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Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, June 30, 2022
The right is never right
It’s horrible what Joe Biden and the his radical socialist policies have done to Boris Johnson’s economy. https://t.co/MNahPE3Rk5
— Bradley Whitford (@BradleyWhitford) June 22, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
No wise man has the power to reason away
The same people who thought Obama was a Muslim, think that Trump is a Christian.
— John Collins (@Logically_JC) June 23, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
They lied about Roe, and they're lying about gay marriage and birth control
I think it's worth noting that the people say the Court won't come for Lawrence or Obergefell don't seem to have any account of why the reasoning in Dobbs wouldn't apply there. They just think we should take the word of people who actively misled Congress to get where they are.
— Ned Resnikoff (@resnikoff) June 27, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Guilty much?
"In the past 24 hours, there has been an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and all lawmakers on the committee are likely to receive a security detail." https://t.co/K76l4R2jGR
— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) June 22, 2022
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emaycee
Wednesday, June 29, 2022
We can't trust the republican party with anything
Republicans: Donald Trump staged a coup that ended in an armed insurrection but I'm still voting for him.
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) June 22, 2022
This is why we just can't trust this Republican Party with power, America.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
There is no doubt that Trump tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government
There has never in my lifetime been a Congressional hearing more damning to a President. Never.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 28, 2022
This makes Watergate’s darkest moments look like a bridge club meeting.
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Peace,
emaycee
Seditious conspiracy
This is what today's testimony was setting up.
— digby (@digby56) June 28, 2022
Meadows told her to set up a call with Roger Stone and Michael Flynn to coordinate the planning for 1/6. This is the seditious conspiracy and it wasn't just some Proud Boys in a garage. https://t.co/zue0oaYPc2
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Peace,
emaycee
The hearings are working
The consistent and persistent awareness of people around the entire plot that it was criminal has been a huge revelation of these hearings so far. https://t.co/G9YRUOJOBJ
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 29, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Barefoot and pregnant, the republican dream
Pediatrician here. This isn't about babies, because if it were, we'd support kids & families with health care, high-quality education, universal child care, reliable housing, access to healthy food. This is about controlling women's bodies.
— Scott Hadland, MD (@DrScottHadland) June 24, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
The walls are coming down
NEW: Public confidence in the Supreme Court just plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded in American history. Only 25% of Americans say they have confidence in the Supreme Court now, down double digits since last year, per @gallup.
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 23, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
You had to be an idiot (Susan Collins) not to see this coming
The big tell that Kavanaugh would vote to overturn Roe was that he was a conservative judge nominated by a Republican president to the Supreme Court.
— Matt Ford (@fordm) June 25, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
They're going to need to step aside
However we fix this, if it's even possible, is going to require new thinking. The gerontocracy in charge of the Democratic party is going to have to either recognize that it's not 1991 anymore, or step aside for those who do.
— That Tom Tomorrow guy (@tomtomorrow) June 25, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Monday, June 27, 2022
Republicans love cruelty as much as they hate women and the poor
The cruel truth is that overturning Roe will hit poor women and girls the hardest.
— President Biden (@POTUS) June 25, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Sadly, this is beyond the intellectual capabilities of republicans
If you’re against abortion, don’t get one.
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) June 24, 2022
If you’re against contraception, don’t take any.
If you’re against same-sex relationships, don’t have one.
If you’re against same-sex marriage, don’t marry someone of same gender.
Do not impose your beliefs & religion on all Americans.
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Peace,
emaycee
Exactly--if a woman wants one, she gets one
I really wish people would stop drastically using the scenarios of rape or incest as the sole premise for an abortion. A woman doesn’t have to be in a traumatic situation for it to be reason enough. In fact there is zero explanation that needs to be given.
— Jordyn Hodges🏜 (@jordyvotes) June 25, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Susan Collins place in history as our nation's greatest dupe is now secure
Fool me once, shame on you.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) June 25, 2022
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me three times, who am I, Susan F-ing Collins?
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, June 26, 2022
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCCXC--Nick Drake: Pink Moon
Alas, I'm not one of the cool people who discovered this week's artist before the Volkswagen Cabrio commercial in 1999 that features this week's tune (apparently to his fans this is an egregious transgression). No matter--my citizenship in Coolsville was revoked many, many years ago....
