{"id":425806,"date":"2024-11-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=425806"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Red-Caesarism-Trump-s-loyalty-catechism-abysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Red-Caesarism-Trump-s-loyalty-catechism-abysm\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Caesarism\u2014Trump\u2019s loyalty catechism abysm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><h3>A republic with democracy or sycophantic cacocracy<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>Cacocracy is a term that means, \u201cgovernment by the worst people\u201d or \u201crule by the incompetent.\u201d It is derived from the Greek words kakos (bad) and kratos (power, rule). Cacocracy is a form of government that is characterized by corruption, nepotism, incompetence, inefficiency, injustice, and tyranny. Does that sound like the felon just elected POTUS?<\/p>\n<p><h3>Trump again? A gain? Or a loss?<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>(a dangerous demagogic dictator boss)<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t most people already know what we got<\/p>\n<p>A convicted felon, twice impeached, ill man<\/p>\n<p>For voters who didn\u2019t read or watch, probably not<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of his lies, insults, and defamation plan<\/p>\n<p>POTUS 45 is a force majeure MAGA monstrosity<\/p>\n<p>What about his life\u2019s work for the past fifty years<\/p>\n<p>For both business and democracy 45 is an atrocity<\/p>\n<p>Bankruptcies, insulting heroes, ruining careers<\/p>\n<p>What about his VP wannabe hillbilly, J.D. Vance<\/p>\n<p>How long will he be able to straddle Trump\u2019s fence<\/p>\n<p>For four years and then make a White House advance<\/p>\n<p>Or wind up threatened and abandoned like VP Pence<\/p>\n<p>We are a constitutional republic based on democracy<\/p>\n<p>POTUS Trump 47 wants a sycophantic cacocracy.<\/p>\n<p><h3>Magamandias\u2014the 47th king of bling<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>(a parody of Percy Bysshe Shelley\u2019s poem Ozymandias)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, look on my Works,<\/p>\n<p>Ye Mighty, and despair!\u201d Next the narrator comments about<\/p>\n<p>Ozymandias brag. He says there\u2019s nothing left of the statue<\/p>\n<p>commemorating the dead King except a few stones in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing beside remains, Round the decay of that colossal Wreck,<\/p>\n<p>Boundless and bare, the lone level sands stretch far away\u201d- excerpt.<\/p>\n<p>My name is Magamandias, the 47th King of Bling<\/p>\n<p>Listen to me you\u2019ll see and hear wonderful things<\/p>\n<p>Watch my fantastic documentary or video meme<\/p>\n<p>It is purported to be a realistic film not AI grown<\/p>\n<p>About my great grandiose US presidential scheme<\/p>\n<p>The first 4 then 4 more years more billions blown<\/p>\n<p>I lied, I tried, I fought for it again and again and<\/p>\n<p>With the help of other billionaires, I took command<\/p>\n<p>I never listened to oral reports, no books were read<\/p>\n<p>Congress mocked and impeached me, I never bled<\/p>\n<p>And what did millions of my MAGA red hats hear<\/p>\n<p>More insults anger and hatred and they held it dear<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m Donald J. Trump the 47th King of All Bling<\/p>\n<p>Give me your money, you have nothing to fear.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/51ec1f1100d5d7eea9228e5f43276c9f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joey aka &#8220;Pepe Batbon&#8221; Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A republic with democracy or sycophantic cacocracy Cacocracy is a term that means, \u201cgovernment by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425806","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}