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The John Royal Affair

White Rabbit and JD Vance: Where Logic and Proportion, Have Fallen Sloppy Dead

or, Did JD Vance Really Say that Donald Trump Saved Obamacare

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JOHN ROYAL
Oct 07, 2024
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The song starts with Jack Cassady’s bass laying down almost a martial beat, a thump thump thump thumpity-dump-thump thump thump thumpity-dump-thump and the guitars hit. It’s this start, that beat, that has always drawn me to Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit.”

The song builds slowly, quietly, just that beat, the other instruments joining in until about …

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