump speech is PETAL-to-the-meddle most Trumpian, Repetition of TOXIC Musk-y vicious fictions, Right wingers are lackinG RIƧ To win, Sans the character of a Jack SMITH, So Trump’S TINKering with votes and the Constitution.
Oct 18 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Billionaire meDIA NAbobs with alternate fact plans, Broadcast ad after AD OR Next hip toy to nab, Their DOGMA is planted in brains, By tracking what makes us insane, But now their King’s become just a hangDOG MAdman.
Oct 17 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Increased aMOUNTs for gas & groceries are staggering, Billionaires cause such A RISE in the price of housing, Higher costs with same PAY: EEk! Not lookin’ “Great,” more like “Bleak,” KinG AFFEcted by illogiCAL VEndetta scheming.
Oct 16 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Tyrannical D’s intent on disGRACEing the nation, For when he jets away to where there’s no extradition, Making the convict walk the PLAINk? Mel said in a wheelchair it stank, So SHADY pay-per-viewS WASH away into the ocean.
Oct 15 nytimes.com/shared/comme... When his reign is aʟL OVER there’ll still be spiʟLOVER, Of DUNCEs who foolishly worshipped at his altar, They CHASE after silly fantasies, Of riches from 2-PENCE strategies, And celebrate when it’s dark folks patrols puʟL OVER.
Oct 14 nytimes.com/shared/comme... King D acts like there’s a Nobel for ᴍASTER of War, Unlikely with history of spurious bone spur, DoeDoes PSYCHopathydisqualify? Is Treason in the DSM-5? No Nobel prizers give wooden NICOLs to the poor.
Oct 13 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Preaching doom & gloom lies to ½-empty STADEiums, His archfoe profile grows WIDER in more ways than one, WeaponizeD ICE Rage, So it cuts both ways, For his WATERgate, goin’ where there’s no extradition.
Oct 12 nytimes.com/shared/comme... At the KennedY, ODEₛ Let us celebrate artists, AlsO LIVE roasts showed talent of great satirists, So jazz had Thelonious Monk, While grift has FELONious trump, Who can’t bear to BOW ELoquently to humorists.
Oct 11 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Donny felt no AGAPE love nor heard SOUNDs of silence, No urge to chase a sunrise or see a LUNAR eclipse, Coveted UNCAPping oil wells, Not pens to practice drawing well, Had fUN TAGging JFK’s Center at taxpayer expense.
Oct 10 nytimes.com/shared/comme... UnCLE ATtilla – not Sam – grows increasingly GRUMPy, As his road to World dominance is ever more BUMPY, None of his SCIONs impress, His regime’s a total mess, It’s more a road to perdition where they call him DUMPY.
Oct 9 nytimes.com/shared/comme... MAJORdummo doesn’t care we’re kinda BLUE, Y’know, His OpeRATIOn Self-AdoRATIOn’s good to go, His promises eVAPORate, He’s a renowned, world-class ingrate, But today’s tots will grow up to know him as a joke.
Oct 8 nytimes.com/shared/comme... On JUDGEment day everyone’ll know: Was he SHREWd? Or was he just the devils’ tool with a loose SCREW? With hindsight they’ll EASELy see, The truth denied so handily, Or SIT ARound claiming ᴍᴀɢᴀ was misconSTREWed.
Oct 7 nytimes.com/shared/comme... The Mad King cast an eviL AMBYence across the land, UnPROVEn for the gig, he generated quicksand, VOICEs arose in protest, Of his golden feathered nest, But billionaire backers drain our reSERVOir in the end.
Oct 6 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Revolting king seemed headed to lock-up in the POKIE, But ULTRA-loyal, ULTRA-royalistes saw him set free, In red hats cheered and knelt before him, Until hunger CHILLed love for his whims, And they DIMLY saw the scorn emanating from their king.
Oct 5 nytimes.com/shared/comme... There was a wicked man who became a wicked king, He didn’t use OPTICal illusions but did pretend, He was a REAL Operator, A priMO CHAmp decorator, But he just picked pockets & caused division in the end.
