Yea, you make the claim but you can't back it up with FACTS...

Again, you lie.

Fact 1: It's archived in the blog at the time McMaster was appointed so I obviously can back it up with facts.
Fact 2: Anyone with a keyboard and an Internet connection has the tools to look it up.
Fact 3: Your refusal to look it up does NOT make it nonexistent.

While I believe I've made it infinitely clear that you'll always have my pity for your lack of education, poor life choices and doublewide trailer in the swamps... which you recently provided the data that proves it's a "shithole"... I don't give two shits whether or not you choose to remain an uneducated moron going forward.

Crack a book, do some research, and stop expecting everyone here to spoon-feed you like a toddler in order to make up for your obvious and glaring mental deficiencies. OAO

Ya'all made that rule...

I just kick your ass all the time with it.. :D

Yea, you make the claim but you can't back it up with FACTS...

Hence, you are a liar...

So there must be some truth in the book.

Do you see how utterly ridiculous you sound, Neil??

"probably" so it MUST be true...

Where has the intelligent, rational, non-hysterical Neil gone??

I miss my little buddy... :^/

That's baseless. As a matter of fact, in the body of the article, it notes that the children "are home-schooled", which suggests Republicants. But without more information I'd hesitate to guess, because that would be just stupid.

It's as baseless as Paula's crap, but you don't say anything about that, now do you..

Hypocrite..

Man, you just can't let that book go, it really got under your skin.

Did you read it? Or are you just making up what you think is in it?

Funniest damn book I've read in years. And since some of the conversations (e.g. the opening one with Ailes and Bannon) are probably recorded since they happened at Wolff's house, you can see why there has been a lot of reluctance to say "I didn't say that".

So there must be some truth in the book.

Saying he wants to stop immigrants from Africa and Haiti and instead wants immigrants from Norway IS the point.

Arguing about whether ANY place on earth is or isn't a shithole is falling for the rightwing redirect. They do it well and people waste time and energy explaining obvious concepts to malicious talking-point spreaders who know perfectly well what they're lying about and then proceed to continue to lie about it.

I've seen the history of Haiti recounted several places and I've learned a lot. But none of that will mean a damned thing to the likes of the spigot (or Stucki) who's objective (as part of the rightwing propaganda machine) is to divert people from stating and restating that Donald-Trump-IS-a-RACIST.

Trump is a racist. Also an unfaithful disgusting disgrace of a husband who's paid off THREE porn actresses, as well as many unnamed women). Also a criminal conman and traitor. But especially a racist.

That's baseless. As a matter of fact, in the body of the article, it notes that the children "are home-schooled", which suggests Republicants. But without more information I'd hesitate to guess, because that would be just stupid.

Translation: Your ignorance is NOT my problem. :)

I don't have to.. I know you can't prove it so I am good.. :D

You are a proven liar...

I'm not going to spoon feed you like a toddler just because you have memory issues or insist on lying or both. Neil and I were even discussing it the other day so it's been mentioned only days ago. Prove we didn't or STFU about it. :)

Prove it...

You can't... That makes YOU the liar...

LIAR.

Prove it..

That's GENERAL McMaster to you..

No, actually, it isn't. Herb is good people, and I've called him Herb for decades. Not the first time you've spoken up and claimed something on someone's behalf that you can't possibly know anything about... you know, LIE.

When did ANY of you ever give President Trump credit for that??

When it happened. Duh. While you had your head up your ass and was whining and lying... like every day. :)

Never...

LIAR.

Moron says "I'm going to try"

Are we surprised that the guy who can't spell or punctuate properly, lives in the swamps in the "shithole" state, has little to no reading comprehension ability and pretty much zero continuity/retention of thought is reduced to this?

Cling tightly to your name calling, Michale... it let's us all know that you're fully aware you've got NOTHING. :)

"A little off topic here but, how many territories does the US have?

I'm just trying to figure out where the number 57 came from."

