At one of the Vermont against Vance protests (he’s skiing here today) pro-Trump counter-protesters tried to sing “America the Beautiful” but they couldn’t remember the words.
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Oh biglyful for smoggy skies
For failed fields of grain
For mined-out mountains collapsing
Onto the fruitless plain
America, America
God bless only thee
And put in camps
All immigrants
From sea to boiling sea
I saw that the boarish Nazi weasel had to leave the area and go to an undisclosed location. He should be hanging his head in shame Political whore, Hillbilly Hitler thy name is (J)ust (D)isgusting Vance
O beautiful for pilgrim feet Whose stern impassioned stress, A thoroughfare for freedom beat Across the wilderness! America! America! God mend thine every flaw, Confirm thy soul in self-control, Thy liberty in law!
They also reliably don’t know the words to the Star Spangled Banner, or the Pledge of Allegiance, or the Jewish immigrant-penned God Bless America, or any of the patriotic texts they hold as sacred relics
Same folks who cosplayed as founding fathers during the Tea Party era, conducting online forums to debate constitutional provisions, but now could care less about the Constitution and want to throw it out to give Trump unilateral power.
Maybe it should be our national anthem. Although I don’t know how I feel about the references to god, as we are a secular country and we have a problem with people denying that fact about our democracy and asserting that we should put god in our government despite the first amendment forbidding it.
I can't remember the words either because I absolutely hated being forced to participate in performative patriotism in school, and the instant that I was told in HS that by law I didn't actually have to do it, I sat the fuck down during the Pledge and deleted every one of those songs from my memory.
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Oh biglyful for smoggy skies
For failed fields of grain
For mined-out mountains collapsing
Onto the fruitless plain
America, America
God bless only thee
And put in camps
All immigrants
From sea to boiling sea
Sigh.
Stay safe.
I wonder if they even tried the national anthem or if they thought that song IS the national anthem?
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Let’s hope for a Sonny Bono..
I’m sure these were the same types shouting “dementia joe.”
Good grief
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