The Muse and Whirled Retort 2024
The Muse and Whirled Retort November 2024
Monday, November 4, 2024
The Muse and Whirled Retort
Hey Everybody,
It is that time again. This is a special election edition of The Muse and Whirled Retort.
Announcements and Crass Commercial Messages will follow.
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Down is the New Up
Under the Bush administration (George II that is)
I spent eight years of my life,
two hundred and fifty days a year
doing nothing
but making George W Bush Jokes.
Frankly, I got sick of it.
But under Trump,
and now, during this election cycle,
I have barely mentioned his name.
But today, I feel it is important.
At first
I did not want to add to the noise out there...
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(and there is a lot of NOISE out there!)
Then, I didn't want to go off half cocked...
Then I wasn't sure which direction to fire
because bullets ricochet
in funny directions when you live in a bubble.
That is floating like the ghosts of Joe Hill,
Harriet Tubman, Eugene Debbs,
Mother Jones,
and Caesar Chavez
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This got me to thinking...
If a ghost can walk through walls -
Why doesn’t he fall through the floor?
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At that point I realized
I was on the edge of something really big...
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I was standing upon a giant precipice.
And that is probably not a good time
to put your best foot forward.
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I mean.
I’ve always liked the metaphor of hell being beneath us.
‘Cause Sometimes...
Ya gotta go through hell...
Don’t we know it!
Aren’t we all goin’ through hell these days?
But sometimes,
Ya gotta get down there and wrestle ‘dem demons!
.
Hell, Sometimes,
Ya gotta get down there
and Jell-O wrestle ‘dem demons.
but when yer goin’ through hell,
what ya gotta do is keep going -
‘cause the world is round.
And if you keep goin you’ll come out on the other side,
wondering
why everyone is speaking
with an Australian accent.
In the Trump Era,
down is the new up.
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"Make America Great Again”
and ”America First”
are contradictory statements.
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America will be great again,
when she sees herself IN the
world not AS the world.
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America will be great again
when she treats her
neighbors like she would herself.
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She will be great again
when she realizes that
“ America First”
implies that there is a race
... in which one could be or become first in
- in the first place.
Not America First...
Earth First...
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he envisions. Elon Musk, RFK Jr,
and I want you to mention this to your conservative friends and family,
because i know you’ve got them...
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The rich that are in power,
or want to re-take power
could really care less about any of this whako
conservative agenda…
But as long as there is something
resembling a government,
the rich need large numbers of people to
support them.
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So they will say or do anything to stay in office.
They don’t actually care of these social issues.
They don’t NEED to care.
They don’t LIVE in society.
They have their own school systems,
their own hospitals.
They have their own police force.
Soon they will have their own military.
I am not afraid of other countries getting the bomb.
I am afraid of Space-X getting the bomb.
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Oh sure, they will give money to the church to show they
“care” about social issues.
.
But, we all know
giving money to the church
doesn't make you a good person.
Any more than buying tickets to the game
makes you a third-baseman.
What the church offers to the rich is people.
The one thing the 1% does not have
is people -
99% of us to be exact.
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But wait a second...
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Within the 99% a whole lotta
working class folks voted for Trump!
and are planning on voting for him again.
Poor people.
MY people!
.
.
What did we do SO wrong
to allow your average red neck to
believe a billionaire
descending from the Heavens
on a gold plated escalator
in a Manhattan skyscraper
has their interests at heart?
To make the world GREAT again,
WE have to burst our own bubbles!
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We have to go out there and yes,
befriend a red neck.
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DO NOT UNFRIEND THEM!
befriend them.
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Because regardless of how this election goes,
we are still a divided nation.
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But, if each and every one of us goes out and befriends,
and turns around!
one Trump Supporter
we could make America Great again...
and THAT America
maybe (just maybe)
COULD help make the world great again.
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Walk softly
and carry a big carrot.
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Because like I’ve always said,
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“If you think there is a
cutting edge
Than you ain’t on it.”
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Which is why I don’t think this is that ‘edgy’ of a
thought...
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...if the rich can cross the lines
between right and wrong
like ghosts walk through walls
maybe it is time they
also fell through the floor.
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And maybe, just maybe,
they will all go straight to hell.
(and I mean that in a good way)
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Because frankly, that’s the problem...
The rich have never been through hell.
They have never known suffering,
want or need.
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so maybe,
if they spent an hour
experiencing the hell
that you and I go through on a daily basis,
they would understand what hell really is
and we could remind them
that that the world really is round.
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And maybe, they would keep going.
So that,
we can all come out on the other side.
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Wondering
why everybody is speaking
with an Australian accent.
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I plan to make it 40.
If you would like a copy of the book I put out this summer celebrating 35 years on the road
you can get it right here:
I would Like to get the new Chris Chandler book!
Here is a well for lack of a better word, “The Pilot” that I put out on Halloween.
It will be a nice little way for me to perform for you remotely and give you a chance to help support the arts.
Every trickle of income stream helps right now. no, I am not looking for a handout but asking for support in putting out this news letter and driving town to town to wax the manefesto electric. So...
If you would like to give anything on a regular basis - the cost of a cup of coffee a month really really helps.
You can also donate directly via PayPal and Venmo
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