6 Comments
User's avatar
Earl james's avatar

tune of My Country 'Tis of Thee

Country Was to Thee

Sweet Land of Liberty

Now that is gone.

With all their hypocrisy

And their tidal wave of lies

It's hard to live our lives

From every mountain side

Let the truth spring free

With all those tyrants here

Their sycophants appear

And rush to coldly tread

O'r our brave patriots dead

And call them losers

Let tyrants have a their fit

It’s time they call it quits

Those boys are done

.

When will our land be bright

With freedom's holy light

Take back our land today

Our hearts know the way

.

Lyrics by Earl James

Copyright 2025

Expand full comment
Carl Selfe's avatar

We must stop the CR as it gives the President new powers to steal legally and to tax citizens in a way that puts the funds under Executive branch unilateral control. Give the purse to a felon? We must stop the CR. It gives the President new powers. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/fraud?r=3m1bs

Expand full comment
wangone's avatar

Ethnic Cleansing, Social Security and Medicare??

Trump knew the risks of covid before the pandemic gripped the nation in a chokehold and killed over a million of its citizens. His greatest fear was not the safety of our populace, but was the negative effect on his economy. So he downplayed the seriousness of the illness: said it would be over by springtime, like the common flu, suggested drinking bleach to kill the virus, advised that ingesting horse dewormer was safe and beneficial, and convinced his maga followers that receiving vaccinations could be more dangerous than the illness itself.

If it wasn't for President Joe Biden taking over our Nations response to the pandemic by following science and the advice of the medical community many more lives would have been lost. But now we don't have Joe Biden and his administration to deal with a another covid outbreak or a new more serious pandemic that can ravage death across our country and world. In just a few months of the Trump's administration, he and Robert Kennedy Jr have weakened our response for a future pandemic. If Trump had won the 2020 presidential election, the projected death toll from covid would have exceeded over 4 million casualties. With these two science deniers in charge of the next pandemic, our future will be grim and the success of our economy will be the least of our concerns.

Trump put thousands of lies at risk when he mandated that essential workers go back to their jobs to help save the sagging economy. When he and Jared Kushner learned that more blacks and Hispanics died from the covid than his white maga followers, it was justifiable to send them back to work. In the grand scheme, it was their way of reducing the number of illegals in the country and a form of ethnic cleansing.

Trump and his team of Musk and Kennedy have really put our countries health at risk. Musk has cut the government's programs that studies, plans, and prepares for future pandemics. Kennedy has not responded properly to the increasing measle cases. Trump's executive order will not require students to get vaccinations before attending public schools. Students, even though they may not show any signs of illness, can take this disease home and spread it to their family. We learned from the first pandemic that the old, sick, and frail are most susceptible to dying from the disease. In the grand scheme of things, the government will save millions of dollars because the dead seniors in this group will no longer receive their benefits for Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid progrms. That would make it much easier for Trump to provide his huge tax cuts for his ultra wealthy followers. Inexcusable!!!

This is Trump's plan to Make America Great Again.

Expand full comment
colby chester's avatar

POETRY is CLEVER but unnecessary at this point…better to lay it all out in good, old-fashioned PROSE.

Expand full comment
Earl james's avatar

We must fight on all fronts, including the arts. They can be more powerful than super pros sometimes.

Expand full comment
Marilyn A's avatar

Thank you! Yes, music throughout history has had a huge impact. I still love listening to Seeger, Guthrie, even Springsteen. They kept the story recorded for history.

Expand full comment