Drat! I left out one note.
…La, la, la, I’m not listening to reality!..
If the comment is ever approved, I’ll update it to correct that omission.
[Applause] You’ve got my approval!
This fan of The Sound of Music approves.
Yes! My lyrics, er, comment was approved, published, and I just updated it as follows:
“Doh! I screwed up my life. Ray, a golden piece of sunshine coming through the bars on the cell window. Me, a mo-ronic traitor. Fa, a note to follow me. So, what’s taking the real current president Trump so long to pardon me? La la la la I’m not listening to reality! T for Trump whose lies I believe because I’m incapable of critical thinking, which brings us back to DOH! I’m a dum-my who’s going to prison for a conman.”
The hyphens are in their to avoid Yahoo!'s automatic rejections.
As I said in MMP, I don’t understand Yahoo’s moderation. You can’t say ‘moron’; but my report of someone posting ‘nee ghur’, specifying hate speech and that it’s a racial slur, was rejected.
or, “La, the thing I broke to get in here”
I imagine Old Mrs. Algorithm doesn’t recognize it, for the same reason it doesn’t spot mo-ranic.
Years ago, some coworkers went to lunch at Showbiz Pizza, which had an animatronic band and an arcade (and I believe was bought out by Chuck E Cheese at some point).
One of the arcade games was some sort of spell and speak. You’d type in a phrase/word, and the head rodent would say it.
It had filters, and if you typed in “shit”, or “damn”, or “fuck”, it would admonish you and say “I don’t say that word.” He would, however apparently say “phuk”.
A U.S. Capitol rioter who spoke up in court to verbally attack federal prosecutors and the entire federal government was sentenced to six years behind bars on Friday for physically attacking police on Jan. 6, 2021.
“My whole dream of my life has been taken because people have different politics than mine,” Southard-Rumsey said
Yeah, that and the whole assaulting police officers thing. Sorry your ‘whole dream of your life has been taken’, but you really took it yourself.
Sitting before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, she added, per CBS: “I have grievances since they don’t listen to us at the polling place. They don’t listen to us little people in the regular world.”
‘I didn’t get my way! Everyone who thinks like me didn’t get their way! We had to try to overthrow the U.S. Government!’
“It’s not fair.”
Of course it is. You’re just stupid.
Prosecutors noted her threatening social media posts in the wake of the 2020 election, which included “HANG the TRAITORS!” and a message to “go to their work and home, pull them out by their teeth and hang them for treason!”
You sure you want that, Traitor? 
When I hear people say this, people that are of adult age, I think about a small incident in one of Heinlein’s juvenile, Tunnel in the Sky. Young people are preparing for a difficult survival test, and having a discussion with their instructor, a guy who is a real hardcase. One young man ends up whining that the test conditions aren’t fair, and the instructor fails him on the spot. He says that anyone who expects life to be fair isn’t ready for the test.
I’ve also heard people say that no matter your age you aren’t grown up until you realize life in general will not be fair.
Yes, but growing up I got this all the time from a conservative “parent” of mine, and the subtext was always, “Life is not fair and there’s nothing anyone should ever do to try to change that.”
“It’s not fair that black people are excluded from the opportunity to build wealth.”
“Life isn’t fair.”
“It’s not fair that we financed the overthrow of democratic governments in other countries to protect US political interests.”
“Life isn’t fair.”
When I was a kid, Republican adults thought I was cute, caring about other people and shit. They were confident I would eventually grow out of my empathetic phase.
Now they’re over here bitching about injustice that doesn’t actually exist. They’ve been playing a game rigged in their favor for so long, they can’t stand to see the playing field leveled even a little bit.
I do agree with what you are saying. That just because a situation isn’t fair doesn’t mean one shouldn’t try to change it.
I just think it’s funny to hear a Republican whining about unfairness when it was used as a cudgel to silence debate throughout my childhood.
My grandfather once told me, “Of course life isn’t fair. It is your job to make it fair…even when it is against your own self interest.”
When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
Good grandfather.
In the case in question, though, I think it was quite fair. The people at her polling place, and in her district, her city, her county, and her state did listen to her. They also listened to her neighbors, the folks across the street, the people across town, etc. Nothing could be more fair than that.
When all the votes were added up, more people voted for Biden than for Trump. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t fair.
I posted about her in post 8040. I like the encore though.
Lovely! In case you need a version of the parody that rhymes and scans, may I offer the following?
“Doh! / I’ve screwed- up my whole life,
Ray / my only glimpse of sun;
Me / a trai-torous maroon,
FA / and FO is what I’ve done;
So / fuck your “reality”,
La / la la, I simply know
T / for Trump will pardon me—
And that brings us back to DOH!”