Newt? I Thought He Was Dead.
Okay, it’s double humiliating when an aging Boomer has severed all ties to anything that happened after 1980.
Yeah, Newt has raised his goofy damn head.
Okay, I know who Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails are, but I didn’t know that’s who wrote it. However, I did know that Johnny Cash covered it in one of the last songs he did and it damn near breaks your heart. It’s one of the achingly saddest songs ever sang by Cash.
Newt Gingrich’s lack of knowledge about the world outside the Gingrich family hair, continues to entertain.
He don’t know crap and continues to.
Just reason #9.656 for Newtie to just go away.
1That was just wishful thinking on your part, dear JJ. The scaly old newt crawls out from under his rock now and then.
2Knewt desperately wants to renew his relevance and influence. When he opens his sound hole, though, he’s really trying to deflect from what he’s going to be remembered for. This cartoon shows what people remember about him. His closet is full of these (hope this opens to what I intended):
3https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://i.insider.com/4eca637beab8ead62f000002?width%3D1000%26format%3Djpeg%26auto%3Dwebp&imgrefurl=https://www.businessinsider.com/cartoons-berlusconi-and-veterans-day-2011-11&tbnid=qguACOpbkcJQmM&vet=1&docid=Oo7P7_03yJ3ByM&w=940&h=705&itg=1&hl=en-us&source=sh/x/im
Honestly, I think he’s been dead for years but Calista keeps hiding him from the undertaker because she needs the money.
I also know few people out there who don’t have at least one tat or other souvenir from their misspent youth that they might regret deeply. Or not, their business.
And depending on where said tat supposedly is, I just wonder how Newt Gingrich got to see it. I mean, really!
4Holy cow. Thanks for sharing that link.
5About the Noot, no argument at all. About the song, just a little bit. Reznor’s version is angry. Cash’s take joins a couple of other masterpieces: John Prine’s Sam Stone, and Marie by Townes Van Zandt. All three make you the hearer deeply sad if you have a soul, but the voices of the songs/narrators go beyond sad, through despair, and into the resigned acceptance of the grimness of life.
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