Hey Trump, Get Your Ass In Here And Explain Yourself

I think that is the way we have to start dealing with his Orange Glory. And I know just the person to deliver the message:


THEY DON’T CALL IT ‘THE GREAT TWEET OF CHINA’
September 20, 2017

During the campaign, Donald J. Trump made lots of promises -- he'd be the greatest jobs president that God ever created, he'd cut taxes, he'd balance the budget, he'd give all Americans fantastic health care, he'd renegotiate NAFTA, he'd scotch the Iran deal and so on.

But there was one central promise without which he wouldn't have been elected: He said he'd build a wall.

Either Trump understood the urgency of our border crisis, as his every campaign speech suggested, or it was just meaningless boilerplate to get himself elected. If it was the latter, then our search continues for one politician who won't lie to us.

It was precisely the Nietzschean Eternal Recurrence of politicians promising to get tough on immigration, but never, ever doing it, that caused voters to cling to Trump like a life vest in a tidal wave.

If Trump actually believed what he claimed to believe, he would treat the building of a wall as a far more urgent priority than sending FEMA after a hurricane.

Taking nothing away from the fine people who lost their lives in the recent hurricanes, since the 2005 hurricane season, about 200 Americans have died in hurricanes, plus 82 in Hurricane Harvey and 50 in Hurricane Irma.

That's 332 deaths from hurricanes in the past 12 years.

Even a federal government determined not to tell Americans how many illegal immigrants are committing crimes admits that -- at a minimum -- there are 350,000 illegal immigrants
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incarcerated in state prisons and jails, and 3,500 are in for murder.


Considering that the average time served for murder in America is six years, that means that, in the last 12 years, hurricanes have killed 332 Americans, and illegal immigrants have killed 7,000 Americans.

Throw in the more than 30,000 Americans who die every year from heroin and fentanyl brought in by Mexicans, and illegal immigration is a problem at least 100 times more urgent than Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and every other hurricane since 2005, combined.

(If we're including U.S. territories and Hurricane Maria ends up killing another 100 people -- current estimates are zero dead -- illegal immigration is still 80 times worse than the last 12 years of deadly hurricanes. Of course, if we're including territories, then we also must note that illegal immigration is especially disastrous for Puerto Ricans living in the U.S., in terms of crime and diminishing job prospects.)

There is no question but that illegal immigration dwarfs any other issue, not only in dead Americans, but also in welfare expenditures, taxes, lost jobs, police and prison expenditures, declining neighborhoods, ruined schools, overwhelmed hospitals, facial reconstruction surgeries and rape counseling services, to name a few costs.

We thought Trump understood this. We were counting on him to fight for us on the border -- not with rallies, not with hats, not with tweets, but by building a wall.

And yet, as of Wednesday this week, Trump will have been in office 243 days without having begun the wall. Imagine if Hurricanes Harvey and Irma had hit 243 days ago and all we'd gotten from the president were assurances that FEMA would be coming any day now -- just as soon as he got the go-ahead from Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan! (Or worse, from Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.)

The more accurate analogy would be if Trump responded to the recent hurricanes not only by sending zero federal aid, but also by demanding that we dismantle FEMA and the National Hurricane Center. That's exactly what he's doing by proposing we respond to the crisis of 40 million illegal aliens in our country with an amnesty that will lure another 40 million across the border.

We hoped we wouldn't have to spell it out. We thought Trump understood that this was an emergency. We believed he was capable of getting the job done.

If he did understand, then 243 days ago, he would have sent the Navy Seabees and Army Corps of Engineers to start building the wall.

For most of the nation's history, the primary job of the military -- of which President Trump is the commander in chief -- was building walls and fortresses on our borders. That's why we have an Army Corps of Engineers. It may not seem like it from recent history, but the job of our military is to protect America's borders -- not Ukraine's borders, not Jordan's borders.

This is our one and only chance to get this done, and we're losing the fight. While Trump dallies, last week California became a sanctuary state. Sixteen-year-old girls are taking lessons to learn to be safe drivers, but when they're smashed into by drunk-driving illegal aliens, the state won't tell ICE, and taxpayers will spend $40 million to pay for their defense.

The wall has to get built, and nothing else matters.

Trump will not be able to tweet his way out of not building the wall. He will not be able to change the subject by attacking the media or Crooked Hillary. He will not be able to get away with blaming Republicans in Congress.

Obviously, it suits the rest of the traitorous GOP -- which ferociously opposed him -- to pretend that Trump's election had nothing to do with immigration.

I don't know about a lot of things. I don't know where women let you grab them if you're a rich celebrity. I don't know how to play a wind instrument. But when everyone else said Trump was a joke, I said, nope, he's going to be our next president. If anyone is telling Trump that a "virtual wall," drones, a conga line or a "Don't Cross!" sign are as good as a wall, he can get his stock tips from them, but not his political advice.

If Trump doesn't get that wall built, and fast, his base will be done with him and feed him to Robert Mueller.

