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“Declaration of War on The Old Gods
Presidential Address, Shadow Congress, 1941

My fellow Americans. I stand before you as a man who’s gone 3 nights without sleep, yet I am not tired. I am energized with pride. Pride at seeing my countrymen become heroes. You are people who are not soldiers but still perform heroic acts, one after another, fighting across New York and Massachusetts, fighting the accursed daemonic puppets of the Kaiser.

I cannot rest when I hear of housewives on the streets of San Francisco taking up their fallen husbands arms to defend their homes. Help is coming. The army has already cleared many cities, but many more are left. Fear not, peace will come to our homeland, soon.

The Kaiser and the Emperor of Japan thought we’d bow to the might of their blasphemous alliances. You have shown that they were wrong. We do not fear them. They have awoken a giant. Within a week OUR cities will be safe but soon, Tokyo won’t be safe, Berlin won’t be safe, Constantinople won’t be safe and the same goes for EVERY single city in Royal Europe.

We are coming. the planet is ours, not the Old Ones’. First, we will purge our lands of them, then everywhere else. There is no divine right given to the Kaiser from the Old Ones. They aren’t gods and he’s not the second coming. They can be killed. They MUST be killed.

As of today we are at war. We’re not just at war with the puppet kings of Europe and the decaying Emperors of the Orient. No, as of today, we are at war with the Old Ones themselves.“