Nick Drake was born in Rangoon, Burma (his father was an engineer, and eventually his family returned to their native U.K.) in 1948 and spent the first twenty years of his life bouncing around public and private schools. He bought his first guitar in 1965, began practicing regularly in 1966, and by 1969 had a record contract. Drake would release three studio albums over the course of his career, none of which sold very well, partly because of his aversion to interviews and performing live. Sadly, Drake suffered from acute depression and at the very young age of 26 died from either suicide or an accidental overdose of anti-depressants. Like Vincent Van Gogh (though obviously not nearly as successfully), Drake's legacy would grow greatly after his death, both commercially (all of his albums eventually went gold in the U.K) and critically. Artists as varied as Kate Bush, REM, the Cure, Iron and Wine, Radiohead, and Paul Weller have cited him as an influence. Drake has been inducted into the Folk Hall of Fame, and all three of his albums have been included on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time.
Fun Fact #1: Way back in Friday Night Jukebox #247 I noted that the Dream Academy had written, and dedicated to him, that week's post ("Life in a Northern Town"), and that eventually Nick Drake would be featured in his own post--and voila! here it is....
"Pink Moon" was not released as a single but was the lead song on his ever so inventively named third album Pink Moon, which came out in 1972. The album did not chart in its initial release, nor after the success of the Volkswagen commercial (though sales did increase substantially).
Fun Fact #2: A pink moon occurs every April and is not named for a reddish tint (though it can occur on occasion) but for the floral growth that is beginning in the Northern Hemisphere in the spring. Contrary to some Drake fan posts, a pink moon is not foreboding, but rather is considered a sign of rebirth after the long cold winter.
"Pink Moon" lasts just a hair over two minutes. Lyrically, Drake uses less than twenty-five words, with two repeated stanzas and a simple "chorus." Instrumentally, it features Drake on acoustic guitar (Drake used numerous different tunings with his music), and about halfway through Drake adds in a stark piano (which he plays). Vocally, Drake's baritone is nothing short of haunting. Yet despite its brevity and simplicity, the song speaks volumes. What it says, exactly, I have no idea, but every time I hear it "Pink Moon" sounds better and more consequential that it did the time before. And while we rightfully mourn his all too early death, we can also give thanks that in his time here he shared such a wondrous and intoxicating song with us.
Lyric Sheet: "I saw it written and I saw it say/Pink moon is on its way/And none of you stand so tall/Pink moon gonna get you all..."
Enjoy:
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Peace,
emaycee
It's definitely a war on women
When the penalty for aborting after rape is more severe than the penalty for rape, that's when you know it's a war on women
— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) June 24, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Republicans think the state owns women's bodies
I don’t think people realize that it is perfectly fine to be pro-life for your own body, but you can’t force that on someone else’s body. That is their decision.
— Maya (@__Maya98) June 24, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Yes, we are
We are two elections away from Republicans banning abortion in California https://t.co/ZM0aet9n68
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 24, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Minority rule only lasts so long before all hell breaks loose
AOC: We are talking about a court with the majority of justices appointed by a party that has not won a popular presidential election more than once in 30 years ruling against the majority of Americans. pic.twitter.com/X7wd2HV0ei
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 24, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Saturday, June 25, 2022
Think about this the next time your subscription comes due
The fact that media organizations are instructing employees not to make public comments about the elimination of a fundamental constitutional right for 50% of the population tells you why the modern media is not capable of helping protect democracy from what is happening.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) June 24, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Yes, they are
Translation:
— Chris Meloni (@Chris_Meloni) June 24, 2022
“Gay rights are next” https://t.co/H1bN5g2CuI
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Peace,
emaycee
Fuck you, you gutless piece of shit
Pence calls for a national abortion ban https://t.co/VylxxweJak
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 24, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee, guffaw, guffaw, guffaw
I really wish all the people who tried to launder the reputations of the conservative justices when they were up for confirmation, and gaslight us into thinking they respected precedent, would at least have the guts and the accountability to stand up today and say they were wrong
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) June 24, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Friday, June 24, 2022
Russian Ron betrays America again
So, Ron Johnson’s intern decided to commit sedition on his own and present a fake slate of electors for two states to the Vice President of the US in an attempt to subvert the will of the voters and install Trump to the presidency without his boss’s knowledge? That’s the story?
