"You're fired," of course, refers to Donald Trump's oft-recited line in his The Apprentice "reality series" television program. It's the only memorable line that Trump had in the program. The songwriters most certainly know the specific procedures for removing Trump and Pence from office, but those procedures are a little too complicated to present in a song. "You're fired" tells the story quite effectively, except to a literalist. Oh, and note that the song was written in 2017, presumably before Steve Bannon was fired.

Since the turn of the century, the Republican Party has devised a variety of methods for taking control of Congress and the White House, despite having only a minority of the popular vote. They have become staunch defenders of the Electoral College, which was devised to protect the interests of slave holders without actually having to allow the slaves to vote.

We in California, many of us exiles from the Midwest, do feel disenfranchised. My vote counts far less than the vote of a resident of Wyoming.

But since we do not wish to offer the Music Forum as a haven for anonymous guests to conduct political discussion, I'm going to close this thread. If you wish to participate in the political discussions in the BS section, contact me by email and apply to become a member.

-Joe Offer-
joe@mudcat.org