Rock n Rollers: Krugman and The Firebaggers |
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| By: Presumptuous Insect Thursday August 18, 2011 3:26 am | |
Now opening for Smiley and West’s Poverty Tour!
Bandmembers Gosztola, Hamsher, Dayen, and Krugman.
Thanks to Shoto for the idea.
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118 Comments
Rawk On…! Awesome job…! *g*
Thanks! Krugman makes an adorable bass player, no? ;)
Oh, yeah. I’m a member[ $45], but I can’t quit my original $10 a month stipend because the FDL rocks!
I’m more partial to Firedog, Firepup. I don’t see myself as a Firebagger. Not fond of the term. Actually, I really dislike Firebagger because of the asshole, ignorant TeaBaggers I know personally. Just saying.
I don’t Bag.
I don’t Bag, but, I do believe in Doggin’.
Too cute!
OMG, funny or die! recc’d.
They need a new bass player. That guy sucks.
omg, I really needed that, PI!
I have a funny feeling I’ll be snorting at inappropriate moments all day now because of you. ;-)
Why don’t you send that to Paul? I think he’d love it!
Good one. Thanks!
OK, I’ll give it a try!
Most excellent. I am a PROUD Firebagger, if that’s what others wish to label me as. I am a member ($45) and contribute whenever possible, and I will continue to do so.
Thanks, Jane, for creating this site. Thanks to all who contribute. Thanks for keeping the faith.
Although the band in the photo doesn’t look too natty dread, how ’bout a chorus or 2: get up, stand up, stand up for your rights! don’t give up the fight!!!
LOL. LOVELY
recommended and tweeted
great graphic. Krugmann and the guitar is great. and Jane as the lead vocalist is perfect.
Music for you all:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fBIfLQjiRQ&feature=fvst
Mississippi Queen!
Nice!
Yes! I think he would.
Keynes on the drumset. Clever!
Very nice. Can we take this “band” on the road?
I so want this on a t-shirt!
“…I do believe in Doggin’.”
Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogging_%28sexual_slang%29
The “Firebagger” label gives me a great talking point for when I refuse to give money to the next DFA or OFA kool aid drinker that calls asking for money.
Great post! Great image!
ROFLMAO
Will front page this afternoon.
That is so cute.
You know, just a few weeks ago I was saying that I used to think Krugman was hack, but now he’s one of us, and I’m genuinely sorry for questioning his integrity back when he seemed to be operating within Common Purpose’s invisible fence.
Awesome – 707!
Dday sort of reminds me of Joe Morello from the Dave Brubeck Quartet
too kewl for skewl!
Perfectly okay if the founders would prefer to be firepups, as I’ve never been one of those, so that’s an exclusive term for those who have been around long enough to know one another well. Us johnnycomelatelys are happy to be baggers. (I’ve even been called an ‘old bag’ in my time, so this is a step up.)
Love that jive! (I know, that dates me.)
Gee, Jane looks, you know, HOT, in that mini-dress!
(Slaps self; “Hey, get your mind back on politics!”)
righteous !!!
eager for their follow up to SHRILL UNLEASHED to drop
I’m in the front row !
firebagger has become something I and many others at the lake kind of enjoy, it’s funny, american’s came to like the word “yankee” in the same fasion;
I remember I wrote the diary “we are all firebaggers now” and it seemed everyone agreed, it’s sort of cute
That’s great Perris, I totally agree.
i love the “keynes” drum head
the big point to be taken though, we are clearly a threat to the big zero, he or his peeps are obviously reading us
what they do NOT understand however, is we are NOT “fringe” we express what the majority of americans feel, we are not something he can “poo poo”, instead he is trying to marginalize us by using what he things are pajoritives…I wonder if he’ll keep using it when he finds out it’s a compliment
PROUD to be a firebagger!
Such fun..who are the smart-as….who way Liberals do not have a sense of humor….You showed them…great.
“who say…” Sorry.
Yeah it may be tshirt time.
