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Dear_Prudence

(1,208 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 10:50 AM Aug 2024

Weird, creepy, sleazy

One trick of promiscuous people is to call every partner "Honey" so they won't get caught forgetting a lover's name or calling out the wrong name. Trump, proudly promiscuous, is now using a variant of this tactic. He mispronounces Kamala's name to cover up his inability to keep names and pronunciations straight. For him, it has the added "bonus" of showing disrespect and labeling her as foreign. Trump is weird and creepy, but also so very sleazy. (David Allen Coe's song 'You never even called me by my name' triggered this realization.)


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Weird, creepy, sleazy (Original Post) Dear_Prudence Aug 2024 OP
Coe is a racist POS. Oopsie Daisy Aug 2024 #1
Did not know that but... Dear_Prudence Aug 2024 #7
Yes... I think I recall hearing someone say "never meet your heroes" so I guess * Oopsie Daisy Aug 2024 #11
Don't look up the bio of the painter Caravaggio Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #12
I just call him 🐔 now AndyTiedye Aug 2024 #2
Good idea! Dear_Prudence Aug 2024 #8
Copy-and-Paste is the Easiest Way AndyTiedye Aug 2024 #10
song was written by john prine and steve goodman onethatcares Aug 2024 #3
Yes! and here's one of the best videos ever of John Prine singing that song. japple Aug 2024 #6
Is this guy's name a parody of Edgar Allan Poe? tornado34jh Aug 2024 #4
I actually really like this song because Upthevibe Aug 2024 #5
the world's perfect country song rampartc Aug 2024 #9

Dear_Prudence

(1,208 posts)
7. Did not know that but...
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:39 PM
Aug 2024

Ever since I watched a movie about Jim Morrison (Doors), which made me see an artist I had loved as a teenager in a different light, I have avoided studying the background of artists I enjoy. I haven't watched the Elvis movie or the one about Queen for fear they might ruin the art for me. I think studying famous painters would yeild similarly disturbing results. So, thank you for the heads up. I won't spring Coe's songs on the unsuspecting again. But, truly, without much research, it would be difficult to avoid posting songs sung by wife beaters, rapists, child molesters, and racists. (I won't list them, but I stumble on this information about some other artists I have enjoyed).

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
11. Yes... I think I recall hearing someone say "never meet your heroes" so I guess *
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 04:11 PM
Aug 2024

* that also applies to reading / watching unauthorized and unflattering biographies.

As a result, I choose to remain blissfully ignorant about Willie, Loretta, Johnny, June, Tammy, Patsy... and a dozen more of my favorites.

 

Zoomie1986

(1,213 posts)
12. Don't look up the bio of the painter Caravaggio
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 11:39 PM
Aug 2024

Long history of violent behavior, including at least two murders.

Yeah, one can expect normal from the kind of guy who would create a self-portrait for a severed head:



AndyTiedye

(23,538 posts)
2. I just call him 🐔 now
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 11:02 AM
Aug 2024

cause he's too 🐔 to debate Kamala.

Feel free to cut-and-paste this emoji if you want to do the same. It is a Unicode character (U1F414) so you can use it on forums that don't have a chicken emoji like this one. It should even work on forums that don't have emojis at all.

Dear_Prudence

(1,208 posts)
8. Good idea!
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:45 PM
Aug 2024

I agree. "Chicken" describes Trump's character, so it is more apt than "sleazy", which only describes his behavior. I don't know how to insert unicode.

AndyTiedye

(23,538 posts)
10. Copy-and-Paste is the Easiest Way
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 03:26 PM
Aug 2024

You can copy-and-paste the 🐔 emoji from any message containing it (including this one) into your message, just like any other text.

onethatcares

(17,020 posts)
3. song was written by john prine and steve goodman
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 11:43 AM
Aug 2024

in a hotel room in the mid west. Neither were reich wingers. Sometimes a song is just a bunch of words to fill the b side of a record. Just sayin'

japple

(10,459 posts)
6. Yes! and here's one of the best videos ever of John Prine singing that song.
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 12:36 PM
Aug 2024
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tornado34jh

(1,532 posts)
4. Is this guy's name a parody of Edgar Allan Poe?
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 11:50 AM
Aug 2024

Listen, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the best writers, but I just had to ask if this is supposed to be a parody of it.

Upthevibe

(10,280 posts)
5. I actually really like this song because
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 12:05 PM
Aug 2024

IMHO it's out there in a fun way. It wasn't written by David Allen Coe (and it even says that in the song). It was co-written by very talented songwriter, Steve Goodman who was from Chicago (and was Jewish).

"Interest in Goodman's career had a resurgence in 2007 with the publication of a biography by Clay Eals, Steve Goodman: Facing the Music. The same year, the Chicago Cubs began playing Goodman's 1984 song "Go, Cubs, Go" after each home game win. When the Cubs made it to the playoffs, interest in the song and Goodman resulted in several newspaper articles about him. Illinois Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn declared October 5, 2007, Steve Goodman Day in the state. In 2010, Illinois Representative Mike Quigley introduced a bill renaming the Lakeview post office on Irving Park Road in honor of Goodman. The bill was signed by President Barack Obama on August 3, 2010." (Wiki)..

rampartc

(5,835 posts)
9. the world's perfect country song
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 02:05 PM
Aug 2024

i spent a night drinking with david allen coe. many years ago in a french quarter dive. of course we spent the night in orleans parish prison before my lawyer could come get us.

he calls sometimes when he is in town, but no more drinking for me.

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