Posted on 01/11/2018 11:17:24 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
When President Trump lies, it’s usually a whopper. But when he tells his truth, it’s a breathtaking doozy. That’s why we see a direct connection between his belief that there are some “very fine people” lurking among white supremacists and his outrageous comments that this country has too many immigrants from “shithole” countries such as Haiti and El Salvador and nations in Africa.
We get it. Actually we got it ages ago. He has little respect for black and brown people.
We are sure this offensive attitude is guiding his resolve to reject upstanding families from these countries – people who have only enhanced South Florida since they fled here to escape natural disasters and political turmoil.
So maybe that makes South Florida a shithole, too, in Trump’s eyes.
According to multiple sources of the Washington Post, Trump made his shockingly filter-free statement Thursday in the Oval Office in front of a room full of lawmakers, when they proposed restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump asked, according to the Post sources, referring to African countries and Haiti.
The president suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from, oh, say, Norway.
Again, we get it.
A White House spokesman defended Trump’s position on immigration without directly addressing the president’s remarks.
The spokesman didn’t have to. We get the message loud and clear.
It’s the same core message upon which Trump ran. Sadly, it’s the same message that got him elected. Immigrants are, for the most part, bad hombres from lesser countries — in Trump’s racially white-washed world.
We can answer the president’s question: People come here because they believe that they’ll be treated fairly; because their homelands, rather than being “shitholes” are in despair. They come because, right up to Jan. 19, 2017, the United States was a welcoming nation.
It’s ironic that, on Friday, Haiti, the poorest nation in the hemisphere, will observe the eighth anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake that brought the country to its knees. The country, but not its resilient citizens. The tragedy led the United States to grant thousands of refugees Temporary Protected Status, (TPS), allowing them to stay here until conditions improved at home. Unfortunately, improvements were dealt a setback by a deadly cholera epidemic and Haiti’s own political dysfunction.
El Salvador made headway in improving its infrastructure since dual earthquakes hit in 2001. But poverty and gang violence endure.
We expect South Florida lawmakers from the president’s party to push back loud and hard against his insult that conflates people — our neighbors — with sorry conditions in their native countries. U.S. Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Carlos Curbelo quickly signaled their outrage. Others must add their voices.
Otherwise, given the downward slide of civil discourse, intractable poverty, blatant racism, efforts to take away healthcare and so on, people in other countries may begin to use Trump’s own vulgarity to describe us.
Part of this is a Trumpian bluffing bluster. What he is doing is forcing the left to show its cards.
A hand up, under proper parameters, is fine. A hand out isn’t in the vision.
Why did they come to South Florida in the first place?
QED
QED?
Seems several layers of argument needed to get there have been omitted.
Look at what the New York Daily News posted (vulgar depiction of the President).
Here’s the piece.
Here’s a blurb and link from Drudge to another story.
FLASHBACK: Ted Kennedy on 1965 bill: ‘It will not inundate America with immigrants from... deprived nations of Africa and Asia’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/30/ted-kennedys-real-legacy-50-years-of-ruinous-immigration-law/
We don’t expect anything but criticism of Trump from the MSM. So when it comes it’s just a 2 second skim of the article, a shrug, and a small yawn.
To flip Florida blue.
South Florida is a special case. Tourism and luxury digs keep it well afloat. It’s got money to burn. It can host those whom Peoria would view with trepidation, and even use them for service jobs.
Oh I’d say there are quite a few third world shitholes in America now, and they are spreading like a disease.
Just the Miami Herald building.
The truth always hurts. For decades we have been dumping billions in foreign aid into these crapholes and rather than improve anything it has only fueled a human tidalwave into The United States that shows no sign of stopping.
Trump is a master of turning it around on them. He could say “I’m glad you brought that up. Ever noticed how democrat strongholds resemble third-world countries? I think America needs to ask themselves why. Let’s find out why democrats cause crime and poverty.” And then watch the smarmy press soil themselves.
13% Excellent
10% Very Good
18% Average
24% Poor
35% Terrible
Yes, they are. They’re spreading because the human garbage that has turned their countries into uninhabitable shitholes have now come north to turn our country into a copy of the shithole they ran away from.
Maybe inhuman is a better way to put it.
The soft bigotry of low expectations.
Indeed, thank you. Yes., ‘’inhuman garbage’’. Like the kind that killed Kate Stienle.
Many parts of So. Florida and most other states are indeed just that. And they're invariably neighborhoods in lib-Dem districts that leftists would characterize as "vibrant."
That’s apples and oranges.
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