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Sunday, July 31, 2022
This ought to make for great ads this fall
The way you *know* that Republicans love the troops is that they're celebrating blocking a bill that would allocate funding to veterans suffering from exposure to toxic burn pits. https://t.co/w6fimn8dEm
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 28, 2022
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Big Brother nightmare scenario come true
Republican politicians and not doctors are deciding what medical treatments women can and can’t have. https://t.co/5JNBz7xhvV
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 28, 2022
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Authoritarianism on parade
Do people still think this is an open question?
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) July 26, 2022
Yes, Republicans will shut out the press in 2024. Virtually the entire presidential primary will be conducted through the right-wing press. Mainstream press will get access only to be used as punching bags. https://t.co/WeM6yulk6m
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This is the republican base today
Neo-Nazi Marine planned killing spree of nonwhite people — and mass rapes to 'increase the production of white children': Feds https://t.co/f2gilJoqkD
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) July 27, 2022
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Saturday, July 30, 2022
To republicans, Americans are disposable
42 Senate Republicans just blocked America’s veterans from getting health care and benefits to help them after being exposed to deadly toxins while serving our country.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) July 28, 2022
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Didn't think Schumer had it in him
Chuck Schumer outwitted Mitch McConnell and has delivered both the CHIPS Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.
— Democratic Wins (@DemocraticWins) July 28, 2022
That’s a Democratic Win!
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Trumpvilles
Trump plan for the homeless: Open up large parcels of inexpensive land in the outer reaches of the city… create thousands and thousands of high quality tents pic.twitter.com/Jj3VNSIdBq
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 26, 2022
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The final solution
Doug Mastriano consultant and Gab CEO Andrew Torba has reaffirmed he doesn't want right-wing Jewish commentators like Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin in his movement unless they “repent” and renounce their Jewish faith. https://t.co/R8Y4Gye3ll
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) July 22, 2022
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Friday, July 29, 2022
No one will be spared
Mainstream institutions and many journalists still aren't prepared. They have no idea how far the GOP will go and how far gone it really is. They think they'll be spared. They won't.
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 25, 2022
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Peace,
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They're not even hiding it anymore
Marge Greene identifies as Christian nationalist.
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) July 25, 2022
In other words, she is a Nazi.
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Republicans don't see Nazi Germany as a warning, they see it as the ideal
American nazis have taken over the Republican Party and intend to use it to take over the American government and replace it with an authoritarian, one party state. Prove me wrong.
— Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 (@RachelBitecofer) July 25, 2022
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Yes, I have the right to tell your religion to go fuck itself
I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: There are three branches of government. Your church is not one of them.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 25, 2022
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Thursday, July 28, 2022
Wordplay
Republican = Moron
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 26, 2022
Republican Jesus = Oxymoron
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Peace,
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What little credibility Trump had is pretty much shot
Trump yesterday said he told NATO countries he wouldn’t defend them if they were attacked by Russia https://t.co/XUxh26EOPL
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 25, 2022
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Frankly, Trump is too stupid to know what a Marxist even is
The Republican War on Teachers continues to escalate: “You would not trust these people to babysit your children for 20 minutes, why should we let them educate millions of American students? .. We must liberate these children from the captivity of these marxist teachers.” pic.twitter.com/mmInZc03K5
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 24, 2022
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This is more true than most of us like to admit
No. Because they don't know how to fight, when to fight, why the shit they do doesn't work, and will stand staring up at the rain until they drown. https://t.co/O37nkaSk0O
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 24, 2022
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Wednesday, July 27, 2022
The threats of the cowardly
GOP candidates are increasingly ramping up threats of riots and civil war as the election looms: report https://t.co/ot5P7PPzPs
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) July 24, 2022
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But Biden went home to Delaware again...
"After eight hearings, only one conclusion can be drawn: Donald Trump directed a conspiracy to violently overthrow the results of a valid election and install himself as the illegitimate ruler of the United States of America."
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 25, 2022
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Absolutely correct
Whatever your politics, whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must all agree on this; Donald Trump's conduct on Jan. 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office & a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation. It is a stain on our history.
