{"id":37833,"date":"2019-10-04T03:32:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=37833"},"modified":"2019-10-04T04:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:12:44","slug":"friday-fun-lets-get-lyrical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/04\/friday-fun-lets-get-lyrical\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Let&#8217;s Get Lyrical!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a backlog of topics I feel are worthy of sharing. But the Orange Pustule currently <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">occupying<\/span> <strong><u>staining<\/u><\/strong> our Oval Office, through his actions and Tweets, inspires so many creative people that I have to keep updating literally down to the last hour.<\/p>\n<p>Like today &#8211;\u00a0 just this morning I came across a song set to <em>&#8220;O Danny Boy&#8221;<\/em> on Daily Kos that inspired my change in mid-stream.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve collected a few poems, Limericks and songs along the way, so I thought I&#8217;d put them all together for today&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s Get Lyrical!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>NOTE<\/strong><\/span>: If not directly shown as a Tweet, the attributions are the Links in the intro.\u00a0 And feel free to share some of yours in the Comments.\u00a0 And yes, I&#8217;m posting this very early.\u00a0 My neuropathy pain woke me at 2:15 AM, and it&#8217;s bad enough to prevent me from going back to sleep.\u00a0 So like the saying goes, I made lemonade.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll start out with a poem in a <strong>Jim Carrey<\/strong> Tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let\u2019s all drink a toast to the new king of lies,<br \/>and the minions who help him while democracy dies,<br \/>and our kids who\u2019ll be taught that the wicked are wise<br \/>because Potus was Jack from \u2018Lord of The Flies\u2019.  <br \/>How much poison are you willing to swallow?! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CvS6Wze9jm\">pic.twitter.com\/CvS6Wze9jm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jim Carrey (@JimCarrey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimCarrey\/status\/1121079769741676544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/2\/1\/1831412\/-Political-Limerick-Hand-picked-by-God?utm_campaign=recent\">delightful Limerick<\/a> addressing those Talibangelical christianists who maintain that Trump is the &#8220;Chosen One&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>They say Trump was hand-picked by God<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>If so I must question and prod<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>And what about Jack<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>LBJ and Barack<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Did Bill C get the Almighty\u2019s nod?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And some background dealing with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-whistleblower-complaint-you-havent-heard-of-relates-to-trumps-taxes\/2019\/09\/30\/10835424-e3c0-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html?outputType=comment&amp;commentId=3e518756-f651-4b30-b909-4a747fe65c91\">current *Resident&#8217;s lack of character<\/a> and the Trumpkin cultists who support him.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Of course he cheats on taxes<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(and golf and marriage too) \u2014 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>he promised he would show them to us;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What\u2019s a con to do?!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Breaking trust comes easily<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>for Don \u201cJohn Baron\u201d Trump<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 to those who still believe him, yo:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Why are you such a chump?!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Moving on to our current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/this-trump-performance-is-why-people-talk-about-the-25th-amendment\/2019\/02\/15\/d9046b72-3155-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?outputType=comment&amp;commentId=dafa42a5-e796-40df-b309-488a420e16af\">efforts to rid our country of this cancer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This bag of wind, this sack of bile, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This fetid mound, a sick orange pile<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Of lying, cheating excrement, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This enemy of government.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This walking crisis of the soul, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This incoherent tweeting troll, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This moral, ethical disease, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This swamp of decomposing sleaze.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This NOTHINGBURGER with big hair, <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This witless peddler of despair,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This dictatorial buffoon <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Must be removed \u2026 and VERY soon!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And to explain to our fellow citizens why we need to take action<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s not because he&#39;s nasty<br \/>It&#39;s not because he&#39;s mean<br \/>It&#39;s not because he&#39;s racist<br \/>Or incredibly obscene<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s because he&#39;s broken laws<br \/>That the people say IMPEACH<br \/>We all must insist on this because <br \/>WE PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ImpeachDonaldTrump?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ImpeachDonaldTrump<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BrooklynDad_Defiant Savage! (@mmpadellan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mmpadellan\/status\/1120440251875508225?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And closing with the song I came across this morning <em>(in which I exercised my own poetic license with one word)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2019\/10\/3\/1885158\/-O-Donny-Boy?utm_campaign=recent\"><strong>&#8220;O Donny Boy&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>O Donny boy, the press, the press are calling<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From state to state, across the country wide:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The jig is up, and all your crimes are showing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You must resign, or in prison you\u2019ll abide.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Our nation hates your lying and your treasons,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And children dying alone in filthy cells,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And people shot by Nazis who adore you<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>O Donny boy, you need to rot in jail.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And when you go, take all your cronies with you!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Take Pence and Mitch, and all your party, too.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Take Rush and Sean, and all the Fox \u201cNews\u201d liars,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And drag your sons and daughter down with you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>And I shall laugh, when Democrats elected<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Make Wall Street pay, and solar power the call,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>When hate and fear and bigotry\u2019s rejected,<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>When medicine and schooling\u2019s free to all.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a backlog of topics I feel are worthy of sharing. But the Orange Pustule currently occupying staining our Oval Office, through his actions and Tweets, inspires so many creative people that I have to keep updating literally down to the last hour. Like today &#8211;\u00a0 just this morning I came across a song <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/10\/04\/friday-fun-lets-get-lyrical\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}