Steve Benson for January 30, 2017

New Colossus

statue of liberty poem

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,

With conquering limbs astride from land to land;

Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand

A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame

Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand

Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command

The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she

With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,

The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

JMATTADAMS: Wish you would go back under the rock where you’ve been hiding for 8 years. Unless your ancestors were Native American, you are the offspring of an immigrant.

One thing the Dems are good at is crying about things. I hate to be the one to break it to them but he IS their President…same way Obama was mine.

ALL Americans were immigrants. After all, we didn’t evolve here.

And for all you who are angry at Democrats objecting to a racist, sexist, illegitimate president who has ALREADY had impeachable offenses and violated the Constitution — cry me a river. You objected to Obama, a perfectly ordinary centrist politician, for years in vicious and racist terms. Time for a reality check. Trump is a real and present danger to America.

Finland and Mexico on one side , Irish and Hooser on the other. These days under Trump, I’d be a… quarter horse?

does Trump have any foreign dna?

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I’ll piss on ‘em That’s what the Statue of Bigotry says Your poor huddled masses Let’s club ‘em to death And get it over with and just dump ’em on the boulevard – Lou Reed’s song has been brought to life by Trump. He’s not a president for 80% of the country. But that 20% sure are full of hate.

This might ring true if Benson hadn’t spent the last year trying to get him elected.

. . . And I dreamed I was flying, And high above all my eyes could clearly see, The Statue of Liberty, Sailing away to sea, And I dreamed I was flying

We come on the ship they called the Mayflower, We come on the ship that sailed the moon, We come in the ages’ most uncertain hour, And we sing an American tune . . .

Paul Simon

It is not “all right”. Resist our Tin-pot President. We clear minded folk have the majority. With or perseverance and support, our institutions can delay and derail this dangerous man.

What will the Trumpies do when an investigation proves it was fraud committed to carry the electoral college states (a total of only 77,000 votes for Trump) and a recount shows he did NOT carry the electoral college?? Constitutional crisis? Or will kicking him out of the White House give us all some relief from his proven stupidity?

Tonight’s news just gets worse, and it’s up to Congress to make it, soon, so he’s NONE OF OUR President!

Hey Benson ! When are you moving out of the USA? ( That’s the only way Donald Trump is not your President).

not my president. I will not call him president. and I will not speak his name.