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 Laws will be changed, executive orders rescinded, treaties re-written and courts packed.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.
Incidentally, parts of the Wall are/were built and more are being built in high traffic areas: https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/us-mexico-border-wall-being-built-slowly/#slide-1 More needs to be done, a lot more, but to state nothing on the Wall is being done is just plain wrong.
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.
You can thank the Never Trump “resist” movement birthed by the Cruz campaign for that. Denying Trump a loyal and productive staff has been the goal of the Deep State since the primaries. That is what gave us Cruz campaign Never Trump blastlists, the Mueller Coup, Democrats in masks scaring our children, high school rape allegations, etc., etc.
“I see the GOP fighting harder for “prison reform” than a central plank of their 2018 platform: The Wall. How pathetic is that?”
It’s really bad. The left are about to take control and rule in America, PERMANENTLY, and the GOP has done everything to help them.
Ann needs to realize that Trump is not emperor, only president who needs to deal with congress.
Also, by attacking president Trump she is doing the Democrats’ work for them.
He doesn't need Congress.
If Trump asked every Deplorable to donate just $20 to a Wall Fund, he'd have all the money he needs in short order.
Is it so hard to figure out that if conservatives can’t trust Trump then they just won’t vote at all? Seems pretty clear to most of us.
Could Trump not have vetoed spending bills that contained no wall money?
Rush says that it’s a myth that Repubs are punished by gov shutdowns.
Trump was elected BECAUSE of the wall. Surely the US people would stand with him if the dems shut the gov down for illegals.
TRUMP HIMSELF SAYS that the people want the wall. Surely, again, the people would stand with trump if the dems shut the gov down for illegals. Yes?
Faster than an FR fund raiser?
“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.”
That could be. Then we would be truly farked cuz Trump has very few options left.
He needed to get the funding to rebuild our Military.
Careful, St. Ted of Calgary has many very loyal fans here......
She most certainly would build the damn wall.
LOL. Coulter hasn’t done a thing except run her mouth. And sleep with countless drug addled Democrats. I can’t decide which of those two activities is her profession. What do you think?
Christie sure as he’ll was better than Mittens or McStain. Coulter had that right.
Thank you for injecting some FACTS to counter the handwringers.
This will be THE issue of 2020. God help us if we lose.
Coulter is lying, and she knows it. Congress wouldn’t pass the spending for the wall except for a very small portion of the needed funds. The Democrats in Congress have refused to even discuss it. It’s our fault that the President didn’t get a friendly House of Representatives—not his.
And no, the President can’t do it without a bill passing in Congress. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either trolling or ignorant.
The only thing worse than a Democrat is a stealth feminazi Democrat.
No kidding. Trump is the only one trying to do something and she’s giving HIM crap? F her.
Ann, we finally have an adult in the White House. Act your damn age.
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