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boutons_deux
02-15-2019, 07:03 PM
Here's a list of the 31 national emergencies that have been in effect for years

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/list-31-national-emergencies-effect-years/story?id=60294693

boutons_deux
02-15-2019, 09:02 PM
This All Seems to Be Going Well (https://splinternews.com/this-all-seems-to-be-going-well-1832646918)

we’re starting to learn just how badly he’s been handling the mess he created.

To put it mildly, he’s fucking it all up.

Trump was reportedly waffling extremely hard on whether or not to sign the bipartisan budget deal hammered out by Congress to ensure the country wasn’t subjected to another government shutdown. Per the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/off-the-rails-inside-trumps-attempt-to-claim-victory-in-his-border-wall-defeat/2019/02/14/af772978-2fe5-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.2a7d4e97c218):

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was

on the phone with Trump at least three times during the course of the nerve-racking day,

pressing him to stay the course and asserting that Democrats had actually lost the spending fight, two people familiar with the conversations said.






Never a good sign when someone smarter than you

has to insist that the crow you’re being forced to eat

is actually a delicious gourmet meal

(or in Trump’s case: a badly cooked steak (https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/trumps-first-dc-dinner-as-president-an-overcooked-54-steak-with-ketchup/2017/02/27/c98895b4-fd19-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html)). But perhaps even more embarrassing is this, again from the Post (emphasis mine):


Though White House officials insisted Thursday that Trump was acting in a defiant and assertive way, few Republicans, including the president’s closest allies, were pleased with the ending: $1.375 billion for fencing and other expenditures, plus an emergency gambit that many conservatives view as an executive overreach.

Republicans, for their part, are doing an admirable job at pretending to be very mildly concerned over Trump’s constitutionally dubious gambit...before they inevitably fall into line behind him.

“I wish he wouldn’t have done it,” Sen. Chuck Grassley told Politico (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/14/gop-national-emergency-declaration-trump-1170697).

Sen. Rand Paul also told the website, adding: “So I’m not really for it.”


quotes from some extremely bootlick-y congressional Republicans who also spoke with Politico:



“I have some concerns” - Sen. Roy Blunt.

“I’m not enthusiastic about it” - Sen. Pat Toomey.

“I always kind of take pause to the assertion of executive power” - Sen. Thom Tillis.

“I think it’s fine” - Sen. Kevin Cramer.


https://splinternews.com/this-all-seems-to-be-going-well-1832646918?utm_source=splinter_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-02-15

boutons_deux
02-15-2019, 09:17 PM
MSNBC’s Chuck Todd hilariously mocks Mike Pence’s executive overreach hypocrisy with 2014 attack on Obama video


https://www.rawstory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2016-10-05T024542Z_1_LYNXNPEC9403J_RTROPTP_3_USA-ELECTION-DEBATE.jpg


“Take a listen to the future vice president of the United States, right after Barack Obama issued an executive order.”

“I think it would be a profound mistake for the president of the United States to overturn American immigration law with the stroke of a pen,”

Obama, Pence went on, “ought to sit down” with Republicans, saying “that’s what leadership looks like.”

“‘That’s what leadership looks like, work across the aisle, listen to Congress,'” Todd laughed.

“That’s what you have to do. That’s what Governor Mike Pence said.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/msnbcs-chuck-todd-hilariously-mocks-mike-pences-executive-overreach-hypocrisy-with-2014-attack-on-obama-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

boutons_deux
02-16-2019, 01:49 AM
‘A recipe for disaster’? Trump’s border emergency drags the GOP into a risky fight ahead of 2020.

puts GOP lawmakers — including many vulnerable senators up for reelection in the next cycle — in the position of

having to choose between

their party’s leader and

their self-described opposition to executive overreach.

If they back Trump’s emergency declaration,

many lawmakers worry, they will be greenlighting a White House power grab that infringes on Congress’s constitutional power over spending.

