{"id":46766,"date":"2019-02-02T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46766"},"modified":"2019-02-01T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T20:15:00","slug":"remy-better-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/remy-better-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Remy: Better Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/violABv826U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>ReasonTV<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 1 Feb 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Promised an improved way of life, Remy does everything he can to believe in a new ideology \u2013 except the math.<\/p>\n<p>Written and performed by Remy. Video produced by Austin Bragg. Music tracks and mastering by Ben Karlstrom.<\/p>\n<p>Reason is the planet&#8217;s leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won&#8217;t get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>LYRICS<br \/>\nListened to those leaders so intently<br \/>\nThose Che Guevara shirts all seemed so trendy<br \/>\nThought that things would be so good and friendly<br \/>\nSo why&#8217;m I eating my neighbor&#8217;s dog Benji?<\/p>\n<p>Twenty million killed, sure, that&#8217;s stuff I don&#8217;t like<br \/>\nBut I could stay on Momma&#8217;s plan for the rest of my life<br \/>\nA guaranteed job digging ditches? Well what&#8217;s not to like?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s failed miserably each time so trying again seemed wise<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m looting, looting, looting, looting<br \/>\nGrabbing wieners like I&#8217;m Kevin Spacey<br \/>\nTold a crowd &#8220;we need free markets instead&#8221;<br \/>\nNow my neck is no longer attached to my head<\/p>\n<p>They promised things would all be better now, better now<br \/>\nIf pure equality was finally found, finally found<br \/>\nNow we&#8217;re all grocery shopping at the pound, at the pound<br \/>\nSaid that we&#8217;d have everything<br \/>\nNow we don&#8217;t have anything<br \/>\nWhoa\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>How much plasma are they gonna take?<br \/>\nBefore I finally have enough to trade?<br \/>\nFor toilet paper or a rodent steak?<br \/>\nI keep on looking back on better days <\/p>\n<p>They promised things would all be better now, better now<br \/>\nIf free expression it was not allowed, not allowed<br \/>\nBut I just caught my Roomba texting Mao<br \/>\nSaid that we&#8217;d have everything<br \/>\nNow we don&#8217;t have anything <\/p>\n<p>They promised things would all be better now, better now<br \/>\nIf men with guns took farmers&#8217; land and plow, land and plow<br \/>\nNow it&#8217;s another night of Rat Kung Pao, Rat Kung Pao<br \/>\nSaid that we&#8217;d have everything<br \/>\nNow we don&#8217;t have anything <\/p>\n<p>They promised things would all be better now, better now<br \/>\nIf we just nationalized oil in the ground, in the ground<br \/>\nNow somehow gasoline can not be found, not be found<br \/>\nSaid that we&#8217;d have everything<br \/>\nNow we don&#8217;t have anything<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ReasonTV Published on 1 Feb 2019 Promised an improved way of life, Remy does everything he can to believe in a new ideology \u2013 except the math. 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