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DDE ruled the land of the free.<\/p>\n

He was born October fourteenth,<\/div>\n
like George Floyd.<\/div>\n
He helped win a world war,<\/div>\n
had a decent golfing score,<\/div>\n
so, it was Ike and Tricky\u00a0Dick,<\/div>\n
into the void.<\/div>\n
Dick got nixed by JFK.<\/div>\n
That was not to be the way.<\/div>\n
He was the first of the big three<\/div>\n
eliminated. How that grated.<\/div>\n
LBJ chose not to run.<\/div>\n
Who knows who held that big gun.<\/div>\n
Dick got picked and then went after<\/div>\n
those he hated.<\/div>\n
When he finally got caught,<\/div>\n
doing things he shouldn’t ought,<\/div>\n
Ford stepped in, but he was<\/div>\n
very lowly rated.<\/div>\n
Jimmy Carter had some heart.<\/div>\n
They attacked him from the start.<\/div>\n
Ronnie snuck in underhanded.<\/div>\n
Decency was then disbanded.<\/div>\n
GHW came next,<\/div>\n
straight out of CIA’s text.<\/div>\n
Bounced by Bill for oil war,<\/div>\n
Sonny George evened that score,<\/div>\n
cheating out the real Al Gore.<\/div>\n
Then eight years of Hope, Barack.<\/div>\n
But good times ran out of stock.<\/div>\n
In came DT for years four<\/div>\n
feeling like more than a score.<\/div>\n
After him, there’s nothing more.<\/div>\n
Sad Joe, scratching at the door.<\/div>\n
Parties broken, unclass war.<\/div>\n
Climate just one crash in store.<\/div>\n
Flat earth, flat line,<\/div>\n
flat dash to the void.<\/div>\n
Black lives. White lives,<\/div>\n
it don’t matter.<\/div>\n
Remember George Floyd.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DDE ruled the land of the free. He was born October fourteenth, like George Floyd. He helped win a world war, had a decent golfing score, so, it was Ike and Tricky\u00a0Dick, into the void. Dick got nixed by JFK. That was not to be the way. 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