{"id":2305,"date":"2020-12-29T13:38:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:16:14","slug":"shell-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2305","title":{"rendered":"Shell Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least we won the big one.<br \/>\nNothing Trump can do to spoil it.<br \/>\nBut, unless we get those Georgia seats,<br \/>\nwe&#8217;ll still be in the toilet.<br \/>\nMitch will freeze the senate<br \/>\nwith his special turtle drool.<br \/>\nWith the old dictator gone,<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s the essential tool.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s right there in his job description,<br \/>\nnext to kissing ass.<br \/>\nHe will not hear or help a thing.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s like the talking bass.<br \/>\nAnd, like the turtle, he&#8217;ll plod on<br \/>\nwithout the orange hare.<br \/>\nTo make the damned Dems impotent<br \/>\nis his eternal care.<br \/>\nWith Grand Rand Paul and Not Tom Cruz,<br \/>\nhe&#8217;ll snuff out opposition.<br \/>\nRight judges and rich tax breaks,<br \/>\neven after the transition,<br \/>\nwill still be goals and FOX News trolls<br \/>\nwill resume with their lies.<br \/>\nWe won, but if we lose those seats,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s all moot exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least we won the big one. Nothing Trump can do to spoil it. But, unless we get those Georgia seats, we&#8217;ll still be in the toilet. Mitch will freeze the senate with his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2305\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1535,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=1535","url_meta":{"origin":2305,"position":0},"title":"His Due","author":"Rick Young","date":"January 30, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Satan sleeps down by my feet. I think he likes the smell. When not awake, he's pretty sweet. But roused, he's really hell. 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