I can imagine, all too easily.
âGive me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Give me, give me now, give me, oh God yes yes give me the wretched refuse of your teeming shore now, I want them now, harder, faster, send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door to light a cigarette. Whoo, yeah!â
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Cuba. God. Ted Cruzâs sacrifice.
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Itâs been claimed that Bartholdiâs model for the statueâs body was actually a local sex worker of his acquaintance (other stories say that it was his wife). Hence the New York nickname for the statue, âthe Whore in the Harborâ.
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Why am I not even slightly surprised?
The only thing sheâs missing is a smart phone in her hand to take a âselfie.â
Ted Cruz shouldnât let Denny Hastert write his analogies, itâs creepy.
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Ted Cruz, âAmerica is best when on her knees and receiving the warm love I can giver herâ.
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It could also be an Irish connection - Dublin statues have similar names:
The tart with the cart/the dish with the fish/the dolly with the trolley/the trollop with the scallop/the flirt in the skirt
The prick with the stick
The stiletto in the ghetto/the erection at the intersection/the stiffy at the Liffey
The floozie in the jacuzzi/the whore in the sewer
âŠamong others.
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The airmenâs memorial in Toronto, aka Gumby Goes to Heaven
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well, millions of people do enter her each yearâŠ
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As someone not well-versed in wrestling, I thought it was some sort of sexual innuendo. Given all the other creepy things heâs said, the version I inferred seemed in character. My next thought was WTF?
Fortunately BB set me straight. But I wonder how many others also inferred the wrong thing.
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Ahhh G.L.O.W. a show I loved as an early teen, for all the wrong reasons.
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To be fair, there is a long history of rhetoric around the nation (not just ours, but the nation as a concept) as being a woman, from the 19th century. Sometimes sheâs leading the charge and sometimes, she is written about in terms of something that needs to be protected and cared for by the men of the nation. Marianne is probably the most well-known example of this trope. Itâs straight out of the 19th century, where people were still hashing out not only what the nation-state was going to be, but what roles that men and women would play in these new political entitiesâŠ
(takes off history hat)
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The weird personification of abstract concepts fascinates me. It seems like it stopped in the west around the same time political cartoonists started getting away with just writing âAmericaâ on the side of whatever metaphor they happened to be using.
Of course itâs alive and well in Japanâsee the Hetalia: Axis Powers or Sega âHard Girls.â
America personified as a female was called âColumbiaâ (as a male, obv, it was âUncle Samâ).
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NoTed.
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Calm down. He is just saying that America has a strong guard game.
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