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The McRib McMassacree

 The McRib McMassacree (Sung to the tune of Alice’s Restaurant Massacree) You can get a McRib when you want at any McDonalds restaurant You can get a McRib when you want at any McDonalds restaurant Drive right up, the Drive Thru’s in the back It doesn’t cost more than a few greenbacks You can get a McRib when you want at any McDonalds restaurant This song is called The McRib McMassacree It's about the McRib, and the McMassacree The McRib is not the name of the McMassacree, That's just the name of the song. That's why I call the song "The McRib Massacree" Now it all started ___ ago, ___ ago, on Election Day, When I went up to McDonalds, hoping to get a McRib. But as most of you know, McDonalds doesn’t usually sell McRibs. They sell all sorts of other things like Big Macs and Quarter Pounders with Cheese Or a Royale with Cheese as they call it in France.  Is there anybody here from France? No?  OK, then we don’t have to call it that. I only know that they call it th...

I LOVE YOU TOO, STEVEN GOLDSTEIN, BUT YOU ARE NOT A PROGRESSIVE by Bertin Lefkovic

In general, rebuttals should not be nearly as personal as this one is going to be, but for the most part, the arguments that I am going to make apply to many more people than Steven Goldstein, who had the temerity to lecture his “fellow” progressives about how we and our candidate, Bernie Sanders, should fight Our Revolution in a recent InsiderNJ op-ed titled “To My Many Wonderful Friends Who Support Bernie Sanders” .   But you wanted to talk “tachlis”, Steven, so let’s talk tachlis. You, Steven Goldstein, are not a progressive and neither are most, if not all, of the party leaders and elected officials who you call allies and friends.   Most of them were never progressives and you are no longer a progressive. First and foremost, Steven, we are in the year 2020, not 1992 or 1996 or 2003.   I bring up these years, specifically, because 1992 was the year that I was on the barricades doing clinic defense during the Democratic National Convention when it was being...