Today, he's already got 2 short articles, both of which interest me. You'll note the bloggerly panache.
1. "Trump tweets the word ‘Africa’ for first time as president — in defense of whites in South Africa." today:
The alleged plight of white South Africans is a major rallying cry of far-right movements across North America, Europe and Australia. An online petition titled “Genocide of whites in South Africa,” which calls on Trump to allow “white Boers to come to the United States,” has garnered [garnered!] nearly 23,000 signatures.2. "Beyond ‘You’re So Vain’: A new Carly Simon-Mick Jagger duet is unearthed 46 years later." Oh! I am so tired of 46 years of the subject of who the song that talks about who the song is about is about [sic], but...
Daniel Dale, a correspondent for the Toronto Star, observed that Trump’s tweet Wednesday marked the first time he had used the word “Africa” on the social media platform since becoming president — “to express support for white people,” Dale said, “on the recommendation” of white nationalists, whose claims had been amplified by the Fox host. An archive of Trump’s tweets indeed reveals that Wednesday’s post was his first as president that included the word “Africa.”
The Rolling Stones singer did backing vocals for “You’re So Vain”... In her memoir, Simon recalled... [Mick] testing out a song, which included the lyrics, “Funny, funny, funny, funny, how love can make you cry.”...Whatever. "Fool to Cry" is kind of my favorite Rolling Stones song. A great soundtrack for crying, if that's ever on your agenda:
A new duet, never before played in public, was recently discovered on a tape... The lyrics recalled by Simon match [the tape], though the two seem to croon the word “change,” not “cry.”...
In an interview with the magazine in 2016, Simon stoked speculation about the long-lost duet. She sang the line she had put in her book, asking, “Does that sound like any Stones song to you?” The interviewer suggested “Fool to Cry”...
“Maybe, maybe,” Simon said. “We had this little back and forth at the piano for about an hour.” But then Paul and Linda McCartney arrived, she said, and the spontaneous collaboration was over....
In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right.”
But don't you hate that — when you're having a sublimely artistic and romantic experience and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive?
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When you’r a Star like Mick Jagger, they let you?
Also... garner?
South Africa is going to imitate Zimbabwe?
What could possibly go wrong.
Yeah ... McCartney shows up, and the grown-up conversation is over.
I bet Isaac feels more at home in the UK than he did here in the US.
"Fool to Cry" > "You're so Vain"
But don't you hate that — when you're having a sublimely artistic and romantic experience and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive?
LOL. Damn McCartneys!! Their timing sucks!
great football (soccer) songs that never happened:
Leighton Baines,
I bet you think this song is about you,
Leighton Baines,
I bet you think this song is about you, don't you, don't you...
Keeping track of words and subjects that Trump tweets about. He really is in Democrats' heads, isn't he!
“to express support for white people....”
How about support for private property, limited government and the rule of law?
That many articles in rapid succession?
One has to wonder how many people Isaac Stanley-Becker is screwing to get his sources.
Ali Watkins had to do about a dozen at a time, I’m guessing.
Isaac Stanley-Becker may not realize, as I do, that Trump Might Be a Criminal. But So Is Everyone Else.
Once he does, he'll be screaming bloody murder, as well.
I really like this Stone's song, too. But I like the radio studio version so much, this one misses something for me.
White genocide is being promoted in Zud Africa. Where are those who didn't care about Hutus murdering Tutsis in 1994, those who don't talk about continuing killing in the Congo (5 million or more dead, and counting); where was Black Lives Matter? Or Obama? Or most Dems. Many whites didn't care much (nor about the Cambodian Killing Fields).
There are two white tribes, and over 10 black tribes, but the white Boers have long been the key farmers. (I've just been reading about Winston Churchill's war-mongering anti-Boer inciting war in 1898, since the English failed to win the earlier Boer war against Huguenot decedents who wanted to be left alone, more than wanting the most gold or diamonds.)
The blacks deciding to steal white land will not turn out well. Glad I didn't stay at the Free Market Foundation in SA.
The song is about Carly Simon and how she always lets rich powerful men grab her by the pussy and then gets upset about it later.
Now I wanna make sure, this ISN'T a cafe post?
"Fool to Cry" is the song - that whole album really (Black and Blue) is when the Stones stopped being a British rock n roll band and sounded like an American one. There. I said it. I have no proof, of course, except listening to the record for 30+ years. (I can't say I am old enough to have bought it in '76.
