Russell Brand and Sen. Bernie Sanders are mad as hell, and they donโt want you to take it anymore. That sums up Fridayโs Real Time with Bill Maher, as the actor/comedian and the politician railed against the machine and said the system has to be changed to give a voice to the working class.
Maher, for once, largely let them have at it. He took issue with a few things Brand said, and questioned what Sanders is proposing. But neither he nor panel guest John Heilemann from Showtimeโs โThe Circusโ could mount a strong attack on the fire hose of information both guests were spewing.
Sanders is out promoting his new book, Itโs OK to be Angry About Capitalism. He said that we need โthe right mixโ in our economic system, since we โhave more income inequality in wealth than weโve ever had.โ That is causing the US to be โmoving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society,โ he contended.
Maher claimed to be โphilosophically with youโ on taxing the rich. โBut the government is taking more than half and you want more?โ
Sanders fired back, citing the large number of people living paycheck to paycheck, a child care system that is an โabsolute disgrace,โ and added homelessness and student debt.
How can raising taxes on the rich solve that, Maher asked. Sanders said that education was the key, making colleges free and โtaking on the greed of the insurance companies. โDo Medicare for all,โ he thundered. He also called for training more electricians, sheet metal workers and plumbers
But more than that, we need to combat the โdiseases of despair,โ he said.
โWe have to restore hope to the American people,โ Sanders concluded.
Russell Brand was equally fierce in his passion for the little guy. Whether it was the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, the role of Big Pharmacy in society, or the media biases exhibited by certain networks, he kept coming back to one theme โ we have to change the way things are done and stop focusing on trivial matters like the political leanings of talking heads.
After Maher and Heilemann tried the โon the one hand this/on the other hand thatโ argument in defense of the pharmaceutical industry, Brand pounced. โOut of respect to you and your show, Iโve brought some facts,โ he said. He then rattled off a laundry list of how the pandemic made new pharmceutical billionaires, how Congress received funding from Big Pharm, and how Pfizer profited.
โAll Iโm querying is if pharmaceutical companies benefit from emergencies, you will generate states of perpetual crisis.โ
Brand ended his night by stamping Maher with a challenge. โYouโre telling the American people that itโs impossible to improve,โ he said. โAnd youโre better than that, Bill.โ
Overtime with Bill Maher and his guests, including Bernie. I enjoyed listening to Bernie laughing at the wit and simpatico banter with Russell Brand. I don’t know if Maher’s producers had any inkling this dynamic would occur or not.
Cos I don’t pay much attention to video media, I don’t know much about Brand. I do know he can be a Brit fireball. I just caught the Bernster but I will check out these links. ๐
Just finished watching the ‘Overtime’ clip as I saw the earlier one over Hubster’s shoulder. Very enjoyable, truthful and funny. I gotta say it: Brand is not just a fireball; he’s as sharp as a new razor. Looking forward to Bernie’s book. ๐
Bernie Sanders is here to answer a question nobody in this room was asking: Is it okay to be angry about capitalism?
Itโs late on a weeknight at The Anthem, a 3,000-seat concert hall on the trendy, upscale D.C. waterfront that recently hosted Bush and the Disco Biscuits. The bar is open, but the venueโs floor is full of orderly rows of chairs, the air is uncharacteristically free of pot smoke, and the merch tables feature no T-shirts or posters, only stacks of the 81-year-old left-wing senatorโs latest book, Itโs OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. Still, to the overwhelmingly young crowd that has paid $55 to $95 per ticket, they might as well be seeing a rock starโthe Mick Jagger of Medicare-for-All.
Callie Whicker, an 18-year-old student at American University, arrived an hour early and settled into her front-row seat, wearing a BERNIE sweatshirt and clutching a knit Bernie doll she got on Etsy. Heโs her only source of hope in a coming-of-age that has otherwise been unrelentingly dark: โFor Gen Z, coming up through Covid and Trump, weโve given up,โ she says. โEverythingโs really bad. But knowing that there are people like him, people with decent hearts fighting for everybody, itโs so inspiring.โ
Whicker has pink-dyed hair and wears a mask. Her homemade earrings dangle the words GENDER IS A CONSTRUCT from each lobe. When I ask her if itโs okay to be angry about capitalism, she looks at me like I might have the wrong number of heads. Isnโt it obvious? โOh yes,โ she says with conviction. โOf course, always.โ
Sandersโs previous books were titled Our Revolution and Where We Go From Hereโhopeful titles that looked to the future. The current one, with its combination of radicalism and neurosis, seems to signal a shift, not just in Sanders but in the ardent following heโs built over the last eight years and two near-miss presidential primary campaigns. His young followers are angry, yes, but they need to be reassured that itโs okay; they want to be comforted, to be affirmed in their feelings.
