We need a marching song. The Chicks provide.

Posted on November 26, 2024 by Naomi

It’s “March, March,” from the Chicks’ 2020 album, “Gaslighter.”

Written and performed by an impressive musical collective,* it’s fierce and female, a percussive, insinuating, syncopated chant in the minor key we all need now.

It’s a new civil war, and this is the new battle hymn of the Republic.

The lyrics cover a lot of territory:

March, march to my own drumMarch, march to my own drumHey, hey, I’m an army of oneOh, I’m an army of oneMarch, march to my own drumMarch, march to my own drumHey, hey, I’m an army of oneOh, I’m an army of one

Brenda’s packin’ heat ’cause she don’t like MondaysUnderpaid teacher policin’ the hallwaysPrint yourself a weapon and take it to the gun range(Ah, cut the shit, you ain’t goin’ to the gun range)Standin’ with Emma and our sons and daughtersWatchin’ our youth have to solve our problemsI’ll follow them, so who’s comin’ with me?(Half of you love me, half already hate me)

March, march to my own drumMarch, march to my own drumHey, hey, I’m an army of oneOh, I’m an army of oneMarch, march to my own drumMarch, march to my own drumHey, hey, I’m an army of oneOh, I’m an army of one

Tell the ol’ boys in the white bread lobbyWhat they can and can’t do with their bodiesTemperatures are risin’, cities are sinkin’(Ah, cut the shit, you know your city is sinkin’)Lies are truth and truth is fictionEverybody’s talkin’, who’s gonna listen?What the hell happened in Helsinki?

March, march to my own drumMarch, march to my own drumHey, hey, I’m an army of oneOh, I’m an army of oneMarch, march to my own drumMarch, march to my own drumHey, hey, I’m an army of oneOh, I’m an army of one

*Songwriters: Jack Antonoff / Ian Kirkpatrick / Natalie Maines / Emily Robison / Martie Maguire / Daniel Wilson / Ross Jacob Golan
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Don’t pull your hair out over news about dismissals!

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Naomi

Jack Smith has to dismiss because presidents can’t be prosecuted while in office.

But, as the New York Times just wrote:

    • Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought a pair of felony cases against Donald J. Trump, one accusing him of attempting to overturn the 2020 election and one accusing him of illegally retaining classified documents, moved to drop both sets of charges against him on Monday. Read more ›

    • Justice Department policy forbids prosecuting sitting presidents. Mr. Smith wrote to the judge in the election case that the dismissal request was not related to “the strength of the government’s proof or the merits of the prosecution, which the government stands fully behind.” There is a possibility of reviving the prosecutions once Mr. Trump leaves office.

That “possibility of reviving the prosecutions once Mr. Trump leaves office”? It will be inscribed in the decision by one innocuous-appearing phrase: “without prejudice.” Which means it can be renewed when the obstacles (the clown in the White House) are removed.

Don’t blame the DOJ for this or the Democrats. Blame SCOTUS and the voters who put the multi-layered criminal out of prosecutorial danger. For now.

Oh, yeah, and blame MAGA, formerly known as the GOP, and one of its top guys, Mitch McConnell.

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If it was the economy, stupid, why are Nazis marching in Ohio?

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Naomi

If you win a contest, you celebrate your win, and then go back to your own lives and wait for the good things you were promised would happen. Right?

Either American Nazis don’t have calendars (we’re weeks after the election), or they’re sticking to some plan to take the hatred back onto the streets anyway. Because that’s what they were promised. So they took their mindless rage to the streets of Columbus, Ohio and specifically targeted Black people.

However, those who counter-protested were greater in number, power, forcefulness, diversity and gravitas.

It couldn’t become a Black Kristallnacht because no one let it happen. And no one will.

 

 

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