The defining photograph of the Trump Administration

[Chainfire]

should be the photos of the mass burials in Potters Field in N.Y. It is what Making America Great Again looks like.

All of those pine boxes contain, not numbers, but people who were functioning in our society two weeks ago. People with smiles, dreams and futures. The photos break this old man's heart. Never, would I have believed that this was possible in the United States. We have fallen so far, so fast.

[FM123]

1. Yes.

Both heartbreaking and soul crushing. I can't even find any more words...

[MineralMan]

2. And we were shocked and dismayed to see similar mass graves

being dug in Iran. Here we are, though, doing the same thing.

[Chainfire]

3. Ask not for whom the bell tolls

There is a part of each of us in each of those boxes.

[Historic NY]

12. I'm sorry people are shocked but its been reality for hundreds of years...

Hart Island's potters field hold the remains of more than 1 million people. They can actually tell you who the first burial was. People weren't shock when thousands of Aids victims were buried here. Did they know or care? People weren't shocked to know that thousands of indigent, un-named, people are buried here each year. People weren't shocked to know that many of the unclaimed are because the poor can't afford a funeral, a cemetery plot, or even a cremation. The Two-hundred fifty dollar survivor death benefit from Social Security, isn't enough to cover final expenses. People are shocked, but at least their loved one will have his or her named recorded, here. They aren't among the rest of the un-named souls here. Some lost to ledger books and dusty records no one understands.

I'm not shocked because I spend time in cemeteries. Many small town cemeteries around the US are dotted with mass burials from all sorts of maladies, pandemics, crime, natural disasters. War is the greatest maker of mass graves, many being uncovered from centuries past. Man's inhumanity to man is the greatest producer of mass cemeteries.

People are only shocked because the have turned a blind eye to the by-product of life, death.

[link:https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/10/haunting-video-and-photos-of-hart-island-nycs-mass-burial-ground/|]

[3Hotdogs]

14. Yeah, my great grandmother is buried in an abandoned cemetary in Sussex County N.J.

It is covered with weeds and trees. No one knows where any singular grave is.

[PatrickforO]

15. Yeah. Seems like every day we lose a little something.

We like to think of ourselves as being 'safe' or somehow 'separated' from such horror, but thanks in large part to decades of Republican-corporate corruption, we see that we're not after all. Just another part of the world whose people are living in end-stage capitalism - a system that is simply not, and has never really been, structured for our benefit.

Yesterday, I was thinking about Biden entering the Oval Office as president the first time this coming January. In my minds eye, he stood in the middle of the room and took it in, then sat down at the Resolute Desk, put his head in his hands and wept at the devastation.

I sincerely wish he and all the rest of the Democrats well in fixing this horror the Republicans, the Chicago School of Economics and corporate propaganda have wrought upon us.

An aside...it is ironic to me that Trump is trying to make it so the federal government can once again execute people. Because I'm thinking he may well find himself on trial for his life after he's out of office.

Stay safe!

[underpants]

4. 🕯

[tclambert]

7. Oh, it's a dumpster fire. Don't know why it took me so long to identify it.

[packman]

5. Video - Heartbreaking

[ancianita]

6. +1000

[ancianita]

8. This must be at least one of the photos spread far and wide.

REUTERS/Lucas Jackson

Drone pictures show bodies being buried on New York’s Hart Island where the department of corrections is dealing with more burials overall, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York City, U.S., April 9, 2020.

Hart Island is the largest potter's field in the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Island_(Bronx)

[Snarkoleptic]

9. An image so heartbreaking, it's hard to deal with the fact this is happening in America.

n/t

[gibraltar72]

10. Leave room for the Republican party.

[Solomon]

11. Yes it was shocking to see this in America.

[Dr Vegas]

13. Had a Dream last week

Of people dumping body bags on the White House Lawn...,

[mopinko]

16. ok, this is super picky. stipulated. but it is called hart island.

i just point that out as a ceramic artist, as my potter friends are not happy w being the epitome of poverty.

but you are correct. w prisoners shoveling the dirt on.
that one will go in the history books.

[Hotler]

17. It's okay if they are libtards...

Do I need this?