“480 Minutes” - R.I.P. Mani

Nov 21

Yesterday Stones Roses & Primal Scream bass player Mani died at age 63. Rest in peace Gary Mani Mounfield.

This week the President of the United States called for sitting members of Congress to be executed by hanging. Their offense? Calling on the military & intelligence communities to do their duty to not execute unlawful orders. I expect that those on oh President Poopy Pants’ hangin’ list didn’t expect to have to add “duty to not execute us” to their statement.

The sleepy thin-orange-skinned corrupt lying stinky turd is probably thrilled to have this distraction hit the news cycle taking eyeballs headlines & clicks from his real fear: the pending release of (sure to be Sharpie™ redacted beyond recognition) Trumpstein files, plus the furor over the baseless military invasions on U.S. cities & unconscionable abuses of U.S. residents (citizens & non-citizens alike) by ICE & Border Control (can someone remind me which foreign land North Carolina borders?), the blatant transactional corruption of replacing the East Wing of the White House with the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom paid for by absurdly wealth & well-connected conscience-free elites who will benefit wildly from administration policies, the escalating unaccounted for murders of humans on speedboats, the blatant fluffing of & lying on behalf of the murder-by-bonesaw brutal dictator of Saudi Arabia whose kingdom’s oil riches have clearly bought him a President, & of course kitchen table issues like utility & food prices continuing to rise despite the promise to end inflation & price-gouging “on day one.”

Thrilled for now, but this is one anti-democratic outrage that even jellyfishiest GOP congress critters can’t possibly ignore. Except House Squeaker Mike Johnson & the dishonorable representative from Louisiana Clay Higgins, the one member of congress whose cowardice prevented the Pedophile Papers release vote from being unanimous.

Today’s show will feature a metric ton of new 🎵 by Austra (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, @AustraIG), The Belair Lip Bombs (Melbourne, Australia, @LipBombs), Big Bill (Austin, TX, @BigBillBand), The Boojums (Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, Canada, @TheBoojums), Dazy (Richmond, VA, @DazySound), Odonis Odonis (Toronto, Ontario, Canada, @OdonisOdonis), Sister Ray Davies (Muscle Shoals, AL, @SisterRayDavies),Soulwax (Ghent, Belgium, @SoulwaxOfficial), Strompopper (Budapest, Hungary, @StromPopper), Surfbort (Brooklyn, NY, @TheRealSurfbort), Team Trust (Austin, TX, @yrTeamTrust), & T.G. Shand (Ōtautahi/Christchurch, NZ, @T.G.Shand).

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