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Thursday, August 31, 2023
Will the Catholic Church actually fight fascism this time?
WOW: Pope Francis slams the Republicans in the United States for their troubling and regressive behavior, as well as their support for Donald Trump's MAGA movement, which continues to negatively influence millions of Americans. However, the situation is further complicated. The… pic.twitter.com/VFrAaVOEPs
— Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 (@PopularLiberal) August 29, 2023
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Because half of America is easily duped
1. The unemployment rate is 3.5%
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 28, 2023
The U.S. has added an average of 312K jobs every month for the last year
GDP growth has been 2.0% or higher for a year
Inflation is down to 3.2%
If the U.S. economy is doing well, why do so many Americans say it's terrible?
🧵
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Trump hits the trifecta!
America has had its share of presidents who were crooks (Warren G. Harding, Richard Nixon), bigots (Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan), and incompetents (Andrew Johnson, George W. Bush).
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 28, 2023
But never before Donald Trump have we had a president who combined all these qualities.
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The GOP has been the white supremacist party since Nixon
White supremacy is not a mental illness. It’s an ideology encouraged by the Republican party, gun manufacturers and Christian nationalists. And it’s made deadly in America because those same groups have enabled dangerous people to have easy access to arsenals.
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 27, 2023
Jacksonville
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Income Inequality: America's great scourge
The biggest change over the last three decades — the change lurking behind the insecurities and resentments of the working class — has nothing to do with wokeism or any other Republican bogeymen.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 26, 2023
It has directly to do with a huge shift in the distribution of income and wealth.
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Florida is a shit hole
Florida is where Black people shopping at Dollar General go to die. It’s where women go to die, bleed out when they are not legally allowed to get abortions. Florida is where education goes to die. Its where corporate America flees, and home ownership goes to die.
— Southern Sister Resister - Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm (@ResisterSis20) August 27, 2023
Florida is… pic.twitter.com/RIL6shd1Rh
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The GOP: the coddling criminals party
Andrew Clyde, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs and Jim Jordan are all pushing to use the government funding bill to cut money or impose restrictions on prosecutors after Trump's woes.
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 29, 2023
Some Republicans are reluctant.
Democrats say hell no.https://t.co/Q1O2hDC1Vx
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The man who wouldn't be king
Trump is exactly what the founding fathers feared—a flamboyant charlatan who lies at every turn, using disinformation & propaganda to disembowel truth and democracy to transform our constitutional republic into autocracy or fascism—while Republicans support this criminal treason. pic.twitter.com/ruWR4C22tf
— 🇺🇸 The 🔥Resistance🔥 Veteran 🇺🇸 (@WiseAsASerpent) August 25, 2023
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
In the end, the GOP killed more Americans than any war in our history
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People gonna rise up, get their share
Autoworkers have voted by an overwhelming margin to strike if the Big Three carmakers don't agree to a fair deal.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) August 25, 2023
This Hot Labor Summer might be turning into a Hot Labor Fall. Here's why workers across a wide variety of industries are walking off the job. pic.twitter.com/JLuDjmSaOg
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Touche...
Eureka! I get it now.
— Big Teezy - Ridin with Biden! (@TNSouthernlib) August 25, 2023
The burning and looting that broke out after ALL the police killings of Black folk weren’t ‘’RIOTS’, they were simply questioning whether the results of the crooked investigations absolving the officers were legitimate or not.
Did I get it right MAGA?
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Both!
Donald Trump says that he never heard the words “mug shot” until yesterday.
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 25, 2023
Is Trump a pathological liar or a total moron?
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This is the GOP base
It should not be lost on anyone that this occurred on the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington & Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic“I Have a Dream” speech. Sixty years later, racism remains embedded in this nation. https://t.co/9bxfU0UjXb
— Kat Stafford (@kat__stafford) August 26, 2023
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Monday, August 28, 2023
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDLI--Madeleine Peyroux: Smile
This week's tune is what is commonly called a standard, and for whatever reason I really love the hell out of it. As I was doing my weekly half-assed research, I became curious as to how many different versions I had on some form of music media, and I had seven: Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Natalie Cole, Rickie Lee Jones, and this week's artist. Unsurprisingly, with the exception of Nat King Cole (who will be featured in an upcoming post), all of them have been (or will be this week) featured at one time or another on Friday Night Jukebox. I guess one could say I'm quite the standard bearer....
