Hakeem Jeffries, street fighter
The Minority Leader Hakeen Jeffires has issued a call:
Keep focused on the need to look out for everyday New Yorkers and everyday Americans who are under assault by an extreme MAGA Republican agenda that is trying to cut taxes for billionaire donors and wealthy corporations and then stick New Yorkers and working class Americans across the country with the bill.
That’s not acceptable. We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. And we’re going to fight it in the streets. Thank you, everyone.
Insurrection, anyone?
The Democrats have been doing this sort of thing for quite a while, and especially in the summer of 2020.
When I read the Jeffries quote, it conjured this up in my Boomer memory:
The Democrats are the party of the teachers’ unions, the trial lawyers, and Hollywood. They don’t give a sh!t about wage-earners unless they can build patron-client relationships with them.
Fine, fight in Congress, and courts ( you will anyway), but take to the streets is insurrection. Unless of course you destroy a Dem city, then have at it.
Gloves off then.
OK for them to say this, but let a Republican flash OK sign and it’s Hitler Time.
They can never back that statement up.
What tough guy. I’m shaking in my boots
Go ahead punks. Bring your fight to the streets. Make our day…
They keep doubling down on the stuff that has their brand in the sewer.
Hey, said my name is called disturbance
I’ll shout and scream
I’ll kill the king, I’ll rail at all his servants
–Rolling Stones, “Street Fighting Man” (1968)
That’s a great video accompaniment to the song. I liked seeing the lyrics. Somehow I’ve always heard “all his servants” as “all is purple.” Mondepurple? 🙂
The song was in part inspired by the riots in France and America. It was a controversial song at the time. Some radio stations refused to play it.
Jagger was supportive of the riots, though the lyrics are open to interpretation.
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What can a poor boy do?
‘Cept to sing in a rock’n’roll band…
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IOW, not be a street fighting man?
Keith Richards admitted the lyrics were ambiguous.
How about you hypocrites importing millions of unvetted illegal aliens and “sticking New Yorkers and working class Americans across the country with the bill”?
Grandstanding & gaslighting your way to fame & fortune ain’t gonna cut it anymore, hakeem.
What if there was a street fight and nobody showed up?
huxley
That’s a great video accompaniment to the song. I liked seeing the lyrics
My reaction also.
Keith Richards admitted the lyrics were ambiguous.
The video is also ambiguous. It wasn’t all lefty. There were signs for “End Hanoi Sanctuary” and “Fight Communism…Red Termites.”
Speaking of “fighting”–or shall we say “street theater”— two can play the game. The following may result in some street theater that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson may not like. Two Illegal Aliens Arrested over Brutal Murder of 63-Year-Old Man in Chicago.
Just think of what a couple of people who didn’t like the above consequence of Chicago being a Sanctuary City could do to disrupt a City Council meeting. I predict Hizzonah da Mayah, who may well regret calling Chicago a Sanctuary City, will be kicking the public out of City Council meetings in response.