— Adam Kinzinger🇺🇦🇺🇸✌️ (@AdamKinzinger) July 22, 2022
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At one time this would have seemed over the top--not anymore
MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance Predicts Weekly Impeachments, Jailing of Jan. 6 Committee, No More Elections Ever if Republicans Win https://t.co/yCApjeOOxy
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) July 23, 2022
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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
How did Ass ever become a Senator?
Ass is a very dedicated Senator and if Ass is the pronoun Ass wants us to use we should respect Ass’ wishes. https://t.co/Su1TbIWD1v
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) July 23, 2022
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Not only is Bannon going to prison, we get to make fun of him, too!
Say hello to the Turdman of Alcatraz. pic.twitter.com/mrlCjdoLfT
— Ian Fortey's WereCage is Out Now! (@IanFortey) July 22, 2022
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F
If the idiots at the New York Times get it, maybe Biden should do it?
The NYT editorial board--the voice of the center--tells Biden: if Manchin won't let you fight the climate crisis, then you have to do it yourself.
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) July 24, 2022
Otherwise known as: declare a climate emergency and get on with it. https://t.co/wH39WNerwC
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What a glorious idea!
With Steve Bannon getting convicted of ignoring a congressional subpoena, today would make an excellent day to issue new ones to Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Ginni Thomas.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 22, 2022
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Monday, July 25, 2022
Know I've noted this before, but what the fuck?
It's now 100 percent clear that Pence's security detail thought his life was in serious danger at around the time that Trump sent the 2:24 tweet urging the mob to essentially target Pence as a traitor.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 22, 2022
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Our media wrong--whoever would have guessed?
Worthwhile again to remember: when these hearings started, there was WIDESPREAD commentary abt how "nothing new" was expected to come out of them; they were likely to be mostly "political grandstanding." Commentary now? "Eye-popping," "dramatic," "devastating," "historic."
— Bill Carter (@wjcarter) July 22, 2022
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Bringing a gun to a gunfight
Yes!!!!!
— digby (@digby56) July 22, 2022
Newsom Raises His Profile With Hardball Tactics, Starting With a Gun Bill https://t.co/TOYU7Wa9EP
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emaycee
The Secret Service just keeps getting deeper in the shit
Am I the only one who thinks the Secret Service is doing their best to cover up who planted the pipe bombs, disabled Mike Pence’s key card, removed the panic button in Ayanna Presley’s office, and shared the locations of non-reinforced Capitol windows?
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 20, 2022
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCCXCIV--The Alarm: Sixty Eight Guns
This week's featured artist started off with back-to-back dynamite singles and began drawing comparisons (and arguably so) to another young band at that time: U2. The years weren't nearly as kind to them (at least commercially and critically) as they have been to U2, but the rest of us will always have two wondrous anthemic gems to enjoy....
The Alarm formed in 1981 in Rhyl, Wales (funny how the memory plays tricks on us--until I did my weekly half-assed research, I would have sworn that, like U2, they were from Ireland). The band had some success early in their career with a number of hit singles and LPS (more so in their native U.K., but they did have a modicum of success here in the U.S.) and were the opening act for both the Pretenders and U2 at different stages. By 1991 the Alarm had folded but founding member Mike Peters reformed the band in a different incarnation in 1999 (and changed their name to The Alarm MM++) and the second version of the band is performing to this day. The original cast of the Alarm released five albums with all five reaching the top 35 in Great Britain (with a best at #6) and at least hitting the charts in America (with one landing at #39). The Alarm MM++ has released fourteen studio albums. The band has also had a top twenty single in the U.K., and one single here in the States that peaked at #50.
"Sixty Eight Guns" was originally released only as a single in 1983, before being added to their debut album Declaration in 1984. Both were the band's best showing in the U.K., with the single hitting #17 and the album #36. They would go on to have higher charting success in the U.S. with other recordings as "Sixty Eight Guns" only hit #106 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, and Declaration would only hit #50 on the Billboard 200.
