Kansas City Playlist: If MAGA Wins, Voters Should Stop Trusting MSM

If TKC was some garbage dark money sponsored blog or, even worse, some BS "influencer" this might be the best time to share an endorsement or some kind of last minute plea for support.

Instead, we'll share an observation . . . 

We've garnered this insight from watching news reports, social media messages and even, inadvertently, rolling past a few in-person early voting locations. 

So far a paltry 50,000 people have voted early in KC proper. 

That's about 10% of a city with more than 500,000K residents.   

Not bad but, again, we've seen the lines and here's our takeaway . . .

Kansas City "people of color" don't seem very excited about voting this year.

Immediately . . . This might inspire a gut reaction and counter with social media fake friends excited about the election and sharing memes geared to the lowest common denominator. 

That's cool. We're always glad to watch smart people move beyond stereotypes.

But now more than ever . . . Speaking as one of the last remaining Kansas City Westside scumbags . . . 

Voting seems like classic "white people sh*t" that won't really impact the rough lives that locals on the low-end endure one way or another. 

Don't worry it gets worse . . . 

About that obvious lack of enthusiasm amongst minority communities . . . 

THAT SURGE IN LOCAL VOTER TURNOUT WE'RE SEEING MIGHT FAVOR FORMER PREZ TRUMP!?!?

PER USHE, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO BE WRONG!!!

We're just sharing what we've seen and maybe things are much nicer outside of our miserable urban core existence. 

TKC will never deny hope.

However . . .

This post & message is really for our progressive friends, very good friends . . . And should "the worst" happen . . .

IF MAGA RETURNS TO THE WHITE HOUSE IT MEANS THAT MSM IS ABSOLUTELY USELESS & NOTHING MORE THAN DNC PROPAGANDA!!!

Win or lose our conservative friends stopped trusting mainstream media years ago.

However . . . This time around . . . Should MAGA victory come to pass . . . Given that they've been calling it "even" for months . . . A Trump/Vance win would prove that MSM only serves as propaganda for progressive elites and is mostly useless for everyone else. 

Again . . .

A win by the Veep renders this conversation moot and maybe we SHOULD believe what that dude in the pantsuit on MSNBC is saying every night.

But this late night post is merely intended to exercise our freedom and "contemplate the ifs" before so many pundits do our thinking for us . . .

Moreover, all of this ciphering inspires our www.TonysKansasCity.com playlist for tonight on the topic of the future and the great unknown . . .

We'll start with an iconic track from Timbuck 3 produced in 1986 . . . Our favorite fun fact: The song's meaning was often misinterpreted as a positive outlook on the near future, but the song's creator, Pat MacDonald, said it actually had a "grim" outlook. MacDonald drew on the Cold War's tension and predictions of the world ending by nuclear holocaust in order to craft the song.

Virtual Insanity debuted back in 1996 and we always thought the lead singer getting ahead of the big hat trend was the most impressive part of the tune. Here's better background insight . . . The track’s music video, premiered a month after the song’s debut, was a phenomenon on MTV, which at the time was still a significant force in the music world, and in this case it helped make Jamiroquai a global sensation. The visually impressive video featured Jay Kay dancing alone in a room in which the floor appears to move, while the rest of the room remains stationary. To this day, it’s an iconic snapshot of the time, and one of the ’90s most memorable music videos

This Tom Petty song track 1991 is one of the rare instances where the video is actually better than or at least equal to a song about desperate circumstances and an unknown future . . . “Into the Great Wide Open” was so cinematic that it inspired director Julien Temple to create one of the best music videos of the 1990s. Starring Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, and Gabrielle Anwar, the six-and-a-half-minute video fills in the details that Petty’s lyrics purposely lack.

This #1 hit debuted in 1969 and predicted isolation by way of technology and inevitable human extinction but our favorite fun fact regarding the track . . . The song was recorded in one take in 1968, at a studio in a cow pasture in Odessa, Texas.

We dig deep into online archives and share one of our faves for tonight's finale . . . Diana Ross & The Supremes "Someday We'll Be Together" still holds up and, actually, has some relevant political context . . . Even though the implicit subject of the song was that of Ross comforting a long-distance lover, "Someday We'll Be Together" allowed for other interpretations, one being that Ross and bandmates Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong would one day nostalgically "be together" again. Further, in concert, Ross would suggest that "someday, we'll be together" in regard to contemporary troubles such as civil rights and the ongoing demonstrations and protests against the Vietnam War.

As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe & fun Saturday night.