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Criminal Energy

"The ghost of recent misery Still has a song to sing Your captivated heart Waiting for a spark No one you'd care to recognize Suddenly in control Unfortunate to find What it is inside" - Jimmy Eat World, "Criminal Energy" (2020) * What happens when life not only imitates art, but takes it further than the art possibly could? We're finding out right now in the United States, where we have a president so drunk on power and short on empathy that that his words seem perfectly natural coming from the fascist Nazi bad guy the Red Skull. So natural, in fact that the person who created President Supervillain on Twitter has to accompany each post with a disclaimer stating that these are not just panels from old Captain America comics, but the president's actual words. No comic book writer could create an antagonist as narcissistic, ridiculous, and malevolently ignorant as the one that currently darkens the White House. And so the pas