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) June 22, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Bye!
NEW: Marjorie Taylor Greene just said that Republicans will leave Georgia in a mass exodus if Stacey Abrams wins the governor’s race this year. “They’ll move to Alabama, Tennessee, or Florida.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) June 19, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
If you aren't a white, Trump loving Christian you're probably fucked
If Republicans are running on shooting each other, imagine their plans for us?
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) June 20, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
A total failure in all aspects of life
Can we please all agree that this experiment of having a dumb TV host and shady real estate developer with no government knowledge, 6 bankruptcies, 5 kids from 3 wives, 68 charges of sexual assault, 7,300 lawsuits, and $1,000,000,000 in debt as president did not go well at all?
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) June 21, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, June 23, 2022
For the pro-life party, they sure seem pretty cavalier about the lives of children
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
It'll be good for the cat food industry and casket makers, though
Democrats are fighting to preserve your Social Security and Medicare.
— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) June 20, 2022
Republicans want to end them.
That's what's at stake in November.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
That good enough for me
Cookie say watch Sesame Street...NOT Fox News!
— Cookie Monster (Parody) (@monster_manager) June 20, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Hell is for cowards
exhausting, frightening, devastating session. No wonder rightwing media scared to death to show this to their audience. cowards.
— Jennifer 'I stand with Ukraine' Rubin 🇺🇦🇺🇦 (@JRubinBlogger) June 21, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Trump first, America last
You know what was neither in Ashley Biden’s diary nor on Hunter Biden’s laptop? 15 boxes of classified and top secret documents. That shit was at Mar-A-Lago.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) June 18, 2022
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emaycee
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
What's scary is how true it is
The only surprise in the Texas GOP platform is that it doesn’t call for a reinstatement of slavery.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) June 20, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
God is dying?
Gallup reports that belief in God in America has fallen to its lowest level in 78 years of polling on the question.
— Victor Laszlo (@Impolitics) June 18, 2022
Clergy across the country were so concerned by these results that they took time out from worshipping Trump and sexually assaulting their parishioners to say so.
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Peace.
emaycee
Translated: Fuck you, Donnie
Equal time means sitting your lying ass in a witness chair.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) June 16, 2022
We’ll wait. pic.twitter.com/p2fzKfQDvz
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Peace,
emaycee
God is secondary--it's always been about power
Seems kinda sus to call yourself a Christian then kiss the ass of the human embodiment of the 7 deadly sins for 6 years
— L S D (@LSDA4_) June 17, 2022
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emaycee
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCCLXXXIX--Tony Bennett: I Wanna Be Around
During the pandemic, my youngest son and I became enamored with the movie The Freshman, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick. In the movie there's a scene where Brando ice skates with a woman and while they're skating, this week's tune provides the background music. Though I was vaguely familiar with the song (it's older than me), I became enamored of it as well because of the movie...and it's another example of the many different ways that a beloved song can be introduced to us.
I wrote about Tony Bennett's signature tune "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" way back in the fourteenth post for Friday Night Jukebox, but in the early days I didn't write bio recaps, so I'm going to give a brief (or as brief as one can for an artist who's been singing for over 70 years) one for this post, just to highlight what a stellar career Mr. Bennett has had. He began singing after serving in World War II (Bennett served on the front lines in the European Theater and the horrors he saw led him to become a pacifist, which he still owns to this day) as a singing waiter, was discovered by Pearl Bailey in 1949, and by 1951 had his first hit. Bennett was a huge success through the mid-sixties before rock and roll slowed his career to a halt. By the late seventies he was broke and addicted to drugs; his sons helped him turn his life and career around. Bennett had a massive renaissance in the 1990's (propelled by, of all things, an MTV Unplugged special), and has spent the last thirty years releasing hit album after hit album. For his career, Bennett has released 61 albums with two #1's and five more that hit the top ten, and 83 singles with three #1's and two more that reached the top ten. He's also won nineteen Grammy Awards and been inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame. Bennet released his latest effort (a duets album-their second--with Lady Gaga) just last year, and in doing so became the oldest artist, at the age of 95, to release an album of new material in the history of the Billboard charts. Due to the effects of Alzheimer's, Bennett has stopped touring but still sings in the studio regularly.
