Radio Free California Episode 2626, notes on music, and notes on democratic socialism

New music this week from Exploring Birdsong, Muse, Swim Deep, Beth Orton, Telescreens, The Rolling Stones, sleepazoid, Linda Perry, Jon Lampley, Jesus Jones, Sugar, Chris Reed and the Anime Raiders,  Inspiral Carpets, MUTT and much more. Enjoy!

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I knew Linda Perry was working on a new solo album, and now that it's out I find myself needing to reset my expectations. "Let It Die Here" is a good album, but it's much more straight-ahead pop than I was expecting from the founder of 4 Non-Blondes. That shouldn't be a surprise though, given all of the pop artists she's written for and produced over the years. Like I said, it's a good album. Just don't expect 4 non-Blondes.

If you like Muse you're going to like the new album. "The Wow! Signal" is most definitely a Muse album, but some of it sounds like a retread of things they've done before. You really can't knock someone sticking with the same formula that's been winning for them. Just ask AC/DC. Maybe I was just expecting more.

A couple of bands from my mid-20's dancing days dropped new singles this week. The new track by Jesus Jones, "Shot in the Chevy", is unmistakenly them, but the track is a bit more laid-back than I had expected. On the other hand, Inspiral Carpets dropped a new track called "Drag the Bag" and it's the same stuff they were doing in the 1990's.

Of the newer bands sleepazoid impressed me a lot with their latest, "New Age". The Australian group have dropped a solid alt-rock album that's hooky and just a bit heavy on the reverb. They're worth checking out.

Finally, the latest from The Rolling Stones would fit right in with what they were doing in the 1980's. Everyone focuses on their blues driven rock and roll but this is a band with some pretty solid ballads and "Jealous Lover" ranks right up there. 

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With a number of Progressive Democrats, dare I say Democratic Socialists, winning primaries in the past week in seats that are safely Democratic - they're going to go to congress - it has got me thinking about something said by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) a few weeks back that really hasn't got a lot of traction in the press. The basic gist was asking if she had her sights on running the Democratic Party or perhaps running for President, and her reply was that she wasn't thinking that small.

And I'm starting to believe she has a point. Believe me, I'd like to feel hopeful again.

Let's face it, the current administration has pretty much destroyed the American experiment in democratic governance. Our "Republic, if we can keep it" is pretty easy to bungle as it turns out. All it needed was a narcissist who ignored every norm we had celebrated for 250 years and for no one to call his ass out on it. He tried to take over a party and then a nation and the people best set to prevent it rolled over and gave him the keys.

The Democratic Party has been putting out a message of taking the fight to him if given the chance, and attempting to reset everything to where it used to be. Remember we were once civil with one another? Remember debating? Remember checks and balances? That's the big one - checks and balances. Give them a shot and they will restore checks and balances. Hit the reset button on American Democracy.

That's just not good enough.

Don't get me wrong, I'm going to vote for the people who don't actively support fascists. Generally speaking that has been the Democratic Party for a while now. That said, I don't want just a reset (or even a just reset) of American Democracy. I want to do better.

We need to swallow the fact that other nations in the world are now doing things better than we are. Yes, taxes are higher in The Netherlands. You know what they don't have? Medical bills. People in Europe don't live longer because they drink wine, they live longer because they have free healthcare.

Why the hell can't we have free healthcare? In case you haven't noticed we're about to become the only country on this continent that doesn't have free healthcare.

The Japanese have higher taxes than we do. You know what they also have? Working public transit. You can get anywhere in the country in a few hours without driving and unless you're going to Okinawa or Hokkaido you probably don't need to fly either. You can travel hundreds of miles in only a couple of hours. Most people in Japan don't own cars.

Why the hell don't we have bullet trains?

Last summer a sinkhole opened up in a suburb of Tokyo. It swallowed up a number of cars, infrastructure, and caused significant damage. You know how long it took to repair? 24 hours. It happened that fast because they have a responsive government and infrastructure to handle emergencies like this.

Why the hell can't we have functioning infrastructure support?

A lot of newsworthy names, stalwarts of the Democratic Party, have been moaning about this supposed uprising from the left, asking for moderation and trying to calm "fears" and talk about a united party led by the old guard, who have a plan - we are told. I haven't heard said plan, but they keep saying as long as they get back in power we should expect rapid change!

To the center again.

Fuck that.

