{"id":334458,"date":"2020-12-04T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=334458"},"modified":"2020-12-04T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:04:07","slug":"tragic-trumpty-tweeter-tales-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tragic-trumpty-tweeter-tales-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Trumpty Tweeter Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lies and Rot Tweets Mattered Not<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cPolitic, cautious, and meticulous;<br \/>\nFull of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;<br \/>\nAt times, indeed, almost ridiculous\u00a0<br \/>\nAlmost, at times, the Fool.\u201d (T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965)<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Squawking Sounds of D.J. Trumpedupe<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLet us turn then, you and me<br \/>\nTo the computer screen and see what we will see<br \/>\nLike any other computer nerd<br \/>\nLet\u2019s scroll through multitudinous repeats<br \/>\nOf completely idiotic tweets<br \/>\nOf demandings and misunderstandings<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nI\u2019m getting forgetful, I grow numb<br \/>\nMy neural synapses no longer hum<br \/>\nShould I cover the hole behind my head<br \/>\nTry smarter sleeping on Abe Lincoln\u2019s bed<br \/>\nGolf three days in a row, eat a bigger burger<br \/>\nTry to hide another failing business merger<br \/>\nIn cyberspace my daily lies still constantly flow<br \/>\nFrom islands in my mind where truth won\u2019t grow.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Thoughts Full of Thoughtless Fox<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nImagining tonight\u2019s political news broadcasts<br \/>\nred base watchers some awake some comatose<br \/>\nthe time between commercial breaks goes fast<br \/>\nPOTUS 45 seems muddled, maudlin, morose<br \/>\non the screen one senses no sign of journalism<br \/>\nbut plenty of hearsay and what about this\u2026 ifs<br \/>\nignoring idiotic tweets and those in the know<br \/>\nlittle discussion of Covid or the national schism<br \/>\nhearing much of conservatives self-righteous difs<br \/>\nthe thoughtful fox disdains and displays unbelief<br \/>\neyes and ears support not news stories days in a row<br \/>\ncontributions roll in for a corrupt commander-in-chief<br \/>\nthe fox\u2019s crafty message seems carelessly splinted<br \/>\nas in your brain their endless refrain is imprinted.<\/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>Lies and Rot Tweets Mattered Not \u00a0 \u201cPolitic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence,&#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-334458","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\/334458","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=334458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334458\/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=334458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}