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There are No Communists left for Red Wheel Barrel Contest

there are No Communists Left

Marjorie Taylor Greene
Please shut up already
About Communists
And Marxists.

and the radical
left-wing fascists
Coming to get us.

Coming for our Bibles,
our guns
And our lives.

First of all,
There are no more
Communists.

Except perhaps
In my hometown
Of Berkeley, California.

Even Communist China
Ain’t communist
Anymore.

There is no such thing
As radical left fascists

Fascists are right-wing
Christian nationalist authoritarians
You know
Like your buddy
Donald J Trump.

Do you even know
What year it is
Dear?

It’s ain’t the 50s
Anymore
The Berlin wall
Fell in 1990.

And the John Bircher
Society
Long along
Became irrelevant.

So, please
Just shut up
About communists.


one of my pet peeves is the constant talk among the political right of the threat of communism as if we are living still in 1950!