{"id":272512,"date":"2018-03-23T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=272512"},"modified":"2018-03-23T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T20:00:15","slug":"crippled-curves-trumpery-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/crippled-curves-trumpery-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crippled Curves of *Trumpery Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cEverybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t\t             \u2014Joseph Stalin, d. 03\/05\/1953.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMoments of calm before tweeting about the Bomb<br \/>\nSeconds tick by filled with dreck from Tweety guy<br \/>\nMinutes of meetings no attention paid while tweeting<br \/>\nHours of agony WH staff explains off-the-cuff stuff<br \/>\nNoon lunch break four diet sodas bag of cheese puffs<br \/>\nDays of disaster rats abandon ship faster and faster<br \/>\nWeekends on the golf course putt putt 45 getting worse<br \/>\nWeeks of wrath Mueller indicts &amp; subpoenas do the math<br \/>\nMonths of misery for the nation, truth becomes mystery<br \/>\nNew Years eve in the land of the free, sad night \u2039believe me\u203a<br \/>\nYears of pain from incompetent judges insane to complain<br \/>\nDecades of despair from promises that lead to nowhere<br \/>\nHalf a century appears grandchildren pay our deficit arrears<br \/>\nTurn back the clock! End our *trumpery tweeter shock.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018trumpery\u2019 means worthless nonsense.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA Sad and Mad Tweeting Cad<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re just so obstinate ornery and mean<br \/>\nsometimes those insults get ugly and obscene<br \/>\nyou\u2019ve lied so much you don\u2019t know what\u2019s true<br \/>\ncan\u2019t stand it when someone\u2019s critical of you.<\/p>\n<p>As you were busy tweeting about being \u2018sad\u2019<br \/>\nthinking people knew you were raving mad<br \/>\neventually your arrogant heart takes notice<br \/>\nthe country is \u2018sad\u2019 about the 45th\u00a0POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>Your latest is sitting with arms tightly folded<br \/>\nlike a childhood bully who has just been scolded<br \/>\nand then never opening your daily intel packet<br \/>\nlooks like you can\u2019t get out of a straight jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Try to focus on our nations serious problems first<br \/>\nbefore giving in to your next tweet tantrum burst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.\u201d \u2014Joseph Stalin,&#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":[20536,9960,67,13844],"class_list":["post-272512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-joseph-stalin","tag-new-years","tag-people","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272512","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=272512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}