While not as elegant as "with mallets toward none", "our members seem to be rising" has that vintage Hefneresque ring to it, in keeping with your verse's reference thereto.
I use trolls like McNallen for inspiration - I put my replies to him in a substack post - here: https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/a-reply-to-an-irish-duginist-neo - referring to him as a poor deluded sap and a Neo-Bolshevik Putinist/Duginist - but not by name... He seems to be a big fan of Dugin and Dugin's Substack. Arktos Journal - to which I subscribe (free, not paid) as well. Dugin is as ponderous in English as he is in Russian, but he's the perfect sort of writer to snow people like Tucker Carlson - who interviewed him - with a snowstorm of Alt-Right/fascist intellectualism. Reading Dugin is like reading Mein Kampf (been there, done that) and it's really along the same lines, the German flavor of fascism rather than the Italian one although Dugin cites Evola as a primary source. Dugin would be totally down with the RuSich/Sonnenrad types.
Your pun brings the game of croquet to mind... A good shot, knocking him into foul territory which is where he belongs... lol. I was thinking more along the lines of "The Stark Fist of Removal" -https://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fistclutch.html
While not as elegant as "with mallets toward none", "our members seem to be rising" has that vintage Hefneresque ring to it, in keeping with your verse's reference thereto.
I use trolls like McNallen for inspiration - I put my replies to him in a substack post - here: https://streamfortyseven.substack.com/p/a-reply-to-an-irish-duginist-neo - referring to him as a poor deluded sap and a Neo-Bolshevik Putinist/Duginist - but not by name... He seems to be a big fan of Dugin and Dugin's Substack. Arktos Journal - to which I subscribe (free, not paid) as well. Dugin is as ponderous in English as he is in Russian, but he's the perfect sort of writer to snow people like Tucker Carlson - who interviewed him - with a snowstorm of Alt-Right/fascist intellectualism. Reading Dugin is like reading Mein Kampf (been there, done that) and it's really along the same lines, the German flavor of fascism rather than the Italian one although Dugin cites Evola as a primary source. Dugin would be totally down with the RuSich/Sonnenrad types.
Your pun brings the game of croquet to mind... A good shot, knocking him into foul territory which is where he belongs... lol. I was thinking more along the lines of "The Stark Fist of Removal" -https://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/fistclutch.html
In the shadows of the comments, where the internet trolls do roam,
Lurk the ardent Putin fanboys, far away from Moscow's dome.
With caps lock on and fervor high, they champion Vlad’s regime,
Ignoring facts and logic, in a propagandist dream.
They hail from basements far and wide, in moms' houses they reside,
Spewing rhetoric and nonsense, with delusion as their guide.
"Great leader! Mighty savior!" they proclaim with zeal so grand,
While ignoring all the suffering across their troubled land.
Their posts are full of bluster, with no substance to be found,
Accusing all dissenters of being CIA-bound.
They laud the shirtless horseman, their idol strong and stout,
But fail to see the tyranny that makes their voices shout.
"Fake news!" they cry at facts, "West's lies!" they boldly state,
While munching on their Cheetos, in a patriotic state.
Yet irony escapes them, as they fervently defend,
A leader who’s content to see their freedom at an end.
So here's to you, dear Putin fans, with your fervent, fiery prose,
May you one day see the light where real democracy grows.
Until then, keep on typing, in your echo chamber dense,
For history will judge you with a wisdom most immense.
Courtesy of ChatGPT
I had no idea it could do that.