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Viva Tyranny
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Our greatness was dimly recalled
We were adrift. We were afraid.
Then God bestowed the great man
for whom we had so desperately prayed.
Viva Tyranny! There were those put on earth to obey. I am such a man. Handsome leader, I’ll do as you say.
Torpedo the refugees’ boats.
Let them infect countries distant from ours.
100 percent of our votes are for him who has God-given powers.
Tyranny fits like a glove. Choice is denied, but we are safe, We give Dear Leader our love. Our brown shirts are chic and they don’t chafe.
No leader’s as virile as ours, His strength is that of seventeen men. Victory’s never in doubt. We needn’t ask if, but only when.
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We’re picknicking today at Mar-a-Logo. We’re bringing weiners and Wisconsin cheese. Indulging Christian whims, we’ll sing the MAGA hymns. safe from Deep State scum and refugees
Look over there, my dear. It’s Mr. Bannon. I hope he’s signing autographs for sure. Behind him I think that is Steven Miller, who’s helping keep our nation’s bloodline pure.
Our honored guests today, so proud and pardoned: the patriots of January six. They kept their sacred oaths, these manly Proud Boys. Let’s hope that they teach us some cool tricks!
Let’s go get slammed, my dear, on ice-cold lite beer and share the coolest new conspiracies and maybe then deport some Spanish speakers before a white child catches their disease.
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The nightmare’s begun. There’s nowhere left to run, son. It’s dusted and done. Evil’s won. We’re now unstoppable.
You’re dropping like flies. Big surprise! You despise all our lies but you can’t slow our rise. We‘re unstoppable!
Woketards, keep crying. I hope lots are dying. Today here, tomorrow the world!
You’re gasping for air. The complacent don’t care. What despair! All your prayers won’t repair all that we’ve destroyed.
You’re weary and weak. God, you reek.and can’t speak. Things look bleak. And you freak out. Your lifeboats are leaking now.
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The godless clog up our streets sinning right in front of. youngsters. Seeing them, God must think, "What the fuck!"
The Christian right is like a beacon of decency in these dark times. They don't have sex and they recycle, and they commit far fewer crimes.
The LGBTQ crowd loves in ways condemned in Scripture. Jesus himself would say, "How gross!"\
Those born just once are scum. We must drive them from our country. There's just one God, and he is ours!
A Christian theocracy will rid our land of non-believers. Blasphemers will be put to death!
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That MAGA Man!
02:59
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He is a good, good man sometimes misunderstood. He signed the Muslim ban. He’s tight with Tiger Woods. Of me he’s made a fan. This fella’s got the goods. That MAGA man!
He alone can unite us and when we are polarised no more. He’ll pay plastic surgeons to hide our scars. Our greatness he’ll restore.
Now when he gets deposed he really works the room. He got the border closed. He made the Chinese fume. When he meets babes who’ve posed he grabs ‘em by the womb. That MAGA man!
Incite a riot? He would sooner dye his hair! Hey, woketards, just for once will you try being fair! The promised land awaits and he will take us there. That MAGA man!
He bleeds red white and blue. God knows he’s sacrificed for all that’s good and true. And he communes with Christ. His son-in-law’s a Jew. He’ll have drug dealers iced. That MAGA man!
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Trump cap. Trump blouse. Trump car and Trump house. She loves Fox News and Trump’s views.
Ankle bracelet. Dyed hair. Hoop earrings My prayer is that she will always be in love with me.
Tonight I’ll see the MAGA gal I love For an evening of death threats and petting. She’s down to earth, that MAGA gal I love. I always know just what I’m getting.
We’ll wear our bright red caps and get in online scraps with liberals in ALL CAPS. Our love will never lapse. She’s promised me she’ll never leave me ‘cause fascists make better lovers.
Pushup bra. Botox. Ooh la la, she rocks. High heels. It feels so right.
Loaded and locked. Beer guzzled. Boots knocked. Condom worn. Oaths sworn. My MAGA gal.
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Hitler's Birthday Party
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On a lonely Friday night something isn’t close to right. They are partyin’ next door like it’s 2024. No one urged me to drop by and I think I’m going to cry. The music’s up so loud. They’re a very stylish crowd.
Somewhere in the night a Hitler’s Birthday party rages. I can hear the squeals of glee. I sit here alone and turn these pages. Nobody invited me.
They’ve got substance to abuse. They’ve got every sort of booze. Tequila, rum, and beer. They’ve made it very clear my attendance isn’t craved. How could they be so depraved? I’ve been shunned and spurned. They may find their condo burned.
I don’t steal their parking space nor do I get in their face. I an witty, clean, and cute. I’d have even brought some toot. Though my job is writing wills I’ve got awesome social skills. But I wasn’t on their list. It’s apparent I’m not missed.
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Guatemalans
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The black-haired and brown-eyed think they’re replacing us. They procreate like rabbits, we’ve observed. They loot our shops and sell us drugs while MACE-ing us. But it’s by us that God wants to be served.
If God’s so fond of Guatemalans why do most of them speak Spanish? I think it’s obvious they’re fallen and we ought to make them vanish.
If God is big on Salvadorans why’d he make them dark-complected and small, impoverished, and foreign? Their type I think must be rejected!
If Jesus speaks well of jihadists why are so many suicidal? I find their strategy immodest. The wave they’re hoping for is tidal.
I’m so grateful to be white. It makes me visible at night.
God’s not fond of foreigners who know
him as Allah be they in Malaysia, Iran, or in Bogotá.
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Totalitarianism
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Totalitarianism makes perfect sense We all agree. It really rocks despite what woketards claim. It’s just the thing for you and me.
The Leader spoke. The woke ran off and hid. We know just whom should be reviled. We all behave just as Leader says we should.
Ambivalence has been exiled.
So polarised we just weren’t thinking straight ‘til Leader called for unity.
All those who balked? Sent to Guantanamo. Goodbye to threats of anarchy
The hurricane had leveled all our homes. You should have heard our anguished howls. Then Orange Jesus descended from on high with words of hope and paper towels.
Dear Leader does all our thinking now. We’re spared uncertainty and stress. Democracy’s in history’s garbage can. Fascism’s scored one more success!
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Democracy Is Toast
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You liberals were complacent when we were barely seen at home writing threats of death or buying gasoline with which to drench the homes of those who’d dared to disrespect the handsome genius superman we’ve managed to elect.
Fuck your feelings, woketard. Democracy is toast. How sad that your candidate seems to have overdosed!
What’s so wrong with fascism? It worked quite splendidly before. Tell us, why just whimper when it’s much manlier to roar?
Democracy slipped from your grasp as you snowflakes played games on your iPhone 19s . Make way for our parade.
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John Mendelssohn London, UK
John Mendelssohn is a withered old embarrassment from Santa Monica, California, who, n spite of fervent listener indifference, or even antipathy, been writing and recording music for over 50 years. NYC Rock called him “one of our more unique pop personalities, and like no one you have ever heard. From hard jingle-jangles to experimental symphonic pop, his taste roams the landscape.” ... more
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