Some smoke in its eye

Folksinger and songwriter Malvina Reynolds wrote “What Have They Done to the Rain?” in 1962. She’d been active in anti-nuclear protests for a long time, and the song was her response to the dangers of above-ground testing (of a weapon designed to cause maximum destruction of life).

Given that we’re just two days past the 80^th anniversary of the first use of an atomic bomb and that the Kleptocrat has in recent days hauled out his nuclear willie to wave wildly in an attempt to distract from the clamor over his connection to Jeffrey Epstein (he’s ordered the deployment of two submarines armed with nuclear missiles to “appropriate places” WRT Russia; his interim head of NASA is announcing that building a nuclear reactor on the moon is now a priority; on Tuesday TACOman was spotted wandering around the roof of the White House, gesticulating wildly and answered a question regarding what he was building there by yelling, “Nuclear missiles”), it seems appropriate to have “What Have They Done to the Rain?” today as a reminder that it is not a good thing to have a septuagenarian malevolent narcissist exhibiting clear signs of dementia in charge of the nuclear codes.

Here's Marianne Faithfull singing it.

 

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