When the Alarm first started, they were a politically and socially conscious band which was a natural for me at a time when Ronald Reagan was beginning the republican party's war on anyone who wasn't a white Christian male. While "Sixty Eight Guns" is of a different political stripe than the ones we Americans were facing in the early eighties (War on the Poor, War on Unions, codifying their racism-- among many others), it's still a song of defiance and that was enough when far too many Americans were all too happy to sell their souls for platitudes from a second-rate actor. There was power in the vocals, there was power in the music, there was power in the lyrics--and that power was us fighting for the destiny that was America's better angels and not the trappings of republican fascism. Sadly we're still fighting it, but as long as they haven't silenced our soundtrack they haven't silenced us and we can still make a difference. Power to the people, right on....
Lyric Sheet: "And now they are trying to take my life away/Forever young I cannot stay/Hey!/On every corner I can see them there/They don't know my name, they don't know my kind..."
Enjoy:
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And just like that--poof!--it's gone
Truly remarkable numbers. In just under two years public approval of the US Supreme Court has fallen from 66% to 38%. Simply unprecedented in rapidity. This is what fatal loss of institutional legitimacy looks like. https://t.co/HJU0x0GtPp pic.twitter.com/PHWh8aw0k0
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 20, 2022
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Don't believe their hype--ending marriage equality is next on their agenda
It’s 2022, and 157 House Republicans just voted against marriage equality.
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) July 19, 2022
That’s where they come down on this issue.
In 2022.
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And Trump would only pretend to drink the Kool-Aid, then enjoy watching his followers die
The difference between Trump and Jim Jones is that Trump would charge you for the Kool-Aid.
— Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) July 20, 2022
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There's a reason our two biggest enemies want Trump in office
More illegal contributions to Trump.https://t.co/nwrYsLxNI0
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) July 19, 2022
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emaycee
Saturday, July 23, 2022
No law enforcement agency can be trusted
Dear @SecretService,
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) July 20, 2022
A reminder that you're a federal law enforcement agency and not the private police force for Donald Trump.
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Peace,
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It's as simple as that
Here’s a comprehensive overview of the most important issues for all voters in November:
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 15, 2022
One party thinks a 10-year-old rape victim should be forced to give birth. The other doesn’t.
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Russians are just as fucking nuts as republicans
Russia announces why they are losing in Ukraine. Ukrainian soldiers injected w secret serum
— Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 (@OlgaNYC1211) July 19, 2022
“blood test of Ukrainian servicemen showed that they were subjected to "secret experiments", as a result of which they were turned into "the most cruel monsters"
Def not theft & corruption
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Heaven help America if Merrick Garland doesn't have the guts to do the right thing
Ok it’s pretty funny that Trump told four advisors this and one them immediately leaked it to Rolling Stone pic.twitter.com/sjtOXPR5MX
— Will Beaman (@agoingaccount) July 18, 2022
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Friday, July 22, 2022
No creature on the face of this planet is stupider than a republican
Thank you President Biden for stopping deadly drugs from entering the country https://t.co/7lOMzdnKWX
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 18, 2022
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Defiling the Bible for their Unchristian cause
The term, “Good Samaritan” came from a Bible passage of a man from Samaria who stopped on the side of the road to help a man who was injured and ignored.
