Comments on: The mayor of Charlottesville fancies herself a poet

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:57:49 +0000

I laminated my poetic license and keep it in my wallet.

By: neo

neo — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:55:02 +0000

Mac:

Calling it a poem gives her poetic license.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:50:33 +0000

I’d rather Walked didn’t call her unpleasant rant poetry, but the bar for poetry isn’t that high. I’m fond of this definition from the Encylopedia Britannica:
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POETRY, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

https://www.britannica.com/art/poetry
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Walker is going for a specific emotional response, however repellent, via language with minor effects of meaning, sound and rhythm.

So, sigh, a poem, if she wants to call it that.

By: huxley

huxley — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:01:08 +0000

Politics makes more sense if you recall the early scenes of “2001” with the two ape packs snarling and gesticulating at each other.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 16:42:15 +0000

What has happened to the black voters that they choose this sort of ignorant racist fool? Maybe it is white leftists trying to make black voters look stupid. Adam Clayton Powell made much of “sticking it to Whitey” in his day. Maybe that is part of it but it does make those voters look stupid or corrupt.

By: Mac

Mac — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:29:25 +0000

As best I can tell from the link, the wordage was first described as a “poem” by the author after it had been removed from Facebook. I’m puzzled as to what made her call it that. Apart from Its crudity, in form it’s indistinguishable from any other bit of social media snarling.

This would do as an entry in my not-to-be-composed list of Women and MInorities Making the World Worse. One of the lesser annoyances of the current climate is the pervasive treatment of Women And Minorities as the people who are working idealistically and against great opposition from the white male to make the world a better place.

By: Richard+Aubrey

Richard+Aubrey — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 12:08:43 +0000

She was elected.

By: JTW

JTW — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:54:13 +0000

Enforced equity is by definition injustice…
It can only be achieved by forcibly taking the possessions of those who work for them and giving them to those who refuse to work.
Of course, “social justice” is injustice as well.

So her (as with all leftists) entire agenda is based on creating and perpetuating injustice.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 06:28:39 +0000

FOR AMERICA
I’m very proud of
My company.
As you too know, I know
I built a very great company.
But if I become president,
I couldn’t care less about
My company.
It’s peanuts.
I want to use that same
Up here, whatever it may be
To make America rich again
And to make America great again.
I have Ivanka, and Eric and Don sitting there,
Run the company, kids, have a good time.
I’m going to do it for America.

Bigly – Donald Trump in Verse: “Make Poetry Great Again.”
Selected and arranged by Rob Long

#StillMyPresident

By: Owen

Owen — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 00:08:04 +0000

This is what happens when a talentless self-gratifying angry narcissist (but I repeat myself) gets the chance to “speak truth to power.”

As I (too often) do these days, I think of H.L. Mencken’s observation that “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”