Madeleine Peyroux was born in Athens, Georgia in 1974. When her parents divorced in 1987, Peyroux and her mother moved to France and shortly thereafter she began her musical career by busking on the streets of Paris. She was discovered by an agent from Atlantic Records and released her debut album in 1996. Oddly, she didn't release another full-length record until 2004, but it turned out to be a hit, becoming her first (and only) gold record and reaching #71 on the Billboard 200. In the intervening years, Peyroux has released six more studio albums, an EP, a live album, and a great hits compilation. She is currently in the midst of a world tour, and her next studio album is a work in progress.
"Smile" was on Peyroux's 2006 album, the rather hemispherically named Half the Perfect World. The song was not released as a single, but the album became the highest charting LP of her career, hitting #33 on the Billboard 200.
Fun Fact: The music for "Smile" was written by Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin for his 1936 film Modern Times. The lyrics, as well as the title, were not written until 1954 (using scenes and lines from the movie), and Nat King Cole released the first version of the song with the lyrics that same year.
A few years back my wife and I were grocery shopping when I heard this week's tune over the PA system--with the unmistakable sound of a ukulele--and I looked up at the ceiling and high-tailed it to the nearest speaker (Wife: "Where the heck did you go?" Me: "I had to hear a song."--she's used to it by now). I have a real fondness for the Rickie Lee Jones version I noted above, but the ukulele sealed the deal on this one (there's a great trumpet solo, too). It's an especially lovely song with an especially lovely sentiment--it's easy in this jaded world to forget that tomorrow will bring another--and potentially better--day, and a smile here and there will go a long way to making that better day. A crooner's classic.
Lyric Sheet: "That's the time you must keep on trying/Smile, what's the use of crying/You'll find that life is still worthwhile/If you just smile..."
Enjoy:
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Couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of assholes
the "fuck your feelings" crowd is having a total ape-shit meltdown right now and I for one could not be more entertained by their idiotic antics. does America even have enough popcorn for this
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 25, 2023
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Reverse Robin Hood once again for the GOP
The GOP wants to destroy public education which created an educated workforce that helps our economy flourish.
— Jennifer Bennon (@jennobenno) August 24, 2023
Dismantle the Dept of Education. Give the money to parents to offset expensive private education with public moneys.
Make no mistake, that’s the goal.#Fresh#wtpBLUE pic.twitter.com/kRdtBRMgxi
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Never dawns on them that the drug cartels just might retaliate
Fox News' Gutfeld praises Republican presidential candidates for promising to bomb Mexicohttps://t.co/aUTZWEbQpQ
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 24, 2023
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Sixty years ago today...
Thousands expected to mark 60th anniversary of March on Washington https://t.co/rGEWwrgNn5
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) August 25, 2023
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Sunday, August 27, 2023
This is all on the GOP
I consider this chart to be the clearest indictment of our country’s path over the last several decades: In 1980, the U.S. had a typical life expectancy for an affluent country. Today, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy of any affluent country: pic.twitter.com/GhUIn9fzdb
— David Leonhardt (@DLeonhardt) August 22, 2023
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America's very own Schutzstaffel
I should be shocked by this but I’m not.
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 23, 2023
One of the great undercovered stories of our time is the ongoing infiltration of local police departments, federal law enforcement, and the military by the far-right. https://t.co/NVf8PW3UBl
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Still unanswered
OK, Secret Service phones were wiped. So were those of Homeland Security. Now reportedly the same with the Pentagon.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 2, 2022
Anyone want to explain what was going on here?
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The weak always turn to racism
Trump’s usage of the word “Riggers” came right after he spewed hatred towards Fanni Willis and Judge Tanya Chutkin. Trump is a racist. He’s always been a racist. It’s textbook Donald Trump. This is trumps racist play on words (Riggers is in no dictionary). Trump is a RACIST!
— Richard N. Ojeda, II (@Ojeda4America) August 21, 2023
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Saturday, August 26, 2023
'Cause the devil went down to Georgia and got arrested
Apropos of nothing, I think today's a great day to give to my campaign. https://t.co/Tj5cURqgQT
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) August 24, 2023
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One of the most colossal blunders in Presidential history
Every day in this Georgia case in the behaviors of the powerful indicted figures, we're seeing the dangers of the two systems of justice in our country that Gerald Ford & others helped to promote. Thank goodness for D.A. Fani Willis.