โWe are very, very screwed,โ says Farah T., a 30-year-old economist at the World Bank who declines to give her last name. โAngry is a nice word. Itโs outrageous. Itโs fucked up.โ She paid $95 for her primo seat, which, yes, is capitalismโbut why are people attacking Sanders for selling tickets when capitalism is responsible for so much worse? Sanders has been her lodestar for as long as sheโs been politically conscious. Yet things have only seemed to get worse and worse. โHe represents an America I would like to see, but probably never will, unfortunately,โ she says.
Sandersโ fans have long admired his consistency, the way heโs been fighting for the same principles since he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. But it has perhaps started to dawn on them that thatโs another way of saying he hasnโt made much headway in all that time.
โI first got involved in climate activism in eighth grade,โ says 19-year-old sociology student Jackie Wells. โNothing significant has happened since then, and Iโm going to another climate rally on Friday. Radical change is absolutely necessary, but I donโt know if our generation is up to it.โ She worries that her peers are too complacent, too willing to mistake social-media posturing for activism. But Wells, who considers herself an anarcho-socialist, views the whole political system as a distracting spectacle. โI havenโt posted, like, โIโm at the Bernie thing,โ because itโs kind of embarrassing to like a politician,โ she says.
โItโs not okay to not be angry about capitalism,โ says Nicole Wilder, a 26-year-old editorial assistant. โIf youโre not angry, I think youโre just not paying attention, or youโre a selfish person.โ Older people, she says, shouldnโt disdain young peopleโs idealism and fervor for change: โMaybe thatโs because a lot of young people actually give a sโt about things other than themselves.โ
Chelsea Ihnacik, a 38-year-old stay-at-home mom, has been organizing a new Democratic Socialists of America chapter in her rural southern Maryland town. She worries that a Democratic Party that snubs Sanders in favor of milquetoast centrists like Joe Biden is destined to continue losing white working-class voters to Trumpism. โAs much as Bernie woke us up to political engagement, the larger system is a monolith thatโs not moving,โ she says. โBiden betrayed the rail workers and undermined the solidarity of the working class. Weโre going to lose those voters to fascism as a result.โ
When Sanders comes on, the lights go all the way down, and he stands at the front of the stage in his usual hunched posture, gesturing with his right hand as he holds the microphone with his left. His rap has many of the same themes I remember from his 2016 campaignโthe evils of oligarchy and super PACs, the billionaires robbing us blind and never paying a price. But thereโs a new emphasis on capitalismโs emotionally taxing nature. โThe bottom line, and we donโt talk about this at all, is that the working class of this country is under enormous emotional stress,โ he says. โAnd stress kills.โ
Gone, too, is Sandersโ onetime call for โpolitical revolution,โ perhaps because heโs become more enmeshed in the system he once sought to overthrow. After 16 years in the Senate, Sandersโ status as the pied piper of the resurgent young left has earned him real credibilityโand powerโin Washington. This year, he became the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, a position he intends to make the most of, hauling in pharmaceutical CEOs to testify about high drug prices, holding hearings on the plight of the working class. Next Tuesday, he tells the crowd, he plans to have the committee vote to subpoena Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz for his efforts to suppress unionizationโa move that, if successful, would be the committeeโs first-ever subpoena of a witness, according to Punchbowl News.
โThe American people are standing up, and if I have anything to say about itโand as chairman of the relevant committee, I do have something to say about itโthis is just going to be the start,โ Sanders says to cheers. Audience members hold up their phones and record snippets of him speaking, like they would at a concert.
At the end, Sanders takes questions. The first one comes from a high schooler named Max who volunteered for his 2020 campaign. โWhat is your advice to the young people in this progressive movement on how we can keep the momentum of the movement you helped start alive?โ Max wants to know.
Sanders looks out at the sea of eager faces, and I wonder if heโs thinking of his legacyโthe ideals heโs seeded that will surely outlive him, the fresh-faced students who will keep fighting these fights long after heโs gone. โPeople often ask the question, what keeps me going?โ he says, turning uncharacteristically sentimental. He recalls the millions of people heโs met, the places heโs been, the massive crowd of young people who turned out to see him as the sun set over a small town in rural California, hungry for a message of change.
