I came here this morning to elevate the mood, moving on from the darkness of the previous post and ignoring the Democratic Party clusterfuck in Iowa. And then I read this interview with Patterson Hood about Drive-By Truckers' new album, The Unraveling.
Rolling Stone's review of the album features a headline that reads, "Drive-By Truckers Channel Their Disgust With Trump’s America on ‘The Unraveling’" So Hood, et al, are kinda feeling it, too. "Stick it up your ass with your useless thoughts and prayers" from the aptly named "Thoughts and Prayers" may well be the rallying cry for the frustrated and increasingly less silent majority.
So here's that song for your listening pleasure(?):
There's a little bit of hope peeking out, which I suppose describes our time well. In the NPR interview linked above, Hood says, "The last line of the song, "Awaiting Resurrection," that ties in with the album cover, which has the two little boys standing on the beach watching the sunset. I'd like to think that somehow that is the ray of hope at the end."
We need a ray of hope, for sure.
Tuesday, February 04, 2020
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I’m amused by the media twitterverse’s collective coronary over Iowa.
Chaos...clusterfuck...meltdown...
The final count of a rather insignificant amount of delegates to the Democratic National Convention, selected by an intentionally quirky method, will be delayed by 24 hours. Good Lord people, calm the fuck down.
Marls 2020 : Calm the Fuck Down, People!
Because Marls is famously calm.
I’ve mellowed in my old age.
Marls/ZMan 2020: We may be white and pasty, but we’re better than the rest of these wangs.
The momenbtum out of the state is critical. If Bernie had a clean win and then took down New Hampshire, that would matter. If Biden finishes fourth, but the final news is muddled and not trusted, he'll survive until Carolina.
I'm so mad at Iowa that I'm no longer going to buy throwback Quad City Thunder CBA apparel. But I hope this doesn't impact the career of Des Moines' greatest band - Slipknot.
Winning Iowa was a key springboard for the momentum of Ted Cruz in 2016, Rick Santorum in 2012 & Mike Huckabee in 2008.
A computer she wanted, these wangs she got.
I think Buttigeig is running on a somewhat modified version of the Marls/zman 2020 "common sense is not so common" platform and it would be a lot more effective if he were the governor of Indiana or even the mayor of Chicago.
Losing Iowa and what happened next did, in fact, affect Howard Dean
Hiiiiiiiyaaaaaaaah!!!
But TR, will you still buy Quad City DJs apparel?
"Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it
Come on, ride the train, hey, ride it"
Isn't it odd that many Democrats want to eliminate the Electoral College yet they use a presidential nominating process that mimics the Electoral College? Shouldn't the candidate with the most nationwide votes be the nominee?
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