But

if they oppose it, they risk attracting the wrath of Trump’s political base — and perhaps a primary challenge.

unclear whether even the most vocal GOP critics of Trump’s move will actually vote to disapprove of his emergency declaration,

administration aides have urged lawmakers to keep their powder dry for now rather than stating how they’d vote publicly. :lol

Looming above it all is the

possibility of an epic constitutional standoff between the White House and Congress that could be seriously damaging to Republicans.

“It is a recipe for disaster for McConnell and his flock of Senate Republicans up in 2020,”

“no-win situation.”

“Choose Trump and the emergency declaration and offend moderates, or

upset Trump and risk being toppled in a Trump-fueled primary challenge.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-recipe-for-disaster-trumps-border-emergency-drags-the-gop-into-a-risky-fight-ahead-of-2020/2019/02/15/f0afdfb6-3148-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html?utm_term=.96a8cb1303d8

Winehole23
02-16-2019, 10:16 AM
Day 2 of the national emergency: Trump hits the front nine.

benefactor
02-16-2019, 10:31 AM
Day 2 of the national emergency: Trump hits the front nine.
:lol

Blake
02-16-2019, 11:07 AM
Day 2 of the national emergency: Trump hits the front nine.

Lol

Winehole23
02-16-2019, 11:23 AM
Commies at CATO debunk the emergency:

https://www.cato.org/blog/there-no-national-emergency-border-mr-president

Winehole23
02-16-2019, 12:19 PM
:lolhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DziLs9CXgAEwJwl.jpg

DMX7
02-17-2019, 01:26 AM
Lol I missed this.

There is literally a Trump tweet from the past for everything. There has never been a bigger walking talking contradiction than Donald Trump.

DMX7
02-17-2019, 01:36 AM
Someone help me understand this....

So Trump wants us to believe that he's a brilliant negotiator because he got $1.2B for the wall ... but then he says what he successfully negotiated for the wall is supposedly so paltry that it's literally a national emergency?

boutons_deux
02-18-2019, 06:23 AM
The Pentagon could deny Trump national emergency funds, defense secretary says

Patrick Shanahan, the acting US Secretary of Defense, said hours after Donald Trump’s emergency declaration that

he could refuse to direct billions of dollars in Pentagon funds Trump is relying on to build a wall on the US’s southern border.
“Very deliberately we have not made any decisions,” about how the defense department will respond to Trump’s declaration,

Shanahan told reporters (https://dod.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/1759747/en-route-press-gaggle-by-acting-secretary-shanahan/) as he returned from a trip to Afghanistan and Iraq.

“There’s been no determinations by me” that a wall is necessary, he said, while

making it very clear that he believes he has the authority to determine how any military funds will be spent and military personnel deployed.
https://qz.com/1552689/the-pentagon-could-deny-trump-national-emergency-funds-defense-secretary-says/

So this corporate whore for Boeing is going to defy Trash?

boutons_deux
02-18-2019, 06:24 AM
Sen. Lindsey Graham Continues to Kiss Trump’s Ass, at the Expense of School Kids

He said, “I would say [the wall] is better for the middle school kids” than building new schools

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/lindsey-graham-kentucky-middle-school-796053/

boutons_deux
02-22-2019, 01:08 AM
Trump’s use of “national emergency” powers to build the wall just went up in flames

reallocating money from unspent Defense Department budgets has hit a major speed bump.

much of the money that the president was counting on being available to transfer to his border wall

has already been spent.

John M. Donnelly, a senior writer for the Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call, broke the story on Twitter late today that

more than a third of the money that Trump was coveting for constructing his easily surmounted border barrier was not actually within his reach after all.

Trump can no longer threaten to shut the government down over his demands for more money now that his severe case of border wall erectile dysfunction has been exposed.

an administration as incompetent as President Trump’s would fail to properly research the status of the funds that it built its entire constitutional assault upon,

https://washingtonpress.com/2019/02/21/trumps-use-of-national-emergency-powers-to-build-the-wall-just-went-up-in-flames/?fbclid=IwAR0D9XTNjJhz_52qPapMkAjezt4phZRScQdOCfky FbXEf8GiiLMQDwxxM4k

boutons_deux
02-26-2019, 07:44 AM
58 Former National Security Officials Decry Trump’s Border Wall And Bogus Emergency

there was “no plausible” justification for declaring a national emergency.

