This afternoon, just short of the Friday deadline, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan spending bill that would avoid another shutdown. The compromise bill, which passed with only 16 Senators voting against it, included $1.375 billion for the construction of a 55 mile long fence of steel slats, significantly less that the $5.7 billion for a wall that Donald Trump was demanding when he shut down the government this past January.
This, as you might imagine, didn’t exactly sit well with the far right, who have made it clear that they’ll settle for nothing short of the massive concrete border wall that Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail. Laura Ingraham called the compromise bill a, “total scam,” and Ann Coulter warned that, if he signed this bill, it word be the end of Trump’s presidency. Hearing that the President was going to sign the bill, Coulter said, “Trump has just agreed to fully open borders.”
Trump, for what it’s worth, really didn’t have a choice. Another shutdown would have affectively killed his chances for a 2020 victory… a victory he desperately needs if he hopes to avoid indictment.
But, by signing this compromise bill, he does run the ver real risk of pissing off his far-right base… which is why he not only signaled this afternoon that he’d be signing the bill, but also declaring a national emergency on our southern border, allowing him to circumvent Congress.
Here’s how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced the President’s position today.
BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Trump is signing the spending bill and he is declaring a *national emergency* pic.twitter.com/Y4BeSBENcs
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) February 14, 2019
This, of course, is clearly unconstitutional. The Justice Department, as we learned tonight, warned the White House that a declaration like this would be blocked by the courts, but yet it looks like Donald Trump, with no other good choices in front of him, has decided to go ahead and take us into a protracted and costly court battle over an unnecessary wall, just so that he can save face with his more racist and reality-challenged supporters. In more normal times, elected Republicans, who used to talk passionately about the dangers of “executive overreach,” would have been in the streets, demanding that Congress do its constitutional duty and stand up to the President. Now, though, not so much.
The thing is, we know this isn’t a national emergency. We know this because illegal immigration has been dropping for years, and Trump himself just recently conceded that the southern border is already “tight.” In fact, there’s still unspent money in the federal budget for border security from last year. And, if the southern border was a national emergency, why is it just becoming one now? Why wasn’t it a national emergency two years ago, when the Republicans controlled every level of power, and were instead focused on passing tax cuts for the rich and gutting our environmental agencies?
The truth is, this is all manufactured bullshit. The southern border wasn’t even mentioned among the top threats being faced by our country in the recent Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community. But here we are, discussing a ridiculous border wall because our President, beset by numerous criminal investigations, desperately needs to retain the support of his most diehard followers… the racists who ate it up when he promised them back in 2016 that he’d give them a “big, beautiful wall” to protect us from brown people from from shithole countries.
Please, if you can make a little time in your schedule, call your elected representatives in Washington right now and remind them that they have a constitutional duty to stand up for the rule of law, and protect our nation from would-be authoritarians who would attempt to consolidate power by exploiting a manufactured “crisis.” [It’s something we’ve seen before.] So, please, if you can, call your Representative and Senators, regardless of whether they’re Republican or Democrat, and ask that they not allow Donald Trump to take us down this slippery slope. And, when you have them on the phone, maybe also mention that we really do have legitimate national emergencies that demand real, decisive action, like gun violence and climate change.
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“Why is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?” – Donald Trump, July 10, 2012
The bust of Alben Barkley in McConnell’s office is weeping. In February of 1944, Senate Majority Leader Barkley stood up to President Roosevelt on a matter of executive overreach, asserting the powers of Congress. This so angered FDR that Barkley’s chances of being named as FDR’s running mate that summer went to zero. (This interpretation comes from Barkley’s memoirs.) McConnell’s announcement about the Dontard’s emergency declaration is one more act of evil and authoritarian enabling he’s committed. If he had any sense of history, he’d turn the bust of Barkley around so as not to be reminded of how he should be acting.
A national emergency should have been declared the moment that deranged clown stepped into the White House.
GOP House member on backing Trump’s emergency declaration: “We are becoming more unified as the Dems push out there. Real optimism on our side based upon the extremists on their side”
Susan Collins: “Declaring a national emergency for this purpose would be a mistake on the part of the President … Such a declaration would undermine the role of Congress and the appropriations process; it’s just not good policy … It is also of dubious constitutionality.”
