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Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool

Over our collective figurative eyes commander in chief pulls wool... because you watch and see that democracy will unspool military (intelligent) industrial complex tool at Trump's beck and call, where hardened soldiers train the crosshairs of their firearms against innocent bystanders, especially targeting supposedly nonestablishmentarians (like this rebel without a clause), who embraces win/win conflict resolution shouting thru a megaphone while standing atop a toady stool, hence deployment of National Guard troops doth adumbrate military rule presaging a violent future, where blood will pool renting asunder complex edifice once upon a time, (perhaps such story a myth) housing the land of the free and home of the brave newel allowing, enabling and providing, a metaphorical stairway to heaven initially linkedin to Lemuel metaphysically meaning Godward, but interpreted by this atheist analogous to traversing steps that become ever more steep challenging one to climb toward priceless crowning jewel. Martial law on the near horizon, where the grateful dead souls wake (me up when September ends) courtesy thunder of war and trumpeting brass faint echoes of "Always Ready, Always There," where usurpers, and traitors of freedom take away vaunted, and cherished inalienable rights soundcloud heard increasing in volume amidst the shimmering waves of heat radiating off the scorched earth policy to destroy leaves of grass fomenting civilians to take up arms witnessing aggressive suppression fighting machine launched deliberately creating chaotic eruption loosing hostility across earth, wind and fire while Doobie Brothers smoking a joint nasty brutes attacking erroneously hashtagging those accused of jump/kick starting purported upheaval when thugs the real lawless culprits no matter majority of ordinary people helpless, defenseless impossible mission to escape onslaught of fired tear gas towards peaceful protesters, where life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all living things great and small smoldering after burning at the stake. Another American Civil War in the offing in this case pitting the fruit of the loom narcissistic dictator wannabe against what the commander in chief refers to as losers, those enlisted men and women, who voluntarily gave the full measure of their lives not only at Gettysburg, but fourscore and seven years prior to thwart tyrannical treatment imposed by King George III of Great Britain and Ireland during the American Revolution. His policies and actions are widely seen as contributing to the growing tensions that led to the conflict. Now the forty seventh president set on a demolition course obliterating any vestige of those founders field of dreams risking life and limb to dare shuck off the shackles of monarchical British rule, and would be rolling in their graves if they could witness the travesty of monomaniacal hegemony of one self proclaimed demagogue for life dead set on annexation of Greenland (the world's largest island which is not a continent), an autonomous territory controlled by Denmark chock a block flush and rife with exploitation of mining for rare earth minerals, uranium and iron.

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