“A New Life in a New Land” - I guess that’s what the Trump regime is giving the hapless people who are being deported to a nation they’ve never heard of before.
Let put on hold for a minute a discussion about how awful deporting people to countries they’ve never been to is, and let’s pick up the issue raised by Trish piece-of-shit-hope-she-can’t-sleep-at-night. Why are we sending people who are “so barbaric” to a third world country with limited resources? What are we doing to the people of that country, if these individuals are “depraved monsters” who are, presumably, going to “terrorize” them?
"Going by the outfits there, those pioneers are in about 1850-1890-ish."
Going by the Connestoga wagon in the background, if this depicts an American scene, it's likely pre-transcontinental railroad. But why guess? Google exists.
Oh, look what I found! The TOP.TWO Google results for this painting are pages from Focus on the Family. In fact, it's almost the ONLY results for the painting "A Prayer for a New Life" aside from news stories about the this very DHS post. Apparently they've been hawking this paining for a while.
Gee Marcie, don'tcha think it would have been good to know that this vaguely racist image posted on the official Homeland Security account was almost certainly pulled from the online store for vaguely racist and notably Christian Nationalist organization? Google is your friend.
The instant I saw that painting I knew it was extraordinarily ahistorical. For one thing, that hairstyle didn't come in until the 90s for grown women. Even poor women on the road in their most casual outfits would have had their hair fully up to indicate they were adult women and decent.
Is there some reason DHS hates actual history? Why must everything be given the Thomas Kinkade Bullshit Treatment™️? (Rhetorical questions- we know why.)
All they know is "history" as it has been presented on TV, like modern (for the day) hairstyles on "Little House on the Prairie" and, most notably, the later seasons of "Happy Days."
Did Eswasiti even ask for these people, or were they just dump on them? The very, very, next to nothing I know about the place other is that it is a mountain kingdom that kinda managed to maintain its independence from direct imperial rule (and from South Africa)... dirt poor (and depending on remittances from its own migrant laborers), and having snow, and even a ski resort, it's called the Switzerland of Africa.
At https://www.morganweistling.com: "Attention! I DID NOT give the DHS permission to use my painting in their recent postings on their official web platforms. They used a painting I did 5 years ago and re-titled it and posted it without my permission. It is a violation of my copyright on the painting. It was a surprise to me and I am trying to gather how this happen and what to do next. Thank you for those of you that let me know about it."
“A New Life in a New Land” - I guess that’s what the Trump regime is giving the hapless people who are being deported to a nation they’ve never heard of before.
Let put on hold for a minute a discussion about how awful deporting people to countries they’ve never been to is, and let’s pick up the issue raised by Trish piece-of-shit-hope-she-can’t-sleep-at-night. Why are we sending people who are “so barbaric” to a third world country with limited resources? What are we doing to the people of that country, if these individuals are “depraved monsters” who are, presumably, going to “terrorize” them?
"Going by the outfits there, those pioneers are in about 1850-1890-ish."
Going by the Connestoga wagon in the background, if this depicts an American scene, it's likely pre-transcontinental railroad. But why guess? Google exists.
Oh, look what I found! The TOP.TWO Google results for this painting are pages from Focus on the Family. In fact, it's almost the ONLY results for the painting "A Prayer for a New Life" aside from news stories about the this very DHS post. Apparently they've been hawking this paining for a while.
Gee Marcie, don'tcha think it would have been good to know that this vaguely racist image posted on the official Homeland Security account was almost certainly pulled from the online store for vaguely racist and notably Christian Nationalist organization? Google is your friend.
Nothing like opening the article and seeing the women facing the ICE agents are your daughter and granddaughters. Proud of my girls.
𝒘𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝑷𝑬 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒈𝒆𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒚.
In my experience, PE teachers usually taught Geography as well. (Although admittedly that experience was sometime in the middle of the last century.)
Thank you. Your writing is the only thing that comes close to expressing the dizzying outrage I feel
The instant I saw that painting I knew it was extraordinarily ahistorical. For one thing, that hairstyle didn't come in until the 90s for grown women. Even poor women on the road in their most casual outfits would have had their hair fully up to indicate they were adult women and decent.
Is there some reason DHS hates actual history? Why must everything be given the Thomas Kinkade Bullshit Treatment™️? (Rhetorical questions- we know why.)
All they know is "history" as it has been presented on TV, like modern (for the day) hairstyles on "Little House on the Prairie" and, most notably, the later seasons of "Happy Days."
Barbarians deserve better than this, barbarians are cool. The best character class in any game that lets you play as them.
I'm not a Social Justice Warrior, I'm a Social Justice Barbarian, thank you very much.
Is your face painted like Braveheart, only it's the trans colors instead, because Mel Gibson is a MAGA sycophant if I recall right?
Eswatini sounds like a cocktail. Trump will send people to this place he’s never heard of, formerly known as Swaziland.
Hell is real, and we're living in it.
Did Eswasiti even ask for these people, or were they just dump on them? The very, very, next to nothing I know about the place other is that it is a mountain kingdom that kinda managed to maintain its independence from direct imperial rule (and from South Africa)... dirt poor (and depending on remittances from its own migrant laborers), and having snow, and even a ski resort, it's called the Switzerland of Africa.
My question is always the same. Cui bono?
Harrowing piece. If Marcie keeps covering this issue, she may stumble into a Pulitzer.
The only people I can see terrorizing American communities are MAGA.
At https://www.morganweistling.com: "Attention! I DID NOT give the DHS permission to use my painting in their recent postings on their official web platforms. They used a painting I did 5 years ago and re-titled it and posted it without my permission. It is a violation of my copyright on the painting. It was a surprise to me and I am trying to gather how this happen and what to do next. Thank you for those of you that let me know about it."
McLaughlin's another one that has a special spot in hell reserved for her.
Also, re: Morgan Weistling: Yep, it's the good old GOP again, using art without permission from the artist. Just another day in Trumplandia.
Why don't they just use some of Jon McNaughton's stuff? He LOVES doing all that "Trump is God" shit...