#ruination day

[saywhat-politics]

Ruination day: How to limit global damage

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/4j8e0DG

President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc

But the rest of the world can limit the damage

[lew-basnight]

Hey @sivavakkiyar my entire knowledge of April 14 as Ruination Day comes from these two songs. Apparently lots of ruinous things have happened today, historically? What's interesting to me about this first track is how Gil talks about someone having "and the cooks cleaned the kitchen with the staggers and the jags" which is a phrase I've only ever heard in a well-known Stan Rogers tune. I think it's a little nod to a fellow folkie. You can literally hear her smiling as she delivers the line

[hyenabutter]

And the iceberg broke And the Okies fled And the Great Emancipator Took a bullet in the back of the head

[ryanhamiltonwalsh]

DCB was off on the date by one day, but hey, he wrote it before the prevalence of the internet. Many homes lacked full encyclopedia sets at the time. 

April 14th - Ruination Day 

“And the great barge sank. And the Okies fled. And the great emancipater Took a bullet in the head.”

April 14th, 1865 - Lincoln assassinated

April 14th, 1912 - Titanic sinks

April 14th, 1935 - Black Sunday

“It got to the part where he was shot and they said “on April the 14th…” and I freaked out. I really thought it was very sinister; I think it’s how some people feel when they see a ghost. I got completely freaked out, got all cold and shivered, and I think I started yelling for Dave. It hadn’t occurred to me to write about it until I got to that third event.” - Gillian Welch on writing the songs  

[syruckusnow]

You won't save the world by blowing a hole in the sky

Happy Ruination Day! Let us love each other even harder.

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[adelphicoracle]

It’s April 14, Ruination day. The Titanic sinks, Lincoln gets shot, and Gillian Welch commemorates it all in this song, a mainline shot of purposeful melancholy with a whiff of graveyard dirt

Ruination Day Part 2

Provided to YouTube by AconyRuination Day Part 2 · Gillian WelchTime (The Revelator)℗ 2001 Acony Records LLC under exclusive licence to Warn