— David Darmofal (@david_darmofal) August 22, 2023
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Cheato Corleone
Trump is literally a Mob Boss. Ordering his thugs to flood the server room, delete surveillance videos, hide/destroy classified documents. He's insane and dangerous. Throwing him in prison can't come soon enough. #TrumpIndictmenthttps://t.co/3IK4LS2KIc pic.twitter.com/2l4bpFwNf4
— Coming in HOT!🔥😷 Trump: 4indictments/91 felonies (@JAPITTER) July 27, 2023
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Treating a common criminal like a common criminal
No threats on social media or otherwise.
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) August 21, 2023
No communications with codefendants or with witnesses except thrrough counsel.
Got it?
If not, it's slammer time. https://t.co/rHIhBPjslW
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Friday, August 25, 2023
Trump can win, but he's probably the worst candidate the GOP has
Very simple: Trump can’t win. 65% already against him. That’s before Dems launch barrage after getting him nominated. If we finally grasp that, his support will collapse. If not, we lose everything, and Dems use majorities to remake Supreme Court. Nominate him if you want, but…
— Andy McCarthy (@AndrewCMcCarthy) August 21, 2023
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The best thing would be the GOP fading into oblivion
It is rare that the right thing, the best thing & the best thing for the GOP are all the same thing. But two such possibilities await. One is Trump being disqualified for the presidency quickly by the courts. The second is Biden & the Dems win big ending MAGA once & for all.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 20, 2023
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A threat to all mankind
The @GOP---as I've said before--is not just a threat to the nation. It's a threat to the planet. https://t.co/caukfFA7UF
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) August 24, 2023
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This is the power Trump wants
Breaking: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency has confirmed Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board the plane that crashed north of Moscow today. A Telegram social media channel linked to the Wagner group issued a statement saying Prigozhin has been killed as well.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 23, 2023
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Thursday, August 24, 2023
Money well spent for 2024
As Republicans head to Milwaukee to fight each other, we announce a historic, $25m ad campaign
— Kevin Munoz (@munozka315) August 20, 2023
Including largest, earliest ever investments into Hispanic and AfAm media https://t.co/6EtAHXK44J
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Trump is a bona fide threat to national security
It’s almost like Trump is bragging that he has won the endorsement of the worlds most notorious war criminal. Actually, it’s exactly like that. It is that. https://t.co/vtDOggz6gZ
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 19, 2023
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GOP fascism marches on in Tennessee
You don't hear any Republicans condemning Tennessee for denying free speech. It's just a harmless sign.
— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) August 23, 2023
GOP-led Tennessee legislature orders removal of public from gun control hearinghttps://t.co/6uCNQb2TEz
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The pro-life party sure inspires a lot of killing
NEW: A woman who owns clothing stores in Los Angeles, California, was shot and killed by a man after he made derogatory comments about the pride flag hanging outside her business. Lauri Carleton is survived by her husband of 28 years and their 9 children. https://t.co/HSQCLZ1Fzl
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 20, 2023
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023
2024: a choice between liberty and oppression
Lawless, violent, and cruel. This is Trump's Republican party. This is all that they have to offer. 2024 will be a choice between liberty & oppression, your freedom & their control, truth & propaganda. It's going to take all of us in this fight. pic.twitter.com/08PHGquLOz
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 28, 2023
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Fear and desperation oozes from their pores
Trump voters believe Trump is more likely to tell them the truth than their friends and family. Again: to understand the modern GOP, you need to understand what an authoritarian cult of personality is, because that’s what it has become. pic.twitter.com/Dzi2lbs4XB
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) August 20, 2023
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A piss poor excuse for a human being
If you think the absolute worst picture of you is the big
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) August 19, 2023
"orange" one with your chin pulled way back, you're wrong. It's the one of you doing your impression of Serge Kovaleski. pic.twitter.com/BZ7GvVn6yw
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Fried chicken
Chris Christie on Trump skipping the debate:
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 19, 2023
“If he believes he should be the nominee, if he believes he has such a great record, if he believes he is the best person to go against Joe Biden, then show up on Wednesday night and stop being such a coward." pic.twitter.com/43kxAAYJ4Y
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Bidenomics actually does trickle down
Blockbuster state unemployment rates out this morning. 💥
— Jesse Lee (@JesseLee46) August 18, 2023
26 States at or below 3% in July, a new record number — for the 3rd straight month.
New record lows in New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and 8 other states.
