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Saturday, August 31, 2024
Be all that you can be
I want every little girl across our country to know this: You can do anything—even if it has never been done before. pic.twitter.com/PqRmwLJsun
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 26, 2024
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Gulp!
Donald Trump is out with a new collection of NFT cards today. 𤣠pic.twitter.com/SAIYNLvQbL
— á°áŠĆłáአâđđ đĽđ đđŁđđĄđđŞ (@LePapillonBlu2) August 27, 2024
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We remember the silence of our friends
A message to celebrities and prominent public figures who continue to refuse to take a public stand on this election so they can protect their brand:
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 25, 2024
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- MLK Jr.
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Completely agree
This race isn’t about inflation or gas prices. It’s about Donald Trump.
— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) August 23, 2024
That’s how you win and win big.
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Friday, August 30, 2024
Fuckin' A!
These folks sure make me proud to be a democrat. đ pic.twitter.com/F7N0CTHzfI
— á°áŠĆłáአâđđ đĽđ đđŁđđĄđđŞ (@LePapillonBlu2) August 22, 2024
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Guilty thirty-four times
Your reminder that no matter what nonsense the @GOP or the MAGA Republican weirdos spew, the ONLY time in his life that Donald Trump won the Popular Vote was when a jury of his peers said "Guilty" thirty-four times.
— Sgt Joker (@TheSGTJoker) August 22, 2024
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The only thing Trump has to run on is the economy...
Consumer confidence at 6 month high.
— Lily Adams (@adamslily) August 27, 2024
Gas prices at 6 month low. https://t.co/p7gxcjr816
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America 2025 if Trump wins
Brilliant ad. If you have a daughter and you are voting for Trump you are insane.
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) August 27, 2024
Also I hope you will one day have to explain to her why you voted for a man who was found to have sexually assaulted a woman. pic.twitter.com/qJ2WiiHkU5
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Thursday, August 29, 2024
More proof they're just suckers and losers to Trump
From NPR’s @QuilLawrence: Arlington National Cemetery officials say Trump campaign staff verbally abused and pushed aside cemetery official who objected to filming and photography at gravesites
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) August 27, 2024
More below and to follow on NPR pic.twitter.com/xQN2JEbCnG
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American's mainstream media: Most assuredly dead
I think we may be nearing the end of civilization pic.twitter.com/NaJ8s7Nsps
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) August 26, 2024
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America's mainstream media: Still dead
No doctor and I repeat, NO DOCTOR, would withhold lifesaving care from a newborn unless that newborn was born with a 100% fatal condition, like without a brain such as the guy who wrote this opinion. This is bullshit and you know it. https://t.co/EoMLL9tviL
— Andrea R MD (@AndreaR9Md) August 26, 2024
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America's mainstream media: Dead
Thank you @RollingStone. More of this, please. Also, you “fact-checkers” should be ashamed of yourselves. pic.twitter.com/NOzsWZtLaI
— Andrew—Author of America Rises On Substack (@AmoneyResists) August 26, 2024
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
And Kamala is the key
The future is here. We just have to unlock it. https://t.co/bDxnheT85h pic.twitter.com/lDewbctWAd
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 23, 2024
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The real fake news
“CNN’s decision to feature a Trump supporter as an ‘undecided’ voter during the DNC's biggest moment is more than just journalistic malpractice—it's an alarming sign of how far corporate media will go to manipulate narratives.” @BMeiselas of @MeidasTouch https://t.co/XNONLUg15b
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) August 26, 2024
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This is what treason looks like
This is what TREASON looks like: Trump’s “J6 Awards Gala.” Trump is hosting a fundraiser for Jan 6 domestic terrorists convicted of assaulting police officers and some defendants still facing those charges. https://t.co/J2GkEqF7to
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) August 23, 2024
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This is a classic
The reason women always go to the bathroom in pairs. https://t.co/bbUQOOxOYd
— Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) August 25, 2024
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DII--The Temptations: Get Ready
This tardiness will just not do....