Oct 4 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Supreme Misleader sure loved to hear himself SPEAK, Followed by hollow CHANTs of mousy Speaker’s squeak. Just trying rhyming in past tense, Hoping for futures less anxious, But can’t foresee blue-skies unSHACKled from newspeak.
Oct 3 nytimes.com/shared/comme... NostraDumbAsS WEARs down reason by repeating lies, Of ENEMY neighbors being pet PEEVES to despise, Through GEEKY machinations, Does away with elections, The last 2 FLEETing years were robbing us of our lives.
Oct 2 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Officials do what fits under the AEGIS of the king, Even if it’s LOUSY with cruelty, they kiss the ring, Ignoring those who went before, Were judged as fools and shown the door, A few who foster King🦍Don’s USURY go to prison.
Oct 1 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Putting on the RITZ Ysn’t proof of your elegance, Nor should Dumpty era’s naDIR TYe up your advance, Are they still summerSAULTs in autumn? Is the HONEY sweet if you get stung? Giving away money is the real wealth of finance.
Sept 30 nytimes.com/shared/comme... The IRONEy’s that theIR ONE and only candidate, Is the dRIVER of the high home price & mortgage rate, A cult leader needs no STEALth, To STEAL his loyal fans’ wealth, Locks up to be sHIVED those who ask that he abdicate.
Sept 29 nytimes.com/shared/comme... So CHAIRman of Naught’s not goin’ for a TripleDumpin, Flyin’ SAUCErs will float by him holed up in his ballroom, Is Maragold Largo, The only place they’ll go? Or iS CUBAn dancin’ in the streetS much more becoming?
Sept 28 nytimes.com/shared/comme... In mid-life 47 focused on SAUCEy sTRUMPets, Then suave speaker Barack became an afFRONT, yet, TRUMP’s mirror said: You are TOᵒ LARdy, Too much junk in the TRUNK’s no party, Now a coup of snipers, ballroom bunkers & TRUMPets.
Sept 27 nytimes.com/shared/comme... ThiS LOOPy king has become an object of SCORN, Now that all his benefactors SHOOK up the norms, So busy being greedy, Have no time for the needy, His mansions expand, but anything publiC: ROO𝔦NS.
Sept 26 nytimes.com/shared/comme... How to cʟEARLY tell if a person has turned evil? Do roaCHES Scurry off or stay? What ABOUT weevils? If they’R INSEnsitive brutes, Who substitute lies for truths, Their ELEGYs are just selling kool-aid that’s lethal.
Sept 25 nytimes.com/shared/comme... TrumpleDumpkin’S LATE for a very important date, But can’t run like a March Hare, so COPSE not with fate, Sometimes screws things on purPOISE, Or just trips into a NOOSE, At the bottom of his rabbit hole’s a replacement.
Sept 24 nytimes.com/shared/comme... The land our fathers swam to in the SOLAR eclipse, A total SOLAR, providing cover of darkness, Do Good and Evil have a NEXUS? Are we more MESSY or dangerous? Our Commander-in-THIEF is the very worst of us.
Sept 23 nytimes.com/shared/comme... They’re so bad at being mASTERs of War doncha know, BeFOR THe killer ASTERoid gets here nukes will blow, Urged by viTRIOLic decrees, And strikes AI makes mistakenly, The meek who inherits the earth is likely a roach.🪳
Sept 22 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Some tyrants are so frAUGHT from childhood bullying, That rather than like a torTOISE🐢 drawing in, STOKE an inner vicious rage, Maturing just to teenage, Acquiring QUASI respect in lieu of mocking.
Sept 21 nytimes.com/shared/comme... 🥭Old king asks his mirror: Who is FAᵀTESt of them all? 🪞You’re a PUDGY old fossil but that isn’t your downfall, 🪞 Did GramP AGE Right out of the scene? 🪞You ᴀLONE Repost the most memes, 🪞 Nah. Abuse now thRU ICE is what’s truly abysmal.
