Repealing the Zeroth Amendment
The Trump Administration has taken the unprecedented step of pointing out that a propaganda poem is not actually U.S. Federal law. The media, naturally, is astonished by this extremism.
THE THIRD COLOSSUS
The Lady of Liberty is not a French whore,
We have endured enough; we don't want any more.
Don't give us your tired, your poor huddled masses,
Your refugee refuse of conflict and lack.
They may be the finest of your foreign classes,
But nevertheless, they have to go back!
White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller found himself clashing with CNN correspondent Jim Acosta at Wednesday's White House press briefing.A French statue with a Jewish poem subsequently attached is neither U.S. law nor American tradition. This is the new law.
"What the president is proposing here does not sound like it's in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration. The Statue of Liberty says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,'" Acosta said, quoting from the poem The New Colossus, which was inscribed on the statue after its erection.
"It doesn't say anything about speaking English or be a computer programmer," Acosta continued. "Aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you are telling them you have to speak English? Can't people learn to speak English when they get here?"
Miller pointed out that English is already a requirement of naturalization.
"The notion that speaking English wouldn't be a part of an immigration system would actually be very ahistorical," he said.
Miller further rejected Acosta's reference to the Statue of Liberty, noting that the poem Acosta had cited was added later.
THE THIRD COLOSSUS
The Lady of Liberty is not a French whore,
We have endured enough; we don't want any more.
Don't give us your tired, your poor huddled masses,
Your refugee refuse of conflict and lack.
They may be the finest of your foreign classes,
But nevertheless, they have to go back!
Labels: history, immigration
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And ... the Overton window moves again. At this rate Americans may actually end up being able to say what they think. Gotta fix that quick.
...The media, naturally, is astonished by this extremism. ...
More extremism please!
The land of the free and the home of the brave
is not your home just because you're a slave
It is not your home if you're fleeing results
of your own socialism and satanic cults.
Here at our sun-bleached, solar gate shall stand
A mighty big wall, which no gate would lack.
We've been bitten too much on our outstretched hand;
We can't take any more; they have to go back!
Sorry, I can't bring myself to write in the authentic style of that atrocious c.
No, this only the beginning. We are going to melt down that crap poem metal eye sore and make into medals for the Border Patrol/ICE agents.
This is only the beginning, this is more or less like the 1919 Immigration, a "1924 Immigration Act" is just around the corner.
When it is in place we must defend it at all cost. I am thinking it can stay in place for at least 100 years maybe more.
"For ourselves and OUR posterity."
It was hilarious how Miller referred to it as the "Statue of Liberty Law of the Land" . First class mocking of Professor Acosta, and to his face.
Doctor Who can't fix this one, best timeline ever.
Acosta should learn Cuban. They may require it.
I know someone posted this portion of Federalist #2 once before but after yesterday's Trump/ Acosta kerfuffle over the Emma Lazarus poem, I wanted to post it again. It speaks to the very meaning of the term "nation".
"With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people--a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms, and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established general liberty and independence."
OT: Alleged Fun Fact - the author of that essay had an affair with the dude who designed the basic layout for Washington, D.C. This is the reason for the absence of a "J Street".
Hey Vox, you have a contest on who can write a better "THE THIRD COLOSSUS" Poem.
This may be the meme of the year. The triggering should be exquisite.
If I arrived as an immigrant and the statue of liberty looked like that, I think I would immediately want to go back!
Salt wrote:This may be the meme of the year. The triggering should be exquisite.
This we need to meme that moronic poem off the statue as well.
That was outstanding
But darn it! Only Ranjeev and Lo Wei can provide those STEM and computer 'skillz' that corporate America can't seem to find despite the fact that there are plenty of Americans with STEM looking for work.
You know it's bad when people on LinkedIn are starting to openly complain about long periods of unemployment.
OK, that ain't bad.
The best part of this whole ordeal is how Miller is being attacked as a white nationalist.
But he's Jewish. So are Jews white? If so then there isn't such a thing as antisemitism since white people supposedly can't be discriminated against.
I wonder how much raw materials the statue would provide if we melted it down. Could be good for the wall.
