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A mash-up of Mitt Romney’s “greatest hits” and Mose Allison’s Young Man Blues. — altered a bit to fit tone of national discussion on greed and vulture capitalism.
And, yeah, it’s funny. So laugh already.
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Comic book word balloon funnies, too. Sort of like the old ads to buy stuff that would keep sand from getting kicked in your face at the beach.
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More on the Alex Jones-like cult devotion to Ron Paul in 2011 tunes written for and about him. No one else, not even pop star celebrities, comes close. The best exude sly bits of humor in the lyrics, a rare commodity in the Paul legion. It’s a demographic so sincere in belief its default position is always closer to the dour than the joyful. Paul’s apocalyptic predictions of what will happen to the country also draw survivalists and end-timers. Like him, they strongly value the hoarding of precious metals and the building of bunkers.
This lady name checks “Aden-hauer” [sic] and Charles de Gaulle!
An tongue-in-cheek almost perfect adaptation of the old classic, “Downtown.”
Lyrics:
Ron Paul, he’s really not that old
Ron Paul, he’d rather pay with gold
Ron Paul, he’ll open up the fed
Ron Paul, drinkin’ raw milk in bed
This young fellah is trying out a poor man’s Woody Guthrie/Pete Seeger/Hank Williams soft sell approach. I like it.
Horribly unappreciated at 40-some views. If you sent them 10 dollars for every view it still wouldn’t pay for the love and money they’ve put into the Paul campaign.
Even death metal bands with Cookie Monster vocalists love the Constitution and sound money.
Lyric:
“When they’re talkin’ shit about Ron Paul, they’re walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me/I would suggest they shut their trap before they lose all their teeth …”
This appears absolutely true.
This is an adaptation of a Scottish fighting/dancing tune but, for the life of me, I can’t recall the title now. Check back later.
“I bet there is nobody singing about that douchebag Newt Gingrich,” writes one commenter under one of the many places it’s been uploaded to YouTube.
A rootsy hippie-ish folk lilt. Right now there’s probably someone singing something like this at a coffee house open mike near you. And I bet they’re mentioning freedom, liberty and something bad happening to the Fed. Go check, I’ll wait.
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H/T to Pine View Farm for the heavy lifting.
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The above is a Google/YouTube analytics shot of where the listens/views for “The National Anthem,” my Predator drone tune, come from. US is #1, obviously. Afghanistan is #2. Heh. Sometimes small curious presents come in the guise of statistics.
Now I’m not into much belief that the Taliban and civilians in the countryside have the most broadband connections for idle surfing.
Which leaves our guys, the men who call for the drones, stumbling across it. Or people in for the Karzai share of national loot.
“If you have gold and your ass don’t smell; We won’t bomb you straight to Hell”
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Guitar Player magazine has bowed to the inevitable. The issue now on newsstands features a cover story on affordable guitars for the rock n roller. With one exception, they are all made in China or Indonesia. The outlier is manufactured in Canada and is on the high end of the price range the story dictates, instruments under $500.
All the guitars are either licensed American designs, copies of US designs, or fundamentally based on old US models. Many of them are made under American brand names, companies which now manufacture more in China than they do domestically, where production is relegated to high end custom pieces for the artisan (read wealthy snob) economy.
The magazine is a bit tortured by the turn of events, as evidenced by loud assertions in the introductory ‘graphs on how every guitar was rigorously tested for quality in workmanship by its reviewers. But its editors now well know that the buying power of a great deal of its readership, being American, is either destroyed or seriously impaired. (No link — GP magazine does not put publish its features on the web.)
And the only instruments average readers can afford are those made in China.
Then there’s this article, today: Chinese Hack Into US Chamber of Commerce, Authorities Say
There is a bit of delicious irony here. The Chamber of Commerce being a trade lobbying group which represents so many of the large multi-national corporations which have mercilessly downsized American jobs, for the sake of cheap labor in China.
The hacking story is not novel. There is nothing new here, just the usual revelation that Chinese spying operations are aimed at everything.
Although true, most of the quotes — taken from the usual officials — take on a laughable quality, considering how much has already been either carted off to China, or ceded to that country, simply for a corporate shareholder’s grasping benefit.
