—apologies to Stephen Sondheim and “Send in the Clowns“
Should you be rich
Or a Wall Streeter
Hippies are milling around
Saying you should “care”
Send in the thugs
Diffuse protests
Trying to feed
An astroturfed sense of outrage
Against “corporate greed.”
Where are the thugs?
Send in the thugs
Counting upon a press willfully blind
The demagogue in the White House leads from behind
Hoping the street theater of a ragtag rabble will
Convince Congress
To pass his bill
But the students
With puerile pranks
Proved not to be quite enough, and so their ranks
Were swelled with thugs
With paid union thugs
You can see they’re here
It is to laugh
It is to deride
Seeing the elements with which
Our president’s allied
Here are the thugs
You knew there’d be thugs
‘Cause to him they’re dear
They had to send in the thugs because the clowns are too busy running the country (into the ground)
Excellent one, Buzz
Unions have evolved into one of the most useless anti american parasites around. A union member is someone who works against the welfare of the country.
And again no I don’t want to click here to subscribe to the Daily Digest by default. It’s the main reason I don’t get to PJ media regularly. I don’t like all the marketing forced on me.
Excellent and spot on, Buzz.
Unfortunately.
Against corporate greed but begging for corporate donations, lol. The #needsoftheoccupiers hash tag at twitter is rather amusing.
Send in the thugs.. don’t bother, they’re here! (In the White House.)