.@JoeBiden is given a rapturous welcome as he arrives on stage outside St Muredach's Cathedral in Ballina, Co Mayo | https://t.co/7LELAyfeN9 pic.twitter.com/t9KYCqvsoD
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) April 14, 2023
Okay, the Irish didn’t invent either populist sentimentality or bare-knuckled politics, but we’re certainly known as skilled practitioners of those dark arts…
I somehow don’t think the Dropkick Murphys are going to mind this: pic.twitter.com/WIeLk2pK5U https://t.co/NRQtqffgUM
— Tiger Mar (@tigermar19) April 14, 2023
Nothing but respect for MY president pic.twitter.com/KUL9VXeD32
— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) April 14, 2023
lmao this fuckin rules https://t.co/UM9hgLbMHe
— kilgore trout, blue check free since 2003 (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 14, 2023
What a great change, to see people waving American flags and cheering a U.S. president https://t.co/HdtH4Ibern
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 15, 2023
Gotta get the Dropkick Murphys to play the 2024 convention. https://t.co/3apGFII3yV
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 14, 2023
Baud
I hope next year when Joe gives a big campaign speech on civil rights for trans people, his walkout music is Lola by The Kinks.
I wonder what a good abortion walkout song would be.
Jerzy Russian
Jesus, I can’t keep up. Handsome Joe hates Britain now?
Jerzy Russian
@Baud: I never get the Lola earworm anymore, it always turns into Yoda by Weird Al.
JPL
They liked him, they really liked him. 💗💗
Baud
@Jerzy Russian:
No, conservatives in Britain, just like conservatives everywhere, hate Joe.
Another Scott
@Jerzy Russian:
One of the few great things about Twitter done right is the instant fact checking.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ceci n est pas mom nym
@Baud: Paul Anka, “You’re having my baby”
Kidding of course but it’s the only song I know with an abortion line in it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I would prefer Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m not sure America is ready to have Joe Biden walk out to the “even when she was giving head.”
narya
@Baud: “You Don’t Own Me”?
Baud
@narya:
Ooh. Like.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Even better if he made that walk in drag. Republican heads everywhere would explode.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I like it, but Joe doesn’t do stunts. It’s not his style.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Baud: Paul Anka, “You’re having my baby”
Just kidding of course. But it’s the only song I know that has a line about abortion in it.
Geminid
It may not be walk on music, but the oldies station just played Barbara Streisand singing Laura Nyro’s “Stoney End.” What a song!
Raven
@narya: Leslie Gore does that in “The Tami” show and it’s great!
https://youtu.be/JDUjeR01wnU
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Nobody’s perfect.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: So that’s a no to ” Dude (Looks Like a Lady)?”
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
Excellent choice for a walk up song. Although isn’t Steven Tylor now in some trouble for underage activities.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Ya, he’s a creep. Not pretty stuff from his younger days.
Geminid
@Geminid: I read that when she was a teenager, Laura Nyro and her friends sang on street corners and subway stations. The Bronx being a small place, Annie Laurie probably heard them but was too young to remember.
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
Maybe a David Bowie song.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I, on the other hand, offer nothing except stunts.
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
I wish I could remember which rock star said he wasn’t gay and never had sex with a man except David Bowie, who didn’t count.
EDIT – @Baud:
And the dankest memes.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It’s a dirty job but somebody has to make up for Joe’s shortcomings. It makes me happy to hear you are on the job. I now know I can take a break from time to time and not worry.
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Now you’ve sent me down the Youtube Bowie rabbit hole.
Steve in the ATL
Dropkick Murphys are playing Woodie Guthrie songs on their current tour, and in between them Ken Casey talks to the crowd about the importance of the working class and unions and sticking it to the man. I was at their show in Minneapolis a couple of months ago and thought that if the crowd knew what I did for a living—and what I was in Minneapolis to do!—I would not have made it out of the State Theater alive….
Frankensteinbeck
@Steve in the ATL:
So you’re The Man! I’ve always wondered.
H.E.Wolf
Thank you, Anne Laurie, for the post title! Well played. :)
Although I can’t yet think of an answer to Baud’s question, here’s a version of “Erin Go Bragh” sung by the Scottish musician Dick Gaughan.
