ShitholeGate

I'm taking a little break from the economics posts since I'm home sick. I don't think my head could handle thinking about monetary theory right now. So instead today I'll engage in a favorite hobby that takes very little cognitive effort: demonstrating how liberals are dumb.

The big news of the now from the left seems to be ShitholeGate. If you haven't heard, apparently Trump is reported (by an anonymous source) to have called Haiti a shithole in a private meeting about immigration. Then the story was altered that Trump hadn't called Haiti a shithole but had rejected additional immigration from the country, and had used the term shithole in reference to a couple of unspecified African countries. There are three possible scenarios here, each of them ridiculous.

First scenario: Trump didn't call any country a shithole. I mean, we don't really know. The left want to believe a story from the NYT based on an anonymous source. How many times have they been burned by that? It would be just delightful if a transcript or recording surfaces that shows the phrase wasn't even uttered. There is also proof of insane bias in the media, if we needed more. The media never gave any attention to sources who claimed Hillary Clinton said terrible things behind closed doors. If they are only willing to engage in these kinds of speculative spectacles for Trump, well it just further proves that the media primarily is partisan propaganda.

Second scenario: Trump said it. What if he did? What if he called two African counties shitholes? Does the media really want to take the stance that there are not two shitholes in Africa? How much more absurd could they be? Everyone knows most African countries are shitholes. Haiti is as well and, guess what, Haitians loathe Hillary Clinton because her family embezzled so much of the disaster relief funds after their major earthquake. In other words, Hillary Clinton is a major reason Haiti is a shithole. What about Africa...isn't Libya a shithole? Didn't Hillary Clinton play a pivotal in transforming Libya from a success (by African standards) into a lawless hellhole where slaves are sold in open-air markets? This is not the only African country to be graced by the Clintons. The documentary Clinton Cash showed how they sold their political clout to grant legitimacy to violent African dictators. This family has played a significant role in these countries' continued shithole status, but it's Trump that gets all the heat for making the obvious observation? I was wrong before, all this absurdity actually does hurt my head.

Third scenario: Trump said it and he had it leaked. Very possible this is true. He's a master of making statements worded in such a way that the media will jump all over it, but the message is one the majority of Americans agree with. Of course most Americans think Haiti and Africa are shitholes. It's another example of a "controversy" where Trump gets tons of attention saying things that most Americans say themselves. Also, this sends a loud message to Trump's base, that he is out their fighting for the foremost issue that got him elected: immigration. This whole thing only hurts him with the people who already despise him, and we aren't primarily concerned with those lunatics anyway.