{"id":334604,"date":"2020-12-07T06:04:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T20:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=334604"},"modified":"2020-12-07T06:04:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T20:04:46","slug":"tragic-trumpty-tweeter-tales-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tragic-trumpty-tweeter-tales-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Trumpty Tweeter Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the following sonnet is a direct quote from a much longer article which first appeared in\u00a0bulwark.com.\u00a0 The author, Matt Kaufman, is a writer for Focus on the Family, a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families\u00a0 thrive. The quote is verbatim with the exception of a few pronouns and articles such as \u2018you\u2019 and \u2018the\u2019 deleted to fit the quotation into a 14-line sonnet form. The two-line introduction is by me.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>A Christian\u2019s Perspective<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(excerpts from writing by Matt Kaufman)<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAdios Bigly Child Donald. Millions of U.S. voters,\u00a0<br \/>\nand people of all religions will not miss your constant:<br \/>\n\u201clying and gaslighting, pathological narcissism,<br \/>\ncruelty, pettiness, bullying, and Twitter tantrums,<br \/>\nschoolyard name-calling, corruption and abuse<br \/>\nof public power for private interests, assaults on\u00a0<br \/>\ninstitutions and standards across government and<br \/>\nculture, admiration and emulation of dictators,\u00a0<br \/>\nderogation of public servants, statesmen and heroes,<br \/>\nthe elevation of cranks, crooks and clowns. Bizarre\u00a0<br \/>\nrants and conspiracy mongering. Shameless appeals\u00a0<br \/>\nto the ugliest instincts, your blatant racism.\u00a0<br \/>\nThe staggering ineptitude. The sheer stupidity.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Donald\u2019s Departing Tweets and DDT<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>(DDT was originally developed as an insecticide but\u00a0became famous for its environmental impacts. It was\u00a0banned for agricultural use in the U.S. in 1972.)\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nHe tweeted poison\u2014this Donald<br \/>\naround him was himself<br \/>\nno blue sky, no stars<br \/>\na void, no books<br \/>\nDonald tweeted to his own echo<br \/>\nin his loneliness he was king<br \/>\nking of his own world<br \/>\npoisoning roots of democracy<br \/>\ndestructive tweets were his thing<br \/>\na self proclaimed King of Debt<br \/>\na bigly king of bling<br \/>\na shell game, shallow and lame<br \/>\na bigly disgrace this Donald<br \/>\na sham, a shame.<\/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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the following sonnet is a direct quote from a much longer article which&#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-334604","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\/334604","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=334604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334604\/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=334604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}