U.S. Economic Blackout Friday 2/28

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A pig at the trough

Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM

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Over the next four years, it will not be the last child's death caused by MAGA

First measles death in 10 years. A parent fed lies about vaccines ended up getting their own kid killed.

— Rachel Bitecofer (@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social) February 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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To our everlasting regret

Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

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— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 8:04 PM

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Donald Trump: The Rapist's President

Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

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— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) February 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM

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Not an American

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I did everything I possibly could

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

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— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) February 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM

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Everyday Trump is showing just how great Joe was

I'm feeling nostalgic for competence.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM

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Once again, the GOP coddling the rich

@rbreich.bsky.social: “For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.”

— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM

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Putin's bitch slap baby

Donald Trump’s not just Putin’s lapdog—he’s his goddamn wind-up toy. The guy kisses more Russian ass than a Moscow masseuse. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

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— JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM

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GOP chain of command

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Democracy requires your courage

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

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— Governor JB Pritzker (@govpritzker.illinois.gov) February 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM

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Is this what you voted for?

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM

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Beyond pathetic

In case it wasn’t clear before, the U.S. is officially aligned with Russia

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) February 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM

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This will not end well for the GOP

You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie. This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.

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— Morgan J Freeman (@mjfree.bsky.social) February 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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Pretty much hits the nail on the head

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His epitaph will be he sold his principles to a buffoon

"In less than a month’s time, Rubio has presided over America’s willing abdication as leader of the free world. It’s a shameful legacy that cuts against everything he once proclaimed to stand for."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM

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Trump has greatly jeopardized our safety

1/ “There was no legitimate reason for the Friday Night Massacre in the military. It was the slaughter of our integrity, our values, and our security.” joycevance.substack.com/p/friday-nig...

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— Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) February 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM

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Exactly--stop legitimizing them

Jim Acosta: I think the AP should consider whether or not to sue the administration… and the rest of the press corps should start seriously considering whether it’s worth sending everyone into the Oval Office, onto Air Force One, or into the briefing room.

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM

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You bought the ticket

Oh, you voted for Trump? Fantastic. MAGA now owns the House, Senate, and Oval Office. No more excuses. No blaming Biden, Kamala, Obama, or Hillary. Every that happens next is on you. You wanted control—now you’ve got it. So don’t cry when it backfires. You bought the ticket. Now take the ride.

— Mitch Jackson ⚖️ (@mitch.social) February 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM

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He or she would get my vote

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The beginning of the end

It's just one poll but in a new Gallup poll Trump is 45-51 (-6) approve/disapprove, and -12 on the economy. - 6 recent polls have Trump underwater - 538 average has dropped 6 pts in past month - Highest disapproval of any President at this point in their Presidency #notwinning

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— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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A waste of a human being, too

$200 million taxpayer dollars spent on “tell me I’m pretty” ads to stroke his own ego, while he fires people to “save money.” Sociopathic.

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— Melanie D’Arrigo (@darrigomelanie.bsky.social) February 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Fuck tha police

The police misconduct database has been eliminated by the Department of Justice on Trump‘s order. America just became a much more dangerous place, particularly for people of color. As we know that they are disproportionately affected by police brutality. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

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— 💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 (@mommamia.bsky.social) February 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM

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Sincerely--fuck Amazon

Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness.

— George Conway (@gtconway.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM

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Zucking some ass

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Now is a time for courage

If you claim to be a leader but are too scared to lead, fine -- sit down and let someone else take your place. It is easy to be bold when there is no threat. Now is a time for courage. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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All politics is local...

This is the way… “The elected officials in Washington have to stop protesting in Washington. They have to go back to their districts…show the consequences…show the school that isn’t operating…they have to make it real.” With social media, word will spread to neighboring districts—even red ones.

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— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) February 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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Trump slowly but surely destroying our economy--again

NEW: U.S. consumer sentiment plunges—down 10% from January over tariff and inflation fears. Most people I know think the economy is cooked thanks to Trump’s policies—designed to help the rich and screw working folks. He’s not doing shit to fix the economy or lower costs. Just broken promises.

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— Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) February 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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Trump = Recession President

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

— Jesse Rothstein (@jrothst.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM

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Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DXXVII--John Mellencamp featuring Bruce Springsteen: Did You Say Such a Thing

 Less than two weeks late?

