GREVE E GRAVE

O primeiro-ministro e um seu ministro desvalorizam a greve geral porque não são honestos. Já se desconfiava. Os tiques do quero, posso e mando, estão por todo o lado, e são sintomáticos de quem não sabe dialogar, ouvir, até mesmo respeitar o cidadão; foi para servir o cidadão que se ofereceu para ser governante, presumo, ou alguém o obrigou? O serviço publico é algo de nobre, não confundir com pobre!

MEN TALKING ABOUT WOMEN IT’S LIKE BUMBLEBEES TALKING ABOUT HONEY

When a man loves a woman it’s not like when a woman loves a man.

I know I shouldn’t be writing this, actually, but it’s so obvious (a woman had done it already and I don’t know about it) that we should be doing something to equal the score between women and men. The least.

Equal in rights, right? And it’s not a favour, right? And so on…

(Bumblebee my ass. Yes, this was wrote by a bumblebee.)

Richard Bum

DARKEST MEN IN THE DARKEST HOUR

Soon, very soon, Americans will regret to have elected a person that let the richest person to finish off US Aid. And will be ashamed how it was possible that two people without any emotional empathy for anyone but themselves could just do it in a blink of an eye. Like they were eating popcorn.

 

Soon, very soon, Americans will regret that they elected someone that is friendlier with its oldest enemy and a bully with its own people and its allies. Like he is playing roulette with our lives.

 

Soon, very soon they will wake up and see the debris of his destructive and vindictive mindset and will have to spend decades, if they really wake not break up, rebuilding and being, again, the beacon of the free world.

 

Meanwhile, the billionaires are feasting (not fasting) and dreaming of becoming trillionaires and, finally, own us all. Fair enough, we gave them the money! 

 

At last, the EU is scrambling like someone that was asleep far too long!

 

©Richard Man 2025-11-26 e 28 

TRUMUTIN PHILOSOPHY

Make the world dangerous again! 

All while their major friend and foe is watching delighted behind closed doors. Still pulling the strings and composing the future patiently abroad, and with an iron fist at home. 

No questions asked nor allowed, not even answered. 

Everybody’s been very cooperative, very keen. Everybody all over the world; giving it all thinking of getting more… maybe something… something… maybe nothing!

In the end… will we have to start all over again?

Maybe we learn the lesson. 

Maybe we will have another chance. 

Maybe we should learn to play chess, patiently!

 

©Richard Man 2025-11-26

HÁ VALORES INCALCULÁVEIS

Jamal Khashoggi está morto, mas o que ele representa são valores humanos, não 

comerciais como alguns futebolistas. E até presidentes.

(CO)ORDENADOS A PAGAR

Quanta miséria, e indignidade, mais teremos de suportar até os patrões trabalharem para pagar o nosso salário? O vice-versa já dura há tempo demais! 

Ordenado mínimo é, somente, um salário indigente!

MON AMI

How much does Monaco spends on it’s military, and how it contributes to Europes’s security? I wonder!

WAKE UP S'IL VOUS PLAÎT

The funny thing about Russia isn’t Nato is threatening It but It is threatening Nato! And it’s neighbours! And... And... ...

MÁTERNIDADE

Em Lisboa vivem pessoas 

Tal como no resto do país

 

Lá tomam-se decisões que

 

Cá se pagam;

 

Caras e más quase

 

Sempre

 

Nem vos conto quantas

 

Contei porque as não

 

Memorizei

 

Mas a história tudo 

 

Regista

 

Mesmo quando eles

 

Clamam que não é

 

Verdade

 

(eles nunca dizem mentira)

 

Ser mãe é

 

Ser vivo, é

 

Passado, presente e

 

Futuro:

 

Eles não são.

 

Nada!

