“Shithole countries is a classic in the frustrating “Trump gaffe” genre. Saying something despicable that makes elites clutch their pearls but gets a majority of people nodding their heads” – Tim Miller
“Shithole countries is a classic in the frustrating “Trump gaffe” genre. Saying something despicable that makes elites clutch their pearls but gets a majority of people nodding their heads” – Tim Miller
Immigration Official: Why do you want to come here?
Average immigrant (even Muslim): Because my homeland is a shithole.
Case closed.
Going to be interesting to see how this plays out. Clearly impolite way of stating what any sensible person understands to be true.
The elites Both left and right put a very high value on politeness. And the far left a high value on correctness and virtue signalling when it agrees with their viewpoint. What percentage of the population is that?
30 years in the military has taught me two things:
Politeness is usually over valued.
Violence, often, is under valued. Violence solves problems that politeness can’t.
We’re all thinking it , he says it outloud .
https://twitter.com/BasedMonitored/status/951644753728241665
Before election:
Amy Schumer: “I’ll move to Spain”
Miley Cyrus: “I’ll move to Canada”
Lena Dunham: “I’ll move to Canada”
Chelsea Handler: “I’ll move to Spain”
Cher: “I’ll move to Jupiter”
Weird, none of them picked Haiti or Africa.
I am delighted that we have a President who speaks the language of the common man. Although, if he has opted to use the Politically Correct terms “Banana Republic” or “3rd World Cesspool”, he may have avoided the “Bad Press”. All things considered, I have moved him up another notch!
Sorry … but MY President got it EXACTLY WRONG!! Haiti USED TO BE a shithole … pre-earthquake … until the Clinton Foundation collected $ 100’s of Billions in donations for Haiti relief. Now, because of all the good work and massive $$$ spending by the Clintons … Haiti is the garden spot of the Caribbean. If only SHE were President … our Chief Executive would know what a WON der FUL country Haiti is now … thanks to HER. Just ask any one of the children at HER new sex brothels in Haiti. Well heeled, white Westerner pedophiles are now spending $ BIG $$$ for fresh young sex workers giving a uuuge boost to the Haitian economy. Little Haitian boys and girls are doing the men that American kids just won’t do. Thank you Hillary!! and Bill.
Yeah … hit the sarc. button (except for that last bit).
But it’s true.
I got to admit, I laughed out loud with the local radio and tv preparing and warning the listeners for the foul, crude, derogatory comment by the President of the United States, calling Haiti a shithole.
That was perfect.
I got to admit, I laughed out loud with the local radio and tv preparing and warning the listeners for the foul, crude, derogatory comment by the President of the United States, calling Haiti a shithole.
That was perfect.
It’s not about politeness. The point is that Donald Trump is ignorant. As a world leader, what is he and the USA going to gain by verbally abusing third world countries?? Isn’t he hated enough as it is?? What’s he going to do next?? Go to a Detroit ghetto and beat homeless kids up??
Now you know why American students arrive in Australia and New Zealand and travel around those (and other) countries with Canadian, German and other flags on their luggage!!
Well, he said he’s a ‘stable genius’, I guess that’s what passes for erudition in the stable…
Which way are the boats going?
Not much is going to change with respect to opinions on President Trump. The Haters will still hate and his supporters will still support. But it is an unforced error coming at a time when he is riding high with the extremely good economic news and the Haters were being forced to report on it. It’s kinda like your star hockey player, your Captain, scores a couple goals to take the lead and quiets the rowdy crowd and then takes a dumb penalty that you now have to work extra hard to kill off.
Your claim that American kids travel incognito is pure assertion . The 3 American who beat up the would be jihadi on that French train let their fists do the talking – they didn’t need gay flags, serving as virtue signals.
You will be shocked when you finally perceive the world, as it really is. Then you will see that politely pretending the crapholes aren’t crapholes does no one any good.
While I agree with President Trump that those places are generally shitholes.
I think it’s important to ask why they are shitholes. What policies did their governments take that led them on the past to becoming shitholes.
It wasn’t just accidental. Countries become shitholes for some basic reasons. Like, rule of man (Haiti), instead of rule of law (Switzerland). Your country really needs to be on a death watch to have a neighboring country like Dominican Republic not wanting any of your country’s sub standard citizens crossing the border. Or as Mexico doesn’t want any of its Central American state’s citizens.
and instead of an apology when the next leader of a shithole country visits, perhaps the leader needs to be given a book like Hernando de Soto’s “The Mystery of Capital” or Friedman’s “Free to Choose” …
I’m presuming they can read at the grade 10 level though.
really.