I've noted a time or two that during the worst of the pandemic when I took my youngest son to Tae Kwon Do that there were several months where only the students were allowed in the school, and I'd sit in our car and listen to tunes while he had his lessons.  On one such evening, I came across this week's tune in my YouTube queue, and was taken aback because I had no idea John Mellencamp had a new album, let alone one with three songs featuring Bruce Springsteen.  I immediately gave it a listen--and literally immediately added it to my Friday Night Jukebox lineup.  It never ceases to amaze me that even fifty years into my musical journey I can still be absolutely blown away, thrilled and chilled, by a song just like this week's featured post....

This is the third time I've featured a song by John Mellencamp, which is a bit surprising since he's one-third of my Holy Trinity of Working Class Rock with Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty (first Mellencamp post here, second Mellencamp post here), which, as my pandemic comments above, I've noted before.  As I wrote about him just last February, there hasn't been anything of note in his career, though I would like to mention that he has now released twenty-four studio albums and seventy-one singles which makes for quite the musical output for the guy who started out as Johnny Cougar....

"Did You Say Such a Thing" was the third single from Mellencamp's 2022 album, the rather knavely entitled Strictly a One-Eyed Jack.  The single did not chart (should have!), while the album showed that Mellencamp's heyday is long gone, peaking at #196 on the Billboard 200.

Fun Fact:  There's a line in "Did You Say Such a Thing" where Mellencamp intones "You got your bird seed all wrong" which I though was some clever backwoods country witticism.  Nope, looked it up online and it's just a lyric in a song, though it sure seems like it could become some kind of hillbilly wisdom.

No matter how hard I try, I will not be able to do this week's song justice.  Every time I've played it this week while doing my half-assed research it shakes me to my core with how good it is.  From Springsteen's ominous guitar at its outset to Mellencamp's gravelly vocals, from the defiant lyrics to Springsteen's fiery guitars and his devil may care backing vocals, "Did You Say Such a Thing" hits every right note and shows us that rock and roll will never die, that at its finest it can say so much about the human experience and our participation in it.  A stunning, stunning piece of work from two artists showing us how to not only age gracefully, but purposefully.  Just beautiful.

Lyric Sheet:  "I guess I'll see you tomorrow/Unless you'd be gone/Never too soon for me/You got your bird seed all wrong..."

Enjoy:

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Kremlin Employee of the Month

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Punch back. Hard.

Democratic leaders: I think it's abundantly clear at this point that simply going along to get along ain't gonna work. Trying to negotiate ain't gonna work. Being collegial ain't gonna work. What you're doing right now isn't working. Take your gloves off and punch back. Hard.

— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM

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This is Trump's America

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, just 11 years old, “took her own life in Texas after she was tormented by classmates who threatened to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) authorities and have her family deported from the US, her grieving parents have said.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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Trump = King of Inflation

Trump during campaign: Starting the day I take the Oath of Office I will rapidly drive prices down Trump today: Inflation is back...I had nothing to do with it

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) February 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM

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Taking out the trash

Always stand up to a bully

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) February 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM

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There's leadership, and then there's a loser like Trump

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The disasters are only beginning

so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

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— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) February 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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Special kind of stupid to trust Trump with your Social Security number

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

— Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM

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Stand up to the mother fucker, cowards

This means nothing. Useless. Empty words, zero action. Boycott his events. Refuse to cover his photo ops and propaganda signings. He’s addicted to coverage and hates being ignored. Until you band together and do something, these statements are utterly pointless & pathetic.

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— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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GOP racism, ever on display

Apparently having an out of wedlock 13th child with a 4x married man who never sees his kids and doesn’t like to pay child support is only ‘ghetto’ if you’re not white. And yes, this post is about Ashley St. Clair…

— Ty Ross (@cooltxchick.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM

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Gutless cowards

 

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The facts

European Parliament member 👇🏽

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM

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Pathetic and weak

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM

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Kompromat much, Donnie?

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM

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Less than a month to capitulate to Putin

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

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— The Lincoln Project (@lincolnproject.us) February 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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And that you're fucking worthless assholes

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First class wimps

Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post would not run this ad. This is the power of oligarchy.

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— David Corn (@davidcorn.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM

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Daytona dodo

Trump posted 14 times about his Daytona 500 trip—but not once about the deadly flooding in multiple states.

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) February 17, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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Fuck with AOC and we will end your worthless ass

Tom Homan confirms on Fox News that he's asked the DOJ to investigate AOC

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM

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An utter embarrassment that's going to get shoved up their asses

Yeah. That’s not how it’s done. What an embarrassment. abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-...

