President Obama: "We Didn't Raise the Statue of Liberty With Her Back to the World..

[Cha]

Link to tweet

Just another sweet reminder of who we had as POTUS

And this..

Link to tweet

[frazzled]

1. My parents had friends with those numbers tattooed on their arms

I knew what they were, so I never asked any questions. I was a child, and I didn't want to hear anything. I used to have nightmares, though.

[Cha]

3. It was an atrocious and unbearably sad time in history

.. We Shall Not Forget

It sounds like you were tuned in to their suffering, frazzled.

[Stonepounder]

12. My parents had friends with those numbers tattooed on their arms as well.

And like you, my parents made damn sure I knew why they were there. I suspect that's one of the many reasons I have grown up as a life-long liberal, and life-long Democrat.

[Cha]

13. I had never seen it before while I was growing up..

lived too much of a sheltered life in that respect.

When I found out I was horrified.. I couldn't wrap my head around all the unbearable suffering that that the hitler monster created.

Germany warned us about trump in January 2016.. of course we didn't listen.. too much email "news" to report.

Mahalo Stonepounder

[mopinko]

34. if you have a tat, you know something

like, that it hurts to get a tat. you accept it because you want to. it isnt unbearable.
but to do that to someone against their will? that right there is torture.

[frazzled]

36. Well, it's not really about the pain of tattooing

It's about being turned from an individual into a number. Remember, first these people's jobs were taken from them, then their homes, then often their country, and then they became a mere number in a camp.

My parents friends were lucky. Most of the people who were numbered were ... you know the rest.

[Raster]

2. Thank goodness that The Big O has decided NOT to slink off to obscurity...

... and keep his mouth shut. I think "O" can be a major vehicle for change and clarity in these oh-so troubled trump* times.

[flamingdem]

5. So true, he's still there and letting us know

that he feels our pain.

[Cha]

11. And, going to join us as

"private citizen"..

Can't wait until after they've decompressed!

Mahalo, flamingdem

[flamingdem]

30. He'll be our neighbor

Here in SoCal and in Hawaii

[Cha]

38. Right.. he's all over the place!

DC and Chicago!.. As usual..

[Cha]

6. Never any doubt.. mentioned it several times

before he left Office.. but Yeah, Thank Goodness he's not that kind!

We're going to need him something awful with blotus' War on Reality and his insane Vengence Regime.. while catering and bending over to putin.

Thank you, Raster~

[dalton99a]

18. +1

[Cha]

19. Mahalo, dalton

[dalton99a]

20. Thank you kindly.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. For what it's worth the tattoos didn't start with the Nazis

Though theirs is the most egregious and well known case of such.

My Croatian grandparents had to have them along with a passport to travel about the Austria/Hungary Empire they were part of 100 years ago. All ethnic minorities had to have them.

Hitler as I'm sure you remember was Austrian.

[Cha]

8. I didn't know that, Yo.. and it is certainly valuable

information. Such beyond horror and scary times for ethnic minorities in Eastern Europe.

And, now the USA is doing it in the name of trump. Germany warned us about him in January 2016, Did we take heed? Those who sat home or voted for stein? No.

Thank you!

[malaise]

46. Look up branding and slavery

That's where it started

[moonscape]

16. Interesting. My mother was Croatian, I'm

first generation American, and neither my grandparents (born late 19th century) nor any of their siblings had them. They did travel but I have no knowledge of specifics beyond that. My mother married a Hungarian (my father, who would be >100 yrs old) which was quite a scandal as my grandfather was governor of Croatia at the time, and clearly they were not fond of Hungarians!

I'm interested to learn more about this and will research, but if you have any historical references to point me to I'd be grateful.

[oasis]

7. During the Bush 43 administration, many Americans who traveled

abroad were ashamed to reveal they were U.S. citizens. Sadly, those times are about to return.

[Cha]

10. I remember that well.. because bush2 sent our Soldiers

onto the killing fields of Iraq wiping out hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, too.

Now we have this other monster who doesn't deal in reality either with his Vengeance is MINE Regime. Trying to wipe out everything good about America.. anyone's guess when their WAR will start besides the one ON REALITY.. and what country will be the target

Mahalo oasis~

[ffr]

9. I think we should ask our KGOP congresscritters if and when Lady Liberty will be taken down.

She stands for nothing, at this point. And the current regime doesn't want any huddled masses. Tear her down and use her materials to build the border wall.

Right?

[Cha]

14. That's a fair question, ffr.. and excellent point.

Mahalo!

[Upthevibe]

15. I believe that President Obama and Mrs. Obama will be all over this country as bright lights

helping to move this nation towards its highest nature. I'm in the middle of a career change and live in L.A. I know they're going to have a center in Chicago. I'd love it if they could also have a West Coast operation in action to implement a type of fifty strate strategy (on steroids). I am available to work as I've had epiphanies that my life's work needs to be my passion whIch is activism.