The lyrics make clear that the song’s narrator is a Scot traveling in Ireland, and the song’s theme is anti-bigotry, anti-police brutality, pro-immigration, and pro-allyship. Seems like a good fit for Scranton Joe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSet_UriUtM
Brachiator
Despite the butt hurt from various Tories, Biden was able to avoid political controversy because Boris Johnson was not the UK prime minister and the new PM, Rishi Sunak had got the updated Windsor Agreement passed.
Biden had made it clear that the US saw attempts by Johnson and hard core BREXIT supporters to undermine the Northern Ireland Protocol as being unhelpful and unacceptable. Sunak’s deal with the EU on these issues was fine.
So Joe could let various UK officials be upset without having to play hardball with them.
Geminid
@Brachiator: Joe put those sassy Sassenachs in their place.
OzarkHillbilly
I’m glad it makes her happy but mine drove me nuts. I think my max was maybe 24″ and it drove me crazy. 5′-5″? No effin way.
These days my hair takes a regimen of “Bzzzzzzz… bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz… bzzzzzzzzzzzzz” once every 2-3 months. Short, sweet, and simple. Well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Louisiana is hot enough in the summer without the extra hair.
Ken
Coronation “snub”? Last time they got a retired Secretary of State. The First Lady is a step up.
Baud
@Steve in the ATL:
That’s like industrial espionage, man. How would you like it if union people crashed your hookers and blow parties?
H.E.Wolf
@Baud: How about “You Better Think”? Aretha Franklin’s version, of course.
It could be VP Harris’s walkout song.
https://genius.com/Aretha-franklin-think-lyrics
Nukular Biskits
@OzarkHillbilly:
I sported a ponytail for about 3 years after having a #3 buzzcut for previous 10 years.
I finally cut it off … long hair is just too damned much of a hassle for an old like me.
Honestly don’t know how women do it
Baud
@H.E.Wolf:
Good choice.
OzarkHillbilly
@Nukular Biskits: A half (Lakota?) buddy of mine had a mane of long, beautiful, black hair that always turned my eyes green with envy. If I had had it… Yeah, eventually I’d of cut it short too.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Well, I’m back.
Got home from South American late last night, a day later than we planned. That’s because we docked in Ft. Lauderdale, which, you may have seen, had 25 inches of rain and was flooded. The airport was closed. The runways were completely under water.
We had to get off the ship, though god knows whether any new passengers arrived to get on. We scrambled, got a hotel in Ft. Lauderdale for Thursday night, and then took a cab to the Miami airport where we’d managed to score a flight home.
Also, did I tell you we got COVID midway through the trip?
I am never going away again
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Good. More time to hang out here.
Welcome home.
kalakal
@Baud: Heroes by Bowie would work for me.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@narya: What an awesome suggestion
ETA: Also, possibly, Lilly Allen’s Fuck You.
kalakal
@Nukular Biskits: I used to have waist length hair. These days I get it cut short, let it get to shoulder length and repeat. The really great thing about short hair is how fast it dries, it’s great.
kalakal
Love seeing the Tories and their media trying to invent imaginary grievance about Biden and the UK. Nobody give a fuck what the Spectacularly Boring says
EarthWindFire
@Baud: Golden Years for a play on the age bs?
Baud
@EarthWindFire:
Heh. Or Grateful Dead’s Touch of Grey.
MagdaInBlack
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Welcome home! And welcome to my hermit lifestyle 😊
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MagdaInBlack: Hermit lifestyle forever!
Nora
Biden’s smile is such a genuine thing. Such a contrast with TFG’s snarl. You see Joe grinning at people and you just know he means it, and you feel cheered up.
zhena gogolia
@Nora: Absolutely.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Another Scott
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Travel is designed for collecting stories. You have a bunch!
Don’t rush your recovery. Take it easy!
Best wishes,
Scott.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Or, as as the avuncular Maynard G. Krebs would put it (1:08- 1:10).
;)
UncleEbeneezer
Biden needs to start walking on stage to Americans by Janelle Monae (who is non-binary):
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: I’m old enough to remember Maynard G. Krebs! Good one
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: “To Hell and Back” a new travel novel by the great and much loved Dorothy Winsor.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Just to further confuse the young’uns, the middle initial G stood for Walter.
