I shouldn't be laughing, but I am, in spite of myself.
I don't really understand the transgender thing, but I wish anyone who is a happy life. I'll never know what it's like to be black or profoundly disabled or an undocumented immigrant either. That doesn't mean I don't feel for their struggles.
Eee-yikes. Admiring Roy’s cleverness doesn’t stop me from getting a shiver down my spine, because this feels like it brushes up against reality a little bit too much.
You know, I wouldn’t even care that much about the mindset of “I’m ignorant, bigoted, provincial, and I like it to keep it that way” if they just kept to themselves and didn’t try to bother the rest of us. But they want to live by their rules, AND make the rules for city and suburban people, too. Then they get mad when we push back.
“Narcissistic Yokels” has developed into an actual clinical category.
They don’t want ya a desecratin tha flag, unless you write trump over it or color one of the stripes blue in support of police violence. If you’re a protestin the police you’re a traitor, if you’re attacking capitol police you’re a patriot. They hate the hippies and queers and blacks and trans and feminists but if you stereotype them as hicks they’ll cry.
Speaking of "clips of city riots", NYC settled a suit with some 1,300 George Floyd protesters over brutal police tactics in the 2020 BLM demonstrations--they'll be paying out $10,000 apiece to the victims.
Ah, the kind of pop lyrics the fine people of America deserve.
So. Almost fifteen years ago, the Mrs. and the child do a cross country trip back around 2009 or 10. They stop for milk at a saloon in Montana or Wyoming one Saturday around noon. They go in and there’s a couple of cowboys still there recovering from the night before. They sit at the bar but that’s not allowed because the child is underage. And while they get in trouble for that, there’s a horse in the bar. Standing by the jukebox. Shitting.
What's left unsaid is why any person not brain-addled from generations of inbreeding and moonshine would want to come to your fucking loser of a small town in the first place.
Hoo boy. I read that to the tune of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, for some reason, fiddle and all.
I worked with a few trans women, more than a few gays and lesbians and lots of other minorities during my decades with the USPS (the Service is dead serious about its diversity and inclusion policies) and I absolutely do not understand the drama. I just don't get it. But we are watching a very vocal minority of hateful (frightened) people with large platforms and outsized influence dragging us backwards by what seems like leaps and bounds. I'm not convinced we're going to be able to stop this juggernaut. And it's not just the US, it's global. Oligarchy. Corporatocracy. Climate Catastrophe. Fuck.
I enjoy and appreciate your precision-blade wit, Roy, but I'd be lying if I didn't confess that sometimes you cut so closely it's disturbing. That's what good writing is all about, of course. But, damn! I should take a break from media for a day or 2 and work in my yard or something.
I shouldn't be laughing, but I am, in spite of myself.
I don't really understand the transgender thing, but I wish anyone who is a happy life. I'll never know what it's like to be black or profoundly disabled or an undocumented immigrant either. That doesn't mean I don't feel for their struggles.
David Alan Edroso -
Eee-yikes. Admiring Roy’s cleverness doesn’t stop me from getting a shiver down my spine, because this feels like it brushes up against reality a little bit too much.
You know, I wouldn’t even care that much about the mindset of “I’m ignorant, bigoted, provincial, and I like it to keep it that way” if they just kept to themselves and didn’t try to bother the rest of us. But they want to live by their rules, AND make the rules for city and suburban people, too. Then they get mad when we push back.
“Narcissistic Yokels” has developed into an actual clinical category.
Saloon - check. Mom - check. Truck - check. Transphobia - check. You did it, the complete red state country song!
They don’t want ya a desecratin tha flag, unless you write trump over it or color one of the stripes blue in support of police violence. If you’re a protestin the police you’re a traitor, if you’re attacking capitol police you’re a patriot. They hate the hippies and queers and blacks and trans and feminists but if you stereotype them as hicks they’ll cry.
Wow, that was very fun
You feeling okay, Roy
Clearly you have a career in Nashville, a bullet I would dodge were I you...
Maybe you can get L'il Nas X to cover it...
Fuckin' Ay! Brat a tear to my eye. Whass happenin to murka when a song like this toutin all-murkan values is connaversal?
This just might be the walk-up song that saves the DeSantis campaign.
Yipes, that's cold.
Speaking of "clips of city riots", NYC settled a suit with some 1,300 George Floyd protesters over brutal police tactics in the 2020 BLM demonstrations--they'll be paying out $10,000 apiece to the victims.
Ah, the kind of pop lyrics the fine people of America deserve.
So. Almost fifteen years ago, the Mrs. and the child do a cross country trip back around 2009 or 10. They stop for milk at a saloon in Montana or Wyoming one Saturday around noon. They go in and there’s a couple of cowboys still there recovering from the night before. They sit at the bar but that’s not allowed because the child is underage. And while they get in trouble for that, there’s a horse in the bar. Standing by the jukebox. Shitting.
Ima sit this one out, I think -- happy posting, y'all
Whoa!
Definitely Randy Newman "Rednecks" worthy
I always did like Jonathan Goes Country. Will keep an eye out for the Jellyroll remix of Jason Aldean ft. Poopmouth.
What's left unsaid is why any person not brain-addled from generations of inbreeding and moonshine would want to come to your fucking loser of a small town in the first place.
Hoo boy. I read that to the tune of The Devil Went Down to Georgia, for some reason, fiddle and all.
I worked with a few trans women, more than a few gays and lesbians and lots of other minorities during my decades with the USPS (the Service is dead serious about its diversity and inclusion policies) and I absolutely do not understand the drama. I just don't get it. But we are watching a very vocal minority of hateful (frightened) people with large platforms and outsized influence dragging us backwards by what seems like leaps and bounds. I'm not convinced we're going to be able to stop this juggernaut. And it's not just the US, it's global. Oligarchy. Corporatocracy. Climate Catastrophe. Fuck.
I enjoy and appreciate your precision-blade wit, Roy, but I'd be lying if I didn't confess that sometimes you cut so closely it's disturbing. That's what good writing is all about, of course. But, damn! I should take a break from media for a day or 2 and work in my yard or something.