Ghost Story for a Winter’s Day

(A new birth of infamy: Two shades meddle. Black and white Capitol photos,
voiceover, two intertitles)

    President Possessed at Inauguration
    Recalls Nothing After Touching Bible

Eleanor, Winston, Joltin' Joe:

On November 5th, 2024, a date fixed in ignominy, the United States of America
was surrendered after a half-hearted scuffle.

I regret to tell you that in the days that followed, the occupying power drew from
the depths of our nation collaborators pledged to disfigure our institutions and
irreparably change our way of life.

A state of emergency is promised that will take families from their homes and
expel them from this country, surpassing, I am compelled to note, Executive
Order 9066.

Military and law enforcement personnel will serve an unleashed Caesar crowned
by a complicit judiciary. Truth will lodge in (pause) compliant throats.

Our allies must confront their enemies alone and may find us arrayed against them.
Our progressive society, the achievement of generations, will travel back in time to
the land of cotton.

And the greatest peril humanity has faced, the accelerated destruction of a living world,
shall be ignored to briefly guarantee the dominance of a bunker elite.

Always will our nation remember the character of the onslaught against us.

No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated assault, the
American people in their righteous might will win through to victory.

We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain this
form of suicidal folly shall never threaten us again.

Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that the continuance of life as we have
known it is in danger.

With confidence in our strength, with the unbounded determination of our people, we
will gain the inevitable triumph.

I ask my fellow Americans to declare that since the dastardly defeat on November 5th
of the party of Merrick Garland a state of war has existed between a fossil confederacy
and the human race.

    Jaunty Figure Waved to Crowd
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