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Well, it blew up the wall funding…which is never going to be built anyway.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-11/trump-why-do-we-want-people-these-shithole-countries-come-here
…lawmakers discussed restoring protections for countries that have been removed from the temporary protected status program while adding $1.5 billion for a border wall and making changes to the visa lottery system.
And, as so often happens, what was until noon a tentative deal, exploded in the afternoon when Trump changed his mind:
You got that exactly right.
However, people don’t want to hear the truth.
I laughed at the part of his ”shithole countries” statement where he says that more people from countries such as Norway should come to the USA.
I’d love to see an actual figure as to how many people leave Norway to live in the USA. They may have in 1908. In the last 20 years however, I would say very very few.
Another load of Trump BS!!
Re: Shithole countries.
Full story.
http://nationalpost.com/news/world/lawmakers-renew-immigration-effort-as-a-shutdown-looms
Maybe those countries need to ask themselves, “why am I a shithole”?
You can’t change without the will to change, to honesty accept what are your failings.
and,
It’s not like President Trump is going to make friends with those shitholes, who wants to be friends with shitholes anyway?
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Actually in 2017 it was 400 immigrants from Norway.
“Isn’t he hated enough as it is?“
They certainly can’t hate him any more, so who cares if a few more pearls get clutched.
I am not sure if anyone has noticed, but white people are not the majority of people in the world . In countries where white people are the majority, these are the countrys in general that people from non white majority countries wish to immigrate to. Why would they possibly want to immigrate to a racist white country with no opportunity ? Hmm. Possibly the narrative doesn’t fit the reality ?
Thank You Mr. President, for speaking the truth.Oeople are enraged..Thes are people who think nothing od humans having their genitals shaped with knives to resemble the opposite sex.. Wow.. Snowflakes. And there are some here.
Trump is the Dirty Harry Callaghan of politics.
I call most immigrant homelands 3rd World toilets.(they literally shit in the streets)
Or I call Muslim homelands AssCrackiStan.
“Although, if he has opted to use the Politically Correct terms “Banana Republic” or “3rd World Cesspool”, he may have avoided the “Bad Press”~Suppo
Is there any other kind of press? Bad is Good! People are hating the press.
Even ‘pressing the flesh'(hand shake) gets a bad name these days with the Left, but it’s still press.
They can’t ignore President Trump. In jUrinial school they were taught to change the world. They think their bubble is the world, they’re all drinking each other’s bath water.
And THAT is how you get Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLG9g7BcjKs\WARNING: F-Bombs NSFW
WARNING: F-Bombs NSFW
LOL this guy is a commie and I LUV his anguish at how he suddenly realizes that he and the drones in his bubble made Trump Prez.(not tired of reviewing it yet)
Has the Left changed, adapted, or learned anything? No. Donald Trump will likely win his second term in a Landslide.(yay!)
A new game is afoot. The shoe is on the other hand.
The Left are One-Trick-Ponies. Somewhat like the movie producers they so depended on(Weinberger) who have nothing new so they have to do remakes. The Left’s pony trick doesn’t work anymore and they will never grow up to be horses, they’ve forgotten why the trick ever did work at all, they only know that they used to be a Star and now they have become a meteorite and don’t even understand what they are and have become and why impact with the earth is rapidly approaching with the alternative of only burning up first.
They didn’t deliver to the voters, they only looted, and booted the real makers of wealth.
They aren’t Democrats, they are Dinosaurs.
They wallow in a tar pit of their own making.
They are hide bound and their hides are exceedingly thin.
Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is a genius. Several weeks ago I saw a vid of a press conference(can’t find it and think YouTube nerfed it) where she sucked a jUrinalist in by saying that she would tell every press agent in the room where Trump has concealed his tax returns. All the jUrinialists in the room waited with baited breath, their excitement was palpable, the air was electric, they waited for the scoop.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders then says, “Donald Trump’s tax returns are hidden Barack Obama’s college transcripts”
…LULs …I think I scared my dog…
What did POTUS say that was wrong, Bushman? Oh, he didn’t say it YOUR way, yeah, okay. He said what most people think about Haiti, El Salvador and any African country. Ask yourself this question, if those countries are so great, why are their people escaping there in large numbers? Because they are SH!THOLES
BY the way, it was an internal conversation, not a speech, not a pronouncement, not into a microphone.
Are you trying to tell us that Obambam always said please and thank you? Oh yeah, he did rant about bitter clingers. And what about that impolite statement from PM Twinkletoes, called Peter Kent “a little sht”? I guess that was okay, cuz Liberal!
Save for your pearl clutching for your next snowflake meeting. You can’t handle the truth!
“Violence solves problems that politeness can’t.”
If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.