Grew up in NJ. Visiting the SoL was a rite of passage, I guess. Been there a few times. For years as a kid, Ellis Island was closed to visitors, and since it reopened I haven't been there. Never been there.
My post-woke mind says the closures were about rebranding Ellis Island as a place to glorify immigration, vilify Whites. Maybe I'll head out there one day to see if I'm correct.
In any case, sentiment is not law, or shouldn't be, but I suppose that's why attorneys stack juries with sympathetic women and libs. I sometimes wonder about justice. Who's justice, in the end? Mixed societies cannot ever have it.
@15
Miller sees what's (((going on))) in the Wiemarized White West and wants to prevent another Hitler. I say good luck, he has a hell of a job ahead of him.
WIDE open and unguarded stand our gates,
Named of the four winds, North, South, East, and West;
Portals that lead to an enchanted land
Of cities, forests, fields of living gold,
Vast prairies, lordly summits touched with snow,
Majestic rivers sweeping proudly past
The Arab’s date-palm and the Norseman’s pine—
A realm wherein are fruits of every zone,
Airs of all climes, for, lo! throughout the year
The red rose blossoms somewhere—a rich land,
A later Eden planted in the wilds,
With not an inch of earth within its bound
But if a slave’s foot press it sets him free.
Here, it is written, Toil shall have its wage,
And Honor honor, and the humblest man
Stand level with the highest in the law.
Of such a land have men in dungeons dreamed,
And with the vision brightening in their eyes
Gone smiling to the fagot and the sword.
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,
And through them presses a wild motley throng—
Men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes,
Featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho,
Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav,
Flying the Old World’s poverty and scorn;
These bringing with them unknown gods and rites,—
Those, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws.
In street and alley what strange tongues are loud,
Accents of menace alien to our air,
Voices that once the Tower of Babel knew!
O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast
Fold Sorrow’s children, soothe the hurts of fate,
Lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel
Stay those who to thy sacred portals come
To waste the gifts of freedom. Have a care
Lest from thy brow the clustered stars be torn
And trampled in the dust. For so of old
The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome,
And where the temples of the Cæsars stood
The lean wolf unmolested made her lair.
-- "Unguarded Gates," Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1895
The Statue of Liberty was the French congratulating the union on winning the Civil War and freeing the slaves. It had nothing whatsoever to do with immigration.
The most illuminating part was how predictable and shallow the press's arguments were going to be. Miller knew he would get asked about the emma lazarus poem and was prepared with facts to make them look like fools. He also had the perfect messaging about how only DC thinks this is radical and the average american agrees with this policy without reservation. Perfectly messaged by Miller.
I wonder how much raw materials the statue would provide if we melted it down. Could be good for the wall.
Go back to BLM/SPLC
@17 Miller might actually be one of the rare Jews I'm cool with.
I've met a handful. Messianic mostly.
@Josh. Huh? That made zero sense.
Huh? That made zero sense.
Destroying monuments you don't agree with is a blm/splc thing
"Canada is a utopia of diversity and the new beacon for tolerance and diversity in the West."
"Agreeed. We'll start following their immigration policy immediately."
"No! Not those hateful racist Nazi bastards!"
Destroying monuments you don't agree with is a blm/splc thing
I get what you're trying to say.
But you said it in the most spergy way possible.
The Statue of Liberty is crap and always has been crap. It doesn't honor anything. Was originally meant to be in Egypt. And frankly should be melted down.
Josh (the gayest thing here) wrote:Huh? That made zero sense.
Destroying monuments you don't agree with is a blm/splc thing
...And? This false idol, this lie, this item of propaganda, this weapon is being used against us, take it out.
She needs a chainsaw.
1. Read the Statue of Liberty was a French gift to the Egyptians, but they didn't want it so it was reworked into Lady Liberty.
2. Personally I think Kiplings "The Stranger" should be on the Statue as a warning.
Still not tired of winning!
Can't "we" pay it forward and give the statue to Canada? Even through a few vibrants free of charge. They can be stowed in the interior.
Shimshon wrote:Can't "we" pay it forward and give the statue to Canada? Even through a few vibrants free of charge. They can be stowed in the interior.
It would be better served standing outside the Tel Aviv International Airport.