That depends on your definition and how you want to count them. In addition to the 50 states, there could be anywhere from 7 to 17 additional territories, both inhabited and uninhabited:

1) The Federal District of Columbia

Those that are Incorporated (Considered as much a part of the USA as any state):

2) Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific (uninhabited)

Those that are Unincorporated but inhabited territories (American territory, but not considered as integral a part of the United States proper as an American state would be, the U.S. Constitution applies only partially to these areas and not fully):

3) The U.S. Virgin Islands

4) The commonwealth of Puerto Rico

5) Guam

6) American Samoa ( The only one in the list whose people are NOT American citizens )

7) The commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Unincorporated, uninhabited (At least not permanently inhabited on a full time regular basis if at all) territories:

8) Baker Island in the Pacific

9) Howland Island in the Pacific ( Famous for the location of Amelia Earhart's disappearance )

10) Jarvis Island in the Pacific

11) Johnston Atoll in the Pacific

12)Kingman Reef in the Pacific

13) Wake Island in the Pacific

14) Midway Atoll or Island in the Pacific (site of a famous important WWII battle between America and Japan)

15) Navassa Island in the Caribbean ( Claimed by Haiti )

16) Seranilla Bank in the Caribbean ( Claimed by Colombia, Honduras and Jamaica )

17) Bajo Nuevo Bank in the Caribbean ( Claimed by Colombia and Jamaica)

That's GENERAL McMaster to you..

When did ANY of you ever give President Trump credit for that??

Never...

Dumbocrats :^/

Michael Wolff's bullshit book..

I doubt if there is any book that contains 100% facts, and that would include the Bible which contains "facts" that cannot coexist and still be correct, such as the lineage of Jesus. Anyway, the book was factual enough to enrage Hair Furor, spawn quite a few lawsuits, and send Steve Bannon packing for the exits until Trump gets over it and phones him again. :)

Whining like a toddler and spamming the blog over and over with the same copied verbiage that the entire book is false based on the preface, which is part of the entire book, is a textbook case of killing your own argument. The "thou doth protest too much" nature of your objections... not unlike those of Your Orange Worship... do nothing to mitigate the idea that there's not some truth that's attempting to be hidden.

EVERYONE here, either by commission or omission, swallowed that bullshit book, hook line and sucker..

You "talked" about it the most and loudest... as if spamming the blog would convince anyone that the preface proved the entire book was false when the preface was indeed part of the entire book.

And yet, yer the ONLY one to date who has sided with Trump on ANYTHING...

You seemingly have no ability to retain facts from day to day, and therefore you appear to lie regularly. Neil and I and several others gave him a rousing "credit where credit is due" when he hired Herb McMaster... you know... the guy you regularly refer to as "McMasters" and do a hatchet job on his name.

Kudos to you.. But the fact that you are the only one should tell you something..

It says loudly and clearly that "Michale" either has reading comprehension and retention issues or he lies on a regular basis... or both. :)

Moron says "I'm going to try"

:D

Simple answer..

The audience ISN'T really racist..

You just assume that's the case because your slavery to Party/ideology demands it...

See how easy that is???

Surely the snowflakes who've spent an inordinate amount of time whining like toddlers because they were referred to as "deplorables" can understand why referring to a large portion of the world as "shitholes" is a stupid idea. I can't speak for everybody, but while I believe they have a right to peaceably assemble (key word there being peaceably), I still think Nazis are in fact "deplorable."

So even though it is a fact that the definition of "deplorable" obviously fits some of the Trump degenerates in the same manner that the term "shithole" obviously fits certain parts of the world such as Florida, etc., surely the people who whine like toddlers because they are referred to as "deplorable" can grasp the concept that people who live in "shithole" parts of the world such as Florida, etc., aren't going to like having their part of the world referred to as a "shithole" even if said part of the world is indeed a... rhymes with "spithole."

I understand that people on the right have been frustrated for decades that people on the left cry racism all too often, but that does not change the fact that Donald Trump has a long history of trafficking in the idea that brown people are bad and "less than," with his comments regarding birtherism and using issues like black football players taking a knee and screaming "fire the son of a bitch" in order to incite division and keep the proverbial fans flamed. Rationalizing any of the garbage of Trump is a ridiculous waste of time, and saying that he only has a problem with "illegal" brown people is equally an exercise in futility.

