Toby Keith I Hate this Bar in Rosemont (Keith & Trump tried to take credit for Taylor Swift's success)

 Toby Keith died from stomach cancer and I never celebrate anyone's death.

I found myself at the Zanies in Rosemont and passed by the Toby Keith restaurant only to realize it had closed years ago.  There was a massive construction program a decade or so ago in Rosemont resulting in the construction of a open air mall, an independent baseball stadium for the "Chicago Dogs", an ice rink, massive Fashion Outlet Mall, and more restaurants than a gaggle of convention goes can count.  But, what it does not have anymore is Toby Keith's I Love This Bar eatery.

Now Rosemont is a waaaaaay sketchy Town.  If you don't know anything about it, try and steer clear because for decades it's been run as a personal fiefdom of the Donald E. Stephens and since his death his family.  Of course, Stephens was connected to organized crime, with Sopranos style hidden bars, and a Police Force which is extra corrupt even by corrupt Police Standards.

So, Toby Keith's sketchy I love this Guitar shaped bar was a perfect fit in Rosemont,

Country star Toby Keith is down on his restaurant luck. He's seen the closures of eight locations of his chain across the U.S., and Rosemont could join them, as Toby Keith's I Love This Bar reportedly faces eviction. Rosemont is suing the restaurant's operator, Boomtown Entertainment, for nearly $700,000 in back taxes and alleges that Boomtown owes the city (also the restaurant's landlord) rent from June and July, according to the Daily Herald.

But, Keith's oeuvre was never my tastes, especially not his jingoistic bombast "Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)”, which came out as I was in the United States Marine Corps and just prior to my 3 overseas deployments.

Of course, the best story about that song revolves around the legendary incident at Willie Nelson's 70th birthday party in 2003. 

In case you had forgotten, 

Keith came out of the theater’s basement to wish Nelson a happy birthday. He then saw Kristofferson and quipped, “None of that lefty shit out there tonight, Kris” – a reference to Kristofferson’s left-leaning political views.

“What the fuck did you just say to me?” Kristofferson replied. “You ever worn your country’s uniform?” 

“You heard the question, you just don’t like the answer,” Kristofferson continued. “Have you ever served your country? The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever taken another man’s life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing it? No, you have not. So shut the fuck up!”

The Ever Evolving Ballad of Marine Todd

It's funny reading this now, this story first reported in about 2009 if my quick internet research is correct, sounds very much like a mirror of the now decades old Marine Todd Professor Meme or the Navy Seal Copypasta.  Of course, the massive difference is these are named individuals at a specific event and it's entirely keeping with Kris Kristofferson's toughness that he'd say this to Tubby Toby.

But, Toby Keith's passed away now and I suppose this should be the end of it...  Except when it comes to music Republicans have a real, real, real bad habit of taking credit for other peoples' work and for appropriating culture because Conservatives ideology does not lend it self to creativity and rightwingers are nasty, unimaginative, vicious, spiteful creatures. 

So, as I said I didn't follow any of Keith bullshit career but, the mid-2000 country music scene apparently wanted credit him with starting Swift's career and jello-brained Trump is entering his Charly Manson phase and, just as he is taking credit for the booming Stock Market, he decided to take credit for Taylor Swift's success.

“I signed and was responsible for the Music Modernization Act for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists. Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There’s no way she could endorse Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the History of our Country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money. Besides that, I like her boyfriend, Travis, even though he may be a Liberal, and probably can’t stand me!”

Of course, don't expect thousands of Media Op-Ed's questioning Trump sanity as he threatens NATO for failing to pay him protection money, claims to have invented Taylor Swift's music, compares his looks to Elvis, can't tell one women from another, and claims the Stock Market lives and dies at his whim.  Naaah, the Corporate Media is busy taking the political hit job Hur Report and running with it, in order to do what the Corporate Media always does, undercut Democratic Presidents and make treasonous Republican madmen just palatable enough for voters.