Expletives Galore

I've held off a few days on saying something about #45's infamous "shithole" comment because I was thinking about it and seeing how things would unfold. This is what I do have to say about it...

1. There is no question that that kind of language is beneath the office of the president, no matter who is sitting in that office, or really any office of anyone that internationally represents a country to other countries. If I went to my job and talked like that, I would get fired. The same would happen to most people in most jobs. 

2. Whether or not that is the specific language that was used, it kind of doesn't matter. When you have no credibility left from the literally hundreds of other things that you have said (on recording at rallies and in press statements, and from your personal twitter accounts and published statements) that could be construed as ignorant, racist, sexist, classist, lies, etc., you lose the benefit of the doubt with most people. 

3. Usually if something you said was taken out of context or incorrectly quoted, you don't defend the comment before denying it a day later. Again, this is part of why people don't consider #45 trustworthy. 

4. He sounds like a racist grandpa who has dementia, literally. He sounds like the kind of person whose musings you'd look off because he only has a limited scope and time left, and he doesn't do anyone harm. Except, his comments do people harm. His comments can become laws and policies that affect the lives of millions of real people. 

Of course I'm disgusted. I'm kind of doubly disgusted at the fact that I'm not really that surprised because this is just how things are right now. I'm disgusted by the people that try to defend the statement in any way. "America first" is not a justifiable reason to outwardly insult people from other countries. 

Thank goodness that it seems that, by now, most people around the world seem to understand that one nutcase doesn't really represent the views of millions of people. That's such a low bar, though.