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Trump Should Sign the Bad Border Deal and Finish the Wall on His Own
DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

Posted on 02/12/2019 4:57:12 AM PST by EyesOfTX

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Ok, the whole “black face” thing just very predictably veered off into the theater of the absurd. – Semi-tone deaf pop singer Katy Perry fell into the “black face” controversy on Monday for no good reason at all, because of course she did. Social media always takes any real issue like the one swirling around Virginia Democrats to the most ridiculous extremes possible.

Ms. Perry has attached her name to a line of shoes, and some, like those pictured above, have little eyes, nose and mouth glued onto them. Sort of like something your 6 year-old granddaughter might design (trust me, I know about this first hand). Anyway, because the shoes pictured above happen to be black in color, a bunch of nitwits on Twitter desperate to be offended accused the singer of being a racist yesterday.

Never mind the fact that the line of shoes come in a variety of different colors – it’s only the black ones that are somehow offensive. Ms. Perry has yet to apologize, something she should never even consider doing in a million years. Because the truth is this: Had her line of shoes included a variety of colors, but not black ones, she’d have then been accused by the very same nitwits of discrimination. You all know that is true.

The people who know “Beto” best would rather go see Trump. Take this as an object lesson. – When the White House announced last Thursday that President Donald Trump would travel to El Paso for a political rally on Monday, Irish Bob O’Rourke, an El Paso native, quickly announced he would hold a “counter-rally” of his own.

Hearts began to flutter throughout our fake news media – as they always do whenever the cute ex-sheep suit-wearing punk rocker opens his mouth – as the wags began to rampantly speculate that their precious “Beto” would surely draw more people to his rally than the President would. After all, El Paso was his home town! Why surely the people who know and love “Beto” best would turn out in mobs to hear his immaculate pronouncements!

Uh, well, no. That didn’t happen. Not even close. The fake news media did its best to cover it up, but the reality is that the President had an overflow crowd of 8,000 or so inside the arena in which he spoke, and another 20,000 or so standing out in the elements watching on large TV screens. Here’s a shot of a small part of that outdoor crowd:

Meanwhile, a few blocks down the road, only a couple of thousand showed up to listen to the city’s fake favorite son. It turns out that familiarity really does breed contempt.

But the reality won’t stop the fake news media from lying about it all anyway. The shameless fake newsers at The Week have a piece out this morning with this headline: “Trump Seemed Very Interested in Beto O’Rourke’s Evidently Larger Crowd During His El Paso Rally,” thus deceitfully implying that Irish Bob actually drew more people than Trump did, something not even the most biased fake reporters on the scene attempted to claim.

How false is that headline? Despite massively inflating O’Rourke’s actual turnout by a factor of seven or so, The Week’s own piece admits the Trump crowd was far larger:

Trump’s audience inside the coliseum was 6,500, at capacity, El Paso Fire Department public information officer Enrique Aguilar told the El Paso Times. “It might be 10,000 with the people outside,” watching on monitors. The rally O’Rourke spoke at, following a mile-long march, drew at least 7,000 people, The Texas Tribune reports.

Um, last time I looked, 10,000 is more than 7,000, even when those absurdly-faked numbers appear in a fake news publication like The Week.

Another bad deal on the border. – The very Swampy congressional negotiators announced a very, very, very bad “bi-partisan” deal on border security funding as President Trump was flying out to Texas on Monday. The “deal” includes just $1.375 for “border barrier” funding – because we mustn’t say “wall”, you know – far below the President’s $5.7 billion demand. It’s a lousy deal, negotiated by lousy Republican swamp rats and open-borders Democrats. The outcome was thus predictable.

If this smelly “deal” passes both houses of congress and is sent to his desk, the President has only three options that would preserve his electoral viability going into 2020:

- Reject the bill, which means another fake partial government shutdown; or

- Sign the bill and immediately announce either a national emergency declaration or, as White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney laid out on Sunday, that he will use his presidential authority to reallocate unused funds from the Defense, Homeland Security and other departmental budgets to fund the wall. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Mulvaney said:

“Any president can do this…There are certain funds of money that he can get to without declaring a national emergency and other funds that he can only get to after declaring a national emergency. The whole pot is well north of $5.7 billion.”

That is the path the President should take. The Democrats are desperate to force another shutdown in order to change the subject from racist, baby-murdering, women-assaulting Virginia Democrats, disastrous Green New Deals and anti-Semite Minnesota congresswomen. So they’ll be all too thrilled to deny more paychecks to those same 800,000 federal workers and cry their crocodile tears over them.

The President should not give them that gift when he has them so clearly on the defensive.

What President Trump cannot do is sign this atrocity of a “deal” and do nothing else on border security. More than any other element of his 2016 campaign, his promise to secure our Southern border is why he was elected. He cannot leave that promise unaddressed any longer and expect to be re-elected in 2020.

The time to act is now.

That is all.

