I hope they fucking starve to death.
I don’t claim any level of legal nor economic scholarship, and this is purely anecdotal, but…
Back in Ye Olden Days, two branches of my immediate ancestors were displaced by the development of Camp Stewart/Fort Stewart/Camp Swampy. They were reimbursed for their land at market value.
By 1943 - when my grandparents married - the family farms (about 250 acres in Taylors Creek/300 acres in Willie, Georgia,) was worth about 5 acres and a 40-year-old house a county away. Like several generations preceding them, my great grandparents had sent their eldest son to university in 1930, but my grandfather attended trade school by way of charity in 1937.
“Market value” changes a lot in 2-3 years if government action changes demand and scarcity.
Granted, the family might have suffered reverses due to a lot of variables between 1940 and today. But generations of my family lived a solid middle class life on their little acreage before it was bought via eminent domain, and that action caused a significant drop in their economic circumstances.
It would be more useful to get Trump to fast until his weight was somewhere close to 239 pounds.
Oh, I can believe the lord was involved in Trump’s election. The Dark Lord, I mean.
That’s pretty funny. 
I don’t want to get into all the prohibitions and exceptions here, but the Cliff’s Notes version is that the federal military cannot perform domestic disaster relief and law enforcement without the specific permission of the President, and only when the state resources are unable to deal with the problem. (Eg the time the 101st Airborne had to escort kids to school because the state government was shitting on their civil rights).
Could the President just arbitrarily decide to declare martial law on the border because he felt like the border states wouldn’t / couldn’t enforce the law and maintain order? I have no idea. We already know Trump’s grasp on reality is limited at best.
I hope so. But the history of humanity does not give me a lot of faith on this point. I know plenty of soldiers who are Trump-worshipping idiots, and who would probably jump at the chance to be beat up some “commie libtards.” I’ve personally encountered soldiers who thought Obama was a card-carrying member of Al-Qaida. And there have been documented cases of soldiers who believed Obama was preparing to perpetrate genocide of white people and impose sharia law (see the aforementioned Oath Keepers, a racist hate group if ever there was one)
Anecdote: My Mom went to University of Texas in the late forties, kinfolks so proud they could bust. Anyway, UTex didn’t allow female freshmen to live off campus, female dorms or go home. Not lavishly appointed. Floors of spartan rooms with one communal shower. My Mom wrote home to her Mom after six months, that if she never saw another naked female in her life, it would be far too soon.
Another success for the J Dobson anti-gay shower initiative!!
Texas county seeks to remove GOP vice chair because he’s a Muslim. No, that is explicitly the reason
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-county-gop-to-vote-on-proposal-to-remove-vice-chairman-because-he-is-muslim/ar-BBS37qN
So you see, because GOPers in Texas have bigoted ideas about Muslims, he has to go! It’s just that simple, he doesn’t pass the religious test y’all.
By the same logic, it is A-OK that Trump represents ALL Republicans, and he is an impenetrable idiot. Got it.
As are almost all Republicans, so it’s OK.
Protip: X-Men movies are not documentaries:
Maybe he was watching Terminator 2
And now, it appears that only Democrats are fixated on an actual physical wall.
That’s what somebody other than Trump says (and yes, the Democrats are in favor of border security, but McConnell won’t bring up the bill for a vote). Only *Trump *is fixated on something he can call a wall.
When did Dumbass Don Junior post that?
That’s “Individual 1a” to you, Mister!
Apparently this was a slip of the tongue
King of Iowa* in the interview, said he was not a racist. … he said, he supports immigrants who enter the country legally and fully assimilate because what matters more than race is “the culture of America” based on values brought to the United States by whites from Europe.
“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” Mr. King said. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”*
Once it was pointed out to him what he said, he put out a statement that he did not support white supremacists, while quickly burning all the photos and negatives that showed a confederate battle flag on his desk.
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If sacrilegious. (I did hesitate.) But, thanks.
(Also, I can’t have been the first person to make that joke! Just thinking about the doings of pretty much any big-name evangelist brings the concept to mind…)
You can’t have been the first in approx. 2000 years. But it struck me funny.