A day like this absolutely calls for some music.
Whatchu got?
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Only one group comes to mind that even begins to feel like Trump & Co and doesn’t suck rocks.
Hillbilly Moon Explosion
DIIV – “Doused”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI79GPXAICM
No connection to politics. Just a damn good tune.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirblXMl30s
I can’t embed a youtube worth a damn.
You attempted a hot link. This is how you do that in HTML
http://sandradodd.com/hotlink
If you want to imbed you MUST be on the desk top version of YouTube. Then the imbed button is right below the video, by hitting ‘share’. If you are on a phone or iPad type device and have the YouTube app, it will constantly prompt you to use the app, you can’t imbed from the app. That’s my situation because I use an iPad and have the app. But I circumvent it.
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and “copy embed code” pops up as a menu option (at least in Firefox on Windows 10).
Think booman prefers you edit “width” and “height” to 500 or so, max. Also, always a good idea to “preview” before “post” and make sure it works as expected.
Thanks. Usually the embed dies when I try it.
Sometimes only the dripping sarcasm of Steely Dan will do:
ah, screw html
this
well, i’ll just post this one again.
The only music that comes to mind for me is carnival circus tunes from an old calliope. That, backed by the chattering of monkeys and the honking of clown horns.
It’s a breakdown in politics, the likes of which I have never seen or even imagined. The Republicans are freaking out, and old school Conservative writers and pundits are vomiting blood as they warn their followers about the scourge that is Trump. I don’t think they ever imagined the Tea Party would devolve into the mobs of disgruntled and uneducated voters who threaten to pull the Republican Party into bits, allowing a carnival barker like Trump to run his bizarre campaign of hate and subversion.
After all those years of Republican control, after all the stonewalling they did against any progress the Democrats wanted to make, after their destruction of democracy, I can feel no sorrow for them. They deserve Trump, and all the damage he would do. I believe he’s going to lose and he’ll drag the majority of them down with him. And I hope he does so spectacularly.
this is a band not a calliope, but it’s the classic circus march.
Perfect!
Timbuk 3
Just now in Florida, Clinton & Al Gore coming up to the stage with Springsteen blaring, an overflow crowd stomping and cheering was pretty terrific. Never seen Hillary to fired up, then Gore took the stage and the crowd started in on ‘You Won!’. I swear I heard Clinton say Gore was going to be one of her advisors in her administration, and hearing Gore talking about climate science at a campaign rally was the cat’s meow.
Then I saw news that Eldon Musk was having an online twitter war with BigCoal and my morning was complete.
Well, that version of “Statesboro Blues” was sure different from the Allman Brothers Band’s version. Pretty nice in its own way. Thanks.
This is so weird. Just seconds before I clicked onto your website I was playing the Allman Brothers version of the Statesboro Blues. Coincidental?
Schadenfreude, quite literally.
(from Avenue Q)
Awesome!
Bromberg:
. . . you are my friend
When I was down, you just stood there grinnin’
You got a lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on the side that’s winnin’
. . .
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is to see you”
From the campaign trail:
Are you listening America? Did you hear her say, “Our lives depend on this election”? I sure hope so. The ugly anti-Obama rhetoric first emerged in late 2008 campaign audiences. Let’s hope this isn’t equally prophetic.
Maddow just reported that Pence had to cancel 2 fund raisers this weekend due to lack of interest. What she does not know…is she is all on her own. The revolution will only be backed up with The Donald’s tweets.
I hope they all slink back ashamed to wherever they emerged.
I’ve said this dozens of times here.
On other sites that I frequent, in particular Scott Adams’ site, I have been warned of the upcoming race war and how, nothing personal, but I need to be murdered too, because I’m on the wrong team.
Strongman Trump isn’t just a clown, and anyone who has referred to him as such has been deluding themselves as to what he actually represents.
No, I’m not personally afraid of Strongman Trump. He’s a 70 year old man.
I am, on the other hand, afraid of what a Trump presidency would allow private citizens to do. They are right wing authoritarians, and I believe that they would act much like the black shirts did.
These fucks aren’t kidding around. Just listen to them when they’re talking openly, honestly, and into a microphone in public for anyone and everyone to hear.