Miller knew he would get asked about the emma lazarus poem
Miller has worked for Sessions for several years, and helped to defeat the last amnesty attempt in 2013. I'll bet he knows all this immigration myth stuff cold, so whether or not he expected that question this particular time, he was ready for it like a hitter waiting on a 3-0 fastball down the middle.
By the way, remember how last week Trump was all "mad" at Sessions and we were supposed to be afeared that Sessions was on his way out (ditto Bannon, according to some)? Notice how this week all the action is coming from Sessions's department, including Miller (also a friend of Bannon) stepping up to the plate?
Israel will take it!
Can't "we" pay it forward and give the statue to Canada? Even through a few vibrants free of charge. They can be stowed in the interior.
I don't know if they will take it given that they have already have a literally Hitler merit based immigration system
LOL That poem cracked me up. The statue also.
"The Statue of Liberty was the French congratulating the union on winning the Civil War and freeing the slaves. It had nothing whatsoever to do with immigration."
Where'd you get that?
https://www.thoughtco.com/statue-of-libertys-origins-in-egypt-2353338
I wondered why Miller let Acosta drone on and on, monologuing, until late in the video linked, when it became clear that Miller was simply letting Acosta talk himself into an absurd position.
Then Miller pounced.
By the end, any objective observer could see that Acosta is a hubristic moron. Of course, leftists are not objective. People who "believe six impossible things before breakfast" are not remotely capable of grasping just how idiotic Acosta made himself appear.
They may not be COMING in the numbers they used to, but they sure aren't going back, and you can take that to the bank.
The "you have to go back" meme is so demonstrably dumb, useless and unused it could only have originated on the Alt Right.
But let's not pretend there are no benefits or results from the meme: It does expose the sorry intellectual state of the Alt Right.
So...Well....Please keep it coming.
Today's meme was teh awesome!
@3 Your poem was great!
@4 I've been waiting for a moratorium (front loaded reduction isn't bad to start) for the past nine years of my life. What a great time to be alive.
@4 That and Acosta getting Pwned were awesome. I've yet to watch the bit where Miller takes on the New York Times guy and asks him if he would be OK with being replaced by a low skilled immigrant.
Provided the RAISE Act is passed by Congress and signed into law by the president, this will secure Trump's victory in 2020. Also, it will begin the slow but long process of healing the wounds our country has suffered since 1965.
I really wondered if this day would ever come. Granted, it still needs to be passed and signed but man oh man. Best. administration. ever!
@Cail Corishev: I did notice. I have learned not to take rumors or even open actions of the Trump Administration at face value. They appear to be using misdirection to keep their opponents off balance. I think it also means that President Trump may be less isolated within his administration team than I had believed. His people seem, to greater or lesser degree, to be on board with what he is trying to accomplish.
On the subject of Stephen Miller and Jews in general, I expect increasing numbers of them to ally with the Alt-Right(at least the Alt-West faction). They may not be as smart as reputed to be, but they are survivors. I would not be surprised if increasing numbers of 'rank and file' Jews became increasingly at odds with what their elite do and say.
RB you have to go back.
The Statue of Liberty is a US icon. It just needs a little reworking to reflect the times. A black eye, cornrows, an iphone, an upraised middle finger, tank top, fupa, and bicycle shorts should fit nicely. Land of the fat, home of the gay!
I can only hope the invaders start talking tough like that idiot above. Soon even the most pathetic of the effeminate "thinkers" will figure out the diversity adds nothing and I mean nothing positive to their stupid lives.
You should hear what the normie whites are saying about the Indian street shitters that are colonizing my burb.
The statue should read:
'We're an example. NOT an invitation. Build your own'
"RB you have to go back....RB you have to go back....RB you have to go back."
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Hmmm...Doesn't work.
"The Lady of Liberty is not a French whore . . ."
What the Statue of Liberty "says" is that France performed a service for us and that we should remember we owe her debt.
But you don't pay a whore to come over, you pay her to go away.
Steve Sailer sticks the shiv in.
Stephen Miller’s new sign on the Statue of Liberty: “You must be this tall to immigrate.”
No thank you. The only immigrants we want are Jews.
