Trump has backed himself into a corner and he came out swinging last night with the usual lies. He doesn't care how many people he hurts by the shutdown. He only wants to placate his base and hopes that other Americans, if they heard enough of the lies, will actually believe him.
I thought the buck is supposed to stop at the president. Trump said as much before the shutdown when he was seen on television telling the Democrats and the nation that he will take responsibility for a shutdown. Last night he passed the buck by saying it was the Democrats who are responsible. Of course he had the chance to avoid the shutdown completely if he had just signed the bill that had passed both the Senate and the House with bipartisan support before the shutdown. In fact, the Senate passed it with the assurance that Trump would sign. He changed his mind after people like Limbaugh and Coulter complained. I didn't know the people elected those two to be president!
Trump said we have an emergency at the border. Illegal crossing has dropped by half in recent years. He claimed that terrorists are streaming across the border. There has been no terrorists coming through the border with Mexico that the government has revealed. None of the terrorists who have harmed us has come over from Mexico. If there is a crisis at the border it is that Trump has slowed the processing of asylum seekers. As a result the detention centers are overwhelmed. With the shutdown, this crisis will get worse. So Trump is actually the one who is creating a crisis.
Trump also blamed the southern border for the opioid crisis. Yes, there are illegal drugs carried over from the Mexican border. But they are carried by people with legal papers hidden in cars, trucks etc. They are not carried over by asylum seekers. There are many other means of smuggling drugs into the country and a wall will have no impact on that. Heck, you can get drugs from China in the mail. A lot of addiction is the result of drug companies and doctors providing the means. I have always say, if you have a demand, you will get the supply. The money that goes to a wall would be better spent to prevent addiction and for treatment.
I have not heard the public reaction to Trump's speech. I hope they are not falling any of the nonsense he spewed last night. But then there are still a lot of people who believe that Mexico will pay for the wall!
Wednesday, January 09, 2019
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Maybe it's time to buy Art of the Deal and see if he is using a tactic in his book. None of his recent moves regarding the wall make much sense. I'm not sure why he bothered to go all in at this time. I talked about not underestimating the Trump supporters, but it seems to me that he is underestimating the support he will get from the public regarding the wall.
ReplyDeleteIf there was a time to go all in, it was last year or when he got in office, since he would have had more support. But now that I think of it, trying to get rid of Obamacare was the one he went all in for and we know how that turned out.
I will say that I was impressed by the huge donations to the go fund me account that was set up for the wall. The amount of money raised is quite a bit, so people I guess are quite passionate about having a wall. Hey, if you want to set something up privately, go for it. But to have taxpayer dollars fund this thing when he said Mexico would pay for it, is wrong.
-LBOAYM
I don't think he has any tactics except to wing it as he goes. That is why he tries to keep changing the narrative. He now says of course Mexico is not going to write a check for 5 billion dollars. They are going to pay it thru the new trade deal. See how he makes up things as he goes along? He might as well say that Canada is paying for the wall since it is also part of the trade deal.
ReplyDeleteYes, if his supporters want to waste their own money to build the wall, be my guest. The majority of taxpayers know that their money should be spent on something more useful.
Whether Trump has the legal authority to declare a state of emergency in order to divert fund for the wall is up to legal scholars to debate. What is not debatable is that this would be an action that dictators throughout the world use. Just like firing someone who is investigation you, it is the MO of dictators.