While I am certain that I'd heard this week's featured tune numerous times in the past, it was its inclusion in a Motown documentary (Hitsville: The Making of Motown--well worth the watch) that my youngest son and I watched on Showtime at the height of the pandemic shutdown that made me cock my head and think, "How the hell did I never notice how great this song was?" As the saying goes, better late than never....
I wrote about The Temptations in Jukebox, Vol. CCCXVIII and as nothing new has happened to the band in the last three and a half years, I'll let that bio stand--other than to note that founding member Otis Williams (the only surviving original member) still takes The Temptations out for a dance move or two on the oldies circuit.
"Get Ready" was the first single released from their 1966 LP, the rather elongated entitled Gettin' Ready. The single would reach #29 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100 (#1 on the R & B singles chart), while the album would peak at #12 on the Billboard 200.
Fun Fact: The band Rare Earth recorded a twenty-one-minute cover version of "Get Ready" which was edited down to 2:46 for a single released in 1970. Their version would climb to #4 on the Billboard singles chart--if I had a guess as to why it charted higher than The Temptations version, my guess would be that at the time, rock and roll was still king....
A man is in love, and he's absolutely, positively going to make the girl of his dreams love him, too. Written and produced by Smokey Robinson, "Get Ready" packs as much into two and a half minutes as a music fan could ask for. From Eddie Kendricks wondrous falsetto to the rest of the band's empowering backing vocals, from the horn section (listen for a wicked, wailing short trumpet solo) to the playful nature of the lyrics, Robinson and the Temptations make musical magic, Motown style. Another in a long line of songs that makes me go, "Yup, this is why I devoted so much of my life to music." Just a compelling and stunning effort.
Lyric Sheet: "So, fee-fi-fo-fum/Look out, baby, 'cause here I come..."
Enjoy:
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Four Pinocchios
Fact check: Bullshit https://t.co/xb9sZnfS0P
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 25, 2024
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Incompetence personified--CNN couldn't be bothered to do a simple social media background check
BREAKING: Last night after VP Harris' speech, one CNN "undecided voter" panelist said he'd now vote for Trump. We found his pro-Trump social media posts, including Trump's mugshot and disappointment that Mike Pence didn't overturn the election. https://t.co/vMW2zgN2UU
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 23, 2024
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A Kennedy helps the Democratic Party yet again
As I said, Dems would probably fund the charter plane to send RFK Jr to campaign w/Trump in suburban battlegrounds to explain why vaccine mandates in public schools are a threat that must be eradicated https://t.co/6dfRk5gt4F
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 24, 2024
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Like Satan performing a baptism
Nothing to see here. Just the tone-deaf draft dodger gleefully giving a thumbs-up at the graves of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country.#WeirdandSAD pic.twitter.com/5tAn5KY58p
— Mark Hamill (@MarkHamill) August 26, 2024
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Monday, August 26, 2024
United and it feels so grand
When it is all said and done, the greatest thing Donald Trump has ever done is unite the Democratic party. pic.twitter.com/DU35W8YncI
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) August 22, 2024
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The art of the loser
Trump’s Truth Social lost more than $327 million last quarter on revenue of less than $1 million, proving once again that Trump has the “Minus Touch.”
— đđŚđđđđ_đžđŚđŁđ (@SundaeDivine) August 23, 2024
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America deserves much better than Trump
The fact that some MAGA people think it’s okay to mock Gus Walz for loving his father is further proof of the rottenness Trump has unleashed in this country.
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) August 22, 2024
America is better than that.
America deserves better than that. pic.twitter.com/tLCFNgtgyX
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The best of America
Tonight, @KamalaHarris showed the world what I have known to be true. She is ready on day one to be President and represents the best of America. Let’s get to work. pic.twitter.com/b4fejucl7F
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 23, 2024
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Sunday, August 25, 2024
The parties are NOT the same
This is a little different than the RNC where we heard America is a 3rd world country overrun by millions of homicidal migrants, about to have a stock market crash, enter a Great Depression, then lose WW3 to China unless we put their tired, senile, deranged Orange God in charge.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 23, 2024
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The religious right has never had anything to do with Jesus
If your Christianity causes you to mock people with disabilities.
