The Progressive Wing

Another tune by Billy Joel:

Oh, a tip jar:

Did you dream of becoming a disc jockey when you were young?😁

My dad was a radio engineer for a brief time. That’s how he met Roy Orbison.

I enjoy music and have an eclectic palette, but I wouldn’t go as far as being catholic with my tastes. I have an aversion to Middle Eastern chants although oddly, I like Gregorian ones. I think it has to do with forced nasal sounds in ME ones. Here’s the thing though: I can’t play any instrument but washtub bass.

Way cool. 🙂 I would love to sit down with you, Ms. Benny, and do a communal brain-picking of our love and knowledge of music. I don’t like redneck/c&w nor verbal opera. My only attempt at a novel starred a female DJ. I can’t sing nor play any instrument, only dance. 🙁 Your dad met a giant of a human being and artist in Roy Orbison.

I had issues with early c&w because of the heavy influence of the Hawaiian sound via steel guitar, but I’ve gotten used it. When Ken Burns “Country Music” was on last fall, I was glued to the series.

Rock + Redneck produced some good seedlings musically when you think about Allman Bros, The Outlaws, .38 Special, Lynard Skynryd, Marshall Tucker. They are part of the Southern Fried Rock collection.

There was also ZZTop, Potliquor, Molly Hatchet, and Black Oak Arkansas. We called it Southern Boogie Rock down here.

Thumbs up!

🙂

That album featured also “Piano Man” (title cut actually), which I considered putting into the post, but wanted something to start a live session that involved a little bit of lite theater to go with it.

Same venue where I saw EJ last year. This person had better seats than I did.

And another goodie…

Chaelo

Good ones! But nothing to do with Dire straits, sorry.
Playing with them all the time!!

Regards!

One of my favorite tunes in all r&r. Whoops, shoulda been under “Funeral for a Friend.” Not fully awake yet.

wi65

A few days ago I dared any R to show up as a poll worker during Wi’s Tuesdays election. Well Vos did. He helped count votes in Burlington Wi which is one of the most affluent areas in WI. Take a look on how he was geared up for PPE as were all the poll workers in his district. A vast majority of Wi poll workers had no such PPE other that masks (some didn’t have those even) plastic shields to sit behind and hand sanitizer. Vos looks like hes going into Hospital shift, he just counted and verified votes with no direct contact with voters. A classic case of the affluent vs the rest of us. With that PPE no wonder why he felt safe

Ouch!😛

The only Black person who liked Buttigieg was Barack Obama. https://t.co/TfU7ydc4OE
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) April 12, 2020

You and I must be finding similar things on twitter. I was about to post this, but my byline would be aimed at Buttigieg:

“Good luck with that.”

I urge Buttigieg to back all the way the fuck off https://t.co/YhTyc51qy2
— ✩ BlindedByLight ☆ ☼︎ (@FemaleBernieBro) April 11, 2020

wi65

Actually Petey looking more like this for a lot of us Berners

Pete,

With all due respect, butt out. Enjoy your time in CA, and figure out how you will run for Kamala’s seat if she is the VP nominee. But if there is a progressive on the ballot, you can bet I will be sending a donation to that candidate and not you.

A butthole-gag (heave) for sure!

Paul ADK

Little Eichmann needs to step right on out.

Thank you – from our entire family. 💖💞 https://t.co/6KzuPwDjWU
— Jane O'Meara Sanders (@janeosanders) April 12, 2020

Does anyone else want to see the election system changed so that two private corporations don’t control the process of choosing the candidates?
— Chris Richards 🌹🍑❤️🅰️ (@EclecticRadical) April 12, 2020

Tangential, but excellent discussion about the new corporate/consumer bailouts by the government featuring Matt Stoller.

EyeRound

Reading Stoller’s “Goliath” now. Book has all the earmarks of a Harvard education: 85 pages of endnotes, 15 pages of bibliography and an antimonopoly thesis that sounds progressive but has no depth.

Stoller’s treatment of Katie in this segment is reprehensible.

Paul ADK

And that Southern states aren’t choosing the Democratic nominee for us!

There have been a dozen news reports about how David was part of a small group in the Sanders camp pushing him for months to challenge Biden and do what it takes to win. This drooling idiot churns out dumb, incoherent takes and has 300,000 twitter followers. That’s lib twitter! https://t.co/HzWGk1S5et
— Andrew Perez (@andrewperezdc) April 11, 2020

I enjoyed that video and Tezlyn Figaro didn’t beat around the bush.👏👌👏

https://youtu.be/wKJRvTe1IcA

PART 1: What the pundits won’t say about the #BernieDropOut This is not about who I support or standing up 4Sanders (he can defend himself), this is about me telling U what I know about Sanders SUPPORTERS NOT what I heard. Straight shot 🥃 no chaser 💦 analysis. Part 2 in thread pic.twitter.com/cXqqHG8eTQ
— Tezlyn Figaro (@TezlynFigaro) April 9, 2020

Take me back baby!

👋

Seems fitting

I literally just logged on to share that tweet.

We Lost the Battle, but We’ll Win the War

I have no love for Hillary Clinton. But when she said “nobody likes” Bernie, what she was actually saying was, when it comes to who’s in power, there is no Sanders wing of the party. And she’s right.
Rep. Barbara Lee, who was at the small 2014 dinner in which Sanders first plotted his run for the presidency, endorsed Kamala Harris early on. Rep. Raul Grijalva, who backed Sanders in 2016, went for Warren this time. And Warren, who Sanders publicly begged to run in 2015, not only failed once again to endorse his campaign but even went as far as to quasi-#MeToo him on a public stage. Then, after suspending her own campaign, she stayed quiet — except for an MSNBC interview about the viciousness of Sanders’s supporters.
And those were his friends in the party.
In other words, there is a left wing of Democratic voters — a thriving one, in fact. But there is no actual left wing of the Democratic Party in office.

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/bernie-sanders-presidential-campaign-democratic-socialism

Nancy Pelosi has them under her thumb that is why it is extremely important to get behing Shahid Buttar.

Does he even have a chance tho?? sorry to be pessimistic

Well the Republicans hate Pelosi and there are only dems on the ballot. I am not exactly sure how the district breaks down that way.

jcitybone

It is the second most Dem district in California. Clinton beat Trump there 86-9. She has won every election with at least 80% of the vote. Buttar seems like a good guy but unfortunately has no chance against Pelosi.

He has a slight chance. Pelosi is rich, and her RE deals with hubby have raised a few eyebrows in her district. The second slight chance is she has hit her expiration date, 80 y.o. and it shows.

Terrific read. Thanks!