Progressives (Liberals)

How about a song for the Democrats in November?

Robert Cray, he ROCKS, eh!?

Quite a guitar player, right up there with Clapton.

Speaking of Clapton, and guitar players, he recorded an entire album consisting of nothing but Robert Johnson songs.

He said he would never be able to play like Johnson, but that he could do a passing approximation.

Keith Richards said basically the same thing. He said that for a long time he thought there were two guitars playing on Johnson's recordings.

I guess neither of them sold their souls to the Devil in return for guitar skills.

The Jim Jones cliche has become so commonplace that I have difficulty recalling other expressions used prior to that event. "Brainwashed" I suppose.

My very first CD in the 80's was the Strong Persuader album, still have it. Saw him once live in 2008.

No argument from me about the cult like following attending Bernie Sanders. However there is more than one form of a tasty but poisoned Kool Aid drink, ant it is to that that I was (obviously I had thought) referring.

Robert Cray doin a Chuck Berry tune:

Thank you!!

I give Burnie credit for being an accomplished con man. Almost in Trump's league, even.

“If you’re against me, you hate poor children.”

You’d just be a bad joke if you didn’t take yourself so ******* seriously.

Leave poor Lash be, willya? I''m in charge of the bad jokes round this here joint, fool.

Can ya BELIEVE that ****, I ask ya!?

The sorry-ass cheese-eaters round this here joint even downvote Chuck Berry and Robert Cray. Some people, I tells ya....

I have a pretty liberal sense of humor, but dying people isn’t funny to me.
Good for you tho. Laughing all the way down. Down to Chinatown.

Thanks a lot, Darlin. I think I just picked up the Kung Flu watchin that vid.

It’s clearly preposterous and indicative of a LOW appreciation for classic blues. Inexcusable.

An administration focused like a laser on the important responsibilities it has right now


This Trump-mandated mis-use of language is inexplicable outside of some propagandist rationale. Trump had previously, from January, consistently used "the corona virus" even while lauding China's handling of the pandemic. But suddenly this new term was tossed out along with an abrupt change in references to China. So what's the perceived advantage?

1) It does add an xenophobic content which Trump is always willing to use in order to appeal to his base particularly. Threats (falsified or exaggerated) from some external enemy are perhaps the single most common propaganda device as Orwell portrayed - East Asia, Oceania, Eurasia.

2) It shifts attention away from the propagandizing regime to something other. "Don't look at us. Don't blame us."

It's that second use that best explains Trump's use (and that of his administration and supporters) of "chinese virus" or "wuhan virus" because attempting to escape blame/responsibility for everything going wrong about anything is Trump's first move. Always.

Well, truth be told, that sho nuff aint no classic blues. But I know one thing: that disease is highly contagious. And I didn't see a single face in that vid that wasn't obviously badly infected with it. Admittedly, I couldn't watch it all. I had to run for my malaria medicine.

I mean, like, even the buildings had it.

He's not practicing statecraft, he's engaging in politics.


Doctors, nurses, and first responders save lives. Chairing a roundtable discussion with health experts is not "saving lives".

But it is a good (constructive) way for a politician to stay in the limelight.

"...that still hot smokin' gun..."