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He took the ‘tweeners to the cleaners.<\/div>\n
He just couldn’t be much meaner.<\/div>\n
He’d start a fight and then he’d walk away.<\/div>\n
You’d think that that was it, but not so with this shit.<\/div>\n
He’d stab you in the back some other day.<\/div>\n
An artificial mullet and an undercover gullet<\/div>\n
made him feel big, despite being so small.<\/div>\n
He’d blow and blast the news.<\/div>\n
He’d say he’ll save the jews.<\/div>\n
He’d tell us that we need another wall.<\/div>\n
He drove away good friends for monetary ends.<\/div>\n
He says to hell with earth, sky, air and sea.<\/div>\n
Our land will be his park, with curfews after dark.<\/div>\n
His rule is the low point in history.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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