Showing posts with label John Wilkes Booth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Wilkes Booth. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

№ 794.1 EXTRA!: You Get A Pardon And You Get A Pardon And Everyone Gets A Pardon

Trump Grants Clemency to Rod Blagojevich, Bernard Kerik and Michael Milken (Paywall)
The president also pardoned or commuted the sentences of eight others on Tuesday, including Edward DeBartolo, a former owner of the San Francisco 49ers.

END TIMES (February 18) —
If John Wilkes Booth had had a trial,
it would not have been fair.
then, as now, FAKE NEWS with truth
plays fast and loose demanding the noose . . .
I say all's fair in love and warfare.
Booth did what I did with Soleimani,
what Putin does with most anybody,
what MBS did with Khashoggi
what REAL LEADERS do. (Somebody told me.)

Therefore, here, in the Trump White House Garden,
I, hereby and herewith, issue this pardon.
I do this not only because I am considerate,
but also because Booth was a Confederate.
A hero to whom someone should raise a statue.
(To my friends in THE SOUTH, “Right back at you.”)

Thursday, August 17, 2017

No. CXXXIII.i: EXTRA! Nonsense On Pedestals

To "celebrate history" it would be absurd
to put up a statue of King George the Third.
One simple fact, there is no debate here:
Confederate statues celebrate traitors.
Yes, it's our history, but come on now, Donald.
Do you see statues of Benedict Arnold?
(Never examined in these discourses:
why Southerners worship dead losers on horses.)
And, however hard you may sleuth,
even Dixie lacks statues of John Wilkes Booth.