“Govern me harder, daddy”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.

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Entry from December 22, 2021

“Govern me harder, daddy”

“Govern me harder, daddy”—a satiric saying about government screwing the people—is a saying that has been printed on many images.

Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020.

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Posted by u/435haywife1 July 12, 2021
GoVErN mE hArDEr
(“GOVERN ME HARDER DADDY” is shown on an image.—ed.)

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Govern Me Harder Daddy
Dec 4, 2021
Memology 101
Dr. Leana Wen really loves restrictions.

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Bethany Cherisse
@BethanyCherisse
BREAKING NEWS: I couldn’t give a flying fuck what the restrictions in Victoria are, I won’t be following them.
Enjoy another year of bedwetting, ‘govern me harder daddy’ infants.
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