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The debate over President Trump's use of vulgar language when discussing immigration appears to be shifting, leaving some to question what exactly the president said in his Oval Office meeting last week.

"He used a different -- my understanding from the meeting, he used a different, but very closely related vulgarity. He said 's-house,' and not 's-hole" National Review editor Rich Lowry said. Washington Post reporter Josh Dawsey reported that this difference is the basis for the recent denials of Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, and David Perdue, R-Georgia, that Mr. Trump used "sh*thole" to refer to the countries.

On Friday, Mr Durbin said: "I cannot believe that in the history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday. President Trump said things that were hate-filled, vile, and racist. He used those words repeatedly."

Facts? We don't need no stinkin facts!

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The Center for Immigration Studies has exhaustively examined welfare use by immigrant area of origin. Central America and Mexico are at 73 percent, the Caribbean at 51 perrcent and Africa at 48 percent. Europe was far lower at 26 percent. East Asia was at 32 percent and South Asia the lowest of all groups at 17 percent. And such disparate outcomes for immigrants by nation-of-origin continue multi-generationally.

The U.N. has a "Human Development Index" for all 188 countries. You can see it here, if you want to take yourself a little gander: http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/HDI

Pakistan is WAY down the list at 147th, yet it is still put in the "medium" human development category. Only those below Pakistan are considered by the U.N. to be "low human development" countries--absolute shitholes, ya might say.

Haiti was 163rd, and every single one of the 25 countries ranked below it (with the exception of the garden spots of Afghanistan and Yemen) was in Africa.

Like, whooda thunk, I ax ya?

If you check that U.N. list, Norway is #1. I wonder why that is? Oh, I know, there could only be one possible reason, right? Because most of them are white, not black, eh?

There's no OTHER difference between Norway and the lowest country on the list, Central African Republic, surely.

Would have been better to have some empty seats there .... unless the WH plans to go Hollywood and has already hired seatfillers.

When it comes to Trump, I wouldn't put it pass him. He has paid people to feel seats before.

Trump is prepping AN American Gestapo,

I can see moving all of the liberals down to Guantanamo. It would be a way to put a stop to all the witch hunts.

I can see moving all of the liberals down to Guantanamo. It would be a way to put a stop to all the witch hunts.

Does the Aziz Ansari sexual misconduct story signal the end of the #MeToo movement?

It's been a concern for some time that the #MeToo movement has been in danger of becoming a witch hunt. What began as accusation and exposure of the disgusting has morphed into criticizing boorish behavior by men in general

Take the accusation over the weekend of comedian Aziz Ansari. A woman, referred to as Grace, told her story to Babe magazine about a date with Ansari gone wrong. In it, she’s excited to go out with him and goes back to his apartment. He only offers her white wine which she finds off-putting. He makes clumsy passes at her, some of which she engages in and some of which she rebuffs. She tries to steer the evening toward cuddling and TV-watching but he persists in his seduction attempts. At no point does she make a move to leave despite her discomfort.

Grace was not hanging out with Ansari for a career opportunity. Their date was understood to be romantic by both of them. If we’ve reached a point where #MeToo will include regrettable hook-ups the whole movement is diluted and actual sexual assault stories minimized.

Ansari issued a statement on Sunday night underlining that all that had occurred between himself and Grace had been entirely consensual and made sure to note that he “continues to support the movement happening in our culture.” Ansari seems not to realize that he’s no longer in that movement but on the outside of it, its latest target. The consent is beside the point now.

The movement has to start asking women who come forward to share their stories the inevitable question: You too what, exactly?

Karol Markowicz is a columnist at the New York Post. She has also written for Time, USA Today, The Observer, Heat Street, Federalist, Daily Beast and elsewhere.