It Has to Be a Duck

If I were the president,

Would it really be okay

To go after my opponents

By weaponizing the DOJ?

 

If I said that I'd shut down

Papers or networks reporting news

That made me feel uncomfortable

Because they criticized my views;

 

Or that I'd want to terminate

Parts of the U.S. Constitution;

Or that certain peoples are

Animals, or gene pollution;

 

Or that I'd use the military

Against American citizens here;

Wouldn't you agree that my

Ideas would be cruelly severe?

 

What if I said that there would be

A bloodbath after the fall elections;

That my political enemies

Would be locked up per my directions;

 

That I would want to execute

Former joint chiefs of staff

(Of course, I'd let appointed henchmen

Do it all on my behalf);

 

Or that I wished my generals

Would be much more like Hitler's? Say what?

Then wouldn't you find my message

To be alarmingly clear-cut?

 

I'd be called a fascist, yes,

If all of the above were true.

And since Trump has promised it all,

He would have to be one, too.

 

When people say he doesn't sound

At all like a fascist, I'm thunderstruck.

If something walks and flies and quacks

And looks like a duck, it's a duck!

 

-by Bob B (10-24-24)