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There's Nothing We Can Do - Patrick Fitzgerald
Two years ago, in frustration over the Uvalde school shooting, I wrote a poem decrying the lack of any action - in contrast to monumental efforts placed toward bogus right-wing causes. Today there was another school shooting in Georgia, about thirty miles from my home, and Donald Trump remains unpunished and running for president. Nothing has changed.
=== Lyrics ===
While we’d really like to stop this, there is nothing we can do…
The moment that we hear more shots
We’ll send along our prayers and thoughts
Then whisper into funeral plots:
“There’s nothing we can do”
A shooter running up the stairs?
We’ll send along our thoughts and prayers
That man from Georgia sits and swears:
“There’s nothing we can do”
But when we do not get our way
And do not win election day
“To action, and without delay!”
We’ll gladly stage a coup
We cleared the schools of C-R-T
Of rainbows, and L-G-B-T
And any sport where “she’s a he”
Such easy things to do
So lest you think our hands are tied
Or that we’re simply paralyzed
Just think of all the things untried
There’s so much we could do
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He called on all the living former presidents for support - and got it from Carter, Ford - and Reagan! 