2% or below (!) MD, NE, NH, ND, SD, VT https://t.co/TMdHoqNAM4
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All the better for America
And now, despite every conceivable warning sign that this is going to lead them into electoral disaster, the Republican Party will continue to ride the Trump Train to their bitter end.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2023
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Sad! And most likely true
Eventually, when all is said and done, we will realize that the only person Trump ever hired who was actually qualified to do her job was Stormy Daniels.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) August 16, 2023
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The futility of prayer
Evidence collected over many years, obtained from many locations, indicates that the power of Prayer is insufficient to stop bullets from killing school children.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 16, 2018
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Monday, August 21, 2023
These threats cannot stand--Lock. Them. Up.
When people threaten a judge, they also terrify the judge's family, staff & courthouse personnel. These are acts of domestic terrorism. People who do this should be prosecuted, including people who solicit it. There is also a role for GOP leaders, who should be condemning it.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) August 17, 2023
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Never underestimate the stupidity of your average GOP voter
I'm struck once again by both the staggering scale of Trump's conspiracy to lie and the incandescent, provable stupidity of the lies themselves. The indictment is a vivid reminder of those maddening days when we watched people willingly fall for an obvious con.
— David French (@DavidAFrench) August 15, 2023
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The GOP turned its back on America and should pay the consequences
This is basically a Rico indictment of the Republican Party. As it should be. Every Republican elected official who refused to acknowledge the winner of the 2020 election is an unindicted co-conspirator.
— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) August 15, 2023
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Millions of us are not entertained
When you turn on the TV and see a bunch of people talking, that isn't news.
— Teri Kanefield (@Teri_Kanefield) August 2, 2023
News = facts.
You are being entertained not educated.
We are currently experiencing a disinformation disruption.
People are bombarded with opinions and speculation and sensational headlines.
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Sunday, August 20, 2023
Remember the dodos you went to high school with? They grew up to be MAGA
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Just feed our children
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) explains why he rejected Republican lawmakers' attempts to means-test school meals for K-12 students:
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) August 16, 2023
"The haves and the have-nots in the school lunchroom is not a necessary thing. Just feed our children." pic.twitter.com/vozmi7oS3N
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Might be a helpful strategy if there actually was a God, but...
Jenna Ellis says she is going to "trust the Lord" to get her out of mandatory jail time for RICO charges in Georgia.
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 16, 2023
I just phoned to remind her that the Lord didn't even bother to help his own son avoid *capital punishment* in a criminal case. pic.twitter.com/cDe3gg3FoU
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Being a traitor is not your job, either
Meadows asks for Georgia charges to shift to federal court, claiming he was doing his job. Aiding a coup is not your job, nor is following orders of a criminal wanna be dictator. https://t.co/pq7h276S2f
— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) August 15, 2023
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Arrested developments
Marge Greene is out there talking about “satanists in Hollywood”, Charlie Kirk wants Republican AGs to start arresting Democrats ‘just because’, and Tim Pool is threatening a “civil war”… MAGA is melting straight the fuck down right now and it’s absolutely glorious to behold.
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 15, 2023
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Saturday, August 19, 2023
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDL--L.A. Guns: The Ballad of Jayne
There aren't a lot of songs by glam metal bands that I like (I'd be hard pressed to name a second one), but for whatever reason this week's tune is one of them. One supposes that just about any genre is capable of creating a song that's a cut (so to speak) above--and this week's band certainly did....
L.A. Guns formed in, of all places, Los Angeles in 1983, and their history is just slightly easier to follow than string theory. A few of their original members would move on to form a little band called Guns n' Roses, but by the late eighties the band's line-up would morph into their original incarnation. The band would have a modicum of success through the early nineties and have spent the last thirty years changing members like a new mother changes diapers. There are currently two versions of the band (at one point there may have been a third): LA. Guns and Riley's L.A. Guns. Both versions released a new studio album just this year. For their career, L.A. Guns have released fourteen studio albums (not counting the two by the Riley incarnation), and twenty-nine singles. Despite the myriad changes, the band has managed to have a forty-year career and is still making music--and you can't beat that.
"The Ballad of Jayne" was one of five singles to be released from the band's second studio album, the threateningly named Cocked and Loaded. Both would become the highest charting of the band's career, with the single reaching #33 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100, and the album peaking at #38 on the Billboard 200.
