454 Comments

Yeah, Nora Guthrie invited a lot of people to go over the lyrics he left behind. Woody didn't read music so he just left lyrics. Its kind of sad, I think he left far more lyrics that no one knows how he heard a tune than the stuff we do know.

Expand full comment

Winner!

Expand full comment

Do you know of any other songs that came out of that? I love what I heard Jonatha Brooke do with his material. "There's an angel on my shoulder, but the Devil's got the wheel." He was so amazing.

Expand full comment

I mean, when two white supremacists who enjoy making brown and Black lives suffer find each other, that's amore.

Expand full comment

Everybody knows it was MS-13!! /s Is that the sarcasm thingee? I always forget it...

Expand full comment

While not the biggest, they are definitely one if not the most vicious gangs. However, they are far from the greatest existential threat to our lives and national security. It feels weird to say that they are being scapegoated lest it sounds like I am being sympathetic, but they are.

Expand full comment

Synergy sucks.

Expand full comment

MS-13 is not an import to the U.S. it is an export! It was founded HERE and exported to Central America when members were arrested and deported. But the Toddler-in-Chief is incredibly stupid and unable to grasp even the simplest concepts.

Expand full comment

Nah, just the occasional late night Twitter ramblings.

Expand full comment

I understand your argument but I do not agree with it. Which I just now realise is in conflict with my position that true synonyms don't exist. So I must admit you are right if I want to be internally consistent. Dammit.

Expand full comment

Does "Marxist" and "Communist" actually resonate with voters any more as something to fear/attack? I grew up in the 80s, so "Communist" kind of does in an amusing way, but when I read "Marxist", I think "student".

Expand full comment

I absolutely know for a fact but can't prove....

That at least one and probably both of them had an erection during that interview.

Old School ANTIFA! https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Expand full comment

Compare to Rwandan hate radio.

I've asked the question before. If FOX News and Rush Limbaugh started yelling "It's here! The Storm is Upon Us! Get out there and give 2nd amendment solutions to the barbarian Marxist savages in your neighbourhood! WIPE THEM OUT, ALL OF THEM!", what would the body count be?

Expand full comment

people who voted for Reagan and are still this side of the grave can no doubt still be activated by this; among the younger demographics, probably only people who are or were in the Young Republicans have had the indoctrination to induce a galvanic response to Marxism.Old fogies and aspiring fogies, in other words.

Expand full comment

Young Woody?

Expand full comment

Absent a sitting President, the head of the Democratic party is the chair of the DNC, if anybody.And think of the job Speaker Pelosi has done in running the House; she has taken what was a herd of cats and wrangled them so effectively that, after a predictably rocky shakedown period, she now has a team, one that has passed hundreds of excellent pieces of progressive legislation. The fact that #MoscowMitch won't let any of them see daylight should not be held against her, because anything short of complete capitulation on her part would get the same reception. He will not accept anything short of government of the people, by the GOP and for the GOP. Compromise, to him, is a four letter word.

Expand full comment