A new thing here as to our current dire times filled with obviousness and anger, anger mostly fueled by said obviousness and with some older Trump parody tunes that still work at the end for some “umph”
I mean, who don’t like some “umph” right?
No, NOT that … f’ing people … I hate y’all … rasser frasser mummble rasser mummble frasser …
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Spent a good portion of the weekend, after some poetry, most of it bad poetry (which is sometimes the best poetry) working on a post where I intended to include a few of my Trump parody tunes, older ones that still work for the moment (as I tinker some new things that no one is waiting on but will at least give me momentary peace when they come) amid the current fascist clusterfuck that we find ourselves in, but it just wasn’t working for me. It may still, with a bit more attention, but for right now it was a no go, I mean I have standards to keep unlike this current whose only standard is to lie to us even more vociferously on a daily basis than the first time around and that is quite an accomplishment, it seriously is, as that former lie-fest was award worthy shit, but now it’s almost something you could commend simply for the sheer audacity of it, I mean there isn’t even a care this time to couch anything that could even remotely be considered close to fact, no, this time there is an almost gleeful and obvious disregard for anything even resembling a truthful narrative, which the first administration at least tried to fake and cover (though there were a few adults around then so …)
No this is full bore, in your mug, this is what we got now deal with it state news propaganda with a pretty face, though hers gets less pretty by the day. You’re witnessing, in real time a face spouting falsehoods and dangerous lies getting more cartoonish and ugly by the moment. You can almost see the devil she’s decided to embrace peering out through what surely once were innocent and hopeful eyes. It is some pretty strong Kool-Aid being drunk there at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
But lets be clear about one thing. There is a lot of talk being bandied about, about who is or who is not a true American or true patriot depending on whether or not you support this despot in waiting. If you do, if you still support him even after what you have seen the only one being un-American is YOU. YOU are supporting the destruction of democracy, you know, that thing you grew up with and were taught of before you were now told that that wasn’t really quite right, and the building instead of exactly what our democracy was intended to escape and protect us from. You are supporting a budding, inhuman dictatorship, period. You have NO argument to make otherwise.
That’s it. You can hem and haw and “ummm, but”, you can justify and rationalize, you can cherry pick stances, you can split rhetorical hairs or find some semantic that will allow you to escape your support of a dictatorship and the loss of freedom and liberty that will come from it when project 2025 goes into full effect but you can’t escape it no matter how you might try to word around and distance yourself from it. And this has been said over and over and over, it’s not like I’m treading any new ground here.
YOU ARE COMPLICIT in all the wrongs that are still to come and there will be many and YOU WILL OWN THEM. YOU in that complicity. You own Stephen Miller, that creepy neo-nazi weasel who fashions himself in SS uniforms in the mirror at home. You own Heil Homan, that troll who lives under a bridge in a really dark Grimm Tale and looks like he wants to eat your children. You own Margie Q Greene and her gloried ignorance. You own JD Vance and his smooth, condescending faux intelligence “free speech” only if it’s our speech bullshit. You own Pete Hegseth and his misogynistic, white supremacy. You own Nancy Mace, shit, where to even start there. You own Karoline Leavitt and her daily barrage of smiling, smirking lies. You own RFK Jr and his anti-science, anti-medicine “I’m not a doctor but I play one on TV and in cabinet meetings”. You own the references to Hitler, referenced with pride. You own Kristi Noem, and no one wants that, tight cute Cosplay ICE outfits notwithstanding. You own Linda McMahon and her artificial intelligence steak sauce. You own Brendan “State News Only” Carr, you own the whole lot and all that have acquiesced and paid their protection money. That feeling you have right now that you are covered with your fealty, your allegiance, that joy you have in this moment, most probably just a one that has finally allowed you thumb your nose at the other side and feel superior, however childish and petty and juvenile that is? It will come for you too. You will find, eventually, that the liberties you thought you had earned with your oaths and obeisance will also be taken.
No, we need to stand and brace ourselves. Make noise. A lot of noise.
Oh, and Elon Musk is robbing you/us blind as we speak, F’n devil in stupid hats.