Mises Institute President Jeff Deist: "Trump should offer immediate US immigration status to Venezuelans. Would be a huge politcal coup. Ds could accuse him of importing voters."
Venezuelans are natural libertarians now. Also, Dems are the real raciss!
I am ashamed to think I used to have common cause with libertarians.
"No thank you. The only immigrants we want are Jews."
actually the only immigrants we want are the Afrikkaners
@Shimshon
This is just hatred for communism speaking. Don't worry, most likely after their Civil war, they will be Brazil's mexicans...
They may not be COMING in the numbers they used to, but they sure aren't going back, and you can take that to the bank.
The Helvetii didn't want to go back either. In fact, they burned their homes before migrating so they wouldn't be tempted to return home.
So Caesar said, "Well, it looks like they're here to stay, and you can take that to the bank. Let's welcome them and enjoy the benefits of moar diversity." Then they all had a picnic and strolled back to Rome together, native Romans and new Romans arm in arm, singing songs of peace and harmony.
So...Well....Please keep it coming.
Oooo, reverse psychology. What to do now? Does he want me to think he means it and do the other thing, or am I supposed to think he thinks I think he means it and keep doing the same thing? I'm so confused!
@Nate
And here I thought you guys only wanted Saxons!
... Are the afrikaneers saxons?!?
I watched ((((Colbert)))) just to see him make jewy jew faces over the RAISE ACT
Jews in general, I expect increasing numbers of them to ally with the Alt-Right(at least the Alt-West
Ally? I expect them to claim to have been at the front of the parade the whole time.
but they sure aren't going back, and you can take that to the bank
I happen to be pro choice-cross the border or 6' down.
Mises Institute President Jeff Deist: "Trump should offer immediate US immigration status to Venezuelans..."
Remember Rahm Emanuel's line, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste"? The libertardian version is, "Never pass up a chance to drag more people into the country."
Nice job by Miller. From what little I've seen of the legacy media coverage, their "rebuttal" seemed to focus on two talking points, that might be summarized (and lightly satirized) as follows:
1. "How did he know that the poem wasn't added until decades after the statue was constructed? Only evil White Supreemists are aware of that particular hatefact. Any good person would manage to avoid learning a fact with such unprogressive implications. Therefore, Miller = White Supreemist. QED."
2. "Well, yes, a poem is not actually a law. But that's just a technical distinction. A mere bagatelle. The feelz are the same. What are you, autistic or something?"
Comical, but at the same time depressing. Because this kind of sh!t tier "argumentation," that consists of little more than basic associative conditioning, actually works when you own the megaphone. Just look at how nonsensical the officially-promoted Syria narrative is.
@22 Ransom Smith
"@17 Miller might actually be one of the rare Jews I'm cool with.
I've met a handful. Messianic mostly"
Even Anglin never says anything negative about Miller. In a piece today, he said something along the lines of "Until he actually does or says something egregiously Jewish, I'm leaving him alone."
Whenever I say to people "they have to go back", and I do it quite frequently, most agree. Some ask "what if they were born here?", to which I reply, "Don't care, they have to go back", again most agree. And some get triggered. Only a few are unperturbed. But RB says it doesn't work, now I'm going to have to track down all those people and tell them I was wrong. And further instruct them to tell anyone that they told to cease and desist. I'll get on that right away, don't worry RB, you can stay.
France could not have struck a more devastating blow to than the American nation than she did when she gifted us with the Statue of Liberty.
If it was up to me the statue would be removed.
Plus, I've always thought it was tacky. Never liked it ever since I was a kid.
... Are the afrikaneers saxons?!?
Either that or Franks. More likely a mixture of the two, since they were tribes of relatives living next door to each other and intermarried. As they did with Angles and Danes. They recognized themselves as different families within the same people.
in the modern parlance, Acosta isn't White. nor is he American. and he know this because ...
he's Cuban.
which is why he's so insistent on the Zeroeth Amendment.
Stephen Miller, being Jewish, failed to administer the ultimate coup de grace to Acosta, though.
the ultimate kill shot, when Acosta makes the accusation of "violating American norms of immigration" is to ask Acosta if he's so ignorant that he's never heard of an Operation Wetback.
because honoring American traditions would mean that we should implement Operation Wetback TWO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback
((( Stephen Miller ))) has obvious handicaps with regard to voicing support for true American policy though.
