Rep. Balint responds to criticism of 'crude' remark in town hall meeting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crude. But many people think of this when discussing immigrants. My immigrant spouse has a PhD and runs a company with 50 employees. In fact, half the immigrants I know hold PhDs.

But this woman called illegal immigrants and legal immigrants “ass wipers.”

That’s her take. And in her statement she said she hasn’t changed her position.

No she didn't. And look up "figure of speech" when you have a minute.

The phrase "wipe our asses" is not a standard figure of speech in English. It's a vulgar and literal expression that refers to personal hygiene. While it might be used humorously or to emphasize a point in informal contexts, it's generally considered inappropriate for formal settings due to its crude nature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It may be crude but it is true. How many women on DCUM have used illegal immigrants to be their underpaid and overworked, nannies/house maids!

One California farmer said even paying $17/,hr he could not find any UD citizen to help harvest his food crops.

Does no one on dcum have a parent in a rehab facility or an assisted living facility? Look around and who is doing all the hard work in these facilities. And unless you want to let your elderly parents or someone else's elderly parents to sit in a pile of crap, you better get ready to do some butt wiping yourself or find something that's willing to do this difficult job.

So let’s import poor brown women and underpay them to do a difficult job dealing with elderly people, the sick, and feces.

I don’t know how this is something anyone would publicly admit to thinking.

You are basically underpaying brown women for a hard job.

This is not something that is new. The free Blacks and immigrant Irish and Scottish did this type of work in a low wage status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It may be crude but it is true. How many women on DCUM have used illegal immigrants to be their underpaid and overworked, nannies/house maids!

One California farmer said even paying $17/,hr he could not find any UD citizen to help harvest his food crops.

Does no one on dcum have a parent in a rehab facility or an assisted living facility? Look around and who is doing all the hard work in these facilities. And unless you want to let your elderly parents or someone else's elderly parents to sit in a pile of crap, you better get ready to do some butt wiping yourself or find something that's willing to do this difficult job.

So let’s import poor brown women and underpay them to do a difficult job dealing with elderly people, the sick, and feces.

I don’t know how this is something anyone would publicly admit to thinking.

You are basically underpaying brown women for a hard job.

This is not something that is new. The free Blacks and immigrant Irish and Scottish did this type of work in a low wage status.

So we haven’t evolved and progressed as a society since then?

[Anonymous]

Speaking as an immigrant of color, I'm not surprised a Democratic politician said something this breathtakingly racist and I'm not surprised that people here who fancy themselves so smart and progressive are defending her.

People like me know from long experience that, under the manipulative rhetoric that only Republicans are racist and Democrats are just so openhearted, both parties have maintained racist and disgusting immigration policies. In fact, Obama was worse than Trump has ever been.

The way Obama terrorized immigrants regardless of legal status has been memory holed because Democrats don't really care. Under Obama, ICE snatched undocumented immigrants off the streets like Trump is doing, but Obama outdid Trump because his ICE agents routinely abducted and terrorized naturalized citizens too purely based on country of origin. I personally have citizen family members who were held for weeks at ICE facilities under excuses like the State Department records show you're citizen, but the Social Security Administration doesn't have record of your naturalization, so cool your heels in this retrofitted, overcrowded upstate NY jail for no reason at all while we deny to your family members that we have you. Obama's administration was the first time I ever felt afraid to be an immigrant in America, even though I am a highly educated, law-abiding, naturalized citizen. Suddenly, TSA started detaining me for hours a time for extra vetting every time I went on vacation or a work trip outside the country. My career suffered terribly.

I didn't hear anything about sanctuary cities back then when it was a Democratic president terrorizing immigrants. Blue state authorities didn't hesitate then to cooperate with ICE agents in knowingly unlawfully seizing even legal immigrants. Just a handful of nonprofits made themselves available to help us and we could hardly get on the news.

So, any immigrant who has been here long enough knows that Democrats aren't fighting Trump's stepped-up deportation policies out of high mindedness. It's because first and foremost fighting Trump is good politics for them. If Trump issued an executive order declaring the color of the sky to be blue, Democrats would oppose it just because. Second, the white, wealthy business interests that fund Democrats want to keep immigrants as an underpaid, exploited, and highly profitable underclass. That's why Democrats are inculcating their base with their oligarchy's talking points by pointing out how they need us as ass wipers. And, as you fine people here show, their upper middle class white base is very accepting of those talking points because you're not good people either. Stop lying to yourselves that you're not just more delusional, sometimes better educated versions of your MAGA relatives.

[Anonymous]

It was a really shitty comment (no pun intended). 30 years ago this would have been a huge deal. But now the bar is set so low that it is truly hard to care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It may be crude but it is true. How many women on DCUM have used illegal immigrants to be their underpaid and overworked, nannies/house maids!

One California farmer said even paying $17/,hr he could not find any UD citizen to help harvest his food crops.