Fun Fact: In an interview in 1965, no less an authority than Frank Sinatra declared that for him Tony Bennett was the best singer in the business at that time. High praise indeed.
"I Wanna Be Around" was released by Bennett as a single in 1963 from his ever so craftily entitled LP I Wanna Be Around. The single hit #14 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200.
At first listen, "I Wanna Be Around" seems to be like any other "My Baby Left Me" song, but by its close it's anything but. Backed by a piano, a bass (I think), and a lightly tapped drum, Bennett begins by singing about how he wants to pick up the pieces when his love gets her heart broken, and by the end he's joyfully crooning about how sweet revenge will be when she suffers like he did. The song could easily have turned into a bitter diatribe, but thanks to Bennett's anticipatory gusto (and his vocals--Mr. Bennett can flat out sing) it leaves us with a knowing smile and an understanding heart.
Lyric Sheet: "And that's when I'll discover that revenge is sweet/As I sit there applaudin' from a front-row seat/When somebody breaks your heart/Like you, like you broke mine..."
Enjoy:
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Peace,
emaycee
Not surprising from a guy who got rich by defrauding Medicare
His analogy to describe dangerous people… is quite literally the thing that his own party is doing is his own state. https://t.co/JLbMhgovEf
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 17, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Count on it
This weekend we’ll celebrate Juneteenth.
— Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (@malcolmkenyatta) June 17, 2022
Next week Republicans will try to ban the books that tell you what Juneteenth is about.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Yet again, The New York Times completely embarrasses itself
Prosecutors face the challenge of proving he knew something that every one of his aides has testified they told him. https://t.co/BSguWoZ3YQ
— Angry Staffer 🌻 (@Angry_Staffer) June 18, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Personally, I've always found him nauseating
“You know what I liked about Trump? Everybody was afraid of him, including me.”
— The Recount (@therecount) June 17, 2022
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at “Faith and Freedom Coalition” conference in Nashville, Tennessee pic.twitter.com/yozINJD5vq
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emaycee
Monday, June 20, 2022
This
The President of the United States sent the Proud Boys to murder the Vice President of the United States and they were 40 feet away from doing it and frankly not enough people are reacting like this is sheer, fucking madness.
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) June 17, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
How the hell is Clarence Thomas not a bigger news story?
Lead insurrectionist John Eastman clerked for Clarence Thomas
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) June 16, 2022
Lead insurrectionist Ginni Thomas is married to Clarence
Clarence was the ONLY Justice to vote to prevent Jan 6 investigators from accessing Trump docs
Clarence is corrupt beyond repair. Long past time for him to go
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Their lack of courage could well cost us our Democracy
Reporters: If you're having trouble finding the balls to ask Republicans tough questions about their ongoing coup conspiracy, just pretend you're talking to Hillary Clinton about her private email server.
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) June 15, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
And this is what the rest of America can look forward to if we keep voting republicans in office
JUST IN:
— Sandy Medellin (@SandyMedellin15) June 15, 2022
It’s 100 degrees today in Odessa Texas and the city just told its 122,600 residents that they could be without water for the next 48 hours.
That’s what decades of voting in a Republican government will do for you.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, June 19, 2022
Evil ways
Putin has disappeared Russia’s leading opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) June 15, 2022
This is Stalin murdering Trotsky. This is political assassination by another name.
Why can’t we recognize evil when it’s in plain sight?
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Peace,
emaycee
The choice is clear: Democracy or fascism
A message from Vice Chair @RepLizCheney about Thursday’s hearing. pic.twitter.com/SsnOOEnyVq
— January 6th Committee (@January6thCmte) June 14, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
They'll just let their antisemitism flag fly, because to them Judaism isn't a religion
This is a really interesting case that would put pro-religious freedom justices in a tough spot if it made it to SCOTUS https://t.co/AjoRI0131h
— Ahmed Baba (@AhmedBaba_) June 15, 2022
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emaycee
Their warped "Christianity"
Lauren Boebert was a sex worker & had 2 abortions but pretends to be a pro-life Republican
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) June 15, 2022
Herschel Walker has a secret son but runs as a conservative family man
Trump is a serial sexual assaulter but evangelical Christians worship him
Hypocrisy is the hallmark of the GOP
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Peace,
emaycee
Saturday, June 18, 2022
So much for republican populism
42 billionaires worth $275 billion are supporting Ron DeSantis campaign. Is it any surprise that since DeSantis became governor, Florida has given $5.7 billion from our tax dollars in corporate giveaways and that he campaigned against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour?