This "othering" of brown people, and not just "illegal immigrants" is alive and well and living in Don the Con Artist and opportunist who is playing the populist card (while governing exactly the opposite) and leveraging angry while male identity politics and stoking division. Yep... Fox News Entertainment and Hair Furor sure do a heck of a job using fear and othering and outright racism to keep the white race on the Republican plantation of outsourcing jobs, tax cuts for the rich, corporate subsidies, etc., and many things that benefit the elite at the expense of the common man.

I hear that Trump is packing his duds for Graubunden, Switzerland, where he'll be off to Davos in order to hobnob with his globalist elitist ilk... all while claiming to be a populist. :)

And the value of the Clinton foundation increased by BILLIONS of dollars..

So any fair assessment of Haiti's present situation has to admit more than passing blame on the outside powers that have dominated that island ever since Columbus first stepped onto its shores in 1492 and killed off most of its population by spreading smallpox. The US, France and Spain have each had roles in intensifying that country's misery since then.

Funny how you don't want to assess the blame that Jordan, Egypt et al share with the Palestinian situation.. You want to put the blame SOLELY on Israel..

THIS is exactly why it's IMPOSSIBLE for ya'all to have *ANY* credibility on ANY political issue..

Because your Party slavery rules *ALL* that you say and believe...

Not necessarily. Take a look at the history of Haiti and you find one colonial power after another trying to subjugate or control the divided island over the course of 400 years. Even after its revolution, America refused to recognize the country until the American Civil War. France agreed to recognize Haiti after trying to re-conquer it in 1925, finally agreeing to 'sell' the island to its inhabitants for 150 million francs (later reduced to 90 million), a debt Haiti finally paid off in 1947. America actually occupied Haiti for 20 years, from 1915 to 1934. Haiti was relatively stable for awhile after that, and even had a tourist industry - writers such as Eugene O'Neill, Noël Coward, Truman Capote, and Orson Welles all wrote about the island during this period. The Duvalier regime that came into power in 1957 was regressive, so much so that Kennedy withdrew American support, but following Kennedy's assassination, cold warriors propped up Duvalier, and that awful reign (of both 'Papa' Doc and 'Baby' Doc Duvalier) lasted until 1986. American intervention continued on the island after the Duvaliers, including Operation Uphold Democracy in 1991, in which former President Jimmy Carter negotiated the removal of a Military junta that had seized power in a military coup d'état while US bombers were in the air, minutes from bombing the very spot where those negotiations were being held.
But the president restored to power, Aristide, was unable (or unwilling) to negotiate a return to elections with his political opposition (which was still seeking to reinstate the Duvaliers), and after yet another revolt in 2004, in which America again intervened (and was accused of 'kidnapping' Aristide to effect yet another coup d'état), the United Nations established the United Nations Stabilisation Mission (MINUSTAH), which remains in the country to this day.

Throughout, and particularly in the first decade of the 21st century, Haiti has been battered by the forces of Caribbean nature. In 2004, Tropical Storm Jeanne killed 3,600. In 2008, tropical storms Fay, Gustav, Hanna, and Ike left 331 dead and 800,000 in need of humanitarian assistance. The 2010 Haiti earthquake was reported to have left between 220,000 and 300,000 people dead and up to 1.6 million homeless. Further complicating that disaster, a massive cholera outbreak was caused by cholera-infected waste from a United Nations peacekeeping station that contaminated the country's main river, killing another 10,000 Haitians (as of 2017).

So any fair assessment of Haiti's present situation has to admit more than passing blame on the outside powers that have dominated that island ever since Columbus first stepped onto its shores in 1492 and killed off most of its population by spreading smallpox. The US, France and Spain have each had roles in intensifying that country's misery since then.

Most American presidents know this. After the 2010 earthquake, former presidents Clinton and Bush organized an effort to re-build Haiti that continues to this day.

But Trump has no sense of history, which is our continuing tragedy. No sense of the legacy of colonialism, the slave trade, or gunboat diplomacy. Fox News, ever playing up to the uninformed, won't tell him.

Which leads to a pertinent question: is Trump really racist, or is he just parroting the racism of Fox News? And why isn't anyone calling out Fox for its racism, when it's been evident in its coverage extending well back before Trump? Why are Fox commentators and correspondents still considered for awards and commendations when the organization they work for actively engages in courting and catering to a racist audience?

Michael Wolff's bullshit book..

EVERYONE here, either by commission or omission, swallowed that bullshit book, hook line and sucker..

