God Bless That Other Guy: Trump tweets happy birthday to the wrong Lee Greenwood

[Miles Archer]

Trump tweets happy birthday to the wrong Lee Greenwood

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-tweets-happy-birthday-wrong-lee-greenwood-article-1.3593024?cid=bitly

President Trump didn't do himself proud on Twitter Friday morning, appearing to wish congratulations to the wrong Lee Greenwood.

"Happy birthday to the great @leegreenwood83. You and your beautiful song have made such a difference. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" he posted.

October 27 was the 75th birthday of singer Lee Greenwood, best known for his ultra-patriotic song “God Bless the U.S.A”

However, @leegreenwood83 is not the flag-waving performer, but an account that says it belongs to a New York lawyer with the same name.

[NurseJackie]

1. That Stupid Lee Greenwood Song

https://alfageeek.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/that-stupid-lee-greenwood-song/

It would have been perfect, except for one thing. The 6th graders sang that stupid Lee Greenwood song. I fucking hate that song.

For those global readers who have not had the misfortune to hear this jingoistic piece of trash, you can watch it on YouTube. The full title is “God Bless the USA, and Fuck Everyone Else.” (The second part of the title is silent.) I recommend listening on a full stomach, because you will be vomiting later, and dry heaves are the worst.

It’s a simple song, following the standard pop music structure: mumbleverse, bridge, mumbleverse, bridge. The mumbleverse (that’s a technical term I just invented) is the part of the song that nobody knows the words to. It’s particularly easy to pick it out because the 6th graders sing that part at pianissimo, whereas the bridge they belt out at full forté. I honestly had no idea what was in the mumbleverse. I hated this song on the basis of the bridge alone. But I figured that if I was going to write a rant slamming this work of art, I should probably go look it up.
GM Factory in Flint

I was surprised to find that as much as I hate the bridge, I may hate the first mumbleverse even more. The gist is that if he lost all his worldly possessions, and just had his wife and kids, he wouldn’t move to another country. Because, you know, that’s a thing. Like when the GM factories closed in Flint, Michigan, and all the unemployed auto workers packed their bags and said, “Honey, we’re moving to Latvia!” Those damn pauper liberals are always emigrating to some socialist country. But not Lee! No, if a medical catastrophe strikes his family and leaves him penniless, he’s going to sit his bankrupt ass right there in his pickup truck and live on the streets of the good old US of A! His kids can sleep in the back of the king cab, and his other kids from his first marriage can sleep in the truck bed or something.

Wait a second. Maybe that verse isn’t about emigration at all. Do you think, maybe, he’s actually slamming immigration? Do you think, perhaps, he’s saying that those Mexicans who risk their lives fleeing to the USA, escaping abject poverty in their home country, just do it because they aren’t proud enough of Mexico? Of course! That’s why they stop speaking their native language and never, ever put up flags of their home country, and never watch soccer again.

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[underpants]

3. I was in the Army when they started playing that horrible song

They started playing it at the end of the day after Taps. At first no one knew what to do, attention? Parade rest? It was agreed that we'd just stand there. This went on for months. Finally I turned to my section Sgt. and head Scout and said "Do we really have to listen to this crap?" He laughed. Soon we were told we didn't have to stand there anymore.

We were the first in line for chow and had the transit bus/taxi stand to ourselves.

HATE THAT SONG.

[underpants]

2. Proud to be undereducated where at least I can watch TV

and I'll forget the names of the men who died
To give Fox & Friends to me

[Va Lefty]

4. Been having a bad morning, but that made me laugh!!

[underpants]

9. :-)

[Dave Starsky]

5. And I'll gladly stand up next to you...

And defend her still today--

Wait a minute. WTF am I saying? No, I won't. If I'm like Lee Greenwood, I'll get some kind of deferment and avoid military service while others go die.

Fucking hypocrite.

[underpants]

10. Born 1942. Seems to be in the prime flow for Vietnam

But he was busy being a lounge singer in Vegas

He's on the National Council of the Arts?!??

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Greenwood

[NurseJackie]

6. Boom!

[underpants]

8. :-)

I love that.

[rock]

7. Donald J. Trump

Genius. If you don't believe me, ask him yourself!

[dawg]

11. "the flag still stands for freedom, and they can't take that away ..."

Yes they can.