RELEVANT & IRREVERANT VIEWS YOU CAN USE

In his latest GASLight dispatch, George Abraham Stone dissects the Trump-era budget strategy wrapped in the cynical phrase “This too shall pass.” Behind the façade of legislative inevitability lies a brutal cycle of debt, cuts, and vanishing empathy. This post exposes how economic cruelty is passed off as patriotic sacrifice—and how the public is expected to forget the pain they never asked for.

In the wake of a federal court ruling allowing military presence in U.S. cities and over 13 million Americans protesting authoritarian overreach, this reprise to The Closed Colossus calls for action. It proposes the creation of the National Guard Oversight Act, Due Process First campaign, and Golden Door Corps to reopen America’s promise and defend civil liberties.

Once a symbol of hope for the oppressed, The Statue Of Liberty now moonlights as another federal checkpoint—torch dimmed, expression tight, robes re-stitched with caution tape. Her poem— Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”—used to stir something in our national soul. “Give me your tired, your poor…” it cried. These days, it sounds more like satire than scripture.

The absence of due process, quietly delivered by masked men who never introduce themselves.