Excellent poem, btw. I like the meme personally as well, but I think it may be lacking in normie appeal.
@55 Cail Corishev
"Mises Institute President Jeff Deist: "Trump should offer immediate US immigration status to Venezuelans..."
Remember Rahm Emanuel's line, "Never let a serious crisis go to waste"? The libertardian version is, "Never pass up a chance to drag more people into the country." "
Now all he has to do is advocate for an invasion of Venezuela because muh democracy and muh WMDs, and he could be a "neolibertarian." Then again, Venezuela is a long ways from greater Israel, and doesn't border Russia, so maybe that wouldn't work.
RB wrote:"RB you have to go back....RB you have to go back....RB you have to go back."
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Hmmm...Doesn't work.
Tell that to this guy: http://imgur.com/a/muZEg
I like the idea. But as is, you couldn't make a song out of it: opening lines don't fit into a pleasant meter and the last four lines sound too artificial and aren't very musical either. Here are my changes to the 1st 3 lines:
The Lady of Liberty's not a French whore,
We've had enough - don't want any more.
Give us none of your tired and poor huddled masses,
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I'll keep noddling with the rest to see if I come up with anything. It seems like you were steering it to end with "go back!", but I think the rhetorical mission should be to just emphatically remove the welcome mat.
They may not be COMING in the numbers they used to, but they sure aren't going back, and you can take that to the bank.
Then Lady Liberty's torch will see considerable use. But the nation will be ethnically homogenous again. The historical trends are clear.
Al @7
One thing to remember is that Jay and Emma Lazarus are working different sides of the same street; i.e. both are taking poetic license for political effect. **Of course** the Federalists are emphasizing the common ground of the former colonists, to better sell the concept of a strong, centrally controlled government/economic system. But to do so requires the Federalists to elide very real differences within "these United States." (Of course, Jay can be considered more benign than Hamilton, who is sometimes accused of consciously instigating the Whiskey Rebellion to better bring the fractious frontier to heel.)
It would be very convenient for the Alt-Right if the "instrumentalities" of the Constitution did in fact reflect the rhetoric of Jay, Hamilton, et al, but the Naturalization Act of 1790 remains a bit of legislative housekeeping, a reworking of the Plantation Act of 1740 for the new country.
Or, to put it another way, Jay's "band of brothers" emphasis is focused more on selling the Federalist vision of government than it is about controlling population dynamics in the future. After all, despite Jay's emphasis on the country's homogeneity, fully 20-25% of white population came from non-British stock--basically the same percentage (and numerical equivalent in 1790) as Scotland was to England.
Yet even during the war years, these "non-Brits" were not seen as a threat--there were no garrisons or internment camps, nor was there a reason to think any particular group would remain an "eternal alien" presence in the country. If anything, it was my Scots-Irish ancestors who kept men like Hamilton up nights, being as they were--how shall we say?--over-represented both in Shay's Rebellion and the previously mentioned Whiskey Rebellion.
In short, I think it would be fair to say that the Founders **expected** that the ethnic breakdown of the former colonies would remain something they would recognize; and you can make the case that Hamilton! especially **wanted** a more homogeneous, cohesive citizenry. To say that the Founders **intended** to establish a mechanism that would eternally winnow out certain (white) immigrants, however, simply isn't supported by the evidence.
Hey, here's a poem! Written by an American, too!
How courteous is the Japanese;
He always says, “Excuse it, please.”
He climbs into his neighbor’s garden,
And smiles, and says, “I beg your pardon”;
He bows and grins a friendly grin,
And calls his hungry family in;
He grins, and bows a friendly bow;
“So sorry, this my garden now.”
BBGKB;
Pro-choice; the Rio Grande or the Styx ...
"And here I thought you guys only wanted Saxons!"
saxons are over rated.
The Statue of Liberty was made originally as a gift for Egypt, to be placed in the Suez Canal. Egypt did not want the statue, finding it too old-fashioned.
It was a hand-me-down.
