Sometimes
the hardest part about writing this blog is knowing which topic to pick. There
is never a shortage of outrage in the media and on the left, and Donald Trump
seems tailor-made to feed the somewhat less than tolerant rage and hatred of
both.
Same
teapot. Different tempest.
It
would be a fool’s errand to defend the President’s remarks on Friday referring
to Haiti and most of the countries on the African Continent as “shitholes.” (So I have to try, right?) It was decidedly
unpresidential and cringeworthy in every respect coming from the mouth of the
President of The United States.
It’s
also the kind of thing that explains why he is in the White House instead of the
most flagrant and transparent criminal in modern political history. As Jesse
Waters said on The Five Friday night,
“This is how the forgotten men and women of America talk in bars.”
It’s
also the way those gentle, loving, way-smarter-than-us souls on the left talk
about us, but that’s ok because it’s about us.
Is
it the way most of us probably wish our President would talk publicly? I would
imagine not. But here is one of the
things: it wasn’t actually said publicly.
It
was said in an Oval Office meeting where a group of lawmakers were trying to hammer
out the details of a new and improved immigration policy. Like most meetings
between lawmakers it wasn’t going well. President Trump has doubtlessly sat
through countless meetings of a similar nature in his private business
operations. The key difference is if you walked out his conference room in
Trump Tower as one of his employees and found the nearest reporter with whom to
share foul language spoken in the heat of a debate you’d be fired.
Good
incentive to keep your mouth shut. But Trump can’t fire the guys who were in
that meeting because they don’t really work for him and his detractors have
multiple incentives to share anything that will incite the left and give the
media some sound bytes that allow them to send strong-minded liberals to the
park to howl at a vacant sky.
Can
you imagine if Lyndon Banes Johnson’s alleged comments behind closed doors
about welfare got out? For instance when he was alleged to have said, “If we
give those niggers welfare we’ll own ‘em for 100 years.”
Or
when Bill Clinton said (and I believe it was more than merely alleged) to Ted
Kennedy about Barack Obama before the 2008 election when HRC first believed she
was a valid candidate, “C’mon, 10 years ago the only thing he’d be doing in the
White House is fetching us coffee.”
Both
remarks did eventually see the light of day but received much less fanfare in
the lamestream media and evoked a much less outraged reaction amongst the
loving left. As in, no one really noticed or cared. Gee, do you think they just
don’t like President Trump? Because he’s the
racist.
We
had dinner last night at some friend’s house (they will remain anonymous so
those super tolerant, loving, caring, enlightened souls on the left can’t
firebomb their new house) and after tossing it around for a bit we all agreed
that “shithole” is embarrassing as a Presidential remark but none of us could
come up with a better description of Haiti.
There
are 55 countries in Africa. I tried listing them and could only come up with 16
the first time I tried and 13 the second time, so I obviously don’t know as much
about the continent as Nancy Pelosi but “shithole” seems a pretty apt
description of countries where those who are in power exploit those who are not
in ways that would make even the strong of stomach wretch, while diverting aid
from other countries (mostly us) to their own private coffers as there
principal exports are industries built on the backs of conscripted child labor
(care to speculate where Tesla gets the components for their electric car
batteries and the average age of the worker who supplies them?).
Libya,
and other African countries, still practice the slave trade with the sale of
human beings taking place in open-air markets the way it has gone on for hundreds
of years. I actually have no argument with Barack Obama saying, “off the record”
(see how this stuff never works out?) to Jeff Goldberg of The Atlantic in a 2014 interview that Libya was nothing more than a
“shit show.”
I
just wish the media were a little more indiscriminate in their crucifixion of
presidents. But I wish there were unicorns too, so there you go, but I don’t
think you can make the argument that “shit show” is more complimentary than “shithole.”
Sort
of amazing how who said it has
absolutely everything to do with the media and the left’s reaction.
The
media wants to make “shithole” a racist thing. I am not sure it matters what
color the people are in a country with living conditions and exploitative governments
like the ones we’re talking about. A rose by any other name is still pretty
much a rose.
It
amuses me though that the Scandinavian countries, which have recently been
presented as ideal models of Utopian socialism by the left (and which are 80%
white), are now suddenly bastions of Aryan fascism because President Trump
wondered why we can’t bring more people here from Norway.
It
pains me to point out flaws in the President’s logic, but the simple answer is that
they don’t want to come here because their country is not a shithole.
So
you knew it would end up here. Loud
emotional screaming and garment rending about what a foul creature Donald Trump
is to those who think HRC is a saintly and matronly grandmother and a total lack
of focus on immigration reform.
The
President’s goals, besides ending chain migration, building a wall and
increasing security are to make the country stronger by “welcoming those who
can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great
nation.”
The
democrat’s goals seem to be to expand our welfare program to those who can’t
get those benefits in their own (shithole) country.
You
decide.
Actually,
I think on November 8, 2016, we did.
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