Dog Eat Dog: Joni Mitchell's song about the greed, avarice, and corruption

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Mrs. Betty Bowers
‪@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social‬
Joni Mitchell's song about the greed, avarice, and corruption of the Reagan years sounds like prophecy for the *much* worse Trump years.

Joni Mitchell's song about the greed, avarice, and corruption of the Reagan years sounds like prophecy for the *much* worse Trump years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbj_...

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-07-10T03:29:55.528Z

Dog eat dog
It's dog eat dog,I'm just waking up
The dove is in the dungeon
And the white washed hawks pedal hate and call it love
Dog Eat Dog
Holy hope in the hands of
Snakebite evangelists and racketeers
And big wig financiers

Dog eat dog
On prime time crime the victim begs
Money is the road to justice
And power walks it on crooked legs
Primetime,Crime
Holy hope in the hands of
Snakebite evangelists and racketeers
And big wig financiers

Where the wealth's displayed
Thieves and sycophants parade
And where it's made
The slaves will be taken
Some are treated well
In these games of buy and sell
And some like poor beast
Are burdened down to breaking

Dog eat dog
It's dog eat dog, ain't it Flim Flam man
Dog eat dog, you can lie, cheat, skim, scam
Beat'em any way you can
Dog eat Dog
You'll do well in this land of
Snakebite evangelists and racketeers
You could get to be
A big wig financier

Land of snap decisions
Land of short attention spans
Nothing is savored
Long enough to really understand
In every culture in decline
The watchful ones among the slaves
Know all that is genuine will be
Scorned and conned and cast away

Dog eat dog
People looking, seeing nothing
Dog eat dog
People listening, hearing nothing
Dog eat dog
People lusting, loving nothing
Dog eat dog
People stroking, touching nothing
Dog eat dog
Knowing nothing
Dog eat dog


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History repeats and it gets worse as it ages.

[Cha]

1. Mahalo for Joni Mitchell, she... who

is brilliant! 💙

Can only imagine what she thinks of America now.. the lower part.

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2. I never heard this song from her before.

I know a lot of them, but this one is new to me.

It sure is a sign of the times. Cha.

[Cha]

3. I know.. I hadn't, either.. My hope

is that this Neo Naz Regime will END Ingloriously and Disastrously For the Traitors to the United States of America.

In the mean time We Carry On~💙

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4. Mahalo, Cha.