{"id":5686,"date":"2016-11-30T02:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T02:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgiawasp.com\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2018-12-05T23:14:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:14:31","slug":"i-dreamed-i-saw-don-trump-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/georgiawasp.com\/?p=5686","title":{"rendered":"“I dreamed I saw Don Trump last night…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baez<\/p>\n

50 years\u00a0hence<\/a><\/em>, will some dulcet-toned lass sing “I dreamed I saw Don Trump last night<\/a>?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

* \u00a0 * \u00a0 * \u00a0 *<\/p>\n

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\"WoodstockA word of explanation: \u00a050 years from now that dulcet-toned lass could be<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0singing that\u00a0ode<\/a>\u00a0to Donald Trump to the tune of\u00a0“I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night<\/a>.” \u00a0Joan Baez<\/a>\u00a0sang the original song – about Joe Hill – most memorably at Woodstock<\/a>,\u00a0back in the summer of 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another word of explanation. \u00a0The day after the last election – November 9, 2016, in case you’ve forgotten – a phrase came trickling up from my\u00a0memory vault<\/a>. \u00a0In fact, I did a post on Facebook, reminding people of “what Joan Baez said: \u00a0‘DON’T MOURN. \u00a0ORGANIZE!<\/em><\/strong>”<\/p>\n

But then I had to explain it was actually Joe Hill<\/a>\u00a0who said that, but she’s the one who made the saying famous. \u00a0(At Woodstock, “back in our hippie days.”) \u00a0<\/em>As an aside, Joe Hill<\/a>\u00a0was both a labor activist<\/a> and a song-writer, and as such was credited with inventing the term\u00a0pie in the sky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Which could also refer to Donald Trump, but that would mean\u00a0going off on a tangent<\/a>…)<\/em><\/p>\n

So anyway – and to make a long story short: \u00a0Today I finally uploaded Joan’s\u00a0\u201cJoe Hill last night<\/a>,\u201d and listened to it on my\u00a0iPod Shuffle<\/a>\u00a0as I did my weekly two hours of kayaking.<\/p>\n

That’s when I was struck by the line at the end of the song: \u00a0“Where working men defend their rights, it’s there you’ll find Joe Hill.” \u00a0Which is what makes the resulting comparison in this post so\u00a0ironic<\/a>. \u00a0(Either that, or\u00a0incongruous<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0I always get those two \u00a0mixed up.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\"AThe thing is, in some strange way\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0– educated at the\u00a0New York Military Academy<\/a>, then the\u00a0Wharton School<\/a>\u00a0(at right)<\/em> and<\/em> <\/strong>worth an estimated 3.7 billion dollars* – has somehow become a hero to the (white) American working man.<\/p>\n

See for example\u00a0Trump’s fans have more to lose than Trump himself<\/a>. \u00a0That article noted that whatever the outcome of the election, Trump would remain “more or less intact … rich and privileged and more famous than ever.” \u00a0However:<\/p>\n

The same cannot be said for the millions of Americans who have looked to Trump to save them. \u00a0These folks … the angry, white, blue-collar workers<\/strong> who are outraged or terrified that America has become some topsy-turvy multi-cultural nightmare where a hard-working man cannot make a decent living … will emerge from this circus worse off than before.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also\u00a0Donald Trump a working man\u2019s hero in US coal country<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the future may not be so rosy for The Donald<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0In another line from from \u201cJoe Hill<\/a>,\u201d Joan Baez noted, “‘The Copper Bosses killed you Joe, They shot you Joe’ says I.” \u00a0In DJT’s case, the same professor who predicted – back in September – that Trump would win is now saying that he’ll be impeached. \u00a0And in another irony the Democrats<\/em><\/strong> won’t be behind the impeachment.<\/p>\n

Professor Allan Lichtman<\/a>\u00a0recently noted that Republicans are nervous about Donald Trump, for reasons including that he’s a “loose cannon” and that no one know what he really<\/em> believes. \u00a0“He can’t be controlled. \u00a0The Republicans would vastly prefer to have Mike Pence, an absolutely predictable down-the-pipe conservative Republican.*”<\/p>\n

