Woody Guthrie actually.
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Unfortunately Woody’s no longer with us. Pete Seeger was on the Studio 360 episode talking about the song’s background. I should’ve made that clearer.
No, they’re playing by GOP rules. She can’t win just by playing better than him…
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Pete’s gone too, as are most of those old school lefties. I knew a family with close connections to that circle, now there were some really conflicted folks. They were leftists who got very wealthy in the folk boom of the 50-60s.
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The GOP Ideal world would look something like this song from Alt-Lennon:
This had been kicking around in my head every since I saw the title of this post and I finally had a chance to type it out.
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Here’s another contender for the GOP theme song:
LYRICS:
Motherhood, family
Baseball and basic courtesy
Picnics in the park
And real Christmas trees
Folks put 'em down or say they’re quaint
But you and I both know they ain’t
So when they tell ya “time to move along”
Tell 'em back “no siree!”
Times may change, but important values? Never!
Tradition needs to be maintained forever
We can do it together
A lovely figure, smiling face
Graceful and quiet and knows her place
Always ready with a double scotch and a BLT
Tender hands to rub your back
Angel in the kitchen, devil in the sack
When the ladies say it’s better now
Ya’ tell 'em back “No siree!”
Safe and quiet neighborhoods
Where everybody speak-a-da English good
No lower-class or Catholic types
Next door to me
Folks took pride in shining shoes
And a whole separate country club for the Jews
When they tell ya things are better now
We both say “No siree!”
Me and you, pal, makin’ the future brighter
Wholesomer, respectfuller, and whiter
Everybody tryin’ to change things 'round
Bring 'em on; together, we’ll take 'em down
Them trigger-happy low-downs, a-fixin’ for a showdown
Hoods and punks and foreigners, slackin’ on the corner
Dirty hippie losers, reefer-weed abusers
Commie pinko fairies, thinkin’ they can scare me
To them we’re gonna say…
“No siree!”
To quote the person who posted it at YouTube: “If you find yourself agreeing with any of the sentiments in this song, congratulations! You’re a terrible person!”
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Clever but, do us a favor. Please leave John’s title and key word ‘Imagine’ out of that. Try the word ‘think’n’ instead. The word Imagine is waaay to imaginative for alt right pricks anyway.
Thanks.
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The Horst-Wessel-Lied would only need a cosmetic name change and 45s cabinet already know the tune.
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I’ve noticed something similar: I ask republicans what it would take for them to turn on Drumpf; What would he have to do, for them to realize and admit, “Holy SHIT, we screwed up.”
I’ve suggested reasonable, genuinely possible scenarios: Drumpf caught on cell phone video ala Romney’s “49%” gaffe, where Drumpf is laughing with his inner circle about how he can’t BELIEVE how easy it was to take republican voters for suckers, how they’re all “losers” who DESERVE what he’s going to do to them;
Drumpf being caught on video, creepily coming on to a congressman’s nubile teenage daughter - Or a screaming, naked girl fleeing one of the Mar a Lago outbuildings, quickly followed by a stumbling, naked Drumpf, bellowing threats after her if she tells anyone;
Smirking about how “taxes are for suckers”;
A document surfacing, or a phone tap intercepting, something utterly incriminating about his relationship to Putin -
Nothing. Silence. They never, EVER answer. EVER. Appearing disloyal or doubtful is, after all, the road to eternal damnation. I’ve seen them get extremely uncomfortable, as if those same scenarios have occurred to them - But they absolutely will not say anything that would suggest that there are cracks in the foundation.
To me, it’s a reminder of how many Drumpf supporters are also deeply religious - They’ve been taught all their lives to keep their mouths shut and to go along, to not think or notice the contradictions - With never-ending suffering as the only outcome if they dare to disobey.
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Well, a significant portion of his supporters are Authoritarians, and that’s pretty much directly inline with Bob Altemeyer’s research on them.
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Fixed it!
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Sorry, can’t Like that. I appreciate the effort, but despoiling a classic song like that is not something I could ever Like.
Hey, what’s wrong with baseball (don’t answer that), courtesy, and picnics?
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