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The King's Art [1]
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Date: 2025-02-15
By David Glenn Cox
For those following along in your text books. This is the point in the program where the artists begin to leave German, I mean the United States. The scientists and the doctors and actors and directors. Singed by the heat of preferred art or government control. Good on them! Let the Kennedy Center shut down and grow dark. Let the weeds grow in the parking lot. A pox upon any and all who would dare appear inside.
Like Woody sez, You can sing your own songs and better ones too! Anyone who could sell out the Kennedy Center could probably sell out the place across town. Woody Guthrie was once offered a prime time coast-to-coast radio show with only one catch. The sponsor controlled which songs Woody could sing. You know, the happy stuff! None of that depressing “I Ain’t Got No Home” stuff.
A national radio show like that could have set Guthrie up for life financially. It would have been the “smart” thing to do. Build up your notoriety and celebrity and THEN you can sing those “Union” songs! Woody walked out. They’ll never offer you this deal again! Woody walked the fuck out. Not no, but hell no! Not interested in the slightest, Woody hopped a freight train headed for California. It wasn’t the first time Woody got fired over censorship.
During the War, Woody was asked to sing at a banquet raising funds for war relief with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee. Baltimore being a segregated town at the time and Terry and McGee being Black were offered a plate in the kitchen, while Woody was given a seat at the center of the main table. I mean, it was for the war effort and all and that was just the way Baltimore was at the time. Woody, hearing of the seating arrangements flipped the table over. Saying, if we’re going to fight Fascism, let’s start right here! Woody’s last banquet invitation.
Woody’s song, “This Land is Your Land” was written in response to Kate Smith’s “God Bless America.” Woody hated Smith’s song as schmaltzy and artificial propaganda. AKA, government approved art. It was about blind patriotism and love of country with the accent on blind. No different really than the songs being sung in Berlin. We are so great! Nobody is as great as we are! We are so perfect we never need to pause and reflect on our actions, we’re always right!
It appears the last two government employees left standing will be Elon Musk and Winston Smith. Put your money on Smith. The King announces, it’s all arranged! He will meet with Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. Russians announce Putin might meet the King, but no final decision has been made. The King commands all to attend his peace conference in Munich. (Nice choice) Munich is actually famous for peace treaties. But the Russians are a no-show. And after the King commanded them to show up!
But what is going on really is very old. In the middle ages, when one King or potentiate squared off against some other King or Duke. They would appeal to the Pope or the King of France or Spain to intervene and settle the dispute. The King would demand an indemnity over the country seeking his help. Either gold, allegiance or sovereignty, You work for me now as my vassal. You’ll pay me three hundred pounds of gold every year and adhere to my every wish. Otherwise, I walk away and leave you to your fate.
Vladimir Putin does not wish to become a vassal of our King. Paying the Trump tax in gold or sovereignty each year. So, man about lamp posts Defense Secretary Foster Hegseth says. Yeah, and we might give Ukraine Nuclear weapons too!
Come on, tell the truth. That statement sounds like it was made by a guy who has tipped a few! His inhibitions sufficiently lowered to make a big bold irresponsible statement trying to cover up his feelings of inadequacy . The little man in the big job, out to show us how tough he really is. Yeah sure, give em nukes! That’s what we’ll do! Hick! Give em nukes! That’ll show em! Burp! How do you like them apples? Huh? Huh?
It was just a few months back when Vlad the derailer promised to place nukes at the disposal of Belarus. The American response was to call Putin a irresponsible madman! Foster (five o’clock somewhere) Hegseth makes the same deranged promise. And the news media just skips right on by to the weather and sports. This just in to our newsroom. The Defense Secretary makes the most outrageous and irresponsible over the top statement in this country’s entire long and storied warlike history.
The United States and Israel have decided unilaterally to end Iran’s nuclear program. Because that’s what tyrants do! 1816 was called the year without summer due to volcanic activity. 2025 will be known as the year without summer tourists due to the King’s activity. Already European and Canadian vacationers are canceling their American travel plans.
Vice de President Vance attends the NATO conference giving a big speech calling our allies a bunch of red headed assholes. The speech went over real good with the room. It’s unlikely Vice de President Vance will ever be invited or allowed to speak publicly to anyone ever again. Highs in the fifties with a chance of snow over the weekend!
The Administration’s plan was as simplistic as it is clear. To take the reins of power and put on a big blustery show. Mr. Know-it-all has got this stuff all figured out! He’s gonna huff and puff and BLOW your house down! This shit is easy, watch! You! You do A, B, and C! And you give up your nuclear program. Because we said so, that’s why. Gaza will become a Mediterranean resort with blackjack, golf and hookers! Ukraine will be allowed to win the war unless Russia surrenders her sovereignty to the King. Russia might be allowed to win the war, if Ukraine doesn’t sign over its 500 billion dollars in mineral rights.
Did you really think we would make it past February without talk of using nuclear weapons? They’ve been trying so hard to act so tough like they really have their shit together. And they’ve already balled it up but good! If pour another Pete Hegseth is not a drunk, well, you could have fooled me.
“In the shadow of the steeple, I saw my people,
By the relief office I seen my people;
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking
Is this land made for you and me?
Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.”
Woody Guthrie
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