Tag: Trumphirate
Trump Is Making Us All Less Free
A free society means being free of those who rule over you — to do the things you care about, your passions, your pastimes, your loves — to exult in that blessed space where politics doesn’t intervene. In that sense, it seems to me, we already live in a country with markedly less freedom than we did a month ago. It’s less like living in a democracy than being a child trapped in a house where there is an abusive and unpredictable father, who will brook no reason, respect no counter-argument, admit no error, and always, always up the ante until catastrophe inevitably strikes. This is what I mean by the idea that we are living through an emergency.
— Andrew Sullivan
Show Your Loyalty, Comrade
Now we’ve passed President Trump’s one hundredth day,
When we marked his assault on freedom in so many ways.
Marking what he’s done to our democracy
Demands a Trumpian act of hypocrisy —
On May 1st he commands us to observe the nation’s first “Loyalty Day.”
It Sounds Like …
You can use the phrase “primate mange,”
Or you can say the words “nameplate flange.”
But if you work for the Trumphirate today
There’s one thing you can never say,
We won’t tell what it it is, but it sounds like “castrate grange.”