Now you know: Trump’s “national emergency” ruse was always just a way to fool the rubes in his base.
https://twitter.com/anncoulter/status/1096229840980652034?s=21
How many National Emergencies are currently in effect? Unconstitutional in the sense of not being IN the Constitution or…what? Because if not being in the Constitution makes something unconstitutional then just about all the laws passed since are unconstitutional. Are Special Counsels in the Constitution, etc?
Yeah, it’s so ridiculous to try to help 4,000 Americans killed each year by illegal immigrants. Not to mention the 10,000 children trafficked into the USA to be used for sex. Or massive drugs or the drain on our resources…just ridiculous! Let’s lash out and be the nastiest, lyingist, slimiest voices we can be to help try to take down this ridiculousness!!!
HW projecting again,
No govt personnel, military or civilian, should follow any exceptional order from Agent Orange until he disproves the abundant circumstantial evidence of his subservience to Putin. Believe your eyes, not faux and Reptilian propaganda. Following orders from a traitor beholding to a foreign power is illegal and by definition dereliction of duty to the Constitution.
Projecting what? You people slime others with lies every day. That’s true. Notice you have no response to the factual portion of my post which follows the pattern.
John Brown,
Disprove circumstantial evidence? Or disprove your inferences? You can’t even keep what you are talking about straight. You are advocating for the delegitimizing of the our president until he can disprove the CONCLUSIONS OF YOUR THEORY. The theory, you hold onto, is, as it stands now, necessarily based on INFERENCES you are making based upon circumstantial evidence. So you want Trump to disprove your inferences? Please tell me you understand how stupid it is for John Brown to request that Trump disprove John Brown’s inferences.
There are front line battles in the war of ideas. You will never be deployed there, John Brown. Time to go back to stocking your supply closet.
Your feet are way too flat.
Senate Intelligence Committee interviewed how many? How many documents reviewed? Findings? Russian Collusion is the biggest ball of slime ever. Those responsible for the dossier ect. are being investigated now. Not only that but there is real collusion between the same dems pushing Trump collusion and…Russia, which is also under investigation.
Actually, Frosted Flakes, with this president there is a pretty good chance that Trump WILL take the time to disprove John Brown’s inferences. I think you’re thinking of previous presidents.
Does JB have a Twitter account?
The U.S. Constitution is pretty specific
Section 8
1: The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Article II of the Constitution spells out the Executive Authority. The President does not have the power “to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; ”
Trump might as Commander and Chief order the military to build the wall–but he has no authority to pay for it. That is why the Government periodically shuts down. That will be the constitutional crises. When Trump accrues debt that our Congress has not authorized payment for.
Do presidents usually declare national emergencies and then immediately leave for vacation?
The President is Commander In Chief of the military according to the Constitution. Q peeps have known for a year the wall will be built by the Army Corps of Engineers. Huh!
Standing in the rose garden just now, Trump said, “I didn’t need to do this,” about the declaration of a national emergency. Indicates to me that it wasn’t an emergency.
“…but I wanted to do it faster.” Meaning he could have waited till Congress came around and save the “political capital” but was not willing to wait.
Trump doesn’t need to declare an emergency to confiscate El Chopo’s bank accounts and properties. Estimates are his net worth is between $1 and $14 billion. He doesn’t need to declare an emergency to use our National Guard to build the wall. Trump has plenty of options that would withstand the courts.
This fraudulent emergency action will solidly turn the military interest against him more than it already was. And nary a word from the Cult45 about the devastating loss he was handed with a veto proof vote on the govt funding bill from the Reptilian controlled Senate. There’s some fore-fucking-shadowing for ya!
I don’t think that declaring a National Emergency, even under these circumstances, is unconstitutional. At the very least, such actions have passed muster in the past even when the results were much much more heinous than simply wasting money with a border wall. At least Trump isn’t rounding up citizens and putting them in camps which is something FDR did after declaring a national emergency.
