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Twitter gave him an ultimatum, any more bad behavior and he's banned. I hope tonight his cabinet does the same.

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There's quite a few that I've seen most of
Hitchcock I've seen about 35 of, though I only remember clearly about 30 of em. It's tough with the prolific ones...
I got through a lot of Anges Varda last year, but certainly not all.

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Yup. I kinda worry about a pardon for these guys though.

Trump. <-- we got emojis now?!

Insurrection was used by Romney and George W Bush. the Maga Insurrection... ok history, it's good to go

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I feel this historically lands near Shay's Rebellion or the Whisky Rebellion.

The Maga Rebellion.

Depressing that those were at the start of our democracy, less depressing that their suppression helped strengthen our nation. God.

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Boy were they into sentimentality. Well sung and fine in a Nilsson sorta way. But it's so constructed, the keyboardists and bassist and the only-occasional ace lead guitarist all have fun licks, but it's all they do, they don't move out of their comfort zones. Like the best and worst of studio music...

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Sentimental in all it's glory. In good and bad, in memories and in its performance. I'd have a hard time humming this on command (even tho that's how it starts and ends) but there's still a lot to like, and I ever increasingly relate to the lyrics. A song about adulthood that was probably a prom slo...

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I know his big defeat is coming today, but seemingly losing the two Georgia seats might be the true turning point in GOP's all-in on Trump. For years, maybe less maybe more, people will wonder the alternate reality where the GOP made it about being a conservative check on Biden and not get taken-in ...

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I thought I was being cruel to Be-Bop-A-Lula by having it face Don't Be Cruel in Round 1, but it's now in the lead!

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My issue is with anxiety, though I share some of these fears noted above. I had a series of panic attacks in 2005 that really set the template for the next decade or so. I'd get stuck in an anxiety spiral. There's an anxiety triangle my therapist taught me: Thoughts, Feelings, and Actions. And how t...

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I read, I think via-Dave Weigel, that the thinking is, if Trump retires Dems move on, but if Trump is still using up oxygen in the political sphere and aims to run again, they'll be pushing for consequences. It's irritating but I kinda get it. And as much as I've warmed to George W. Bush's emerging ...

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Good question. They definitely should. Back when impeachment was a fanciful dream and a disappointing reality, I noted that if Trump was going to be kicked out out, some senators will refuse because they want to scoop up his voters. I said the goal of these scoopers (Cruz and Paul I assumed but I gu...

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And we're onto the matches. I gave up narrowing to 24 songs so turned it into a true 32-match tourney.

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Switching to 32 let me add some Mahalia Jackson and Clarence "Frogman" Henry too.

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I'd love for an impeachment but I assume everyone just wants to run out the clock. Again, give Pense a few days at it. No doubt the Biden team bought a bunch of 46 memorabilia, so he can mess it up, really make the snowflakes cry. Pelosi just reelected speaker. So here's a ranking of the most likely...

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Then there's Hine-nui-te-pō, Goddess of night, who killed Maui by crushing him to death with teeth in her vagina.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hine-nui-te-p%C5%8D

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Great idea! From Moana got interested in Pacific Island religions... Maui seems available though it's debateable if he's a God.

Check out Pele the volcano goddess!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pele_(deity)

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Whoops skipped a match! Colors... I really like. Another kind of song I love. Only real soul song on here, live instruments, and positive lyrics. Also props to Grammys for highlighting a song that wasn't a hit nor huge with the critics. They are playing taste maker, and they did great selecting this...

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I like the song, for all it's silliness. I think part of the silliness is the point. King Kong rhymed with LeBron. And ping pong. And ding dong. Come on! It's well sung well produced and is silly. Maybe did them wrong putting the up against Dua Lipa, but someone had to compete against her. Disco ove...

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So part of why I put matches together is based on genre (like Dua Lipa and BTS both in the neo-disco milieu, though if you really want me to, I can switch out with Doja Cat to give it a chance) but a bit of it is to take down easy targets and replace them with more worthy stuff. No easier target on ...

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A real feeling of my summer head-space. Man to say "hell of a year" and it was just a few months into this. The feeling, the overwhelming anxiety, the endless thoughts, realizations and counter-realizations. Confidence and fear. "I'm just here to vent" but it's more too, "I'...

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Once Upon a Time ... In Hollywood Spoilers for a few Tarantino films within. Read a letterboxed review that was glad this wasn't a revenge pick like so many other of Tarantino's revisionist history films. But they're wrong, it's totally a revenge pick. Sure the other ones have characters seeking re...

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An easy call would be "WAP" isn't a song for me. I find it funny -- I think it's supposed to be funny. I find it rapped very well. I'm happy for their success. Happy for the song's success. I've liked Cardi B's previous songs and what I've heard from Megan too. It's a celebration of female...

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I've done Taylor wrong. I think I would have picked this song over all the other songs that lost in this round, and a few that won too. I haven't dipped my toe into folklore and evermore yet, but am excited to, if "cardigan" is any example. Also, many critics have not been picking "ca...

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I think my biases might play a bit here. It is not a shock that I related less to a song by two twenty somethings than to a song recorded by three guys in their 40s and one who recently turned 50? Dude, 50 year old Zack De La Rocha still got it. As for "The Box", it was a hit so it doesn't...

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To do a tiny bit of defending, their rating of likelyhood included a "what if there's a large polling error" -- though I think that included a large polling error that'd benefit Biden - I still think polling has a lot of explaining, especially in relation to the Margin of Error. It's prett...