Nate wrote:actually the only immigrants we want are the Afrikkaners
I would favor providing them with artillery, fighter jets, and small arms. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, most Afrikkaners would weep at the thought of killing the rapists of their women, and give the artillery to the Bantu.
Seriously, is any non-Anglican church as cucked as the Dutch Reformed?
'A college classmate of Miller's told the New York Times that he introduced himself at a freshman mixer by saying, “My name is Stephen Miller, I am from Los Angeles, and I like guns.”'
This is the best meme you're published.
@48 'The only immigrants we want are Jews."
You mean: into israel, right? You must go back to greet them and help them assimilate to YOUR country!
@58 "France could not have struck a more devastating blow to than the American nation than she did when she gifted us with the Statue of Liberty.
If it was up to me the statue would be removed."
Last flail of the Revolution? Last slap at freedom and self-reliance? (Wonder if there is a retro-fit for a guillotine in there?)
What is most revealing is how reliably it is those of non European descent who tend to be the most vocal advocates of a mixed nation. In a real nation a foreigner like Acosta who advocated invading his host nation openly like that would be beaten to a bloody pulp before being deported.
This is not rocket science folks. It's so obvious. It's so @%$# obvious.
"THE THIRD COLOSSUS
The Lady of Liberty is not a French whore,
We have endured enough; we don't want any more.
Don't give us your tired, your poor huddled masses,
Your refugee refuse of conflict and lack.
They may be the finest of your foreign classes,
But nevertheless, they have to go back!"
Too bad Dr. Seuss was a prog and couldn't have written that...
"Acosta should learn Cuban. They may require it."
Never trust a #$*% Cuban on the immigration issue. Never, ever.
yeah, well, until prior deportation and return is punishable by a .22 to the brainstem, none of it matters.
Does anyone else feel like this is just window-dressing and play-acting? "(fill in Mestizo name) was arrested for aggravated rape of a minor under 13 after being deported fifteen times since 2006."
If I showed back up in Guatemala after being deported a bunch of times, I'd assume they'd put me in a shallow grave.
Cuban immigrants. Reminds me of the story I read about the Cuban immigrant family, whose ancestors held slaves in Cuba, who use minority set-aside laws to do Florida's state bond issue underwriting, a sinecure position paying literally millions of dollars for NOTHING.
Rich? Check.
Minority? My ass.
Robbing Americans blind? Damn straight.
THEY HAVE TO GO BACK.
It was rather ironic and amusing that Acosta's retort to hearing the real history of Lazarus' poem was to say it sounded like "national park revisionism" along with the laughter from his fellow presstitutes.
CNN is fake news and history.
'A college classmate of Miller's told the New York Times that he introduced himself at a freshman mixer by saying, “My name is Stephen Miller, I am from Los Angeles, and I like guns.”'
I hope that's true because that is awesome.
I meant in Israel the only immigrants we want are Jews.
"national park revisionism"
What does this even mean? Is it just word salad? A web search just turns up lots of references to Acosta saying it.
@ Cail Corishev
"national park revisionism"
"What does this even mean? Is it just word salad? A web search just turns up lots of references to Acosta saying it."
"Revisionism" = Progressivese for "history-related wrongthink/ heresy." More importantly, it serves as a signal to other leftists that they must not listen to anything that the "revisionist" says, and should jump in with mindless support for the officially-endorsed narrative.
The "national park" portion of this meaningless ad hominem just seems be an attempt at generalization, as if the facts that Miller presented were merely part of a known subcategory of the "revisionism" type of heresy (Statue of Liberty is a national park).
Cail, my take is that Acosta is trying to counter Miller's brief "well, actually" argument. Its historical fluff that you'd hear from a national park ranger/tour guide. An interesting little factoid but you know, irrelevant to history according to Acosta and his kind.
How dare Miller challenge their narrative that they have worked hard to develop now for a century. History only matters when they say it matters. Just like free speech for everyone unless its hate speech. Its Acosta saying, "this is offensive, please remove".
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@Francis and @FP, thanks. So when he said it sounded like national park revisionism, he wanted people to think it was literally national park revisionism, that Miller was making stuff up or twisting the facts. Just another CNN lie, then.
@27 Rocklea
She needs a chainsaw.