 

©2025-11-06

TRILLION MAN

1.    Today I’ve read

About a superman

Not the Superman

Who wants to be

Richer than nations

Probably he’s gonna

Buy them and then turn it all

Into an hostile playground;

Can’t believe it’s true

 

2.    Many days ago

I saw it clearly

People wanting

To sell nations

All around

The world in chains,

In pains,

To men posing

The imposing vanity

 

3.    I try hard but can’t get it

It’s not a catch 22

More of trawl fishing

Dragging insanity

For profitability

Like killing innocent

People in any war

Because nothing is illegal

When muscle rules

 

4.    I do care a lot

But it’s so hot

I might need help

To make sure my sons

Live longer than I

For the mistakes they

Never made and

Can’t evade if the man

Becomes a trillionmare

(even billionmares)

© Richard Man 2025-11-6

PENA CAPITAL

Vamos todos viver para a capital de acordo com um decreto por decretar mas em curso.

Entretanto aproveitem a paisagem.

©2025

TRIOS

Isto não é o Bangladesh, isto é uma falta de respeito!

©2025

HUMAN HEIRS vs. HUMAN HAIRS

The emotional mind has been murdered/replaced by the capital, dictatorial and criminal minds. Hijacked while on a consumption binge, the hunger and the war. It has decayed and it is sick to the core, letting the rot to take over the caring and the loving.

 

Time is running out for us not for them! Life too!

 

The emotional mind is a beauty of the human and of the animal nature. 

(Imagine how emotional an animal must be when we eat them!)

But emotion is turning to commotion and, lately, to snitching and the settle of old scores.

 

Time is running out for us not for them! Life too!

 

The emotional mind is a thing of the past,  democrats are becoming fascists, again, nazis too. Bizarrely, we seem not to care with degrading our living standards for less carrots and more sticks.

 

Time is running out for us not for them! Life too!

 

The emotional mind can’t find its purpose anymore. Goodbye!

©Richard Man

JULGAMENTE

Havia muito mais participação, popular e de intelectuais, política e socialmente antes do 25 de Abril. Desde 1974 que essa participação tem diminuído, qualitativa e quantitativamente, sendo hoje praticamente inexistente. Infelizmente! Daí...

©2025

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE!

.... now, the most important show on earth… is the NATURE show! Don’t ‘like’ it; love and preserve it! 

It will give back much more, and for free, as usual; nature is around before capitalism and communism, has no flaws and don’t have to answer to investors nor to boardrooms!

 

©Richard Man 2025-09-11

TRANSAPARÊNCIA

O Sr. Primeiro ministro não pode escusar-se à transparência, nem ele nem nenhum governante, deputado, e outros detentores de cargos públicos! Nunca!

Quem não teme não se esconde na verborreia. Ou no silêncio. E, acima de tudo, responde às perguntas do jornalista, essa entidade tão necessária e fundamental ao 'deve e haver' da transparência.

©2025

STILL WAR, STILL CRIMINAL!

Wars rage across the world. None is fair in the XXI century. Crimes against humanity most. Diplomacy’s nowhere to be seen, heard or scream. I don’t understand it still, never did and never will. It’s not a necessity rather a commodity, like the ones traded by the banks.

And we, still going about our miniscule lives; like if we were more important!

Wars rage across the world, just like the forest fires, more and more!

©Richard Man

SER PORTUGUÊS OU SER FREGUÊS?

O nosso país, que nos destrata como quem faz uma careta, não é, nem nunca foi, de brandos costumes; só de lume brando no que toca à civilidade e à boa educação. Sim, a boa educação é tão importante como uma boa Educação.

Não deveria de ser difícil resolver o nosso imbróglio político-social, mas a coisa teima em dar o dito pelo não dito, e o que se deveria fazer bem só se faz mal. Enquanto isso, tudo arde, tudo tarda, tudo adoece, tudo padece, tudo adiado, tudo endividado. Tudo, não todos!

 

E num pequeno aparte, dirigido aos xenófobos e populistas, não tenho conhecimento de nenhum português emigrado na Suíça, Alemanha, França, Reino Unido, Estados Unidos, Brasil, Angola, Austrália, e por aí fora, que viva numa barraca. Cá, sim! E não só nativos! (Muitos mais haveria se não fosse a família, a compaixão e a amizade, porque com os ordenados mais baixos que as rendas...)

