Posted on 11/28/2018 2:58:48 PM PST by sailor76
TRUMP'S GREAT WALL BECOMES TRUMP'S GREAT STALL
November 28, 2018
For those of us who were ecstatic the night Donald Trump was elected president, who watch election night videos over and over again, it used to be easy to defend him against the charge that he is just a BS-ing con man who would say anything to get elected.
It's getting harder.
Trump was our last chance. But he's spent two years not building the wall, not deporting illegals -- "INCREDIBLE KIDS!" -- and not ending the anchor baby scam.
Within 10 seconds of Trump's leaving office, there will be no evidence that he was ever president. Laws will be changed, executive orders rescinded, treaties re-written and courts packed.
Trump will leave no legacy at all. Only a wall is forever.
We had no choice. No one else was promising to save America.
"On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. We will use the best technology, including above- and below-ground sensors, that's the tunnels. Remember that: above and below. Towers, aerial surveillance and manpower to supplement the wall, find and dislocate tunnels and keep out criminal cartels ..." -- Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump
But then he signed a spending bill expressly prohibiting him from building any part of the wall.
"I will never sign another bill like this again. I'm not going to do it again." -- President Trump, after signing a spending bill that blocked any funding for a wall.
Today, eight months later, Trump is about to sign another spending bill that will give him no money for the wall.
Anyone want to bet me that he won't?
So much for the world's greatest negotiator.
Donald Trump is the commander in chief. He doesn't need Congress' approval to defend the nation's borders.
But as long as his excuse for not building the wall is that Congress hasn't appropriated money for it, why on earth would he sign a spending bill that doesn't give it to him?
There is no tomorrow on this. Republicans are about to lose the House. It's now or never.
We didn't need someone to tell us how hard it is to get anything done in Washington. We knew that.
That's why we hired a builder. We didn't care what Trump's position on the lira was. We didn't care about Syria. We were just looking for the best contractor we could find so we would finally get a wall.
If we were talking about a golf course in Scotland, I think Trump could figure out how to get it done.
But instead of winning, we're getting whining. We're told it's Congress' fault for not giving Trump money to build the wall! The ACLU will sue! A judge will stop him! Blame Paul Ryan! (Possible Trump epitaph: Chuck wouldn't let me!)
President Reagan bombed Libya in retaliation for two U.S. serviceman being killed by a bomb in a West Berlin discotheque -- TWO!
But Trump thinks he needs the preapproval of Congress, the ACLU and a district court judge in Hawaii to do something about tens of thousands of Americans being killed every year by illegal alien heroin dealers, drunk drivers and straight-up murderers.
Reagan invaded Grenada because the country was becoming a Soviet client state. No Grenadian threatened to touch a hair on any American's head. One wonders what Reagan's reaction would have been to someone telling him, YOU CAN'T DO THAT! THE ACLU WILL SUE!
If Reagan had Trump's advisers, we'd be speaking Russian.
The ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the other anti-American groups opposing Trump on immigration were the very same groups that opposed Reagan. They would have been happy if the U.S.S.R. had nuked this country.
Sadly for them, Reagan kept his promises, and we won the Cold War. So now the back-up plan is to destroy our country by flooding it with the Third World.
We needed Reagan and got P.T. Barnum instead.
Evidently, Trump knew he could bomb an innocent country based on false information about the Syrian government using nerve gas in April 2018. (Actual reason: Ivanka cried.) No less than the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons spent months testing the bodies allegedly killed by nerve gas. Conclusion: No nerve gas.
But we're supposed to believe that Trump doesn't realize that he's also allowed to defend the citizens of this country. Does he know he's president?
Even if noted constitutional law scholar Jared Kushner has convinced Trump that he needs congressional approval before he's allowed to repel invaders at our border -- but doesn't need Congress to bomb an innocent country because Ivanka cried -- the president could order the troops to invade Mexico and build the wall 10 yards in.
But all we get are bombastic tweets and useless half-measures. The conservative media have been excitedly reporting that Obama put illegal alien kids in cages too! Obama used tear gas on the invaders too!
Yes, exactly -- and none of that worked. That's why we voted for the guy who promised to build a wall.
Unlike the president, we knew that the deluge of poor people flooding our country would never stop until we had an impenetrable border.
And whatever happened to that executive order on anchor babies? Is Trump "trying" to sign that, too? Maybe he got writer's cramp.
Trump also promised to deport illegals -- even the ones Democrats have given cute names to.
