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I asked her what was wrong. She said "how could he say that" to me. Well, we both know how, but it just hurt her terribly.
My wife was born in Bolivia, and then migrated to Venezuela as a teenager. I am sure both Bolivia and Venezuela would qualify as s-holes in the Trump mind.
She has told me of some of the horrible jobs she had to work, like when she was a waitress in a two story restaurant, and the owner kept all the tips. She got minimum wage packing plates up and down stairs, while the customer thought they were tipping her for her hard work, and great service. Sick.
She now is working on her second degree, third if you count the degree in economics she got in Venezuela. She has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes, from withholding to real estate taxes, and all the other taxes.
Donald Trump literally hurt my wife.
Today I hate his guts with a little more whiter hotter hate.
I know you are not supposed to hate, but you are not supposed to speed either.
God Damn You Donald Trump. May you burn in hell you ignorant racist snowflake.
MFM008
(19,804 posts)But it's a looonnnngggg line on that white hot hate thing against maggot.
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)My grandparents were good, decent people who came here for a better life.
Their children and grandchildren have given a lot back to America.
Tell your wife that we cannot let Trump define, demean and humiliate us.
He is a bully, and we are good people.
Best wishes on her educational pursuits, she sounds like a hard working,
intelligent woman. She should be proud of herself, and tell Trump to F-off.
SeaDoo77
(540 posts)Saying "and your welfare check was thiiiiiiis big!!!!!"
She got zero cents in "aid" from the US Government.
She ate pasta, and Casadillas and on Friday when she got her paycheck, she would go to Pagliacci and get a slice of pizza and a beer. That was her reward for working and going to school all week. And by the way she paid her tuition out of her pocket.
Her check was this big, as I spread my arms and hands as wide as possible...... This big......
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)so their children could eat and go to college.
F___ Trump.
Your wife is doing the right thing.
Trump is a terrible human being.
BigmanPigman
(51,583 posts)IT is a NOTHING to be more accurate.
onecaliberal
(32,814 posts)GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)Millions are fighting this fascist asshole. We will win.
I understand, though. It's the same kind of white-hot hate I felt (and feel) when he mocked the disabled reporter. I have a disabled child.
SeaDoo77
(540 posts)She only came here to learn English. She never even planned on staying. She had a good job in Venezuela, and thought she could do better with better English, and continue her education. I really don't even know why she stayed.
And another thing. I / we have a lot of friends from Venezuela, and Bolivia. Lots. We love their dreamer children like our own. Seriously. They are, every single one, great kids. They are going to school, or working their own businesses. Amazing kids. Truly amazing.
Prez S-hole directly attacked "my" kids when he stripped them of their status. What a (blank).
Resist......
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)bad words in the English language, or any language, to describe Twitler.
RESIST!
rtracey
(2,062 posts)You tell her she will be smiling in 2018, and jumping for joy in 2020.....
Doitnow
(1,103 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Please tell her that most of us feel that pain, too.
I'm beyond hate now; I just feel ashamed.
LittleGirl
(8,282 posts)my husband is an immigrant and my grandparents came from Italy.
I posted on Facebook how he does not speak for ALL Americans and I usually don't post anything on facebook but he crossed the line.
I also just shamed a school mate that wrote some racists shit on another facebook post and told him to read a history book. especially a history book about Italy where his parents and grandparents came from. asshole.
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)You know how screwed-up he is-- he's a piece of garbage who's so cheap and outlandish it's jaw-dropping
SCUM OF THE EARTH
LittleGirl
(8,282 posts)first or second generation immigrant and it just blows me away that these people that I grew up with associate with 45 or think that Obama messed up our country.
these people (and my brother and sister are a couple of others) that think they are better than the rest of the world. it's downright vomit inducing.
I'm pushing 60 soon so I've met some wonderful people of all races and still have relatives in Italy.
thank you.
ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)They have been proven to be liars, cheats, thieves and incompetents.
Augiedog
(2,545 posts)Try not to let the least of humanity define the best.
mstinamotorcity2
(1,451 posts)He doesn't speak for me.
gopiscrap
(23,736 posts)but I was born in Germany and my father passed away as a baby, the man my mother married after that was a US Service man who gave his life for the US in Vietnam and died when I was 7. My mom and I fully emigrated to the US when I was 13 and even then there was prejudice and hurtful things lobbed toward us.
