“No Kings” playlist

For readers who protested today, some lyrics by Elvin Bishop during the first Trump dictatorship (album version on YouTube):

He is the president, but wants to be the king
Know what I like about the guy? Not a goddamn thing
I want to know, how can four years seem so long?
Yeah, Lord have mercy, what the hеll is going on?

Here’s an adapted version performed to the delight of a San Francisco audience after the

A 12-year-old’s comment on the above: “If the guy hates Trump so much why does he look just like him?”

We attended 100 percent of today’s No Kings protests in Jupiter, Florida and, thus, can proudly display the following meme:

I asked ChatGPT for some suggestions of appropriate classical world:

• Beethoven – Eroica Symphony (No. 3, 1804): Originally dedicated to Napoleon as a “hero of liberty,” until Beethoven tore up the dedication when Napoleon crowned himself Emperor.
• Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco (1842), especially “Va, pensiero”: The Hebrew slaves’ lament became a covert anthem for Italian independence from Austrian rule.
• Richard Wagner – Rienzi (1842): A Roman tribune rises against corrupt nobles and tyranny. (Note that, unlike Donald Trump and Elon Musk, Wagner is in no way associated with National Socialism/Hitler.)
• Béla Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra (1943): Includes a mocking “interruption” of a Nazi marching tune — a defiant gesture during World War II.

Related:

• A visit to Providence, Rhode Island (Part 1), in which we see the September 27 plans to do nothing to #resist the Trump tyranny until today