Moderates don't change the world and the world needs changing. We need this coming from the left, and hard. Positive change doesn't come any other way. It never has. We've already seen what change from the right looks like and we as a people and a country are paying the price.

It's time for change from the left. I'm not talking Obama, who as a Senator and later President was mostly moderate and I'll be honest I don't blame him for that. I'm talking Biden, who was the most progressive President in a century. I'm talking even further left.

How else do we get a national healthcare system? Infrastructure support? Transportation? I higher standard of education as the expectation and not the exception? We can do this. We can do better. But it's only the left that is trying to lead us there.

It's not Progressive. It's not Democratic Socialism. It's HUMANITY.

It's where I choose to live.

We might be able to compromise with the Democratic Party, but we cannot compromise with the right-wing. We need to move the whole concept of "moderate" back to where it once was, which is pretty far to the left of where it is now. Every Democrat from McGovern on has been called a Socialist or worse, or did you not remember that. I am waaaaaay the hell to the left of those people. You know, I don't actually give a damn whether a government is big or small. I want it to fucking work. If that takes more people working then so be it.

But I need to emphasize something important - it's not that the left needs to work with the moderates; it's that the moderates need to compromise with us.

Because in case you haven't noticed it, the message of the progressive left is winning.

And because I love you, more proof that Anna Taylor-Joy can act in just about anything:

Radio Free California Episode 2625, plus some commentary about a few of the artists.

 

New music this week from Quiet Houses, Haircut 100, Brockhoff, A, Eels, Peter Gabriel, Sparks, The Klittens, Dust Bowl Revival, Mike Nova, Roger Waters with Mona Miari, Nanook, Hana Hope, Kat Robichaud and much more. Enjoy!

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My vote for Best New Artist for 2026 may go to Brockhoff, whose first full-length album "Easy Peeler" is so good that I seriously debated including all 14 tracks in this week's list. This is a solid, consistent and fun album full of hooks, pop and rock and roll. She has released EPs before now so that might disqualify her from the category (the rules about that sort of this are designed to confuse people) but I've owned the album for 24 hours and have listened to it three times now. Do yourself a favor and check it out.

And after months of waiting, the long long awaited album from Haircut 100 has just dropped, entitled "Boxing the Compass". It's like they never left. The album is a worthy successor of all the promise the band showed in their heyday and reminds you just how much fund something like this can be.

You're not going to find many albums that are as full and well-rounded as the latest from Quiet Houses called "We're All In Love". It's not a concept album, but the stories told in each song cover common themes of life and getting on with life, and the flow of the album from song to song is superb. Well worth your time.

What can you say about a band with the audacity to just call itself A? Especially a band that has taken 20 years between albums? Their comeback is called "Prang" and it's a wallop to the face of riffs and hard rock. 

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I had a long weekend and I'm really not up for digging into the political stories, other than to make this comment about The head of the Crime Administration who said, “We’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool.”

Actually true. Some dumb motherfucker painted the bottom of the whole thing blue.

And #RIP Clive Davis - one of the most influential people in music and a proud Bisexual.

And because I love you, watch Metallica have some fun from a couple of weeks ago.

Radio Free California Episode 2624, I reiminsce about the Bicentenial, and a few cheap shots

New music from Goose, The Bobby Lees, Infinity Song, Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, The LInda Lindas,  The Smashin Pumpkins, Pockets (i.e. Scary Pockets), Yes, Theatre, John Southworth, The Transatlantics and much more. Enjoy!

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I have added 4 songs from Goose's new album "Big Modern!" to the playlist, and it was hard to narrow it down to just those four. This might be the best album of 2026 so far. It's a mix of Talking Heads, Steve Miller Band, King Crimson and even a touch of whimsy and 70's glam. That they're able to get all of that to work together is amazing in and of itself, but the songs are just so damned good. I've listened to this album several times in the past few days and like it more each time. Highly recommended.

The Transatlantics are exactly what their name says; a band made up of trans individuals from both the European and American sides of the Atlantic. Their self-titled debut album came out in December but it's only starting to get traction now as they tour Europe. Set aside the unique makeup of the membership of the band and you find to pretty solid rock/alternative music, a bid reminiscent of early Oasis. Give them a listen for just the music - they deserve it.

Infinity Song's new album, also self-titled, is also a standout. I had already added a few songs from the album as they came out as singles and still found room to add a few more to the playlist. They do subtle things with their vocal arrangements that I have always found worth the listen, and their songwriting skills and lyrics have gotten much better than they were when they mostly did covers. Worth your time.

