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A Message From Your Leader: A poem against the current fascist administration

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LEADER

They’re eating the dogs!
They’re eating the cats!
Let’s round them all up ‘cause
They’re vermin! They’re rats!

We need a good scapegoat
Blame them for our ills
While we line our pockets
And make those big bills

The one percent get
To have all their tax breaks
If we call them subhuman
And hope no one wakes

To the con job, the lies
The Fox News propaganda
We’ll dupe half the nation
Just like in Rwanda

Genocide? Camps?
A hellscape for a future?
Can’t happen here
So go back to your stupor

Those woke liberal pansies
Are so contradictory
They definitely put
Too much credence in history

It wasn’t a dog whistle
Or a nazi salute
Go watch some TV
Go buy something cute

It’s the land of the free
There’s no reason to whine
As long as you’re white, male,
And rich, you’ll be fine