Friday, January 12, 2018

Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?

That's what Trump asked.

How rude!

It's so rude I cracked up when I read it. It's a very good question. But then his balancing question, "Why doesn't America take in more immigrants from places like Norway instead?" Wrecks the best answer. The answer is to invite the type of voters that assure a permanent Democrat majority so a one-party system is concretized. And Norway is already Socialist. Immigrants from Norway would most likely vote Democrat. Point taken, but should have picked a better country like Singapore.

The Daily Caller is en fuego right now covering this.

Scott Greer at The Daily Caller writes circles around Trump's remarks. He says many Americans ask, "Why does American immigration intake appear more a burden to its citizenry than a benefit? Why aren't we sensible and accept the best and the brightest instead of whomever liberals shame us to accept?

I cannot improve what Scott Greer wrote. He has things I didn't think of.

Then, in another post over there at The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson asks, "Why the outrage on Trump's shithole comment?" He said he's been to both Haiti and El Salvador, the two shitholes under discussion, and he's seen for himself why people are leaving.

Then, in yet another post written around a Carlson tweet he says, "Look you have two options. A: El Salvador isn't a shithole so they don't need 17 years of Temporary Protected Status, and migrants from there should return immediately. B: El Salvador really is a shithole.

The post goes on to note more than 262,000 Salvadorans have Temporary Protected Status and while here they produced 192,700 children that are American citizens.

That's a lot. 200,000 here, 200,000 there, pretty soon you're talking real numbers that really can bring about a de facto one-party system.

It seems this is Trump's way of exploding any possibility of reaching agreement. He had his "See, I'm not crazy" show. Now he can proceed and act crazy. Apparently he wants this for campaigning issue this year. He got too close for comfort.

27 comments:

edutcher said...

The Donald lays it on the line. Cut through the huddled masses and get to the reason the Demos want these people.

I imagine Old Hickory said something similar on occasion.

Leland said...

I looked into what it takes for a British company to bring someone in on UK equivalent H1B visa. They first must show that the employee provides an expertise not otherwise available in the UK. Imagine if Disney had to do that when hiring for Pixar.

Chip Ahoy said...

A lot of people said if Bush were re-elected they'd go to Canada, but I know only person who actually did.

Then I saw him again a few months later. I asked him why isn't he in Canada. He told me he wasn't accepted. "They wouldn't take me." Canada doesn't just accept any deadbeat. He thought he could just traipse right in just because he doesn't like Bush. And that's not a good enough reason.

But Trump saying this took me back to the moment my older brother told me my first genuine joke.

A Mexican guy rents a hotel room

The maid comes in and says, "I'll put sheets on your bed."

The guy snaps, (A 7-year old puts on a Mexican accent) "You put sheets on my bed and I keel you!"

I didn't get it. Barry had to explain it. Yes, I was that stupid at five.

But then, after he explained it, I thought it was hilarious. I thought my brother was an excellent jokester.

He told me another racist joke.

José went to his first American football game.

The seats were all taken. So he climbed the flagpole to see the game.

"How did you like the football game, José?"

(7 year-old puts on a Mexican accent) "I like it real good. Everybody is so welcoming. They were very concerned I could watch the game. Everybody stood up and sang, (7-year old sings the national anthem) Jo-o-o-sé, can you see ...? "

I didn't understand the joke. Barry had to explain it. Yes, yes, I was that stupid at five. And then I thought it was hilarious and my brother is a proper natural comedian. I held him in the highest regard. He was truly advanced and really very funny. He kept me in stitches. But he had to patiently explain everything.


The Dude said...

Scotsman goes to a baseball game.

Pitcher walks a batter.

Scotsman asks "Aye, why's he get a free pass?"

American: "He got 4 balls."

Scotsman: "Walk, ye proud man!"

This is just the latest proof that dialect jokes don't work online.

Dad Bones said...

Let's get serious here. Doesn't anyone know a good Haitian or African joke?

The Dude said...

I know many, but I shall not publish them here.

William said...

White privilege . I can admit that the Junkers and the Nazis were an outgrowth of German culture. The Haitians cannot admit that Papa Doc, Baby Doc, and all the various crooks and thugs who have occupied the Presidential palace have anything to do with Haiti. Just pure bad luck.

chickelit said...

H8i h8ers gotta h8

The Dude said...

Tonton Macoute to you too!

edutcher said...