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LOL. I like how I'm like "oh, I don't like being mean but..." and then you just throw fire and burn it all down. I think Grammys weigh heavily two things that regular critics try to avoid: popularity and lifetime achievements. Dynamite fits the first, and kinda fits the second one too, as ...

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Oh, I think Big Mama is going to be guaranteed a first-round-bye for 1953 http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/1953s.htm Looking forward to years like this where the gender and racial diversity are already baked in. For all that I love about the explosion of Rock and Roll, it really turned these lists...

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Hehe. I hear ya, especially on Dua Lipa. I do like the Yves Tumor song but can here your complaints. Prince could do weird and cool and still be warm. Dynamite vs Watermelon when I pitted them it was a closer race and I knew voting against BTS might sour me on these BTS Pride Radio boards (future sp...

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How did this turn into the music thread?

Loving the new embeds btw...

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A politico article came out with the leading candidates for 2024, and got a lot of anger for being too soon, but my feeling is that it's all too obvious. If I told you a president ran for reelection and lost, who'd be most likely to win the next election. It'd be 1. The winner - They won! They can r...

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Oooh, if your pick is Mahalia that's great. She was just outside a list I drew up, but had a hard time figuring out who'd she'd face. Like, there's nothing like her that was huge in 1956. I started the Elvis play-in game, and currently Don't Be Cruel is running away from it. My mother-in-law will be...

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Funky and soulful and weird and experimental, most importantly: fun. Prince-esque (where'd you go, sweet smilie), indebted to horn-filled funk but also very grungy. I get why critics and nerds like me eat this up. It's trying and succeeding at being cool. It should be a hit, and kinda get why it's n...

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I admit, since the main news out of the Grammys was The Weeknd snub, part of me wanted to make it easy for him to get to the final eight. But is me planning an easy route any better than the assumed backroom deals that lead to him getting snubbed in the first place? So I figured facing off against a...

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I Can't Breathe vs. The Bigger Picture. Both of these are epic pathos-filled primal screams at systemic racism. I like both, even though they can be hard listens. Whenever HER calls America out, calls me out (hoping for something that "validates your wokism and erase your racism" letting ...

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And we got a winner... now onto the Best Record of 1956! Here's a playlist of songs from that year, that I shared above but here it is again. https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXb2nCJdzD9Dj6XtQUapuOFDiHsPWDAAZ So cool, love these embeds. Let me know what's your favorite as it will sway my dec...

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The Savage Remix is the one with Bey. Here are all the songs in a playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXb2nCJdzD9DOrggi5ax_HUxPXXLyZrT- I think this is a good list. Gonna listen to these a few more times each and then start. Switched around the playlist again. justmewards 2020 (2).jpg...

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I'm becoming a Dua Lipa fan. I'm almost there, just gotta memorize a few more songs. I'm almost done assembling my 2020 song bracket justmewards 2020 (1).jpg Record of the year nominees get first round byes, then it's filled with Song of the year nominees, the big snubs, other songs that ended up as...

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Final match: That'll Be the Day vs. You Send Me https://mobile.twitter.com/justrewarding/status/1341798278485188609 Not a bad final, IMO. And if I redid the 5 nominees based on this it'd be: That'll be the day You send me All Shook Up Great Balls of Fire And then from the top 8, Wake Up Little Susie...

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Both matches were tied this morning, but a nice person retweeted it and now nearing 40 votes each and Buddy and Sam have moved ahead. I still haven't put my vote for Great Balls vs You Send Me. I think Cooke did better and Jerry never improved on this. I think I'll vote at the last minute, for the u...

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Added a few more songs I found listed as #1 of 2020 on assorted popular lists. Up to 22. Need two more to start a little poll here. Three more if we declare "Into The Unknown" a 2019 song, which I'm tempted to do.

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Haha I did vote against all of these songs at some point, except You Send Me. FYI I'm prepping 1956 and got it narrowed down to 56 songs. Here's my secret playlist... https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXb2nCJdzD9Dj6XtQUapuOFDiHsPWDAAZ Woah! Playlist embed!!! Starting to figure out what I want...

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We have a tie! That'll Be the Day tied with Wake Up Little Susie. Told Twitter I'm letting a friend who refuses to join Twitter to pick the winner, so Phoebe, you're the tie breaker! Go here to vote for the final four... or if you refuse to join Twitter tell me here. https://twitter.com/justrewardin...

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I forgot I abstained from the Jerry Lee Lewis / Little Richard match. I think Great Balls of Fire would be a solid pick to win it all but would also love to guarantee a diverse final. But, just for you, I cast my vote for Lucille. that said it still needs a few votes to catch up.

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Haha. Well Twitter you can mute certain people and certain phrases, and you can find groups, like these music groups I've found.

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She needs some help to stay in this, but even if she fails I'm glad there's a few other twitter users who are pro-Patsy here

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I thought the whole reason this site went down for a month right before election day was so that this topic would never come up again. Can't believe how scared he is of Russia. He's the annoying character in a TV show that never moves forward, always makes the same mistakes, always sabotaging others...

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Down to eight songs: That'll Be the Day vs. Wake Up Little Susie (nerd fight) All Shook Up vs. Walkin After Midnight (crossover hits) Great Balls of Fire vs. Lucille (wild piano rockers swoon over you) 'Round Midnight vs. You Send Me (jazz vs. soul, or a guarantee that there won't be just four white...

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Lol. An amazing genius annotation for that line: “Macaroni in a pot” is likely a reference to a popular Vine video by Mohamad Zoror from December 2014, in which his mother stirs macaroni and cheese in a pot and he says, “That’s what good p***** sounds like.” The more you know... Dynamite was nominat...

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