— Thomas Kennedy (@tomaskenn) June 15, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Never forget that cruelty is part of republicans' platform
The GOP has now made it clear on multiple occasions: if you vote for them, they will get rid of your Social Security and Medicare. Believe them.
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) June 14, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
These are the words of a psychopath
"I would just have to say, if I had the opportunity to talk to the [parents of Uvalde victims] I'd have to say, look, there's always a plan. I believe God always has a plan. Life is short no matter what it is." https://t.co/1ZIP2BZEoC
— Jacob Rubashkin (@JacobRubashkin) June 15, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Following your own guiding light
1. Religious freedom means you can practice any religion you want, or none at all.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) June 14, 2022
2. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can use your beliefs to dictate what others can and cannot do.
Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.
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Peace,
emaycee
Friday, June 17, 2022
"Falsehoods" is too kind, they're blatant lies
As Herschel Walker’s GOP profile rises, the falsehoods mounthttps://t.co/fF7ogAqAv7
— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby Calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) June 14, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
The Supreme Court slides into fascism
Just me or is this slide into authoritarianism getting steeper? https://t.co/DPGLRcgK4u
— Beverly Batte (@BeverlyBatte) June 16, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
There's much truth in sarcasm
are you telling me the guy who cheated to get into college and cheated to get out of Vietnam and cheated on his taxes and cheated students at his scam university and cheated contributors to his fake charity also cheated donors to his bogus election fund? get the fuck out of here
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 14, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
So much for the golden rule
If Christianity has you driving across the country to terrorize gay people
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) June 13, 2022
If Christianity has you punishing women and depriving them of their rights
If Christianity has you inciting violence and hating all who aren’t like you
Your religion isn’t faith. It’s hatred.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, June 16, 2022
To make it clear, republicans do not care about America or Americans
The reason you’re seeing so many Conservative Inc types squirm out “no one cares about this!” takes, is because everything you see and hear at these hearings is evidence of what Republicans and conservatives are willing to tolerate in the name of tribal politics.
— Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25) June 10, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
It's price gouging, plain and simple
American oil output under Biden is HIGHER than under Trump — the highest ever. Pass it on. pic.twitter.com/CMIjwImUNh
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) June 12, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Stand (up) in the place where you live!
The reason they say you have to stand up to bullies is because you have to stand up to bullies. It's long past time decent Americans stood up to this radicalized & dangerous Republican Party.
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) June 12, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Short and sweet
BREAKING: The Republican Party
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) June 12, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
When reality bites
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| Too late by the time they realize |
A number of years ago, probably on some night when insomnia had me in its evil grip, I came across a movie called The Morning After with Jane Fonda and Jeff Bridges. For some odd reason the film captured me, and I watched it numerous times even though it seemed a little soap-operatic (I was surprised to learn that it actually received okay-ish reviews and Fonda got a Best Actress Oscar nomination for it). In the movie Fonda plays a failed, aging, alcoholic actress who wakes up after a drunken evening in the apartment of a man who is, rather inconveniently, lying dead next to her, and due to her blacking out, has no idea if she killed him. Fonda's estranged husband, played by the late Raul Julia, who owns an upscale salon and has fallen in love with a wealthy socialite and wants a divorce (though he and Fonda are still on friendly terms) encourages her to go the police, but Fonda doesn't trust the police. She starts to leave the country but accidentally runs into Bridges, who is a recovering alcoholic former police officer, who happens to believe her when she tells him she didn't kill the man, and they work together to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Long story short (spoiler alert!), turns out the dead guy has been killed in order to frame Fonda by Julia and his rich girlfriend, so he can get the divorce, gain full ownership of the salon, and turn it into a salon for the rich and famous. When arrested at their engagement party, the rich girlfriend immediately says it was all Julia and she had nothing to do with it, and Julia realizes he's screwed--her money will buy her way out of it and he'll be the one spending eons in prison. The look on Julia's face, as he says "No" and laughs a poor man's laugh, as it dawns on him just how much the socialite's place in society has left him fucked, has stayed with me for years (Fonda and Bridges live happily ever after).
