I guess a commie rat is a student at school who goes to work in the morning with a red star on the shoulder attitude, like the Rise of Orion's back-to-school act every September morning. His report card (Gemini?) is a subject of great interest to his parents and can get to be legendary. Betelgeuse is Orion's red shoulder star, from which he heaves an axe overhead as he leaves the scene every Spring for a Summer in the Underworld. In the Summer, on the other hand, you can see the Red Star Antares shining in the galactic core force hook of constellation Scorpius. The red star seems to be the folding point of a bent nail at the Antares corner of the pentagonal asterism called "The House of Mars" in Scorpius, and includes the nebula Ro Ophiuchi and M4, suggesting "Row O-fee U-cheese". I guess he got the rat image partly from his lonesome religion as a graduate, based on the "This is It" approach and his fondness for a house-"A" to insert himself into, hence "A-the-is-M". "Hard to get some ass without the House", he says, like a senator. Perhaps what makes him a mere rat to an American is his determination never to commune in American English, but always in Cuban Spanish, plus a gift for looking like a different brand of creature. Or maybe it's that he imprisons former opponents endlessly, thus seeming to tolerate no loyal opposition, and may not be up for re-election. Here it seems he is perched on a drumstick to beat the drums for "CommunisM", as to get some "big M" you have to keep talking and communicating and whacking your drumstick on some tail. In the photo he seems to be pulling for the devil, who spurts out of him like a genie from the gene-lamp he is rubbing.

"Who, me? I am not either a Commie Rat. I am like this!"