Posted on 03/26/2018 9:16:08 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Washington, D.C. (Accredited Times) — We are in an extreme emergency, comrades. I repeat. An extreme emergency. Mayday, mayday, mayday. All progressives to xer posts. All progressives to xer posts.
OK, now sit down for a minute because I don’t want you to faint.
Donald Trump is building the wall. Yes, the full f*cking wall. As in: “Wooohoooo, ‘Murica First! Let’s kick out the Moslims and Mexicans! MAGA!” That wall. We are now officially in the greatest crisis since Joan Rivers disclosed Michael Obama’s sex change.
After Congress passed the massive Consolidated Appropriations Act, both the accredited and unaccredited media told us that progressives won bigly because the Act contained no funding for the wall. Nancy Pelosi even assured us that “Democrats won explicit language restricting border construction to the same see-through fencing that was already authorized under current law.”
Then Trump perplexingly signed the Act into law. Had Trump betrayed his “America First” base? Had Trump seen the error of his ways and become a progressive? Apparently not, because the orange bastard is now building the very wall that Nancy Pelosi said he couldn’t build. Oh, and by the way, progressives just gave away the only real leverage that we had to force Trump to pass an amnesty for DREAMers. In other words, this is a complete f*cking nightmare.
Let me walk you through everything.
As an initial matter, Pelosi is technically correct that the Consolidated Appropriations Act contains explicit language imposing restrictions on border wall construction with respect to certain funds. Section 230 of the Act (starting on page 673) states: “Of the amount made available in this Act under ‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Procurement, Construction, and Improvements,’ $1,571,000,000 shall be available only as follows . . .” (emphasis added). Section 230 then lists a limited number of border fencing projects, including “$251,000,000 for approximately 14 miles of secondary fencing . . . along the southwest border in the San Diego Sector,” “$445,000,000 for 25 miles of primary pedestrian levee fencing along the southwest border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector,” “$196,000,000 for primary pedestrian fencing along the southwest border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector,” and “$445,000,000 for replacement of existing primary pedestrian fencing along the southwest border.” Overall, Pelosi is right that the Act substantially restricts Trump’s ability to use this money for the “Great Wall of Trump.”
Trump, however, has apparently outsmarted Pelosi and the Democrats — which probably shocks you as much as it shocks us. Although the Act undoubtedly restricts Trump’s ability to use certain “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” funds for the wall, nothing stops Trump from using the massive military funds that he also received under the Act for exactly the same purpose. And now Trump has flat-out stated via Twitter (where else?) that he plans on doing just that:
Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M! - 6:33 AM - Mar 25, 2018
Yes, you read that correctly. Trump has ordered his deplorables to “build” the “WALL” through the “M” — i.e., the military.
Last year, Democrats attempted to remove Trump’s ability to spend defense authorizations for border security. But, shockingly, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and his goons on the House Rules Committee removed the Democrats’ proposed prohibition from the final bill. As a result, there is literally nothing stopping Trump from using ordinary defense funding for border security and defensive fortifications along the Southern border.
Complete. F*cking. Disaster.
Progressives, of course, can challenge Trump in court. But with only four Democrat-appointed Supreme Court Justices, it would be extremely difficult to block construction, particularly given that the President, as Commander-in-Chief, has broad discretion in spending defense appropriations for fortifications and national security.
In yet another tweet, Trump also promised to start construction “immediately,” noting that the $1.6 billion is a “downpayment” and that the “rest of the money will come” (presumably from defense appropriations in light of his prior tweet):
Much can be done with the $1.6 Billion given to building and fixing the border wall. It is just a down payment. Work will start immediately. The rest of the money will come - and remember DACA, the Democrats abandoned you (but we will not)! 6:42 AM - Mar 25, 2018
We are seriously screwed. This is honestly more sickening than the dolphin rape article that MDB posted the other day. I think I’m going to throw up.
So far Trump has shown no willingness to tell a renegade judge to stuff it. If it comes to that it’s going to be an epic moment when the country stood at the crossroads between surviving and falling like Rome. God help us.
If this turns out to be a legit plan, then I’m about to believe in the 5th dimensional chess.
Thank you for posting this uplifting article. Looking forward to seeing the tangible results!
Satire or not - my point is valid.
Plenty of blacks support amnesty, open borders, a full ride for illegals and more. Or at least they support politicians who do.
And the obvious results leave blacks being squeezed out of housing, jobs, education, free gubmint cheese and more.
Dolphin rape is so much worse to one’s mind than that of humans, to these idiots.
Oh its real. Dims and media are starting to realize the got Trumped. Could someone please apply a ball gag to Ann Coulter anytime anything important happens. Being out in public with a ball gag is less embarrassing than her opening her mouth and saying stupid stuff.
RUSH just said the same.
Your point is valid, they do support their own demise.
I was just pointing out the writer and website are satire.
You in Indy too?
Are you fully unaware that most border walls in human history were built as military fortifications? Exactly what funding source is more appropriate or historically justified?
I will believe it when I see it, someone please post some pictures of the current wall construction. Seeing is believing and I really want to see the wall being built.
I can see you have never read the Art Of The Deal.
I recommend you do.
Trump shivved the GOPe and DimBulbs in an alley and got away with it.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
hmmm...
Maybe appropriate a swath 60 miles deep South of the Border?
That would be cool.
BLM is NOT about Black Lives.
That would be making America great again!
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