Hmm. Maybe it works better if I linked my opinion with "Here are five reasons why..." or "And you won't believe what happens next" or "You need to know about this right now...." or "Carly Simon did not believe it"
It is the "Washington Compost".
you're having a sublimely artistic and romantic experience and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive
this pretty well sums up the whole Beatles thing
Has anyone ever actually seen Mick Jagger and Carly Simon together in the same room?
...and Paul and Linda McCartney arrive.
First laugh of the day. Good one!
BTW, it was a day like any other. We have been feed these stories that never pan out about how this, THIS, is finally the thing that will bring down Trump!
since the day he rode down that escalator.
How date Trump care about property rights. Those people are white!
1) Of course it's "far right" to care about injustices visited against white people. The enlightened good people only care about the plight of those with pre-approved skin tone.
2) My favorite part of who the song is about is how ironic it makes the refrain "you probably think this song is about you" because that person is right. It is about them.
When the trailer's rockin' Paul & Linda shouldn't be knockin.
Charlie Currie beat me to it, the resemblance is eerie. IMO, Simon has always been insufferable.
"Black and Blue" is when I realized the Stones were no longer any good.
Charlie Currie beat me to it, the resemblance is eerie. IMO, Simon has always been insufferable.
But the two No Secrets on that cover inspired a lot of us in those pre-Farah days..
that person is right. It is about them.
Yep, Carly sure seemed to fall for rich guys. "I ain't sayin' she's a gold digger, but she ain't messin' with no broke niggers."
President Trump has force the media to admit that the govt of South African is taking land from owners due to the color of their skin. The media has ignored this bit of governance, until President Trump. The talking heads have alluded to it, one black commentator even laughed about the murdered white farmers,"ha ha, whats it been a couple of white farmers have died? ha ha, a couple, really?"
Killing those whiteys, what a hoot.
Save the Boer! Bring them here.
I applaud SA for taking white farms. They'll starve to death, like they did in Rhodesia. They can't even keep the water running in Cape Town. The sooner they garner wha they deserve, the better.
Birches said...
How date Trump care about property rights. Those people are white!
Well it's not just property rights. They are murdering the farmers and their families, raping the women, torturing the children.
We should allow open refugee status to all SA farmers and their families, in fact to all SA Whites who are already in the early stages of being victims of a genocide. Unfortunately, the farmers can't sell their farms to move here; they are now worthless because of gov't action.
The president who has been best on African issues (in my lifetime, at least) was GWB. But he got zero credit for it from either side, so I can't blame Trump for benign neglect...
Australia is doing a lot for these farmers. I guess Australia is racist too...
So now it's racist to defend property rights, eh? Just like it's "racist" to notice that Mollie Tibbett's murderer/rapist is an illegal.
OK, then.
In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right.
Because it is true. Seriously. To my generation, Mick Jagger has always been an old man and yet there is something about him that is so incredibly sexy. Even now! It's ridiculous.
Tank said...
"Well it's not just property rights. They are murdering the farmers and their families, raping the women, torturing the children."
Of course they are. It's what they do. It's the only thing they're good at.
"alleged plight of white South Africans" I was in Namibia a month ago. One weekend during the visit there were 12 white farmers in SA killed; one of them was a friend and business acquaintance of the people I was staying with. The SA government has been quite open about changing the constitution to allow taking without compensation, and has recently decided to try taking some without even passing the constitutional warrant. The government was upset that the takings list was leaked. They wanted the element of surprise. Those people face ruin and death. So what the fuck is "alleged" about this? It's fact.
I suppose it will be largely overlooked, but the existence of those game farms in SA has been a huge factor in the recovery of species elsewhere poached to extinction. They will not long survive the ownership transfer.
In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right.”
That doesn’t say she turned him down, does it? Did she give him “Satisfaction”?
Strange thing, diversity being so good shouldn't there be a call to diversify 'black Africa'? Why is this 'white nationalism' (a rhetorical question I know)?
It's no "Chopping Broccoli".
"Trump tweets the word ‘Africa’ for first time as president — in defense of whites in South Africa."
Which, as a grateful Rhodes scholar, Isaac surely applauds, right?
"In her memoir, she wrote that “for Mick Jagger, all women, including me, were his, by divine right."
Cuz, when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.
So, who will get to Mick first, #MeToo or the Grim Reaper?
"Because it is true. Seriously. To my generation, Mick Jagger has always been an old man and yet there is something about him that is so incredibly sexy. Even now! It's ridiculous."
When you're a star etc. I mean, it's obviously not his body, his mind, or, God forbid, his voice.