— Rev. Benjamin Cremer (@Brcremer) August 22, 2024
If your Christianity causes you to mock the genuine expressions of emotion and love.
If your Christianity causes you to mock men who cry.
Your Christianity has nothing to do with Jesus.
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Trump is a whole 'nother definition of stupid
Today's episode of stupid things to say while standing behind bulletproof glass:
— John Oberlin (@OMGno2trump) August 22, 2024
Trump: "American does not have a gun problem." pic.twitter.com/HpTZjOk5CJ
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It really is this simple
The pitch was pretty simple.
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 23, 2024
We love America as it is and want to do the work to make it better for everyone
They hate America as it is and would be happy to tear it apart to make Donald Trumps life better
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Saturday, August 24, 2024
Democrats for reproductive freedom
Assault and incest survivor Hadley Duvall at the DNC: Trump calls abortion bans "a beautiful thing. What is so beautiful about a child having to carry her parent's child?" pic.twitter.com/zCQJfwUpjU
— nikki mccann ramĂrez (@NikkiMcR) August 20, 2024
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Fling shit and sometimes it gets flung right back at you
Trump just claimed you can’t walk across the street without getting raped.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) August 20, 2024
He should know — the Bergdorf Goodman department store where he raped E. Jean Carroll is across the street from Trump Tower.
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It would make for an awfully short speech
Too bad the glass isn't bullshit-proof. pic.twitter.com/03rnRfRoKL
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) August 21, 2024
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Calling a dumbass a dumbass
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker just DISMANTLED Donald Trump at the DNC:
— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) August 21, 2024
"Donald Trump thinks we should trust him on the economy because he claims to be very rich. Take it from an actual billionaire, Trump is rich in only one thing: stupidity." pic.twitter.com/JI5V4e7EYw
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Friday, August 23, 2024
The GOP is traitors from top to bottom
Always a good day to remember that Donald Trump tried to overthrow the republic because the people shitcanned him after one term. Sad. And every Republican now supports that attempted coup. Sad.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 20, 2024
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Morons, Inc.
There had to be a study? https://t.co/6gAcheH0pA
— Miss Jilianne (@MissJilianne) August 18, 2024
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I believe the GOP did, yes
Calling a convicted felon a convicted felon is defamatory? Did the Republican Party buy stupid motherfuckers in bulk at Costco? pic.twitter.com/lD8XiLJ3kA
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) August 19, 2024
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100% about being American
The DNC and RNC conventions are vastly different. The RNC convention was 100% about being Donald Trump, the DNC is 100% about being American.
— Dexter Wright (@Dexter__Wright) August 21, 2024
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Thursday, August 22, 2024
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DII--Player: This Time I'm in It for Love
Shitski....
In all honesty, this week's artist is the kind of band that I usually hate--they're that generic rock and roll band that could have been put together with info programmed into a computer. They had a number one single released before this week's tune that I did not care for at all. Hell, even the cover of this week's featured album shows four guys trying so hard to look cool that they're anything but. And yet...here they are, having a song inducted into the hallowed halls of Friday Night Jukebox....
Player (formed in 1976 in Los Angeles) had a somewhat odd career--at the height of the band's initial success in late 1978 they had a huge blow up between members after a show in Florida and after some member departures found themselves without a contract. Though they would soldier on with a few remaining members (and managed to release three more LPs), they were finished by 1982. Think of that--two top ten singles in 1978 and done as a band by 1982! They would reunite in 1995 (lasted until 2003), and then again in 2007, after which they stayed together until 2018 when another dispute arose. At present, there are two different incarnations of the band led by two former members. Through the years over eighteen different musicians have been in Player. For their career, they released six studio albums (somehow managed two more after their original dissolution), three compilations, and twelve singles (seven of which charted). As noted above, there are two different versions of Player currently riding the oldies circuit--and with enough success to still make a living as musicians. Good on them.