I'm with Trump on this one. Which is to say that I am sure that he said I'd and if he didn't then I am sure that he meant to say I'd for the simple reason that it doesn't make any sense to use 'I' and 'probably' in that context.

And yet, yer the ONLY one to date who has sided with Trump on ANYTHING...

Kudos to you.. But the fact that you are the only one should tell you something..

A little off topic here but, how many territories does the US have?

I'm just trying to figure out where the number 57 came from.

It was likely completely innocent.. There are 57 voting "states" and that is likely what Obama was referring to...

But the fact is, it COULD be spin'ed to mean something nefarious... Something that those afflicted with ODS made good use of...

EXACTLY like those afflicted with HHPTDS...

I really wish you wouldn't assume that silence is assent.

But that is what YA'ALL established.. ALL of ya'all, either by commission or omission, said that, because President Trump didn't attack the NAZI scumbags in Charlottesville in the manner that YA'ALL thought it required, THAT meant that President Trump agreed with the NAZI scumbags..

YA'ALL established that Silence does give assent..

Once again, I am simply playing by ya'all's rules..

Do you know of any great journalists there?

I don't know of any great journalists, period...

There aren't any, anymore..

And the problem is ya'all DON'T possess those skills..If it's Anti-Trump, ya'all believe it, either by commission or omission...

I really wish you wouldn't assume that silence is assent. While there are certainly times when that may be true, always assuming that it is true - here or anywhere else, under any circumstance - is the wrong approach to take.

I don't know if there are great journalists at these outlets as I don't really spend any time there.

Though, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are some great journalists at each of those outlets.

Do you know of any great journalists there?

A little off topic here but, how many territories does the US have?

I'm just trying to figure out where the number 57 came from.

And yet, ya'all swallow hook, line and sucker, ANY report that is anti-Trump..

That is simply false ... at least as far as I'm concerned.

For example ... the WSJ kerfuffle with Trump's claim about his probable relationship with KJU and whether he said I or I'd is a prime example of how inept the news media can be.

I'm with Trump on this one. Which is to say that I am sure that he said I'd and if he didn't then I am sure that he meant to say I'd for the simple reason that it doesn't make any sense to use 'I' and 'probably' in that context.

"Mugabe destroyed Rhodesia by being an incompetent and corrupt dictator. Hitler destroyed Germany by going to war against foes that were tougher than he was. Not even remotely comparable."

Totally ignoring both the HOLOCAUST, and the fact that Mugabe waged an internal civil war inside Zimbabwe for many years against the other major tribal group and political opposition.

"And Germany is completely recovered, but Zimbabwey (Sp?)is still deteriorating."

And how LONG did it take Germany to recover??? From 1945 to 1960 for West Germany? Mugabe just died within the past YEAR. Want to give Zimbabwe at least the same amount of time before commenting?

"Not so sure about the value of Pyramids in raising living standards, etc."

My point was WHAT STANDARDS of DEVELOPMENT are you using and are such standards in ANY WAY CULTURALLY BIASED?

And when has ANYONE here (sans myself) **EVER** admitted to ANY prejudice???

It has never happened..

"And at Fox News and Breitbart and InfoWars???"

1.) One important difference is that Fox News defines itself as an "entertainment" network and not as a "news" network.

2.) I would consider Shepard Smith at Fox to be a credible unbiased journalist, totally unlike Hannity, Judge, or Tucker Carlson, all of whom seem to deal only in propaganda.

So, when Odumbo said there were 57 states, we knew he was thinking about his muslim Manchurian Candidate mission??

You SPIN what a person is thinking...

And you SPIN it according to your Party slavery...

You have proven that you will blindly support anything that Trump says even if you have no idea what he is saying!

And you have proven that you will blindly condemn ANYTHING Trump says even if you have NO IDEA what he is saying...

So, what's yer point???

Mugabe destroyed Rhodesia by being an incompetent and corrupt dictator. Hitler destroyed Germany by going to war against foes that were tougher than he was. Not even remotely comparable. And Germany is completely recovered, but Zimbabwey (Sp?)is still deteriorating.

Not so sure about the value of Pyramids in raising living standards, etc.

Is it possible that ya'all don't understand what is racist and base it solely on your ideological slavery???