It’s easy to predict the result of South Africa’s driving off the white farmers; circa 2000 Mugabe did much the same in Zimbabwe, and within two years the country was deep in famine. By 2015 Mugabe was pleading for the farmers to come back. South Africa will be no different, but this time the farmers will be dead and unable to come back, and perhaps this time the West will know better than to send relief supplies to bail out s terminally stupid government.
Cookie won’t believe this, but starvation on a nation-wide is not always capitalism’s fault.
"Cookie won’t believe this, but starvation on a nation-wide is not always capitalism’s fault."
Seeing that (small c) capitalism is an economic system and not a moral one (that's not a criticism of capitalism, only observing that it is incomplete. Morality has to come from outside it) capitalism is as far as I know almost never at fault (but a 'capitalistic' society might sometimes, partially, be (*)). The 'starvation' ex-colonial societies are the ones who went the socialist way, or who had starvation imposed upon them by 'progressives' (like a Pol Pot or an 'Uncle Joe' or the Kimmies). In general, starvation policies need political power concentrated to few people and capitalism, together with a moral society, tends to distribute power to many people.
Soemthing a Red Nazi like Cookie will never understand.
(*) thinking about the potato famine in Ireland and the 'laissez faire laissez passer' UK society of the time. Of course, anti-Catholicism didn't help.
They dont want the South African whites because they know they'll vote Republican.
‘But then Paul and Linda McCartney arrive’,is the ultimate humble brag.
Cookie won’t believe this, but starvation on a nation-wide is not always capitalism’s fault.
Indeed. I'm not a historian, but a quick scan of my memory, tells me 99.9% of those dying of starvation, was at the hands of the left side of the political spectrum of governance. That that was not intentional,(Stalin, Pol Pot, etc) were due to failed ideology (Valenzuela) There might exist a capitalist governance that is responsible for wide spread starvation, and I'm sure the smart commentators here that will enlighten me and others to those facts.
They'll wreck SA just like they did Rhodesia.
And it will all be ignored.
Australia is doing a lot for these farmers. I guess Australia is racist too...
They need people whose accents are even funnier than theirs.
When I need a good cry I read the last scene of Cyrano.
White farmers and their families have been targeted for murder and terror for years now, and it's escalating. I saw an interview with a woman in South Africa who is part of a cleaning crew that specializes in cleaning up scenes of murder and mayhem. One horrible aspect of the interview was seeing how exquisitely careful the women had to be in explaining what they do and what they've seen, in the sense that they had no real freedom of speech at all. I can't even bring myself to describe what she said was her most disturbing scene, where a twelve year old boy was tortured to death. Twelve years old.
It's no "Chopping Broccoli".}}}
One of our favorite bits by Dana Carvey! Our daughter was a toddler at the time who loved broccoli and so we would sing this to her but we changed the lyrics to "Baby Broccoli, she's Baby Broccolah, she's the Baby Broccoli and she's the baby that I see and she's the Baby Broccolah!"
Trump's tweet was about South Africa, so of course it had the word "Africa."
The relevant question is not whether he 's used the word "Africa" before; it's whether he's used the name of a country in Africa before (Angola, Benin, Botswana, etc.).
P.S. If he had tweeted about "Africa" before, they'd be accusing him of racism because he was making generalizations about a whole continent.
Back in the early 1960s Carly and her sister had an act, The Simon Sisters. It is alleged that they were traveling across the Atlantic on the same liner as Sean Connery. Connery proposed a Simon Sandwich. Carly and her sister declined. But Carly discovered later that her sister had hooked up with Connery alone that night. Allegedly, she was so disgusted that she soon ended the joint performing act.
Carly apparently overcame her disgust for one-night stands with famous men.
‘But then Paul and Linda McCartney arrive’,is the ultimate humble brag.
"Yesterday.....
Paul and Linda seemed so far away.
Now I'm hoping they don't plan to stay.
Oh, I believe in Yesterday...
Why they
Had to come I don't know, they wouldn't say.
Now our collaboration is done, and we can't play-ay-ay-ay...."
BTW, I haven't spent a lot of time in OZ in a couple decades, but at the time, it was the most racist place I had ever been. Of course the government had decided that the population needed to be much more Asian and was importing large numbers of Chinese to fill out the voter rolls, so that may have been part of it.
Carly Simon and Mick Jagger have the same lips.
Women are my divine right. True that.
Hussein Obama was born a Brit like me, that's why he was not a natural born Citizen, and not eligible.
Were you trying to conjure me up Althouse?
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