โSo I want to say that, as somebody who gets around the country and has the opportunity to meet with so many people, I donโt want you to become depressed about this country,โ Sanders says. โThere are millions of wonderful people who are trying to do the right thing. And our job is to educate and organize and create the kind of movement that will breed the kind of transformational change this country desperately needs.โ
The lights come back on and Sanders departs, trailed by a lengthy standing ovation. And then the next generation trickles out of the theater, out into the night, out into the despair of the broken world they canโt escape.
Today’s episode features interviews with two people who’ve given a lot of thought to capitalism’s role in modern society. First, Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks with NPR’s Steve Inskeep about his new book, It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism, and how he views the way politicians appeal to the working class โ oftentimes, he says, without addressing the root of the problems they’re facing. Then, NPR’s Michel Martin talks to author Malcolm Harris about his new book, Palo Alto, which details the origins of the California city, the birth of Silicon Valley and the power that’s concentrated in the industries that are based there.
My downtown area is pretty progressive.๐ Besides, once โGovernorโ Goon gets exposed to the rest of the country, it will be toast. Good riddance and I hope Sick Rott goes with it.๐ฉ๐ฉ
House Democrats were infuriated and taken aback by President Bidenโs announcement on Thursday that he will sign a resolution to nix the District of Columbiaโs crime bill.
The crime bill has come under heavy criticism from Republicans and centrist Democrats. But last month, 173 House Democrats voted along with what they thought was the White Houseโs stance that Biden would veto the resolution in an attempt to stand up for the Districtโs โhome rule.โ
Instead, Biden made the revelation to Senate Democrats during lunch on Thursday and, in the process, angered their colleagues across the Capitol complex.
โThe White House f***** this up royally,โ one House Democrat told The Hill via text message, noting the White House issued a Statement of Administration Policy opposing the resolution and backing D.C., and that House Democratic leadership told lawmakers that Biden was prepared to veto the measure.
The declaration from the Office of Management and Budget called on Congress to โrespect the District of Columbiaโs autonomy to govern its own local affairs.โ
โSo a lot of us who are allies voted no in order to support what the White House wanted. And now we are being hung out to dry,โ the lawmaker continued. โF****** AMATEUR HOUR. HEADS SHOULD ROLL OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE OVER THIS.โ
The House Democrat added multiple other lawmakers were โEXTREMELY pissedโ about the situation.
Rep. Pete Aguilar (Calif.), the No. 3 House Democrat, issued a rare rebuke of the White House during a Punchbowl News event at the caucusโs retreat in Baltimore, saying that Bidenโs move was โdisappointing.โ
โItโs disappointing for me and anybody who believes in home rule, honestly. Iโm a former mayor of a city of 70,000 and I wouldnโt want the federal government coming in and telling me what city ordinances to pass. โฆ So I think itโs disappointing in that context,โ Aguilar said.
โI voted against it, but I understand and respect the presidentโs position here,โ Aguilar, the former mayor of Redlands, Calif., continued. โWeโll see, the Senate has to pass that, and I know that theyโve said they have the votes but all of those things have to happen. But itโs disappointing for those of us who believe in home rule.โ
An aide to a House Democrat who opposed the measure texted that the caucus is โa little shockedโ by the move.
The crime bill passed the D.C. City Council unanimously in January. After Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) vetoed it, the city council overrode it 12-1. Among other things, the bill would eliminate most mandatory sentences and lower penalties for a number of violent offenses, including carjackings and robberies. It would also expand the requirement for jury trials in most misdemeanor cases.
In a tweet, Biden specifically mentioned the issue of carjackings. As of Thursday, there have been 94 carjackings in D.C. in 2023 alone.
โOne thing that the president believes in is making sure that the streets in America and communities across the country are safe, that includes in D.C. That does not change,โ White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Thursday.
โWhen it comes to what this proposal brings forth, which is really lowering penalties for car-jacking, he doesnโt believe thatโs going to keep our communities safe,โ she added.
Nevertheless, the move still left Democrats with a sour taste in their mouths.
โToday has been a sad day for D.C. home rule and D.C. residentsโ right to self-governance,โ Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) said in a statement. โWe had hoped that with more Senate support, we would have been able to ensure that neither disapproval resolution pending before the Senate would reach the presidentโs desk, but with the nationwide increase in crime, most senators do not want to be seen as supporting criminal justice reform.โ
Holmes Norton added that she will still try to convince Biden that absent a veto, the resolution โwould empower the paternalistic, anti-democratic Republican opposition to the principle of local control over local affairs.โ
Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Bob Casey (D-Pa.), both of whom are up for reelection in 2024, have said in recent days they plan to side with Republicans on the resolution, giving those backing it enough daylight to put it over the finish line even with the hospitalizations of Sens. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
The news is also expected to push more Democrats to side with Biden and the centrists.
