Photo of Rita Moreno in Stephen Sondheim’s West Side Story, singing the song “America”. Rough translation: You gotta vote, it’s worth it, if everyone votes, PRicans gonna save it

Hope posting feels like the best thing to do rn

  • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    4 hours ago

    Well, to start with, this isn’t the actual song lyrics, it’s playing off them.

    However, in West Side Story, the character is a Puerto Rican living in the mainland US, so she would have been eligible to vote.

    The original song has a lot of sarcastic banter, and celebrates and criticizes life in both Puerto Rico and New York.

    Love me some Rita Moreno, in everything she did!

    https://genius.com/Rita-moreno-america-lyrics

    Edit: Oops, here’s a non-Bezos clip of the song

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AHewr2yqfDU

    Now go vote if you haven’t already.

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        4 hours ago

        I said “if you haven’t already.” Good for you. I sent mine in too, all six pages and blue down the line. While you were down voting and commenting, I added a video clip that’s not linked to Amazon. You can watch, and then read the meme lyrics in the same voice.

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          3 hours ago

          boo, get out of here, justifying your negative presumptions.

          have a nice day though.