{"id":265261,"date":"2017-11-28T06:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=265261"},"modified":"2017-11-28T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T20:06:44","slug":"national-schism-called-trumpism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/national-schism-called-trumpism\/","title":{"rendered":"A National Schism Called Trumpism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>bene diserere est finis logicus (to carry on a disputation well is the end or purpose of logic)<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014from Analytics of Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC)<\/p>\n<p>Baptism\u2014with Middle Eastern oil unguents, Saudi Arabian deals<br \/>\nDeconstructionism\u2014of the Obama legacy<br \/>\nEuphemisms\u2014relatively unknown to Bigly for use in public speaking<br \/>\nFascism\u2014all the bundles of sticks (fasces) on the backs of U.S. dimes bet he will never do time despite calls now to \u201cLock Him Up\u201d<br \/>\nFatalism\u2014attitude of 45 toward gun laws, immigration, government<br \/>\nGeneralism\u2014policy on the spot the new normal, unable to articulate the formal, generalized ignorance in tweets every day<br \/>\nTerrorism\u2014a domestic brand throughout the land, large ammo clips, short quips from 45 every day, unable to speak up to the NRA<br \/>\nOptimism\u2014his Make America Great Again comes with clueless executive orders out of the barrel of his pen<br \/>\nPessimism\u2014from his inauguration speech to the Korean nuclear situation manifest US State Department diplomatic frustration<br \/>\nRacism &#8211; rears its ugly head in too many tweets with too much left unsaid<br \/>\nPatriotism- a Rio Grande wall ditch, calling a protesting athlete a SOB<br \/>\nSchism\u2014the actual political division and $100+ fund raising plates throughout red and blue states<br \/>\nCommunism and Socialism\u2014an ungentle journey towards Bernie or Putin, Russian oligarchs rush to pay sure as shootin<br \/>\nGee Whizims\u2014\u201cwho ever thought?\u201d the Presidency, Taxes, Health Care,<br \/>\n\u201c could be so complicated?\u201d Well \u202645 only.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bozo\u2019s Cuss On and Off The Bus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grabbed her by the \u2026well you know the reality<br \/>\nthat place, well from whence we all came<br \/>\nexperiencing first hand my hard edged duality<br \/>\nshe said no way, now ain\u2019t that a shame<br \/>\nI said but I\u2019m a rich man, you know a star<br \/>\nmy name\u2019s famous, don\u2019t you know who I am<br \/>\nshe said go find a crack ho in the nearest bar<br \/>\nsomeday you\u2019ll say she was your Viet Nam<br \/>\nI\u2019m trying the immigrants now on number three<br \/>\ncan\u2019t deny what I said both on and off the bus<br \/>\nnow more than a dozen accusers are after me<br \/>\nmy evangelical base says no reason to fuss<br \/>\nI advise voters to pay no attention, just screw it<br \/>\nyou know for sure, believe me, \u201conly I can do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>On A Tweet That Uses The Word Sad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Among the daily tweets sent out from my WH dump<br \/>\nas a computer screen fills my puerilistic policy planner<br \/>\nin my solitude, late evenings, in early morning hours<br \/>\nimprisoned in my small dumpy White House tower<br \/>\nrepetition rules repeated very little reception to learning<br \/>\ntwaddling stuff I\u2019m still tough on the greens in the rough<br \/>\ncircular logic around collusion sadness part of my illusion<br \/>\nthe kids are doing their part delusion digs deep in my heart<br \/>\nagain facing the atavistic avenue towards Penn\u2019s Woods<br \/>\npushing legislation with Sisyphus up the Capitoline Hill<br \/>\nWall Street banks my new billions and other ill gotten goods<br \/>\nI have yet to be satiated needing more for my stomach to fill<br \/>\nall alone at home with my cell phone or fingering my pad<br \/>\nbelittling and fiddling while America burns I\u2019m alone and sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bene diserere est finis logicus (to carry on a disputation well is the end or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19230,19231,19232,19233],"class_list":["post-265261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-gee-whizims","tag-health-care","tag-nra","tag-viet-nam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}