{"id":178836,"date":"2018-08-08T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/08\/parody-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T00:15:00","slug":"parody-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/08\/parody-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Parody is Dead."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not the Onion<\/i><\/div>\n

Reality has so far outstripped parody that the latter has become irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Case in point, following an EPA proposal to re-legalize asbestos, a Russian asbestos manufacturer has put Donald Trump’s on their packaging<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On 25 June 2018, a Russian mining company named Uralasbest, which is one of the world\u2019s largest<\/a> producers of asbestos, posted a message of support for President Trump on their official Facebook<\/a> and VK<\/a> (a Russian version of Facebook) pages. The post included photographs of packed asbestos material adorned with the face of Trump and the text \u201cApproved by Donald Trump, 45th President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asbestos is a mineral that was once widely used in construction projects for its fire resistant properties, but research has since linked it to a variety of cancers<\/a>, most notably lung cancer and mesothelioma. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span>

In June, when Uralasbest posted their message of support, then-Administrator of the EPA Scott Pruitt had recently announced new interpretations<\/a> of the Toxic Substances Control Act that could allow for \u201cnew uses\u201d of asbestos to be approved in the United States. While this move would not allow for previously banned uses to be considered, it was a reversal of Obama-era rules<\/a> that barred the EPA from considering any new uses for asbestos.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I’ve always thought that the Donald Trump was toxic, I had no idea that they were taking this concept so literally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not the Onion Reality has so far outstripped parody that the latter has become irrelevant. Case in point, following an EPA proposal to re-legalize asbestos, a Russian asbestos manufacturer has put Donald Trump’s on their packaging: On 25 June 2018, a Russian mining company named Uralasbest, which is one of the world\u2019s largest producers of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,573,484,688,437,455,421],"class_list":["post-178836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-40yrs","tag-donald-trump","tag-environment","tag-pollution","tag-regulation","tag-russia","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}