Jesus, they're all in on the grift

Did Kristi and Kash get to Vegas in one of Kristi's Gulfstream G700 private jets taxpayers paid $200,000,000 for or did they use a $60,000,000 FBI private jet that taxpayers also paid for? These are incompetent fools only on the job for the attention and theft.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

This is who the GOP is

Trump has issued a full pardon for loyalist Michele Fiore, who paid for her plastic surgery with funds that were meant for a statue honoring a slain policeman. Bc stealing pub funds is good & admirable? search.app/ntb8evitbaPP...

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— ZiggyStardust (@grancracker.bsky.social) April 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

A pattern, indeed

• World's biggest pedophile: Trump's best friend • January 6: Trump supporters • Trump rally shooter: Trump supporter • Cybertruck car bomber: Trump supporter I'm starting to notice a pattern here...

— I Smoked Democracy (@dknight10k.bsky.social) January 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

How many will be killed because of the media's complicity?

The cybertruck terrorist praised Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and RFK Jr. and railed against DEI and said Democrats must be "purged" by "any means necessary." Why the hell isn't the media covering this as the radicalized right wing terrorism it is???

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— The Get More Smarter Podcast (@getmoresmarter.com) January 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

The start of the 2025 dumpster fire

If you were going to choose a metaphor for our current state of politics, a Tesla Cybertruck exploding and burning in front of a Trump Tower in a city where millions of Americans go each year to lose their money, is pretty spot on.
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— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) January 1, 2025

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

In the end, pro-life is just so much GOP bullshit

The U.S. Supreme Court just affirmed a deadly decision by the 5th Circuit to strike down a bump stock ban. These lethal devices were used by the Las Vegas Route 91 gunman to shoot and injure over 500 people. SCOTUS just put countless lives at risk. https://t.co/cuUtEf4Db0

— Kris Brown | President, bradyunited.org (@KrisB_Brown) June 14, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Trumptown massacre?

MAGA is a cult. Trump just said “it would be suicide before Biden, right?” Republicans want us to believe that this is normal? Sounds like Trump is a fan of Jim Jones and his cult… pic.twitter.com/Gro0FmlywX

— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) June 9, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Trump's one skill: whining

Trump: it's 110, but it doesn't feel it to me, right. If anybody goes down. Everybody was so worried yesterday about you and they never mentioned me. I'm up here sweating like a dog. They don’t think about me. This is hard work. pic.twitter.com/vEyJYBhJfo

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 9, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

At last, Trump tells the truth to MAGA

Trump: Do you feel the breeze? I don't want anybody going on me. We need every voter. I don't care about you. I just want your vote. I don't care. pic.twitter.com/IirvQs123c

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 9, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Sit down and shut the fuck up

Like the saying goes: Aldean can talk the talk, but can’t walk the walk. pic.twitter.com/jry25QWzy9

— James R. Thompson (@JamesRThompson2) July 22, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Pro just whose life

Not to your average republican...

There are over 30,000 gun related deaths every years in the United States, so let's be perfectly clear:  if you claim to be pro life and you're not marching in the streets and calling on your Congressperson to put an end to the gun insanity that occurs only in America, you are not truly pro life.  You are really just pro shoving your religious views down the throats of the rest of your countrymen.

You can't claim to be pro life and then get to pick and choose which lives actually matter to you.

Unless, of course, you're a republican.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. LXXXVII--The Killers: All These Things That I've Done

One of the thrills of being a big music fan is how you can be going about your life, reading a book or doing a crossword puzzle, and in an otherwise extraordinarily ordinary moment in your life, a song can pop up on the TV, a commercial or a coda to a show, and that song thrusts itself into your consciousness and you immediately think, "Holy shit, I've got to hear that one again..."

Such was the case with "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers--I don't remember exactly what I was doing but the TV was on in the background, the song was featured in some commercial (couldn't begin to tell you for what), and I spent the next several days singing "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier...."

The Killers formed in 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and among their many claims to fame is that they are the most successful Nevada band ever--but their success isn't just limited to Nevada.  They've sold over 22 million albums worldwide (they enjoy quite a bit of success in the UK), been nominated for 7 Grammy Awards, toured constantly at the world's biggest venues and festivals, and have all around enjoyed a hell of a career over the last fourteen years.   The band's name came from the logo on a bass drum of a fictitious band in a New Order video for "Crystal" (no clue--not very familiar with New Order or their work).  Their music has never been cutting edge or music changing, but like
Bruce Springsteen, they incorporate the best of many musical styles into their very own sound.

Released on their Hot Fuss album (which I have to admit I wasn't familiar with until this past year, but I'm oh so glad I now am--a really fine debut LP) in 2004,  the song surprisingly would only reach #74 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100.  Nonetheless, due to its anthemic nature, it's been covered live by U2, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Imagine Dragons, and Walk the Moon, among others.  And it's not hard to see why--as someone who grew up listening to songs that would eventually be considered Classic Rock, "All These Things That I've Done" would be right at home on any stage in that era.

As for the song itself, the only thing you really need to know is "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier."  I have no idea what, if anything, it means, but I'm not sure a cooler line has ever been written in a pop song, and it can literally make me march around the house like I was forty years younger and sing it over and over again.  That's not to take anything away from the rest of the song--it's a sum of its parts and it all comes together as an intrepid whole, but there are moments in some songs where a great song gets shot into another stratosphere and "I've got soul, but I'm not a solider" is one such moment.  Repeated by the gospel choir The Sweet Inspirations in the middle of the song, it is bookended perfectly by the earnest calls for redemption in the stanzas surrounding it.  And "if you can hold on" it's a marvelous five minutes of music.

Lyric sheet: This will be some kind of surprise, but... "I've got soul, but I'm not a soldier...."

Enjoy:

Peace,
emaycee

Calling their bullshit

Lost in the shuffle this week of Eric Cantor's unprecedented electoral defeat and the implosion of Iraq was the shooting of two police officers (and a bystander) this past weekend in Las Vegas by a pair of "patriots" who have fed at the Tea Party trough and proclaimed the shooting the beginning of a revolution.

Because nothing says revolution quite like shooting a pair of police officers unaware while they're dining on pizza.

I was wondering how the conservative media was going to spin this, but at Fox News, they aren't.  They're just ignoring it.

Because owning up to their mistakes would take moral courage, something conservatives have been sorely lacking for quite some time.

Peace,
emaycee