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The Naked Combover

Why is it, dear, that the combover speaks as brazenly as a fat corporate-fed, way too marbled whitemeat Naked Emperor at a Progressive Costume Party? Because his favorite soundbites are "I am the best hair-dressed Emperor these RedStates have ever fed" followed too loudly by, "And I am here to listen to and help you and God bless AmericaIncorporated First!!!!!" And you know he is nakedly lying from the top of his bald combovered head all the way through the ****-stained bit about listening, because we know he's too busy twittering in the morning to step into his best-dressed CEO corporate-fat role of fear-mongering and monocultural apartheid anger-militarized mismanagement, and other terrifying LoseLose pushbutton regimes of paranoid and fascist Supreme Naked Emperor images still trying to work that hopeless combover. Honey, really, don't you have anything healthier to obsess about? Yes, but our kids' teachers believe secular natural egosystems are something other than the exterior LeftBrain face of sacred spiritual RightBrain ecosystems, Which is what you plan to obsess about next, but its difficult to find any who seem likely to listen to secular-sacred harmonic students, much less parents, any more or less than my own evangelical Christian parents did, or the local Catholic priest currently Holy Communions in that apartheid cathedral built of universal historical matter. Well, it does sound like we have a lot on our Their Not Listening communion plates. Perhaps if we first listened better to their long crippled suffering they might be able to hear our's better? That's a thought, although it doesn't seem to be working with the POTUS. Well, dear, don't beat yourself up. Remember the verse about having ears to hear and eyes to see that a combover does not suggest deep powers to co-passionately listen to one's own naked and vulnerable aging self. Stuck in perpetual bullying adolescence as learned in military school, more likely. I wonder how he would look in a Marine cut? If not healthier, then at least more honest.

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