to refer to "those countries" as third-world countries. It's better to
refer to immigrants skill sets than to the countries they come from,
especially if those countries are primarily white, black, or brown.
God, I wish he would watch how he says things.
But I just heard a US Senator come out of a private meeting with the
President...a meeting designed to attempt to solve a long-standing and
difficult immigration standoff...and this Senator publicly reports that
President Trump used the term "shitholes" to describe some countries,
and compared Norway to some African countries to illustrate a point
about the skill sets of immigrants he would like to encourage.
Then, he called the President a racist. Nice. That ought to do a lot
to encourage trust and cooperation with the White House.
In Washington-speak, the illustrious Senator from the great state of
Illinois speaks with more than a smidgen of arrogance, hubris, and treachery.
So I will speak openly and directly with you, Senator Durbin. We all
what a "shithole" is. In the US we call them slums, or ghettos, or boondocks,
or any other number of more respectable sounding names. All kinds of
people live in them; whites, blacks, Asians, Latinos, citizens, and
immigrants. Most are good people. Most would like to get out.
In Washington, the proper term for a "shithole" country is to call it a
"third-world" country, usually run by a "two-bit" dictator. I assume the
purpose is to make them feel better about themselves to be third behind
the "second-world" and "first-world" countries (us, of course)...or maybe
we think they are just too stupid to notice the put-down.
Who knows, maybe there's a "fourth-world" or a "fifth-world" out
there, and those "shithole" countries have earned the bronze medal.
Of course, those "two-bit" dictators are smart enough to get rich off
the money they can get Washington to throw at them. And the people
are smart enough to want to get into the US if they can. And especially
the ones that get to the US on an emergency, temporary visa are
smart enough to know they don't want to go back.
Anyway, Senator Durbin, I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt,
and assume you spoke the truth. It still was not necessary to go public
and poison the well for negotiations. It still was more infantile than
statesmanlike to accuse the President of the United States of racism
because you didn't like his choice of words or the way he tried to
illustrate his points.
Your behavior seems more like that kid in school we all hated...the one
who ran to the teacher, screeching "Teacher, teacher, Billy said a swear
word! Billy said a swear word!".
In grade school we called you a prissy little tattletale or a goody
two-shoes. In high school, we called you a snitch, a rat, a weasel,
or, worse of all, a pussy.
I know, I know. I can't use "pussy" anymore. I've evolved. I know
it's offensive to women. I don't want to offend any women.
Originally, I thought "asshole" would be a more descriptive word for
a weasel like you, but, then again, I don't want to offend all the other
assholes out there, either.
So, I propose a new term for a person who betrays confidences while
maintaining a holier-than-thou attitude, a smarmy persona, and no clue
as to what an asshole they look like.
Congratulations. I propose from now on, anyone who fills that bill
will be known as a "DURBIN", and whoever a "Durbin" attacks can
say they've been "DURBINIZED".
And the sad truth is, Durbins are everywhere in Washington, in our
State Houses, in our colleges and high schools, and in our corporations.
Our country is being "Durbinized" more and more every day.
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