Theme music for the orange terror

[JMarie]

 

[catlady]

@JMarie, that's hysterical!  I didn't find any Benny Hill, but that'll do!!

[onekidanddone]

Song of the day

 

[GreyhoundFan]

I sooooo want to be able to sing this one for the tangerine toddler or any of those in his orbit:

Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye  (Sorry, I haven't worked out how to embed a video, so a link will have to do)

 

 

I hope to be singing this one for Sessions soon: Another One Bites The Dust

[onekidanddone]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

I sooooo want to be able to sing this one for the tangerine toddler or any of those in his orbit:

Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye  (Sorry, I haven't worked out how to embed a video, so a link will have to do)

 

 

I hope to be singing this one for Sessions soon: Another One Bites The Dust

I didn't figure out how to embed to here either.  I just cut and pasted  the URL.

[onekidanddone]

Didn't know if I should post an angry or sad song today.  I picked sad.  I picked sad because no matter what your religious bent or belief system, we all need mercy now.

 

[K'Z'K]

It doesn't all apply, and Mustaine was a homophobic asshole back then (he has since sobered up and become a whole new kind of asshole), but much of this works:

 

[onekidanddone]

Angry song day.

Watching a bit of Sessions refusing to even acknowledge the hate crime white supremacist stabbing in NYC while at the same time being a fucking raging asshole  about sanctuary cites. Hinting how immigrants make us unsafe. 

Agent Orange's son-in-law with a seat in the West Wing. On and on and fucking on.

Paraphrasing Warren  Zevon.  "How were we to know, he was with the Russians too"

 

[onekidanddone]

Song in your head check:  Another one by Zevon

The Envoy:

Nuclear arms in the Middle East
Israel is attacking the Iraqis
The Syrians are mad at the Lebanese
And Baghdad does whatever she please
Looks like another threat to world peace
For the envoy

Things got hot in El Salvador
C-I-A got caught and couldn't do no more
He's got diplomatic immunity
He's got a lethal weapon that nobody sees
Looks like another threat to world peace
For the envoy
Send the envoy
Send the envoy

Whenever there's a crisis
The President sends his envoy in
Guns in Damascus
Oh, Jerusalem

Nuclear arms in the Middle East
Israel is attacking the Iraqis
The Syrians are mad at the Lebanese
And Baghdad do whatever she please
Looks like another threat to world peace
For the envoy
Send the envoy
Send for me

-Warren Zevon-

 

 

[onekidanddone]

Dusting off an older thread in response to TT's new budget plan to starve the poor.

We Can't Make Here Any More -  James McMurtry 

Spoiler

There's a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
Sitting there by the left turn line
The flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze
One leg missing and both hands free

No one?s paying much mind to him
The V.A. budget?s just stretched so thin
And now there's more coming back from the Mideast war
We can't make it here anymore

And that big ol? building was the textile mill
That fed our kids and it paid our bills
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
'Cause we can't make it here anymore

You see those pallets piled up on the loading dock
They're just gonna sit there ?til they rot
?Cause there's nothing to ship, nothing to pack
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks

Empty storefronts around the square
There's a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
You don't come down here unless you're looking to score
We can't make it here anymore

The bar?s still open but man it?s slow
The tip jar?s light and the register?s low
The bartender don't have much to say
The regular crowd gets thinner each day

Some have maxed out all their credit cards
Some are working two jobs and living in cars
Minimum wage won't pay for a roof, won't pay for a drink
If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. C.E.O.
See how far 5.15 an hour will go
Take a part time job at one your stores
I bet you can't make it here anymore

And there's a high school girl with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures in the magazine
She found on the floor of the laundromat
A woman with kids can forget all that

If she comes up pregnant what'll she do
Forget the career and forget about school
Can she live on faith? Live on hope?
High on Jesus or hooked on dope
When it?s way too late to just say no
You can't make it here anymore

Now I'm stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
?Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can't make it here anymore

Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I'm in
Should I hate ?em for having our jobs today
No I hate the men sent the jobs away

I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They've never known want, they'll never know need
Their shit don't stink and their kids won't bleed
Their kids won't bleed in their damn little war
And we can't make it here anymore

Will I work for food, will I die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks

So let ?em eat jellybeans let ?em eat cake
Let ?em eat shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force or join the Corps
If they can't make it here anymore

So that's how it is, that's what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper, read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind if you're listening at all
Get out of that limo, look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone tell us all why

In Dayton Ohio or Portland Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That's done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool

Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There's rats in the alley and trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can't make it here anymore

 

[JMarie]

Since Trump wants to squash programs that benefit the needy

There's probably lots more songs about homelessness and other social issues.  You know, the ones Trump doesn't want to deal with.

[fraurosena]

Wanna bet this is on TT's playlist?