Yesterday I felt the same way, I was near tears, knowing that at one time I was from a "shithole" nation in the words of the President of the US
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)class Asshole. period.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)I'd rather have people from any "shit-hole" in the world here over him
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Please tell her I am so, so sorry and I respect her and her people with every breath I take.
We-the majority-are better than this deplorable monster.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)The only good thing to come from the Orange Shitgibbon is showing us how fragile our Democracy is and how we need to fight and fight hard to preserve it. Every single person in the US (with the exception of Native Americans) is either an immigrant or is descended from immigrants.
My mother could trace her ancestry back to before the Revolution, but her side of the family were still immigrants when then came over from England, seeking to escape to a better life. My father's parents immigrated from Germany to escape the Nazi's.
And as for those so-called Christians, I remember, as a child of perhaps 5 or 6, going to Sunday School. One of the songs we sang was:
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Black and yellow, red and white
They're all precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world
Sorry if I seem to be rambling, I just detest trump to the point I have to leave the room or change the channel when a video clip of him talking comes on. This country was built on inclusion not exclusion, and yes there has been bigotry since the first Pilgrim, but we have worked for 400 years to stamp it out, so, for all of our sakes, get out and vote and take back Congress in Nov. And show the GOP the we are firm believers in the Golden Rule and we shall block everything that Trump wants to do as they blocked Obama, and we will make damn sure that if Trump actually makes it 2020 the most important thing on our agenda is to make sure he is a one-term asshole/pResident.
sprinkleeninow
(20,235 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)I hope she's naturalized and registered. If not -- great time to start that ball rolling!
alarimer
(16,245 posts)And they are shitholes because they were full of right-wing assholes, who never wanted to pay enough taxes to make things work they way they should, so roads were bad, libraries and schools underfunded.
So, yeah, "shithole" is definitely in the eye of the beholder, but Trump meant it in a racist way.
Luz
(772 posts)She has assimilated reeeeel good.
The greatest thing about America is when you say you are an American, you are. You can't move to France and call yourself a Frenchman. It doesn't work that way.
Racist right wing nazi assholes don't understand this.
They live their lives in fear of "the other" huddling in their own s-holes. The ones between their ears.
The words on the statue of liberty do mean something. Just not to them....
PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)She just kept saying, "This goes against everything this country should stand for."
As to hating Trump, that's pretty easy, but what I really hate is this chest pounding white nationalism, because it takes us backwards. According to the US Census world population clock, there are over 7.4 billion people living on this planet.
Those 'shithole' countries to which Trump was referring are poor because of capitalism and greed. The thing that is backwards about Trump, Bannon, DeVos, and the rest of his crappy, ignorant, anti-intellectual, white-supremacist administration is this:
- We all live on, and share, this one world.
- In order for this world to continue to support our species, we need to begin planning forward as a species, not a bunch of nations.
- Now, more than ever, the policies we set must necessarily organize us around human need, not human greed.
- Human need necessarily includes the state of this world's environment, because we all must live on this world.
I'm a progressive, and believe our tax dollars need to be spent making our lives better, not making it so some billionaire parasites or shareholders in big corporations can get richer at the expense of the rest of us. I want our taxes to be spent on childcare, early childhood education, elementary, secondary and postsecondary education, creating an infrastructure that serves us all and that we can all be proud of. I want healthcare and a strong old age pension so I can be financially comfortable after I have to stop working. I want my children and grandchildren to be able to take time off to care for their children, and for other family members, and not suffer financially. I want my children and grandchildren to be able to live in decent housing with clean water, broadband communications, heat their homes with clean energy and not have to risk disease caused by corporate pollution.
I want corporate charters adjusted so the fiduciary responsibility of the C-class corporate officers is not ONLY to shareholders, but to customers, the general public and the environment.
We need to rethink the need for wars, and for all the money that goes toward 'defense,' and as we retool our society, we need to retrain those who lose 'defense' related jobs and at the same time develop new and peaceful technologies and endeavors where they can be employed instead.
Yes, I am politically active in my local Democratic party. Yes, I caucus, vote in primaries, carefully review ballot referendums, and vote in every election. Yes, I write, call and speak personally to those elected to represent me locally, statewide and federally. I sign petitions, and do my utmost to drive local policies in directions that support human need.