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— 💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 (@mommamia.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM

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Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DXXVI--Willie Nelson: On the Road Again

A week and a half late again...with feeling!

In August of 1981, one of country music's greats released a two LP best of called Greatest Hits (& Some That Will Be), and the folks at Columbia were kind enough to send a promo copy to my first store there in Decatur, Illinois.  I spent months listening to it--in many ways the album was my stepping stone to furthering my interest in country music which had been pretty close to zilch prior.  It would eventually culminate in a trip to the Illinois State Fair to see aforesaid great live (while she would never remember, it was technically my daughter's first concert).  As you might surmise, it was also my introduction to this week's tune....

Willie Nelson's career started before I was even born (1956 to be exact), and sixty-nine years down the road he's still making music as he prepares to hit ninety-two years old this April.  Needless to say, there isn't any way to capture his career in a paragraph, as Nelson has become an icon for generations of fans and has stretched the boundaries of country music in ways anyone not named Johnny Cash has not.  A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, Songwriting Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, winner of numerous Grammys, and being an Academy Award nomineee are just a few of the accolades Nelson has acquired through his many years.  His album discography is here (over a hundred studio albums between solo and collaborations--surely a Friday Night Jukebox record), and his single discography is here (over a hundred and thirty--with twenty-five #1's--also Jukebox records).  Nelson is a strong supporter of cannabis rights, leans left politically, was an original founder of Farm Aid, and has been active in numerous other charities.  A life well lived and well done.

Fun Fact:  Nelson is a devotee of martial arts, and holds black belts in several different styles, including Tae Kwon Do like my youngest son. Cool!

"On the Road Again" was the first single from the soundtrack to the rather florally entitled Honeysuckle Rose (from the movie of the same name which Nelson also starred in).  The single would hit #20 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100 and #1 on the country singles chart.  The soundtrack would hit #11 on the Billboard 200 and as with the single, #1 on the country albums chart.  Nelson would also receive an 
Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.

Asked to write a song about life on the road by the movie's producers, Nelson penned "On the Road Again" on a barf bag while on a flight to one of the movie's sets.  It's a happy go lucky affirmation of traveling the world and making music with your band, and Nelson keeps the tempo and the vocals as upbeat as any good show would be.  Bonus points to me for finally noticing after forty years of listening that there's a harmonica in the song.  Nothing earth shattering for this one--just two and a half minutes of good music and fun.

Lyric Sheet:  "On the road again/Just can't wait to get on the road again/The life I love is making music with my friends..."

Enjoy:

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Great job, chucklefucks

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Heroes wanted

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

— Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM

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What. A. Fucking. Snowflake.

Meanwhile, so much for “free speech” over at The Bad Place.

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— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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We absolutely nailed it

I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.

— Sarah Longwell (@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM

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Really hard to see

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

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— George Conway (@gtconway.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM

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Putin is a liar

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O, Canada!

When people see the maple leaf, they see possibility. They see freedom. They see a helping hand. They see Canada, and the best of our values. Happy 60th to our flag. 🇨🇦

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— Mark Carney (@mark-carney.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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Time for Europe to show Trump what true leadership is

This is a seismic moment. Among the defining moments of global politics since 1945. The US will not allow Europe, whose sovereignty is threatened by Russia, a seat at the negotiating table. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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— Elliott Lusztig (@elliottlusztig.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM

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This is EXACTLY how stupid Trump and Musk are

Trump & Musk gutted the Dept of Energy because they're totally ignorant & don't even know the DOE manages our nuclear weapons systems. Now they want to hire back critical engineers, but can't reach them because the fired workers were cut off from their gov't e-mail. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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— Sarah Bridger (@sbridger.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM

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President Plane Crash Extraordinaire

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

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— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM

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An ugly truth

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The whole country is going to go to shit

Deleting entire agencies won’t make the issues they work on disappear. Instead, everyone’s quality of life will go to shit.

— Rachel Bitecofer (@rachelbitecofer.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM

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We're a fucking nation of laws

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

— Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” (@ryanjreilly.com) February 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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Be careful

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

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— klaus radke (@kradke.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM

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This is how you do it

BREAKING: France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain & UK sign a joint statement vowing to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty & demanding a role in the peace talks. This is leadership. It’s also unprecedented. A western alliance is having to form against a new, twin & united threat: Trump & Putin.