[Cha]

21. I like your attitude, Upthevibe.. and your

username.

The Obamas are going to living in DC until Sasha finishes high school and he's rented an Office in the World Wildlife Fund HQ..

FYI.. Obama to open post-presidency office in World Wildlife Fund headquarters

Pics @ link.. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028359968

And, they have bought a house in Rancho Mirage, California.. and of course Chicago where his Presidential Library will be.

I'm thinking there's going to be lots places in the country to start their activism like you're hoping for!

Mahalo

[sheshe2]

35. I think we should...

Inundate the GOPers with that very question ffr.

[still_one]

17. The country was founded by immigrants. Thanks Cha

[Cha]

23. And, now in 2017 we have a decendent of them

saying... we got in and now we're locking the door.

I'm so glad my son got his wife here before the Vengeance is Mine Regime got in.

Mahalo, stillone

[Hekate]

22. KnR

[Cha]

25. Thank you, Hekate!

[Donkees]

24. We are the Statue of Liberty

[Cha]

27. That's a beautiful shot of our Statue of Liberty!!

Thank you, donkees.. hope you're having an interesting time.

[bdamomma]

51. we got to save our country

now. Damn tRump, Bannon, Pence and their sick twisted plan to end LIBERALISM.

What a beautiful picture.

[HoneyBadger]

26. This is the greatest monologue about refugees and the Statue of Liberty

I could recite it in my sleep.

https://m.

[Cha]

28. Thank you for that, HoneyBadger!

[Gothmog]

29. From Senator Murphy

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[Cha]

43. So unbearably sad.. Hillary as you know called for an increase in Syrian refugees..

Unlike DT, Hillary called for a 550% increase in Syrian refugees,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8555425

Thank you, Goth

[Gothmog]

50. Yes I knew this

Here is a tweet from Hillary Clinton

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?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[Cha]

57. Thank you for Hillary's Tweet on this, Goth.. Most certainly

not who we are.

blotus is trying to make us into russia

[MoonRiver]

31. Many of my husband's family perished in the Holocaust.

It happened before either one of us were born, but the family memories linger.

[Cha]

45. I'm so sorry to hear that, MoonRiver

[MoonRiver]

55. Thanks Cha.

Nobody in the US knew them personally. His maternal grandparents immigrated to escape the Russian pogroms, which is another (horror) story altogether. But we all knew of them, the ones who stayed behind in the supposedly tolerant Germany.

[Gothmog]

49. I have friends at my Temple who have family members who also persished

They told their stories a while back and there was not a dry eye in the Temple

[MoonRiver]

56. ...

[GliderGuider]

32. My MIL has a tattoo from Auschwitz.

Resist!

[calimary]

33. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see some reporter at a trump news conference

get up and ask - "Mr. trump, how soon will you be sending crews over to the Statue of Liberty to chisel off the plaque on the front of the pedestal - the one that says "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." ? How soon will you be doing that, to underscore your new closed-door policies?"


At EVERY step, I would like to see embarrassing and uncomfortable questions asked - that are net losers for the trump side, making them look bad, making them look UN-American, making them look traitorous and treasonous to our Constitution.

Make them look BAD. Stir shit up. Pick at the scabs til they break open and ooze and get infected. Underscore - obviously and subtly - how harmful, unconstitutional, and literally anti-American and UN-American and utterly DAMAGING their policies are. Cast them in a bad light. Infer negative things. Accentuate the negative. Start casting these policies in a VERY bad and unfavorable light. Weaken their resolve AND public support. Start fomenting doubt that these cockamamie ideas of the trump people make any sense at all.

Chip away, people. Chip away. Anywhere you find an "in."

I wrote something here quite awhile ago whose title as I recall was "think termites." THINK TERMITES. What would termites do?

WWTD

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

40. This. Absolutely.

[Cha]

44. Yes! When we will they stand up and ask blotus this question, calimary?

Thank you!

[JHan]

37. K & R

[Cha]

47. Mahalo, JH!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

39. Truth.

[bigtree]

41. Kick and Rec!

...thanks, Cha!

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

42. Last weekend I met some friends from France in New York

They were enroute to Brazil and spent three days in New York with me and my girlfriend.

The sheer absurdity of the moment wasn't lost on us as we visited the Statue or Liberty and Ellis Island.

[Gothmog]

48. From the ADL

Link to tweet

[Starry Messenger]

52. K&R

[Stellar]

53. You GO Cha'...

[treestar]

54. And he's having entry denied to legal immigrants !

Just read a story about someone who visited family in Iran and can't come back to her damn job! Not even a refugee.