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| Mother America (1973)
"Mother America is not to be taken lightly. Her sword vouches for that. But the justice she dispenses is equal for all. She has a very precise scale with which to measure it." Painting & commentary by Oscar de Mejo (1911 - 1992) |
America
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
Giving me strength erect against her hate,
Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
I stand within her walls with not a shred
Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand. (1921)
By Claude McKay (1889 – 1948)
Jamaican-American writer and poet,
shocked by the intense racism he encountered
upon arriving in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1912.
to replace criminal justice with deportation:
" . . . many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, you want to know the truth. So, maybe that'll be the next job that we'll work on together."
misinformation like a broken record:
April 20:
We had many murderers, 11,888, they think."
["they" = Trump]
"July 1 [and July 3]:
"Every day, our brave law enforcement officers are hunting down and deporting migrant criminals who have committed heinous crimes, including more than 13,000 murderers -- 11,888 to be exact, but I'd probably say the 13,000 is right also."
First of all, neither number is correct;
and second of all 11,888 is NOT more than 13,000.
Trump has been obsessing stupidly about this, since mid - April; he has repeated these fake figures at least 17 times since then, even though it has been fact - checked numerous times and shown to be a wildly inaccurate and "gross misreading of the available data."
"We had a man as president who shouldn't have been there.
You know that. He shouldn't have been there."
4.
"But I hate them too. You know that.
So, it's sort of, I hate, I really do. I hate them..."
5.
"I said -- they said, you know, sir, you're gonna go down as one of the greatest presidents ever. I said, really? No. I said, really? I said, better than Washington. They said, yes, sir. I said, better than honest, Abe Lincoln. They said, yes, sir."
"And I think, uh, I can say very proudly, and I don't have to quote the polls, that our country is more proud right now than it's been in many, many years. We have pride. We have dignity."
7.
Obsessing stupidly about this
since at least 2019
"You have a shower head, the shower doesn't -- you think it's not working, it is working, the water is dripping out and that's no good for me, I like this hair nice and -- I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you -- you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a thing in, and it sounds funny, but it's really not -- it's horrible. And when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet and no water comes out. You're washing and the water barely comes out, it's ridiculous. This was done by crazy people, and I wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can't just change it because I did it in my first term. Everyone was so happy."
"Do you have any problems with water?
No, we have so much, we don't know what to do with it.
You know, it comes down from heaven, right?"
9.
"obviously . . . usually, mostly, I think probably exclusively."
10.
"I would say they were fully funded
within minutes of hearing about this."
Best Reddit Response:
"He's not lying if you say
it was funded within minutes, 4,320 minutes."
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"I Didn't Even Know Anything"
QK & FN
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"A Very Much Different Country"
QK & FN
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No Kings Day
QK & FN
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Living With Dementia
QK & FN
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