Blame Haiti on the Frawgs.

The Dude said...

Blame Haiti on the Haitians - they revolted from 1791-1803 - everything since then is on them.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I blame the French’s Statue of Liberty. Or was that writing ‘huddle masses’ put on there by democrats ;-)

windbag said...

If can can coach from the sidelines, he should have said, "Those deplorables from shithole countries..."

Lefties call Flyover Country worse things than shitholes. Just sayin'.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

My stable genius tweet on this...

“Trump found a way to get everybody talking about who exactly we’re letting into the country. There’s no other way that uncomfortable, politically incorrect, #shithole “conversation” would be had, other than at his expense. #ImmigrationReform

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

This tweet is also genius on this subject by the way.

https://twitter.com/americafirst_xx/status/951837182519627776

Rabel said...

Confession is good for the soul.

Chip's 6:50 acknowledgement of his humor impairment at age 5 is forcing me to confront an issue I dealt with yesterday. In a thread on Trump's shithole remarks at TOP I made a straightforward comment about the wisdom of politicians criticizing Trump based on flimsy sourcing.

Chickelit quoted me and added something to the effect that he agreed and that the whole thing didn't "pass the smell test."

And...I missed the joke!!! It went right over my head and it wasn't until someone quoted chick and added a smiley parenthesis that I got it.

Boy did I feel stupid. I still feel stupid. It was like missing a gimmie from 3 inches. Like missing an open layup or a chip shot field goal to win a national championship. Am I slipping into Pelosi territory? Is it too late for me to recover?

Meh. The good thing is that I won't remember it tomorrow.

Amartel said...

It's just a blog comment. Don't take it too seriously.

Amartel said...

"The countries of my forebears could qualify as shitholes at various times in their history."

That's the thing about shitholes: Everybody's got one.
(Unless you poop into a bag and throw it into the neighbor's yard. Sorry, didn't mean to be exclusionary, Palestine!)
But, no, it's not a race thing or racist.
It IS racist to deny people "of color"* agency and autonomy, though. Including denying them responsibility for their own mistakes.

* I hate that term almost as much as I hate "brown people" and "ethnic." These terms lump millions of completely different people together for political purposes while denying millions of other people the authenticity of ethnicity or color.

deborah said...

Rabel:

"And...I missed the joke!!! It went right over my head and it wasn't until someone quoted chick and added a smiley parenthesis that I got it."

Sadly, that's a fairly frequent occurrence with me and chick's wit...I'm glad I'm not the only one.

ampersand said...

We've got people from shithead countries because Shithead LBJ gave Shithead Ted Kennedy the ability to redo immigration law.

edutcher said...

Exactly.

ricpic said...

When Shithead Ted Kennedy redid immigration law there was one Senator - One! - just one who had the courage to say turning the country brown would end in disaster. That was Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina. The rest of them were frozen in place for fear of being called bigots. In short we are here because of cowardice.

ken in tx said...

Children born to foreign diplomats while here are not given US citizenship. They are legally considered citizens of their parents home country. Children born to temporary refugees and those not legally here ought to be treated the same way. BTW, the foreign diplomat rule is not even a law. It is a just rule established by the US State Dept.

Trooper York said...

The God Emperor will not lose a single vote for calling a spade a spade or a shithole a shithole.

The virtue signaling is just laughable.

He put the ball in Congress's court. He set the parameters. E Verify. End of chain migration. The Wall. Then you can get your DACA. Of course they don't want that. So Dickless Durbin throws out sand into the process.

The Court ruled that DACA was not legal. Trump is just following the law. Of course a liberal court in California reinstated Obama's illegal order but it will not stand up. So if the Dem's want to make a deal they have to give something out.

It is not the old way where the cucks gave away the store because they were afraid of being called racist.

Things have changed.

Dad Bones said...

I don't mean to brag but nobody does shithole like Iowa. We've got millions of gallons of liquid hog, chicken and turkey manure in underground tanks that we pump out on nice days and spread over fields. If it rains soon enough we can send some of it to the rivers so we can share it with other states all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico. Smell test? Ha! We can beat anybody.

I might as well laugh about it because new animal confinements and their manure storage tanks are being built all the time. I blame hungry people.

ndspinelli said...

Iowa does indeed smell like pig shit, but it is a great place to eat pig meat.

Dad Bones said...

Most of the time I don't notice it but it won't get better. It's definitely a growth industry.