All of which is an incredibly long-winded way of wondering if Trump supporters, like Julia, will one day wake up and realize how much Trump and his enablers have screwed them financially, health-wise, spiritually, and patriotically--the rich fucking over the poor yet again. I have my doubts--Trumpers are not known for intelligence and obliviousness seems to be a prerequisite for voting republican.
Yet if they get their wish of a fascist America (which seems more likely by the day) and see that keeping people of color in their place, watching LGBTQ people suffer for the right-wing version of Christianity, letting Corporate America run roughshod over our institutions and environments, and putting the Libtards in jail doesn't make them a whit richer, that their fascist overlords don't really give a shit about rural America, as they watch the country sink into the hopelessness of third world countries (without a country as powerful and rich as the United States to invest in it), and that they have to watch what they say and do just like the dirty hippies lest they end up in jail...then they just might wake up and wonder just what the fuck they have done.
And the looks on their faces will be Oscar worthy.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
I'm skeptical, but it very well could save our democracy
Newsweek: Trump May Be Charged for Trying to Overthrow Election by End of the Month.https://t.co/uY1YX5G8uE
— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby Calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) June 12, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
If there was a God, I'm sure he'd take Trump out first
.@laurenboebert, are you asking God to end President Biden's life? https://t.co/6e44XWgUjP
— David Weissman (@davidmweissman) June 11, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
The time has come for Democrats to pack the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court does not rule our democracy; we do. As it spends this month declaring that our Constitution prevents us from protecting our bodily autonomy or our children’s safety, Congress must respond with better interpretations. With @DaphnaRenan: https://t.co/lk8PHUEL1Y
— Niko Bowie (@nikobowie) June 8, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Republicans are all for free speech until facts get in the way
My Truth Social account was just permanently suspended for talking about the January 6th Committee hearings. pic.twitter.com/MBNTSNe4Z8
— Travis Allen (@TravisAllen02) June 10, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Tuesday, June 14, 2022
This adulation isn't new
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I got my hair cut at a particular salon for a number of years after I moved to Detroit, and every time I was there getting my hair cut (about every three to four months), one of the barbers would be telling one of the patrons about how Ronald Reagan had said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" (referring to the Berlin Wall). It didn't matter that it was two years after Reagan's speech that the Berlin Wall actually came down, that it came down because of the former Soviet Union's ineptitude, and that Reagan had no role whatsoever in its demise. It didn't matter the immeasurable damage Reagan had done to the poor and the middle class, his racist stereotyping of people of color, or that thousands of gay Americans died because he ignored the AIDS crisis. As far as the barber was concerned, Reagan said it and the Wall miraculously came down the next day.
I note this because I remembered it the other day (even though I had stopped going to the salon after Russia installed Trump as President because I could no longer stomach the hair cutters' politics) as I was shaking my fucking head about the utterly bizarre adoration republicans have for Donald Trump. A serial sexual assaulter who failed miserably at business, killed hundreds of thousands of Americans with his mishandling of the COVID-19 crisis, destroyed the American economy, whose kowtowing to American enemy Vladimir Putin led to a war in which thousands of innocent Ukrainians have been killed, tried a coup to overturn an election he lost badly, already seen as one of the worst U.S. Presidents in history...you get the point.
In short, republicans have long been susceptible to second rate entertainment celebrities who are abjectly stupid, who feed them racist dog whistles and spout fatuous banalities about a Christianity they neither embody nor know anything about, whose cruelty is surpassed only by their utter lack of compassion, because other than being second rate entertainment celebrities, that's who your republican voters are. A bunch of hateful, spiteful bigots with as much Christian authority as Charles Manson, whose loyalty lies not with Americans, but with their fellow fascists.
And what scares me the most is that Ron DeSantis might make both Reagan and and Trump look like rank amateurs.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
And a republican
Reminder that inflation is high in EVERY advanced economy, not just in America. Blame Covid and Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It has nothing to do with Biden, and anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or lying.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) June 11, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Ginni and the pervert must go
Holy shit. Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden’s popular vote victory and “choose” presidential electors, according to emails obtained by @washingtonpost.
