Mlle. Zabzie Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 10 minutes ago, Jace, Basilissa said: Just Goebbels to show. gonna nitpick here, you really should have gone with Goering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 1 minute ago, Mlle. Zabzie said: gonna nitpick here, you really should have gone with Goering. Sheeit. When you're Reich, you're Reich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 WSJ reports Trump won't declare national emergency in his speech tonight: Quote President Trump isn’t expected to declare a national emergency at the southern border when he addresses the nation Tuesday night about his request for funding for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, according to a person who has reviewed drafts of the speech. The president’s speech didn’t include any declaration of a national emergency, according to the person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 It's never certain with Trump of course, but there's been a lot of leaks that he's not declaring a state of emergency tonight. And all eight congressional leaders have been invited to the White House tomorrow, that seems like something that would not happen if a SoE was declared. One good guess I saw is that Trump will declare that's he reallocating about $400 million in DoD funding to build a wall/fence along the side of an Air Force targeting range that runs along the border for 30 something miles. And that'll be enough to be enough for him to declare victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted January 8, 2019 Author Share Posted January 8, 2019 25 minutes ago, Fez said: One good guess I saw is that Trump will declare that's he reallocating about $400 million in DoD funding to build a wall/fence along the side of an Air Force targeting range that runs along the border for 30 something miles. Interesting - it's certainly possible the administration could find some DoD funding that Trump could have discretionary authority over without declaring an emergency - you got a link for that? Could be that's why he publicly "hasn't decided" on declaring an emergency while his staff is busy trying to find money (I know, that would assume competence). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted January 8, 2019 Share Posted January 8, 2019 2 hours ago, DMC said: This issue isn't really whether or how long he declares a state of emergency, but how much, and what, he does with the powers that affords him. They go hand in hand. The longer it goes, the more time he’ll have to probe and see what he can get away, and I’m guessing that would be quite a lot if the courts don’t stop him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
all swedes are racist Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 lmao in this hell world, gotta take the laughs were you can get em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Well, he did not declare a national emergency... yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Relic Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 when is someone going to make the Darth Vader / Trump breathing meme? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingintheNorth4 Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Oh, the fact checkers are gonna have a field day after that address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Week Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 6 minutes ago, Relic said: when is someone going to make the Darth Vader / Trump breathing meme? *Sniffs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnot OG Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 The oppposition party's opposition to the wall was to instead talk about border security while never once mentioning the kids that have died in ICE custody. God the Dems really suck. They're not full on white supremacists like Trump and the GOP. They're just xenophobic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drawkcabi Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 If anyone is interested, the local paper published my thoughts on immigration and the wall written from the point of view of the son of an immigrant. They took a free hand in editing my original piece of course, and most of what they cut out I pretty much agree with, I got pretty verbose, though I do wish they had not cut out the part where I mentioned border officials putting people in camps, separating families and allowing children to die. If you do read it, thank you, I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 Just watched highlights of the speech (I can't stand to watch even 10 minutes of him). Seemed very tame and un-Trumplike. Definitely seems more like a guy in a defensive posture than about to be defiant and invoke emergency powers. Of course, that could change by tomorrow morning when he goes for his daily tweetshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 6 minutes ago, DMC said: Just watched highlights of the speech (I can't stand to watch even 10 minutes of him). Seemed very tame and un-Trumplike. Definitely seems more like a guy in a defensive posture than about to be defiant and invoke emergency powers. Of course, that could change by tomorrow morning when he goes for his daily tweetshit. At an otr gathering an hour or so before the presser he said he didn’t want to do it (or go to Texas) but was talked into it by/humouring his people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMC Posted January 9, 2019 Author Share Posted January 9, 2019 32 minutes ago, James Arryn said: At an otr gathering an hour or so before the presser he said he didn’t want to do it (or go to Texas) but was talked into it by/humouring his people. Yeah, gotta agree with Trump there - they are both pointless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGimletEye Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 I think its pretty hilarious that somebody like AOC gets attacked as wild eyed "unrealistic" lefty, but yet we have a government shutdown over a problem that really is the result of conservatives over active imaginations. There really is no immigration problem, other than ones Trump has created, and the band of knuckleheads that support him and think we should "hurt the right people". https://www.vox.com/2018/12/28/18158873/wall-shutdown-trump-dreamers-deal Quote Spending billions of dollars to build hundreds of miles of additional walling — or “steel slats” or whatever you want to call it — on the US-Mexico border is a bad idea. That’s a critical, underrated feature of the current standoff that has led President Trump to partially shut down the government. Quote Meanwhile, over the past 10 years, the rise of export-oriented manufacturing jobs in Mexico plus shifting Mexican demographics has greatly reduced the number of Mexicans who want to come to the United States to work illegally, while the rollout of the Real ID program has made it harder to work illegally. The combined result is that the size of the undocumented immigrant population is falling, driven almost entirely by a million fewer undocumented Mexican nationals living in the United States. There remain many foreign-born people living illegally in the United States, but nearly two-thirds of them have been here for more than 10 years, and the Pew Research Center estimates that a majority of new unauthorized arrivals initially entered the United States with a valid visa rather than sneaking across a border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jace, Extat Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 'Overactive' Libtard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Apparently Rosenstein intends to step down as soon as Barr is sworn in. The implications are fairly clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martell Spy Posted January 9, 2019 Share Posted January 9, 2019 Donald Trump Jr. Says Border Wall Is Like A Zoo Fence Protecting You From Animals Critics slammed the president’s son over the Instagram message. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-zoo-fence_us_5c3588b4e4b0dbd06601767b Donald Trump Jr. is getting called out for an Instagram message he posted that compared the proposed border wall to a zoo fence. Quote “You know why you can enjoy a day at the zoo?” the son of President Donald Trump wrote in an Instagram story on Tuesday night. “Because walls work.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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