"Is it possible that President Trump is a racist but that he doesn't understand what being a racist means and therefore he doesn't see himself as a racist and doesn't recognize racism when he sees it?"

I think ONE of the definitions of "racist" is that the people who are really racist NEVER see themselves as being racist. I.E. The KKK is NOT a racist organization but is simply a fellowship organization promoting (insert your favorite phrase here) Or "I" am not a racist, because I have a black (or Jewish) friend, etc.

While the rest of us if we are being honest all would readily admit to harboring at least some kind of prejudice of our own.

And yet, ya'all swallow hook, line and sucker, ANY report that is anti-Trump..

Why is that???

In fact, there are many great journalists at the NYTimes and opinion writers.

And at Fox News and Breitbart and InfoWars???

Of course, one has to possess the necessary critical thinking skills to discern fact-based journalism and enlightening opinion from that which is neither.

And the problem is ya'all DON'T possess those skills..

If it's Anti-Trump, ya'all believe it, either by commission or omission...

THAT's my point...

"I'm aware that colonialism is often blamed for the fact that so many African nations are still 'undeveloped'. Can't help but wonder about Rhodesia, which was highly developed and prosperous as a colony, and is now two or three generation post-colonialism, an independent basket case, right?"

Again, is that not dependent to a large degree on leadership rather than sweeping generalizations about an entire population as Elizabeth says? Mugabe ruined Zimbabwe, but did not Hitler do the same thing to Germany?

"However colonialism can't explain why they were never 'developed' to begin with. There was a period when EVERYBODY in the world was 'undeveloped', but some developed and some did not."

Except the modern definition of "developed" only started with the industrial revolution of Europe in the 1700's.

There was a time when the Aztecs and Egyptians were building huge cities with monumental works like pyramids while Europeans were still living in thatched roof huts. Correct?

"Somebody long ago observed that "The forbears of the haves and the have-nots were the dids and the did-nots".

Would not a crucial difference between the "dids" and the "didnots" sometimes be the fact that the "dids" did not have somebody actively trying to stop them???

My POINT is TWOFOLD, NOT ALWAYS, and NOT ONLY because of:

Is America's current state of development due to its very favorable geography, blessed with a temperate climate, abundant natural resources, lack of being invaded and occupied, well watered Mississippi river system and resulting farmland, OR

Because it started out with a hardworking, Puritan, Protestant, cultural foundation as opposed to a feudal based, landed gentry cultural system based on aristocrats and large estates, OR

some combination of the two?

What if America had not started out with white Englishman but with Japanese or Chinese merchants and explorers instead?

Why do you keep trying to get someone to say that a nation's current status has something to do with some inherent failing of the people living there? Could you have predicted in 1950 that the desperate. poor, poverty wracked South Korea of then would become the technological and industrial powerhouse of South Korea of 2018?

Or that the highly developed. prosperous Argentina of the 1920's filled with German and Italian immigrants would turn out instead to be the underdeveloped, backward economic basket case of the late 20th century?

So, NOW you are claiming that geographic location = racism...

No, not at all.

You must have missed the part about sweeping assertions.

Always remember, context is everything.

I simply don't pretend to know what President Trump is thinking because it's IMPOSSIBLE for me to know that..

Just as it is IMPOSSIBLE for YOU to know that..

I was asking you to explain the words he said. Typically, we know what a person is thinking by the words they say. You couldn’t make sense of his babbling, so you attack me for questioning his inability to provide coherent responses.

You have proven that you will blindly support anything that Trump says even if you have no idea what he is saying! Worse, you have demonstrated that you don’t care what he says, you will blindly worship every word that comes out of his shithole! Talk about being a tool!

It's important to be skeptical and critical when it comes to the news media. But, it isn't wise to dismiss the paper of record like it was completely unworthy.

In fact, there are many great journalists at the NYTimes and opinion writers. Recently, they have tried to be more inclusive in terms of opinion pieces that cover a wide swath of political thought across a wide spectrum of political persuasion.

Of course, one has to possess the necessary critical thinking skills to discern fact-based journalism and enlightening opinion from that which is neither.

Really???

So, NOW you are claiming that geographic location = racism...

You DO realize how ridiculous you sound, right???