Fun Fact: Some have surmised that the song was written about the late actress Jayne Mansfield but the band has denied this is so. For those not familiar, Mansfield was a sex symbol of the fifties and sixties who tragically was killed at the age of thirty-four when her car slammed into, and eventually slid under, a tractor-trailer. After the accident, the Highway Safety Administration recommended a bar be put on the back of semis to prevent cars from sliding under them. This bar is sometimes called the "Mansfield bar."
Exactly what happened to Jayne? Overdose? Suicide? Murdered by a jealous lover? It's never explained, but the protagonist is going to regret not holding onto her for the rest of his life. The song is sparse--there's a nice mix of acoustic and electric guitars, the drums are subtle yet driving, and the vocals are accentuated so as to highlight the story's tragic overtones. A lot of the ballads from this era were overwrought twaddle, but L.A. Guns managed to put together enough magic--there's something to be said for their subtlety, too-in four minutes to take "The Ballad of Jayne" from the usual drivel to that stratosphere reserved for special singles--and this one's special enough to put a glam metal tune into the pantheon that is Friday Night Jukebox.
Lyric Sheet: "Now she's breaking hearts in heaven/Shining bright in the sky/I still hear her voice in the wind/I still think of her in the night..."
Enjoy:
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No Labels = Committee to re-elect Donald Trump
"No Labels" = "We won't use a label so you won't realize we're Republicans trying to skew the election in favor of Donald Trump" https://t.co/SkOq4XGi6b
— Foggynoggin (@steamtug7) August 16, 2023
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Too late the hero
He has not been clear all along. He has ducked, dodged, and dived to avoid saying any of this until now including being too much of a coward to speak to the January 6th Committee and then trying to block having to speak with the Special Counsel. Now he's being brave. Too late! https://t.co/bU2CNAgrvi
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) August 2, 2023
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Cult of personal insanity
4 indictments, 91 charges, 2 impeachments, 1 act of sedition, and threatening civil war. 26 women alleging sexual assault. 1.13 million Americans dead from Covid. And he is the front runner of the Republican Party. This is why I call it a collective psychosis.
— Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv (@BandyXLee1) August 15, 2023
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He sounds like an obnoxious drunk at some corner bar
Trump just posted this to Truth Social, and it’s alarming. He makes no sense at all. His words are garbled and slurred, his hair is mussed. He’s swaying, blinking excessively, and sweating. It’s actually frightening. Does he need medical help? pic.twitter.com/bVG6fs3k8D
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) August 17, 2023
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Friday, August 18, 2023
The difference between a President and a wannabe dictator
It cannot be mentioned enough: the sharp contrast between Biden, silently absorbing the news that Garland is elevating Weiss to special counsel looking into his son, and Trump who at every turn fired officials who showed anything less than lickspittle loyalty.
— Colin McEnroe (@colinmcenroe) August 12, 2023
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Shocked--shocked I tell you!--that there's racism in the GOP
Lindsey Graham got caught trying to have Black votes thrown out in Georgia.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) August 14, 2023
Keep reminding everyone of this.
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Not surprising, since they were being led by the dumbest President
As we get deeper into Trump's trials, and witness testimony, the theme we're going to see again and again is that these were the dumbest criminals in history and they literally could not have pulled this off. That's going to be very obvious to the general public..
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) August 15, 2023
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If Hunter Biden is fair game, so is the Trump family
Jamie Raskin makes a big announcement, "We're going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments. Millions of dollars that Donald Trump pocketed from the hotels, at the golf courses, through business deals when he was president, and that his family got." pic.twitter.com/Ab5yjAPt0P
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 13, 2023
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Thursday, August 17, 2023
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDXLIX--INXS: This Time
Considering that I have another one of these posts due tomorrow, just a wee bit late for last week....
Once in a while a band comes along with a song that I really like...and never has another one (Bananarama, who I wrote about in post CCXLIX comes immediately to mind)--which is my set-up for this week's tune. I can't say that I really disliked this week's featured band--it's just that nothing much of what they did caused me to pause and listen or even sing a long. As I noted for Bananarama, it's no matter--still makes for a hell of a song....
