Just Let Him Play Golf

This is the title of an Op-Ed piece in today’s New York Times:

President Trump and the Baby-Sitters Club

www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/president-trump-and-the-baby-sitters-club

It’s harder than anticipated

No one knew it was so complicated

History will show

That some presidents grow

But this one has merely inflated.

Another myth confirmed and debunked.

If you grow up in the U.S. of A.

You could become President one day

It’s now evident

That one requirement -

To grow up - is out of the way.

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“All men are created equal” is only in the Declaration of Independence, it’s not in the Constitution.  Is that the problem?

Trump’s bigotry is not something new

But now it is out in plain view

Hypocrisy’s been dumped

The race card’s been trumped

It’s just what Republicans do.

I read Charles Blow’s Op-Ed piece in Aug. 17th NY Times  - The Other Inconvenient Truth

www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/republicans-white-supremacy-charlottesville.html?src=me&_r=0

This part I found particularly disgusting:

In 1994 John Ehrlichman, Nixon’s domestic-policy adviser and a Watergate co-conspirator, confessed this to the author Dan Baum:

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

But look on the bright side, we’re making progress.  In Charlottesville Trump blamed BOTH SIDES, in previous cases only one side got blamed.  At least the half-wit was half right.

There was plenty of blame to go ‘round

In earlier deaths it was found

That the fault was one sided

And all guilt resided

In Trayvon Martin, lying dead on the ground.

… repeat ad nauseam …

Michael Brown

Eric Garner

Freddie Gray

Sandra Bland

Philando Castile …..

Lines in the Sandbox

Remember 4th grade?

When bullies square off on the playground

One hopes there’s an adult around

Who can dispense

Some common sense

And calm the big egos down.

Newton’s laws don’t call for escalating reactions.

When you travel inside your own bubble

Advice and criticism are trouble

You may stick to a view

That is wildly askew;

The unthinking may think the unthinkable.

And What Did You Accomplish This Summer?

In and Out like Flynn.

Scaramucci created splash

To show he ain't just talking trash

To build up his cred

He severed one head

And Priebus was gone in a flash.

Was it because he bested Trump in the last week in July dumb statements competition?

Scaramucci jumped in with both feet

In his mouth, and turned up the heat

Claimed he’d end all the leaks

But in less than two weeks

The Mooch is back out on the street.