— Justin Kollar (@kollarjustin) July 18, 2022
I cannot believe we live in a world where the term can equally apply to someone *killing* someone… my God. https://t.co/0a3sgzejzD
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Big Brother and the holding party
Genuinely very scary that 205 House Republicans just voted to enable states to arrest, fine or sue women for traveling to get an abortion *even where it is still legal*
— Henry Connelly (@HenryVConnelly) July 15, 2022
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Completely off the deep end
195 Republicans vote against protecting the right to access contraceptives
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 21, 2022
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Thursday, July 21, 2022
Kitchen table issues are not going to cut it
THIS MAN IS SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE: “We’re up against the ruthlessness of the Republican Party .. Democrats need the Democratic PARTY, not the president, to organize with more ferocity of focus, more determination to set the agenda, and put the other party on the defense.” @foxla pic.twitter.com/F2i4JtlCIV
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 17, 2022
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The QAnon perve walk
QAnon is doin' a mighty poor job of policin' the pedophiles in their midst.https://t.co/Qy4NM9HkyG
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 16, 2022
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To serve (the white) man
Welcome to America, where Democrats see “The Handmaid’s Tale” as a horror show, while Republicans see it as a template.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 16, 2022
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So much for their states' rights bullshit
Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic bill that would protect the rights of women to travel to another state to access abortion care legally. https://t.co/zOCQ1C2Guw
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 14, 2022
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Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Three people dead is not a win
Only brain dead Republican gun fetishists would consider the Greenwood Park Mall shooting, where 1 random person kills 3 people before being shot by another random person a "win" for the 2nd amendment 🤡🤡
— Chuck Todd's shamble bangs (@Drea_got_rage) July 18, 2022
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It'll only be a matter of time before someone strikes back
GOP agenda now includes forcing 10 year old rape victims to give birth, but since this is politically toxic, their new m.o. is to terrorize both children and doctors who provide them care, as much to discourage abortions as to frighten future victims from going public.
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 14, 2022
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Guaranteed the Catholic Court is gunning for gay marriage
Ted says he wants the Supreme Court to overturn the gay marriage decision in Obergefell. pic.twitter.com/fpJOE1ERbx
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) July 16, 2022
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Wow--republicans lying again, who'd have ever guessed?
Republicans 2 weeks ago: Abortion is a states' issue
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2022
Republicans now: Introducing bills to curtail abortion rights nationally pic.twitter.com/pammc3NXcE
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Tuesday, July 19, 2022
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCCXCIII--America: Daisy Jane
There are any number of music artists that I've enjoyed throughout my life that I would consider "Greatest Hits" artists or bands, that is solo performers or groups whose greatest hits collections are the sum total of my knowledge of their music catalogs (Bachman-Turner Overdrive, ELO, the Spinners, War, and a holy host of others). While that may be my loss (for missing any number of album tracks that may be little known gems), it's also worked out quite well as I've been blessed with hearing countless songs that I love again and again--much like the songs I've enjoyed from this week's featured musical artist.
America, oddly enough, actually formed in London--and making it even stranger, they're all actually Americans (their fathers were USAF personnel stationed in the U.K. capital and they met while in high school there). Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley, and Dan Peek had a hell of a run through seventies (Dan Peek found God and left the band in 1977 to become a Christian artist) notching numerous hits and touring the whole wide world. For their career, America has released 18 studio albums (their last in 2015) with four of them reaching the top ten (in keeping with this week's theme their Greatest Hits is far and away their best-selling effort) with one of them hitting the number one slot. They've also released 47 singles with seven of them peaking in the top ten and two climbing all the way to the top of the chart. Sadly, Dan Peek passed away in 2011, but Bunnell and Beckley continue to have a loyal following on the oldies circuit.
"Daisy Jane" was released in 1975 as the second single from their album Hearts. The song reached #20 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200.
Fun Fact: In addition to producing the aforementioned song (and album), noted "Fifth Beatle" and music producer extraordinaire George Martin plays the piano on the tune as well.
Yeah, this one isn't going into the Ball Out Rocker Hall of Fame. Written by Beckley, the song tells the tale of a man who left behind a good woman to go out and see the world...who has finally realized that she's the only world he needed to see and is hoping she still loves him. Beckley has said that there is no Daisy Jane, and at the time of writing the song had never even been to Memphis (he said he loosely based it on the song "Hazey Jane" by recent FNJ honoree Nick Drake). The heartbeats that open the song are a nice touch, and the song has the lush production that George Martin is often known for--strings, the featured piano, and some fantastic harmonies by a band known for its harmonies. My favorite part, though, is the how Martin takes the band softly through the stanzas before unleashing the booming chorus which captures all the hope the narrator is feeling...and reminds us just how precious love can be.
Lyric Sheet: "Well I've been picking it up around me/Daisy, I think I'm sane/And I'm awful glad/And I guess you're really to blame..."