SFAW
Being a commenter of very little brain, I especially liked one of the replies to the Amee Vanderpool tweet re: Ken Casey:
“Are you sure he’s from Boston…. seemed light on the F-bombs ???“
MagdaInBlack
@SFAW: I was pretty amused at that response myself.
kalakal
@OzarkHillbilly:
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
With the follow up “The Worst Journey in the World”
Kay
I saw a Vivek Ramaswamy 2024 flag flying from a huge, very expensive vacation house on Lake Michigan (in Michigan) yesterday. Looks just like the Trump flag. Probably a 15- 20 million dollar property.
SFAW
@kalakal:
Sorry, that title’s already (pre-emptively) taken by TFG for his absolutely-totally-written-by-himself-and-not-ghostwritten memoir about his multi-year “visit” to Rikers.
Well, a kid can dream.
Baud
WaterGirl
@narya: Most excellent!
OzarkHillbilly
@kalakal: Heh. That book, “The Worst Journey in the World” has already been written. I have it on my “to read” shelf.
WaterGirl
@Frankensteinbeck:
I have never heard that before, and I can’t stop laughing.
WaterGirl
@H.E.Wolf: Excellent!
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: Three thumbs up!
Miss Bianca
@Kay:
Uh…who?
kalakal
@OzarkHillbilly: I know, it’s one of my top 10 all time books, bump it to the top of your list.. I recommend it whenever anyone is foolish enough to give me the chance. It’s superb, I literally cannot praise it highly enough
I gave a lecture on poor old Captain Scott ( of the
SaharaAntarctic ) on Thursday and made sure to plug Cherry-Garrard’s masterpieceSFAW
@kalakal:
Up-voted for Python ref
OzarkHillbilly
@kalakal: After I posted that it occurred to me you already knew it. :-) I have a lot of books on my “to read” shelf, it’s hard to prioritize them. I’ll have to see if I can squeeze Worst Journey into the front of the lineup.
Here’s a recommendation for you: Shadow Divers. It’ll grab you.
BruceFromOhio
@Kay: I had to google Vivek as I’d never heard the name. Interesting story, too bad he seems to have swung hard for the fascist shitheels. Let’s how long his stand against ESG pays the bills, I’m thinking not long.
prostratedragon
@UncleEbeneezer: That’s a good one!
kalakal
@OzarkHillbilly: That does sound good.
On order 😀
Kathleen
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thank you for reinforcing my decision to not go places or do things.
Bostondreams
@Raven: that song hit harder when I learned her own coming out journey. I suspect a line may have changed if it were made today.
sab
@Miss Bianca: Check out his wiki page. It’s scary. And gives me another reason to hate JD Vance.
I’d link if I could but I don’t know how and my Nook won’t let me.
Josie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Welcome home and thanks for giving me another reason not to travel (other than poverty). Hope you are feeling ok.
greenergood
@Baud: The UK ‘Union’ hates anything that threatens the UK ‘Union’, including any threat to the UK Union part known as Northern Ireland. So the Unionist party in Northern Ireland, aka the DUP, is unrelenting in their support of the Union, to the point of gladly shutting down Northern Ireland’s government for at least a quarter of the past 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement. The UK Union has great difficulty in accepting that Ireland (which used to be part of the UK pre-1916) is now an INDEPENDENT country and part of the EUROPEAN UNION – both situations are _hated_ by the current UK government, who left the European Union in 2016 and is now dealing with not only the consequences of leaving but the terrifying fact that many of the UK’s (even Tory) constituents are really wanting to re-join the EU, as they see what an economic/educational/tourist disaster leaving the EU has been. But the Northern Irish conservatives have been stalwart supporters of the English Tory government for many years, and will no doubt continue to do so, while the government of Northern Ireland languishes due to lack of any governemtal procedure – it’s kind of like shutting down the House of Representatives – nothing gets done – and politicians get to foment, while social progammes and benefits aren’t implemented and people genuinely suffer, all for the sake of positional politics.
Matt McIrvin
@MagdaInBlack: I always thought of that as a transphobic song– was kind of disturbing to hear it still being used on Disney’s “Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster” but making too much noise about it might make it a conservative cause celebre.