The POTUS is a DIP (Deplorable Ignorant Piece of Doo)

Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Or, as it has been called in Virginia, Lee-Jackson-King Day. That's Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, two Confederate generals who incongruously shared this holiday with MLK until recently. (Now their birthdays are publicly celebrated a couple of days prior to King's.) Why would Virginia designate a holiday for Dr. King to be shared with Southern rebels who fought to keep his race enslaved? The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind... the answer is blowing out from our President's poo-hole.

Our Shithole President began today's MLK observance by quoting himself and blasting Democrats. No mention of Dr. King. Then he headed off to his golf course to spend the holiday chasing a little white ball. It's business as usual for our President - ignore or bait People of Color, and spend Executive Time on the links, or in bed with cheeseburgers. Maybe he just needs a whole lot of Me time. While our Duffer-in-Chief works on his hook, let's take a look at a few recent cringe-worthy events that highlight how our President honors the lifework and legacy of Dr. King...

Well, yes, there's the "Shithole" controversy. After the story broke how Trump had questioned "why are we having so many people from shithole countries coming here?" the White House pushed back, clarifying that Trump didn't mean that Haiti was a shithole like the other countries in Africa.

On a related note, the President had earlier suggested that Haitian visa travelers to the US "all have AIDS". And that visa holders from Nigeria, now one of the designated "shithole" countries, would never "go back to their huts" after seeing the glories of the US. Such rhetoric serves to remind why the President stands tall with the unshakeable core of his base:

It's a tried-and-true formula for bonding with his base, which is paramount for him. If they start to wobble, he's done. Therefore, he will proclaim or infer just about anything to keep them in good standing:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/12/trumps-racial-provocations-helped-to-vault-him-to-the-white-house.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain

Never mind that immigrants from these "shithole" countries represent similar or better levels of education attainment and skill levels as Americans. Never mind that our country was built by immigrants who came here seeking a better way of life... from "shithole" countries. Never mind that our economy depends and thrives on the demographic diversification that immigrants represent.

FFS, our own Mrs. Daily Kibitz came from a "shithole" country. Her family came here because of the Apartheid policies clamping down on their homeland. The USA offered fantastic opportunities, and welcomed them in. It's the American Dream! Immigrants and refugees seek out our country because they see their lives improving here, while escaping dysfunctional conditions in their own homes.  Despite what Trump Senior Advisor/Goebbels-wannabe  Stephen Miller says, the Statue of Liberty-located poem, "The New Colossus", exemplifies everything good about our country's approach towards welcoming immigrants. Let's face it - everyone who is not Native or African American came here willingly from some kind of "shithole" country, be it Ireland, India, Mexico or anywhere else. It's the story of our nation.

But certain people named Donald Trump think otherwise: Immigrants and Refugees mean less jobs for hard-working White Americans, and more dependency on Welfare. Don't let the facts get in the way of long-time racist thinking:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/us/politics/refugees-revenue-cost-report-trump.html

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-welfare-black-white-780252?utm_source=internal&utm_campaign=most_read&utm_medium=most_read1

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2017/08/24/do-immigrants-steal-jobs-from-american-workers/

It's guaranteed that an immigration reversal would mean major staff employment problems for places like this:

Anagram for "His Hotel"

So... our President doesn't want immigrants from "shithole" countries. He wants them from Norway. Norway. The country that ranks #1 in Happiness, Prosperity, Political Freedom and Press Freedom. Where Health Care and College are free. Where Infrastructure is high-quality. Where gun violence is virtually non-existent. Where maternal and paternal leave is paid.  Where employers are REQUIRED to provide 25 working days for vacation, plus public holidays (US employers are required to provide 0 days). Let's let our favorite satirist, Alexandra Petri, take a look at "Why would anyone from Norway want to come here?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/01/12/trump-and-shithole-im-shocked-shocked/?utm_term=.6ac2dae792f3

She is so good. Regarding Trump's "shithole" comment: "This is only a surprise in the sense that going to the bathroom and finding that someone has not flushed the toilet is a surprise. You know it isn't supposed to happen, but it's exactly the kind of thing you would expect to find there... It is a surprise in the sense that seeing the thing that is usually blurred or covered with a black bar is a surprise, which is to say, not. He forgot to leave the fig leaf on; that is all."

And while we are on the subject of "shithole" countries and immigrants, let's take a look at what Alexander Hamilton said about the dangers of a demagogic Authoritarian like Donald Trump. Hamilton, of course, was a penniless bastard orphan immigrant from a Caribbean island. He made good here (it helped he was White and educated). This is what he wrote in 1792, substitute "monarchy" for "facism":

"The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

"Those then, who resist a confirmation of public order, are the true Artificers of monarchy—not that this is the intention of the generality47 of them. Yet it would not be difficult to lay the finger upon some of their party who may justly be suspected. When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, having the advantage of military habits—despotic in his ordinary demeanour—known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty—when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity—to join in the cry of danger to liberty—to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion—to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day—It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may “ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.”

I believe that Martin Luther King, Jr. and Alexander Hamilton would have gotten on well. Neither would have any use for our President and his supporters. Think about MLK and his amazing life, goals and accomplishments. It chokes you up. Listen to him wrap up his final speech, in front of an audience of Memphis union workers:

And then, less than 24 hours later, Robert Kennedy gave this speech:

It's been 50 years. Much progress has been made, but much backsliding has also occurred. Let's keep the vision of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King firmly in mind as we go forward.