{"id":311655,"date":"2019-11-08T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311655"},"modified":"2019-11-08T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T20:00:03","slug":"on-wise-men-mob-talk-and-money-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/on-wise-men-mob-talk-and-money-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"On wise men, mob talk, and money monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where Wise Men Should Seldom Tread<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cFools rush in where angels fear to tread.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n\t\t\t  <strong>\u2014Alexander Pope<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA fool and his thoughtless tweets are soon parted<br \/>\nsending them off half cocked with poor grammar<br \/>\nyes it was his brain silent but deadly that farted<br \/>\nyes for angry rants his dwindling base does clamor<br \/>\nnews reports tell of phone calls yet not a single sound<br \/>\nrationalizing policies gone bad bring sulfuric winds<br \/>\ntweet storms warning of retribution say don\u2019t fart around<br \/>\nand that\u2019s the way a 45 POTUS day begins and ends<br \/>\nsome say \u2018fools rush in where wise men seldom tread\u2019<br \/>\nthe biggest fool is old school drool inside 45\u2019s head<br \/>\nthe great William Shakespeare paraphrased Socrates<br \/>\nin his play, As You Like It, revising words like these<br \/>\n\u201c the fool doth think he is wise, but wise knows himself<br \/>\n\u00a0to be a fool.\u201d worse when tweeting becomes a disease.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>The Richgraft Monster<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cWilt thou tell a monstrous lie? Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t               <strong> \u2014Shakespeare<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCome and watch the Richgraft<br \/>\nmonster rage ridiculous rant in<br \/>\na White House cage he calls a<br \/>\n\u2018dump\u2019 at the all new D.C. zoo.<br \/>\nThe Richgraft monster was the<br \/>\nresult of a brief union between<br \/>\nan obstinate oligarchic Ostrich<br \/>\nand a greedy Giraffe; the world<br \/>\ncried and laughed as it watched<br \/>\nits caniptions and face fall in half<br \/>\nMany animals in the zoo though<br \/>\naware of the monsters raw rarity<br \/>\nwished for the old equivalence<br \/>\nthree branch government parity.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe fool, his head in the sand<br \/>\nsame fool his head in the clouds<br \/>\npurposely missing a meeting<br \/>\nloving his crowds racist shouts<br \/>\nthe sycophants bow to the boss<br \/>\nhis cabinet praises and sweats<br \/>\nhow \u2018sad\u2019 can adult children get<br \/>\nhis highness at a total loss and<br \/>\nlost in a partisan swampy sea<br \/>\ncancelling his own party primaries<br \/>\nat a loss for words and new ways<br \/>\nto deal with the nation and world<br \/>\nusing mob methods and old school ways<br \/>\nhe believes his own lies and money pays.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCoda for Congressional hearings:<br \/>\nPerjury problems remain for the POTUS<br \/>\nand the Ukraine in the Biden blame game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216; Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Joey \u201cPepe Batbon\u201d Connolly is a retired teacher and has been named a poet laureate of Tinian. He has taught English in CNMI public schools for the past 30 years. He has also taught in Alaska, New Orleans, and Las Vegas.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Wise Men Should Seldom Tread \u201cFools rush in where angels fear to tread.\u201d \u2014Alexander&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,304,5148],"class_list":["post-311655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-las-vegas","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311655","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}