Which – you could<\/em> say – was what happened to\u00a0Joe Hill<\/a>. \u00a0The “Copper bosses” couldn’t control him, so they had him convicted of murder in a “controversial trial.” \u00a0In Donald’s case, if his\u00a0party bosses<\/a>\u00a0can’t control him, they may resort to impeaching him in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, and seeing him convicted in the Republican-controlled Senate.<\/p>\n

\u00a0(See also – for example –\u00a0That OTHER \u201cTeflon Don<\/a>,\u201d which noted \u2013 back in March \u2013 that Trump\u00a0\u201cmay well be the first president in American history to get both<\/strong> impeached and convicted.\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n

And if that<\/em> <\/strong>were to happen, Trump would remain forever as a hero to many. \u00a0(Untarnished by his actual performance in office.)<\/em> \u00a0As the original song said, “Takes more than guns to kill a man… \u00a0Says Joe ‘I didn’t die.'” \u00a0And it may well take more than an impeachment-and-conviction to tarnish the Donald’s reputation with the American working man. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And so the final stanza of\u00a0 \u201cI dreamed I saw Don Trump last night<\/a>” might go like this:<\/p>\n

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From San Diego up to Maine,
\nIn every mine and mill,
\nWhere working men defend their rights,
\nIt’s there you’ll find Don Trump,
\nIt’s there you’ll find Don Trump!<\/p>\n

* \u00a0 * \u00a0 * \u00a0 *<\/p>\n

Hey, it could<\/span> happen!<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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* \u00a0 * \u00a0 * \u00a0 *<\/p>\n

The upper image is courtesy of\u00a0Joan Baez – Wikipedia<\/a>. \u00a0The caption: \u00a0“Baez playing at the March on Washington<\/a> in August 1963.” \u00a0See also the\u00a0<\/em>“Portrait of Joan Baez in 1961.”<\/em><\/p>\n

For a live version of the song see <\/em>Joan Baez Live @ Woodstock 1969 Joe Hill.mpg – YouTube<\/a>, or\u00a0<\/em>Joan Baez At Woodstock: Her Song For Joe Hill (VIDEO<\/a>).” \u00a0For the full lyrics see\u00a0JOAN BAEZ LYRICS – Joe Hill<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Re: \u00a0“Hence<\/a>.” \u00a0I used the term in\u00a0main caption in the sense of “archaic<\/a>,<\/span> of a length of time,” and\/or meaning “<\/span>in the future from now.” \u00a0An example: \u00a0“<\/em>A year hence it will be forgotten.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Re: \u00a0Joe Hill<\/a>. \u00a0See\u00a0<\/em>Wikipedia<\/a>, which noted that as a\u00a0<\/em>labor activist<\/a> and songwriter, he was “variously celebrated as a martyr or a villain.” \u00a0And as a\u00a0<\/em>song-writer, one of his best-known songs was “The Preacher and the Slave<\/a>,” in which he coined the phrase “pie in the sky.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Re: \u00a0“Memory vauit.” \u00a0The link will take you to\u00a0Confabulation – Wikipedia<\/a>, which defined the term in\u00a0psychiatry<\/a>\u00a0as\u00a0“a disturbance of memory, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world.” \u00a0(Which could “also again” refer to Donald Trump, but as in the main text “that would mean\u00a0going off on [another] tangent<\/a>.”)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNote\u201d also that an asterisk in the main text indicates a statement supported by a reference detailed in these \u201cnotes.\u201d \u00a0Thus, as to the professor predicting Trump’s impeachment, see\u00a0Professor predicted Trump win, says he will be impeached<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Re: Trump’s net worth. \u00a0See\u00a0Donald Trump Net Worth | Bankrate.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The lower image is courtesy of\u00a0APG 146 – When Pigs Fly?<\/a>airlinepilotguy.com<\/a>. \u00a0See also\u00a0Flying pig – Wikipedia<\/a>, which defined the phrase in pertinent part as “an adynaton<\/a>\u2014a figure of speech<\/a> so hyperbolic<\/a> that it describes an impossibility.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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