Enjoy:
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Donald Trump, Dennis Hastert, Mark Foley, Jim Jordan--all republican groomers
It is somewhat ironic that, when presented with what appears to be a real story of a child rape, the party that spent part of this year fanning a panic about "groomers" decided that it must have been fake news.
— Jordan Weissmann (@JHWeissmann) July 13, 2022
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Why do republicans hate Americans so much?
Virtually every republican in Congress has voted against
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) May 26, 2022
Baby formula
Child tax credits
Cheaper gas
Cheaper insulin
Stimulus checks
Background checks
Veteran cancer care
Fair elections
Ending domestic terrorism
The GOP is cruel, incompetent, and doesn’t give a damn about you.
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Get the fuck out, indeed
It's infuriating when people say "maybe you're being a bit extreme" — they're taking away our right to vote, abortions, equal rights, and discriminating against minorities, while trying to make America into a Christofascist country and you want to say we're being extreme? GTFO
— Sarmad Faiz (@move2strike) July 15, 2022
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Once a coward, always a coward
When there's a sexual predator and a victim, Jim Jordan always sides with the predator. He did at Ohio State, and now in calling the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim a liar (and then cowardly deleting his tweets after).
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) July 14, 2022
Ohio's kids will not be safe until Jim Jordan is out of office.
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Monday, July 18, 2022
Republicans are un-fucking-hinged
They don't think 17 year olds can handle sex ed or Toni Morrison but 10 year olds can totally suck it up and give birth after a rape. https://t.co/ppj7K43cJn
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 14, 2022
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Once again, republicans show just how much they care about the living
168 Republicans vote against Active Shooter Alert System pic.twitter.com/3OgLVuowSI
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 14, 2022
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Because they're Nazis, too?
We just voted to combat neo nazis in our military and every single republican voted no. pic.twitter.com/lUF1NRGiXg
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@BillPascrell) July 14, 2022
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Peace,
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They lied about a raped ten-year-old, and won't even have the decency to apologize
I was the ONLY reporter in the courtroom this morning as the man accused of raping a 10-year-old girl, impregnating her, leading to an abortion in Indiana, was arraigned.
— Bethany Bruner (@bethany_bruner) July 13, 2022
This confirms that the case exists.https://t.co/eWvtBMxqZW
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Peace.
emaycee
Sunday, July 17, 2022
This one's worth it just because republicans are absolutely shitting themselves over it
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Something's rotten in the Secret Service
Secret Service "missed" the bomb that day in their sweep. Which never happens. Now they've deleted their text messages from Jan 5-6. Pence didn't trust them and one was so MAGA loyal that Trump, alarmingly, made him WH Deputy Chief of Staff.https://t.co/VSC8LbFpS2
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) July 14, 2022
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Q.E.D.
One big reason forcing rape survivors of any age to give birth is horrific is that forcing anyone to give birth is horrific.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 14, 2022
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They haven't got a solution, all they've got is whining
I’d love to know what republicans would do to lower inflation? Raise interest rates? That’s going to drive the market down. Lower the price of gas and wheat? How? https://t.co/TGAqZtc5jp
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 13, 2022
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Doesn't get much more disgusting than this
A 10 year old was raped and impregnated and instead of helping her, republicans called her a liar.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) July 13, 2022
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Saturday, July 16, 2022
Who the fuck would pay $4000 to see that pile of shit?
CANCELED: Trump rally in NC due to “unforeseen circumstances”. Trump, Trump Jr. & Ivanka ordered to testify to Leticia James’ office on Friday. Tickets were sold up to $3,995. No refunds are available, they can be used on Aug. 20 in Milwaukee, WI.
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) July 12, 2022
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No, we shouldn't
If 30 armed cops in full tactical gear with ballistic shields were too afraid to confront one gunman with an AR15, maybe we shouldn’t be putting AR15s in the hands of civilians.
— Andrew Wortman 🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@AmoneyResists) July 13, 2022
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If you do the crime, do the time
I’m tired of people saying “history will judge them very harshly”.
— Smite⚡️ (@7Veritas4) July 13, 2022
We are a nation of laws.
