Of Crudeness and Truth. Thoughts on President Trump’s latest verbal tempest

[rangerrebew]

Of Crudeness and Truth
Thoughts on President Trump’s latest verbal tempest
Andrew Klavan
January 12, 2018 Politics and law

Nothing scandalizes a leftist like the truth. Point out that women and men are different, that black Americans commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime, that most terrorist acts are committed by Muslims, and the Left leaps to its collective feet in openmouthed shock, like Margaret Dumont after a Groucho Marx wisecrack. This is racism! This is sexism! This is some sort of phobia! I’m shocked, shocked to find facts being spoken in polite company!

No one is really shocked, of course. This is simply a form of bullying. The Left has co-opted our good manners and our good will in order to silence our opposition to their bad policies. The idea is to make it seem impolite and immoral to mention the obvious.

https://www.city-journal.org/html/crudeness-and-truth-15668.html

[Fishrrman]

There are reports Trump said "S***hole".
There are other reports that say he did not.

To be honest, I for one hope that he actually DID say just that.
I am not outraged.
I am HEARTENED by his candor and frankness.

It's exactly WHAT WE NEED MORE OF.
The evil (and very effective) leftist-communist weapon of political correctness must be destroyed... shattered beyond repair.

The only way to do it -- to break the leftist Humpty Dumpty so badly that it can never be put back together again -- is to confront it just as Mr. Trump has done.

We need more of this, if we are to reclaim the country from the democrat-communists.

[dfwgator]

There are reports Trump said "S***hole".
There are other reports that say he did not.

To be honest, I for one hope that he actually DID say just that.
I am not outraged.
I am HEARTENED by his candor and frankness.

It's exactly WHAT WE NEED MORE OF.
The evil (and very effective) leftist-communist weapon of political correctness must be destroyed... shattered beyond repair.

The only way to do it -- to break the leftist Humpty Dumpty so badly that it can never be put back together again -- is to confront it just as Mr. Trump has done.

We need more of this, if we are to reclaim the country from the democrat-communists.

The biggest problem I have is if he indeed said it and then denied it,  that's a huge Red Flag.  If he indeed said it, he should have stood behind it.  Heck, even Lindsey Graham pretty much said the same thing during a public debate back in 2013.

[anubias]

Maybe he didn’t say “shithole countries” but in actuality said:

“Blankety-blankin’ disease-infested, God-forsaken shithole countries!”   

Meh.  Regardless of what was actually said, the point has been made which is a good thing imo.