I hate that insipid song.
Posted on 12/03/2025 10:32:27 AM PST by Rummyfan
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We are fast approaching the anniversary of John Lennon's assassination on Dec. 8, 1980, some 45 years ago.
I remember that night very well. I was on my way home from my night shift at the Brockport, N.Y., radio station. A rather nasty weather night it was, too, snowing and blowing to beat everything. I stopped into a Wegmans grocery store in the wee hours of the morning. The store had just started staying open 24-7.
I was busy sipping coffee a buddy on the night crew had gotten for me from somewhere and checking out the magazine rack, when the rock station on the house speakers suddenly went silent. After much wheezing and clicking, the station joined what was obviously a hastily arranged network feed from their sister station in New York City, which was breathlessly reporting the story.
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I hate that insipid song.
Socialists don’t scare me. They’ve never been a big factor in U.S. history. Communists have had even less of a factor.
Progressives are the ones who scare me. I want to imagine a day when there’s no progressives.
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Lennon stated at one point (I believe in an interview with Playboy Magazine’s David Sheff in 1980) that "Imagine" is virtually the Communist Manifesto, even though he was fairly quick to qualify the statement, saying he wasn't a Communist and didn't belong to any movement. Then why write the tune with those lyrics?
Same here, insipid is exactly right.
but how would our elite, sanctimonious university professors continue to receive their gold-plated salaries/benefits?? /s
Imagine there’s no criminals, I wonder if you can.
So long as there are European progressives to copy, there will be American Euro worshiper copy cats
"Progressive" is just another word for Marxism (meaning Communist/Socialist). It has a softer edge to appeal to people such as yourself who don't know the truth behind the soft gauzy word.
Instant Karma finally got him.
As a side note to John Lennon - I have a friend whose family name was Chapman, he was a kid at the time, and his Dad was military, stationed in Hawaii
When Mark David Chapman (who moved to Hawaii from Georgia in the late 70s) shot Lennon, my friend’s family received numerous telephone death threats for about two weeks afterward, and even got calls from the local TV news.
They had zero connection to the shooter. More than a few idiots (including the media) just picked up the telephone book and started dialing anyone with that surname.
He can laugh about it now.
If Chapman shot Yoko instead, he’d be a hero.
To give you an idea about this girl, she actually went to London for William and Kate's wedding.
A true Anglophile....
John sure “imagined” no taxes, which is why he left Britain for the US.
I hate assassins and murderers.
Frank Zappa found out what kind of guy John was the hard way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbAt3P8S-AQ
“Progressive” is an attempt to remove the negative connotations from socialist and communist. It’s like calling abortion “reproductive health care” or calling transgender mutilation “gender affirming care”.
What’s the old joke….eight shots and he didn’t hit Yoko once?!
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