{"id":2331,"date":"2021-01-19T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T03:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:12:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T13:12:12","slug":"the-mercy-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"The Mercy Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four hundred thousand Covid dead.<br \/>\nAnd DT&#8217;s packing up instead.<br \/>\nHe doesn&#8217;t give a fuck for suckers out of luck,<br \/>\nas long as he winds up, somehow, ahead.<br \/>\nTomorrow he will fly his family south<br \/>\nto be his party&#8217;s claws, if not its mouth;<br \/>\nwhere he can yell, &#8220;You&#8217;re fired!&#8221; to elderly retired<br \/>\nin the sunny land where marks are routh.<br \/>\nHe still won&#8217;t admit &#8216;Sleepy&#8217; took the wheel.<br \/>\nIn his trapped mind, election was a steal.<br \/>\nHe is the rightful ruler, and nothing could be crueler<br \/>\nthan claiming his landslide was not for real.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s got four years to shape himself anew,<br \/>\nto get back at those reds who turned him blue.<br \/>\nWith Georgia on his mind, his rage will make him blind.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll fume and gloom in failed dictator stew.<br \/>\nHe&#8217;ll gather at his side remaining goons,<br \/>\nthe kinds of folk who&#8217;d steal the White House spoons.<br \/>\nMay all his future days be festooned with sting rays.<br \/>\nAnd may he not be seen for many moons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four hundred thousand Covid dead. And DT&#8217;s packing up instead. He doesn&#8217;t give a fuck for suckers out of luck, as long as he winds up, somehow, ahead. Tomorrow he will fly his family south &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2331\">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-2331","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":2331,"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. 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