Dumb Donald is Trending

& Four-eyed Jacks are Wild

Here is “Dumb Donald is Trending,” today’s song addition to the “Mixed Up Files” album series over at Bandcamp; listen to the song for free in the player below:

Below is a transcript of the above video:

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Hey everybody, singing cowboy Faux Jean how are you today?

I put a new song on my Substack today, on the Bandcamp “From the Mixed Up Files of Mr. Matthew Schindler, Volume 9,” another demo, a song. . .

When I was a kid in our family, we had a rule, which was you didn’t tell people who you voted for, and the idea there was if you told somebody who you voted for, and they didn’t like that person, they might be rude to you or think less of you, and you go to the voting booth and it is anonymous, you can vote for whoever you really want to vote for and it’s anonymous.

So imagine if everybody in the United States stuck to that “keeping it anonymous thing” there’d be a lot less fighting.

That being said, the song that I’ve added to the Substack today is it’s called “Dumb Donald is Trending,” and I did write about Donald—Dumb Donald—sometime ago and I said I think this Dumb Donald thing is gonna catch on.

Now Dumb Donald was a character on the Cosby show (technically on Cosby’s show “Fat Albert.”) and when Trump became president I thought everybody’s gonna jump on board with this and he’s gonna be Dumb Donald, it’s kind of playground, but with a guy like Donald Trump, you gotta meet him on the playground in a certain way cause he’s, to me he’s not well, and he just he’s kind of a small-minded guy who wants to be the top dog.

And that’s why he wants to be president—he’s pissed. He’s been made out to look kind of dumb.

Anywho, Dumb Donald is trending, and by the way, Nick Offerman is not the only comedian/songwriter to release a song against Dumb Donald today. His has more swear words, they’re bleeped out, but my song, I got home from work the other night and I thought I saw somebody posted online Dumb Donald this or Dumb Donald that and I thought, OK like couple years ago I said OK Dumb Donald is gonna be a thing but it never you don’t hear it too much but then I saw it and I thought, hey Dumb Donald is Trending. That’s, you know, that’s what’s going on now.

So it was kind of weird how I recorded this song and put it on the Bandcamp, on the Substack. I recorded this song I actually my kids were sleeping. I think my wife was asleep and I was out in the living room so I just put my phone in my shirt and so you can hear fabric rustling around and stuff not the greatest recording, but part of what I do with the Substack is I release songs that are demos or lower fi, not always super Hi-Fi finished products. I think it’s just kind of fun that way to do it like that, now, perhaps you disagree.

But “Dumb Donald is Trending” is the song today.

But now I gotta say, back in 2016 I remember I worked at a restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin and I worked with the girl and she was conventionally attractive, and she said “Wow, I told somebody I voted for Donald Trump and they screamed at me!” and I thought well, yeah, you know like my family we said don’t tell people who you vote for, now I’m out in the open, I’m public facing as a singing cowboy and I’m just telling you I don’t endorse voting for Donald Trump, but in 2016, now if you’re from small town Wisconsin, you come from a family that identifies as conservative, maybe your grandparents thought William F. Buckley was really smart, not like a racist and an elitist, but smart so you know, maybe you watched a couple seasons of the Apprentice, OK, so, you know, Dumb Donald was your guy. OK.

But after everything that’s happened, you know, in 2016, I wasn’t gonna scream at you, and I’m still not gonna scream at ya, it’s a free country.

But I’m gonna say most people are still voting for Donald probably got yelled at by somebody and they’re voting for Donald to say screw you to that person who yelled at them, OK?

So, I don’t know, you can vote for who you wanna vote for, but I think Donald Trump cares more about himself than he does about United States of America. I could be wrong but he seems like he just is on the playground and he wants to be the top dog, because that was really fun getting flown around and a big airplane and having people clap and meeting Kim Jong-un, etc., etc. I’m for Kamala, so what I was gonna say now with the song, by calling the song “Dumb Donald is Trending,” and giving my Substack that headline— “Dumb Donald is Trending”— nowadays with AI, which is scraping the Internet. AI is gonna see “Dumb Donald is Trending,” and that becomes information, and that is what is happening, because he is “Dumb Donald.” Thanks for listening, Faux Jean singing cowboy signing off. Have a lovely day. It’s Tuesday, August 27 (2024). Happy birthday to my nephew Noel.

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Four-eyed Jacks Are Wild

And because for some people, politics is noise, I thought I’d close with a little poem inspired by the photo above. A palate-cleanser, if you will.

Four-eyed Jacks Are Wild

Can I join your Army
Can I walk in your parade
Can I sign your petition
The four-eyed Jack’s been played.

And four-eyed Jacks are wild.

I remain your humble servant,

OX&C,

Faux Jean