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Instead of melting down the statue, give it a chainsaw, laser beam eyes, a mouth that can spew forth lava, etc.
Then move it to The Wall as a centerpiece.
Tangentially On-Topic:
A child of immigrants who grew up and lived in the People's Republic of California thinks having the middle-class fleeing California is a GOOD thing, since it makes room for more immigrants:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeQ3wHkvJw0
Josh (the gayest thing here) wrote:Huh? That made zero sense.
Destroying monuments you don't agree with is a blm/splc thing
The Statue of Liberty is being used as a symbol and excuse to destroy our nation. It has to go back.
The SoL is a Frog monument. If they didn't want us trashing it, they never should have left it here.
I've always loved the Statue of Liberty.
Always hated that commie poem, too.
Kinda torn here.
Acosta proves the Cubans aren't sending their best.
Time to make re-gifting great again.
@83 Cail Corishev
"national park revisionism"
What does this even mean? Is it just word salad? A web search just turns up lots of references to Acosta saying it.
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I have a vague idea there was some gay national park sitcom during this recent SJW era that I never watched, but only heard of. Acosta probably watched it wrapped up in his anime statue of liberty body pillow.
@87 Cail Corishev
"Just another CNN lie, then"
CNN is fake news, after all.
Though the Left has in common with a particular ethny that they tend to think of the "truth" or "falsehood" of a particular statement in terms of how well it fits with the officially-promoted narrative, not in terms of whether it is consistent with objective reality or not. The term "revisionism" is mostly used by people who think this way. Have you ever seen the artificial diversification/ blackwashing of movies set in medieval England characterized as "historical revisionism," for example?
Not really a useful word for our side at this point.
RE: National Park revisionism: Similar to my trip to the Supreme Court when the tour guide explained that Moses pictured holding the tablets of the ten commandments located on the south frieze was one of America's founders holding the first ten amendments.
"88. Blogger Were-Puppy August 03, 2017 1:39 PM
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Instead of melting down the statue, give it a chainsaw, laser beam eyes, a mouth that can spew forth lava, etc.
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Make the statue into what it really is, a blood drunk delusional whore riding a beast that thinks she's worthy of worship.
@67: "Written by an American"
His mother's maiden name was Chenault. Sounds pretty Frog to me.
I like to use the mix of the anchor baby washed up on shore and the statue of liberty from the original planet of the apes.
Made a meme and put Acostas America as the text.
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"No thank you. The only immigrants we want are Jews."
Who is this 'we' you speak of, Kemosabestein?
I'm not sure if it's a Sanctuary City, but Detroit is full 3rd world
Half of the mayoral candidates in the primaries are clearly qualified as they are already felons and don't have to wait until they are in office.
Civic nationalism anyone?
I meant we in Israel only want Jews to immigrate to israel. I thought that was obvious as I was responding to a comment offering to send the statue of liberty to Israel.
Acosta proves the Cubans aren't sending their best.
@92 Anonymous
They don't have any "best".
Cubans are one of the few peoples that I wish would die out, who actually are.
No thank you. The only immigrants we want are Jews.
@48 Jew613
If you're an Israeli, that's fine with me.
This has monumentally (pun intended) triggered libs, who've spent generations turning it into the Statue of Immigrants. The jokes write themselves, and come almost too easily.
Statue turns into statute.
Poetry law? Talk about poetic justice.
Send the Statue of Liberty to France. We American worship Jesus, not Hebert's Goddess of Reason.
And send the plaque with the Emma Lazarus poem to Israel. Lets see if *they* follow her advice.
But Congress won't vote to send 'em back--anyway, the (((Supreme Court))) would find such a vote unconstitutional.
I amuse myself working in the melting pot city of San Francisco. Virtue signalling rabid Hillary supporting shitlibs love to talk about trying to find an affordable house in a "good neighborhood". The amusement part kicks in when I ask them to define what makes a neighborhood "good", since San Francisco has an open lottery systems of which school your child will be assigned, the weather typically sucks in almost every area, parking sucks everywhere....
For extra lulz it is fun to do this after they have recently chanted the refrain "diversity is our strength".
The latest virtue signal is to express how much they love, love, LOVE the new musical Hamilton and brag about where their overprices seats were located.
