{"id":285050,"date":"2018-09-21T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=285050"},"modified":"2018-09-21T06:00:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:00:23","slug":"mr-manafort-finally-flips-a-dollop-of-droll-doggerel-disguised-as-a-sonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mr-manafort-finally-flips-a-dollop-of-droll-doggerel-disguised-as-a-sonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Manafort Finally Flips A dollop of droll doggerel disguised as a sonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A loss of fealty, the perpetrator pleads guilty and admits<br \/>\nmillions in Ukrainian money acrobatics in bleeps and blips<br \/>\na foreign agents political tale told in news and TV clips<br \/>\na puerile smiling 45 under combed over dyed hair flips<br \/>\ndaily tweeting stormy surrealistic solipsistic shivering fits.<br \/>\nManafort pleads guilty as another trial hangs on his hips<br \/>\nnow all the dirty dealing secrets will pour from his lips<br \/>\nas Mueller attack dog prosecutors take painful nips.<br \/>\nWhen 45 passes Paul Manafort will be noted in his obits<br \/>\nwith Paul\u2019s Trump Tower observations and serious quips.<br \/>\nMeanwhile a political hurricane across Wash. D.C. rips<br \/>\nthanks to Manafort\u2019s truth tongue slips and tell all tips<br \/>\nhis egregious law breaking awakens Congressional whips.<br \/>\nThis campaign chair\u2019s actions effected US voting trips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If It Walks Like A Duck<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cA lot of bad things happen in lame duck sessions.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIf it walks like a duck, sounds like &amp; talks like a duck<br \/>\nits probably Donald, the rich yellow hair dyed duck<br \/>\nIf it tweets twaddle and twit and talks plenty of BS<br \/>\nyou can bet your tax return it is probably full of it<br \/>\nHow gullible are the governed, what will they believe<br \/>\nare they gullible enough to believe a gull is a duck<br \/>\nboth have beaks, quack, squawk, screech, and tweak<br \/>\nunder the guise of insulting talk when they speak<br \/>\nthere are daffy sitting ducks, dead and lame ducks<br \/>\nducks on a pond, Beijing eating soybeans ducks<br \/>\nmedieval torture of ducks in a ducking pond<br \/>\nugly duckling turned to swan with a magic wand<br \/>\nthere are those who every honest question ducks<br \/>\nthose who bring overflow to a nation\u2019s tear ducts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loss of fealty, the perpetrator pleads guilty and admits millions in Ukrainian money acrobatics&#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":[774,22380,22751,320],"class_list":["post-285050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-bs","tag-paul-manafort","tag-trump-tower","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285050","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=285050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}