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The Least Popular but most Necessary Song for 2023: “Suck it Up”

Posted: August 5, 2023 by datechguy in culture, fun
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If you want to understand the difference between the traditional culture of the American right and the culture of grievance that rules today of the left consider this song:

♫ I went to my Grandfather and told him I was mad
My parents make up stupid rules and they don't understand
The man from the old country said "Son don't you be a chump"
If things aren't just the way you want you've gotta suck it up!" ♫

♫ Suck it up!  Suck it up!
You do not realize your own good luck ♫

♫ So when things aren't how you want em, and you think your young life sucks
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up ♫

♫ I was talking to my Father, said work is kinda sad
My boss constantly leans on me and the money it is bad ♫

♫ My father he just grinned at me said: "Welcome to the club.  
until the day you're filthy rich you gotta suck it up" ♫

♫ Suck it up, suck it up
Your work is how your family gets their grub ♫

♫ So if when work is not the greatest and you fell like you're just  fucked
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up ♫

♫I sat down with my brothers and said" I'm all depressed
My wife won't lay a hand on me and all my kids are pests" ♫

♫ My brothers they all grinned at me like men who heard enough. 
"All families have their problems so a man must suck it up."
Suck it up, Suck it up
You're not the only guy who is hard up" ♫

 ♫ So when family becomes a burden that's when you must man up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just go suck it up ♫

♫ I said to Fr. Robert "I want some sympathy"
"When bad stuff happens to me no one ever shows pity" ♫

♫ My pastor with a kindly look said "Remember well my son
When Christ was hanged upon the cross he choose to suck it up" ♫

♫ Suck it up, Suck it up
The world it is designed to trip you up ♫

 ♫ ”When suffering when you should not you're are like the holy one
Don't whine and complain do it Christ's way you just go suck it up
Don't whine and complain or act insane you just.. go.. suck... it... up ♫

♫ Suck it up. ♫

I suspect this song would be very popular with my parents and grandparents generation but the very concept of it would cause the college students of today to reach for emotional support stuffed animals.

If you need to know how the tune is paced and have a strong stomach here is how it is supposed to sound.

WARNING!: Taylor Swift I’m not.

What Will We Do With the Gift Donald Trump Has Given US?

Posted: August 2, 2023 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, culture
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Andrew: most of us go through life with blinders on, madam. Knowing only that one little station to which we were born. But now you, madam, on the other hand, had the… rare privilege of escaping your bonds for just a spell. To see life from an entirely new perspective. How you choose to use that information, madam… is entirely up to you.

Overboard 1987

At Hot Air David Strom bluntly says it aloud:

In less than 1 week the administration has shredded the already tattered reputation of the Justice Department.

  • Last Wednesday a US Attorney tried to convince a judge to give what amounted to a plenary pardon to Hunter Biden for all crimes he had committed in the past.
  • On Thursday Donald Trump was indicted yet again.
  • Then Sam Bankman-Fried was let off the hook for funneling $90 million of stolen funds into the pockets of Democrats.
  • Then the Justice Department demanded a judge jail a whistleblower who has revealed that Joe Biden was deeply involved in Hunter Biden’s influence peddling.
  • Then the FBI reveals it contracted illegally with a spyware firm…
  • And on Tuesday Donald Trump got indicted yet again.

As I said, they aren’t even trying to pretend they are anything but corrupt tyrants who are convinced they can get away with anything they want to.

The infuriating thing is that they are right.

You see for a long time the deep state has been slowly boiling the frog in America and slowly moving toward a uniparty neo-feudal system whereby the connected in the world may do all (read Epstein & his clients) slowly but surely they were moving things. Their great advance was in the Obama years when under the dazzling light of the chosen one many foot soldiers of their cause found their way into government service.

The election of Trump so shook these people and his potential re-election shook them even further. In normal times they would have just put things on slow motion and waited for the worm to turn but he shook them to the point where they went all out to destroy him fearing all would be exposed and ruined.

The irony of course is they misread him. If they allowed him to accomplish what he wanted and helped a little they could have taken partial credit and then once the eight years were up continued on their path without any loud noises of warning. Instead by going all out they frankly caused all of these things to come out in the open and exposed who and what they are to the American people. Why if it hadn’t been for Trump people would still think Merrick Garland was a squishy moderate.

The real gift of Trump has been to bring all of this out in the open. That is the key. Now none of it is hidden and we as a society must decide which path we take.

Without Trump we don’t get this choice, may it be a wise one because the fate we choose will be the one we deserve.

Closing thought: I’d like to remind everyone that

Rejecting the left’s attempt to subvert justice and the electoral process

and

Deciding someone other than Trump would be the best GOP nominee

are not mutually exclusive.

