The New Golden Door

🗽it's not a golden door anymore 🗽the king and god both forswore 🗽and now it's a gate to eternal horror 🗽CECOT in El Salvador 💀

the new golden door. shows statue of liberty with quote from her base, along with the very crowded cecot prison in el salvador where the usa has been shipping venezuelans
CECOT supermax prison in El Salvador where Trump sent non El Salvadorans to die

I'm not going to act surprised or anything to find out some of my homeless friends are getting their food assistance shut off. Since they're not gainfully employed and all. So, work or starve. Here we are.

Pretty rich considering the literal inscription at Lady Liberty's base includes the word homeless. But we are a faithless, feckless lot, aren't we. Just ask anybody we've ever had a treaty with. Eh?

the new golden door. shows statue of liberty with quote from her base, along with the very crowded cecot prison in el salvador where the usa has been shipping venezuelans
give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, i lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Had a bit of an emotional and mythic reaction earlier to an accumulation of bad news from my poverty peeps. I didn't even know I had tears of rage to fight down, but I do.

text reads: The part of me that is little gods responsible for loaves and fishes is very upset right now, I don't think I can explain. Let's just call it poetic license mixed with a bit of a god complex. images are of hungry people begging for food, and baskets of bread and whole fish
You may call it blasphemy. I call it holding the faith.

Like it or not, I was overwhelmed with Christian programming growing up so I will never be able to escape being culturally Christian at the very least. And I'm kind of an angry atheist. But you know, that Christ guy, he was on to a few things.

For one, I think he'd stan Luigi Mangione. And health insurance and food and housing for all. For Chrissakes. This fucking for profit bullshit has got to go. And boy oh boy would he be flipping some tables right about now. Let's not even get into Palestine, because I think he'd be on the Palestinians' side. Definitely pro DEI and transgender.

This world is so trash right now. And there's no savior coming to get us. We're all we have. But it sure would be nice, to have a Gandalf the Grey stand up and say, "Hello, my name is Luigi Mangione, you killed democracy, you shall not pass." And fail some mofos. With fire. Into the sun. We need a cosmic scale yeeting.