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Grant Peeples: Code to Live By [Ping, 2025]
You want patter? Here's how this Florida veteran begins a spoken-word piece called "The Ledger," which I quote at length to prepare you for the most explicitly leftist album I've come across in far too long. "You don't need to live under Vladimir Putin to recognize the stink of tyranny wafting out of the Oval Office. You Don't need a Ph.D in kleptocracy to know what looting with an American flag pin on a suit lapel looks like. And you don't need to be a criminologist to know that our entire government is now operating like a Mafia syndicate. No, just follow the boots, the bans, the buzzwords, the book burnings, and the body bags. What we're watching isn't chaos, it's choreography—a state-sponsored smash-and-grab with a patriotism decal slapped on the window." Yes, there's more. Buy it all. A