Anyway, how about a song or three, ya know, to lighten the mood.
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(originally posted April 20, 2020)
“Brand New Trump Key”
(to Melanie’s “brand New Key”)
Brand New Trump Key
I rode my motorcade to your city last night
To spin some lies and give you all such a fright
To harp on victim-like and rail conspiracies
I know you trust me know I’m just what you need
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Well, I’ve got brand new world in mind here now
Take heart my unhinged screed
I’ll be proven right my ranting now
You just need to wait and see
I know what you need it’s a Donnie me
A fascist change of scene
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Well, I’ve got a brand new world in mind here now
It just ain’t democracy
.
I ride my plan of year twenty of twenty five
I got my dee-scipes proving be worthy scribes
Of new world order in these United States
If you don’t subscribe you’ll surely be less than great
.
Oh yeah
Hah hah hah hah
Oh you will face my wrath
Hah hah hah hah
Oh yeah yeah yeah you’ll wish you hadn’t said that
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I ask my people to stand up and be strong
Kiss my ring say they knew it all all along
That I was chosen by the man sittin’ way up high
To lead a fascist state while democracy dies
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Well, I’ve got a brand new way to look at things
Won’t believe what I’ll bring
A brand new U.S.A. prosperity
‘long as you call me King
La la la la la la la la la la la
Well, I’ve got a brand new world in mind here now
It just ain’t democracy
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(originally posted June 16, 2019)
Tricking the Whole
(to The Beatles “Fixing A Hole”)
I’m tricking the whole to new reign of a King
To keep their minds from wondering
What the truth knows
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I’m filling the gaps marking all that I say
With prop-a-ganda being way
To sell truth now
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And it’s really heady matter for elites I lie
For a fake press I lie
The haters cry
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But see my dog base blinding there who loyally lap at my feet
Never finding truth crumbs on the floor
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I’m painting bona fide in a red white and blue
My fingers make confusing swirls
Till you let go
Oooh Oooh Oooh Ahh Ahh
(succumb you will in time)
Hey Hey Hey … Hey
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And hey batter batter batter
Swing and miss my man, can’t hit this pitch you can’t
Not this big spin
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I’m on the mound base is the crowd
They pay no mind they are fact free
See how they’re wowed by my huge back door curve
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I never take time to study the things that were important yesterday
They don’t matter now
Oooh Oooh Oooh Ahh Ahh
Hey Hey
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I’m tricking the whole to new reign of a King
It gets my mind to wandering ’bout new royals Ohhhh
Who we could own owwwwnnn
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I’m tricking the whole to new reign of a King
My mind is always floundering
In a dark hole … in a dark hole
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(originally posted May 7, 2022)
We Want You … To Be … We
(to Cheap Trick’s “I Want You To Want Me”
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We want you to be we
We need you to be we
We’ll force so please just a-gree
Can’t have you livin’ feelin’ free
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We want you to be we
Not right to live to your own de-gree
We know what’s best as only god does decree
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We’ll shine up our partisan court, the one that’s been godly bought
Parade them over your free thought, make sure that you are sin free
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We’re tired of spending time feelin’ persecuted
We need able dictate how your lives are executed
It’s not fair to watch you all go about your happy dailies
While we’re forced to fret and live with all your evil failings
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We want you to be we
See country the way that it should be
Revisioned right light history
One white and straight you’ll all see
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And shine up on all old hurts, of unallowed to convert
Bring handmaids to life, ‘cause we know just what is right
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Will we neglect children after grabbing their first real air
Of course cause hypocrisy we’ve got plenty in spare
We’ll only find our end until it is that you all stop tryin’
Pursuit of happiness is up to us to do the decidin’
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Ohhh!
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We’ll work in a morality play’s future dire warnin’
But that future won’t know it from this backwards day future dawnin’
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Ohhh!
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We want you to be we
We need you to be we
We’ll force so please just a-gree
And gay marriage is soon next up on the tee
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We want you to be we
We need you to be we
We’ll force so please just a-gree
You’ll thank us soon you’ll all see …
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