I hope you will find this of interest in your search for the definition of racism and how it relates to President Trump:

If you had something besides the NY Grime to support your argument, you MIGHT have a valid argument..

A good approach to all of these issues is to avoid making assumptions about people based on their race or where they live.

... but pollution, crime, living standards, poverty, crime rates, etc.pretty much represent the fruits of those who live there, do they not?

Wouldn't you agree that a lot is dependent upon what sort of leadership is in place, among other variables, and that one should refrain from making such generalizations about a population.

Sweeping assertions about a population of people based on where they live and on the conditions under which they live is a big part of racism.

I'm aware that colonialism is often blamed for the fact that so many African nations are still 'undeveloped'. Can't help but wonder about Rhodesia, which was highly developed and prosperous as a colony, and is now two or three generation post-colonialism, an independent basket case, right?

However colonialism can't explain why they were never 'developed' to begin with. There was a period when EVERYBODY in the world was 'undeveloped', but some developed and some did not.

Re ". . deprived and desperate for being undeveloped . . "

Somebody long ago observed that "The forbears of the haves and the have-nots were the dids and the did-nots".

Again, are not those types of conditions that normally define 'livability', not a direct reflection of the attributes of the people who live there??

"Are not countries basically a reflection of their inhabitants? Obviously not "deserts", but pollution, crime, living standards, poverty, crime rates, etc.pretty much represent the fruits of those who live there, do they not?"

See my comment 222 above.

ALSO, are you taking into account any outside influences for instance that may be totally beyond that nation's control? Let's say you invade a nation and occupy it and make it a colony. You gear all it's production towards making your own nation rich, and keep the occupied nation uneducated and starved and even kill off most of its population. Is it's current condition all its own fault?

You might think I was talking about any nation in Africa. But was I? Could I also not have just as easily been talking about Ukraine's recent history with Russia?

You make a very salient point about context. Context is what is most often missing here in the comments sections ...

Nice response to CRS.

I think CRS was trying to be too cute by half when asking if someone is racist when they note that there are differences in skin pigmentation. Of course, that is a non-serious question and not a good pathway toward a definition of racism.

Hopefully, CRS will read your comment and reflect upon it before moving an important conversation forward.

"When Teddy Kennedy talked about the "deprived" and "desperate" countries of Asia and Africa, was he being racist??"

NO. because he could also have been talking about the deprived and desperate nations of Europe following World War II. What you don't seem to get is that CONTEXT means everything. They are deprived and desperate for being underdeveloped, not for being inherently inferior brown and black populated nations.

Thanks, makes sense regarding people, maybe not so much regarding countries/nations, etc.

Are not countries basically a reflection of their inhabitants? Obviously not "deserts", but pollution, crime, living standards, poverty, crime rates, etc.pretty much represent the fruits of those who live there, do they not?

Take CRS's comment (#191) for example..

What constitutes racism???

"Is stating the FACT that Haiti is a shithole, and that I wouldn't want a citizen from Haiti to run a nuclear power plant... Is that racism?? Or reality???"

RACISM. Since a better and more accurate statement would be I don't want anyone UNQUALIFIED to run a nuclear power plant REGARDLESS of where they are from. If they are black and have a Ph.D and are from Haiti, why would them being Haitian matter?

"Reading cw.com blog posts causes me to wonder, what exactly is the commonly-accepted around here, or perhaps I should say the standard Dem/Lib definition, of "racist"? Or perhaps even of just the word "race"?"

Some people would define "racist" as prejudice plus the power to put that prejudice into actual concrete action of some form.

"If you perceive any differences whatsoever in people (meaning the colors white and black are not identical) , are you a racist?

Now you are trying to define a separate but related term, "racism" or "prejudice" which would be the belief of someone being inherently superior to someone else solely because of their membership in a particular "race" and not based on anything else like ability.

"If you recognize that some places in the world are not nearly as 'livable' as others, are you a racist?"

Depends. Are you saying they are not "livable" because of their conditions, like too much desert, too much pollution etc. or because of the type of people who are living there? Example: That country is not livable because it is filled with black (Jewish) people and crime (decadence), and black (Jewish) people are the cause of crime (are all perverts) simply because they are black (Jewish), and not because of anything else. One is the KKK definition from the 1950's, and the (other) is the (Nazi) definition of the 1930's.