Dread Ilk, please help me out here. What do you think would be the most effective shiv to cause pain during these Hamilton "I'm not a racist" humble brag expositions?
1. "I enjoy great musicals, could you hum the song that you found the catchiest in Hamilton?"
2. "Before catching a play or musical, I like to read the original story, such as Les Miserable. Which book is "Hamilton" based on so I read it first?"
3. "Ah yes, Hamilton, the ebonics Cliff Notes mansplaining of how the electoral college was created?"
4. "Oh, Hamilton, is that the story about the black dude who's pictures is on the $1,000 bill? I can't believe they made a musical about some early African American banker"
For the record, I've tried #1 and #2 above already, and it didn't create the head explosion that I was hoping for, since I underestimate the cognitive impairment of liberals.
We need to start a fundraiser to sand-blast that poem off of Lady Liberty's base.
Now, can anyone think of a fund-raising site that wouldn't automatically kill such a campaign? Don't all speak up at once now ....
We should redo the statue with anime eyes and a red armband.
The Statute of Liberty faces the ocean so it is symbolically the first thing incoming ships see. Replace the torch with a flaming sword and sandblast or cover the poem on the base so people have far warning.
"I thought that was obvious as I was responding to a comment offering to send the statue of liberty to Israel."
Too f'ing bad. Your tribe polluted our country by taking every opportunity, every. single. time., to support the foisting upon us of the huddled masses yearning to breed for free. We pay for your f'ing country. It's only justice to make you smile and swallow the muds until WE say you're good and full.
@110:"We need to start a fundraiser to sand-blast that poem off of Lady Liberty's base."
It's just a plaque.
https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6166/6257554687_37b9df70d1_b.jpg
I think this: some seriously hard core autists should remove the plaque from the statue of liberty. Even better replace it with another one.
“When darkness breaches our golden shore,
Be wary, those who seek to come,
For those who wish to enter,
No EBT cards remain for you,
The lamp is shining on open gun safes.”
Yearning to be free
not just any huddled masses
those yearning to be free
If only those who actually yearned to be free had come, they wouldn't be a problem.
If only those who actually yearned to be free had come, they wouldn't be a problem.
Muslims who want to be free to mutilate their daughters' genitals are still Muslims who mutilate their daughters.
Diseased people who want to be free are still diseased people.
People with 70 IQs and no skills who want to be free are still people with 70 IQs and no skills.
You're doing a heck of a job of demonstrating the stupidity of civic nationalism.
Cail Corishev wrote:If only those who actually yearned to be free had come, they wouldn't be a problem.
People with 70 IQs and no skills who want to be free are still people with 70 IQs and no skills.
The desire for actual political freedom seems to be counter intuitive to the low IQ. Even the average IQ.
The game theoretic aspect of politics escapes them.
So you're going to restrict the definition of "yearning to be free" nonsensically so that the "bad" immigrants can't meet it, to preserve mah civic nationalism. Got it.
Why should America, or any country, give a shit what foreign citizens are "yearning" for? What nation cares about American "yearnings?" Even if you bought into the poem, it was written at a time when the government wasn't offering colonists pay and benefits. The fundamental perversion of a system where resources are forcibly extracted and given to culturally hostile invaders is staggering. The apotheosis of leftist bizzaro reality.
Uncle John's Band wrote:Why should America, or any country, give a shit what foreign citizens are "yearning" for?
Because allies with shared values are useful in a world hostile to those values.
Cail Corishev wrote:So you're going to restrict the definition of "yearning to be free" nonsensically so that the "bad" immigrants can't meet it
I'm glad that you've come around to agreeing with me.
See, progress is possible.
RB, Many of your fellow invaders have already gone back. Every day, more do the same. A smart person would leave early, on a timetable of his own design. Before the mass arrests and imprisonment begins. Before the subsequent cash paid for each illegal captured bounty system begins. Before the lynchings begin. Before the necktie parties begin. Before shoot-on-sight begins.
The funny thing about Acosta's "they shouldn't have to learn English" thing is that if you watch any Spanish media, every other commercial is for a "learn English" program.
saxons are over rated.
The original virtue signalers...
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