Oh, Promise Me

With the California jungle primary out of the way, the results basically settled, and the exhausting whiney attacks from MAGOPs on the long process, we take this brief moment to take a deep, relaxing breath and offer just a quick and extremely limited round-up of a very few of the Promises Made, Promises Kept* that Trump presented to the American people.

(*"Kept" shall here-in be described as "retained in memory".)

$​2,000 tariff dividend checks

10% cap on credit card rates

DOGE stimulus checks

Will lower prices on Day One

Will end Russian war against Ukraine on Day One

No new wars started

50-year mortgages

Lower the national debt.  (Since raised $3 trillion.)

Will release the entire Epstein files

No cuts to Medicaid. (Since cut $1 trillion.)

May attack Greenland

Will de-certify airplanes made in Canada

End DOJ weaponization by the government

And the all-time classic on health care:

"I have a concept of a plan."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_676P9Ma3M

Another New Rainbow

Randy Rainbow has a new song just out -- though it's sort of his first repeat.  The words are new, but it's a sequel to his previously written version of Gilbert and Sullivan's, "I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General" from The Pirates of Penzance.  But the theme is just too perfect for him to not bring it back.

The production is a lot of fun, and the words are very funny.  But -- they zip by, as befits a patter song.  Happily, there are the lyrics to follow.  And they zip by, too, but at least they do give you a chance to keep up.

If you want to skip the long ad he's embedded within, it starts at the :45 mark and ends around 2:05.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy2L90MMjiQ

Today's Piano Puzzler

​This week's contestant is Chuck Romportl from Hopkins, Minnesota.  I was able to get the hidden song pretty quickly.  The composer style, though, is in that area of which I generally have to toss a coin, and didn't get it.  And in fairness, it's pretty tough.  To my shock, the contestant actually guessed the composer style right off -- but didn't get the hidden song.  Only on a second go-round, where pianist Bruce Adolphe brought the song out more, did he guess correctly.

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