“We have lived and worked through national emergencies, and we support the President’s power to mobilize the Executive Branch to respond quickly in genuine national emergencies,”

“But under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the President to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border.”

“The President’s actions are at odds with the overwhelming evidence in the public record, including the administration’s own data and estimates,”

A Cato Institute analysis showed that undocumented immigrants in Texas are 44 percent less likely to be incarcerated than native-born U.S. citizens,

a border wall will not reduce human and drug trafficking because most opioids are brought in through ports of entry and because most victims of human trafficking arrive in the U.S. with valid visas.

A group of 16 states (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/states-sue-trump-national-emergency-wall_n_5c6b53a6e4b0e8eb46b8fb7d?g79) has also filed a federal lawsuit to challenge the emergency declaration, calling it unconstitutional.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/former-national-security-officials-border-wall_n_5c737cc7e4b06cf6bb27db65?ncid=newsltushpmgn ews__TheMorningEmail__022619

boutons_deux
02-26-2019, 01:08 PM
GOP Needs More Time to Read the 70-word "Emergency Terminator" Bill (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/25/1837731/-GOP-Needs-More-Time-to-Read-the-70-word-Emergency-Terminator-Bill)

https://images.dailykos.com/images/640878/story_image/Picture2.jpg?1549458868



https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0SUdPJWwAI8baY?format=jpg&name=900x900


https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/25/1837731/-GOP-Needs-More-Time-to-Read-the-70-word-Emergency-Terminator-Bill

Nbadan
02-26-2019, 09:06 PM
Border wall divides Texas: Lone Star voters evenly split on need for barrier, poll finds


WASHINGTON – The goal of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall is to separate the U.S. and Mexico, but it has ended up splitting Texas in two.

Voters of the Lone Star State are evenly divided over the need for a wall on the southern border of the U.S., although a clear majority opposes the use of a national emergency declaration to get funding for it, according to a poll from Quinnipiac University that was released Tuesday.

About 48 percent of Texas voters oppose the construction of the wall and 48 percent support it, according to the poll. Republican support for the wall remains high, with 87 percent in favor and 11 percent against. Democrats, on the other hand, oppose the wall 90 percent to 7 percent.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/border-wall-divides-texas-lone-star-voters-evenly-split-on-need-for-barrier-poll-finds/ar-BBU7GQH?li=BBnb4R7

Texans are gonna love eminent domain......I know it...

boutons_deux
02-26-2019, 09:53 PM
Border wall divides Texas: Lone Star voters evenly split on need for barrier, poll finds



https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/border-wall-divides-texas-lone-star-voters-evenly-split-on-need-for-barrier-poll-finds/ar-BBU7GQH?li=BBnb4R7

Texans are gonna love eminent domain......I know it...

Remember BigOil got their pipeline ruled a common carrier (carrying for more than one company) so they could rape through East TX with eminent domain.

Repugs are apparently "conflicted" about eminent domain takings for the wall, but they, dickless and bent over, will let Trash "have his way" with them.

boutons_deux
02-28-2019, 08:40 PM
Bulldozers sit idle at border amid legal confusion over Trump’s emergencyhttps://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-border-construction-national-emergency-20190226-story.html

pix of "work on the beautiful wall" are fraudulent, showing only maintenance on existing structures

boutons_deux
03-04-2019, 06:00 PM
Congress’s Cowardly “Emergency” Rebuke (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/28/congresss-cowardly-emergency-rebuke/)

Democrats have a majority in the House and Trump has served them up, on a veritable silver platter, a

clear-cut, air-tight, irrefutable case for his own impeachment.

Twice in the last two months, Congress has denied Trump funding for his wall,

weathering the longest partial “government shutdown” in US history rather than give it to him in December and

denying it a second time with the funding bill he signed in February.