I think it's fair now to stop thinking of Mike Campbell as Tom Petty's guitarist and start thinking of the band he leads, Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, as what he should be remembered for. I'm not knocking all those years with Petty because there's some amazing stuff there, but the band's 4th album "Mission of Mercy" is as solid as anything Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers did. It's taken a while but I think Campbell has finally settled into the leadership role and relaxed enough that the band sounds like a cohesive unit now, and the payoff has been worth waiting for. It's good and it's time to let the influence of Tom Petty go.

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I was eleven years old during the celebration of our nation's 200th birthday. I was living with my father in Michigan, about 60 miles outside of Detroit. I remember the celebration quite well as we and a few neighbors got together and barbequed steaks, pork, catfish and bass that we had caught in one of Michigan's many unnamed lakes, corn on the cobb, cokes and other assorted drinks for the adults (my dad didn't drink much beer at the time and I was much too young to appreciate whiskey).

I kissed a girl for the first time. I mean a real kiss, not a family kiss. That girl and I spent most of the summer together, not knowing that our next one would be the last. Oh, don't go for the drama. I only lived with my father over the summers and he eventually moved back to California and her family moved to Arizona. I would meet her again a few times over the years until my early 20's, but that would be that.

End digression.

Thing is, we had barbeque, fireworks, people just being together and having fun. We were speculating about the upcoming Olympic Games that would be held just across the Detroit River from us and there was the usual bread and circuses on the TV, but that was really about it.

Gerald Ford was President and all they had were fireworks. You can look it up, he was actually out of Washington D.C. for most of the day. He hosted the President of France before the day and hosted the Queen of England shortly after.

But the thing I want to note is the coordination of events. At first, there was the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission (ARBC), established in 1966 by Congress under then-President Johnson to start putting events together. However, it was disbanded in 1973 and replaced by Congress for being too commercial and too politically driven. The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration (ARBA) was established to help coordinate all of the events nationwide and as I remember it this was quite successful. There were parades and events that after the failures of Vietnam and Watergate helped us for the first time to feel like a united country again.

The Olympics came two weeks later and after the horrors of what had happened in Munich to have a relatively safe games was not just a relief but a blessing. The US didn't have Mark Spitz swimming for us anymore but we still dominated the events, and in diving Greg Lougainis won a silver, starting a run that would eventually lead to him dominating the 1980s. It would be the games dominated by Nadia Comăneci, who earned the first 10.0 in gymnastics ever.

And everyone was just starting to hear about this Peanut Farmer from Georgia.

But on the actual night itself what I remember is a few families gathered around with their own fireworks, good food on the grill, lots of sodas and other libations, and my father blasting his two favorite musicians from inside the house: Jimi Hendrix and Neil Daimond.

What it wasn't was the celebration of any single individual. Was George Washington important? Sure. Paul Revere? Sure. Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Patrick Henry? Absolutely. Gerald Ford? No.

The whole celebration wasn't about any person, but the fact that the idea of a government by the people and for the people was still with us. Sure, we had some rocky moments but we were still here, and we were getting better.

I seriously doubt that even Ronald Reagan would approve of what's going on these days, and it's his fault that we started down this road. Weird as it sounds for me to say, I can say that having met both men. Reagan was a disaster for the country but he was all about wanting the country to succeed. He was just wrong about how to do it. The current guy? He doesn't give a fuck about the county. It's all about him.

I am perfectly happy to celebrate the country I was born and raised in, and have lived in most of my life. The country, not the administration, not the people in power. The very idea of our nation is still a good one as long as the people in power honor what it really means. 

I hope to see that one day very soon. We need to erase everything the Crime Administration has done and they need to be held accountable. Their leader has put his personal touch on everything from turning the White House into the White Trash House, his name on just about everything, and everything covered in gold (gold leaf, gold plastic and so on). The East Wing of the White House restored, the Rose Garden restored, power redistributed to the three branches of government.

The real leaders of this nation throughout its history have left their marks without the need to have their own names placed on it. It's almost as if the current leader is so frightened that he'll be forgotten that he has to have his name on everything. We cannot let that happen. His name must be erased from everything that already existed before he came along. That which he's destroyed while trying to build something with his name on it must be restored.

We need to be able to celebrate the nation, not the man. It will make the fireworks of 50 years ago worth it.

