They are coming down hard on protestors because the powers the be are scared and weak. They are stretched thin and are incompetent. They lost Vietnam, they lost the Middle East, they lost Cuba, they lost North Korea, they lost Ukraine and they'll eventually lose the world.
You are currently in the claws of the beast and the beast is dying. You will be free of it's clutches, keep biting its hands. It's squeezing you because your bites hurt it. Do not give up.
we are all trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is shitting out its doodoo ass
I open up my wallet,
And it’s full of coom
I open up my wallet
A fly comes out
Comrade fly
That's my secret friend
I am always shidding out my doo-doo ass
we fed the cows the horrible machine doodoo
I took one long hard laugh at this one.
You know, OP’s beast metaphor was thought provoking. But this - this is poetry!