Does no one on dcum have a parent in a rehab facility or an assisted living facility? Look around and who is doing all the hard work in these facilities. And unless you want to let your elderly parents or someone else's elderly parents to sit in a pile of crap, you better get ready to do some butt wiping yourself or find something that's willing to do this difficult job.

So let’s import poor brown women and underpay them to do a difficult job dealing with elderly people, the sick, and feces.

I don’t know how this is something anyone would publicly admit to thinking.

You are basically underpaying brown women for a hard job.

This is not something that is new. The free Blacks and immigrant Irish and Scottish did this type of work in a low wage status.

So we haven’t evolved and progressed as a society since then?

Who assists the elders that are your responsibility with their toileting? Just because apparently we can't discuss this in polite society doesn't mean there's not crap all over the place for people that need assistance with toileting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It may be crude but it is true. How many women on DCUM have used illegal immigrants to be their underpaid and overworked, nannies/house maids!

One California farmer said even paying $17/,hr he could not find any UD citizen to help harvest his food crops.

Does no one on dcum have a parent in a rehab facility or an assisted living facility? Look around and who is doing all the hard work in these facilities. And unless you want to let your elderly parents or someone else's elderly parents to sit in a pile of crap, you better get ready to do some butt wiping yourself or find something that's willing to do this difficult job.

So let’s import poor brown women and underpay them to do a difficult job dealing with elderly people, the sick, and feces.

I don’t know how this is something anyone would publicly admit to thinking.

You are basically underpaying brown women for a hard job.

This is not something that is new. The free Blacks and immigrant Irish and Scottish did this type of work in a low wage status.

So we haven’t evolved and progressed as a society since then?

Who assists the elders that are your responsibility with their toileting? Just because apparently we can't discuss this in polite society doesn't mean there's not crap all over the place for people that need assistance with toileting.

So we need brown women helping white Americans?

Could you be any more foul?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crude. But many people think of this when discussing immigrants. My immigrant spouse has a PhD and runs a company with 50 employees. In fact, half the immigrants I know hold PhDs.

But this woman called illegal immigrants and legal immigrants “ass wipers.”

That’s her take. And in her statement she said she hasn’t changed her position.

Oh, the hell she did. She pointed out—rightly—that most people staffing long-term and home care are immigrants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see anything wrong with what she said, and she acknowledged that her statement was crude as she said it. She was ALSO talking about legal avenues, NOT ignoring underpaid work, and when she referred to wiping asses she was very clearly talking about nursing homes.

If Trump or Vance said these words, the reaction would be vastly different.

Well, they are busy sending the literal US military to round up immigrants, so we’ll have to just comment on their actions until the next time one of them is high with a phone in his hand.

Maybe tonight!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crude. But many people think of this when discussing immigrants. My immigrant spouse has a PhD and runs a company with 50 employees. In fact, half the immigrants I know hold PhDs.

But this woman called illegal immigrants and legal immigrants “ass wipers.”

That’s her take. And in her statement she said she hasn’t changed her position.

No she didn't. And look up "figure of speech" when you have a minute.

The phrase "wipe our asses" is not a standard figure of speech in English. It's a vulgar and literal expression that refers to personal hygiene. While it might be used humorously or to emphasize a point in informal contexts, it's generally considered inappropriate for formal settings due to its crude nature.

We’re about to be in a civil war. There are no formal settings during civil war. Saddle up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crude. But many people think of this when discussing immigrants. My immigrant spouse has a PhD and runs a company with 50 employees. In fact, half the immigrants I know hold PhDs.

But this woman called illegal immigrants and legal immigrants “ass wipers.”

That’s her take. And in her statement she said she hasn’t changed her position.

No she didn't. And look up "figure of speech" when you have a minute.

The phrase "wipe our asses" is not a standard figure of speech in English. It's a vulgar and literal expression that refers to personal hygiene. While it might be used humorously or to emphasize a point in informal contexts, it's generally considered inappropriate for formal settings due to its crude nature.

OK, Church Lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Crude. But many people think of this when discussing immigrants. My immigrant spouse has a PhD and runs a company with 50 employees. In fact, half the immigrants I know hold PhDs.

But this woman called illegal immigrants and legal immigrants “ass wipers.”

That’s her take. And in her statement she said she hasn’t changed her position.

No she didn't. And look up "figure of speech" when you have a minute.

The phrase "wipe our asses" is not a standard figure of speech in English. It's a vulgar and literal expression that refers to personal hygiene. While it might be used humorously or to emphasize a point in informal contexts, it's generally considered inappropriate for formal settings due to its crude nature.

We’re about to be in a civil war. There are no formal settings during civil war. Saddle up.

Leftists and their violent wishful thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speaking as an immigrant of color, I'm not surprised a Democratic politician said something this breathtakingly racist and I'm not surprised that people here who fancy themselves so smart and progressive are defending her.

