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Bittersweet pyrrhic victory

Bittersweet pyrrhic victory... if a 2024 November presidential Biden win pandemonium likely to occur, subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval might set United States in a tailspin. Though discouraged, disenchanted, disheartened, et cetera Democrat, I intend to exercise enfranchisement wherein human made his habitat within Schwenksville, Penna, a washed out town with one laundromat pessimism rains heavy on my heart reverberating a prominent pitapat hoping on a broken wing and a prayer trumpeting Republican theocrat blessedly outvoted videre licet sense and sensibility courtesy electorate. Yours truly attests the candidate signified by donkey the lesser of two evils, a cruel trick doled out courtesy fickle finger of fate braying against lumbering Elephantidae Thomas Nast of Harper's Weekly in 1870 he did illustrate said animals as caricature he did humorously sketch though expressing tacit approval for elder incumbent octogenarian quintessential statesman, he (a common gentile Joe) exhibits the preferred alternative, though secular Semitic humanist, I vouchsafe present commander in chief bares the sisyphean onus to foster entente cordiale among various and sundry governments linkedin across the webbed wide world, particularly vocalizing, orchestrating, invoking dovish overtures unnamed politician obligation his adherents must take a stand and serve as ambassadors representing peace and harmony for instance such as conferring freedom regarding oppressed Palestinian people Israel must liberate allowing, enabling, and providing their own destiny (lies) to operate versus being humiliated courtesy where boot heel diplomacy of autocrat bully and regulate every friggin action brutally commanding, goading, lording over, et cetera subjects when, where, and how to breathe or urinate, plus current occupant of Executive Mansion must not resist parlaying olive branch, which amped up energy, would tax even an envoy even at her/his prime, which younger generation must be entrusted to govern since four score chronological orbitz logically, seriously, zealously... automatically must disqualify office holder/seeker, whose emotional, mental, and spiritual fitness necessitates body, mind, and spirit triage no more than half life of aforementioned age, cuz youth in general, (and women in particular) bubble with near boundless energy regarding promulgating win/win within realm of conflict resolution emblematic of Lake Wobegon, the little town time forgot, and the decades could not improve .

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