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When the SRA recruiter spots you in your Rambo cosplay
Linking out to paywalled and surveilled online news articles sucks, have some pictures of a dead tree instead.
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When the number of suicides increases because we live under a dystopian hell and the elites come up with the solution to the problem that they caused by pumping us with drugs.
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"Old Man Trump" is a song with lyrics written by Woody Guthrie about the racist housing practices and discriminatory rental policies of his landlord Fred Trump. The lyrics were written in 1954 but it was never recorded by Guthrie. In January 2016, Will Kaufman, a Guthrie scholar and professor of American literature and culture at the University of Central Lancashire, unearthed the handwritten lyrics while performing research for a book about Guthrie at the Woody Guthrie Archives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The elder Trump was Guthrie’s landlord for two years in the 1950s. The public housing complex, named Beach Haven, was built near Coney Island and almost exclusively housed white tenants.

The Federal Housing Administration, which fronted the bill for some of Trump’s housing projects, had a set of guidelines for avoiding integration which Trump enthusiastically embraced.

"He thought that Fred Trump was one who stirs up racial hate, and implicitly profits from it," the scholar, Will Kaufman, commented.

"I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
When he drawed that color line
Here at his Beach Haven family project

Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!

I'm calling out my welcome to you and your man both
Welcoming you here to Beach Haven
To love in any way you please and to have some kind of a decent place
To have your kids raised up in.

Beach Haven ain't my home!
No, I just can't pay this rent!
My money's down the drain,
And my soul is badly bent!
Beach Haven is Trump’s Tower
Where no black folks come to roam,
No, no, Old Man Trump!
Old Beach Haven ain't my home!"

In partnership with the Guthrie archives and the Guthrie family, Woody’s words have been put to music by California rock band U.S. Elevator, fronted by Johnny Irion who is married to Sarah Lee Guthrie, Woody's granddaughter. "Old Man Trump" has also been recorded by riot folk singer Ryan Harvey with Ani DiFranco and guitarist Tom Morello, as well as by independent artist/musician Chip Godwin.