Mon
May 18 2026
07:00 pm
By: Mark Harmon
With no more Front Page Follies, I need some outlet for song parodies that come to me. Roger Daltry originally sang these Pete Townshend lyrics, but imagine Cameron Sexton trying to defend the legislature's racist redistricting:
[Verse 1]
No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man, to be the sad man
Behind our lies
No one knows what it's like
To be hated, to be fated
To telling only lies
[Chorus]
And my maps, they are as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I will punish those who object
I do Trump’s vengeance; that's never free
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+1
Heh.