People like me know from long experience that, under the manipulative rhetoric that only Republicans are racist and Democrats are just so openhearted, both parties have maintained racist and disgusting immigration policies. In fact, Obama was worse than Trump has ever been.

The way Obama terrorized immigrants regardless of legal status has been memory holed because Democrats don't really care. Under Obama, ICE snatched undocumented immigrants off the streets like Trump is doing, but Obama outdid Trump because his ICE agents routinely abducted and terrorized naturalized citizens too purely based on country of origin. I personally have citizen family members who were held for weeks at ICE facilities under excuses like the State Department records show you're citizen, but the Social Security Administration doesn't have record of your naturalization, so cool your heels in this retrofitted, overcrowded upstate NY jail for no reason at all while we deny to your family members that we have you. Obama's administration was the first time I ever felt afraid to be an immigrant in America, even though I am a highly educated, law-abiding, naturalized citizen. Suddenly, TSA started detaining me for hours a time for extra vetting every time I went on vacation or a work trip outside the country. My career suffered terribly.

I didn't hear anything about sanctuary cities back then when it was a Democratic president terrorizing immigrants. Blue state authorities didn't hesitate then to cooperate with ICE agents in knowingly unlawfully seizing even legal immigrants. Just a handful of nonprofits made themselves available to help us and we could hardly get on the news.

So, any immigrant who has been here long enough knows that Democrats aren't fighting Trump's stepped-up deportation policies out of high mindedness. It's because first and foremost fighting Trump is good politics for them. If Trump issued an executive order declaring the color of the sky to be blue, Democrats would oppose it just because. Second, the white, wealthy business interests that fund Democrats want to keep immigrants as an underpaid, exploited, and highly profitable underclass. That's why Democrats are inculcating their base with their oligarchy's talking points by pointing out how they need us as ass wipers. And, as you fine people here show, their upper middle class white base is very accepting of those talking points because you're not good people either. Stop lying to yourselves that you're not just more delusional, sometimes better educated versions of your MAGA relatives.

ChatGPT said what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It may be crude but it is true. How many women on DCUM have used illegal immigrants to be their underpaid and overworked, nannies/house maids!

One California farmer said even paying $17/,hr he could not find any UD citizen to help harvest his food crops.

Does no one on dcum have a parent in a rehab facility or an assisted living facility? Look around and who is doing all the hard work in these facilities. And unless you want to let your elderly parents or someone else's elderly parents to sit in a pile of crap, you better get ready to do some butt wiping yourself or find something that's willing to do this difficult job.

So let’s import poor brown women and underpay them to do a difficult job dealing with elderly people, the sick, and feces.

I don’t know how this is something anyone would publicly admit to thinking.

You are basically underpaying brown women for a hard job.

This is not something that is new. The free Blacks and immigrant Irish and Scottish did this type of work in a low wage status.

So we haven’t evolved and progressed as a society since then?

Who assists the elders that are your responsibility with their toileting? Just because apparently we can't discuss this in polite society doesn't mean there's not crap all over the place for people that need assistance with toileting.

So we need brown women helping white Americans?

Could you be any more foul?

What are you bloviating about?. Last time I checked all humans of all ages of all races poop. And where do you live that your nursing homes and rehab facilities are segregated by race?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It may be crude but it is true. How many women on DCUM have used illegal immigrants to be their underpaid and overworked, nannies/house maids!

One California farmer said even paying $17/,hr he could not find any UD citizen to help harvest his food crops.

Does no one on dcum have a parent in a rehab facility or an assisted living facility? Look around and who is doing all the hard work in these facilities. And unless you want to let your elderly parents or someone else's elderly parents to sit in a pile of crap, you better get ready to do some butt wiping yourself or find something that's willing to do this difficult job.

So let’s import poor brown women and underpay them to do a difficult job dealing with elderly people, the sick, and feces.

I don’t know how this is something anyone would publicly admit to thinking.

You are basically underpaying brown women for a hard job.

This is not something that is new. The free Blacks and immigrant Irish and Scottish did this type of work in a low wage status.

So we haven’t evolved and progressed as a society since then?

Who assists the elders that are your responsibility with their toileting? Just because apparently we can't discuss this in polite society doesn't mean there's not crap all over the place for people that need assistance with toileting.

So we need brown women helping white Americans?

Could you be any more foul?

What are you bloviating about?. Last time I checked all humans of all ages of all races poop. And where do you live that your nursing homes and rehab facilities are segregated by race?

Democrats are defending importing brown women to work in low paying jobs caring for elderly patients in nursing homes.

This conversation has nothing to do with pretending elderly people don’t need care, it’s just we don’t agree that illegal immigrants should be the caregivers.

A female democrat elected official is defending the use of illegal immigrants as ass wipers.