{"id":396215,"date":"2019-02-18T06:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/someone-needs-to-teach-these-asoles-a-lesson\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T06:19:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T05:19:36","slug":"someone-needs-to-teach-these-asoles-a-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/someone-needs-to-teach-these-asoles-a-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone Needs to Teach These As$#oles a Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair \u2013 Photo by Martin Falbisnor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cSomeone,\u201d my Finnish-American socialist great-aunt Mary used to say in the late 1960s, \u201cought to teach these assholes a lesson.\u201d \u00a0By \u201cthese assholes,\u201d she meant the people who own and run the United States.<\/p>\n

Mary died many years ago.\u00a0I thought about her the other night while watching Donald Trump lie about crime and border walls to an audience of frothing white-nationalist Amerikaners in El Paso<\/a>. I wondered what she\u2019d think about the American political circus these days.<\/p>\n

I imagined her yesterday laughing with disdain as the orange monstrosity idiotically declared a national emergency.\u00a0 There is no national emergency at the southern border just a humanitarian crisis created by its own fascist nativism.<\/p>\n

For the Ruling Class Because in the Ruling Class <\/strong><\/p>\n

Who would Mary want taught a lesson in 2019? \u00a0Trump, of course, for starters. Aunt Mary would have loathed the tangerine truth-crusher with a passion. \u00a0She would have been appalled by the callousness with which the billionaire creeping fascist president cut pay and benefits for 800,000 federal workers for five weeks in pursuit of a nativist wall meant to counter a fake brown menace<\/a> on the southern border.<\/p>\n

Mary would despise the modern-day Republicans for playing along with Trump\u2019s racist, sexist, and authoritarian games and for giving the super-rich and their corporations a big tax cut in a country where the top tenth of the upper One Percent…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair \u2013 Photo by Martin Falbisnor \u201cSomeone,\u201d my Finnish-American socialist great-aunt Mary used to say in the late 1960s, \u201cought to teach these assholes a lesson.\u201d \u00a0By \u201cthese assholes,\u201d she meant the people who own and run the United States. Mary died many years ago.\u00a0I thought about her the other night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}