What is lost in all this is that the statement was made inside a meeting that was supposed to be private. It isn’t like the President came out to microphones and uttered the phrase. I am sure Pres. Trump understands that everything he says with Democrats, and many Republicans, in the room will be “leaked” to the press if they deem it important enough to leak.
Fact, many of these 3rd world cesspits are just that, a cesspit (or cesspool if you prefer). And you know what is found in a cesspit, shit. Yup, a well know fact that, they are shit holes. So, had he just called them cesspits, no one in the press would have heard about it, since many of the aides to the politicians have vocabularies smaller than a 5th grader and they probably couldn’t have sussed out the reference. Pres. Trump just used good old American language so all attending would understand.
So, like every hair on fire moment the media has created up to this point, it is just another nothing burger. The majority of Americans will nod their heads and say, yup, he is right, Haiti is a shit hole.
You can’t call a “shithole” a “shithole” cause, “feelings”… LOL… You can say “I have a great deal of admiration for Chinas basic dictatorship” cause, “progressive”. Go Trump!
“If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.”
~ so saith the prophet Muhammad(he actually lived the hammer part, just ask the Medina Jews)
If you were born into your problem instead of argued, you can’t be argued out of it.(3rd Book of Oz, Chapter 8:verse 1)
Islam isn’t some sort of religious glee club*, glee being haram in Islam, it is a death cult and what possible glee does a sane person get from death?
(death being an Okey Dokey fast track to a 72 year old raisin excepted, your death or some kaffir’s death insha allah, …it makes little difference to a Muhammadan and the kaffir doesn’t matter)
*Ayatollah Khomeini said: “Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic regime must be serious in every field. There are no jokes in Islam. There is no humor in Islam.”**
There you have it direct from the horse’s ass. I’m sure he does not have any fun, jokes, or humor where he is, but at least he can look forward to the eternal pork BBQs.(or so I’m told it’s been rumored) may be fake news but I’m buying it
**Whirling Dervishes may disagree, being living humorous jokes who think they’re having fun.YMMV (8>P
Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
(it’s a literary simile)
Foul language in the White House is not as bad as ****ing impressionable young interns with cigars in the White House.
“I’d love to see an actual figure as to how many people leave Norway to live in the USA.”
Well they are restricted, so it’s not easy to know.
His words are pearls before swine 🙂
Interestingly, if all the smart people didn’t leave their shith*le countries, they may be forced to stay and make them better.
Speak truth to power. In this case we have power speaking truth.
is Sask Watch taking over idiocy for Unme or is he Unme? Some really illogical thoughts coming from the boy/girl/whatever.
sorry Boots, this is not a penalty, it was a goal and real good one at that. the lib left and the media heads are exploding. ya got ta love it.
“Weird, none of them picked Haiti or Africa.”
None of them moved either.
Now you know why American students arrive in Australia and New Zealand and travel around those (and other) countries with Canadian, German and other flags on their luggage!!
Yeah, because those slackwits all have perfect German and other accents as well as Canadian jargon and idiomatic speech down so that the minute they open their yaps the Aussies and Kiwis will be fooled by their cunning ruse.
Oh for Pete’s sake get over yourself. They did that 30 years ago, when a polite but corrupt and morally bankrupt misogynist democrat was president.
“In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act” (George Orwell)
And as well, I read somewhere that JFK and Lyndon Johnson were notorious for their foul language.
I guess all these “outraged” people just assume that a sh|thole country is non-white.
“Interestingly, if all the smart people didn’t leave their shith*le countries, they may be forced to stay and make them better.”
Or possibly, even worse.
A good deal of Africa’s problems are the post-independence outcome of the local intelligentsia’s ideas about how their new countries should be run.
Orwell was right. Apparently the truth in this case upsets some people for political purposes.
We in the western world now practice double-speak in many areas.
Jeez, it’s taken me almost a full day to digest this. For the record, I have been, and still am, a strong supporter of Trump and his agenda.
However, the man is now the President of the United States which REQUIRES a certain level of tact and decorum. His language, at the very least, was a godawful example to American kids on how to conduct yourself. At an international level, it was destructive, unprofessional and, most glaringly, ultimately pointless.
Trump, as cunning as he has been at times, really needs to both pick his battles and control his ego better. He just handed his political enemies a fresh cache of weaponry to attack his character, and thus his agenda, with. Sad and utterly, utterly needless.
False premise you are starting with, padawan. They DO NOT value politeness; they use polite as a weapon only when it suits them.
Think of it this way; how would a judge be held in contempt of the public, who would do that, and has it ever happened. Plenty of cases of citizens being in contempt of the court.
That’s a critical point (that the remark was made behind closed doors). Lots of Presidents had foul mouths when they were not in public (Johnson is but one example). Only Trump gets pilloried for it. Yet his question was totally legitimate — no one is answering.