Dan the third

Naw, they just pay attention to the fact that white MEN were in charge, and their sad little religion was not questioned as much as today.
It just makes them look sad and weak, but they just can't seem to understand that.

So, MAGATs are just telling on themselves. They MUST actually want a Socialist state, right? Because, this is what we had in the halcyon days of yore they all crave...right? RIGHT????

It allowed our country to take the global lead in engineering, while providing enough time for people to enjoy their lives outside work. It demolished income inequality, raising millions out of poverty and into the suburbs.

Guess what that allowed: The Space Program. The interstate road system. The massive explosion in home ownership. Most of the other travel infrastructure that we currently rely on (and why so much of it is falling apart). It hugely expanded access to telecommunications and public education.

But here's the kicker: The top marginal corporate tax rate was 42% for all profits over $25,000 (~$400,000 today). The top PERSONAL tax rate was 91% on all income over $400,000 (~$5.4 MILLION today) filing jointly.

The other thing that time period had? FLAGRANT and pervasive SOCIALISM! GASP! Social Security was relatively new. The Federal Minimum Wage was relatively new. GI Bill...new. New housing costs and rent were strictly regulated.

What did that time NOT have? Bodily and financial autonomy for 50% of the population.
What did that time have? Rampant, systemic racism against just about any brown or black person.

Proof that the MAGA movement is all about racism and control, and not making anything "great":
These nationalists are pining for a time in the past when things were "better". When is that time? The 1950s.
End of story. That's it. Wait. What? You don't understand? Fine, I'll lay it out for you:

Even if the federal minimum wage had ONLY kept up with inflation, it would STILL be $10.81 today.

That's just a taste of how incredibly sick our current situation is.
#eattherich #nobillionaires #payyourfairshare

Intermediate to advanced clarinet students: If you don't have a copy of Paul Jeanjean's Vade Mecum du Clarinettiste, you should get one. If you think your finger technique is on point, work out of this book and learn that you have a lot of work yet to do.

It's fantastic!

Holy buckets. I had forgotten how fun the Bassi Rigoletto Fantasia was once you start getting it (back) under your fingers.

Now, if I can just match Corrado Giufreddi's tempo at the end (quarter note=172), I'll be ready to go for my next recital!

Looks like it's time to post a bunch of flag burning videos to Truth Social.
#firstamendment #nodictators #punchfascists #resist

Today's warmup was so bad, I feel like I need to do nothing but spend my life working out of the Vade-Mecum for the next week without allowing myself to touch actual music. Does my brain even remember that I have fingers that are supposed to work independently? It doesn't seem like it.

Bizarre freak accident:

Scanning REED 1 for "A Connecticut Yankee".
I removed the binding to use ADF.
Scanner is directly next to paper shredder.
Table of contents fell PERFECTLY in the shredder slot!
Bye bye, page.
WHEW! these books are all copies.

Scanner got turned off after that!

May your kidneys fail, your lungs collapse, your arteries clog, and your private insurance drop you like the sack bug riddled filth that you are.

Ahh, I see that you are one of those "taxation is theft" diseased dingle berries. Not only that, but you're an incredibly STUPID dingle berry that doesn't understand how taxation works at all.

I'm not going to get into that with an amoral, worm brained, fart cloud like you.

Get fucked.

No 💩 Sherlock. I know the math. That idiotic math comment shows that you think every cent made MUST be used to keep a family member alive. I'm not allowed to earn any money so that I can live, too. So, if I only make $60k/year, I'm fucking out of luck if I want to keep my person alive. Immoral.

Are you FUCKING kidding me? "Willing to"? You sanctimonious twat waffle. Willing to? Seriously? How exactly? Are you saying that I would have to earn $120k a year for my family member to be worthy of life in your eyes? We are supposed to be in life destroying debt to be allowed to live? Fuck off.

I have one thing to say to that: FUCK YOU, you ignorant human 💩 stain. My family member requires medication to STAY ALIVE. Without those drugs, their kidneys will fail and they will fucking DIE. Without Medicaid, those drugs are $5000 A FUCKING MONTH. That is AFTER private insurance. It's MURDER!

It's garbage beliefs like this why I only vote Democrat under duress. If we had Ranked Choice Voting in this country, I don't I would ever vote for any weak sauce Democrat.

If current elected Dems are not fighting the fascist coup happening right now, then they damn well BETTER be primaried!

🐎💩. I have family members that will DIE because of what the 🍊💩 and his fascist cronies are attempting to do.

This is not hyperbole. This is reality

🐎💩

NEXT!

That makes sense, because the DNC can't have anyone on their staff that actually DOES anything. 🙄🙄🙄

"Wah, wah, wah! I'm so weak and pathetic, and you showed the world that by actually doing something useful! Wah! How dare you?! Wah!"

What a dolt. Democrats can't "fight Republicans" without having elected officials that actually WANT to fight the MAGATs.

Question time! Give me your clarinet or saxophone questions, and I'll do my best to answer them. Have a playing problem you'd like help with? Let me know! Has there always been something bugging you about these instruments? I can help! Need advice as far as equipment? Ask!

Give me your questions!

Oregon Mozart Players

This week, I'm with the Oregon Mozart Players! I am honored to be included. This concert will present the winners of the young artist competition. OMP will also join with the Eugene Eugene-Springfield Youth Orchestras! So, I get to play with an old student as well!
www.oregonmozartplayers.org

The US was stress tested in 2016, 2020, and 2024–and it abysmally failed the test. No country on earth ever fell so far so fast. Unfortunately the damage though it may be mitigated can never be undone. The great book of the history of the US will end with a moron elected twice by a nation of morons.

Sunday, May 4th at 2:30!

Listening to Jimmy Bosch and his Salsa band was the absolute best choice I have made to maintain my sanity at my brainless day job today.
#salsamusic

I would much rather live next to anyone else... Immigrant, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, "illegal" or not, than live near any white christo-fascist nationalist.
#downwithfascism #nationalismisnottheway #punchnazis