Congress saying “no” when the president asks for money is not an “emergency.”

He only gets to spend the money they give him, and

he only gets to spend that money on the things they’ve told him he can spend it on.

As Article I, Section 9 of the US Constitution puts it,

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury,

but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

That’s one of many provisions in the Constitution that make the US a representative democracy with separation of powers rather than a monarchy or dictatorship.

Trump’s declaration of a fake “national emergency” was

actually a declaration that he is now an absolute monarch, a dictator, no longer accountable to Congress for his actions.

If that’s not covered by the Constitution’s “high Crimes and Misdemeanors” clause outlining grounds for impeachment, what is?

And if Congress isn’t prepared to respond accordingly,

why should they — or we — bother with the continuing charade that they, or the law, matter at all?

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/28/congresss-cowardly-emergency-rebuke/

TSA
03-05-2019, 03:33 PM
1103013488518197248

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NYT fake news

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 03:43 PM
1103013488518197248

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NYT fake newsDo you want a full sea-to-sea border wall to be built?

Yes or no.

TSA
03-05-2019, 03:47 PM
Do you want a full sea-to-sea border wall to be built?

Yes or no.

No it’s not necessary. And who is calling for that?

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 03:49 PM
No it’s not necessary. And who is calling for that?Oh. Are you for the emergency?

TSA
03-05-2019, 03:50 PM
Oh. Are you for the emergency?

Question pending. Who is calling for a full sea-to-sea border wall to be built?

boutons_deux
03-05-2019, 03:54 PM
CBP and ICE are having a wonderful time

‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border

two teenage girls reported that they had been sexually assaulted by a Customs and Border Protection officer,

who they said forced them to strip, fondled them,

then tried to get them to stop crying by offering chocolates, potato chips and a blanket.

In an unusual turn, the girls filed legal claims against the federal government, which settled the case in 2018 for $125,000.

Women have reported being assaulted in immigration detention facilities (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/sexual-assault-ice-detention-survivor-stories.html?module=inline), and

the federal government over a recent four-year period has received

more than 4,500 complaints (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sexual-abuse.html?module=inline) about the sexual abuse of immigrant children at government-funded detention facilities

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html?module=inline#nws=mcnewsletter

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 03:56 PM
Question pending. Who is calling for a full sea-to-sea border wall to be built?Not you, which is what I asked.

Question pending.

Are you for the emergency?

TSA
03-05-2019, 04:12 PM
Not you, which is what I asked.

Question pending.

Are you for the emergency?

I'm indifferent for the emergency. Who did you hear calling for a full sea-to-sea border wall to be built?

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 04:13 PM
I'm indifferent for the emergency.Of course you are.


Who did you hear calling for a full sea-to-sea border wall to be built?I didn't say I heard that. Stop lying.

TSA
03-05-2019, 04:15 PM
Of course you are.

I didn't say I heard that. Stop lying.

You heard it or read it somewhere.

Who did you hear/where did you read someone calling for a full sea-to-sea border wall to be built?

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 04:16 PM
You heard it or read it somewhere.Nope.

TSA
03-05-2019, 04:19 PM
Nope.

If no one is proposing it why would you even ask me that question?

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 04:21 PM
If no one is proposing it why would you even ask me that question?Just curious.

Sorry I got you so defensive about it. Your answer was perfectly valid.

TSA
03-05-2019, 04:23 PM
More projecting from Pavlov

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 04:24 PM
More projecting from PavlovI answered your questions.

Spurs Homer
03-05-2019, 04:27 PM
Trump was asking for a 2000 mile wall

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 04:29 PM
Trump was asking for a 2000 mile wallMaybe. Who knows what he would actually want besides a wedge issue?

