Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

In my day, never was longer.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

This blog will pay for itself.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Bark louder, little dog.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Hot air and ill-informed banter

I was promised a recession.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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Late Night Angry Music Open Thread

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… He had the makings of a leader
Of a certain kind of men
Who need to feel the world’s against him
Out to get ’em if it can

Men whose trigger pull their fingers
Of men who’d rather fight than win
United in a revolution
Like in mind and like in skin…

N!R!A! I owe some commentor a hat tip for this — really enjoying this whole Drive By Truckers album.

Because some people didn’t pay enough attention during the Cheney Regency, from the Washington Post:

At the beginning of Sunday night’s American Music Awards, co-host and former “Saturday Night Live” star Jay Pharoah told the audience they weren’t going to talk about politics: “Tonight is all about the music,” he announced.

That was not entirely true. Minutes later, Pharoah launched into his impression of President-elect Donald Trump (“I love Bruno Mars. I don’t know what color he is, so I can’t deport him. … I love ‘Uptown Funk.’ It was totally about me. … I’m gonna funk this country up, bigly.”)

But punk rock group Green Day was the most overtly political; lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong is a vocal Trump critic. During the performance of their new single, “Bang Bang,” they segued briefly into “Born to Die” by punk band MDC, singing Trump-themed lyrics: “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA!” They repeated the line (which has been heard at anti-Trump protests) three times before they finished the song…

Plus, there was this onstage banter between presenters Mark Cuban (entrepreneur and noted Trump nemesis) and Broadway star Idina Menzel:

Cuban: “Congratulations on your new album. I know you’ve been looking forward to that for a long time.”

Menzel: “Thank you so much. What are you looking forward to?”

Cuban: “Not being invited to the inauguration is a good start.”…

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  5. 5.

    chopper

    hey segued briefly into “Born to Die” by punk band MDC, singing Trump-themed lyrics

    i’m amazed that MDC is becoming relevant again, tho i’ll admit i’ve been listening to them a lot more recently. everything that’s old is new again.

    if punk rock doesn’t have a new golden age what with trump in charge and all then fuck all that shit.

  9. 9.

    Major Major Major Major

    Wouldn’t be an angry counter-conservative music thread without some Crass.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdcDL64KCE

    Introducing the Prime Sinister, she’s a mother to us all
    Like the dutch boy’s finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall
    Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part
    If Moses did it with is faith, she’ll do it with an army
    Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there
    Guarding national heritage no matter what or where
    Palaces for kings and queens, mansions for the rich
    Protection for the wealthy, defence of privilege
    They’ve learnt the ropes In Ireland, engaged in civil war
    Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle against the poor
    So Ireland’s just an island? It’s an island of the mind
    Great Britain? Future? Bollocks, you’d better look behind
    Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984
    Guardian of the future, he’ll implement the law
    He’s there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do
    Big brothers system’s always there with his beady eyes on you
    From God to local bobby, in home and street and school
    They’ve got your name and number while you’ve just got their rule
    We’ve got to look for methods to undermine those powers
    It’s time to change the tables. The future must be ours

  11. 11.

    jenn

    Hey all, not too late to call your Senators, and encourage them to pass S.2979, the Presidential Tax Transparency Act. Also, call members of the House Oversight Committee (particularly Republican members) to demand a bipartisan review of PE Trump’s finances and conflicts of interest.

  24. 24.

    Bruce Baugh

    Some folks who were listening to weird work in the early ’80s may remember Tony Carey’s band Planet P Project. In recent years he’s revived it, and done some really good angry music, like this:

    In Babylon – just a great song to go fight fascists to.

    Work (Will Make You Free) – I dunno where Carey found this singer, but he’s got an astoundingly sinister voice. He sounds as smooth as someone like Bannon probably imagines himself.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    You’re welcome, Anne Laurie ;)

    “Ramon Casiano” is my & Fro Jr’s favorite song from AMERICAN BAND…”Ever South” is coming up a close second at this point. (They’re all good, though!) We listen to AB all the time these days

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