I do not apologize for being a progressive, or Democratic Socialist or whatever you want to call me, and it is not my responsibility to try and change some anti-intellectual quasi-literate person's mind. It is time for those of us who are capable of imagining what we and this world can be if we work unselfishly together for the common needs of people to stand up and be active and peaceful change agents.
I do not apologize for being an idealist, and do not consider it my responsibility to bring you around to my way of thinking. Indeed, with the current human-caused deterioration of the global climate, I believe events themselves will cause pressure in this direction.
I do not apologize for believing that reorganizing around human need is possible. Again, I do not take on myself the responsibility of convincing anyone else of this imperative. Events will do that for me.
Above all, personally, I believe in living by the golden rule. In as far as possible in our consumer society, I try to do unto others as I would have them do unto me. I believe in hard work, out of the box thinking, and entrepreneurship, and I believe that people are motivated by MORE than profits and that most people would like to live comfortably, and do something for a living that has meaning. Like Obama said, I believe that no one who works full time should have to live in poverty, without healthcare or other benefits that make life worth living.
Can we do it?
The earth will be fine whether we organize ourselves to preserve its ability to support human life OR whether we fuck it up so bad we go extinct and it becomes a smoking cinder circling the sun. Our destiny is up to us.
I suppose that makes me a
MountainMama
(237 posts)PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)Thanks!
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,580 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Free b.c. for women and men, education regarding sex, reproduction and overpopulation, and incentivized encouragement to limit family size to maximum two. Higher rewards for having no children. Rewards that will be appreciated by upper, middle and lower economic populations.
babylonsister
(171,054 posts)Oldtimeralso
(1,935 posts)I am glad, Patrick, that you live by the golden rule.
Trump live by the new golden rule. ," He
Who has the gold makes the rules.,"
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)When my sons were little boys (they are now 25 and 27), we used to talk about the Golden Rule and how, if everyone would obey that ONE rule, we really woudn't need many others. It covers pretty much anything I can think of.
Vinca
(50,255 posts)Will Norway let us in just to get away from Trump? A for your wife.
SeaDoo77
(540 posts)Let him shovel snow for a living.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)DFW
(54,330 posts)Wouldn't your wife want to move to America with you some day?
These days, she just answers, "you're kidding, right?"
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Certain People in this country been crying and dying for 350 years because they were seen as shit because of their color and status in racist white culture. A culture that has been given a new transfusion of hate by the people who caused your wife tears. If you are not white or at least white looking you are now joined to a large club...and I as an AA have NEVER taken aid from this stinking government. Although I am trying to get compensation for being poisoned while serving in our military. Expect a lot more hurt. 350 years worth here...and continuing. Oh and by the way I spent 5 years at a prestigious university also, after military service and I'm still a n***** with now 60 million toilet dwellers cheering on the turd-in-chief that caused pain in your wife and anger in you....
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)I simply don't understand how so many here and elsewhere don't seem to recognize this fact.
Kirk Lover
(3,608 posts)These fuckbags will not hijack what America stands for....this is not what America stands for.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)Give your wife extra hugs from us
SeaDoo77
(540 posts)She is the American Dream.
Shoonra
(520 posts)Come on, SeaDoo77, tell us how you REALLY FEEL about Pres. Trump!
My own father was an immigrant a very long time ago. Fled Tsarist Russia, arrived in NYC not knowing a word of English. Worked all his life. Went to school - all the way to a Master's Degree in English. Made a career of teaching other immigrants, usually from the Caribbean and Central America. Trump doesn't realize how America benefits by taking in people from wretched places who dream of a better life for themselves and their posterity.
Upthevibe
(8,034 posts)Your wife is one of MILLIONS who came to this country as immigrants....WE ARE A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS!!! I'm so angry I'm not quite sure how to channel it. I'm sorry to your wife. This is a horrible, horrible time in our country...
LiberalFighter
(50,856 posts)They need to suffer so no one else is hurt by them.
SeaDoo77
(540 posts)I'll rec.
FirstLight
(13,359 posts)I'm disgusted too.
and for those of us living under the poverty level here in the US...sometimes THIS is a shithole country too.
I want to travel someday, and yet I feel like I have to apologize for being an American.
Disgraceful. I'm sick of it.
Can we be like a teen who wants to divorce their parents?
gah!
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)people, including me, who want this Orange Creep gone and that millions more did not vote for him. And his opinion doesn't mean squat.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)The sTrumpet WILL burn...........