Let our laws judge them very harshly.
Now.
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Peace,
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If we don't win in 2022, 2024 isn't going to matter
all this speculation about the 2024 presidential race and Biden and Trump's standing in the primaries seems very out of place in this moment. If GOP wins key races in 2022, it won't matter who either party nominates in 2024, democracy will be broken. Focus folks focus.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) July 12, 2022
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Friday, July 15, 2022
The selfish hate the selfless
If your enemies are teachers, doctors and librarians, I'm going to humbly suggest you're the problem. You're the bad guy. When you were a child, did you dream to grow up to harass and villainize these particular people in these professions? What happened to you? What happened? https://t.co/p7Rd3nX38q
— Walter Chaw 周瑜 (@mangiotto) July 10, 2022
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Peace,
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Another failure from our complicit media
As always all the attention goes to the crybaby Americans who’d whine and shoot guns, and whether they should be given veto power over rule of law, none to the substantial majority that would party in the streets if Trump faced a small measure of justice. https://t.co/7xpA1plYWd
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) July 10, 2022
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Domestic terrorism, condoned by the republican party
Oath Keepers planned to start killing American officials on Jan 6 and to keep slaughtering them until Trump was back in power
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) July 10, 2022
They had a death list and brought explosives to DC
But yes, go off. Tell us more about how it was just a “normal tourist visit” 🖕🏻
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Peace,
emaycee
Do it or democracy dies in America
I’m far less concerned about what prosecuting trump would do to this country than I am about what not prosecuting him would.
— Jo 🌻 (@JoJoFromJerz) July 11, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Mayor Pete needs to run for President...
This is a perfect answer by Secretary Buttigieg. pic.twitter.com/SOgNByAwqk
— Charlotte Clymer 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) July 10, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Exactly--how much better can the rich eat?
I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and spacecraft”.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) July 10, 2022
Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
How pathetic have Christians become? This pathetic
Senator James Lankford said under oath that a 13-yr-old COULD consent to sex
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) July 10, 2022
Ohio Republicans say the rape of a 10-yr-old is an opportunity
TX AG Ken Paxton suggests the murder of 9-yr-olds at Uvalde is part of “God’s plan”
Nothing more hateful than right-wing Christian love
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Republicans are no different than Manson's cult
These Trumpers really were planning a murder spree. If those who planned it all and egged the would-be killers on aren’t held fully accountable, they’ll do it all again — and next time the murder victims might well include the United States of America 🇺🇸 https://t.co/BoMW7JTAFH
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 9, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Ron DeathSantis
My periodic reminder that since May 1,2021 when vaccines were available to all adults in the US no state has had more COVID deaths than Florida. https://t.co/sxi1wwE9fa
— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) July 9, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
If it walks and talks like fascism, it is fascism
— Jews can now be discriminated against.
— Sarmad Faiz (@move2strike) July 10, 2022
— “Both sides” of the Holocaust must be taught.
— Abortion bans throughout the country.
— Extremist groups are marching openly.
— You can no longer say “gay”.
— Books are being banned.
— Media is the “enemy”.
Looks like fascism to me.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
They've taken the Christ out of Christian
🚨Christian in America is:
— 𝐓𝐢𝐦🇺🇸#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 ®™️ (@MstrKnowItAll) July 10, 2022
👉Jesus replaced by Trump
👉Hate the poor and sick
👉Hate your neighbor
👉Worship money and rich people
👉Profit riches on earth in Jesus name
What would Satan do?
What Christians in America are doing.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
And this is exactly how "moderate" republicans will be if they win
Just in case you were wondering how moderate Youngkin is... https://t.co/4x3odsH5ei
— Rachel Vindman 🌻 (@natsechobbyist) July 10, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Tuesday, July 12, 2022
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCCXCII--Peter Frampton: Do You Feel Like We Do
For the last few years during football season, my youngest son and I often drive about an hour to my brother's home to watch the 49ers play (living outside Detroit you don't get to see many of their games unless, like my brother, you buy the NFL package each season). When we initially began making the trek, I was listening to this week's artist's greatest hits, and over time, my son became as big a fan of this week's tune as his Dad...and it's become a tradition that whenever we drive to my brother's for a Niners game, we listen to this tune first before listening to the rest of Frampton's greatest hits....
