The Liberal Short Bus

"The Liberal Short Bus" is a song off the Every Ape and His Brother album The Sent-In Clowns. It is a parody of the theme to The Magic School Bus.

Background
The song was inspired by Facebook political debate groups, and primarily by troll posts in those groups. The term "short bus" as a metaphor for severe mental impairment was thrown around a lot in said groups. Mostly, it was abusive leftist trolls using it against conservatives trying to take the group seriously. The song uses examples of Democrat voters behaving insanely in public over the 2016 election results as an argument back at the trolls, accusing them of extreme projection.

The song was uploaded to AmIRight shortly after being written, and became the first song to feature in the compilation that would later become the album The Sent-In Clowns.

Topics
The song begins by mocking leftists' false security over the 2016 elections, convinced Hillary would win. It then uses the moral panic over Tide Pods to mock their hysteria over Trump winning, while condemning them for cheerleading Trump-hating celebrities who help constitute "the swamp," by their involvement in pedophile rackets.

It mocks them afterward for supporting foreign gangs like MS-13, and for promoting immigration chaos and alien invasion. The early riots on Inauguration Day, and overturning of trash cans, is then addressed, with mocking of Antifa vandals who got arrested for these shenanigans.

The song accuses them all of being on the "liberal short bus," or being "left-tarded." So devoted to their ideology, that they adamantly reject reality when hit in the face with it. The trolls are then ridiculed for their over-reliance on the "race card" to back out whenever losing an argument.

Their hateful vitriol toward Sarah Huckabee Sanders is given mention also. Next, they're mocked over the farce that was the Russia investigation, in an effort to use butthurt as an excuse for impeachment. George Soros and Hillary Clinton helped push the Russia narrative; and the whiners are accused of only blaming Putin for 2016 because they are simply reading a script handed to them by Hillary and company.

The "pussy hat" movement is mocked next, along with "screaming helplessly at the sky." The mobs of whiners and petty rioters are told they have "no solutions" to anything, and are then mocked for demanding "safe spaces" on college campuses.

Reception
Only a few views of the song occurred. However, both votes it received were overwhelmingly positive.