Can you believe Trump said "___________"??

Latest "can you believe Trump said" has the trust-fund baby, come crypto fascist, calling Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries "shitholes."

We're asked rhetorically - or may be some are asking genuinely - if we can believe Trump said this.

YES!

I can totally believe he said that. I don't have any doubt, nor do I have any residual of surprise that Trump said that. What I can't believe is that other people are surprised.

He was born in 1946. He's old. Old people are known for some things; thinking younger generation is lazy, new music sucks, and "when I was a kid soda pop was a nickel." The other thing you can attribute to old people is unvarnished racism.

He's a narcissistic, intellectually incurious, lazy, McDonalds eating, spoiled all-grown-up-spoiled-little-rich-kid. He complains about Obama's golf trips and vacations, yet has golfed, and vacated WAY more.

He's the guy who called for the Central Park 5 to be executed, and even when they were exonerated, wouldn't back track insisting they were guilty.

He's a con man who founded a fraud of a university, and put his name on steaks, and bottled water - had displays of same water at campaign stops - went bankrupt so many times only Russian mobsters loan him money, and STILL is able to brag of followers who think he's a business genius.

He's a guy who, many times as a landlord, was in violation of the Fair Housing Act. How racist do you need to be to have Nixon Administration take you to court?

He's the guy who started his campaign by insisting that Mexico was "sending us their rapists."

He's the guy who said some of the White Nationalists were "very fine people."

He's the guy who spent years "investigating" the birthplace of President Obama.

Can we stop being surprised when this orange raccoon faced, cotton candy haired, ignorant, intellectually lazy, buffoon says something racist? He's been doing it for decades.

Charleston: It's not about guns. It's not an attack on Christianity. It's about racism and ignorance of history.

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Dylan Roof is a cracker. He's a backwoods, redneck, bigoted, ginger-ass cracker with a fucking Moe Howard haircut. He's the worst of us - and he does come from America's collective. Make no mistake. There are many more Dylan Roofs. Whether or not they have to gall to carry out their demented fantasies of "reclaiming 'our country'" is another story. but they're out there. They're also terrorists. They're as terrorist is ISIS, or Al Qaeda. He and his ilk should be labeled as such in the media. Their terror is a result of willful historical ignorance and revisionism.

Attack on Christianity? I've heard this too, and it's crap. He picked that church for a reason. It's a historically significant site. It was picked because it was a black church, not because it's a church. Period. Another reason this should be called terrorism.

There are too many people out there who cling to the notion that the Civil War was not about slavery, but rather was about "States rights." That's bullshit. The only state right named in articles of secession is that of slavery. Anyone who advances that is full of shit. It's a cognitive bait and switch to give that racism the cover of legitimacy by adding historical context. It's bullshit. I think it's ironic that Lincoln used the power of the Federal Government to hold the Union together, and subdue the Confederacy while leading the Movement to ratify the 13th Amendment. Now the "Party of Lincoln" currently is opposed to the Feds imposing anything. If Lincoln were alive today, he'd give the GOP leaders, and standard bearers a swift kick in the dick. (another example of the idiocy of looking at modern political parties through the prism of the 1850s - another story)

The Confederate flag also needs to go. From the end of the Civil War, through Reconstruction, and until the Civil Rights movement threatened the Jim Crow order in the 1960s, the Confederate Battle Flag was not used as a symbol of Southern "heritage." It was not added to southern State flags, and public grounds until then. It's a flag of racism, and bigotry because that's when it was resurrected as a symbol. The South, and Southerners have added real richness to us; blues, jazz, bourbon whiskey, Dean Smith, to name a few, but that flag is fucked up and needs to be put into the ashbin of history. It's been hijacked by bigots, and racists as their standard. 

My thoughts on guns are established, but they're not germane here. Any sensible limits on guns that most gun owners believe in (i.e. background checks) would not have prevented this. Let's not go down that rabbit hole. I only address it, because others have brought it up. It's way down the list. Ideas are more powerful then weapons, and these cracker-ass bullshit ideas need to be shown for the utter bullshit they are.