Friday, January 12, 2018

"shithole countries,"

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned why the United States would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations, referring to some as "shithole countries," according to two sources familiar with the comments.
Poorest in the world. And he is right!
  
Following President Trump’s Thursday comments, it’s worth noting that former President Obama called the African country of Libya a “shit show” just two years ago.

Vulgar language isn’t just acceptable – it’s even required for a U.S. president, Rolling Stone declared:
“It's a dirty job, leading the free world. Sometimes it takes a few dirty words.
Rolling Stone even justified Obama calling Romney a “bullsh*tter” – because “the dirty word is more precise.”
The magazine then listed examples of vulgarity employed by a host of presidents, vice-presidents and presidential candidates:
  • Abraham Lincoln: "There is nothing to make an Englishman shit quicker than the sight of General George Washington."
  • Barack Obama: “Obama really drew the ire of the pious, calling opponent Mitt Romney a ‘bullshitter.’ Sometimes the dirty word is the most precise.”
  • Joe Biden: "This is a big f**king deal."
  • Dick Cheney: “Cheney reportedly told Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy to ‘go f**k [himself]’”
  • George W. Bush: “Commented on the presence of New York Times reporter Adam Clymer. Believing he had an audience of one, Bush called Clymer a ‘major-league asshole.’”
  • Barack Obama: "I don't think I should take any sh*t from anybody on that, do you?"
  • Richard Nixon: “The Watergate tapes put the phrase ‘expletive deleted’ on the map.”
  • Lyndon Johnson: "I do know the difference between chicken sh*t and chicken salad,"
  • John F. Kennedy: "This is obviously a f**k-up."
  • Harry Truman: “In Truman's eyes, General Douglas MacArthur was a "dumb son of a bitch," and Nixon was ‘a shifty-eyed goddamned liar.’”

DREAMers and DACA - Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

DREAM Act

In 2010, the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) failed to pass the House. It specified a six-year path for illegal aliens to eventually become US citizens if:
  • they were brought to the US before the age of 16, are pursuing education or military service
  • they have been in the country for five years continuously
  • they have a clean criminal record
  • they are between the ages of 12 and 35 at the time of the bill’s enactment.

DREAMers

While the DREAM Act failed, the name stuck, and now the term DREAMers applies generally to illegal aliens under the age of 35 seeking full or partial legalization / amnesty and/or taxpayer subsidized tuition.

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