Dare I say it: we are one of the most kickass garage rock bands ever.
you guys are just gonna love this, it seems the pope is a firebagger too though he doesn’t know it;
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/08/18/298691/pope-progressive-economics/
Pope Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Spain today calling for a more equitable, fair, and regulated economy, saying, “[T]he economy cannot be measured only by maximization of profit but rather according to the common good.” As American conservatives call for ever more deregulation, the pontiff said the marketplace “cannot function as a self-regulated economy.”
gawd, SOMEBODY give him a link to the lake!
Hey, he got your legs right!
Hilarious!
T-shirt! T-shirt!
Fucking A Right!!! Guess we old duffers will just have Morph along as we grow into an entity they can’t ignore!!
Great work PI great work!!
Love It!!!
Liberals have more fun.
Brilliant!!!! LMAO
We totally rock “Psychotic Reaction.”
(RE: the reference — the Count 5 were the archetypal garage band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsLMuH82us0)
I am putting this on my facebook account right now. i love it. Go Jane and firebaggers,lol.
That effing rocks.
I love the way Paul’s eyes are glued on Jane.
Around since the ’60s, the Eternal Flamers back them up!
Still Rock and Roll to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAQa4MOGkE&ob=av2e
suhweeeet! you go, pi!
Doesn’t get much better than this! Good job, Presumptuous Insect! Highly recommendable (and recommended) even if it has already been front paged!
Nice catch Perris the GOP is going to have kittens:)
Put him in the band.
On second thought, no. That’s too weird.
Anyway, very cool band. Congratulations FDL. Up with Firebagging.
feel free to use my sig line for the back
Firebagger . . .it’s the new uppity
I wonder if the fake new station has the nerve to marginalize the pope, gonna take some stock in pop corn
that’s awesome.
Ok band here’s your opening number for the 2012 DNC in Charlotte. It was written by Lily Allen for GWB. Just tweak it a bit for Obama and the Obot legions. I’m sure your lead singer can project the attitude required.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUD-nhsmkw
ah, life’s little ironies
everyone’s favorite house band was vaulted to the top by some lip-syncher in NM
m-m-m-m-m-my blogeration
Dat lead singer does have some nice gams.
that was suppsed to read “fake news station” (fox)…me and me typos
Great post. The capitalist in me is wondering who has the rights to the poster? Sorry, I’m a businessman first, I see easy money…
%OD
that is just too cool!!! we all rock! LOL!
I just left a link on Paul’s blog! Sure hope he uses it in one of his posts!!!
Incredible!
Driftglass n DarkBlack would be proud of this!
Fine, fine work n thanks!
*G*
p.s. Love the shoes, Jane.
Call Cafepress now!
Things they do look all so c c collllddd. . . *G*
I love Driftglass.
“The Left. Taking Shit for Being Right Since Before You Were Born.”
Proud Firebagger here! Love that Lily Allen song.
Thanks, fellow firebaggers! I am glad you enjoyed the fun. I have to have a laugh now and then, or I’d go mental, what with all these criminals in seats of power. ;->
Keep on keepin’ on.
now THERE is ANOTHER great tshirt!
The original picture was of No Doubt.
Fantastic! I’m mostly a lurking firebagger…but I consider myself a true groupie in that regard. Now time to have some more creative geniuses come up with a playlist/song titles (and lyrics). When I saw this all I could think of was that show “Who’s Line is It Anyway”…when the real creative talents (not Drew Carey) but Colin Mochrie and Ryan Stiles would so cleverly make up song titles/lyrics when given random topics. I’m thinking of that Gang of 6 inspired hit favorite,Chained CPI Ok…so I’m not creative but was just thinking off the top of my head here.
I don’t care what they call us, as long as they keep squealing like pigs when we stick them with the truth. :o)
And Jane makes a HOT lead singer. But, we knew that. :o)
“Driftglass and Darkblack would be proud of this.”
Yes, they would, Larue. I promise you, it’ll be up there, within 24 hours. :o)
That is a Driftglass original. I asked him to make bumper stickers or shirts, but so far as I know, he has not :(
Heh, GREAT catch there tune wise and band wise.
