Philip C James<p>Have long loved the political humour expressed by ordinary people oppressed by the police states of the Warsaw Pact back in the 1980s and earlier.</p><p>My favourite Soviet joke concerned the three Czechoslovak Secret Policemen. Updated for modern times it goes:</p><p>Q: Why do <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> agents always go around in threes?</p><p>A: Because one can read; one can write, and the third is there to keep an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals...</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Krasnov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Krasnov</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USGestapo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USGestapo</span></a><br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/AgentOrange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AgentOrange</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/PutinsPoodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PutinsPoodle</span></a></p>