Posted on 01/14/2018 5:58:53 AM PST by Kaslin
“Why are we having all these people from sh*thole countries come here?”
That comment, attributed to President Trump, is our national (make that international) outrage de jour. The president has denied speaking the specific term, while acknowledging using “tough” language in discussing immigration at a bipartisan White House meeting with congressional leaders.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) says Mr. Trump is lying and that Trump, in fact, used the s-h-word repeatedly. Republican Senators Tom Cotton and Sonny Perdue (Arkansas and Georgia respectively) issued a statement noting they were there and they heard no such thing.
Is Durbin lying?
It is Washington. Everyone is likely lying.
But to rise above the level of mere spectators to our nation’s political and cultural decline, following as if watching a prime-time soap, we should consider these three things that matter about this matter: (1) Mr. Trump hardly coined that term and is not alone in recognizing that some countries are basket cases, (2) the people living in and then escaping from these “sh*th*le” countries (hereinafter SHC’s) are hardly to blame for their circumstances and are precisely the people who have always added to the greatness of America, and (3) our biggest concern ought to be preventing the USA from becoming another such country.
There are countries in pitiful political and economic plights — word choices admittedly not being equal. The problem, however, is with the president’s thinking toward those people trying to leave those countries to come here. There are a lot of wonderful people who live in SHC’s.
What makes a nation rotten enough to be so classified, in every single case, is stifling political and economic oppression. The living, breathing, dreaming, hoping people who burn to leave that, though it is everything they know, because they love freedom and demand opportunity over the enforced backwardness of tyranny, are pretty much already “American” and they would certainly not be out of place here.
Remember the Cuban man, Luis Grass, who turned a 1951 Chevy pick-up truck into a boat and attempted to cross the ocean to Miami in 2003? Our Coast Guard intercepted that boat and sent him and his family back to Cuba. In 2004, he attempted to cross again, this time in a 1959 Buick. Same result, except that for fear of returning the Grass family to Cuba, Costa Rica provided asylum. From there, he crossed through Mexico to the U.S. in 2005.
Today, he lives with his family in Miami and works on cars. His boss is quite glad to employ him. Asked if Luis was “as American as anybody else,” his boss replied, “Maybe more so.”
Rather than pontificate about sad, pathetic foreign lands, my biggest concern is always that we Americans — to continue the metaphor — not go down the toilet.
And a news story out of Baltimore suggests a level of civic dysfunction that would qualify as “flushable.”
In what sort of . . . place . . . does a hospital discharge a clearly mentally and physically incapacitated woman at night in freezing weather, dressed only in a hospital gown, and have several security guards wheel her to a bus stop in front of the hospital and dump her along with two bags of belongings?
Baltimore, Maryland.
To be precise.
The University of Maryland Medical Center discharged an unidentified female patient last Tuesday night. She was unable to speak and appeared to be in pain. Four bundled-up-against-the-weather security guards wheeled her to the bus stop bench and left her.
We know because Imamu Baraka happened to walk by and, cellphone in hand, filmed those guards and that patient. “So wait, y’all just going to leave this lady out here with no clothes on?” he is heard asking.
Baraka did more. Like a gentleman, he stayed with the woman and, somewhat absurdly, called an ambulance whilst sitting in front of a hospital.
Where the patient is now is not publicly known. But, the head of the University’s Medical Center has apologized, admitting they “own that failure” per the “demonstration of basic humanity and compassion as a patient was being discharged from our organization . . .” The hospital is now launching its own investigation.
Former Democratic legislator Heather Mizeur vowed on her Facebook post of the video, “I’m going to be on a holy reign of terror demanding some answers here.”
Let the questions and answers begin. Who are we? Are we becoming an SHC?
But, let us also realize that the answers to these questions are not entirely about the decisions of higher-ups at hospitals or the rules that politicians set. Those four security guards and others at this hospital played a role, too.
In a civilized society — as opposed to an abyss — people at all levels think for themselves and take responsibility for their actions. They have a conscience and use it.
The reason we are turning into the proverbial SHC is a simple one no one in the media will acknowledge, only for the reason that they are a major contributor.
We are turning into a SHC because when people immigrate to America, they are allowed “not” to assimilate. When communities of people from the same countries form, they keep their home country’s attitudes, so instead of becoming Americans, they are still Haitians, Dominicans, Kenyans, just living somewhere else. And it is the Democrats who enable it since these people will then vote for those who give them free stuff.
How do you change it? You take a couple of publicly funded colleges that are failing (BLM should get thanks for it) and you send these immigrants there for a year. They learn to speak English, eat American style food, learn American culture and after careful evaluation, like the military, they learn a job skill. Only then does the 5 year clock for citizenship is started.
This is how they should do it, legally.
>>, they are allowed “not” to assimilate.
And “Por la raza todo, fuera de la raza nada” isn’t racist... and Christopher Columbus & Thomas Jefferson ate the Anasazi at a Tea Party!
I not even sure I agree with the first part but the second part is BS
So if DJT didn’t really say it, then the Rats and the Media did?!? Somebody said it.
“...and are precisely the people who have always added to the greatness of America.”
Agreed. Sounds just like Algore droning that “our diversity is our strength”.
Yeah. Diversity now means I carry pepper spray at all times & a handgun after dark.
>>hardly to blame for their circumstances and are precisely the people who have always added to the greatness of America
Whose fault is it that the “culture” on the South side of the border fence in San Diego don’t have a functional sewer system?
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-tj-spills-continue-20170914-story.html
Quack, Waddle - if the pond the duck is swimming in is filled with raw sewage because its benevolent cartel leaders won’t/can’t build something better... It’s a shyte hole.
I don’t particularly care who said it.
If it quacks and waddles like a duck swimming in raw sewage...
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/environment/sd-me-tj-spills-continue-20170914-story.html
It’s probably a duck swimming in a shytehole.
Why can’t the mechista-ducks build a better pond?
I employ quite a few immigrants. The ones who do best are the ones who have worked for years to come here. They already have a good work ethic and have learned english on their own.
They really want to be Americans and are eager to learn our traditions and earn their place as equals.
We’re the people who are easily taken by legitimate pity party stories that are then turned into laws that destroy our culture.
Yes, I feel the poor woman let out on the cold street with no protection was wrong. But do I believe that every person in the world should now have free access to our hospital system? NO. And I’m sick of liberals taking one story and using it to impose horrors on the American people.
“What makes a nation rotten enough to be so classified, in every single case, is stifling political and economic oppression.”
Sometimes. But I’d be careful about running with that “causality arrow” you might fall on it and stab yourself. I would hypothesize that some regions host a lot of SHC’s because they aren’t culturally up to self-governance. You want to import that en-masse?
In prior centuries, immigrants came here to better their situations by taking advantage of the opportunities offered by America.
Since the mid 20th century, *illegal* immigrants have come here to better their situations by taking advantage of the *handouts* offered by America.
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