HUMANITY RHYMES WITH UNITY BUT ALSO WITH IMPUNITY AND IMMUNITY

Long ago, when the birds would sing joyously, and humanity was in its infancy, leaders were still incubating for a future dystopia, to become true, surely.

 

So, a far distant world became a callous reality, much quicker than the billions of years needed to make earth the most pleasant and livable place walkable on foot.

 

Nowadays, it seems we are in for a new big bang. This time with nuclear nukes and thanks to the generosity of amazing, great, outstanding, selfless and dedicated leaders.

 

Now, if I was artificially intelligent, no one would have any of this issues tampering with their sleep, let alone their useful thumbs, and, instead, all would be replaced by totally accepted happiness 24/7/365/4EVER. ´Make mistakes great again´ would be outlawed and thrown in jail, or even better, deported to an offshore paradise; to feel the heat!

©Richard Man 2025-08-28

iLEGAL

I wonder what is going on when we choose sick people to rule the world like if we live in the dark ages?Fuelled by the biggest tech-scam of apocalyptical proportions ever. The banks sucking it all, even breast milk. And we, busy thumbing like dumb on a perceived smart thing.

Richard Man 

RÉ PÚBLICA DAS CASCAS DE BANANA A CAMINHO DE CASCOS DE ROLHA

Neste país desolado, em que o restolho já não tem tempo de restolhar, o líder -com os seus sapatinhos todos pipi- não lidera mas entretém-se a fazer de conta, poderia afirma-lo mas não o farei. Direi, isso sim, que a sua estremada amizade com a extrema-direita não lhe trará, nem a ele nem a nós todos, nenhum benefício. O mesmo não poderá dizer-se dessa extrema-direita, incensada pela extrema-esquerda, e pela esquerda que se considerava omnipotente e moderada mas que afinal era só prepotente e há demasiado tempo a governar para seu único benefício.

Virar à esquerda ou à direita, depois de olhar atentamente, deveria ser um acto simples e seguro, mas não o é; na rua como também não o é na política. 

Já tudo foi esgrimido, mas o que ressalta, sempre, é a qualidade dos líderes e dos seus ajudantes. E o país, exaurido financeira e humanamente, já há muito que não se pode dar ao luxo deste lixo político. 

Precisamos de pessoas sérias que queiram servir a República e não servir-se dela -que é o que sempre fazem e em prol do partido e dos amigalhaços.

Precisamos de Deontologia na política não de Demagogia: olhem-se ao espelho, nús, quando pensarem o quão indispensáveis são.

Precisamos de gente honesta, acima de tudo, e de estadistas, não de mentirosos e oportunistas.

A Democracia aguenta muita coisa mas não é eterna se for maltratada, especialmente com requintes de malvadez e de extrema sordidez.

 

Poderia dizer muito mais, que é como quem diz criticar, sobre a política portuguesa, mas este pouco já é demasiado. Mas, as soluções não são assim tão difíceis: boa justiça, boa educação, boa habitação, boa saúde e bons salários -que é como quem diz, boa economia.

Ir em sentido contrário só pode ser mais custoso, financeira e humanamente!

TOTALLY ARIAN

One totalitarian, no need to name it but WWII is enough to guess, brought the world to the brink. Now, several totalitarians like we have today -some, unbelievably in democratic countries- with nuclear ‘itches’, can bring the world to the first total human extinction. For now, their main accomplishment has been to get us back in the Dark Age.

BRIEF(INGS) THOUGHTS

The natural world is a delicate balance. We need delicate (and dedicated) leaders. We need women leaders!

19/06/2025

 

We need more problems; there’s so much brain power in the world!

7/07/2025

 

Just because you have money you don’t have to be stupid!

6/07/2025

 

Stupidity has become mainstream!

