Sen. Bill Cassidy: "I will vote for Mr. Blanche. I'll be criticized for this vote — what's new?"
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) August 7, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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emaycee
Showing posts with label Robert F. Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert F. Kennedy. Show all posts
Sunday, August 9, 2026
Cassidy's legacy? Utter gutlessness
Thursday, March 20, 2025
A total disaster is coming
This Administration is turning its back on science. If you never had the measles or polio, thank science. If you use a smartphone as easily as a computer, thank science. If you want to know if it will be raining tomorrow, thank science. A total disaster is coming. apnews.com/article/trum...
— Rob Valente (@robvalente.bsky.social) March 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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emaycee
Friday, December 13, 2024
Fight for our freedoms
We’ve been too complacent. That changes now.
— America 4 All — A4A (@america-4-all.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 2:41 PM
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emaycee
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Delusional crank city
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| Three Liberal Heroes |
Numbnut Dan Crenshaw, a republican representative from the not so great state of Texas, said this week that the reelection of Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ed Markey was an insult to the legacy of JFK.
Leaving aside the obvious fact that one wonders why a no-name congressperson from Texas would have any concern about an election in Massachusetts, especially considering his republican run state leads the nation in coronavirus cases, what exactly does he think JFK's legacy is?
I've been following politics since 1976 and in all that time I have never once heard any Kennedy say they were a republican, run for office as a republican, or endorse a republican. And judging from their record, I can unequivocally state that had any of the sons of Joseph and Rose Kennedy been alive over the course of the past four years they most assuredly would have called out Donald Trump and the republican party for being the racist cowards they are. Republicans can spare us all their phony historical revision--to a person, they would have hated JFK. His legacy shapes much of what the Democratic Party is today.
And just for future reference, can they also not invoke the name of Martin Luther King, Jr.? I can guarantee you that had he lived he would have been marching in the streets protesting black Americans continued subjugation to white Americans' racism to this very day. And King as well would have called out Donald Trump and republicans for their white nationalist rhetoric and support.
Our leaders are not your heroes--it's not our fault there hasn't been a heroic republican since Lincoln.
268,000+ Dead Americans Because of Donald Trump's Incompetence
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CXIX--Dion: Abraham, Martin, and John
This week's tune is an abject lesson in the fact that nobody writes songs commemorating political assholes. There are no celebratory songs about Reagan or Nixon or Bush the Elder or Bush the Lesser because in the end, people don't like and won't buy records about assholes who don't give a shit about people.
There endeth the lesson....
Dion DiMucci began recording in 1957 and by 1960 he had (along with neighborhood friends The Belmonts) eight singles that had reached the Billboard Hot 100. He went solo in 1960 (after a stint in rehab for heroin addiction, a problem he'd had since his mid teens), and over the course of the next eight years had 19 more singles hit the Hot 100. Dion is most noted for his singles "Runaround Sue" (his only #1) and "The Wanderer" (#2--and originally released as a B-Side). He was among the first inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (in 1989) and is/was cited as an influence by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and Lou Reed (who gave the speech inducting Dion into the Hall). For all intents and purposes, though he continues to tour and record, Dion's commercial success was over by 1968. He did another stint in rehab, finally cleaned himself up, and now does outreach work with prison addicts. In a nutshell, he had a hell of a career.
Fun Fact: Dion was on the ill-fated "The Winter Dance Party" tour with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper and was invited to take the plane that eventually crashed killing all three, but turned it down because it cost $36 which was what his parents had paid per month for the apartment Dion lived in as a child--and he thought, in comparison to a month's rent, it was just a bit too much money to pay for a plane ride.
"Abraham, Martin, and John" was released in August of 1968 in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. It would be the last hit single of Dion's career (but oh what a song to finish with), reaching #4 (most assuredly with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100. The most surprising aspect of the song, is considering when it was written, that the song easily could have been a soap opera-ish, sappy, overwrought work of drivel, but it isn't, and the reason for that is its simplicity. The lyrics use just slightly north of 60 words to describe what these four men--the aforementioned King and Robert Kennedy, plus Abraham Lincoln and JFK--meant to their country and the tragedy for all of us at their loss. The song at times has a gospelesque feel (it is often sang at churches--not any of the ones I ever went to, mind you, unforunately), with some pop and some easy listening mixed in. Dion's vocals are a wonder--he's one of those lucky men who can actually sing blue-eyed soul and he absolutely nails this one. It's hard to not be inspired by the song, by what it says about the best of America's politicians, and to me seems especially appropriate in this time when we're led by a pseudo-Nazi, if nothing else as a reminder that we are better than this moment, and eventually history will give a big fuck you to one Donald J. Trump.
