George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽Nov 13, 2023
Trump is telling his followers that immigrants are “poisoning the blood” of the country. This is straight out of the Hitler playbook. It’s an open nod to white supremacy, and it has no place in our society. And he has threatened to round up 11 million undocumented immigrants. That means attacks upon whole communities. Raids in the night. No due process. We can’t let it happen again.
Show threadSimon BrookeNov 13, 2023

@georgetakei well, seeing that all (without exception) white people are the descendants of immigrants, presumably he thinks all are poisoning the blood of the United States and should be "sent home"?

I have to say, I do not believe either Germany or Scotland would willingly accept the Trump family back.

Show threadAgitatra 🚲🐻🌿🇪🇺🇺🇦Nov 14, 2023
@simon_brooke @georgetakei Well, when he visited the city of his forefathers here in Germany, the reactions were rather muted, to say the least.
Show threadPeter BrownNov 14, 2023
@agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei well when his grandfather returned to their village in Germany, having made his fortune running a bar in the gold rush, the village refused to take the family back as they had escaped the draft for the war. So they had to go back to America, and they changed their name from Strumpf to Trump to sound less German and the whole family developed a pathological dislike for the Germans. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=merkel+lecturing+trump&t=iphone&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.r29static.com%2Fbin%2Fentry%2Fd9a%2F0%2C0%2C2000%2C1050%2Fx%2C80%2F1978772%2Fimage.jpg
merkel lecturing trump at DuckDuckGo

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Show threadPeter BrownNov 14, 2023

@agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei and when Trump called at his mother’s family house on the Isle of Lewis it was not a lengthy visit. I think it was less than 10 minutes.

Edit: “this was the briefest of stopovers. He spent 97 seconds inside his mother's birthplace” 🤣

Show threadMaggie Gordon

@peterbrown @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei

Shout out for Karine Polwart’s sublime song on this matter: I burn but I am not consumed. Memorably she performed the song in a Tiny Desk Session in New York - magnificent!

Nov 14, 2023 at 6:48pmWeb
Show threadPeter BrownNov 14, 2023
@barfilfarm @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei why have I never heard of this before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oBXOIbAtZw
I Burn but I Am Not Consumed

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Show threadMaggie GordonNov 15, 2023

@peterbrown @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei

She is a sublime wordsmith and storyteller with a stunning voice. The whole album is worth some of your time. She is performing with others at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh on the 22nd to raise money for MAP

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-for-map-tickets-746915362957

A night for MAP

Karine Polwart, Dave Milligan, Liz Lochhead, Steve Kettley, Aidan O'Rourke & Bashir Saade in a benefit concert for MAP

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Show threadMaggie GordonNov 15, 2023

@peterbrown @agitatra @simon_brooke @georgetakei

My mistake: Tiny Desk performance was in Washington DC - but by way of an apology, here’s the link. Enjoy:

https://www.npr.org/2019/04/08/711244527/karine-polwart-trio-tiny-desk-concert