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Trump's base increasingly seeing happy talk about wall "prototypes" as bullshit stalling tactic. Why do we need a prototype? It's not a Mars landing craft. Use the same blueprints as the wall we built for Israel. The "experts" all said it would be a colossal failure but it has worked brilliantly.

If Trump had actually made any progress at all on the wall, he would have banked some credit he could use on DACA. Instead, outraged voters are seeing the traditional republican bait and switch. A DACA amnesty now will sink Trump, which is exactly why both parties are so desperate for it.
 
I dont think DACA will sink Trump, honestly i agree with DACA but only under the condition that actual enforcement exists afterwords so the U.S. isnt in the same boat 10 years from now, if Trump bends over and just accepts DACA he is toast, but if he frames it right he might be the only person whose been able to accomplish this in 30 years.

If he is aggressive enough and says look the only people holding you guys out are democrats, then he he could have a huge win, but if he just unilaterally bends over its game over.
 
honestly i agree with DACA but only under the condition that actual enforcement exists afterwords so the U.S. isnt in the same boat 10 years from now

And what do you think the chances of that happening are? Reagan fell for the same "amnesty now, enforcement later" routine.

Trump is a master negotiator. He knows what will happen. An amnesty now will produce a flood of illegal immigrants, eager to get in on it through fraud. Since they're illegals, with no visa stamps etc, it is difficult to prove they are not eligible for DACA. The bureaucracy and immigration judges are largely pro-immigration zealots who don't look too hard at claims.

They keep saying 800,000 "children", all of whom are outstanding students or serving in the military. The reality is only a fraction registered for DACA for the obvious reason that they didn't want to announce themselves to the government as illegals. There will be millions of amnesty claimants, and once they get their papers, they will begin the process of "reuniting families", ie bringing entire villages here on bogus familial ties. We will be looking at tens of millions more, most of whom will be poor, unskilled and destined for welfare. Or crime.

Sometimes a leader has to make tough decisions. Trump has already screwed up ending DACA. If he bends over for congress on amnesty, he is toast.
 
Trump's base increasingly seeing happy talk about wall "prototypes" as bullshit stalling tactic. Why do we need a prototype? It's not a Mars landing craft. Use the same blueprints as the wall we built for Israel. The "experts" all said it would be a colossal failure but it has worked brilliantly.

If Trump had actually made any progress at all on the wall, he would have banked some credit he could use on DACA. Instead, outraged voters are seeing the traditional republican bait and switch. A DACA amnesty now will sink Trump, which is exactly why both parties are so desperate for it.

I don't think DACA will sink Trump. Trump ended DACA. He has clearly stated that Congress needs to establish immigration policy and not presidential executive orders.

Trump needs to clearly point at Congress every time the topic comes up. Congress needs to take action, pass their "Dreamer Act" (DACA replacement), and then Trump can point to Congress every time criticism of "Dreamer immigration" comes up.
 
I don't think DACA will sink Trump. Trump ended DACA. He has clearly stated that Congress needs to establish immigration policy and not presidential executive orders.

Trump needs to clearly point at Congress every time the topic comes up. Congress needs to take action, pass their "Dreamer Act" (DACA replacement), and then Trump can point to Congress every time criticism of "Dreamer immigration" comes up.
Exactly right. This should have never been Trumps bag of crap to deal with at all. Had not Emperor Obama not taken it upon himself to write immigration policy, something which is clearly unconstitutional for a president to do, this is a non-issue. It is, and always has been a problem for congress to address. AAA is also right that Reagan fell into the same trap with his "one time" amnesty program. Trump has been disappointing on many levels, but this isn't on him, it's on congress and he should call them out every chance he gets, not only on this, but on every other thing that the cowards won't address in a straight-forward manner.
 
I'm sorry but Trump cannot hand this off to congress. Any amnesty legislation will have to receive his support to pass, not to mention his signature. Wringing his hands and pointing fingers, like he did on health care, isn't going to cut it. Not when we put him there for one principal reason, because he promised to build a wall and deport them all. An amnesty for millions of assholes who show their appreciation to the country they have been ripping off with their middle finger isn't going to fly.

We were ok with not locking her up, we were puzzled by shooting off missiles into Syria, the whole Comey/Mueller thing was a rookie mistake, no one voted for sending even more naïve farmboys to Afghanistan to please John McCain, we don't see why it takes months to stop the transgender nonsense in the military and now it appears it isn't stopped, we thought we were getting better relations with Russia not worse and everyone with an R behind their name promised us to repeal and replace obamacare but that hasn't happened either.

We knew Trump would have to fight tooth and nail to get his wall, but we trusted him to do so and make it a priority, say before tax cuts for billionaire silicon valley monopolists. We naively thought a Trump Justice Department would protect us from antifa thugs, but they seem too cowed by tired accusations of racism to do even that. We didn't like the exile of trusted campaign advisors like Bannon and the rise of a bunch of NYC democrats and Deep State operatives.

If Trump had done anything at all on any of these issues, maybe, maybe, he could have gotten away with a small amnesty. He hasn't, so now it becomes the line in the sand. It may be in congress' lap right now but he owns it and his reelection is hanging in the balance.
 
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