7/08/2025

 

When humanity has no empathy, what’s left? Just an empty soul;

what’s left, then? Not greed, just sheer stupidity!

9/08/2025

There will be not enough energy to power all of the databases, IT machines, artificial intelligence, (anti)social media files and so on. Least, to cool them down. 

All for nothing!

Nothing for all!

10/08/2025

Richard Man 

POLÍTICAS DE POLÍTICOS DE BRADAR AOS SEUS

Gostamos, os políticos em particular, de comer primeiro o melhor e deixar para o fim o que menos apreciamos, os vegetais em particular. Também há os que fazem ao contrário, mas não os nossos políticos profissionais que não brincam em serviço quando se trata de tratar da vidinha, particular pois claro! E o rame-rame, qual lamúria recorrente, segue o seu caminho sem se desviar, e o povo leva cada pontapé se estiver à frente, ou coice se estiver atrás(ado). No entanto, o povo também é dado ao pontapé e ao coice, embora haja quem diga que só estão frustrados e a mandar uma mensagem à navegação política, mas a verdade é que a democracia só funciona quando os políticos são honestos e honrados -e o povo também. O resto é demagogia, e pontapés, coices e cotoveladas. Eu não alinho nessa teoria e também não admito pontapés, coices, cotoveladas ou bofetadas na cara da minha preciosa democracia.

Entendam-se ao centro, esforcem-se pelo país, se não pelo povo então pelas crianças e seu futuro; afinal de contas o que mais vejo é políticos a voluntariar-se... Que eu me lembre ainda não conheci nenhum que fosse obrigado, por isso deduzo que querem mesmo faze-lo por amor à causa. Embora pareça mais por amor à casa. Mi casa no és tu casa! Cappice?

IS EUROPE

 looking to the other side on another genocide?

THE MENTIA or DON’T MENTIA IT

We are, for some time now (maybe a thousand years...), experiencing mental issues as a society, as individuals, as leaders, as friends, as lovers and as carers.

 

Due to the neck breaking speed of technological changes and upgrades, and it’s faulty grace period of lawlessness, going to far as usual if I may share my opinion, because the times are not the same of the wild west though it looks like, and the demands of the bosses to get people to work, still more like slaves than would be free human beings, and it becomes all too clear we are in need of stopping, have a deep breath and put a brake on the sickness of THIS type of progress that looks more like callousness and The End of the show. Just like with covid, somehow, we manage to stop and look around, and think again, and so much more.

We can’t allow the villains, we already have human-like vultures around for so long, and the greedy to take over completely; that will be a total disaster for the emotional and creative side of humans, and will open the gates of a brand new era of medieval darkness, and surely will speed the end of THIS particular show.

2025-01-22 – Richard Man

IS ANYBODY IN THERE?

I am smarter than a smartphone! 

SECOND CLASS SUFFERING

Benjamin Netanyahu must be stopped! Should have been a long time ago!

We, as society, are getting more callous by the day; business as usual!

POR TUGAL

Andamos¹ a criar uma espécie rara de políticos, os que governam e os que se fazem de opositores, com uma tendência para a superioridade, quer moral quer por sinal, e que não há maneira de arredarem pé de ao pé do tacho. Arre! Se ao menos nos governassem quase tão bem como se governam!...

¹ O bom deste mau é que não precisamos mais de andar... a cria-los... já são auto-suficientes, quero dizer, audazes!

WHITE... RABBITS

South African whites are more welcome in America than blacks… from both nationalities!

Need to say more?

TREASON

When a friend tells a friend that he loves the enemy...

When a friend tells a friend to be friends with the enemy...

When a friend tells a friend to fuck off...

I am not sure but I think he's not a friend just a traitor.

I am so ashamed to witness the current political affairs of the world, what a shambles!

So ashamed!

"THE MURDER OF THE TRUTH" (I borrow the title from Raphael Lemkin -Thank You, for reminding us of that!)

Far,

Out of sight,

There is a

Fight

We

Ought to

Win;

Not because of a sin but

Humanity!