Fun Fact: Founding member Ronn Moss (who leads one of the two current incarnations) went into acting after Player split in 1982 and found quite a bit of success. He was offered a role on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful in 1987 and would go on to play Ridge Forrester for twenty-five years before leaving the show in 2012. Moss continued to perform with the band through their several reunions.
"This Time I'm in It for Love" was the second single from Player's 1977 debut album, the oh, so ingeniously named Player. The single would go on to become their second (and last) top ten single, while the album was the highest charting of their career, reaching #26.
While I noted above that Player was the type of generic band that wasn't my cup of tea, I'd like to note a few things about this week's single. First, it's a hell of a pop tune. Second, there's plenty of blue-eyed soul, which, as regular readers (all three of you) will recall, is an absolute emaycee fave. Third, as I listened to "This Time I'm in It for Love" as part of my weekly half-assed research, I could definitely hear some early Hall and Oates vibes--there was some killer white boy soul in Hall and Oates' early years. And finally, you have to remember this song came out at a time when disco (a genre that could be called the Donald Trump of pop music) overwhelmed the airwaves--anything catchy with a little guitar, drums, and bass was a breath of fresh air. In the end, it's a delicious slice of pop pie that I have to admit I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this week. Good pop music, you know, makes the world go 'round....
Lyric Sheet: "I heard the weatherman/Predict a sunny day/He did not mean to lie/I look outside it's raining anyway/I guess I can live with a rainy day..."
Enjoy:
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D is for diversity
The DNC looks like America.
— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) August 20, 2024
The RNC looks like a Klan rally.
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An easy choice
VP Harris never had to hide her grades because she’s smart and she earned them. She doesn’t dress up like a clown or wear a girdle. She doesn’t spew lies with a dead ferret on her head while snorting back an Adderall drip and daydreaming about Vladimir Putin. Vote Blue.
— NoelCaslerComedyđ (@caslernoel) August 18, 2024
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Yes, indeed
A woman’s place is in the Oval Office. pic.twitter.com/5zjcwpxUtq
— Rachel Bitecofer đ˝đŚđ´đĽĽđşđ¸ (@RachelBitecofer) August 17, 2024
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They're gonna know in November
"Childless cat ladies..."
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 15, 2024
"Postmenopausal females..."
Is the Republican ticket aware that women can vote?
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Bingo!
The only people in America upset about Harris doing campaign rallies in swing states instead of press conferences are the press and the Trump campaign.
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 14, 2024
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A stupid stunt that reeks of desperation
Trump posts fake Taylor Swift images on Truth Social to falsely claim singer’s supporthttps://t.co/FmQg8WVBsG pic.twitter.com/cBefLVs5Ia
— Renne Rus (@RenneRus) August 20, 2024
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Traitor's gonna traitor
“The reporting is that…Trump is on the phone with the PM of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because it’s believed that would help the Harris campaign.”
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 20, 2024
If true, this is a blatant violation of the Logan Actpic.twitter.com/GTwiszT9IO
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Let's go win this
Let's fight for Kamala as she fights for us.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 20, 2024
Let's go win this. pic.twitter.com/Zd2rT5EAS8
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Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Mo.Men.Tum.
“Republicans are openly sounding the alarm. Speaker Mike Johnson warned in a private call with members this week that some of the ‘numbers are ominous,’ according to a person on the call.” https://t.co/hqpSvvVPiQ
— Matt McDermott (@mattmfm) August 17, 2024
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It's become an obvious pattern by now
Trump insulted our veterans again.
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) August 16, 2024
Trump just said that Miriam Adelson receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom (for donating a lot of money to his campaign) “It's much better” than the Congressional Medal of Honor:
“Because everyone who gets the Congressional Medal of… pic.twitter.com/kShBmM4OOc
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Warning label
Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's charity, mercy, or compassion.
— Rev. Benjamin Cremer (@Brcremer) August 14, 2024
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Trump despises America
The most un-patriotic man to ever be nominated for president. https://t.co/iFyCFYB6G5
— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) August 14, 2024
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Monday, August 19, 2024
Stay in your lane
Walz: Why would you think I would need your advice to tell me what books I can and cannot read? Or when to have a family or how to have a family? Or what religion to worship? Or how to organize? You stay in your lane and I'll stay in mine. That's not that difficult. pic.twitter.com/6pWD0ARtpT
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 13, 2024
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How can the media begin to take this idiot seriously?
