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Mme. Defarge

(8,055 posts)
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 05:48 PM Jan 2021

Welcome to Scotland Donald John Trump!

‘Breathes there the man’
Sir Walter Scott


I
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d,
As home his footsteps he hath turn’d,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.

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Welcome to Scotland Donald John Trump! (Original Post) Mme. Defarge Jan 2021 OP
I don't know which is more ironic..... MyOwnPeace Jan 2021 #1
Sorry, we're on lockdown frazzled Jan 2021 #2
Thanks for this! Tanuki Jan 2021 #3
something's never change stillcool Jan 2021 #4
They have some great nicknames for him already Wicked Blue Jan 2021 #5
They really really like him!! Thekaspervote Jan 2021 #8
Breathes there the "man" Blue Owl Jan 2021 #6
Remarkable poem and proof of history repeating itself diva77 Jan 2021 #7
Excellent. Scott's poem fits trump to a tee. panader0 Jan 2021 #9
Perhaps Sir Walter Scott visited our time in a fever dream and returned to his bed NoRoadUntravelled Jan 2021 #10
Perfect! northoftheborder Jan 2021 #11
Thanks for the apt dose of Sir Walter Scott yonder Jan 2021 #12
Actor David Tennant's message to Trump, on behalf of the Scottish nation Withywindle Jan 2021 #13

MyOwnPeace

(16,946 posts)
1. I don't know which is more ironic.....
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 05:55 PM
Jan 2021

A poem from a Scot that blasts their "future" visitor, or that it was posted by Mme. Defarge (Guillotine, guillotine!!!!!!).

Wicked Blue

(5,861 posts)
5. They have some great nicknames for him already
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 06:05 PM
Jan 2021

Mangled Apricot Hellbeast
Tangerine Wankmaggot
Fossil Fool
Failed Fanny
Cockwomble
Incompressible Jizz Trumpet
Witless Fucking Cocksplat
Horny White Wanker
Wotsit-Faced Gammon
Waste Man
Tweeting Twat
Tangerine Roaster
Tiny-Fingered, Cheeto-Faced, Ferret-Wearing Shitgibbon
Tosser
Fuckin’ Scunner
Teeny Tiny Handed, Rotten Fish Coloured, Wank Stained Roaster
Spoon (cause he can’t be trusted with a knife or fork)
Tanned White Trash Wanker
Reakin’ Jobby
Numpty Trumpty

NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
10. Perhaps Sir Walter Scott visited our time in a fever dream and returned to his bed
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 06:17 PM
Jan 2021

weeping, not for the man with soul so dead but for those who suffered and died because he lived.

yonder

(9,683 posts)
12. Thanks for the apt dose of Sir Walter Scott
Mon Jan 4, 2021, 07:02 PM
Jan 2021

And from it I learned a new word which applies to the subject, then and now. pelf: riches or wealth, especially if ill-gained.

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