"We're always talking about 'Dreamers' for other people. I want the children that are growing up in the United States to be dreamers also. They're not dreaming right now." -- Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump
"The executive order (on "Dreamers") gets rescinded." -- Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump
Is it Paul Ryan's fault that Trump did a 180 on "Dreamers," called them "INCREDIBLE KIDS" and tried to give them amnesty?
Every day that Trump does not keep his promises on immigration, thousands of immigrants turn 18 and start block voting for the Democrats, while thousands of traditional Americans die off.
Florida and Texas are about five years away from turning solid blue. Trump was our last chance. After this, the country is never going to elect a Republican president again.
So the next time you watch one of those election night videos, remember: If Trump doesn't keep his immigration promises, Hillary might as well have won.
Trump will leave no legacy whatsoever. Without a wall, he will only be remembered as a small cartoon figure who briefly inflamed and amused the rabble.
Yes. Her ire should be directed at Paul Ryno.
Name one other 2016 GOP candidate who would have done as much as Trump has in 2 years.
Jeb?
Rubio?
Cruz?
Amnesty Grahamnesty?
It is curious how most of the fair-weather-Trumpers expect much more from him than they did from GHWB or GWB. Those fair-weather-Trumpers are looking for any excuse to run away in 2020 into the arms of a good-ole-GOP-establishment preference.
Trump’s problems have come more from the GOP than from the Dems. Maybe, he can proclaim like GWB did — ‘now I have a Congress I can work with’ when the GOP lost in 2006.
The wall is tangible. I agree with Ann. No more postponement.
Ann hasn’t been right since she backed Christie for President.....
Didn’t Reagan fail with the Simpson/Mazzoli Act of 1986???
That was supposed to be reform and things have only deteriorated since then.
It’s now or never.
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This lame duck session is it.
Veto any bill that does not have border funding.
It took the democrats decades to put the corruption in place.
Democrats? Open borders is the most bipartisan issue inside the beltway. Both parties love it.
“We had no choice. No one else was promising to save America.”.
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That’s on Bush League Republicans.
This must be the French thread.
Those who post here ridiculing Coulter and her assertion that Trump could have already started building the wall under his authority as CinC of the armed forces are the real jagazzes. Coulter has a solid record as a constitutional law scholar who was the only pundit to correctly predict Dubyas Florida victory at the Supreme Court during the hanging Chad debacle and Trumps electoral victory. She’s been right on so many things that you’d be a fool to bet against her judgment. Of course she’s right to criticize Trumps failure to build the wall. Trumps inaction on this will not only cost him the election in 2020 but it will mean the end of the US as we know it. She completely gets it, even if the jagazzes here can’t see it or don’t want to hear it.
Coulter is an irrelevant bore at this point.
Ann Coulter for POTUS! She will build the wall! Lol
“Coulter is putting the blame on the wrong guy.”
And some retards on this site think she has some point.
She is Ben Sapiro in a dress.
Living in a Glenn Beck haze where she thinks bad-mouth Trump is going to make the reality of the situation go away.
right, ann, because it’s trump’s fault after he failed eat a bunch of paper scraps and then shit 5 billion dollars AFTER the GOP-controlled Congress refused to fund the wall
“Both parties love it.”
You mean the uniparty...We have NO representation in D.C. save Trump. The GOP is a completely fake party. The washington generals to the left’s harlem globetrotters.
To the dark side she has gone.
America is under foreign rule.
Any amount under $20 billion IS NOT WALL FUNDING.
The Feds spend $trillions on trash.
Who will step up so military funds and builds a wall??
Of course she’s right to criticize Trumps failure to build the wall.
Sorry, we don’t elect a king. The GOP doesn’t want a wall so we don’t have a wall. It is a complete fantasy to think President Trump can conduct political nuclear war like building the wall with the military without the support of his own party. But feel free to day dream about it if you wish.
On campaign trail, Pres. Trump underestimated the size of the swamp — I think we all underestimated it — and was consequently too optimistic as to how quickly he could deliver on his more aggressive campaign promises imo.
On the other hand, while Ms Coulter makes some good points, with all due respect to Coulter, she strikes me as a nervous back seat driver.
In addition to building wall, Trump needs to do the following before 2020 elections. He needs to put a stop to unconstitutional (imo), winner-take-all state electoral vote laws by enforcing the 12th Amendment.
"Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added]; …"
Trump also needs to enforce Section 2 of the 14th Amendment so that only citizens can vote. He needs to do this by requiring people to present citizenship / photo ID cards before being allowed to vote. Such cards need to be scannable to facilitate “vision impaired” Democratic ballot box officials.
”14th Amendment, Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens [emphasis added] twenty-one years of age in such State."
Corrections, insights welcome.
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