Trump says people robbing stores are bringing calculators with them because if they rob less than $950 of stuff they can’t be prosecuted. pic.twitter.com/3Kh627W1v9
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 15, 2024
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Also two of the few things they're good at
Mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name combines two of the Republican Party's favorite things: racism and illiteracy.
— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot) August 17, 2024
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Bozo's circus
So, today alone, Trump has opposed lower food costs.
— Bryan Behar (@bryanbehar) August 16, 2024
He’s opposed lower prescription drug prices.
He’s suggested everyone having healthcare is a terrible thing.
And now he’s literally shit on America’s soldiers.
How’s that campaign reset working out, for ya?
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Sunday, August 18, 2024
Harris should start pressers when the media does an actual one with Trump
Trump is holding another fake “press conference” at Bedminster today. You will know it’s fake bc he won’t be asked about the $10 million bribe he received from Egypt. Nor will he be asked to confess what he was doing w/ the classified documents- including sharing nuclear secrets.
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) August 15, 2024
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So addled he doesn't ever know where he's at
Trump: "Would that be ok, North Carolina?" (Trump is in Pennsylvania.) pic.twitter.com/KHCs5Kny3c
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 17, 2024
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In other words, it's abject racism
Let's be clear.
— The.Ink, from Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) August 16, 2024
What's happening to Kamala Harris's name isn't MISpronunciation. Don't call it that.
It's DISpronunciation, a term we all need to adopt.
Dispronunciation is saying names wrong on purpose, as if to remind us whose country this really is.https://t.co/JxqpPKkWWG
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A "10" on the stupid meter
Trump: That's the stuff that powers the plants. It's not wind that goes around and around. Darling, let's watch the president's State of the Union speech tonight. I'm sorry, we won't be able to do it, the wind isn't blowing, darling. We have no electricity. pic.twitter.com/5tIygXKyFI
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 14, 2024
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Saturday, August 17, 2024
Disgusting. Nauseating. Sickening. Un-American. This is who Trump is
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Bidenomics is working
Folks, inflation has fallen below 3%, its lowest level since March 2021.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 14, 2024
Prices are still too high, and we have more work to do to lower costs for hardworking Americans – but we’re making real progress, with wages rising faster than prices for 17 months in a row.
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Trump's handling of the pandemic is proof he should never set foot in the White House again
You murdered 700,000 Americans you lying sack of shit. https://t.co/3HZVHh4qkB
— Jane of the North (@JaneotN) August 14, 2024
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Exhibit A why Harris shouldn't be talking to the media
We’ve got a guy who’s been running for president for NINE SOLID YEARS with a healthcare plan called “I’m gonna announce it in two weeks”… and HARRIS is the one who's “light on detail”? pic.twitter.com/aZfMmh2kOS
— Ben Wexler (@mrbenwexler) August 14, 2024
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Gotta pay for those tax cuts for the rich somehow
The politicians who said Clinton & Obama & Biden were coming for your guns...
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 14, 2024
who now say Kamala Harris is coming for your guns...
...are the ones coming for your Social Security.
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Friday, August 16, 2024
As we should--we've always been the more patriotic party
Liberals are reclaiming patriotism đşđ¸
— umichvoter đł️đđĽĽđ´ (@umichvoter) August 11, 2024
She's so cute here moms are gonna eat this up pic.twitter.com/nAn6iff59g
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We are many, they are few--vote, vote, vote
The most important story of the 2024 Election is going untold.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 23, 2024
Kamala Harris isn’t just facing Donald Trump, JD Vance, and the GOP. She’s squaring off against fascist Tech billionaires using them as puppets to destroy democracy. https://t.co/ZkA2vxN8G7 pic.twitter.com/M85A7oSAkx
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There is zero hope and zero joy in the Trump campaign
LOL Trump is now trying to coopt the Harris-Walz "hope and joy" message
— đşđŚPaula Chertokđ˝ (@PaulaChertok) August 14, 2024
Good luck with that! Republicans & GOP propaganda media have spent years keeping people boiling in a toxic doom loop of anger, resentment, hate & fear. I'm sure they'll easily adjust to hope and joy.đ↔️ https://t.co/qWEkRjE2uS
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One truly has to wonder who they're taking their orders from
it's only hard to understand if you assume they're acting in good faith https://t.co/nqPZ9v78Cd
— Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) August 12, 2024
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Thursday, August 15, 2024
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DI--Wilco: What Light
Back to my old ways....