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Humor; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: badidea; fakenews; mediabias; trump; trumpwinsagain
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To: EyesOfTX

Trump should veto this piece of crap from out traitorous “representatives”, and then build the wall on his own.


21 posted on 02/12/2019 5:16:40 AM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: mewzilla
You trust Fox Leftist News ?

They are worse .

They sucker people like you into being PASSIVE and doing nothing .

22 posted on 02/12/2019 5:17:55 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: mewzilla
Q: What’s to prevent Congress, after Trump inks a deal, from passing legislation that takes away access to the money he could use, and then overriding his veto.. ?

The two-thirds vote needed in both houses to override. I don't see them having enough.

23 posted on 02/12/2019 5:18:07 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: ncalburt

The poison pill re: limits on ICE detentions was inserted, obviously, to force DJT to reject the deal, force a shutdown or declare a national emergency. He can’t sign it because of the poison pill , under any circumstances.


24 posted on 02/12/2019 5:19:52 AM PST by chiller (Dem's ideals are beautiful...they just never work in a real world. Feel good, OR do the right thing.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Declare victory, take what you’re given, then fight again next year. You don’t score a touchdown on every play, but when you get a first down, that’s a win. He’s gotten a lot of money for border security. It takes time to implement the spending anyway, and in 8 months it’s time for another spending bill, probably a long CR, so that spending is really two years’ worth.


25 posted on 02/12/2019 5:20:56 AM PST by babble-on
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To: ncalburt

I trust NONE of them.

Hence the trust but verify. :-)


26 posted on 02/12/2019 5:20:59 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: DoodleDawg
The two-thirds vote needed in both houses to override. I don't see them having enough.

I do.

27 posted on 02/12/2019 5:21:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: EyesOfTX

Walk away from a bad deal like a horse salesman trying to sell a one eyed lame deaf horse to you saying its a winning racehorse.


28 posted on 02/12/2019 5:24:29 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: chiller
I hope but the Full Court Open borders media including Fox Leftist News are trying to create the phony Momentum pr scam to ram it thru .

This Shelby open borders disaster is worse than doing nothing !

Its Catch and Release on Steroids .

It cuts ICE invader's beds every year !

Notice how Fox Lefty News HIDES that fact!

29 posted on 02/12/2019 5:24:53 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: mewzilla
Good point .

But once the Open Borders / Left Wing Media like Fox Lefty start the chant to ram it thru and sign it .

You know its a Dem crap sandwich .

30 posted on 02/12/2019 5:27:30 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: EyesOfTX

No deal. Tell Nance & the Never-Trumper Rinos to shove it.

Corp of Engineers will get the wall built.


31 posted on 02/12/2019 5:27:43 AM PST by Lopeover (We Are #TRUMPSTRONG)
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To: EyesOfTX

No he should let it close and declare the emergency.

The closure would be a contributor to the “emergency” nature of the situation.


32 posted on 02/12/2019 5:27:46 AM PST by fruser1
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To: EyesOfTX

How about this approach?

No deal - shutdown.

Use the statutory authority already in place to reallocate DoD funds for wall construction.

Build the wall.

Wait 30 days and RIF the furloughed government employees.

WIN! WIN!

My 2 cents,


33 posted on 02/12/2019 5:28:08 AM PST by HombreSecreto (The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year)
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To: EyesOfTX

Can 5 billion be spent by September 30 anyway?


34 posted on 02/12/2019 5:28:08 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: ncalburt

It’s a death sentence for the republic.


35 posted on 02/12/2019 5:29:05 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Pravious

Kilmeade is a NeverTrumper.


36 posted on 02/12/2019 5:29:59 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: kabar

Trump should tare it up/declare a national emergency/ and make CONGRESS PASS a REAL IMMIGRATION BILL. NO MORE ILLEGALS. NO MORE PEOPLE LIVING HERE USING EBT cards, SECTION 8 housing plus free Health care. SCREW THESE FOREIGNERS.

1. OP 1 is ASSIMILATE FAST or be Part of Operation NO MORE FREE LOADERS 1.

2 OP 2 will be to BEHEAD ALL MUSLIM’S IN AMERICA as our gators are hungry and we like alligator boots and our women like gator purses. You feed our HOGS and slop with them or you die fast.


37 posted on 02/12/2019 5:35:46 AM PST by Lumper20 (Our Congress and Fed. employees "via AFGE.)
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To: JonPreston

BIL is big time DOD contractor in Huntsville. Sister and he despise Shelby.


38 posted on 02/12/2019 5:37:23 AM PST by Lumper20 (Our Congress and Fed. employees "via AFGE.)
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To: mewzilla
That is the whole point .

SLOW BLEED OF THE REPUBLIC .

39 posted on 02/12/2019 5:48:32 AM PST by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists out themselves)
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To: mewzilla
I do.

We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

40 posted on 02/12/2019 5:51:07 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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