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Bullshit Trump Says

Trump's comment about not taking people from shithole countries like El Salvador, Haiti, etc. but wanting immigrants from Norway lays to rest any questions about him not being a racist.

Just saw this...what a fucking juvenile and embarrassing statement.

The US has received more value and productive contributions from those "shithole" countries than they have received from your shithole family.
 
Bitherism

All Mexicans are criminals.

Muslim Ban.

Convicted of racism in housing

Convicted of racism in hiring and promotion in AC

Judge Curiel (born in Indiana) can't be honest, because his parents came from Mexico

There were "many fine people" in the KKK/Alt-right/white supremacist group at Charlottesville

Hires a known racist as Attorney General

Supports the racist Roy Moore

Wants Norweigans to come to US but not Africans

Joe Arpiao

This is only a partial list.

But some here still support him and lie to themselves and others that Trump isn't an overt and unrepentant racist. You might as well get your own KKK membership card, because that is what you are supporting.
 
That means your entire house is full of shit not just a hole. That's worse. :)
 
To be fair, he used the term shithouse, not shithole

It was shithole:

"“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he said, suggesting the U.S. bring more immigrants from places like Norway, according to the Post."
 
Trump's comment about not taking people from shithole countries like El Salvador, Haiti, etc. but wanting immigrants from Norway lays to rest any questions about him not being a racist.

Also, Norwegians have basically zero reason to move here. Except the weather.
 
I dig end of the world books and movies so I gave those left behind books a try and let's just say that ....they sucked. The worst written, hamfisted, schlock I have ever read. I gave up after the first two

Several years ago I visited some relatives (hardcore fundies) one afternoon with my parents. They had the entire Left Behind series on a shelf, so while they all talked, I pulled one off the shelf (I don't remember the title, I think it was Soul Harvest). I skimmed through it, and it was terrible. I've seen comic books with better character development. It was very cartoonish and simplistic, no subtlety at all. The born-again good guys ("Tribulation Force") were pure and noble, loudly praising Jesus, and they were immune to the tortures and punishments given to everyone else. The bad guys were comically bad, especially the Antichrist, who sneered, chuckled, and schemed like a silent-movie villain. Female characters were either pure and maidenly Christians or shameless sluts who sleep with the Antichrist, there's no in-between. My favorite part was when God sent a plague of killer locusts to torment unbelievers, which was basically anybody the Religious Right hated. One of the good guy fundies gets trapped in a house with a scientist, who suddenly realizes the error of his ways in thinking the Earth was billions of years old, or that maybe global warming existed, and stares in fear at the little bugs trying to get inside to bite him. If they bite you, you experience agonizing, unbearable pain for weeks that no known painkiller can help. Of course, the bugs eventually get the scientist (who tries to renounce science and embrace the Religious Right, too late), while our hero, thanks to Jeezus, escapes unharmed.

Judging from that one book, the whole series is basically torture porn in which fundamentalists can fantasize about all the groups and people they resent and hate (scientists, non-Christian religions, snooty academics, secular humanists) being proven to be completely wrong about everything, and are given increasingly horrible punishments for being wrong, while our heroes get to gloat and praise Jesus for being right about everything. Even many Christians are portrayed as not "real" Christians, such as most Catholics (one Pope gets raptured because he's conservative, but the new Pope joins the Antichrist), and some Mainline Protestants, like Episcopalians (Anglicans). That there are millions of people who really believe this stuff is frightening.
 
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Here's an aside - I know a Norwegian guy that moved to the US. I'll give his story in a nutshell for an anecdote of why one of them would move here. He's extremely bright, with a masters from MIT. His complaint about Norway was that income discrepancy was so flat, that garbagemen lived next to doctors with not a lot to distinguish them with respect to wealth. Because he was highly skilled in a field that's very much in demand, he wanted to reach for a bigger brass ring.

Note - I'm not defending his perspective, nor criticizing it. Just sharing it.
 
When he got his masters from MIT, he had his choice of where to live and work. He chose Norway. He knew how people got paid there but chose it anyway.

After all, according to NatGeo, Norway is only the fourth happiest country in the world.

The World Economic Forum ranked Norway fourth as well. All of the Scandanvian countries have similar earnings and all are in the Top 10.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/the-worlds-happiest-countries-in-2016/

The UN has Norway as #1. http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/

Sounds like your friend isn't like most of his countrymen/women.
 
He did not choose to live in Norway RJ. I suppose I didn't explicitly say it so I will now, "reach for the bigger brass ring" meant he chose to stay in the US, not Norway.

If folks want to debate/berate him about his choices, just PM me your e-mail or Twitter info and I'll forward it to him.
 
He did not choose to live in Norway RJ. I suppose I didn't explicitly say it so I will now, "reach for the bigger brass ring" meant he chose to stay in the US, not Norway.

If folks want to debate/berate him about his choices, just PM me your e-mail or Twitter info and I'll forward it to him.

Don’t worry, the rest of us knew what you meant.
 
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