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"One inspires and excites / the other wants to chuck our rights," Rainbow sings to the tune of a song from Oklahoma!
Randy Rainbow digs deep into the Broadway catalogue for his latest political parody, “The Lawyer or the Conman,” set to the tune of “The Farmer and the Cowman” from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
The lawyer is, of course, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and the conman is, naturally, Donald Trump. “One inspires and excites / the other wants to chuck our rights,” Rainbow sings.
He goes into President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, under pressure from fellow Democrats, and his endorsement of Vice President Harris as the party’s standard-bearer. The race was initially between “the conman and the old guy,” Rainbow notes, going on to explain, “Democratic folks were gettin’ nauseous / mega-MAGA folks were gettin’ bold / old guy fumed when the Dems got cautious / Dems got scared ’cause the old guy’s old.”
“The old guy passed the torch for his country / to resurrect the campaign he was torchin’ / he vowed to still defend and protect us till the end / just as long as he’s in bed by Wheel of Fortune,” Rainbow continues.
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He lauds the enthusiasm that Harris, a former prosecuting attorney, has sparked. “The lawyer had a plan for the future / unlike the shady conman she was trolled by / they flooded her dot-com, so she quickly won the nom / and now just like that, the conman is the old guy,” he sings. “Now conman keeps on denigrating lawyer / despite his many crimes and derelictions / Republicans all cry ‘lawyer’s just a DEI’ / but they’re fine with conman’s 34 convictions.”
“So the lawyer or the felon will be prez,” he goes on, but no one knows which one, although Harris is gaining in the polls, causing Trump “to crap his pants.” But “now it’s up to us who will be prez,” Rainbow concludes.
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