โIโm reviewing the actual provisions of the D.C. crime bill, talking to colleagues. And the president obviously said he will not veto the measure, which I think may weigh with my colleagues,โ Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told reporters.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who is also up for reelection in 2024, told reporters following Bidenโs news that he still is undecided on the resolution and has not been briefed on it yet.
From a political standpoint, Bidenโs decision to block the D.C. crime bill could come back to haunt the House Democrats who opposed the disapproval resolution. Some Republicans are already characterizing the revised code as soft-on-crime, which they could eventually extend to those 173 liberal lawmakers.
โBy rejecting D.C.โs law, President Biden acknowledged the basic fact that soft-on-crime policies endanger the public,โ Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote on Twitter.
Democrats are already worrying that they played into the GOPโs hands.
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โFrankly, itโs a clear signal to those criticizing POTUS on being soft on crime amid the increased focus on the issue going into 2024 โ and on the heels of Lightfootโs ouster,โ the aide said, referring to the Chicago mayorโs re-election defeat this week.
Aguilar, for his part, brushed off that notion on Thursday, pointing to legislation the caucus has passed and efforts it backed that support public safety.
โDemocrats believe in strong public safety,โ he said. โThatโs what weโre demonstrating in our bills and demonstrated time and time again.โ
Par for the course with Byedone. My question is simple: have these yahoos actually read what’s in that Crime Bill? Cos it sure isn’t soft on crime including carjacking.
T and R x 2, jcb!! ๐ Thanks to you and Ms. Benny for doing the yeoperson work hosting our Nest! ๐ You bet I caught the Bernster on Maher’s show. Man, Maher is getting more RW (senile?) in his aging years. Very disappointing.
Some news in here: donor Ike Perlmutter is expected to back Trump and not DeSantis. Trump asked Sarah H Sanders for an endorsement a few weeks back and she said not yet. And Ken Cuccinelli is looking at an amendment to delegate rules https://t.co/IsQ5GEnkJY
another reminder that the ACA fortifying the health insurance industry, politiciansโ refusal to add a public option, and the campaign against Medicare For All have all preserved a health care dystopia ๐ https://t.co/rwrP1iDjg4
โA former Memphis Fire Dept emergency medical technician told a TN board Fri that officers โimpeded patient careโ by refusing to remove #TyreNichols โฒ handcuffs, which would have allowed EMTs to check his vital signs after he was brutally beaten by policeโ https://t.co/1icTOxGT6l
— Todd (they/them) #AbolishThePolice (@ToddBohannon) March 4, 2023
In the 1980s, everybody was working for the weekend, or so a hit song from the period proclaimed.
Now, working on the weekend is becoming more commonplace in some sectors as layoffs increase and workers seek time to focus, free from the deluge of meetings and other distractions.
The average hours worked on Saturday and Sunday last year increased 5% to 6.6, according to ActivTrak, which analyzed almost 175 million hours of work across 134,260 anonymized users of its productivity-management software worldwide. While just 5% of all workers tracked toiled on the weekend, certain industries, like technology and media, saw a spike of 25% or more hours worked in 2022 compared with a year earlier. The reasons are twofold: Job cuts that have heaped more work on fewer staffers, along with a need to escape the constant interruptions from the likes of Zoom calls and Slack chats that are part of todayโs increasingly hybrid workplace.
โWith more and more layoff announcements, companies are doing more with less, so where you see an increase in weekend work, itโs in industries that are contracting,โ said Gabriela Mauch, vice president of ActivTrakโs productivity lab, which researches trends in its datasets. โAs people become more comfortable with flexibility, itโs acceptable to log off at 3pm on a Friday and deal with the work on the weekend.โ
The weekend shifts are the latest example of the breakdown in long-held workplace norms wrought by the pandemic, as demands for increased flexibility among employees clash with some employersโ desires to see workers in person at the office more often. While remote work has freed up desk workers in many respects, allowing many to do their job where and when they choose, itโs also tethered them to collaboration and communication tools that can divert their attention with constant notifications. Rising job cuts of late across technology, media and other sectors have also complicated the picture, creating more stress on staffers who are already grappling with record rates of burnout.
