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| Norway is renaming itself in solidarity with the shithole countries |
Stan calls him The SCROTUS. Just this week my friend Ann Daniels gave him a new moniker: His Shitholiness--in honor of this past week's new low in Trump's presidential pronunciamentos: a declaration that some countries are shitholes. (He would, he declared, rather that we bring in people of better countries, like Norway.) Thereby, he vilified many of my favorite places. And he inspired me to show you how happy it has made me, over the past thirty years or so, to visit sixteen of our sacred planet's marvelous, splendid "shitholes."
Take a look a these photos, arranged by continent. Here they are--my favorite places that are NOT Norway:
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Cuba
Ecuador
Paraguay
Jordan
Turkey
Botswana
Egypt
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| Two of the smiling men in this photo are of Norwegian descent. Neither one is wishing he had gone to Oslo instead of Cairo |
Kenya
Morocco
Namibia
South Africa
Tanzania
Zambia
I set out here. not to try, with my photos, to prove how wonderful these countries are. Many photos better than mine are readily viewable on the Internet. I want to show you how happy these places have made me and my friends. All those smiles come from being in beautiful places where we found fabulous sites and great people. True the citizens of the shithole countries are not all tall and pale like Norwegians, but I found the them to be fun, funny, warm, welcoming, and brilliant.
His Shitholiness is famous for not stopping to think. But if we do, we will remember that Norwegians were the most dangerous, violent, destructive immigrants in human history. In fact, one might conclude that they invented terrorism.
Just sayin'
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Three of the MIE bloggers are from shithole countries. I hedged my bets by having a Norwegian grandmother.
ReplyDeleteStan, our grandparents left their native countries and went to settle elsewhere. Immigrants, by definition, think the place they are going to is preferable to the place where they were born. But of course, you know this. You’ve been an immigrant.
DeleteEven by His Shitholiness’s shit-for-brains standard, you would be let into your adopted country today, because you pass his real (racist) acceptability test.
How does it feel to have rejected racism and now find yourself a citizen of a country with a racist at the helm? I know. Shitty!
Have you seen the World Map According to Trump on the net? 3/4 of the Uk is covered by the word 'Brexit', the bit were I am is labelled 'golf'.
ReplyDeleteWhen is his Trumpiness going to go away?
Caro, we are working on it. The secret to the US’s power is the political stability our constitution provides. Toppling our government is possible,but we must cross a high bar to do it. In the meanwhile, his mental instability makes him politically very weak and limits the real damage he can do. The RepublicanParty backed him because they wanted their tax policy passed. They have that now, but the voters here are beginning to slap them silly. Right now, he’s a huge embarrassment, but almost as weak in office as he is in the head.
ReplyDeleteHis Holiness is the title of religious leaders including the Pope, Patriarch and Dali Lama. Your witty nomenclature might be offensive to those of us both Catholic and catholic.
ReplyDeleteHi Liz, Thank you for your comment. After seventeen years in Catholic school, I do understand about the proper use of "His Holiness," when it applies to religious leaders, like the great Pope Francis. I mean no offense to him or the Dalai Lama or their offices. Or to their followers. I think the term I used satirically properly characterizes the current US president as a person who wallows in self-aggrandizement and thinks he has the right to vilify anyone or anything that his capricious personality chooses to target.
DeleteI am out to pillory hime, just him. And I think he absolutely deserves it.
Thank you for your reply. Your point is not lost on me but compounding crudity is.
DeleteSorry. Dalai.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know about the rest of you immigrant types with roots in now disparaged lands, but we whose ancestors arrived in Pittsburgh have special dispensation, because DJT famously said, “I was elected to represent the people of Pittsburgh, not Paris”
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he realizes the Pittsburgh vote actually went fo HRC?
Bro, You know! What are facts in relation to DJT? He doesn't believe in facts. His epic levels of self-delusion keep such mundane issues totally off his radar.
DeleteLeye, Whether they feel any personal guilt or not, the best of us see the formerly subjugated countries as troubled because of slavery and colonialism, followed by marginalization. We think they should now be helped by favored status and development efforts to ameliorate past oppression.
ReplyDeleteThe worst vilify them for being shitholes.
The evil (sometimes the powerful within those countries) use the situation to continue to bleed them, even when they are bleeding their own brothers and sisters.
I would love to go to Nigeria when you are there to show me around. Just say when, and I'll show up.
Opps, Leye, my first sentence got deleted for reasons I can't understand. (Is anyone besides me experiencing difficulties and disappearances while trying to comment?)
ReplyDeleteAnyway I tried to being: Right you are, especially about trump being a whole new species of wrong,....
What a wonderful set of pictures, Annamaria! Travelling with you always looks such a delightful experience.
ReplyDeleteDid you see in the news today that someone projected 'This Place is a Shithole' onto the front of one of El Presidente's hotels? lol
Z, I would love a chance to travel with you!!!
DeleteHooray for the projectionists. The ONLY good thing about our crazy prez is how easiest it is to come up with ways to laugh at him. LOL, me too.
The pictures say it all, and very eloquently.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Triss. Each place has its only particular kind of beauty.
DeleteI just keep thinking he can't sink any lower, and then he does.
ReplyDeleteOh, Lisa, you are so right. To me, our situation is so unreal that it makes sense only as farce. My response, as you can see, is satire. And a strong, secret hope that the Republicans' supporting him will be their political doom.
ReplyDeleteGreat word. Will circulate it. And the sign on one of #45's hotels is priceless. (Will not call him president on principle.)
ReplyDeleteJust a point made on a TV show I watch: No one wants to emigrate here from Norway anyway. Why would Norwegians want to come here? They have free health care, education and childcare and gun control.
Thank you, Kathy. I can't call him President either. It's a gag reflex, not a principle that makes it impossible for me.
DeleteI maintain that all immigrants come from countries that are shitholes in their estimation, in one way or another. My grandparents all left Italy at the end of the 19th century. Children were eating dirt in Italy south of Rome in those days. And it was not the children's or the parents' fault. FORTUNATELY for me they had a welcoming place to come to. America in those days knew that the road the prosperity for the entire country had only three steps, which hadworked their magic for our home town since the early 17th century: Take in the refugees, give them jobs, educate their children. BINGO. The otherwise unattractive work gets done by people determined to do a good job and make a go of their new lives. The worst real estate in the area gets inhabited and fixed up. The children become a creative and inventive force with a great work ethic.
What I don't understand is why this is not OBVIOUS to anyone with half a brain.
One set of my great-grandparents came from Irish poverty and famine. My other grandparents came from Russian poverty and fleeing anti-Jewish programs.
ReplyDeleteThese were impoverished areas. Both my parents loved potatoes -- this is because that is what was primarily eaten in their communities and what was available. (Also, another point made by a friend whose parents also fled pogroms in the Russian empire: Not everyone who migrated here had all the documents. To save their lives, many grabbed children, funds, and left.)
I don't understand the outright cruelty of this administration against migrant children and their parents. Most people support DACA,for one thing.
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