OK, here’s a stupid idea, were it to happen. Trump declares a national emergency, a national crisis, whatever it’s called, at our southern border. What would he get from this? Funds that would otherwise not be available? Authority that would otherwise not be available? Anything?
He gets to pretend he did everything he could to keep his ignorant, unnecessary, unworkable, incessant promises to build a wall and blame his utter failure to do so on someone/anyone else, as he’s always done.
Yes, it would let him transfer funds from the military to do it.
Eh, it’s cool. I fucked up the link by accidentally pasting in the quote instead of the URL and didn’t check. No offense was taken by the reminder, and I appreciate the inclusion of the actual link.
Anyhoo. Trump. What a douche.
A few more news cycles about something other than Russia and collusion, of which there wasn’t none anyhow, period.
Forgive my ignorance, but has he given a reason why he did not ask for the funding for the wall when he had a Republican Congress? Or did he?
And he seems to think he could use “the military version” of eminent domain then. I’m not sure if that’s a real thing or not. I guess the military can commandeer some property in times of emergency, maybe? So, he seems to be envisioning the military heading to the border, taking privately owned land, and building a wall on it. I’m not worried about this, though. Republican lawmakers will surely rise up as one to block such an obvious executive overreach and unlawful seizure of private property.
I believe you left off the sarcasm tags.
Where’s the fun in that? He knew they wouldn’t give it to him. Better to wait to make an unnecessary huge deal out of it when he can blame Democrats. (He did get 1.6 billion for upgrades and replacement parts of previously existing structures.)
He was still using the “Mexico is gonna pay for it” line back then.
It wasn’t a national emergency for his first two years. It’s gotten really bad under his watch and it’s time he addressed his shortcomings. :rolleyes:
‘It’s Just Too Much’: A Florida Town Grapples With a Shutdown After a Hurricane
When I ran across this article in the NY Times, I assumed it was another story about how the shutdown is affecting everyday Americans. Which it is, but this quote at the end of the story caught my eye:
“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” A really sad commentary on the mindset of the Trump supporter.
Ha! That’s grrrrreat 
You mean, like a man whose mother was a foreigner, whose wife is a foreigner, and is clumsily trying to twist US foreign policy to help his private business build a small hotel in Istanbul?
It nationalizes the military. And then who knows what other uses he’d make of them. Start rounding up dissidents?
I think I know what you are trying to say here, but the military is already nationalized, I would think.
And I have enough respect for them (tired as I am of the constant “thank you for your service” any time someone mentions they are or were in the military) that I don’t think they’d obey “round up” orders from Trump.
“Hey, as long as you’re all here, how about a parade?”
Chinese citizens didn’t believe the Red Army would massacre their own people in Tienanmen Square, either. If we’re hoping the military won’t do terrifying things for their Commander-in-Chief, remember that the “conservatives” have had three generations to try and repopulate the military with compliant fascists since Smedley Butler sold them out.
He’s not limited to action at the border. He’d have “Emergency Powers.” He could shut down the Internet (among other things).
That’s one of the things.
(my bolding)
Life-long Republican Bill Kristol posted today:
(To be clear, I consider Kristol’s challenge to be a very UN-stupid Republican idea.)
Well fuck me. Thanks again, Republicans, for thinking that Donald Motherfucking Trump was fit for the office.