[Magdalen] Our "sh*thole" president.

[Marion Thompson]

Wow.  Tom Eaton is right on the money in this piece.  Wow.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 1/12/2018 6:04 PM, Sally Davies wrote:
> Hi everyone from South S#%thole!!
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> General view here is that we don’t care about the vulgar language. Or even Trump whose racism has been on fulsome display since the Primaries along with all his other prejudices and unconscious fears. Dignity of office - shed that on Day One.
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> We care that so many Americans lack the guts to stand up to him, to demand answers and to risk his displeasure. Those Senators for example, what a spineless lot.
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> Another protest march would be good right about now. Very loud and very yuge. Just saying.
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> Meanwhile here is South SH journalist Tom Eaton speaking for most of us here
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> https://www.timeslive.co.za/ideas/2018-01-12-trump-wins-the-race-to-the-bottom/
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> Sally D
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 12 Jan 2018, at 23:44, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Renouncing one's country of birth is a part of the citizenship ritual/law in the US.
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>> Lynn,  musing on how much of the immigrant talk has revealed the early 20C in ways even I, who thought I was well educated in history on a variety of planes, had not realized. The xenophobia before and after WW1 for example. Musing on the greater metro Detroit area in my youth - *many* suburban families were WW2 war refugees, resettled in suburban Detroit - some adapted and assimilated quickly, some not so much. Also remembering a colleague of my fathers, also a Mechanical Engineer, whose family walked across the frozen Detroit River from Canada when he was a 5 year old child, on a cold cloudy night and ultimately became citizens.
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>> Nothing is simple.
>> Lynn (again)
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>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
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>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
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>> "Mercy and compassion are more than personal options. They are the antidotes to that fear and hatred." Mark Singel
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>> From: "cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2018 3:25 PM
>> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>> Cc: <cantor03 at aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Our "sh*thole" president.
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>>> By coincidence, my maternal grandparents would have
>>> passed Trump approval.  I have a framed certificate dating
>>> from 1865 showing that they "renounced" the King of Norway,
>>> and expressed intent for obtaining citizenship in the USA
>>> (Philadelphia, 1865).  I suspect they were not handing out
>>> certificates when the paternal ancestors arrived at New
>>> Rochelle, NY fleeing Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu
>>> (1688).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David Strang.
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>>>
>>> In a message dated 1/12/2018 4:15:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
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>>>
>>> No, he stood next to the leader of Norway that either earlier in the day or
>>> for sure the day before, so it may have been the first country that came to
>>> mind....