{"id":329596,"date":"2020-09-11T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=329596"},"modified":"2020-09-11T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T20:00:31","slug":"trumpty-dump-t-tweeter-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/trumpty-dump-t-tweeter-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Trumpty Dump \u2018T\u2019 Tweeter Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cNot so quod I, let baser things devise<br \/>\nTo die in dust,\u00a0but you shall live by fame:\u201d <\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75,\u00a0born 1552, died 1599, buried in Westminster Abbey<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>My Reign is a Fabric of Lies<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMy reign is one big lie and I like to fire,<br \/>\nanyone who goes against my callous grain<br \/>\nwill be dismissed if it be my desire<br \/>\nas harder grows the concrete inside my brain<br \/>\nwhy is it that a stable genius like myself<br \/>\nis not loved more? Those Democrats seem so cold<br \/>\nI earned much more money working by myself<br \/>\nand feel my great accomplishments haven\u2019t been told.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re the best in American history and must be sold<br \/>\nthough I\u2019m the best liar all my bling must be known<br \/>\nwhen lies are revealed they will be found great and bold<br \/>\nthis way my great and legendary legacy will be sown.<br \/>\nSuch is the power of tweets in my brilliant mind<br \/>\nmy base with foresight changes back to being blind.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Donald\u2019s Dejection: An Ode Implodes<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cLate, late yesterday I saw the new moon<br \/>\n\u00a0With the old Moon in her arms;<br \/>\n\u00a0And I fear, I fear, my Master dear!<br \/>\n\u00a0We shall have a deadly storm.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014from The Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens,15th\u00a0century<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWell! I\u2019m the stable genius who bigly made<br \/>\nmy number one sycophant VP Mike Pence<br \/>\nmy campaign flounders, objectives make no sense<br \/>\ntax lies continue as does my emolument trade.<br \/>\nMy conscience devoid of empathy and quite clear<br \/>\nmy stubborn intelligence lacks passion and grief\u00a0<br \/>\nI swear, throw temper tantrums, shed not a tear<br \/>\nfake news cuts me no slack and gives me no relief.<br \/>\nObsessive narcissistic thoughts are in my mind<br \/>\nmy reality is a dark democracy dream.<br \/>\nI tweet out insults and many other things unkind<br \/>\nthe nation reads them, takes notice and starts to scream.<br \/>\nI give it my middle finger and flip it a moon<br \/>\nand keep on sucking my inherited silver spoon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joey &#8216;Pepe Batbon&#8217; Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><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><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNot so quod I, let baser things devise To die in dust,\u00a0but you shall live&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":322001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-329596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/329596","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=329596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}