The most common weekend warriors were technology staffers in computer hardware and services, according to ActivTrakโs data, along with media workers and those in consumer goods. All of those groups increased their weekend hours last year compared with 2021, most by double-digit percentages. Technology firms have laid off more than 122,000 workers so far this year, according to tracker Layoffs.fyi, and industry leaders like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff have said their workforces need to get more out of fewer workers. Musk, in particular, has told workers to embrace a โhardcoreโ culture or leave the company.
Other sectors, like energy, hospitality and health care, saw a decline in weekend toiling. One theory behind the divergence, Mauch said, is that industries with a greater share of creative types could see more value in working over the weekend. Service-focused sectors were also more likely to boost their weekend hours. A broader government survey found Americans spent just 1.1 hours working on the weekend in 2021.
The ActivTrak report also found that the average workday in 2022 spanned ten hours and nine minutes, defined by the stretch between the first and last activity on a workerโs computer. Time spent on focused work declined slightly last year, while minutes spent multi-tasking increased by a similar amount. Workers were more productive and focused in the first half of the year compared with the back half, and Tuesday was the most productive day.
โEvery culture is different,โ Mauch said. โAt one organization, seven hours of work might be appropriate, but in others itโs 12.โ
And hereโs Jimmy Somerville (now in Bronski Beat) with one of the best gay anthems ever. Great video for the song. Groundbreaking for its year (1984). And a happy ending!
Great song and album but there was some controversy.
Everybody Everybody” is a song by the Italian house group Black Box, with uncredited vocals by American singer Martha Wash, from their debut studio album, Dreamland (1990). Wash was replaced by French model Katrin Quinol as the credited vocalist who made several appearances with Black Box, which led Wash to file a lawsuit against the group.
Me, too. Okay, I gotta do it. This tune isn’t quite in the disco mode; it’s an anthemic tune written by Vangelis. Donna Summers does the greatest, most brilliant covah ever IMNSHO ๐ .
๐จ#UPDATE: Multiple reports of power outages following a Norfolk Southern train derailment in Springfield, Ohio with officials urging residence to shelter in place, and to avoid the area due to unknown materials, and possibly chemicals pic.twitter.com/KetDbQetiE
Good godalmighty, when is the craporate greed gonna get wrestled under control???????????? Speaking of idiots propagandized into voting against their own human interests and welfare, here’s a link to a very important read in today’s NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/politics/panic-fox-news-2020-election.html. People really need to study history. Propaganda runs on certain principles that have been around for centuries. All that changes are the means (bullhorns) and the demagogues. ๐
Not any time soon ORL-sadly. Its if and when the people in this country realize it’s not really the R v D that’s killing this country. The real war is between the oligarchy and the rest of us. They own most the corgresscritters to get tax breaks, concraprate subsidies and buy off the various govt entities that are supposed to protect all Americans when accidents such as NF happen. They own the weapons of mass deception that keep the US v Them thing going. They constantly keep narratives going that promotes hate and division going -they just change on who it’s time to hate. It’s the classic distraction so the voter doesn’t notice that more laws and weakend regulations were passed to the Oligarchy benefit. Maybe someday Americans will put aside this and really look and see whom is the real problem is- the oligarchy and finally do something about the real problem. Just a footnote in the 1980s there were 15 billionaires in the world, now theirs over 2600 of them and they carry considerable weight on what actual, policy is truly enacted with the congresscritters they own. They all meet once a year at their super secret “Billionaires” Summit to discuss what they need from the Govts they control, the results are generally not in the rest of us best interest. Sadly it’s we the people thru our ignorance(both sides) that vote the letter and continually re-elect the puppets of the Oligarchy. There are very few congresscritters that actually work for the people these days And those that do get death threats as the media say they are bad for America. Like you Orl many of us are running out of time to see meaningful change in our life time…
https://deadline.com/2023/03/bill-mahers-real-time-sees-russell-brand-senator-bernie-sanders-take-aim-at-status-quo-1235278645/amp/
Overtime with Bill Maher and his guests, including Bernie. I enjoyed listening to Bernie laughing at the wit and simpatico banter with Russell Brand. I don’t know if Maher’s producers had any inkling this dynamic would occur or not.
Cos I don’t pay much attention to video media, I don’t know much about Brand. I do know he can be a Brit fireball. I just caught the Bernster but I will check out these links. ๐
Just finished watching the ‘Overtime’ clip as I saw the earlier one over Hubster’s shoulder. Very enjoyable, truthful and funny. I gotta say it: Brand is not just a fireball; he’s as sharp as a new razor. Looking forward to Bernie’s book. ๐
The authorโs tone leaves something to be desired but the article does give a good snapshot about these Bernie tour events.
https://time.com/6260024/bernie-sanders-book-tour/
TIME has had a conservative slant in its writing for decades now. It still turns out a lot of decent reads that aren’t semi- or illiterate.