INXS got its start in the land down under in 1971 when a couple of eventual members started a band in high school. By 1977, they had more or less formed the lineup that would lead them to stardom, but under the name "The Farriss Brothers" (three of the band's six members were the brothers Farriss). After building a name for themselves in Australia, they began to be an opening act for Midnight Oil, one of whom's members suggested they change their name to INXS--and the rest, as they say, is history. INXS would release its first single and debut album in 1980, and over the course of these past forty-three years have sold over ninety-five million LPs around the world. They won six ARIA Music Awards (Australia's Grammys), were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame (Australia's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), as well as being nominated for three Grammys here in America. For their career, the band released twelve studio albums (with four #1's in their native land, two of which landed in the top five in the U.S.), and seventy-one singles (with a #1 in both Australia and America). Sadly, lead singer Michael Hutchence died of a suicide by hanging in 1997. The band continued on, including a reality show in 2005 in which viewers decided their new lead singer, until 2012 when they called it quits.
Fun Fact: The manager of Midnight Oil at one time proposed that the band become a Christian band, which the group briefly considered before opting to stay a rock and roll outfit. Good call....
"This Time" was the second single in Australia and first single around the world from their stealthily named fifth album, Listen Like Thieves. The single hit #19 down under, but only #81 (with a sort of bullet!) here in the states. The album fared much better, hitting #1 in Australia and #11 in America, and is usually considered the album that turned them into worldwide superstars.
Jangly guitars! Inspired vocals! A catchy as all hell chorus! A song about a volatile relationship! That pretty much sums it up, other than to ask my loyal readers (all three of you) to carefully consider the video I'm featuring below. While I never became much of an INXS fan, it's not hard to see why they became as successful as they did when you watch Michael Hutchence perform. He literally owned the stage, oozed charisma from every pore, and at the time of the video was only seven years into fronting a band. For all his demons (and he had a few), he was truly a presence--with no disrespect to the rest of the band who provided him with excellent musicianship and the songs which he performed--and added the nuance and bravado that makes this week's tune another in a long line of very fine pop performances.
Lyric Sheet: "We are always wanting/The things we cannot find/You know that we are/Always wasting time..."
Enjoy:
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Proof positive that MAGA supporters are not Christians
Christian pastor alarmed after quoting the Sermon on the Mount and being told by Trump supporters, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?"
— Celeste Headlee (@CelesteHeadlee) August 10, 2023
Pastor: I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ.
Congregant: That's weak.https://t.co/bgYYGBK3n9
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It's a huge distinction and shows just which Party it is that believes in the rule of law
Rep. Goldman: "If Hunter Biden has committed crimes, he should be charged with them. I'm a Democrat saying that. You don't hear any currently elected Republicans saying that if Trump committed crimes he should be charged w/ them & held accountable. That's a critical distinction" pic.twitter.com/sO9AzBZ3H3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2023
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His girlfriend in Canada probably had it
Pity Donald didn’t think to use any of this conclusive completely exonerating evidence in even one of his 60+ election fraud lawsuits. pic.twitter.com/GrjMePeRs9
— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 15, 2023
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Like shooting fish in a barrel
Republicans Are Raging Over Getting Outsmarted By Merrick Garland https://t.co/JhgaQQGxXh
— #TuckFrump (@realTuckFrumper) August 13, 2023
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Behold: the not so rare, common dunderhead
Setting aside all the criming, he really is just a moron. pic.twitter.com/TlD187YKkB
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2023
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Apparently, Georgia isn't for losers
As the Fulton County grand jury votes on whether to indict Trump and his co-conspirators, here's a shot of Trump's supporters outside the court. pic.twitter.com/vxpLchtkUw
— Mark Elliott (@markmobility) August 15, 2023
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In Georgia, Trump has reached the "find out" stage
10 indictments in Georgia that a president can’t stop and a governor can’t pardon.
— Steven Beschloss (@StevenBeschloss) August 15, 2023
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Georgia, the whole day through...
Trump, Giuliani, Eastman, Meadows, Chesebro, Clark, Ellis, Smith, Cheeley, Roman, Shafer, Still, Lee, Floyd, Kutti, Powell, Latham, Hall, Hampton
— Pete Strzok (@petestrzok) August 15, 2023
19 defendants
41 countshttps://t.co/vExoPFP1un pic.twitter.com/8j2FIF1EJx
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The moral rot in the GOP runs deep
You don't need a new political strategy. You need to look inward and recognize the inhumanity of your movement. A clear majority of Americans understand that there's nothing pro-life about your agenda, that it only harms women and children. We see the moral rot. https://t.co/WoArQWQIeL
— Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) August 9, 2023
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The GOP does not want independent thinkers--they'll gut our universities
People need to take what’s happening in academia much more seriously. Education control is a major step in fascism. This isn’t some ivory tower problem esp because state universities are much more at risk of control
— Dr. Mia Brett (@QueenMab87) August 12, 2023
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Racism Home Alabama
Alabama unnecessarily closed 31 Department of Motor Vehicle locations in counties that are home to poor and Black people.
