It’s that thing that Wall is supposed to protect.
And the Feeders of Wall protect Wall.
Borders closed and he’s just now catching up
So Doctors without Borders isn’t an organization of physicians that meet to lament the closing of their favorite bookstore?
No, they’re physicians who don’t have an artful graphic design surrounding themselves.
They also have to borrow rescue dogs when attending building collapses.
President Blowhard capitulates. Again.
“The only thing frankly better, but less drastic than closing the border, is to tariff the cars coming in,” he told reporters at the White House on Thursday. "We’re going to give them a one-year warning and if the drugs don’t stop or largely stop, we’ll put tariffs on Mexico and products, in particular cars.”
I bet Mexico is shaking in it’s boots at all your spineless, do-nothing bluster!
"I don’t play games,” the dumb ass said, like a six-year-old in a schoolyard.
“We’re shutting the border down next week!!!”
One week later:
**"Nevermind, you have a year to so something!!!’
**
One year later:
Journalist: It’s been a year and nothing has changed. Closing border or tariffs?
“FAKE NEWS!!!”
I’m guessing someone, possibly numerous someones, possibly slightly panicked numerous someones in his administration worried he might actually do it and hurt their bank accounts, had a long Talk with Trump. There is no evidence proving they didn’t have to use brightly coloured flash cards in large fonts to get their point across, nor that the font used was Comic Sans, therefore it would be irresponsible of us not to assume they absolutely did.
I think Kudlow and Mnuchin probably pulled Javanka aside and told them that there was no way to know what the effects of a border shutdown would be, because they’d injure all sectors of the economy. The ripple effects would be felt from Texas to Ohio and Indiana, and almost immediately. In short, they probably told Jared and Ivanka that they’d better slap some sense into Dotard because it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
What I wonder now is what happens when Trump gets called a coward by right wing shock jocks - will he goaded into going against the advice of real economists and shut down the border anyway? Remember, all it took was an Ann Coulter tweet to push him into a reckless fight with the House over the government shutdown. We’re not out of the woods yet.
We are not indeed.
As people that help limit an even larger increase in asylum seekers can tell you:
It might be cheaper, but for Der Fakher the optics are better if there are “hordes” of brown-skinned refugees heading north. Puts the fear of God into his base, you bet’cha!
That’s interesting, el temor de Dios is supposed to be an incentive to do what’s right for those who won’t do it out of inherent righteousness; it makes “doing what’s right” a matter of self-interest. Does it work differently in English or is that some sort of Evangelical variant?
Didn’t we just get done negotiating a new trade pact? Does he realize that slapping new tariffs on one of the most important products covered by that pact is going to open up a whole new can of worms?
What am I saying? Of course he doesn’t.
I’ve always interpreted it as “fear of any overriding power” - for example if my boss were to drag me into her office and put the fear of God into me about posting to the Dope from work (er…) then what would have actually happened would be that she’d have filled me with fear of her. I actually can’t think of a time where the intended meaning seemed to be that wrath people were being made afraid of was an actual god. It’s my vague recollection that the infraction inspiring the wrath-putting is only rarely one that God would have a stake in anyway.
But then I’m an atheist, so I may be biased away from the notion that the literal God was the subject of the fear. Fictional things aren’t scary, after all…
He’ll just tear up the deal and refuse to pay. Because that’s just how he rolls.
And the Magabots will scream their approval. And when this gets slapped down, they will howl with dismay about "the deep state’.
Except golf. A lot of golf. Lots and lots of golf. A lot of golf cheating. Lots and lots of golf cheating.
He’s a five year old with a gun that didn’t get his Twinkie.
“Donald J. Trump: He doesn’t just cheat on his wives!”