Spurs Homer
03-05-2019, 04:47 PM
Maybe. Who knows what he would actually want besides a wedge issue?

yup

he doesnt give a shit about a wall

he does care about - the fight over the wall

but his cult swallowed that “2000 mile beautiful wall “

whole

TSA
03-05-2019, 05:16 PM
Commies at CATO debunk the emergency:

https://www.cato.org/blog/there-no-national-emergency-border-mr-president

“For the fourth time in five months, the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has broken records, border enforcement authorities said Tuesday, warning that government facilities are full and agents are overwhelmed.

More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, more than double the levels from the same period last year and approaching the largest numbers seen in any February in the last 12 years.”

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 05:25 PM
“For the fourth time in five months, the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has broken records, border enforcement authorities said Tuesday, warning that government facilities are full and agents are overwhelmed.

More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, more than double the levels from the same period last year and approaching the largest numbers seen in any February in the last 12 years.”
But you don't think there's an emergency.

TSA
03-05-2019, 05:35 PM
But you don't think there's an emergency.

I’m indifferent to the calling of a national emergency. Can you post some more cool stats about illegal border crossings being at an all time low.

Pavlov
03-05-2019, 05:36 PM
I’m indifferent to the calling of a national emergency. Can you post some more cool stats about illegal border crossings being at an all time low.You don't think it's an emergency.

Period.

I agree with you.

TSA
03-05-2019, 11:04 PM
You don't think it's an emergency.

Period.

I agree with you.76,000 illegal crossings in one month is a major crisis. Would you agree with that?

ElNono
03-05-2019, 11:13 PM
1103013488518197248

1103015656159612930

NYT fake news

http://i68.tinypic.com/2ni33oh.png

If this is breaking point, I wonder what they would call the Bush era?

ElNono
03-05-2019, 11:19 PM
76,000 illegal crossings in one month is a major crisis. Would you agree with that?

It's probably more than that. The number only tracks apprehensions, people that didn't get caught don't get counted.

What is the crisis though?

Spurs Homer
03-06-2019, 11:26 AM
I boarded up all my windows again - pretty scary.

Those caravans though!

koriwhat
03-06-2019, 10:38 PM
so how do you plan to semen shield this?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-revokes-obamaera-order-requiring-us-to-report-civilian-deaths-in-drone-strikes-211717968.html

i don't and don't give a fuck either way. lmao at you dumbfucks trying to make some case against me as if i give a fuck either way.

funny how you think i am "semen shielding" for anyone especially those i didn't vote for. who'd you vote for you semen shielding fat fuck?

Pavlov
03-06-2019, 10:57 PM
i don't and don't give a fuck either way. lmao at you dumbfucks trying to make some case against me as if i give a fuck either way.

funny how you think i am "semen shielding" for anyone especially those i didn't vote for. who'd you vote for you semen shielding fat fuck?Trump is and has been droning the shit out of everyone.

You didn't know that?

koriwhat
03-09-2019, 01:58 PM
I’ve been very critical of both 2016 presidential candidates, then and now. You’ve been critical of only one, and won’t even condemn the other when he “drone strikes the shit” out of civilians.........yet you cried “BLACK MAN BAD” for the last guy doing it during his presidency. You’re a hypocrite and a warmonger-defending piece of shit. Now call me a fat fuck and go hide again.

lmao keep crying ya whale! droning by either is bs if civilians are involved. drone the shit out of isis et al til they're wiped from this earth.

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 01:37 PM
More civilians killed by Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/world/asia/airstrikes-nangarhar-afghanistan.html
13 civilians, including 9 children. Horrifying.

But koriwhat will refuse to condemn Trump, instead resorting to fat jokes.

the bs you come up with is reaching indeed... of course killing innocent civilians is wrong whether it's on trump's watch or past admins. you and other weak men like yourself are pathetic.

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 01:38 PM
lmao keep crying ya whale! droning by either is bs if civilians are involved. drone the shit out of isis et al til they're wiped from this earth.

fat fuck mono the whale has trouble with comprehension.

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 01:52 PM
So are you saying Trump has blood on his hands?

i'm saying you're a fucking fat fucking retard who has to be told the same thing over and over again because your retard brain can't comprehend a god damn thing. fucking whale!

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 02:15 PM
Refusing to condemn Trump :lmao

god damn you're a fat fucking retard.

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 02:20 PM
Just say Trump has blood on his hands instead of your usual “it’s bs when ANYBODY does it!” minimizing of what Trump does. You have no fucking problem calling BLACK MAN BAD a mass murderer.

the games you, pav, and others play here are well played out.

you're mad because i don't regurgitate what you want me to verbatim. who gives a fuck if what i said was exactly what you're looking for in an answer? you're making this into an issue when it never was one to begin with in order to prop yourself up. pat yourself on the back you fucking whale!

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 02:21 PM
i forgot... you can't reach your back mono. :cry

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 02:28 PM
Refusing to condemn Trump :lmao

nah, i refuse to play your stupid game tbh. i said exactly what you're after without parroting you verbatim. you're the dumbass here trying to make a mountain out of a mole hill.

Blake
03-16-2019, 02:30 PM
nah

Yah

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 02:30 PM
mono, you're just like all the other weak males here. how fucking sad! you going to demand we meet up face to face too, because you're angry at me and want to beat me up, and then not show up just like bitch boy bd24? yall are all the same spineless hacks.

koriwhat
03-16-2019, 02:31 PM
Yah

^^ this is another member of the spineless hacks weak male crew.

boutons_deux
03-20-2019, 08:54 PM
Hundreds of Texas landowners get notice of Trump administration's land grab (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/20/1843610/-Hundreds-of-Texas-landowners-get-notice-of-Trump-administration-s-land-grab)

“More than 570 landowners in two counties, Hidalgo and Starr, have received right-of-entry letters (https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/assets/documents/2018-Nov/ENGLISH_RGV%20Webinar_Questions%20and%20Answers.pd f) from the government asking to survey their land for possible border wall construction,”

his fake emergency is seeking to raid military pensions (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/8/1840503/-Pentagon-lays-plans-to-use-military-pay-and-pensions-for-border-wall-as-Trump-keeps-lying?).

The administration is seeking billions, but

Texans who have fought the government over previous plans to build border barriers have been paid fractions of that.

In 2007, Eloisa Tamez fought a plan to seize her land and lost. She got $56,000.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/20/1843610/-Hundreds-of-Texas-landowners-get-notice-of-Trump-administration-s-land-grab?

Goddamn this mothefucking Trash to hell

boutons_deux
03-20-2019, 09:29 PM
Trump sent the military to build a new border fence. Thieves are now making off with it. (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/20/1843655/-Trump-sent-the-military-to-build-new-border-fence-Thieves-are-now-making-off-with-it)

thieves in Tijuana, Mexico are simply making off with sections of the wire, selling them to city homeowners who are using it to shore up their own home "security." (https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sd-me-concertina-wire-tj-20190318-story.html)


Some homes in the same area had identical wire installed in front of their homes, as an added layer of protection to their property lines and fences, but residents declined to comment about how they obtained the material.

Tijuana officials report between 15 to 20 arrests for the nighttime thefts,

while government contractors on this side of the border work to replace the stolen wire.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1843655

boutons_deux
03-21-2019, 07:20 AM
TRUMP NOW WANTS THE FRENCH TO PAY FOR THE WALL

New plan!

the administration has a new plan of sorts: make the French pay (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/20/trump-wants-to-use-a-big-banking-settlement-to-help-build-the-wall.html).


The White House is targeting a windfall from an international banking scandal to help pay for the border wall, according to an administration official.

French bank Societe Generale struck a deal with the U.S government in November to pay $1.3 billion after admitting that it violated U.S. sanctions on Cuba and Iran for years. . . .

The administration is hoping to funnel as much as $359 million from that settlement to a special account at the Treasury Department to fund the wall, the official said.


Unfortunately, there’s also the minor matter of it potentially being illegal for Trump to appropriate the cash to build his fence:



. . . it’s unclear whether the White House can use the money for the wall.

