This Gaetz character is a CLOWN, but he isn’t the only one complicit in covering for the Fanta Facist.
Oh and there is this.
What’s disgusting is this ignorant, insensitive moran.
People in Haiti don’t live in poverty because they like it, you stupid pig, they live in poverty because their homeland was demolished and has never really recovered — plus years of corrupt government which bled the country dry (which we are now in the process of learning about firsthand thanks to idiots like this).
Can you BLAME them for wanting to try for a better life by getting away?? Isn’t that a positive sign for you “christian” Randian pigs who think people are responsilbe for pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps??
Can you GET ANY MORE HYPOCRITICAL???
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Was Gaetz under arrest for drunk driving when he assessed the disgusting conditions he sees in Haiti?
Here is a photo of the Haiti-DR border.
What is notable is the deforestation, what policy people might call an unsustainable practice and why a charcoal-based economy struggles in the modern world. It is also evidence is why we have development aid programs. It also is a legacy of an almost complete slavery economy. According to the 1788 Census, Haiti’s population consisted of nearly 25,000 whites, 22,000 free coloreds and 700,000 slaves. It is kind of like telling the victim of a mugging that they are a mess and need to get it together.
Matt - stop being a Dickhead . ( When Trumpski goes , you and the other Repubs won*t get your bribe money - should have asked for it up front ) .
There is “sheet metal and garbage everywhere” and that’s the way Gaetz wants to keep it. Also, don’t give the residents any chance to get out of the mess. One way they could get aid that would not cost the US taxpayers anything is for Haitians to get jobs in other countries and send money back home, but that isn’t allowed either. The Republican party has become a rallying point for racists, misogynists, and generally heartless and selfish people who have no sympathy and empathy with the unfortunate masses, particularly if they have dark skins.
Are we going to make people who apply for visas prove that their home countries are neat and clean?
What can that possibly have to do with their fitness to immigrate?
I don’t understand these people.
I would suggest that troglodytes like this creature read Steven Stoll’s brilliant Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia to learn how industrial domination and exploitative, systemic poverty build layer upon layer to create the conditions we see in many countries such as Haiti. In fact, Stoll specifically mentions Haiti. What he doesn’t do is allow trogs like Gaetz to blame poor people for being poor without presenting a dissent.
But, that would, of course, be a waste of time.
“I will say the conditions in Haiti are deplorable. It’s disgusting. Everywhere you look in Haiti, it’s sheet metal and garbage when I was there.”
They knew he was coming and brought out the sheet metal and garbage to welcome him.
Anyway, conditions in impoverished countries are bad — any idiot knows that. What some idiots don’t know, however, is why they are, and remain, bad.
This particular idiot is from South Florida. If he wants to “look” at abject poverty, he does not have to go as far as Haiti. He wouldn’t even have to leave his state. One could take him on a tour.
Advice everyone should take.
Matt, as a fellow person named Matt, I want to give you a tiny piece of advice. When belong to some group and a politician disparages that group in any way, you remember it for-e-ver. I promise you every person, and in particular every voter, of Haitian descent will remember what you said. See how much that helps your party going forward. And keep up the good work, really. You do you.
If I’m not mistaken, the deforestation dates back to the 19th century, when Haiti had to pay off an astronomical sum to France in return for their freedom----100 million francs?
So, they sold the trees to get out of bondage, literally. I could be mistaken about the trees, but what the French did was disgusting, and is a major reason for the difference between Haiti and DR.
Deforestation also ruined the local fishing industry.
In any case, charcoal is not a modern approach to cooking or home heating. Electrification is, as Lenin noted, the first step in building modernity.
“I probably wouldn’t use the term— the President’s term,” he said, referencing reports that Trump called African countries “shithole countries.”
So when Cockholster didn’t say “shithole” he actually said … “shithole”?
Thanks for clearing that up, Matt.
Fun Fact: If too many episodes of Cops is any indication Broward County is a real shithole.
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Well, he’s a Republican.
Never really recovered partly because the local elite, propped up by US corporations and US foreign policy, have a strangle-hold on economic activity.
It’s disgusting. Everywhere you look in Haiti, it’s sheet metal and garbage when I was there.”
And, you know, if you’re poor, it’s gotta be your fault, and has nothing to do with onerous reparations paid to France for the loss of their “property” for over a hundred years, or, say, the US and US corporations forcing the Haitian gov to rescind their 62 cents an hour minimum wage hike back to 31 cents.
I bet he can.
Wait 'til your father gets home!