Sept 20 nytimes.com/shared/comme... When the underTAKER leaves Dick TAKER all alone, Will groupies still be swayed by his evil SIREN song? That’ll compEL OINkers to give bacon, As he purLOINS taxpayers’ funds? Or AI reveals the diSHONEsty all along?
Sept 19 nytimes.com/shared/comme... The filthy rich who STEAL from the poor AR GONna pay, Mom always warned of their rude aWAKEening one day, The king and his CABINet, Gonna take what they can get, But eventually all bullies get flushed away.
Sept 18 nytimes.com/shared/comme... ExORBITant human costs of this regime are up, Tho Thelonious Monk rhymes with FELONious 𝕋𝕣𝕦𝕞𝕡, One played honky-tonk jazz on-key, Other’s just a WONKY honky, It’S NOW Years…50? 1’s gone, t’other’s a bossy grump.
Sept 17 nytimes.com/shared/comme... ObliGATED to fill pockets, they shaDE CALculations, For each broken promise an alternative facT WEAKens THE TAo of ᴛᴀco’s “2 weeks” — a ruse, As DC Landmarks become LEAN-Tos, Trumple quisling isn’t smellin’ like A ROSE when it ends.
Sept 16 nytimes.com/shared/comme... To be hip Pᴏᴛᴜꜱ cheers AI is so sensaTⁱONAL, I wrote a loopy JavaSCRIPt — my Gateway was totaled, D’s just a prince who’s PHISHing, Grins at CRIES of cash missing, Last WISPY smoke’ll be named Trumopyl not Chernobyl.
Sept 15 nytimes.com/shared/comme... “Democracy has fallen!” we sCREAM into the abyss, On the road until this hoBO HEAdache turns into bliss, Afore we LEAN Towards chaos, It’S LATEst state is hypnosis, Every hand DEALT is an endless game of Pick-Up-Stix.
Sept 14 nytimes.com/shared/comme... The ᴘᴏᴛᴜꜱ is as bizarRO AS The followers, Of a cult of poisonous, chartREUSE drink swallowers, A big zeRO, A STooge adored, For his bitter rants by the poor, And foR INSEcurity like all broke borrowers.
Sept 13 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Oof, what’s the diF: INCHing or racing to oblivion? Doomsday clock’s not in a counterclockWISE rotation, Potus’s bogus hocus-pocus, Grows increasingly out-of-FOCUS, Future’s foggy🌁as an✈️sFO CALi tailspun.
Sept 12 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Putting a GUILTy thug in the oval can’t ᴀ-BODE well, Far worse than any dust-uP INK-Stained by a kiss-and-tell, EveN IF TYrant Don waves his wand, To uplift an unfortunate one, A terrible tableau inevitably spreads pell-mell.
Sept 11 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Origins of the homonym of “inAUGERation,” Have PEACEing together the worthiness of a person: ᴍASTER of War or eASTER bunny? DREGS of mankind or kinda funny? A LAWER LOGICal and respectful of all, of ꫝORSE.
Sept 10 nytimes.com/shared/comme... He’s prone TO LARcenous acts more than TO LARGesse, Money to buy loyalty shows baked-in SHREWdness, Smarmy loyalists speak DRYLY, Sneering while appearing wylie, FUDGYng the truth or just lying with fiery pants.
Sept 9 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Didn’t AN𝓘 SEᴇ 😈’s pʟAN ISᴇ to replace democracy, With his own image, COURTing the Klan’s mobocracy? In air, bombs now BURST, And that’s not the WURST, It’s PANDAmonium of a SOUCT kakistocracy.
Sept 8 nytimes.com/shared/comme... In our youth in the morning A DIEU pearled the lawn, By afternoon and forever it seems to be gone, Hypnotised by the VIPER, and then, He began robbing each one of them, Who chose not to LIVE Nobly by the light of the dawn.
Sept 7 nytimes.com/shared/comme... Stealing bALLOTs to become a BIG LYing King, As he did eLABORate — no, he wasn’t joking, Addiction to “filthy LUCRE” A sickness like any other, Is why he’d rob BLIND his devotees — or his mother.