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Das Furer Trumpeting Totalitarian Triumph

Call me a pacifist activist deploring insanity of war, never a Fitbit moon-unit soldier of military industrial complex, this articulate baby boomer verily stupefied, openmouthed, dumbfounded at inane ill logic to send best and brightest, or even those boasting commend able faculties of body, mind, and spirit (tracing a long jagged genealogical line harkening millenniums 'pon fighting for king crimson ransom (demarcating advent of civilization aggregating en mass), and subsequent dawn of internecine killing fields. ******************************************* Dictators topple puppet regimes wobbling viz falling dominoes crumbling tombstones roaming contemporary caesars fiddle Nero foo fighters kindle burning desire donned gawd father issues hut two, three, four... tramping grapes of wrath lady liberty fruited plain laid waste, raped, pillaged defrocked inalienable rights: pursuit of happiness life, liberty sabotaged dough bro’s rank and file grunts groom thinly veil unbridled guise coup d'etat usurp democracy constitution left in tatters scattershot blitzkrieg genocide scored martial fife and corporeal contraband taps out air key ping deign nasty up magnificently arrayed highland manor soldiers bouzouki plucking troubadour looting accompanies autocratic regime firebrand dons singular purpose affixes emergency legislation suspended emergency moratorium stifles government abrogates presidential elections sanctioned covenants blithely overthrown social media linkedin commoners coalescence jackbooted oppressive thugs click heels protestation meted with truncheon tear gas canisters, pistol whip, pepper sprayed defiant demonstrators fold resurgent subsequent twittering uber vent facebook, instagram, snapchat recruit communal cascade brave combat gear buttressed fighting force feckless fealty (take knee) pledge allegiance furnish salvo civilian guerillas unexpected tea and sympathy reinforcements salvo nsync with lockstep march coup d'etat spontaneous mission unite dead reckoning sites unwaveringly "FAKE" feint obeisance flaunts commander in chief freedom fighters fabricate "witch hunt" megaphone blares while POTUS perfumed, manicured, coiffed particularly pleased popinjay puzzled barreling madding crowd spurs surrender presidential incumbency abridged ousted apprenticed commander in chief imprisoned under house arrest.

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