With that said, I still think it is really stupid of him to do this because it sets a precedent. If the GOP has any sense, they will overrule this and hope they can get the Democrats on board. They might not though because as a strategy, allowing Trump to do this would mean that if the Democrats can win the WH back in 2020 (and there is a good chance that they might), they can declare things like gun violence a national emergency or they can declare the lack of universal healthcare is an emergency or any number of things.
I hope though that Congress can act in a true bipartisan manner and put some goddamn limits on the office of the president.
Cult45:
All I did was play the gig
Did it big from a to zig
Zig zigalla, no big sing along
No oochie wally wally
Just Fugazi and some ollies and a jolly roger
Ay live in concert
But with big no sponsors
Ay we gotta make it sizzzz like an onomatopoeia
I’m on another eon, beyond a number
You see i’m not the one
But if i’m being honest
I see that one you under
You should rock with us
Do what you gotta gotta
https://youtu.be/hsQ4dFkXAqA
I think that everyone, regardless of party, should be very, very concerned about the ever expanding power of the Presidency over the past two decades.
Very important to have a vote in both Houses on the emergency declaration. Trump will veto, but even if the votes to override aren’t there, it’s right and proper to put our elected officials on record at this moment of truth.
Worth a review.https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/emergency-powers
Please note in the second part that presidential emergency powers are not restricted in most of these areas (4th column). He has essentially declared Martial Law. Whether he uses the full extent of his emergency powers has yet to be seen, but HW and Q believers are counting on it.
Full Martial Law? The Q plan is designed to avoid the need for it. The danger is antifa/lefties rioting when equal justice under the law is applied to your people including Brennan. That will be dealt with swiftly hopefully without the need for troops.
Trump is verifying Q constantly now, posting to twitter the same/similar phrases Q posts just minutes after Q does. I’d be scared if I was you. You will never be as terrified as the traitors in the crosshairs are right now and that is good. Your pain will be sympathetic for the PAIN of the traitors. With the evidence of their crimes made public you will understand why it was wrong to support them however and the discomfort you experience will be short-lived.
Clearly Agent Orange has us right where he wants us . The Senate throwing him under the bus on the spending bill was obviously just a ploy.
I’m starting to think HWs mom’s basement must be in Moscow. And I don’t mean Moscow, Michigan.
Derp derp. Your little act is falling apart isn’t it? All you have is random insults towards someone who easily destroys everything you say. I can’t believe you people have stuck with this collusion shit till the bitter end. I can but damn this has been a protracted demise.
You are taking L after L on collusion. First the House, now the Senate have found what? Shit: that’s what they have found. Mueller next.
Brown is for shirts, not people.
You’re a hoot. Is MM paying you for the comic relief? He is isn’t he. I was thinking Q is pootin, but he’s MM isn’t he?
I’m ready either way.
Reality is so funny, right. You can’t even bring yourself to acknowledge it but you think it’s a joke. Your comments are so dim. Look at you trying to slime me again by using my nick.
“Trump is verifying Q constantly now, posting to twitter the same/similar phrases Q posts just minutes after Q does. I’d be scared if I was you. You will never be as terrified as the traitors in the crosshairs are right now and that is good. Your pain will be sympathetic for the PAIN of the traitors. With the evidence of their crimes made public you will understand why it was wrong to support them however and the discomfort you experience will be short-lived.”
Holy shit, people! I can’t believe this is real.
There was a time when we thought HW was a solo nutjob, but there are many who hold the same crackpot theories thanks to our friend Qanon. It’s a movement. Madness of crowds or something. They long for their bizarre revolution and especially revenge on those who don’t buy into their bizarre sense of reality and justice. Luckily they are all completely full of shit and powerless to boot. Trump plays them, because that’s what Trump does. He manipulates his base with frightening ease. They question nothing he says.
You don’t even know what Q is. Fair warning. More than fair.
There once was a Coulter names Ann
We cuddled and dreamed Qanon
But she pulled a fast trick
When she slipped me her dick
If I weren’t so fat I would have ran
Keep talking about what you love: dicks. I’ll just keep wrecking you with reality like always.
The liberal conspiracies I’m busy wrecking
While my moms is upstairs henpecking
With my little taffy pulled tight as I can
I pee in an old coffee can
I hide it under my cot when mom comes a checking
Make some more limericks about your greatest fantasy. Everyone knows what that is. You dream about it at night and write poetry about it when you wake up.
