Trump Disgraces America Every Day

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Don't know why I missed this the first time posted, Barney....

Weird uncanny almost Twilight Zone $hit!

[donquixote99]

Trump! Wall! Con man, colluding with corrupt law enforcement! That script is absolute proof that precognition is real!

[Chicks]

NBC News @NBCNews
Dept. of Homeland Security testing of a steel slat prototype for border wall proved it could be cut through with a saw, according to a report by DHS.

A photo obtained by
@NBCNews
shows the results of the test. (link: https://nbcnews.to/2AE45mG) nbcnews.to/2AE45mG

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

NBC News @NBCNews
Dept. of Homeland Security testing of a steel slat prototype for border wall proved it could be cut through with a saw, according to a report by DHS.

A photo obtained by
@NBCNews
shows the results of the test. (link: https://nbcnews.to/2AE45mG) nbcnews.to/2AE45mG

Walls are only conceivably of use where reaction forces can reach them quickly in event of an attempt to breach. This basically means urban or near-urban areas only. Anywhere else they are a waste of money, a symbolic satisfaction of the xenophobia/racism Trump has whipped up in his base, and nothing else.

[Chicks]

Donny could use money dedicated to Puerto Rico storm recovery to fund border wall

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...110-story.html

Oh, his racist base would just love that! 'Cause them brown Puerto Ricans ain't real 'Muricans, right?

Next he'll use the fire disaster money he says CA won't be getting anymore...

[donquixote99]

NBC has the original reporting on this, much more extensive. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...d-wall-n957281

The proposal is designed to create maximum outrage in Democrats and maximum delight in the racist 30%. So it's a perfect idea from trumps point of view. The more brown people and their allies hate him, the more his base loves him, and that's what Trump loves.

[Chicks]

^^^^^
This idea smells like classic Stephen Miller, at his “finest”.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Chicks

^^^^^
This idea smells like classic Stephen Miller, at his “finest”.

It sure do!

[Chicks]

Emergency: Trump splits the GOP
By Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer
January 11 at 10:20 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...mp-splits-gop/

Even in an Oval Office, Donny paints himself into a corner.

Former White House counsel Bob Bauer explains that “a president has the discretion to declare an emergency, not to create one.” He continues:

This distinction is critical. Congress did not attempt to define what constitutes an “emergency,” but this is not evidence that it left the choice without limits to the president. Rather, as one commentator wrote, the absence of a definition reflected “the assumption … that genuine crisis is readily identifiable by everyone in the polity.” Hence the law’s reference to “the period of a national emergency,” which would be clear to all, and which would then—and only then—be subject to the president’s declaration at his or her discretion.


The federal district and circuit courts have not been shy about rebuffing Trump’s executive overreach (on the Muslim travel ban, sanctuary cities, child separation, limits on asylum, environmental actions and more). They are highly unlikely to accept the president’s argument that an emergency is whatever he says it is and that it can be used to defy Congress when it refuses to exercise its power of the purse in ways he doesn’t like. (There is a process for those fights: Congress passes a bill, the president vetoes it, and Congress may override it.)

Will the Supreme Court, if it gets that far, bail him out? The Supreme Court, as Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. made clear when he rebuffed Trump’s suggestion that there were “Obama judges” and “Trump judges,” understands all too well this president’s design on extensive powers and his assertion that his powers are absolute, unrestrained by the Congress or the courts. Before we get to any issue involving Russia or the special counsel, the Supreme Court will find the authority of the judicial system challenged. While Trump’s appointees may indulge him, Roberts has demonstrated an understanding of the court’s institutional credibility. Getting the Supreme Court, even one as lax on executive powers as this one, to roll over would be a heavy lift.

[Chicks]

Mexico will pay for the wall!

Uh huh.