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Benjy Compson's avatar

On January 1st 1988 when my beloved Fighting Irish won the National Championship in Sun Devil Stadium…if you told me “never again would Notre Dame win the title with Lou Holtz…and Hoosier Daddy, I mean that team that plays to thousands of empty seats on any given Saturday”..I woulda retorted…”Yeah right…and I will vote for the that Morton Downey Jr Showman spinoff meets Hugh Hefner with a playboy New York condo salesman for President of the United States…and in between dayz a doddering dolt first class schmuck super polident huckster Joe Biden will finally succumb to the Presidency”. No joke..I tell you

jaybrown's avatar

I much prefer the Ella Fitzgerald version. But that's just me.

Angie's avatar

It is so interesting reading about all your interests and thoughts, thanks

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Appreciate it, Angie!

George Bascom's avatar

Thanks for another dazzling display. You’ve mastered a bevy of interesting subjects. Thanks for the moral clarity on Greenland/the Nobel Peace Prize contretemps as well. That’s just the education I’m paying for.

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Thx so very much, George.

Benjy Compson's avatar

A little late 20th century black note poetry, brought to by Joe Strummer of The Clash, whose words and would have never even had a nightmare believing his rage could be true in the greatest country on Gods green Earth…anymore than I would vote not once, forgive me Jesus, but twice for a candidate that appeared on Info Wars:

Taking off his turban, they said, “Is this man a Jew?”

Working for the clampdown

They put up a poster saying “We earn more than you!”

We’re working for the clampdown

We will teach our twisted speech to the young believers

We will train our blue eyed men to be young believers …

But you grow up and you calm down

And working for the clampdown

You start wearing blue and brown

Working for the clampdown

So you got someone to boss around, make ya feel big now

Working for the clampdown

You drift until you brutalize,

make your first kill now

In these days of evil presidentes

Working for the clampdown

But in these days one or two has fully paid their due

For working for the clampdown

Ha! Get along. Ha! Get along!

Who’s barmy now”

What are we the people gonna do now. I ain’t working for the clampdown, as I can’t not fing believe it has happened here, “I ain’t mad at cha”, seconds later “Fing Bitch” meets a Minnesota N.I.C.E. assassins bullets, Renee Nicole Good still cannot be reached for comment…and their is no call for Krusty the Clown “domestic terrorists” Noem or her Don King Trump to be removed and indicted for betraying a lefty loones being deprived of life…for what…An Anti Truth Neo Nationalist Sociopath megalomaniacs racism. For f sake, someone in D.C. grow a sack and use your god given fing brains and indict the monster in the White House, I mean mobster in the Bada Bing…We the Living in Kakistocracy

I am not sorry you do not care for my language Jay, I ain’t reared on Classical music as I was a punk in my formative years…just as I do not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those that murder. Donald J Trump is a psycho killer (hat tip Radley Balko, 107 murderers latest dead body count, as The Donroe Doctrine = Top Gun Banana Republic boat diplomacy…We the Living in Idiocracy. Here we are now, Trump entertain U.S.

A not so silent, sometimes violent minority, majority got The Don nominated, for my formerly beloved party…we the people need to de-Nazify, I mean De Trumpify…just like the German people were made to do..Can you remember the Chancellor that succeeded the little Austrian turd…neither can I…return to normalcy is possible…RESISTANCE IS NOT FUTILE, it is your moral duty to come out with your verbal gun and god given brain and unload on The Don and all his Capos and willing executioners…all of whom should be behind bars or six thousand feet under, 25th Amendment being the least of we the peoples rights. This wise guy cannot remain in power! Gotta run on and puke. I can’t believe we the living in a Mob Land. God help U.S.! Thanks for taking my rant Onward and Upward, sorry if you don’t care for my little language. Peace through superior mental firepower

TP's avatar

If I hadn't already read, and loved, your book, I'd go full Jonah and ask "What's your book about?" Reading it was time well-spent. I had been quoting Elihu Root for a few years prior to the book coming out; i enjoyed learning more about his remarkable career. I'm guessing Pam Bondi and others around the White House haven't given Root's advice to a client who is acting foolishly--just shut up.

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

Thx, TP -- Root was extraordinary.

Paul Britton's avatar

Jay — isn’t “speak low” a line from Much Ado About Nothing, act II?

And Sarah V.’s version is the best.

Jay Nordlinger's avatar

The line for sure comes from Shakespeare! Thx, Paul.

Don Stenavage's avatar

Now Sarah and Ella.And Barney Kessel with Sarah (Sarah +2)....that is what I am talking about !

It is a nice break from the madness and a reason to perserve.