Broke City, Broken Politics

Let’s play a game of word association; aka connotations. I’m going to type a word or phrase, then associate it. In the comments, you can tell me if I’m wrong, or add more associations. Got it? Great; let’s go.

Broke

1. The City Of New Orleans. As in, money? We ain’t got none; as in, we got 99 problems, and a $100 million budget deficit is definitely one. Or, to paraphrase Rakim: ain’t nothing but sweat inside these hands; so I dig deeper into my pockets all my money is spent; so I dig deeper but still coming up with lint; so I start my mission, leave my residence; thinking how can I beat the Orleans Parish School Board out of dead presidents.
2. Byron Cole’s ability to read the room; or more specifically the decorum of the church he attends.
3. National Politics; free speech; the audacity to think of Charlie Kirk as anything other than a martyr. Thanks, Trump.
4. The Democratic Party — statewide, nationally, globally, galactically; just about everywhere you look, it’s in shambles.
5. Turbine 5; yes, the damn thing is broke again. It’s worse than the McDonald’s sundae machine. Enough is enough; can somebody just pull the plug on its oil pan? At this point, I think it, and we, would appreciate euthanasia. At least this time it didn’t explode and hurt 2 people.

The Subjunctive Mood

1. The grammatical form in which Oliver Thomas and Royce Duplessis may end up talking about their mayoral campaigns if things don’t change by election day. Example: “If I were to do it all over again, I’d…” The “were” being the subjunctive form of the verb “to be.” It’s used to express a hypothetical situation; where one would’ve done something, almost anything besides let Helena Moreno moonwalk down Perdido and up to the mayor’s office on the 2nd floor of City Hall.

Anchor

1. Mayor Cantrell. She’s just weighing this race down. Here we have a term-limited mayor presiding over a trash-filled, overly expensive, construction-infested city. And residents have been fleeing in droves. In any other time, she’d be prime political fodder. But black people been loving her since the recall; well, not all, but enough to make stepping out against her dicey territory. Even Moreno is only running against her indirectly.

Perplexing

1. Tyler Shough. Why is he here? He couldn’t even beat out Spencer Rattler. Surely, the Saints could’ve done something else with that 2nd round pick.
2. The Republican Party. What the hell is happening? Where’s the family values, the constitutionalists, the party of freedom? This present version is all shrugs; f*ck that; and Jimmy Kimmel.

Making punctuation great again.

1. The semicolon, obviously. Did you notice? There were a few sprinkled in there. I’m trying to make them great again; the allure of it all. We’ll see.

Frankie Beverly

1. The world keeps on changing; the world keeps changing, oh yeah.
2. The Golden Time Of Day it is not. Tough times for anybody who’s anti-Trump.

Wrong Leaders at the Wrong Time

1. Jeff Landry
2. Hakim Jeffries
3. Chuck Schumer
4. Hamas (nothing good came from that move.)

PS

1. After the fact; it may not be a fact. There’s a more than reasonable chance it is not, which is why you walk around, thinking, wondering: if the $100 million includes the one-time $70 million expense of a terrorist attack are we manufacturing a budget crisis?
2. Black people on WBOK be like; I still haven’t been polled.