Heh….
Glass Half Empty
I got quite a response from my “Crumblin’ Walls” post.
Let me try and clarify.
I believe that the democrats are playing the long game here, if they can get to the 2020 election cycle which begins in earnest this time next year, POTUS will be asked by the GOP to tone down the rhetoric and not jeopardize a strong defense of red state senators. As of now, there will be 22 Republican Senate seats on the line, while Democrats will only need to protect 12 seats. Trump himself will be campaigning and having to answer questions about the unfulfilled campaign promise of the wall.
Democrats wanted the government opened, they were given three weeks. that’s mid February. Let’s assume congress is not going to play ball and Trump declares National Emergency, left wing Obama judges file injunctions which turns into a six month legal battle, that’s July, the fight goes to the Supreme Court.
For context of timing, Trump announced the military transgender ban August 2017, SCOTUS ruled in favor of the Trump Administration January 22, 2019…18 months. That’s June 2020 on the “National Emergency” decision if it runs the same time line.
And we haven’t even talked about Mueller investigation, if the democrats think there is anything to the investigation delaying anything POTUS does falls right into their hands.
President Trump is getting played and his hands are tied. I understand why he did what he did, but it is none the less capitulating to those scum bag dems.
This should have happened a year ago when he had the majority, but things got………delayed.
My worry is losing his base, he’s my guy but I lean WAY right, it’s the center right that has me concerned for 2020.
And The Walls, Come Crumblin’ Down
What a wasted effort.
POTUS caved and ended shutdown with supposed “double secret promise” from democrats that if he ends shutdown, they will give him what he wants. This is a lie, (see Reagan Amnesty).
Democrats will force him to go national emergency route after three weeks, tie up the declaration in the courts for however long they can…..BOOM….2020 election cycle, GOP will want Trump to stop rocking the boat telling him he will lose seats in house and senate, Trump backs off.
Democrats succeed in the delay tactic and Trump loses because, no wall, no healthcare, no base.
Checkmate.
Truth
Makin’ The Rules Up As They Go
Saving For A Rainy Day…..Lessons of the Past
Maybe I’m just a callous and heartless bastard, but I don’ understand how a federal employee that makes on average twice what the private sector makes for the same job, can lose everything after missing two checks.
Moses is an engineering technician for air traffic control at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. He’s furloughed and at the worst possible time. That’s because he is in the process of selling a house and buying a new one in Athens.
“I mean, we’re cutting back every which way trying to make the two ends meet,” Moses said. “I’m picking up odd jobs here in town just trying to put food on the table.”
Moses is one of as many of 16,000 federal workers in Georgia who are making emergency plans because of the partial government shutdown.
“We stand the risk of losing this new home very soon if I’m not able to produce income,” Moses said.
An engineering tech? You would think that pays pretty well, probably has killer government benefits, and is going to be paid back retroactively after the shutdown.
For another local federal worker, the longer the government shutdown continues, the more panic sets in.
Indya Thomas works for the IRS and said her last paycheck showed no income.
“I didn’t want to be put out on the streets, you know, if it had to come to that point, so I knew I needed help,” Thomas told Channel 2 Action News. here….
Wouldn’t you have some savings for a rainy day, or make arrangements with your lender or landlord knowing this is all temporary?
Maybe….just maybe…..we’ve learned more about federal employees than they really wanted us to know, or maybe the media is in full spin mode cherry picking stories that fit the narrative….Orange Man Bad, starving families!
True Colors
The thing is, what twitter exposed was not that you were leftwing. We already new that.
What twitter exposed was that you were also dumb, easily duped, eager to believe self-justifying conspiracy theories, thin-skinned, arrogant, incompetent, disgracefully lazy, psychologically (and almost certainly physically) inadequate, dunderheadedly unimaginative and unwilling to consider any idea not within the braindead leftwing Incela Corridor Conventional Wisdom Bubble, prone to the most cowardly go-along-to-get-along sort of groupthink, and weak. _ Ace of Spades
Bigger Fish To Fry
Tell Pelosi to pound sand.
I don’t know why POTUS gives her oxygen, Venezuela is looking like a coup is underway, China negotiations are ongoing, North Korea talks are ongoing, American soldiers are still dying in middle east shit hole countries, and we are being invaded by illiterate future democratic voters.
Tell Nan to fuck off….there are larger issues on the Presidents plate than trading spit balls with the old bat.
Declare a national emergency on the border, shut the ports of entry down until Mexico turns the caravans around, stop any and all foreign aide to countries whose citizens are in the caravans.
Then go back to work on the other issues, ignore Nancy, send her the state of the union on a napkin.
Stay Positive
Dated but still relevant, don’t let the media bring ya down.
Heh….
