9 October—Hamas has won.

Donald Trump the draft dodging convicted criminal who lies everywhere and every time he opens his mouth and should have been imprisoned long ago rails that Senator Richard Blumenthal who served honorably in the Marine Corps but misstated some facts about his deployment “should be imprisoned for lying on the campaign trail.”

A majority of Republicans—56 percent—are ignorant and just plain stupid enough to believe that Trump’s fallacious claims about Tylenol are true. And Trump’s approval rating is laughably and shamefully abysmal. As if any tyrant gives a damn about approval ratings.

This is “The New Colossus,” the poem by Emma Lazarus that’s inscribed on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal, with editorial emphasis:

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

This is how Donald Trump greets the huddled masses yearning to breathe free:

In his inaugural address on 4 March 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt announced a “Good Neighbor Policy” intended to improve relations with Latin American countries. This is how Donald Trump shows he’s a good neighbor: