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.
Ironic.
Full Stupid Irony on Display here. This was written by Black Lives Matter?
Blacks are not satisfied with being Second Class Citizens.
No Sir.
They (some at least) are actively willing and eager to allow more minorities into the county with the obvious result being...
Third Class Citizenship for black folks.
The traffickers who initiated the crime MUST be removed for any of their children to get a pass.
Mkay. Then we have the military spending option... Mkay.
Rubber meets the road today. Is Trump starting the worthless Pelosi fence or the 'military spending' wall?
Man, ain't THAT the truth !
It'll be interesting to see who amongst 'em will have the integrity step up to the crow buffet this week.
I’ve never heard of Accredited-Times.
I’ve also never heard of Black Live Matter. (That’s who’s listed as the author, of your article.)
Turns out, Black Lives Matter is a ‘Civil rights activist, constitutional scholar and chief legal editor at the Accredited Times’.
I love that these whacked out loons are having conniption fits. :-)
The only time Progressives use our Constitution is to say it is Unconstitutional, then ignore it, abuse it and lie about it....Those you vote for this mid-term, demand they talk about, have knowledge of and do more than swear to protect our United States Constitution, put their feet IN the fire if they don't.
Can fund a border wall against Russia in Ukraine.
Trump is a man of his word. He said he would do it. All he has to do is muscle some cost saving out of the military manufacturers and 25 billion left over for the wall. Easy peasy Japanesey.
“...through M”
Why does that necessarily mean Military?
That’s the most obvious, particularly considering the context of the tweet and the character limit, but it could also be code form something else.
Mexico?
Democrat tears make me happy.
Then it goes to the SC and we win.
Why not, it is a Defense issue.
Please see #25 downthread, just below your 147th white flag waving post.
We need TRUMP.45 On OUR Wall!
Mister Cocked and Locked CAN Handle The TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!+
GunnyG@PlanetWTF?~TRUMP.45 IF? We Can Keep Him?
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Can someone explain the BLM mindset that building the wall screws blacks? Screws the USA?
Somebody at work pointed out that this is not a Federal Budget with the Constitutional mandates to spend the money specifically as directed but instead an Omnibus budget which is more like “guidelines” than actual requirements. Obama received Omnibus budgets and spent the money as he saw fit.
If this turns out to be the case there’s *many* here on FR that will need to be apologizing for some of their spineless abandonment of this POTUS. This weak kneed freak out was disturbing to watch. If we’re that fragile we’re done.
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