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So now that the fight is over (and I have no clue or any desire to learn who won) how long will that fucking circus tent remain on the front lawn of The White House?

As if there wasn't enough to be outraged about, the Crime Administration has put $5 Million into gold-plating 4 statues of horses that are near the Lincoln Memorial. Not only if that so very tacky, but the cost of doing so should only be about 5% of that. Google it yourself if you don't believe me.

So the "deal" with Iran is to reset to where we were before we attacked Iran, plus freeing the funds we had frozen for decades, plus a few dozen American dead. Apparently the Art of the Deal is all about finger painting. About $1,000 of your tax dollars went into this. Mine as well.

So apparently the former South African/Canadian/"Visionary"/Pot-head and Ketamine enthusiast is now a Trillionaire. 1,000 Billions. The number is so large that it borders the insane and comprehensible. A Billion years ago Dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A Trillion years ago the Universe didn't exist and wouldn't for another 985 Billion years.

I do not wish any ill of Mitch McConnell, and I hope he has a speedy recovery from whatever put him in the hospital and a retirement long enough that he can see the rest of us dismantle all of the damage he's done to the Judiciary. That could take a while but it starts once he's gone from the Senate, which will be January at the latest.

Oh, in case you didn't notice it, they're coming for Medicaid and Social Security again. They always do.

I actually watched some of the circus that was the removal of the head of the Crime Administration's name from the Kennedy Center. To me, with a wee bit of construction knowledge, the scaffolding makes sense. The tarp also makes sense as it's a safety issue - although they do make them see-through. Leaving the scaffolding up, and therefore the tarp, is a political decision. You and I know full well that they have no intention to restore the portions of the exterior of the building damaged by the removal of those letters.

I'm not a Knicks fan. Never was. But you have to admit, their comeback and eventual win of the series is the stuff of legend.

Well I can tell you who didn't win the Spelling Bee.

I think that most people who work in the Swimming Pool business could tell you that a paint job doesn't prevent algae.

My dear sir, they don't want you here.

And because I love you, may I present the first video from the first band to ever give a live performance on the moon, Sparks! 

(I'll add this to the playlist next week, and pay attention to who is the MC!)

Radio Free California Episode 2623, a story from my own past, a few words about the music and a bit of blogging

 

New music this week from Evanescence, Death cab for Cutie, Doublespeak, Lola Bates, Mercury Teardrop, Prince, Stanley Simmons, Europe, The Beaches, Pete Yorn, Folk Bitch Trio, A.A. Williams and much more. 59 songs all told. Enjoy!

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The new Evanescence album is out and boy does it ever sound like an Evanescence album. Their latest, "Sanctuary", is what we've come to expect from them and they're very good at it. This is the band that many other hard rock bands fronted by women copy, after all. I have added a few of their songs to the playlist this week.

The new Death Cab For Cutie album is probably their best since they broke through into the mainstream. "I Built You a Tower" feels like a true successor to "Narrow Stairs" even if it sounds more mature than that breakthrough. It should, that was 18 years ago now. Sorry to make you feel old. Again, I've added more than one of their songs to the playlist.

For the third (!) week in a row, "The Professor" Nick Harrison has released a new album of soul covers of alt-rock staples. This time around he covers The Verve, Harvey Danger, Evanescence, Cake and much more. He's good at this so of course I've added yet another track.

If you're looking for a flashback to the 80's and 90's synth music - and to the best of it - I recommend you discover Doublespeak. Vince Clark (the other guy in Erasure) and Blancmange's Neil Arthur have put together a new band and revisited their own catalogs, producing something both nostalgic and brand new. They also visit the catalogs of other artists, and shown by their cover of "Rock On".

It's been a very long time since a new artist came out of the Laurel Canyon/Coldwater Canyon sound, best known for artists like Joni Mitchel, but I must introduce you to Lola Bates and her debut album, "Love and Power". This is a set of well-crafted pop songs well worth your time.

And as we have a new single from Prince, we are all reminded of just how damned good he was, and that we're practically starving for more and more material to be released from that vault of his.

I'm not really into rap so I missed a lot of this, but Eminem has been releasing diss track after diss track for weeks now, but has no new album on the horizon. That's really a shame, because even I think he's doing career-defining work right now. I'll add a video at the end of this post with an example.

