For the Record: Happy Anniversary Bonus March! (With DACA Bonus)

Bonus Marchers and police, 1932. Photo by an unnamed Signal Corps photographer from the National Archives, via Wikipedia.

Just 88 years ago yesterday, in the midst of the worst economic calamity and one of the most consequential presidential elections in US history, the Bonus Expeditionary Force of 17,000 Great War veterans with their families and social justice warrior comrades were attacked with live ammunition at their Washington, DC campsite by local police, on orders from President Hoover's attorney general William Mitchell, two of them dying, and then driven out by an Army contingent under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.

Our friend Henry noted how much less respectful The New York Times was at the time toward President Hoover than they are toward President Trump today (one of the first papers to adopt a nonpartisan stance, as early as 1884, it had nevertheless endorsed every Democratic presidential candidate since 1912):

A fascinating thread about the Bonus Army yesterday highlighted similarities with protests today. But I was struck by how much *less* credulous the 1932 version of the New York Times was of Hoover compared to 2020 and Trump. “Blaming” and “Asserting”:https://t.co/BgZewqZIEb https://t.co/EdLEky5RoX

— Henry Porter (@HenryPorters) July 29, 2020

Also noteworthy was this:

Lift My Lamp

Not everybody agreed with the idea of the Emma Lazarus inscription on the Statue of Liberty at the time, including cartoonist Victor Gillam in March 1890 (h/t this blog post by Victoria Emily Jones). 

The All-New New Colossus

by Kenneth Cuccinelli

.................... Give me your tired, your poor,
At least if they can stand on their own feet,
But don't send us those homeless any more
Or people who don't have enough to eat.
Ship them back to their shitholes. Lock the door.

Via Splinter News, a story about Ken Cuccinelli's views on immigrants when he was Virginia attorney general (you'll remember him as the one who redesigned the state seal to conceal the left boob of the goddess Virtus, to make the state safe for Christians) that originally appeared in the lamented DCist: in a call to a conservative radio show in January 2012, he was complaining (falsely) about the District of Columbia catching rats and trucking them to Virginia instead of killing them and claiming (falsely) that the rules prevented them from "breaking up the families" of rats (it's true for some animal species, but rats and mice aren't among them):

Roundup Wound Up

Don't know if this was connected to the raids or not.

Trump's ICE roundups seem to have ended up more Ruritania than Third Reich, as our valiant anti-immigrant paramilitary couldn't find anybody to arrest, at least in New York City, per NPR:

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday that ICE officers had already attempted to make arrests in the city, but they were not successful.

Activists have been spreading the word to migrants to not open their doors if an immigration agent knocks, since they cannot use force to enter a residence.

While across the river, The Times reported,

Cheap shots and lunar Spam

"Would you like to supersize that?" "No thanks." "Ok sir. Can I take your name?" "Stephen. With a 'ph'." "Great." pic.twitter.com/eBjWYklFxt
— James Rhodes (@JRhodesPianist) September 9, 2013

This goes out to @StevenErtelt

As you will no doubt recall, in 2009 the invincibly stupid then-Rep. Bart Stupak (Blue Dog-MI) became convinced that the Affordable Care Act was the cover for a secret conspiracy to get the federal government to finance recreational abortions—no, Steve, just [jump]