US Politics Thread

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I've lived and worked in the U.S. since the Mets last won the World Series. Had a good career, paid taxes, traveled all over. and will probably die here. But I never became a citizen, being too irredeemably English to swear loyalty to another country. But at 77 I'm going to do it. When the ceremony's done and they hand me my piece of paper I want to ask "So I'm a U.S. citizen now? And i can speak my mind?" And when they tell me yes I'll say "well then, Donald Trump is an evil **** and I bet a lot of you in this hall agree."
I moved to the US in 2002. I was quite happy to live on Visas then a Green Card and recognize that politics was just something that happened to me. In 2019 I took citizenship because I simply couldn’t sit on the sidelines any longer.
 
That was definitely a nod to Trump/MAGA near the end.
From the epilogue to Bertolt Brecht's play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Hitler as a Chicago gangster) written in 1941 but reworked in English translation after the war:

The dog is dead, but don't rejoice you men,
The bitch that bore him is in heat again.
 

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