Those of you who have been coming around here for a while might have noticed that I add Japanese artists from time to time. This week I've added the new single from B'z (whom I've been a long-time fan of) and also Yonige. All 4 songs on the EP that I've added the song "Don't" from are all featured in an anime called "Kamiina Botan, Yoeru Sugata ha Yuri no Hana" about a group of women living in a boarding house and their tastes in alcohol. It's a fun slice-of-life anime and the music fits in well.

Finally, I have to address the opener for this week, a new song from Stryper. You have to understand that I'm not a fan of Stryper. For the most part I find them to be just another bland hair metal band, even with their Jesus-ing up of their lyrics. Yeah, maybe they were the first Religious front and center hair metal band, but they weren't all that good in their heyday. The new song isn't bad though, and it does bring back a memory from my own past.

Back in the mid 1980's, my band ASK was rehearsing in a run-down rehearsal space in Van Nuys, California. None of us lived there, but it served as a compromise as our drummer lived in the north valley while the rest of us were west L.A. This was a converted space with barely cardboard between rooms, and we were this small pop/rock band without top of the line gear. One week we were rehearsing and perhaps the loudest band I had ever heard started practicing next door. Great guitars, Marshal stacks... you get the idea. They had gear that probably cost more than the building they were renting in.

This was WASP. Not as they eventually became, but as they started. They were loud and talented and very raw. During a break in practicing I got to talking with one of them and voiced a complaint about how loud they were. He laughed and said, "At least we're not Stryper." We eventually relocated to a different rehearsal space as they eventually took over a residential spot in the Van Nuys building.

I think they eventually bought that rehearsal space but don't hold me to that. They did get signed pretty quickly, part of the hair metal Los Angeles wave. So did Stryper. Although we got lots of label interest, we didn't. The record labels hadn't yet figured out that there were other scenes in Los Angeles.

Anyway, any time I hear about either of these two bands I remember that laugh and "At least we're not Stryper."

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To the people upset about the rainbow integrated into Pink Floyd's logo on social media; Y'all are aware, aren't you, that there has ALWAYS been a rainbow on the cover of Dark Side of the Moon? Aren't you?

I'm guessing that someone forgot to make Scott Pelley sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Amateurs.

I wonder how all of the bars around Madison Square Garden are taking the closure of all the streets to pedestrian traffic today?

FIFA selected the first referee from Somalia as one of the officials for the World Cup. Somalia gave him a diplomatic passport to help him navigate the restrictions on Somali passport holders to traveling to the US. The US prohibited him from entering anyway. Same thing happened to the team photographer from Iran. We do not deserve to be the host/

Oh hey guess what? The White Trash anniversary of our nation (250 years, apparently) will only be available on streaming.

There has been a serious effort to make Graham Platner the face of the Democratic Party by everyone who isn't a Democrat. It's obvious why; he has a few red flags and a troubled past. When people confront me about it (and believe you me they do all over Social Media) I have a simple reply that I have found to be successful. "I don't live in Maine." If you live in Maine and are reading this, best of luck to you.

Sorry Mr. Bovino, I don't think you're going to be President. We haven't had a short President in a long time now.

Quick fact check for you: The Crime Administration wants to blame the Biden Administration for the Screwworm outbreak in our cattle supply. The fact is that in 2024 Biden stopped all live cattle imports when a single case was discovered. The current administration reopened live cattle from South America in February of this year in an effort to get beef prices down. Not only didn't it work, but given that the screw worm's life cycle is only 24 days there is simply no way this could have happened prior to mid March of this year. Sorry gang, this one's on the Crime Administration.

If you're gonna blame Biden you have to also acknowledge that he might be a time traveler. 

I'm concerned that Mike Johnson has a terrible pastor. He doesn't seem to know that lying is a sin. Or have the schools gotten so bad that Republicans no longer realize that counting takes place over time?

And because I love you, here is the first 2026 Emenem Diss track I discovered:

Radio Free California Episode 2622, notes about the music, and I have questions

 

New music this week from Dogstar, Peter Gabriel, Frances of Delirium, Sonic Whip, Violet Grohl, Sparta, Theatre, Tigeycub, Johnny Dynamite, See You Next Year, Scandal, Infinity Song, Greta Van Fleet and so much more. Enjoy!

