I realize nobody has had much to say here for years but come on. Is anybody actually okay with going about our daily lives while our Country is taken over by a fascist dictator? Not to mention his sycophants?
Hell no! But I have to give a lot of credit to the protesters of Los Angeles: Trump has been trying to provoke a riot, in order to give him a pretext for assuming dictatorial power, and the protesters have been steadfastly refusing to give him one. Sunday evening, I attended Igor Levit's recital at Disney Hall (postponed from January!), and the only difficulties I encountered were a need to change trolleys at 7th/Metro (because Union Station was closed, and the Blue Line was only running between Long Beach and 7th/Metro). And make no mistake: he's a puppet, and the sycophants are the ones pulling the strings.
Oh yes! That's why I made sure to mention them. I just saw a video posted by a protester. It seemed to be mostly a rally and police were sitting on their cars watching. When our "leaders" are allowed to just plain lie, over and over, without any fact checking; what do we do? At least Newsom is calling him out.
I just heard on the "regular" news that there are more troops deployed on US soil than in any war zone.
And now, Senator Padilla has been arrested for daring to ask Noem (now THERE is somebody whose U.S. Citizenship should be revoked with extreme prejudice) a question at a public event.
When you're as old as I am; this really strikes a raw nerve. We never thought we'd have to experience this again in our lifetimes.
Rock not being my preferred idiom (to put it mildly), that is a song I've heard dozens, perhaps hundreds of times, without ever having the slightest idea what the title was. And about halfway through the video, it occurred to me that it would work very well for the Hampton String Quartet. Or for the lesser-known (but also quite real, although they may not still be active) Uptown String Quartet.
https://youtube.com/shorts/DQHbTDspNaY?si=3p_ZWFTBeK5hgJfG Your post got me thinking and I looked around YouTube and found this.
Okay, so that didn't work. I guess you can't just copy and paste a short. There's a guy named Avery White who does a cello version of For What It's Worth. But I can only find it as a short.
Sheesh. We used to have an edit button. The first time I hit that link it just gave me shorts with babies talking. But now it seems to be working. Hopefully you got to see it. I think it's pretty cool.
The link works. . . but if you scroll down even a little bit, it stops playing, and the video below it starts. Weird. Interesting arrangement. As much sel-sync overdubbing as Les Paul and Wendy Carlos combined. If there was ever any doubt about Trump being a mamzer, he has confirmed that status as of yesterday.
Yiddish is such an expressive and colorful language. Both the part that comes from Hebrew, and the part that comes from German. Jon Stewart also nailed Trump when he called him our "first openly <profane term for anus> President."
