Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 03:57:15 -0000 (UTC), Mike Van Pelt
<usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:

In article <20240915b@crcomp.net>, Don  <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

Rumor has it the attempt occurred shortly after Trump tweeted how he
hates Taylor Swift. Maybe Taylor Swift needs to be caged in the back
with the elephant?

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Was the would-be assassin a Swiftie?  Enquiring Minds (TM)
want to know.
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I don't know what my opinion of Taylor Swift's music would be.
I don't listen to much in the way of pop music, and just
the impages of the endless parade of Pop Tarts pretty much
repels me, so I don't care to hear what they're singing.
>
Though someone asserted that all her songs are about her
picking relationships with Very Wrong People, so maybe
her political endorsements are in character.

The movie, on DVD under a "copyleft", /Sita Sings the Blues/ [1]
suggests that such songs have a /long/ tradition in American pop music
(the Annette Hanshaw recordings are now about 90 years old).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Hanshaw>

And I suspect this is /not/ just two cases separated by 90 years. I
suspect a /lot/ of pop songs have the same theme.

[1] If you haven't seen it, you should. Ebert watched it (dragging it
out of a pile of DVDs sent to him in the hope he would review them)
because a friend recommended it, and Ebert then reviewed and
recommended it on National TV.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sita_Sings_the_Blues>
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