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I've always been fascinated by the original "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron not just because of the words but also the music, written by Brian Jackson, who collaborated with Scott-Heron often. Jackson has a new album out and the lyrics to many of the works he did have been updated for the modern age, so I have to start you out with the new version, featuring Masters at Work, Kenny Dope, Louie Vega and Black Thought. The new version has the same vibe as the original and is a worthy addition to anyone's collection.

If you're a fan of Paul McCartney you're likely to enjoy his new album "The Boys of Dungeon Lane". There are spots where he shows he still knows how to rock out, and the album is a pretty thorough look back at his own childhood. His voice isn't what it once was, but he gets there sometimes and he's in his mid eighties now, so cut him some slack. He's still a solid songwriter and there are hits to be found.

Can you even imagine a world where Keanu Reeves' band Dogstar had been a hit the first time out? Would we have had The Matrix, John Wick or any of a dozen other movies? It just boggles the mind. I ask this question because we now have Dogstar's second full album and it's as good as anything you might hear from an alt-rock three piece. Maybe they've grown into the role. But maybe we have. 

So far in 2026 I've added 5 singles by Sonic Whip to the playlist. At long last there is a full album also called "Sonic Whip" and from that album comes another 3 tracks that I've added. That's 8 out of 12 songs on the album, so you can already guess what I think of them. They're an amazing young band and I hope they have a long future ahead of them with work of this quality. If there is room in your playlist for anyone new, Sonic Whip gets the nod from me.

As long time readers of this blog know I am a champion of the unknown band. One such band is Florida's At The Starlight. They first came to my attention a few weeks ago with their single "Under a Streetlight in Bushwick" and they now have an EP out called "Turning Into Sand". They have all of 24 followers on Spotify (including me) and deserve much more. Check them out.

Violet Grohl has finally released a full album and while it's unfair to compare her work to that of her father the comparisons are going to come anyway. "Be Sweet To Me" is a solid effort with strong songs and Violet is a better singer than her father. She rocks out but not the same way dod does, and I think that's a good thing. She's her own boss and her own voice, and we all should let the comparisons go. The album is worth your time.

As we have a full moon in the past week we also have a new Peter Gabriel song called "A Hard Lesson". There's an actual blues riff in the song! A blues riff! Seriously, if it had been played on guitar it would feel perfectly in place with B.B. King or ZZ Top or any other initialed blues man. If you see the behind-the-scenes video he posted about this one he even admits it, and talks about how they toyed with leaving the riff on guitar at first. While the song talks about things that are hard to discern you won't be able to miss the riff.

My last comment on this week's music is the self-titled not-a-debut album from Johnny Dynamite. I don't know where this guy has been other than Philadelphia, but it's like The Church was suddenly on the scene again, but American and fronted by Rick Springfield. Full of pop and rock and a lot of fun.

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I would hate to be a Democratic voter in the state of Maine right now. I wish I knew what to think about their new Senate Candidate. He says good things, but has done bad things. I'm glad it's not my decision to work out, but I do wish they could have done better.

But I'm in California. We'll know in a couple of days how good or bad it will be here.

Anyone else out there think it puts a bullseye on the back of every serviceman (and woman) in the middle east if we integrate our military with Israel? Does anyone else think that if we do this getting ourselves out of it will be like trying to escape quicksand?

Ever notice that when Faux News interviews a landlord about their New York City properties that they always interview someone who lives in Florida?

If the "Freedom 250" celebrations are so intent on keeping poor people out of the event then why does the area around and including the White House look like a monument to White Trash?

Did you shell out $650 for a Rump watch?

Can anyone explain to me what the winning strategy is that inspires you to call an 8th generation Texan "Girly"? Is that really all you've got to combat the fact that your own candidate is a self-proclaimed "scandal plagued individual, like the President"?

When the oppressor says "Relax" doesn't that usually mean that something much worse is about to happen?

Remember Jack Smith? Please don't forget that there is a Volume 2 to his report which hasn't been made public yet. Yet.

Are we still at truce with Iran? It doesn't feel like it.

When they say they're going to crack down on mail-in voting, they mean California, Oregon and Washington. Not the Florida man who voted from his office in D.C.

What is that pillow salesman going to do if the $1.776 Billion slush fund never gets established? I also have to wonder if anyone involved in the settlement that created this fund realized that the judge in the case can say no?

I really have to wonder, what was the first thought of Secretary Hogsmead when he heard the phrase "Soaked in Animus"? I'd bet it was frat boy level awkward.

And because I love you, here is the original, from Gil Scott-Heron, with most of the references: