{"id":2016,"date":"2020-09-11T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T09:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2020-09-11T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:37:15","slug":"red-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Red Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He didn&#8217;t want a panic.<br \/>\nHe hates to see us manic.<br \/>\nJust die and go in peace.<br \/>\nSome day this thing will cease<br \/>\nand go away like magic.<br \/>\nOh, sure, it was quite tragic.<br \/>\nAs long\u00a0as stocks do not decline,<br \/>\neverything will be just fine.<br \/>\nNew rising employment\u00a0figures,<br \/>\nboosted by need for grave diggers,<br \/>\nshow that we will come back stronger,<br \/>\neven if this goes on longer.<br \/>\nWatch them all fight for vaccines.<br \/>\nGee, I love my pharma queens.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t so much a reach<br \/>\nwhen I told folks to drink bleach.<br \/>\nSaves the family getting sicker.<br \/>\nCulls the herd a whole lot quicker.<br \/>\nNext disease, I need some stats,<br \/>\nshowing it kills Democrats.<br \/>\nSure, I&#8217;ll get a lot of flack,<br \/>\ntargeting the brown and black.<br \/>\nHark back to the great wild west,<br \/>\nwhere the white man could &#8220;be best.&#8221;<br \/>\nNo one dared threaten their guns.<br \/>\nIf they did, they were dead ones.<br \/>\nU.S. can be great once more.<br \/>\nJust eliminate the poor.<br \/>\nAutocrats and working serfs.<br \/>\nBlue states gone, just like the Smurfs.<br \/>\nTed Cruz named to Supreme Court<br \/>\nwill make sure moms can&#8217;t abort.<br \/>\nSupreme General William Barr,<br \/>\njust awarded his tenth star,<br \/>\nwill maintain an enforced peace.<br \/>\nAll protest will henceforth cease.<br \/>\nWithout all the thugs and haters,<br \/>\nlife will be good for dictators.<br \/>\nPeople crying to be free?<br \/>\nThey are all just dead to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He didn&#8217;t want a panic. He hates to see us manic. Just die and go in peace. Some day this thing will cease and go away like magic. Oh, sure, it was quite tragic. 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