For example, this from 1 percenter Richard Clarke — notorious for his love of 80 buck white wine, still made in America:
“I don’t think the Chamber of Commerce has anything worth stealing, but it’s part of a pattern of the Chinese stealing of everything they can, and that’s worrying,” Clarke said.
“You stack all of that up and I think there’s a case to be made that this may be the greatest transfer of wealth through theft and piracy in the history of the world and we are on the losing end of it,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
“This is a national, long-term strategic threat to the United States of America. This is an issue where a failure is not an option,” said Robert Bryant at the National Counterintelligence Executive.
National long-term strategic threat. The greatest transfer of wealth in history. The sound you can’t hear in cyberspace is DD’s loud horselaugh when reading the pompous piffle of miscellaneous hypocrites and shoeshine boys.
Nice drink, not made in China. I heard about it from the famous cyberwar plutocrat.
This video of Ron Paul, put together by TPM Think Progress, put a bopping electro-beat to strung together excerpts of the GOP Presidential candidates’ declarations that, well — everything in civil society, is unconstitutional.
The wee bit of music was subtle but effective, perfect for the imagery.
And it got me back onto a sampler I’d considered months ago, one dealing with the phenomenon in which Paul supporters write lots — and I do mean lots — of tunes recommending their man.
No other Republican nominee enjoys such a thing. And certainly no one on the other side of the line in the Democratic Party, not the President, nobody, comes close, either.
There is the big name, Aimee Allen, who recorded the official/unofficial “Ron Paul Anthem.” It’s the leader of the pack at about half a million hits on YouTube.
But it doesn’t capture the grass roots feel of the virtually countless homespun like-minded efforts uploaded to the web by Paul supporters. And while the glassy-eyed enthusiasm can be a bit frightening, there is no denial of the sincere fervor on display.
If you ever thought that singer/songwriters might be a little wary of putting lyrics about “sound money” and ending “inflation” and the Fed into something that must be sung with conviction, think again.
There’s no shortage.
Here then, a brief selection of American folk tunes on Ron Paul. And everyone wants him to be President.
Sprightly hot stuff with a light sense of humor, DJ von Mises, has uploaded many pro-Ron Paul dance tracks to YouTube.
Von Mises takes his name from the dead Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, whose economic theories form the core of Paul-ian monetary policy. That they’ve all been proven disastrously wrong by the current mess is really beside the point here.
And while the tribute inherent in using the name von Mises may be lost on random listeners, to the true believers in Paul it is exquisitely resonant. (Update: Sadly, von Mises pulled this number from YouTube soon after DD linked to it. Who knew the sound money folks could be so touchy? The world’s pleasure awaits but if being a hermit is your thing, who am I to argue?)
Ron Paul will end inflation, she sings. There isn’t any inflation to speak of but it hardly matters. She is so cute, along with the soft-peddled off camera antics, even the slight lithp at the beginning works.
“This is a song I wrote this song [sic] for Ron Paul to give any help I could towards bringing our troops home and ending the federal reserve,” writes the artist on YouTube. I would never have suspected such a person to be against the printing of fiat money.
Lyrics: President Ron Paul, how the words sound good together.
Standing for liberty, sound money and peace. Healing
our nation from big government disease.
My favorite, next to the TP Paul video. (Everyone else is number 3, or lower.) The jaunty train rhythm is really hard to beat.
If you drill down through the related videos recommended as these end, you’ll begin to grasp the size of the Ron Paul Music Machine. You’ll be delighted by it. Or you could feel need for a bit of aspirin.
Krugman today:
It’s time to start calling the current situation what it is: a depression. True, it’s not a full replay of the Great Depression, but that’s cold comfort.
Art for all the songs I’ve put on YouTube, done months ago.
Depression or Great Depression, minor details to those stuck in it.
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Redone after a couple years. Faster, harder, niftier guitar.
It’s OK for you to laugh. C’mon, don’t be a sourpuss, at 2 measly minutes, it’s funny.
A DD blog No-Prize if you can date and place the tune, which is a cover.
I need you to “unfriend” me if this doesn’t make you laugh and tap the foot.
Ye New Olde Tip Urn
And I can make the .wav available for those who want to carve a CD EP something. Just send an e-mail.
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