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Carrot And Stick

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

Jun 10, 2019 - The president has been averaging about 16 fishy claims a day or 10,796 false or misleading claims over 869 days ...

And then there’s today’s photo op with his bevy of blonds behind him for the signing of the 9/11. Where’s the gathering of the 1st responders behind him? Might they have rejected an invitation, knowing how he would turn the event into another self-aggrandizement of himself over the Hallmark Card platitudes he gave the real heroes. Yes, this man has no shame.
https://www.amny.com/news/trump-911-victim-compensation-fund-1.34418809

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/how-the-washington-post-tallied-more-than-10000-trump-falsehoods-in-less-than-three-years/ (Image by Bill Sanders – Milwaukee Independent)

Monday, July 29, 2019


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Carrot and Stick

 

The 6:00 AM tweet marauder pecks away

With gender hate

To racial hate,

To science hate.

 

By nature, a “scatter” shooter

He believes if enough hurtful talk is thrown,

Some will stick,

Some will echo,

Much will encourage anti-democratic discontents,

To become wanna-be-adherents to the shout-out-marauder,

Trying our senses with a deluge of more irrational sound bites

And 280-character carrot and stick inducements. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on July 30, 2019
Glad I do not twitter...-e-

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 30, 2019
Why I don't follow or read his tweets. I find the "fake" news accounts of them much more palatable. I recall the disappointed look on his face when he won, somehow knowing that he would have to, at least try, by lying, to be the president of all the people, telling them they were "excellent", "very good" or "outstanding," people as he skewered them in the back when it came to laws and policies that benefit all the people.

Now that he is running again, except at his "go go" friendly rallies, he now reads from the Teleprompter and keeps that sales man smile. Posing with the girls is just another way of avoiding the wrath of first responders who might have been given a cheap token for coming to the White House and smiling behind him. He could give the girls much more… Real money.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on July 30, 2019
This con man makes any other con men look like saints. I hope There are enough voters that are smarter this time around. And while we're at it, I hope Moscow Mitch gets voted out as well, as well as any other Trump sycophant. That would be draining the swamp for sure.
This was right on write.

Reviewed on July 29, 2019
Oh, yes, Odin! You have painted an accurate picture of what is going on with your words. Sock it to 'em!

Love ya!

Jane


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