That was a lovely comment, especially on this day, and emblematic of what I wish we could see more of at this site.

I hope you will find this of interest in your search for the definition of racism and how it relates to President Trump:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/15/opinion/leonhardt-trump-racist.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&_r=0

Trump too shall pass.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it
bends toward justice. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was hoping you might decide to do something about the arc of this (moral?) comments section. :)

The simple fact is, I own you.. As your continued responses to me prove.. :D

Again, your projection is precious, as your continued responses to me prove along with your hijacking of questions from others to me [210].

You are SO owned by everyone else on this board that you can't allow anyone to answer a question from another poster without sticking your nose in. Bugger off.

Your peevish neediness is again duly noted.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to make it thru your day.. :D

The simple fact is, I own you.. As your continued responses to me prove.. :D

What will you do to rectify the situation where much of the rest of the world is quite distressed about what is happening in your country.

Trump too shall pass.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it
bends toward justice. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.. :D

And you're obsessed with everyone's sleeping too. ;)

What will YOU do when you discover that much of the world is NOT distressed about what is happening in my country, but rather APPROVES of what is happening in my country??

Recent quotes from the ROK leadership is indicative of what the rest of the world thinks of our country and it's President...

Well, for starters, I am of the mind that our country is fast becoming the laughing stock of the world. Since you are part of the "world" to which I am referring, you can confirm or deny my suspicion. :)

What will you do to rectify the situation where much of the rest of the world is quite distressed about what is happening in your country.

When Teddy Kennedy talked about the "deprived" and "desperate" countries of Asia and Africa, was he being racist??

No, of course not..

He has a -D after his name, so OF COURSE he wasn't being racist..

Back when President Trump had a -D after his name, Democrats HONORED Trump for a "LIFETIME of service" to black Americans...

Why, one would think that the ONLY issue here is whether or not a person has a -D after their name...

Exactly.....

Whatever you have to tell yourself to sleep at night.. :D

Well, that's the short, one-sentence answer to my querry.

It is truly succinct.

But, wouldn't a discussion about how that impacts the reputation of America abroad and what should be done about it be more productive that what is currently happening on this topic?

I have to concede this point... since anything would.

Well, for starters, I am of the mind that our country is fast becoming the laughing stock of the world. Since you are part of the "world" to which I am referring, you can confirm or deny my suspicion. :)

Re "Mean-spirited comment [189]".

Is it that you dispute or disagree with [189], or just that you prefer people wouldn't say such things regardless of how accurate or truthful they happen to be??

I live in your head and you have to follow me around like a little puppy dog, with your tongue hanging out to lick up all my "shit"... :D

It's like I have my own personal stalker... :D

Again, your projection is precious. One needs only to read the comments section to see what you obviously can't seem to grasp. You're obsessed with everyone here.

I own you...

Take a look around your "shithole" in the swamps and admit to yourself that you own nothing, and then take a look at this blog and read your own bullshit and let it sink in that you are owned by everyone else on this blog. It is so quite obvious. Count the times you obsess about everyone and use the word "ya'all." *LOL*

Hang tightly to your projection, whataboutism, and your fantasy, though, because it sure shit beats your reality. :)

That's not mean-spirited..

That's factually accurate..

If you answered the question truthfully and honestly, it would go a LONG way towards you being able to address the FACTS and REALITY...

Take CRS's comment (#191) for example..

What constitutes racism???

Is stating the FACT that Haiti is a shithole, and that I wouldn't want a citizen from Haiti to run a nuclear power plant... Is that racism?? Or reality???

But, you are the only one I really care about.

Awwwwww...

"I am fatter... er FLATTERED.."
-Eddy Murphy, THE NUTTY PROFESSOR

Ooops.. I spelled Eddie Murphy's first name wrong..

Must be a forgery... :D

That is discussed succinctly in the title: "Our Racist President" :)

Well, that's the short, one-sentence answer to my querry.

But, wouldn't a discussion about how that impacts the reputation of America abroad and what should be done about it be more productive that what is currently happening on this topic?

Similarly President-Unfaithful-Sh!thole is forced to place completely unqualified traitor/morons into high positions because no one decent will work for him.

