A house is not a hole
Oh gee, there’s even more. It turns out those two lying dogs aka two Republican senators who say Trump didn’t say “shithole countries” meant (but didn’t tell us they meant) he said “shithouse” instead.
Just when you thought the lawmakers involved in that “shithole countries” meeting at the White House on Thursday hadn’t covered themselves in enough shame, here comes a new development.
The Washington Post reported Monday night that the source of the dispute is less about the thrust of President Trump’s “shithole” comment and more about the second syllable of that vulgar word. It turns out that the statement Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.) issued that sounded as though it was crafted by a dozen lawyers was written that way for a reason: Cotton and Perdue, according to three White House sources, believe Trump said “shithouse” rather than “shithole.” (The New York Times has a source saying the same thing.)
Well that changes everything. It’s hideously racist to refer to all of Africa as a shithole, while calling all of Africa a shithouse is a compliment of the highest kind. Like so: Trump’s brain is a shithouse. Laudatory and respectful, yes?
I heard audio of that statement and noted that it was very weasily. They didn’t even deny that he said such a thing, only that they didn’t recall him saying shithole. So brave. So ethical. So upright and moral. I only wish they ran my country. [Spits on their shoes]
When you say that a house is not a hole, you are not referring to the last abode of the damSAD Hussein?
On the other hand, there are depictions projected about of Trump Hotel DC being some kind of hole.
Shithouse not shithole….Well, that’s all right then…
But then again, that still leaves open the question of what he meant to say…
Modern international politics sure is confusing.
The weird thing is that if that is, somehow, the truth–if he actually said, “Shithouse nations” instead of “shithole nations”, then it’s somehow manages to be worse. Because in addition to being vulgar, vile, appalling and a diplomatic nightmare… it makes no fucking sense at all! That’s not an idiom anyone has ever used.
The absolute closest thing I can think of is the very bizarre and unfathomable idiom, “Built like a brick shithouse”, which for some reason means a man is muscular and a woman is curvaceous. (I did say unfathomable, right?) Was Trump supposedly admiring these nations’ physiques?
So the defense against the charge of Trump being a vulgarian apparently is that he’s an inept vulgarian.
Freemage @ 4, Shithouse is certainly idiom in New Zealand, although not currently widely used. In its primary form it means disgustingly bad (think a dirty and poorly maintained long-drop out-house. We do like to reverse meanings using context over here though, so a minor meaning could imply positive. However, I doubt Trump is that down with the kids. Somehow I suspect the shit hole recollection is likely to be true, but either is vile, especially coming from a President when discussing real policy, people and countries.
BTW Stewart, that image at 5 above is good work.
It is, isn’t it.
Freemage @ #4:
As long as I can remember, ‘shithouse’ in the Australian idiom meant a stand-alone outhouse, privy or dunny. (And I notice that the B&W spellchecker does not recognise the word ‘dunny’.) Similarly, ‘built like a brick shithouse’ refers to anything structurally strong or over-built. So one can have, say, a guitar that is built like a brick shithouse, or a coffee table likewise. A man might be built like one, but I have never in all my travels heard of a woman built like one; which is a bit strange.
“If she hit you, you wouldn’t get up” is one I have heard in reference to the wife of some politician. It is delightfully ambiguous, IMHO. Hyacinth Bucket and her circle of lady friends would probably take it as an insult, while militant feminists would probably give three hearty cheers for any woman so referred to.