At Least Trump Doesn't Think Americans Are $h!tholes — Like Obama And Hillary Do
The reactionary slop that hit the fan over President Trump's comments about the conditions in Haiti, El Salvador and reportedly some other nations just won't stop. But lost in all the for-the-TV-cameras outrage is what former President Obama and wanna-be-president-so-bad Hillary Clinton think of some Americans and where they live. They believe the sh!tholes are in America and consider the people who live in them to be sh!tholes themselves.
Before we get too far, let's concede that whatever language Trump used, he is largely correct, even if he was vulgar in his description — a charge he denies, by the way. Millions in miserable countries want to immigrate to the U.S. where life is far better. They want to escape the lousy and intolerable conditions. It's human nature.
Let's allow Reason's Nick Gillespie explain it with a little more color.
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"Most immigrants who come to America do indeed come from places they'd rather not live or work. . . . Whether their homelands are technically shitholes or something less offensive to contemporary ears isn't really a question. People come here because they think it's going to be better than where they're from."
Now back to the disrespectful Obama and Hillary Clinton comments that neither the media, nor the shrieking Democrats, nor the childish celebrity class made much over when they were said. Of course that's because they were said by the darlings of those groups, the objects of their adolescent adoration.
First, we have the comments Obama made in 2008 about demoralized middle Americans while at a campaign fundraiser in, of course, San Francisco.
"It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
The Hoover Institution's Victor Davis Hanson was nearly perfect in his assessment of the comments when he said that Obama was seeking "to reinvent the country into two groups," one of them "the 'lazy' Americans who in times of economic stress 'typically' revealed their innate ignorance through racism and nativism."
The reaction, or lack of reaction, from the media, Democrats and celebrities was similar to the silence that followed when at a 2016 fundraiser, near-president Hillary called half of Trump's supporters a "basket of deplorables." A day later she said she regretted using the word "half" — did she mean to use "all"? — but everyone knew who she was talking about and exactly what she meant. In her mind, at least half of Trump's supporters were lowbrow crackers living in fetid places.
The insults of both were directed toward a group that can be ridiculed with impunity in today's culture. Obama, Clinton and others seem to forget that they are Americans. They are though, and they deserve more respect than to be thought of as s*!tholes. https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/at-least-trump-doesnt-think-americans-are-htholes-like-obama-and-hillary-do/
I'm an American, which is which is why I confront racist teabags and knuckle dragging thumper scum at every opportunity.
President Trump's comments about the conditions in Haiti, El Salvador and reportedly some other nations
REPORTEDLY ????
WTF and Who TF do you think you're kidding with that one ? U R consistently pushing 'fake' news
imho
A bagillion years or so the planet was a relatively pristine place, then we arrived and turned it into a shithole. People create their own messes, even animals have enough smarts not to soil their living areas.
The issue is not whether or not such places exist, the issue is that if you do not live there it is not up to you to decide whether or not the term shithole applies, after all we have our own shitholes but they are our shitholes and no one elses.
We have to face the fact that the deplorables, the 1/3 or so of Americans who have pledged fealty to Trump , have to be defeated just as much as he does.
Fortunately the good guys have the numbers , all we need to do is go out and vote in November and we will be on the way to beginning to put this long national nightmare behind us.
The third or so of the people that supported the Hag and the socialists must be defeated once again.
Myself, and every conservative person I know, and many former Obama supporters as well, are ecstatic about the direction of our country! I think the pundits are once again going to be very surprised on election night.
The 3rd of the population that has the word "Hillary" burned into their brains need some serious mental help.
Hey XXX....don't you have a state to secede from? Or can we wait for another cut and paste article/articles daily?
Aw C'mon people. The Propecia Man gave us "s***holes and boosted Stormy's videos back to the top of the lists.
MAGA is real. Credit is due here.