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kpete

(71,996 posts) Sat Jan 13, 2018, 10:56 AM Jan 2018

Rude Pundit: "America the Shithole" - "We are a shithole as long as Trump remains president."

1/12/2018
America the Shithole

It's not even surprising anymore when President Donald Trump, an angry pumpkin on top of a very large pumpkin on top of a smaller pumpkin, says or does something racist. He is a fucking racist. If you're a fucking racist, you do fucking racist shit all the time because that's who you are. If he didn't say or do a racist thing, we might say, "Oh, look, he wasn't racist in that moment." But just because a rat in your house didn't shit all over the floor one day doesn't mean that the rat still isn't a rat. It just kept its shit to itself for once.

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You know where else is a shithole? In large swaths of the United States, including many places where Trump voters live. A United Nations report essentially declared that the U.S. is the shithole of the "rich nations," with poverty so extreme that it is pretty much on a par with Haiti, El Salvador, and African nations. And we have one big thing in common with most of the countries Trump has condemned: no universal health care.

The president is a racist. We knew that. Millions of people in this country are racist. We knew that, too. We also know that many racists don't think of themselves as racist and sure don't want to be called "racist." Well, here's another gut check, motherfuckers. If you can stand with a man who believes what Trump believes, with a man who has the power over life and death and is wielding that power against people of color, then you have made your choice to plunge into the shithole Trump has created and wallow around in his shit, pretending that it's not shit at all. We are a shithole as long as Trump remains president.

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If you don't want immigrants from shitholes to come here, it's not because they are terrible people. It's because you are.

(Note: To be fair, Liberia just had a peaceful election, so there is always hope in any shithole.)
(Note: There are lots of shitholes that people call home. Doesn't mean it's not a shithole.)
(Note: And, no, I haven't even gotten into just how big a role the United States has played in turning many of those countries into shitholes.)

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Rude Pundit: "America the Shithole" - "We are a shithole as long as Trump remains president." (Original Post) kpete Jan 2018 OP

Trump's mouth is a shithole! dubyadiprecession Jan 2018 #1

A point worth repeating. . . DinahMoeHum Jan 2018 #2

No, WE are not. We are still the nation that elected Obama Hortensis Jan 2018 #3

dubyadiprecession

(5,714 posts)

1. Trump's mouth is a shithole!

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Sat Jan 13, 2018, 11:07 AM

Jan 2018

DinahMoeHum

(21,794 posts)

2. A point worth repeating. . .

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Jan 13, 2018, 11:18 AM

Jan 2018

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2018/01/america-shithole.html

(Boldface emphasis is mine - DMH)

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Funds are raised for refugees by churches, the real Christian churches, not the fake ones that promise you salvation for a price. You can read stories of an Illinois evangelical ministry helping settle Liberian refugees, of a Rhode Island Baptist church helping recent arrivals from the Congo, of the Nazarene ministry in Missouri that is assisting refugees from Syria.

In other words, if you stand with your church in making sure that refugees have a place in the United States, you stand opposed to the president. Or you're a goddamn hypocrite.
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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

3. No, WE are not. We are still the nation that elected Obama

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Jan 13, 2018, 11:21 AM

Jan 2018

by a solid majority.

If that describes anyone here, well, it's the new year. Take the first step: Resolve to improve to shit pile.

On a more humorous and accurately directed note:

Vox on Trump:

He had asked members of the Congressional Black Caucus in a March meeting, Vivian Salama reported for NBC News on Friday, if they personally knew Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who is black. He was surprised when none of the attendees did, two meeting attendees told Salama.

That wasn’t the end of it. In the same meeting, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus told Trump that welfare cuts would hurt her constituents, “not all of whom are black.” Trump then reportedly responded, “Really? Then what are they?”

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