Didn’t your mom throw you in the trash when she married a sociopathic drug addict; a lifelong grievance for you? I wouldn’t be talking about other people’s parental relationships if I was you.
It’s Saturday Warlord. At least you get a bath tonight. And your mom is making meatloaf.
It’s true: You had to come home to an empty cupboard because your mom couldn’t get off the sociopathic cock that put all your family’s money up his arm or nose or whatever it was.
I post some new facts about Pizzagate
And then I’m so excited I stop to bate
Saturday means moms meatloaf with ketchup
But the lima beans make me want to retch up
I’ll get my bath and jammies before it’s too late
Epic rap battle.
HW is losing.
Are you going to be humiliated in public like this HW?
That must drive you insane that I tell the truth. About you and your mom and everything. Too bad your dad didn’t make it. Maybe you would have turned out like a human being. Sounds like in was in your mom’s character to gravitate towards some shitball and left him anyways.
gravitate and *leave* him
Warlord is trying so hard to be mean
He’s as flustered as we’ve ever seen
He’s had all he can takes
Making such grammar mistakes
And now he’s got more typos than Jean
Ha!
Damn, you are all fucked up now, aren’t you? You spilled your guts everywhere and now you have to hear all about your own fucked up life from someone you are obsessed with trying to degrade. I don’t have to “be mean” to fuck you up. You do it to yourself.
Warlord appears to be nuts
Spewing nonsense about somebody’s guts
Such a conspiracy oaf
Now he’s talking to his poor meatloaf
It’s too bad his mouth never shuts
I hate Hillary, I’d beat her
But I’m continuously obsessed with a Peter
Though he’s from this section long gone
Rent free he really lives on
In my head in rhyme and in meter.
Oh, it’s Dirty Peter’s clone then? I guess it’s fair to call it by it’s namesake then. Who in this world would do exactly what he does every day? Imagine never having anything interesting to say and just going full nihilist every single day. No reason, just the most base trolling he can muster? What a fucked life that must be.
Peter has never been this funny, ya dipshit.
…easily amused…
Dirty Peter is half the names on here. It’s so obvious; such a low, low intellectual ceiling from all these characters. It’s like “ERHH I’m gonna be the most obnoxious immature little fucker I can! Look at me! Just like all that sarcastic noise shit I used to do all the time at people!!! Urrp…”
You are clearly obsessed. HW. Pete ain’t here. It’s all in your imagination. I don’t think any of us are surprised that you are still trying to slay an imaginary dragon. And that you think you are winning. That’s pretty much your whole deal. I do hope Pete is lurking so he can hget a good chuckle from all this.
It’s all in your paranoid imagination, HW. Kick the weed. Get out in the sun. Do something useful. You are flailing.
Who is impersonating the old dirt eater then? You know damn well there is no one else who acts like that. Iron Lung 2 wasn’t Dirty Peter either huh? What would be the point of someone else doing exactly the same shit? You are out of your mind. He posts about what he thinks about me and my dick every day so how is you think he is in MY head?
You people are fzoked, just like I said. Russian collusion is some of the biggest fake news of all time. Everything you attach to turns out bad. Not only that but you have smeared people like myself who have told the truth since the start. What did the Senate Intel Committee find? Spell it out now.
Even if IL, PL, ML, SSL, or whatever pseudonym he was going under, is not here anymore his idiotic posts we’re so bad it feels fair to continue to criticize him. I have reason to suspect Jean does not know what she is talking about again. Or maybe she Is just pretending she does not know the truth and she just wants to try to gaslight HW again.
I will admit one of the of haikus was funny like a month ago…Whatever….Time to grow up. Or don’t and continue to make yourselves look like easily amused idiots.
You’re such a sanctimonious scold FF.
I wish I were clever enough to make some funny poems about you.
HW, What’s Q saying about Patrick Caddells death? Jimmy Carter in the library with a nail gun?
You sure still nothing like what I have said many times before will be going down? Recent Q post:
POTUS: “This can never be allowed to happen again (in our Country or to another President).”
How do you deter & prevent this from happening again?