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Sometime during the pandemic, my youngest son and I became enamored of a small movie called Bandslam (highly recommend), that featured the story of a group of oddball kids coming together to form a band and compete in a competition (Bandslam) for a chance at a recording contract. As the credits are running, a song comes on--amazingly enough it's this week's tune--in which the vocals (but not the song) sounded very familiar. A little Google search and--voila--I came to find out it was a band that I like, from an album that I own, and somehow missed (or forgot about) in my musical adventures. Whatever gets you there, one supposes....
Wilco formed in 1994, when three of the remaining members of Uncle Tupelo (featured in Jukebox XL and CDLXVIII) decided to form a new band in the wake of Jay Farrar's departure. They moved north from my one-time home of Belleville, Illinois (Illinois side of St. Louis) to Chicago, and over the last twenty-eight years have enjoyed both commercial and critical success (as well as neither). Led by Jeff Tweedy, Wilco has won a Grammy for best alternative album, made Woody Guthrie inspired albums with Billy Bragg (also a Jukebox alumni, Vol. VII --way back in the early days), had numerous tours, and made the rounds of the talk show circuits. For their career, Wilco has released thirteen studio albums (with four reaching the top ten on the Billboard 200), one live album, six EPs, and twenty-eight singles (with nary a one reaching the charts). Wilco released its latest EP earlier this year.
Fun Fact: Wilco's fourth album, Yankee Foxtrot Hotel, was not only rejected by their label, Reprise Records, but the band was fired from the label and given the rights to it for free. It went on to become the bestselling album of Wilco's tenure and is a perfect illustration of how fucked up the music industry has been for too many years to count.
"What Light" was the first single released from their 2007 album, the rather atmospherically named Sky Blue Sky. The song would go on to be one of their twenty-eight single releases to not hit the Billboard Hot 100, while the album would be the first of their two albums to reach #4.
"What Light" is a simple song with a simple message that says so much more than the sum of its parts. The message: let your light shine in whatever you do. The simplicity of the song is in the band's elegantly quiet instrumentation, Tweedy's understated but heart-rending vocals, and the subtle sparseness of its melody. In the end, I can't help but think that if a moment of clarity had a theme song, "What Light" is what it would be.
Lyric Sheet: "And if the whole world's singing your songs/And of your paintings have been hung/Just remember what was your is everyone's from now on..."
Enjoy:
Peace,
emaycee
No reason for Kamala to talk to the incompetent mainstream media
Hey, media, VP Kamala Harris doesn't owe you shit.
— GingerSpice❄️đ (@thedesertginger) August 14, 2024
She doesn't NEED to talk to you. She's talking to US. The voters.
The people who respect her and see her value in our future.
You waste her time asking questions about a washed-up con man.
Suck it
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Adios, mother fucker
Donald Trump says he will flee to Venezuela if he loses.
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 13, 2024
Vote accordingly.
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Common sense measures
Really, are free school lunches, a child tax credit, and family and medical leave "left-wing"? Or are they common sense measures that government can and should do to benefit the public and that the public favors? I think you know the answer.
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) August 7, 2024
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Making America shitty again
FACT CHECK: trump just claimed that America's education system is ranked "around the bottom" in the world.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ (@mmpadellan) August 13, 2024
We're ranked 13th... out of 177.
I've NEVER seen a former President who hates America more than trump does. pic.twitter.com/8FdROvyseM
Republicans = Nazis
Peace,
emaycee
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
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