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) June 10, 2022
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Peace,
emaycee
So as to save our country from fascism
Reminder: DONT WORRY ABOUT CHANGING REPUBLICAN HEARTS AND MINDS…WORRY ABOUT GETTING DEMOCRATS AND INDEPENDENTS FROM THE COUCH TO THE POLLS
— 🦋🦒Don’t Follow Me🦒🦋 (@AuntieTavia) June 10, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Another traitor bites the dust
Jan 6th Traitor Turned Leading Michigan GOP Gov Candidate Arrested By FBI - Nothing to see here folks, really, the entire party isn't filled w criminals, traitors, sex pests and abusers ... https://t.co/66JPdoIh42 #January6thCommitteeHearings
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) June 9, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Monday, June 13, 2022
What Donald Trump hath wrought
Again, coming from Texas. This man was so bothered by an interracial couple out for a walk he couldn't keep it to himself. pic.twitter.com/LucYV5hDEd
— 🥀_Imposter_🕸️ (@Imposter_Edits) June 9, 2022
Take the two minutes it takes to watch this video. Then remember that this racist was emboldened by Donald Trump, that this is the America republicans, every fucking one of them, want. This racist is Donald Trump, this racist is the republican party. And that they all believe this is the America God wants them to have, that God looks kindly upon their hatred for people of color.
Then make sure you get your ass out to vote this November, and every decent American you can drag with you, so this racist nightmare doesn't become the new normal in America.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
And we've only just begun
a devastating indictment, not just of Trump, but also of the Republican politicians and conservative media figures who continue trying to mislead Americans by covering up what they know to be true
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) June 10, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Nobody does white supremacy better!
Fox “News” is literally the 24/7 treason network hosted by white supremacists
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) June 11, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Solidarity forever
We were "disgusting, twisted, perverted, sick."
— Izzy Kamikaze 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🦕🦖 (@IzzyKamikaze) June 10, 2022
We were "confused."
We were "dangerous."
We were "deluded."
We were unemployable & nobody would rent us a shitty bedsit unless we lied.
Every gay person my age was treated like trans people are now.
Solidarity! #Pride pic.twitter.com/q2HPSie9Se
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Traitors say what?
Funny how the people who whine about Joe Biden’s son making consulting deals are in fact just trying to distract us from Fred Trump’s son trying to overthrow the American government.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) June 10, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Sunday, June 12, 2022
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCCLXXXVIII--Richie Havens; San Francisco Bay Blues
I wrote about this week's tune in one of my earliest posts, wherein I related how I had bought Eric Clapton's Unplugged for my father, who was in the last couple of months of his battle with lung cancer, and the joy the song brought to him. Eric Clapton's version (it's been covered by many) was my introduction to it, but since Clapton has become a right-wing nut job, I went with Richie Havens' version of it because a) it's better, and b) Havens wasn't a racist jackass who stole his best friend's wife like Clapton.
I also wrote about Richie Havens, and his wonderful song "Follow" about a year and a half ago, so there is no need for a bio this week. And since Havens passed in 2013, there aren't any updates to his career.
Like "Follow," Havens' version of "San Francisco Bay Blues" was not released as a single. Also like "Follow," it was released on the album widely considered to be Havens' best work, Mixed Bag, which I will gently remind you peaked at #182 on the Billboard 200.
I'm not going to lie to you: had "San Francisco Bay Blues" been named "Hudson Bay Blues" the chances are good that I still would have liked the song but being about walking around my birth home and most favorite city in the world most certainly takes it into another stratosphere for me. Havens tells the tale of a man whose woman has left him, sailed away on an ocean liner, and while he knows he's to blame he's still dreaming she'll come back so he can walk arm in arm with her down by the San Francisco Bay. Behind an airy musical groove, Havens' vocals capture exquisitely the man's sorrow, his hope, and the romance that is San Francisco. This one's a little personal as it brings back memories of walking around Sausalito with my family when I was still in my early teens with the bay in the background, but that doesn't make it any less of a gem than it is.
Lyric Sheet: "I ain't got a nickel/And I ain't got a lousy dime/If she don't come back/I think I'm going to lose my mind..."
Enjoy:
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Peace,
emaycee
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