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM

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But the wrong guy

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Many more FAFO's coming

The ‘American First’ crowd is awfully quiet about Trump’s pledge to build free housing for 2 million Palestinians in some random country they don’t want to go to that also doesn’t want them. I’m sure this will all work out fine and that’s what people thought they were voting for.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM

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The depth of their stupidity is bottomless

Habba’s understanding of the separation of powers is about as good as her legal prowess

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— Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM

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DOGE is doing nothing except making Elon Musk richer

"That is why Elon’s commission looks, sounds, and smells like a sham. Because thus far, the biggest beneficiaries aren’t working class Americans, but rather Elon Musk himself. You don’t get credit for rooting out abuse if your execution raises more questions than it answers."

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— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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If there was ever any doubt as to who the real President is...

Are you guys watching President Musk in the oval office? Trump is sitting by impotently while Musk holds court.

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— 💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 (@mommamia.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM

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It's all on Trump

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Boundless stupidity

Kristi Noem: ‘We can't trust the government anymore.” Dana: “You are the government.” “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.” 🥴

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— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) February 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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And also flat out fascism

This is a flat-out, clear-cut violation of the First Amendment.

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— George Conway (@gtconway.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM

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Everyone knows Trump is a sexual predator but Nancy Mace?

She helped put a sexual predator back in the Oval Office.

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— JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Deaf, dumb, and blind

Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

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— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) February 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM

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Start with the GOP

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We are

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

— Rick Wilson (@therickwilson.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM

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The GOP doesn't even give a shit about its own voters

Rep. Jason Smith dismisses farmers in his state who are getting stiffed by the US government not fulfilling contracts: "Right now it's a little bit disruptive, but that's what this administration promised whenever they were coming to Washington is that they would be disruptive."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM

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Trump sides with the fraudsters--what a shock

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM

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Dumbest bastards ever

The dumbest people who have ever existed are running the country

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) February 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM

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Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DXXV--Gerry Rafferty: Baker Street

So far behind now I might never get caught up....

My introduction to this week's tune was WLS-89 out of Chicago in 1978, the year it became a big hit for this week's featured artist.  Oddly enough, I didn't care for it in its original run, and it was only years later that I began to appreciate its greatness.  Better late than never....

I briefly touched on Gerry Rafferty when I wrote about his original band Stealer's Wheel in Vol. CCCLXXII, but as his career stretched out for many more years I'll do a proper bio paragraph.  After his time in Stealer's Wheel, Rafferty hit mega stardom in the late seventies, and sadly his career never recovered from it.  Over the course of the next three decades Rafferty would continue to record, but his discomfort with the trappings of fame would only fuel his alcoholism and his withdrawal from society.  For his career, Rafferty released eleven studio albums (one #1 in the U.S. and two top fives in the U.K.), and twenty singles with a top five in America and two more top fives in Great Britain.  Rafferty's behavior veered erratic as his alcoholism worsened in his last years, and he succumbed to liver failure in 2011.

"Baker Street" was the second single from Rafferty's 1978 album, the rather urbanly named City to City.  The song would reach #2 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100 and #3 in his native U.K.  The album would be the only #1 of his career here in the States and would peak at #6 on U.K. Album Chart.

Fun Fact:  While doing my half-assed research, I came across this line in Wikipedia:  "[The sax solo] is said to have been responsible for a resurgence in the sales of saxophones and their use in mainstream pop music and television advertising."  Ahem.  Nothing against the brilliant sax solo, but it seems to me there was this kid Springsteen with a sax player something something Clemons that lit the saxophone scene just a few years before....

"Baker Street" opens with an eerie, smoky sax solo and you immediately know you're headed into territories unknown.  While largely autobiographical, the song has echoes of feelings so many of us know:  waiting for the one lucky break, the chance that there's a start for something new.  Rafferty nails just about every aspect of this one--the lyrics are damn near literary, his vocals capture the joy and pain of his protagonists, the killer sax solo, a killer guitar solo, and a man making the most of his abilities.  In the end, it's a song about hope, even if in all likelihood it's a false hope.  For even a false hope is better than no hope.  Thus endeth the lesson....

Lyric Sheet: "Windin' your way down on Baker Street/Light in your head and dead on your feet/Well another crazy day, you'll drink the night away/And forget about everything..."

Enjoy:

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