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 Laws will be changed, executive orders rescinded, treaties re-written and courts packed.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.
A bombastic wish-list without any actual real-world implementation strategy given the political climate and available legal means, or identifying the actual players and the various moving parts is not a serious political analysis. I have read some of Ann’s early stuff. She’s getting sloppy.
“Coulter has a solid record as a constitutional”....”
Maybe if you huff the glue hard enough, she will be your girlfriend?
“Of course shes right to criticize Trumps failure to build the wall. Trumps inaction on this will not only cost him the election in 2020”
I hope it doesn’t then due to people like you and Ann, so you both get your face stomped in by the Dems. Because you fools help put them in the WH in 2020 for whatever reason, I hope to hell they make your life a living hell on earth just to teach you what you dont appreciate today.
I want to see the entire lot of you just fricking melt in the face of those people, so you can see what it’s like when people that you help put in power tell you to kiss their ass and go F off.
Because despite Ann’s big mouth, she has the power of a gnat in a microwave oven without Trump in office.
The war is almost lost. Not the battle, THE WAR for America’s survival.
Ann is right about the wall and immigration. The time for bullsh!t was over 2 years ago.
“The war is almost lost.”
Then why are you here? So you can try to take credit when those of us that are still fighting make breakthroughs, and you can try to get a pat on the back too? Go find a new hobby or drink bleach, and otherwise stop pestering us with your nihilistic pronouncements.
“The war is almost lost”.....Dude, some of you are in this war as much as a Frenchman in 1941.
President CAN fund a Wall for National Security.
Congress RINOs never will.
Just build it.
“I think we all underestimated it “
Not me. Trump needs address the nation. Lay out all the horrifying details of how corrupt our stasi state is and then call out the marines and get to it.
Then again, he may have been ‘gotten’ to and it’s all over.
Im sick of Coulter!
I drink antifreeze and smoke banana peels so I can keep up with the delusional pollyannish asshats like yourself.
If only we’d elect some severe conservative that the screeching shrew supports like Myth Romney, or Krispy Creme all would be well.
Well said. Tired of the handwringers.
Just build it.
President CAN fund a Wall for National Security.
Congress RINOs never will.
Just build it.
With what? His bare hands? Did you see McChrystal mouthing off again? Notice that Twinkle Toes Mattis is tip toeing through the tulips lest he offend some corporation that will give him a do nothing executive job? There is no way these Obama generals will fight a war for POTUS over that wall. They will go AWOL like the rest of the brass has.
I see the GOP fighting harder for “prison reform” than a central plank of their 2018 platform: The Wall. How pathetic is that?
Really? Not me. I've kind of moved on since the election. Trump is the genuine deal but he has not been able to recruit people to his cause. What we have is Trump against the world and he can only do so much.
Having said that Trump may well indeed have a legacy in the form of Supreme Court appointments. We shall see.
Yep!
She’s right, that this country will never elect a RINO/Republican ever again since demographics and stupidity will eventually rule out law.
Naturally, some snowflake who still holds out hope for politicians will be offended by this fact.
Not me. Trump needs address the nation. Lay out all the horrifying details of how corrupt our stasi state is and then call out the marines and get to it.
Mattis is a Marine. I wouldn’t count your chickens there. All indications are the military is loyal to the Deep State and the retirement pay they send.
She is just factually incorrect that Trump has not gotten money for the wall. He got $1.6 billion in FY17, and another $1.6 Billion in FY18.
It took about a year of lead time with planning and contracting to get started, but some segments have already been finished (Calexico, CA West of the Port of Entry, and 20 miles West from El Paso).
That area of Calexico previously led the Nation in attacks on Border Patrol Officers - but now it is quiet. The new thirty foot bollards there had an illegal climber fall shortly after they were installed - breaking both his femurs and severely injuring his spine. Ann Coulter could ask him if President Trump gotten any new barrier (if he’s still alive).
Construction is underway now in Downtown El Paso, and San Diego is getting two new layers of strong barrier from the Ocean to the Mountain. The first of those layers is a little over half done (8 out of 14 miles), but not one of the recent migrant mob was able to climb, breach or tunnel under the new stuff.
The new Trump barrier is being called “wall system”, because it includes several significant additions that make it more effective, in addition to the tall bollards which are strong enough to stop a speeding truck - lights, cameras, alarm systems and all weather patrol road.
Just this month, more contracts were awarded around Yuma Arizona, and two in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, where illegal traffic is heaviest (construction scheduled to start in February). Several more segments are expected to be awarded in the next couple of months as well in the Rio Grande Valley, as well as 11 more miles East of the Port of Entry in Calexico, CA - probably elsewhere as well.
Most of the money that President Trump has already received for the wall, has not yet been contracted, due to early planning delays, so a much higher volume is expected to be contracted in 2019 than was in 2018.
The Senate had budgeted another $1.6 Billion for next year, but the House approved a tripling to $5 Billion. All the arguement is between those numbers for next year.
The great “stall” in the subversion from within can, for the most part, be places squarely on the shoulders of Paul Ryan.
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