— James Aymann (@AymannJames) August 12, 2023
Now they have to travel outside their county to simply get a driver’s license!
In Alabama – it is now harder for poor and black people to get a driver’s… pic.twitter.com/GDLWsindcy
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Force is all the GOP has--they are completely bankrupt of ideas
REP. MATT GAETZ in Iowa with Trump: “Only through force do we make change in Washington…”
— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) August 12, 2023
Wildly irresponsible rhetoric. Intentionally dangerous. pic.twitter.com/KtRDMO69tG
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Monday, August 14, 2023
The love of the common people...
CHUTKAN Re Trump: “He’s a criminal defendant. He is going to have restrictions like every single other defendant.”
— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) August 11, 2023
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This is what the GOP will do to America
Police stage 'chilling' raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones - Kansas Reflector
— Alexander S. Vindman ❎ (@AVindman) August 12, 2023
This happened in a Red State Kansas and a Republican district. So much for conservative calls to protect 1st Amendment rights. https://t.co/0LANG2pNsT
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The delusional dreams of a madman who cares not a whit for America
Chris Christie on Donald Trump:
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 11, 2023
“We see a pretty consistent pattern of him wishing he was a dictator, wishing he could be Putin in America. That’s what’s dark to me about it. That’s what he really wants. He wants to be a dictator.” pic.twitter.com/xAH2JzdOOl
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The sooner the better for all of us
Judges may 'have no choice' but to jail Trump if he keeps up attacks: legal expert https://t.co/HRYHaPgY7E
— BARBBROS / F/NO DMs #🇺🇦 #FvckPutin #DemCast (@ABrosnikoff) August 11, 2023
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Sunday, August 13, 2023
And this is how great Presidents act
At a time when some seek to ban books and bury history, we’re making it clear that we can’t just choose to learn what we want to know.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 12, 2023
We should learn everything – the good, the bad, and the truth of who we are as a nation.
That's what great nations do.
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The party of law and order, amirite?
Judge Chutkan now appears to have a security detail accompanying her as Trump escalates his attacks: Security bolstered for judge overseeing Trump election case @NBCNews @MSNBC https://t.co/o1YRIOgvWX
— Frank Figliuzzi (@FrankFigliuzzi1) August 10, 2023
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Hitler with even worse hair
Words lead to deeds. No other president has inspired so much terrorism, violence, mayhem and division in the USA. Woe for this country if this man is given power again. https://t.co/oHPPZfI5Nk
— Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) August 10, 2023
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Mostly convinced the mainstream media, I'd bet
There’s an extremely loud 30% of the country that’s pro-Trump, anti-choice, and anti-trans. They’ve convinced a lot of people they’re half the country but they’re not. They’re 30%. https://t.co/kLiN4zUUmB
— Matt Novak (@paleofuture) August 9, 2023
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Saturday, August 12, 2023
Hammer time!
BOOM: Fani Willis is taking the matter seriously as Donald Trump accuses her of having an affair with a gang member at a recent rally. Willis challenges Trump to prove the accusation by tomorrow or face charges for sullying the image of a prosecutor. If convicted in Georgia,… pic.twitter.com/P9diQ2gtOv
— Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 (@PopularLiberal) August 10, 2023
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Fools and their money are easily parted
You sent him money to build a wall that was never built.
— John Collins (@Logically_JC) August 10, 2023
You sent him money to find election fraud that was never found.
You sent him money to fight legal battles for crimes you didn’t commit.
Maybe he cares more about your money than he cares about you.
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This cannot stand
Enter code: CLARENCETHOMAS when you plan your next vacation for 100% off https://t.co/mU5CO3kLXH
— SarahCA (@SarahBCalif) August 10, 2023
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Don't you have to at least live in the state you represent?
Friday, August 11, 2023
What. The. Fuck.
Chuck Grassley on Fox News: "We are not interested in whether the allegations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not." @atrupar.pic.twitter.com/uVJwLEfwZt
— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) August 8, 2023
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