 

Never,

Since the

Holocaust,

There was such a

Danger

Dangling over our

Heads

Like a guillotine!

 

And some

Very

Important

People

Think they

Have,

Not only the

Money

But the

Right

To

Wrong

Us all:

Are

We

Dazzled

By the bling?

 

The truth has been murdered many times before, but never on such a scale, and with the sure possibility of throwing the tech age to the darkest of all ages, ever! 

Richard Man – 2025-02-01

NOT SO DIVINE

THE DIVINE RULER (BETA VERSION) 

Having had a successful career

Pushing people of the edge,

But only the undecided ones,

He boasts and brags about things,

All the things and nothing, really;

A fake believer of the divine,

Now that it is most convenient

To fast-forward his Agenda:

Make the Small Big Again.

MSBA

MSBA

MSBA

 

THE DIVINE RULER (BETTER VERSION)

 

Having had a successful career

Pulling people of the edge,

But only the difficult ones,

She talks and praises about fairness,

All true fairness, really;

A true believer of the humane,

Now that it is most necessary

To fast-forward anew:

Make the World a Better Place.

MWBP… no,

Just make the world a better place, please!

 

2025-01-09 – Richard Man

WAR (AGAIN)

Tree letters and
Such is the devastation

Could be:
We Are Right
But no matter what
In the end
All is wrong
Deadly wrong
 
People crying
The beloved dead
 
People looking for
The beloved alive
 
People trying 
To bring sense back
From the depths
 
And people
Still arguing
Who won
 
Who won?
 
Richard Man

JÁ DEI A ORDEM

Porque há uma necessidade (de) premente, neste nosso país, de uma Ordem para a Desordem, decidi cria-la. Podem inscrever-se todos os profissionais, com ou sem formação desde que tenham experiência comprovada, no ativo. Não têm de pagar quotas, basta que prometam entreajudar-se uns aos outros sempre que possível, ou necessário.

NOWHERE TO GO

Richer than ever, mighty than ever, deranged than ever… the gods have new faces: kid’s faces. Behaving more like gangsters, and annihilating everything that challenges them: to a wise debate where everybody can have a say without shouting or shooting; to a social gathering in person; to democratic partnerships; to further equality and fraternity; to DO THE GREEN DEAL; to end wars and start to build the global village where everybody’s welcome no matter their language, passport or creed…

We are wasting precious time to further so few agendas, of even fewer individuals, behaving more like criminals.

Time is not on our side, anymore!

Long live the free press! Don't let it become a commodity!

Richard Man

TRUMP'S TOO LATE

Actually, Greenland is Portuguese. The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed with Spain on the 7^th of June 1494, is crystal clear on that.

Though a native, who does not want to remain anonymous, said it was all rubbish then, and it is all rubbish now, the difference being the IQ’s of each individual involved in the preposterous claims.

 

Richard Man

THE GULF OF AMERICA

The sinking ship is no longer sinking, and the rats are, now, mutineers. They replaced the fair-trade flag with the bully's flag and are on course to their off-shore hide-outs. 

No one dares, any longer, to go chase them. Not even any democratic country where democracy stands at its lowest popularity rate since ancient Greece's breakthrough. On life support -I would dare to say- no one knows even if it will survive!

I don't think there will be, ever, a treasure map to cheer us on a treasure hunt like in the old dreamy time!

Therefore, may greed turn enemies into brothers, and so on!

Richard Man

RATS NOT CATS

Usually, rats are the first to leave the sinking ship… accordingly, they were the first to have lunch with the president, I mean, the captain. All they have in common is the billions. 

Richard Man

SO MANY SACRIFICED THEIR LIFES FOR...

Because of the way most people think and behave, today’s hitler would have achieved his goals undefeated and unopposed. Ultimately his reign would last a thousand years no doubt. 

I AM ASHAMED! I AM ASHAMED! I AM ASHAMED! 

I just hope it won’t be for a thousand years!

Richard Man