bunkum

noun2

1. •
   (slang, old-fashioned) Senseless talk; nonsense; a piece of nonsense.

   • […] the manifold and serpentine wiles and evasions, shufflings and fencings, deceits and dissimulations, he had practised —the bunkums and the quackeries, […] — 1925
2. •
   (old-fashioned) Bombastic political posturing or oratorical display designed only for show or public applause.