Posted on 05/24/2025 8:31:12 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
84 years ago today, Bob Dylan was born. At his Nobel Prize winning best, from 1961 to 1966, he challenged us to rethink everything with everything he wrote.
Donald Trump, born about 5 years after Dylan, in 1946, looks to me like he is just entering into a period of his Dylanesque best. Trump forces us to revealuate this modern world all the time.
Bob Dylan mastered and elevated American music twice to great literature in a few short years, first as a folkie but then as a great rock n roller. Potus 45 surprised everyone to come down a golden elevator and beat the former First Lady in 2016. In 2024, Trump was the victim of unrelenting lawfare but still beat the ridiculously senile Biden in debate and then beat the diversity hire Kamala Harris at the polls. (Dylan almost prophesied this: “Now all the authorities/They just stand around and boast/How they blackmailed the sergeant-at-arms/Into leaving his post/And picking up Angel who/Just arrived here from the coast/Who looked so fine at first/But left looking just like a ghost” from Just Like Tom thumb’s Blues, 1965)
With Trump, America has, finally, succeeded, metaphorically, in both 2016 and 2024, in electing Archie Bunker president. (Dylan: “The city fathers they’re trying to endorse/The reincarnation of Paul Revere’s horse/But the town has no need to be nervous” from Tombstone Blues, 1965)
“You’re fired.” Trump said one by one to many, many people across fifteen seasons of The Apprentice. (Dylan: “……. in comes Romeo, he’s moaning/“You Belong to Me I Believe”/And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend/You better leave …….” from Desolation Row, 1965)
Happy Birthday Bob.
Thank you, Bob, for showing us how to be free.
And thank you, POTUS 45 and 47, for making freedom fun again.
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"Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
And don't criticize what you can't understand.
Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.
Your old road is rapidly aging.
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand,
'Cause the times, they are a-changing."
Liberals love Shakespeare, too.
Rainy Day Women #45 and 47? Out of sight! (as we would have said back in the '60s). However, this was probably the beginning of Salvation Army rock.
Saved!--Lavern Baker (1961)
Del McCoury’s recording of “The Times They Are A’Changin’ is causing me to rethink everything.
“47 is Trump’s Sgt. Pepper.
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this is good cos IMHO the White Album and Abbey Road and the plastic ono band album and RAM WERE ALL BETTER THAN PEPPER
Dylan was a sad and philosophic balladeer in a time of intense action and upheaval. The opposite of Trump. Trump is more Peter Townshend.
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