The Treasury account—known as the asset forfeiture fund—is made up of cash, property and other items seized during civil and criminal investigations.

Use of the funds is restricted by federal law,

and the account itself is a lightning rod for criticism, with both conservatives and liberals calling it an example of government overreach.



“Fundamentally, this is a slush fund of money taken from private citizens that law enforcement officials are allowed to use for their own purposes,”

“If Congress is supposed to be in charge of appropriations, we shouldn’t be setting up funds that the executive can self-fund based on how many people it shakes down,” McNamara said.


“More than $10 billion of other top priorities that the military and their families have requested over the last several years is on the chopping block to placate the president,”



https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/trump-now-wants-the-french-to-pay-for-the-wall?mbid=nl_th_5c92e714d4c67833ff954f35&CNDID=43758549&utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=vyf_hive_news_20190321%20(1)&bxid=MzI5MjgzNzg1MjQ4S0&hasha=992d608214b505003aa04bf10a595031&hashb=542eb31d958e85ddd5a4c3ccf3faae18526a77bd&spMailingID=15332063&spUserID=MzI5MjgzNzg1MjQ4S0&spJobID=1601628056&spReportId=MTYwMTYyODA1NgS2 (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/03/trump-now-wants-the-french-to-pay-for-the-wall?mbid=nl_th_5c92e714d4c67833ff954f35&CNDID=43758549&utm_source=nl&utm_medium=email&utm_brand=vf&utm_mailing=vyf_hive_news_20190321%20(1)&bxid=MzI5MjgzNzg1MjQ4S0&hasha=992d608214b505003aa04bf10a595031&hashb=542eb31d958e85ddd5a4c3ccf3faae18526a77bd&spMailingID=15332063&spUserID=MzI5MjgzNzg1MjQ4S0&spJobID=1601628056&spReportId=MTYwMTYyODA1NgS2)

boutons_deux
03-22-2019, 10:00 AM
GOP governor attacks Congress after Trump stole $200 million earmarked for local naval shipyard

New Hampshire’s Republican governor slammed Congress — after President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to build his border wall took money allocated for the Granite State.

The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard could potentially lose $200 million in money that Congress allocated, the Concord Monitor reported Thursday (https://www.concordmonitor.com/On-the-trail-24296014).

“The latest leader to weigh in is Gov. Chris Sununu, who criticized Congress – and not the president – for not doing their job when it comes to securing funding,” the newspaper noted.

In fact, Congress did appropriate money for the projects, it was just taken by Sununu’s fellow Republican.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/gop-governor-attacks-congress-trump-stole-200-million-earmarked-local-naval-shipyard/

Guv pissed at losing corporate welfare and jobs socialistic welfare

boutons_deux
03-23-2019, 09:10 AM
This photo shows why a border wall won’t stop the immigration surge

President Trump has declared an emergency at the Mexico border.

This photo shows why a wall won’t stop asylum seekers from flooding into the United States.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/a-look-at-why-a-wall-wont-stop-immigration-surge/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.85edb6165333#nws=mcnewsletter&nws=mcnewsletter (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/a-look-at-why-a-wall-wont-stop-immigration-surge/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.85edb6165333#nws=mcnewsletter&nws=mcnewsletter)

Trash counting on the racist ignorance of his cult mob to believe his fantasies, lies, and, for once, Trash is right.

Winehole23
03-23-2019, 09:16 AM
It's probably more than that. The number only tracks apprehensions, people that didn't get caught don't get counted.

What is the crisis though?LARGE NUMBERS!!1!1!

Trill Clinton
05-13-2019, 08:37 PM
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1127611934134755328?s=19

Nbadan
05-13-2019, 10:35 PM
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1127611934134755328?s=19

:lmao

Winehole23
04-13-2021, 09:02 PM
Trump's wall is about to start screwing Texans:

https://www.texasobserver.org/trumps-wall-is-coming-to-texas-meet-its-first-victims/Biden refused to waive, the property will be taken without compensation.

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