You are no doubt referring to the 24-year-old chosen to cure the opioid epidemic except he has fake resume(s), who anybody with a keyboard could have discovered had they bothered to simply perform a 5-minute check on the Internet. :)

https://www.themaven.net/theintellectualist/news/trump-has-24-year-old-with-fake-resume-managing-national-drug-policy-AJYyOZ8pe0yYNzyuEtL50w?full=1

No where did I state or even intimate that...

How did you get there from here.. specifically...

No, you ascribe that my "shit" can change an ENTIRE STATE!!!

That is hilarious..

I live in your head and you have to follow me around like a little puppy dog, with your tongue hanging out to lick up all my "shit"... :D

It's like I have my own personal stalker... :D

I own you...

Help me out here, how do hyperlibs define "racist"?

That's easy...

Hysterical Left Wingers define "racist" as whatever or whoever doesn't toe their Party line...

WOW..

I am living in your head.. You ascribe to me SOO MUCH power.. :D

No. I ascribe to you so much shit; it seems to follow you wherever you go from cradle to present. *LOL* Anyone who pays attention to your endless shit can obviously see that it is everyone else who is living rent free in your vacuous monotonous thoughts.

I would wager you've made about 40% of the posts on this topic alone wherein you're obsessing about everyone else on this board. One need only to look at your plethora of posts to discover the fact that it's you who obsesses endlessly... obviously. Your projection is so precious, though, and you're far too consumed to see it. :)

Klingon tits!!! :D

I half expected the Emperor to be Tiberius... Missed a chance to REALLY knock on out of the ball park...

Had a hard time reconciling the ST: Enterprise Mirror Universe episodes with the ST:Discovery Mirror Universe...

Seems like the USS Defiant is one of those Guardian Of Forever focal points in time and space..

Those who know, know what I am talking about... :D

For those who don't?? Yer sadly missing out.. :D

If you perceive any differences whatsoever in people (meaning the colors white and black are not identical) , are you a racist?

If you recognize that some places in the world are not nearly as 'livable' as others, are you a racist?

Help me out here, how do hyperlibs define "racist"?

General McMasters... General Mattis.... General Kelly...

Neil, et al..

This is why you people have absolutely NO CREDIBILITY...

Paula makes total bullshit claims that ya'all KNOW are bullshit and yet, you let such bullshit claims stand un-challenged...

That's why you get lumped into the hysterical and ignorant fanatics that Paula is...

So, next time I lump in you with the likes of the psychotics like Paula, you'll know why...

It's simple..

Norway is not a shithole and it's people are productive based on the kind of country they have created...

Countries like Haiti and El Salvador are shitholes and that shithole-ness was created by the people that inhabit THAT country..

Let me put it another way...

If you needed 500 hi tech people for your company and you could only choose the group enmasse from one city, would you want to choose 500 from San Francisco, CA or 500 from Palakta*, FL...

The answer is obvious and the logic is impeccable...

* Three scariest words in the human language... Palatka Nuclear Powerplant

:D

Similarly President-Unfaithful-Sh!thole is forced to place completely unqualified traitor/morons into high positions because no one decent will work for him.

Unfit man who cannot attract competent people because of his loathsomeness.

A more meaningful debate would shed light on why a president of the United States would say that he values immigrants from places like Norway much more that he values immigrants from African countries and Haiti and El Salvador. Isn't that a discussion worth having?

That is discussed succinctly in the title: "Our Racist President" :)

WOW..

I am living in your head.. You ascribe to me SOO MUCH power.. :D

Well, that is certainly a standard (asinine) argument that prevails around the comments sections of this blog ...

It's become clear that it is impossible to have serious discussions with you vis a vis politics, because we can't even agree on what constitutes "serious"...

Given this fact, it's obvious that the only "serious" discussions we can have would have to do with anything BUT politics..

I am game if you are.. :D

... just because the president of the United States says something bad doesn't mean that commenters here have to repeat it, ad nauseam.

If I recall correctly, the author of the blog used the term at least 10 times, and therefore we are simply staying on topic. :)

A more meaningful debate would shed light on why a president of the United States would say that he values immigrants from places like Norway much more that he values immigrants from African countries and Haiti and El Salvador. Isn't that a discussion worth having?