Weekend Open Thread

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1. Now, that's  the way to take down an autocrat.

   Korea's people filled the streets,  holding light sticks and singing K-pop songs from mega star YungKook to impeach South Korean autocrat Yoon Suk Yeol.  https://bit.ly/3VFRjNU

    

    

    

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   1. We need to plan what we will sing!

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      1. No question: Taylor Swift.

         Maybe "The Prophecy".

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         1. Hand on the throttle
            Thought I caught lightning in a bottle
            Oh, but it's gone again
            And it was written
            I got cursed like Eve got bitten
            Oh, was it punishment?
            Pad around when I get home
            I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope
            A greater woman wouldn't beg
            But I looked to the sky and said

            Please I've been on my knees
            Change the prophecy
            Don't want money
            Just someone who wants my company
            Let it once be me
            Who do I have to speak to
            About if they can redo the prophecy?

            Cards on the table
            Mine play out like fools in a fable, oh
            It was sinking in (sinking in, oh)
            Slow is the quicksand
            Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand
            Oh, still I dream of him

            Please I've been on my knees
            Change the prophecy
            Don't want money
            Just someone who wants my company
            Let it once be me
            Who do I have to speak to
            About if they can redo the prophecy?

            And I sound like an infant
            Feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen
            A greater woman stays cool
            But I howl like a wolf at the moon
            And I look unstable
            Gathered with a coven round a sorceress' table
            A greater woman has faith

            But even statues crumble if they're made to wait
            I'm so afraid I sealed my fate
            No sign of soulmates
            I'm just a paperweight in shades of greige
            Spending my last coin so someone will tell me it'll be okay
            Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh

            Please I've been on my knees
            Change the prophecy
            Don't want money
            Just someone who wants my company
            Let it once be me
            Who do I have to speak to
            About if they can redo the prophecy?
            Who do I have to speak to
            To change the prophecy?

            Hand on the throttle
            Thought I caught lightning in a bottle, oh
            But it's gone again
            Pad around when I get home
            I guess a lesser woman would've lost hope
            A greater woman wouldn't beg
            But I looked to the sky and said, "Please"

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      2. "Get Gone" by Fiona Apple."

         "I will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.

         I made a whole playlist for a certain unwelcome individual once.😼

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      3. Us old Dudes and Dudettes have a choice-

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDfAdHBtK_Q

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   2. I'm thinking about changing my handle to JungKook in solidarity! No comments, please

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2. As Rosanne Rosannadana would say "What's all this about Presidential Erections?"

   

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3. Nice touch making Trump's margin a mushroom. Thank you, stormy, for forever staining  our minds with the image of the presidential erection.

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4. FORMER democrat and Congresswomen Caraveo crossed party lines to kill the environment to help pass the Liberty Laundry Act. 

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5. WOTD: Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (H/T Brad DeLong)

   FDR speaking about Republicans at the 1936 New York State Democratic Convention.

   Let me warn you and let me warn the Nation against the smooth evasion which says, "Of course we believe all these things; we believe in social security; we believe in work for the unemployed; we believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die, we believe in all these things; but we do not like the way the present Administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them- we will do more of them we will do them better; and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything."

   But, my friends, these evaders are banking too heavily on the shortness of our memories. No one will forget that they had their golden opportunity—twelve long years of it.

   Remember, too, that the first essential of doing a job well is to want to see the job done. Make no mistake about this: the Republican leadership today is not against the way we have done the job. The Republican leadership is against the job's being done.

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   1. Yep – plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

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6. My latest – the power grid (trust me, the grid is very important)

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