Attention Norwegians!
Are you sick of universal health care?
Do you hate public spending on high-quality infrastructure?
Do you wish your neighbors were less happy? A lot less happy?
Have we got a country for you!
[This Ad Paid For By The United States of America]— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) January 11, 2018
Not that they need my help — Norwegians are a hardy folk, just ask my mother-in-law, whose family emigrated here from Trondheim when she was young — but the Norwegian sense of humor can be so dry as to entirely elude those of us from more outwardly expressive clans…
The significance is bigger than “shithole.” The president’s supporters are pushing hard for a “merit-based” immigration model, but Trump today didn’t say he wants more doctors, engineers or scientists. He said he wants “Norway.” And Norway is not a skill. https://t.co/XlhW1Z9Kgo
— Nick Miroff (@NickMiroff) January 12, 2018
Take out countries effected by war, small-population statelettes, countries w many guest workers, & island nations, and for per capita net migration—natives don’t leave,but they accept a lot of migrants—number two in the world is Norway. https://t.co/AVfqTf0ROd
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 12, 2018
TRUMP: I want immigrants from Norway not shithole countries.
RACIST NORWEGIAN MASS MURDERER: pic.twitter.com/xWwb0nyFjU
— Eric Columbus (@EricColumbus) January 11, 2018
Theory: Trump is throwing out rube-bait with this "shithole" comment in part because his vaunted wall has been reduced to 30 miles of Freedom Ditch.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 11, 2018
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