{"id":315290,"date":"2020-01-09T06:06:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=315290"},"modified":"2020-01-09T06:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T20:06:06","slug":"trumpty-dumpty-tweeter-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trumpty-dumpty-tweeter-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpty Dumpty Tweeter Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire,<br \/>\nAnd protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014From Shine, Perishing Republic by Robinson Jeffers (1887\u20131962)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Shame on Our Redacted Republic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I sadly smile along with POTUS 45 for different reasons<br \/>\nand protest with poetry about his three years and seasons<br \/>\nout of concern since his angry Jan. 2016 inauguration speech<br \/>\nwhen he flipped out insults so his diehard base need no reasons<br \/>\nHe tweets in haste and then his adopted party makes waste<br \/>\nof almost every new bill the \u00a0House Democrats have passed<br \/>\na partisan lawmaking blockade Moscow Mitch can taste<br \/>\nas they redact their own communications saving few that last..<br \/>\nRick Gates and others are still in the sentencing process<br \/>\nas 45\u2019s fleet of lawyers obfuscate and put the brakes on<br \/>\nevery subpoena aspect of all the criminal investigation mess.<br \/>\nMeanwhile in the White House \u201cdump\u201d lie time is not gone<br \/>\nHouse impeachment hearings had few Republican spins<br \/>\nChief Justice Roberts comes over as the Senate trial begins.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>The Lying King\u2019s Directives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWherever law ends, tyranny begins.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014John Locke<\/p>\n<p>Let us not to all the right wing hullabaloo and invective<br \/>\nfall victim. \u201cTruth is not truth.\u201d says 45\u2019s personal clown,<br \/>\nGepetto Guiliani, he with rotten runny brown nose<br \/>\nas both lackey and adherent to the Lying King\u2019s directives.<br \/>\nOh yes! It is an ongoing nitwit narcissist lying battle<br \/>\nthat sees all the investigations as a hoax and witch hunt<br \/>\nwith a Kentucky Senator horse on a white Russian saddle<br \/>\nwho has won by force but in this game is forced to punt.<br \/>\nDemocracy is not obstructions fool, though all the lying<br \/>\nand obfuscation throw impunity and impediments in its way<br \/>\nUnited States Constitutional law and statutes are not dying<br \/>\nbut will persevere in honor and strength and win at end of day.<br \/>\nIf the House of Representatives is wrong and that is proved<br \/>\nThen I have never taken a dump nor my bowels ever moved.<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And&#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":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-315290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315290","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=315290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}