*G*
Yeah, 13th Floor Elevator, Electric Prunes, Count Five, Blues Magoos . . . so many others I can’t recall . . . The Seeds, The Kingsmen, The Troggs, West Coast had The Charlatans . . . Beau Brummels, others . . . The Leaves West Coast?
Music Machine (Talk Talk), Shadows Of Knight, Standells, Strwberry Alarm Clock (yes, I found a list when my memory started to fail).
Good timehs for preteen and teen timehs!
*G*
Very superior graphic in every respect.
(plus funnest politickles)
Time for a live session in Little Steven’s Underground Garage.
Some of the best music in rock n’ roll history. Love all the Nuggets classics.
I did also, earlier today, on the “hippie punching” post.
Effin’ classic.
People try to put us d-down
Just because we l-l-l-link around
:~)
Presumptious Insect, pitch-perfect.
A great moment for FDL, thank you.
AmericaBlog is hawking “Proud Firebagger” T-shirts.
Typical John. Take something of someone elses. He should send money to Jane for each sale.
T-shirt! T-Shirt! Yes!
I believe I prefaced a post on Twitter the other day with ” call me a firebagger, but…”
I don’t much care for the term either, but given the usage in that crazy email, I will adopt it proudly.
Oh well…
Firebaggers of America UNITE!!
We hipsters are still waiting for Marcy Wheeler’s solo project.
or the remix thereof. :~)
Totally interstellar! And beautiful in a zillion ways.
I love the info about the origination of Yankee Doodle!
And I am a very proud firebagger.
Firegods have morphed in to Firebaggers — Membership has it’s privileges.
Yep!!! We grow and Morph as required to take back our country or die trying..
As Norski might say: kKep heart and pass the Ammunition.. After all We FIREBAGGERS are in this for the long haul!!
Shouldn’t it be “KRGTHULU and the Firebaggers?”
This is FREAKING AWESOME!
I have a feeling that the firebaggers are a better band than the cheerleaders!
Better yet, Jane, next time you’re on MSNBC, wear that outfit. Paul should do the same. (not yours, his, natch…)Great ‘shopping, PI.
I have been gone all day and I came home to this great image.
I have to agree, firebaggers rock!
I’ll second the t-shirt suggestion.
Speaking of firebaggers and Krugman, both got a shout out today in Olbermann’s worst persons in the world. The head of Obama’s re-election campaign in New Mexico, Ray Sandoval apparently said that Krugman knows nothing compared to Obama and then he went on to call us “the firebagger, lefty blogosphere”.
Maybe we can get them inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame up here in Cleveland.
Ray Sandoval is a creep and a prick.
Howdy, pal, if yer around . . . good to c ya!
*G*
My reply at his website:
Dear John:
Yer a whore for ripping off FDL, their work and us Firebaggers.
You suck, sir, for doing do and claiming to be any part of Firebaggin.
Harumph, ya asshat.
/endrant
*G*
PROJECT BLOWJOB!!!
*G*
Just listened to the Lt. Choi webinar (couldn’t get logged in) on vimeo . . . man you rocked it, n I’m so sorry the feed back was not positive . . . Oh, I’m assuming Margaret name Mz Hamsher announced was you . . . n yer voice.
With all my support, thanks for what ya fight for ma’am . . .
Gets no argument from here CM . . , *thumbsup*
Kevin, at yer age, I hope I don’t insult but, how in HAYALL do you know of all that music?
I”m delighted ya DO, don’t get me wrong, but it’s two gens or so below ya!
*G*
Rock on bro . . . n thanks for acknowledging shit from 40 years or more ago . . . ;-) Y win fans that way ya do.
LMBO! With ya . . . *G*
It went up on mine, too . . . proud to be a Fiwerbhaggah! lol
Nice legs on Jane. (^_^) Personally, I think they should load up in a van and drive around the country solving mysteries. “I would have gotten away with it, if it weren’t for those meddling Firebaggers!”
well ranted
This should be a part of your repertoire..good on ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WUD-nhsmkw
Lilly says it so nicely.
Thanks Ms.Hamsher and the rest of the band
Music to my ears . . .
Tchi-Cum-Bah!
Well done, guys ;-)