Simply by terminating employment of those responsible?
Simply by conducting a few ‘non-threatening’ investigations?
Or by:
Prosecuting those responsible to the fullest extent of the law?
Setting up new checks & balances and oversight designed to increase transparency?
Provide OIG office(s) w/ funding inc (size) ++ authority?
Provide select committees w/ access and in-house viewing of non NAT SEC CLAS material?
Provide a check on Directors/Dep Directors/Asst Directors of all such ABC agencies?
Establish ‘financial checks/reviews’ of those in senior (critical) positions (audits) + direct family (close proximity)?
Transparency and Prosecution is the only way forward to save our Republic and safeguard such criminal and treasonous acts from occurring again.
While some want to quietly remove those responsible and go about our business (save face on the World Stage), those in control, understand, this band-aid will simply not work.
Nobody should be above the law (no matter how massive the spider-web is (entangled)).
This will never happen again.
TRUTH WORKS.
FACTS MATTER.
Q
Frosted Flakes has limerick hate
Only one of my Haiku was first rate
He’s mad when his warlord’s abused
Thinks only idiots are duly amused
But like Tony, he feels HW’s ass tastes just Gr-r-eat!
” I have reason to suspect Jean does not know what she is talking about again. ”
Really? What ‘reason,’ FF?
Did you use reason to come up with a false assumption about me supposedly making false assumptions?
Disagreement on analysis is not about right or wrong. It’s a difference in perspective– assuming one is working from a base of facts. HW does not employ facts but relies on speculation about which he expresses certainty. Point your distrust at him.
HW is certain Pete is the one taunting him. He has no basis for that certainty. the person stealing HW’s nick has revealed himself to me. There could be many. Maybe Pete is joining in here and there, but my guess is he’s not. I do know for a fact he’s not the only one.
FF you can just keep projecting your bias and acting like it’s based in something real and informed. You are just a few steps away from warlord status yourself lately.
FF is so very clever
With his comments he tries to endeavor
To engage in debate
But it’s a long time to wait
Alone in a house in cold weather.
Jean,
I have reasons to SUSPECT HW is right that IL is still posting despite your claims. Not sure about the poetry guy but other posts, under different names, over the past months, have had a matching ” voice”and and similar thought processes,imo . It was not too hard to tell when somebody was fake posting. Somebody was fake posting under my name several times but I did not bother even pointing it out. I also already had reason to suspect that you know for a for a fact that multiple people were posting under fake names because you have already hinted at that knowledge several times. Who cares?
Assuming there is some misassignment happening, why should you care if HW is misassigning a particular voice to a person? You have already expressed your support of people using other peoples pseudonyms and therefore you have shown support for the chaos which that such a practice will inevitably bring. So it makes zero sense, imo, that you would try to gaslight HW for assuming certain posts are coming from IL. Even if HW decided to just use the rules of the game you wanted to play as an excuse to attack “a long gone IL” it is fair play, within a game, you wanted play.
Imo, if people don’t like somebody’s argument then they should attack the argument and not resort to gas lighting and attacks against the person. Imo, it is not so bad to have occassional humorous breaks like the limerick guy brings but that should only be after there have been sincere attempts to counter arguments with reasoning and evidence.
These are just my opinions.
“HW does not employ facts”
Hahahaha, what?! Not only do I use facts, I correct your use of facts just about every time you post a link. It’s happened so many times you are numb to it I suppose. Incredible irony.
Frosted is openly opposed to chaos
At least he’s not as dumb as EOS
But please stop crediting Peter
That honky has no rhyme or meter
And I’m the real Pythagoras
FF is the king or queen of gaslighting. It’s really their only trick. It’s like Dr.Phil, Roger Stone, and Pootin had a baby and called it FF.
This entire comment thread could be a parody. I can only hope it amuses someone.
There are maybe 5 people who give a shit about what goes on here, and the author of the blog isn’t one of them. I’m bored too. Time to retire. Enjoy yourselves. It’s the most flacid circle jerk ever.
JH, agreed. While occasional mental masturbation feels good, it does in fact make you go blind in excess.
Alright! Jean’s leaving! Party!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhSVr70W-fA
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