Five Thoughts Under the Fedora: Ayotte Ok, The Countdown Continues, That explains it, So does this, Channeling Lincoln in Foxborough

Posted: July 24, 2023 by datechguy in culture, election 2020, election 2024, elections, nfl, politics, Sports, under the fedora
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Kelly Ayotte is running for Governor in NH. It’s my opinion that she was one of the few victims on 2016 because the left knew they needed the same kind of “help” in NH that they later arranged in 2020 in counties from Arizona to PA.

My friends at the Grok are underwhelmed but my thought is she was an OK Senator and would certainly be a better governor than any Democrat out there, neverayotte folks not withstanding.

On a personal note Ayotte always gave me time and never ducked a question I asked, again the Grok guys know NH better than me but I’d take her for Governor like a shot over who we have in MA.

There are four days left if you want a sub from mighty subs in Needham MA as they prepare to close their door after 33 years.

My advice if you want to avoid lines and the risk of them running out of bread which happened every day this week. Get their by 7 AM or 8 at the latest. Believe me they’re worth it and you only have four more days.

Here is my video from 11 years ago

Mighty subs in year 22 of 33

Saw a tweet at instapundit that I had to answer, that tweet and my answer explains a lot.

People with power do what they do for a reason.

Speaking of explanations:

https://twitter.com/giftgab538/status/1683072436210921472

I always thought that it was interesting that the same folks who were attacking and censoring people like me who say election 2020 was rigged and stolen never had the thought of demonstrating that the counts and the ballots were on the up and up, which is what you do if you have run a clean election that someone questions.

I submit and suggest there is a reason for this.

Finally I’m really getting sick of the “Replace Bill Belichick” chorus on talk radio lately.

Now I confess I don’t know if Bill has a plan to get back to the playoffs or the superbowl or just to last long enough to get the all time wins record but I do know two things.

  1. Barring a lot of luck and major injuries all over the league nothing he could do in the next three years will get this team back to the Superbowl
  2. There is not a better coach available that has even an outside chance of achieving that goal in the time frame I just mentioned.

I’m reminded of when a newspaper editor came to Lincoln demanding the removal of General George McClellan Lincoln asked him who he thought should replace him, he received the answer “Anybody” and Lincoln replied that anybody might be OK for him but he needed SOMEBODY.

Until I get a name who can do better I think I’ll stick with Bill.

Bud Light, CMT boycotts betray a New York problem

Posted: July 23, 2023 by John Ruberry in business, culture, media, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
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By John Ruberry

Another company, this time the CMT Network, finds itself in trouble by angering its base by going woke. Now both are facing boycotts. The Bud Light one has been devastating for what until recently was America’s best-selling beer.

Last week, CMT, whose core audience comprises of country music listeners, pulled the video for Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town.” The song, which was released in May with no controversy, decries the pro-criminal sentiments celebrated in big cities, like New York City, where CMT is headquartered, and it shows BLM and Antifa riot news clips as Aldean croons.

That was too much for CMT. 

Country music fans lean right. I am one of them, although I favor the Americana genre over mainstream country. Country listeners are likely to be the men and women who repair your car, service your air conditioner, or build your home. They may not have Ivy League degrees like Bud Light’s vice president of marketing, the on-leave Alissa Heinerscheid, but these “deplorables” are not dopes. And they aren’t Manhattan-style know-it-alls. 

I imagine, until the Heinerschied-led marketing debacle with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney, many country music fans drank Bud Light. 

As of this writing on the evening of July 23, Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” is the number one song on iTunes and it has been viewed 15 million times on YouTube. 

For Friday’s CMT Music 12 Pack Countdown, Aldean’s massive hit was not among the dozens of songs nominated for the final cut. 

Clearly, CMT is as out of touch with its consumers as much as Anheuser-Busch and Bud Light are.

CMT has Nashville offices but as I mentioned earlier, it is based in New York. Anheuser-Busch has its headquarters where it was founded 171 years ago, in St. Louis, although it is now owned by Belgian firm InBev. 

But Anheueser-Busch’s marketing offices are in Manhattan, where Heinersheid lives.

Would things be different now for Anheuser-Busch if Heinerscheid and her marketing geniuses were instead based in St. Louis? And while no one is coming forward from CMT claiming credit for pushing the “kill” button on Aldean’s video, my guess is that the decision came from someone at their New York headquarters. 

The anger that brought forth the Bud Light and CMT boycotts are byproducts of elites who are isolated from the consumers they are supposed to be experts on. 

Can these brilliant minds do their jobs from places like St. Louis? Nashville? Of course, they can. As they can in Cincinnati, Billings, and Oklahoma City. You know, medium-sized cities. To be sure, they’re not Aldean-favored small towns, but these other cities are filled with less sophisticated types than the “betters” that you find in New York City.

Oh, there are telephones, computer lines in those smaller cities. And there is this thing called Zoom.

However, Bud Light did farm out the Mulvaney campaign to an advertising agency thousands of miles from Manhattan.

It was to a firm based in suburban San Francisco.

John Ruberry, who regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit, was a bachelor’s degree in advertising from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He’s pictured here at Penn Station (correction Grand Central Station) in New York.

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