A MOST SIGNIFICANT ELECTION
A MOST SIGNIFICANT ELECTION
Some Notes, Videos and Songs Before You Vote | october24.2024
The election coming on fast will set the course of your life and mine, between us being ruled by a man hungry to be a tyrant and thirsting for retribution, contrasted dramatically with the seasoned, principled leadership of Kamala Harris. Given these stakes, I am re-posting below the last three episodes from my NotesBeforeYouVote.com election series, featuring impassioned, informative election-related short videos (with related election content at the companion website). Free subscribe at the link for further episodes, including some more pointed tuneage to come in our Election Season Song Series. ~ Douglas John Imbrogno
EPISODE 9 | ELECTION SEASON SONGS | ‘Only Up (Election Day)’ | CLICK TO VIEW
Past episodes of NoteBeforeYouVote.com have showcased: severe condemnation of Donald Trump by some who worked most closely with him ; profiled the value-free, billionaire sock-puppet politics of JD Vance; pondered Donold’s’s obvious, increasing mental deterioration; considered TrumpWorld’s terrifying denial and refusal to come to grips with the climate crisis; and even lifted up an op-ed anti-Trump limerick or two.
But what about a song or two concerning what’s at stake, America? We already featured the fabulous Stevie Nicks and her stirring musical sermon “The Lighthouse” from a recent ‘Saturday Night Live.’ Yet with EPISODE 9, we commence a new ‘Election Season Song Series’ that is closer to home. My home, at least. Paul Callicoat is a fabulous West Virginia singer-songwriter and one of the state’s finest lyricists and turners-of-musical-phrases. Paul’s soulfulness and heart is all over his music. The song featured above, ‘Only Up (Election Day)’ is no different.
READ ON FOR MORE ABOUT PAUL AND THE LYRICS TO HIS SONG (and free subscribe for notice of future episodes in this series)
EPISODE 8 | ‘When Politics ‘Trumps’ Love’ | CLICK TO VIEW
I was so struck by the words featured in the video above, which my friend Mark Swiger posted recently to Facebook, that I asked if he might read them for ‘NotesBeforeYouVote.com.’ He deferred to me reading them. And, so, that is the genesis of the video above — EPISODE 8 in this ongoing series of short videos aimed at voters who may still be on the fence or thinking of sitting out what is likely the most consequential election in America’s history. View the video and pass it on to any friends, family, acquaintances and others for whom its heartfelt, yet straight-talking message may resonate.
READ ON FOR MORE ABOUT MARK AND THE TEXT ABOVE
EPISODE 7 | ‘The Conspiracy’ | CLICK TO VIEW
Given the complete capitulation of the Republican Party to Donald Trump with scores of spine-free party operatives bending their knee and kissing the ring (as well as other parts of him), it would be far more accurate to re-christen the GOP the ‘Trumpublican Party.’ It also grows increasingly more difficult to recall the sanity and insights of any accomplished Republican political figures, most notably someone like Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose words are featured in EPISODE 7 of NotesBeforeYouVote.com.
EPISODE 7 features excerpts from one of the most bizarre campaign meltdowns by Trump in a campaign chock full of them. He stops a supposed town hall devoted to questions by voters with the line “Let’s just listen to music! Who the hell wants to hear questions?!?” Is he bored? Is he beset by an episode of rotting brain freeze? Does he need to go back to his room, pop a Diet Coke, and watch reassuring footage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot?
Meanwhile, if you follow the campaign coverage on X/Twitter by progressive media critics, the New York Times has been relentlessly pilloried for ‘sane-washing’ Trump’s increasingly unhinged appearances. Their stories make him appear to be far more cogent and on point than what human beings at his events report him to be.
The Times also has never deeply delved into pressing questions about Trump’s mental deterioration, especially given the paper-of-record’s wall-to-wall — often inaccurate — coverage of Joe Biden’s supposed mental degredation. Yet this recent story above was among the first to focus on Donald Trump’s ongoing deterioration and increasingly volatile, ever darkening musings — which have earned him the social media ding of ‘Donold’:
READ ON FOR MORE ABOUT TRUMP IN MELTDOWN MODE
P.S.
A cartoon for the road …
