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max_weisenfeld
ml1
got the QB. My last word was a very common word. Can't believe it took me that long to see it.
Like 3 Likesnohero
He obviously works for the CIA or one of those NGO fronts for the CIA, and was under orders to assassinate Trump for Zelensky.
At least, that's what I gather from reading Max Blumenthal on the Twitter.
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Like 3 LikesDaveSchmidt
The video above was posted in a Politics thread, and it called to mind Roger McGuinn’s autobiographical acoustic performance at SOPAC on Saturday, when he mentioned how much it meant to him for Dylan and the other all-stars to choose his arrangement of My Back Pages for this concert and to grant him the honor of singing the opening verse.
It’s still hard for me to believe it was my honor to sit just a couple of dozen of feet away from a giant like Roger McGuinn, who at 82 remained nimble-fingered on guitar and banjo. (His voice was even reedier with age, but hell if I cared.)
My favorite anecdote he shared was about his friend Peter Fonda’s asking him for a new song for Fonda’s low-budget motorcycle movie. McGuinn suggests that Fonda ask Dylan instead. Fonda flies to New York and finds Dylan in a bar. Dylan scribbles something on a cocktail napkin, hands it to Fonda and says: “Give this to McGuinn. He’ll know what to do with it.” Fonda flies back go L.A. and shows up at McGuinn’s door with the napkin. On it is written: “The river flows. It flows to the sea. Wherever that river goes, that’s where I want to be.”
McGuinn takes the Ballad of Easy Rider from there.
max_weisenfeld
Since we are lacking data, we have to fall back on the general condition that, in the aggregate, unions are good for both workers and communities
https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/
Like 3 LikesSteve
Eric Clapton.
Like 2 Likesml1
over the years I just got tired and bored with Clapton's guitar playing and eventually came to dislike him as an artist. So when I heard about his awful politics (somehow I missed his 70s racist rant) during pandemic, my reaction was basically:
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Like 2 Likesml1
couple of things -- neither of these would-be assassins can be described as progressives or liberals (which won't stop the right wingers from trying to claim otherwise). And it will be denied by the MAGAs, but it's hard not to look to Trump's own violent rhetoric as part of the radicalization of these men.
and the other is that we'll hear lots of whining and finger pointing at the Secret Service who have an essentially impossible job in protecting candidates and offie holders. But how many people will point to the insane number of high-powered firearms in circulation. Unless the candidates never go outside, the Secret Service can't protect every square foot within rifle range. The unfortunate truth is the promotion of gun culture is rebounding back on many of the very politicians who favor the proliferation of firearms. It used to just be workplaces, schools, restaurants and churches where people needed to be concerned.
maybe now that the gun nuts are taking aim at politicians, we'll see some increased regulation.
or not.
Like 2 Likesjimmurphy
On a roll. QBX5!
One word that I could see being overlooked.
Like 2 LikesKarenMarlowe
Ooh! I just remembered the word! QB :bz Two days in a row!
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