May be. Meantime, Bernie’s new book is already on the the California Indie Booksellers best sellers list this week. Just came out the past week.
image credit: LA Daily News.
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1159367349/sen-bernie-sanders-and-malcolm-harris-take-a-closer-look-at-wealth-and-capitalis
I’m now on the Hold list at our library for Bernie’s read. ๐
It likely means one copy, I guess it is fine for the public library to collect since Itโs OK doesnโt contain illustrations of LGBTQ folks in it.
My downtown area is pretty progressive.๐ Besides, once โGovernorโ Goon gets exposed to the rest of the country, it will be toast. Good riddance and I hope Sick Rott goes with it.๐ฉ๐ฉ
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3881888-house-democrats-blindsided-as-biden-changes-tune-on-dc-crime-bill/
A ball of cotton has a higher IQ than this imbecile and his state. Just ask @phatkhat. ๐
Par for the course with Byedone. My question is simple: have these yahoos actually read what’s in that Crime Bill? Cos it sure isn’t soft on crime including carjacking.
I wasnโt aware Feinstein was in the hospital.
T and R x 2, jcb!! ๐ Thanks to you and Ms. Benny for doing the yeoperson work hosting our Nest! ๐ You bet I caught the Bernster on Maher’s show. Man, Maher is getting more RW (senile?) in his aging years. Very disappointing.
Push back was excellent on Bernieโs part.
Agree wholeheartedly. โฎ๏ธ
Unless you are Brainwrap.
๐
+270! Where’s her ditzo twin, the former (cough, gag) ‘governor of Alaska?
Or the world is saying “serenity now.”.
CPAC(rap) must be hard up for celebs this year.
Weekend Work Inches Up in Era of Layoffs, Out-of-Office Shifts
Letโs have a little Saturday night disco. Hereโs two versions of a classic
And hereโs Jimmy Somerville (now in Bronski Beat) with one of the best gay anthems ever. Great video for the song. Groundbreaking for its year (1984). And a happy ending!
๐ !!
A great live Thelma version
I was working on my recovery exercises this afternoon to this tune. I remember it from 1990.
Great song and album but there was some controversy.
My favorite Martha Wash song as half of the Weather Girls with Izora Armstead.
๐ Oh man, I love the Weather Girls!
Hereโs the other mega hit from the album
Takes me back.
Me, too. Okay, I gotta do it. This tune isn’t quite in the disco mode; it’s an anthemic tune written by Vangelis. Donna Summers does the greatest, most brilliant covah ever IMNSHO ๐ .
๐ !!
๐ !! Wasn’t she related to Whitnerd aka Whitney Houston?
๐ ๐ !!!
Good godalmighty, when is the craporate greed gonna get wrestled under control???????????? Speaking of idiots propagandized into voting against their own human interests and welfare, here’s a link to a very important read in today’s NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/us/politics/panic-fox-news-2020-election.html. People really need to study history. Propaganda runs on certain principles that have been around for centuries. All that changes are the means (bullhorns) and the demagogues. ๐
Not any time soon ORL-sadly. Its if and when the people in this country realize it’s not really the R v D that’s killing this country. The real war is between the oligarchy and the rest of us. They own most the corgresscritters to get tax breaks, concraprate subsidies and buy off the various govt entities that are supposed to protect all Americans when accidents such as NF happen. They own the weapons of mass deception that keep the US v Them thing going. They constantly keep narratives going that promotes hate and division going -they just change on who it’s time to hate. It’s the classic distraction so the voter doesn’t notice that more laws and weakend regulations were passed to the Oligarchy benefit. Maybe someday Americans will put aside this and really look and see whom is the real problem is- the oligarchy and finally do something about the real problem. Just a footnote in the 1980s there were 15 billionaires in the world, now theirs over 2600 of them and they carry considerable weight on what actual, policy is truly enacted with the congresscritters they own.
They all meet once a year at their super secret “Billionaires” Summit to discuss what they need from the Govts they control, the results are generally not in the rest of us best interest. Sadly it’s we the people thru our ignorance(both sides) that vote the letter and continually re-elect the puppets of the Oligarchy. There are very few congresscritters that actually work for the people these days And those that do get death threats as the media say they are bad for America. Like you Orl many of us are running out of time to see meaningful change in our life time…