There endeth lesson two....
Fun Fact #2: The gentleman who wrote the song also co-wrote the novelty hit "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Fascinating, my God...
Lyric Sheet: "Didn't you love the things that they stood for?/ Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?..."
Enjoy:
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
There endeth the lesson....
Dion DiMucci began recording in 1957 and by 1960 he had (along with neighborhood friends The Belmonts) eight singles that had reached the Billboard Hot 100. He went solo in 1960 (after a stint in rehab for heroin addiction, a problem he'd had since his mid teens), and over the course of the next eight years had 19 more singles hit the Hot 100. Dion is most noted for his singles "Runaround Sue" (his only #1) and "The Wanderer" (#2--and originally released as a B-Side). He was among the first inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (in 1989) and is/was cited as an influence by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, and Lou Reed (who gave the speech inducting Dion into the Hall). For all intents and purposes, though he continues to tour and record, Dion's commercial success was over by 1968. He did another stint in rehab, finally cleaned himself up, and now does outreach work with prison addicts. In a nutshell, he had a hell of a career.
Fun Fact: Dion was on the ill-fated "The Winter Dance Party" tour with Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper and was invited to take the plane that eventually crashed killing all three, but turned it down because it cost $36 which was what his parents had paid per month for the apartment Dion lived in as a child--and he thought, in comparison to a month's rent, it was just a bit too much money to pay for a plane ride.
"Abraham, Martin, and John" was released in August of 1968 in the aftermath of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. It would be the last hit single of Dion's career (but oh what a song to finish with), reaching #4 (most assuredly with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100. The most surprising aspect of the song, is considering when it was written, that the song easily could have been a soap opera-ish, sappy, overwrought work of drivel, but it isn't, and the reason for that is its simplicity. The lyrics use just slightly north of 60 words to describe what these four men--the aforementioned King and Robert Kennedy, plus Abraham Lincoln and JFK--meant to their country and the tragedy for all of us at their loss. The song at times has a gospelesque feel (it is often sang at churches--not any of the ones I ever went to, mind you, unforunately), with some pop and some easy listening mixed in. Dion's vocals are a wonder--he's one of those lucky men who can actually sing blue-eyed soul and he absolutely nails this one. It's hard to not be inspired by the song, by what it says about the best of America's politicians, and to me seems especially appropriate in this time when we're led by a pseudo-Nazi, if nothing else as a reminder that we are better than this moment, and eventually history will give a big fuck you to one Donald J. Trump.
There endeth lesson two....
Fun Fact #2: The gentleman who wrote the song also co-wrote the novelty hit "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. Fascinating, my God...
Lyric Sheet: "Didn't you love the things that they stood for?/ Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?..."
Enjoy:
Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
POTUS on the 2011 State of the Union
Short version: Definitely folksy, channeling Ronald Reagan. Definitely forward looking, channeling JFK. Definitely people empowering, channeling RFK. Flashes of humor. Upbeat. Hopeful. Nothing to really piss off the base, but nothing to make us throw our hats in the air in celebration, either. Left Social Security alone. Seemed apologetic for freezing federal employees wages for the next two years (not good enough, Mr. President). Definitely a Democratic Party leaning speech, just not the Wellstone wing. A triple.
Republican response, short version: Really bad haircut (remind self to never get a trim in Wisconsin). Nothing about creating jobs. Nothing about raising the standard of living for the middle class and poor. Deficit reduction, even though we don't want it. Stiffly presented. Lots of fear mongering. Healthcare reform sucks, but still no alternatives. Lots of claims about about job killing policies, no proof to back it up. Lots of claims about regulations hurting the economy, total tone deafness to how much ordinary Americans mistrust corporate America. We hate Obama. Struck out looking.
Oh, and everybody is really sorry about Rep. Giffords, though no one seems to want to do a damn thing to make sure it doesn't happen again.
And neither one comes close to hitting the nail on the head concerning the state of our union as this "untold" one does.
Peace,
emaycee
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