Over the course of the last 56 years, Peter Frampton has most certainly seen the ups and downs of being a rock and roll star in all its actuality. He had his first band by the age of 12 (he went to the same school as David Bowie and the two had their bands appear on the same bill at their school, as well as playing music together during lunch), had a taste of success (three top twenty hits) at age 16 with the Herd in his native U.K., and then joined supergroup Humble Pie before going solo. Frampton had little commercial success with his first four albums before a live album turned him into a superstar. His follow-up LP went platinum but was considered a disappointment, he starred in the film version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (nearly universally despised) and suffered major injuries in a car wreck which helped lead to a drug addiction problem. Frampton eventually cleaned up and while he never again achieved the height of success he had in the late seventies (though he did win a Grammy), he's been making music for over fifty years now and you can't beat that. For his career Frampton has released 18 studio albums (with one reaching #2), four live albums (with one mega smash), and 24 singles (three of which hit the top ten).
"Do You Feel Like We Do" was the third single released from his career making hit, Frampton Comes Alive!. The single reached #10 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, while the LP would hit #1 on the Billboard 200 for a total of ten weeks and eventually sold over 11 million copies.
Fun Fact: When the single was released back when I was still but a wee lad, there's a point in the song where Frampton uses a voice box for an extended riff and many of us young folks thought he had a line where he says/sings "I want to fuck you" which naturally upped its coolness quotient among a bunch of impressionable high schoolers. With the passage of years and many a web site devoted to music lyrics, we've all come to sadly realize that Frampton actually says "I want to thank you...."
"Do You Feel Like We Do" is not going to be everyone's cup of tea. It's fourteen minutes long (the single version was seven minutes for radio), it's a live cut, and about 75% of it is just jamming. But if you're looking for an exquisite taste of seventies arena rock, man this is it. The song is anthemic, the chorus is a call to arms, and the guitar playing (Frampton is often underrated as a guitarist) is to die for. I've been listening to it for 46 years now and it still makes me whip out the air guitar and jam away. For a child of the seventies, it doesn't get much better.
Lyric Sheet: "Champagne for breakfast and a Sherman in my hand/Peach top, peach tails, never fails/Must have been a dream I don't believe where I've been/Come on, let's do it again..."
Enjoy:
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
No doubt Conservative Christians would take him out
Well, if he comes here tell him to wear Kevlar. https://t.co/TY3DOy10Wx
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) July 6, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Don't you just love when Biden tells Trump to fuck off?
Biden: We have more Americans working today in the private sector than any day under my predecessor. pic.twitter.com/1oIBs8rFx4
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 8, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Yes, we most certainly do
Just a reminder: In America you have a right to protest outside the restaurant where a Supreme Court Justice is eating. Or where a Member of Congress is eating.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 8, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Debatin' away again in Dumbassville
Herman Cain / Michelle Bachman was like Lincoln Douglas compared to most of the 2022 gop primary debates https://t.co/95zEWVYQR3
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) July 7, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Monday, July 11, 2022
The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades
People! Check it out. https://t.co/TD1pr9TSQ8
— digby (@digby56) July 7, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
Enough with republicans' lame ass excuses
It’s not SSRIs. Iceland: biggest user of antidepressants; low rates of gun violence.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) July 6, 2022
It’s not video games. Japan: among the largest markets for video games; low rates of gun violence.
It’s not weed. Israel: biggest user of cannabis; low rates of gun violence.
It’s the guns.
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
We need to bury the fuckers with the Supreme Court's horrendous decision
If you think abortion isn't a potent issue in the midterms note that even hardcore culture warrior DeSantis is holding off on a more restrictive abortion ban. https://t.co/li5uRHgxHV pic.twitter.com/ORZDweRQ8P
— digby (@digby56) July 6, 2022
Republican = Traitor
Peace,
emaycee
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