Would Any of Them Really Be Missed?

No! None would be missed by me.
Ok, so one guy is leaving. He tore up his green card, but he couldn't vote anyway.
He was here on a con. He was NYU's “scholar in residence”. He was their third world token 1986 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka of Nigeria.
Looked up his body of work. It is more of a skeleton. His poetry is from the Gertrude Stein school of poetry, but without the school.
How bad is his work? Here are some examples.

Poems by Wole Soyinka : 

Telephone Conversation - Poem by Wole Soyinka

The price seemed reasonable, location
Indifferent. The landlady swore she lived
Off premises. Nothing remained
But self-confession. 'Madam' , I warned,
'I hate a wasted journey - I am African.'
Silence. Silenced transmission of pressurized good-breeding. Voice, when it came,
Lipstick coated, long gold-rolled
Cigarette-holder pipped. Caught I was, foully.
'HOW DARK?'...I had not misheard....'ARE YOU LIGHT OR VERY DARK?' Button B. Button A. Stench ...

I Think It Rains - Poem by Wole Soyinka

I think it rains
That tongues may loosen from the parch
Uncleave roof-tops of
the mouth, hang
Heavy with knowledge

I saw it raise
The sudden cloud, from ashes.
Settling
They joined in a ring of
grey; within,
The circling spirit. ...

I Think It Stinks! m/r

The Case of the Leftie Who Actually Left 

Larry Thornberry  December 5, 2016

At last, an anti-Trumper who can keep a promise. 

We’re used to the dreary quadrennial spectacle of various lefties declaring they will leave the country if this or that conservative wins the White House (even the compassionate variety of conservative puts them off, as we saw in 2000). But, as we’re also used to, the bums never do it. Never follow through. Never live up to their word. They continue to hang on in what they consider to be the hateful US of A because they can’t be as privileged, as plain fat, dumb, and happy, anywhere else. They know it; we do too. They’ll never leave, even when there are folks trying to help them, as illustrated here.

The list of frauds who threatened to leave this year if the Donald made it to 1600 is as long as ever I’ve seen, and includes various repeat offenders. To name just a few, there are the reliable: Barbra Streisand, Cher, and Whoopi Goldberg. There’s Alec Baldwin, who has raised our hopes before. There is some new “talent” on the list, lesser known to those who are not heavy consumers of popular entertainment culture. There’s Miley Cyrus, who is apparently famous for waving her assets about on stage. There’s Lena Dunham, the “brains” behind Girls. And there’s Amy Schumer, who I’m told is a comedian, though I’ve not heard her say anything funny. (Something about becoming political that makes one unfunny. He’s still described as a comedian, but does anyone alive remember the last time Dick Gregory said something funny?) And the squalid picture wouldn’t be complete without race hustler Al Sharpton.
Samuel L. “What’s In Your Wallet?” Jackson was probably the most colorful in his promise (which, like the other humbugs, he has no intention of honoring). On Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show he said Trump had run a “hateful” campaign and, “If that m—– f—– becomes president, I’m moving my black ass to South Africa.” Charming. I wonder if the folks at Capital One find this amusing. ...

But while the news on this front is mostly bad, there is this small item of uplift. At least one leftie, convinced of the Trump horror to come, has actually made good on his promise to leave the country. The Daily Caller and other news outlets are reporting that Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for literature, has, as he promised, torn up his green card and returned to his native Nigeria. “The moment they announce his (Trump’s) victory, I will cut my green card myself and start packing up,” he said just days before the election.

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