Trump will sign funding bill and declare national emergency in attempt to fund border wall

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There are a lot of Dems in Congress; a group of them can spearhead the grifting investigation, another group can take him to court over his ‘national emergency’ and the rest can work on Congressional business and impeachment proceedings. See, it’s easy to do it all - “many hands lighten the load”.

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I think the reasoning isn’t for a Democrat to act like a dictator because the Republican is doing that, but more to say to the Republicans “hey, if your president does this, it sets the stage so that we can do whatever we want.” Hopefully this gives the Republicans pause…

Well, I hope that’s the reason.

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Don’t forget that contingent of Homosexuaaaaals! Dadgum it, Blond haired Blue eyed Jesus didn’t die on the cross for some melanin rich person to toodle over and take our jerbs!

But seriously, refugees fleeing violence in their countries? I’m with tRump on this one. This is an emergency. We’re going to have to set up emergency asylum processing staff, get these folks set up with some assistance, and otherwise get them off to a good start in their new country. And that’s going to take $$$ and effort. If he wants to take money from the bloated military to do so, then by all means.

(wait, that’s not what he means by “emergency”? WTF!?!)

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“Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me.”

As the host of a news program on the radio over here said today: “It’s not that unusual for national emergency to be declared in the United States, but it is unusual to do it solely to extort money.”

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Do you really want them to? Cheating for the Greater Good? The methods of the right are as disreputable as their goals.

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I wonder if Trump will cut down the authority of the president between the elections 2020 and the inauguration of his successor. Didn’t this happen in several states ahead of the midterm elections? It’s really time to activate the 25th Amendment (twice).

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That’s kind of it right there. It’s not just “we”. It sets the stage for all presidents to follow, not just the next Democrat president.

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It’s not just cheating.

The right is able to present a much more unified front even though there’s lots of in fighting and disagreement in their ranks as well. The left likes to eat their own.

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FuckTheWall

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“Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich USA”

for no reason other than to allow the government to act when it was unable to obtain a parliamentary majority.

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Exactly. Pelosi is trying to get through to the establishment Republicans who still have enough foresight to realize Trump won’t be President forever and force them to consider whether they really want the executive branch to have that kind of unilateral power.

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So, what is this? The dress rehearsal for the main event?

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Yes.

The “real” crisis will be when Trump fails to win re-election. Trump and his Xtian dominionist jackbootlickers will have no choice but to declare a national emergency to chivvy the deep state from its nests of iniquity and detain all its apostate socialist sympathizers.

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specifies that only “existing technologies” for fencing and barriers can be used

I’d like to see them just try to build a fence or barrier with technology that doesn’t exist. Don’t think they’d get very far…

Why didn’t I think of this before?

Just hire some Mexican mimes to run into the “invisible force field” wall during a demonstration. We could get up the “invisible force field” up in record time for a very small amount!

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OK, NOW can we talk about the Amtrak FEMA death camps? /s

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