Posted on 03/25/2018 5:45:16 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
While so many Trump supporters have spent the last couple of days tossing tantrums about the President’s decision to sign the horrible Omnibus spending bill, some good things have been happening without getting much notice from the fake news media.
Tired of all this Winning yet? – Just a few days after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, I wrote a piece that laid much of the blame at the feet of an insane Obama-era policy that rewarded school administrators and law enforcement officials for refusing to enforce the law against students who engage in criminal activity. In the ensuing weeks since, more and more people in the news media have begun to report on the scam. Better late than never.
This growing attention level has now led to a positive outcome: The Trump Administration announced on Friday that it will eliminate the Obama policy. Just one more element of the insane, un-American Obama legacy falls by the wayside.
The fake news media really hasn’t paid much attention to this reality yet – it’s been too busy trying to whip the public into a gun-grabbing frenzy and reporting on a porn startlet – but with his staff moves over the last month, President Donald Trump has basically purged his team of senior advisors of globalists.
Senior Economic Advisor Gary Cohn – gone. Replaced with the Reaganite Larry Kudlow. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – gone. Replaced – if he can be confirmed – by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster – gone. Replaced by John Bolton. Assuming Pompeo is ultimately confirmed, the Trump Cabinet and team of senior advisors will basically be devoid of the open borders/new world order internationalist influence. While it is true that Bolton is an interventionist who favors aggressive U.S. military involvement in civil wars all around the world, he is very much on board with the Trump plan to dramatically increase border security.
Bolton also promises to “clean house” once ensconced in the job, eliminating dozens of Obama holdovers and other internationalists who are not loyal to President Trump, according to a report at Foreign Policy on Saturday. Taking this action will almost certainly eliminate many, if not most of the leaks coming from the White House, some of which have been criminal in nature.
Bottom line, 14 months into his first term, Trump is finally putting together the team of leaders he should have had in the first place. Again, better late than never.
Early this morning, President Trump issued the following two tweets:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!
5:33 AM - Mar 25, 2018 20.5K 12.4K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Much can be done with the $1.6 Billion given to building and fixing the border wall. It is just a down payment. Work will start immediately. The rest of the money will come - and remember DACA, the Democrats abandoned you (but we will not)!
5:42 AM - Mar 25, 2018 17.1K 13K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy These tweets are potentially very important, particularly the last sentence in the first one: “Build wall through M!”, the “M” standing for “Military.”
The federal budgeting process is very complex and arcane, and one thing to remember in this current situation is that this “Omnibus” spending bill is just that: A spending bill, not a formal budget. It is a compilation of suggested spending levels for each executive branch department and the military, along with an array of restrictions that dictate how some, but not all of that money can be spent.
It’s important to also remember in this context that, on December 21, the President took the step of declaring a national human rights emergency related to child-trafficking, a declaration that would allow Mr. Trump broad discretion in taking action to crack down on those who participate in such human rights abuses. It’s key to note that much such child trafficking involves moving kidnapped children in and out of the United States of America.
A second point to note is that, on Friday, the President notified congress that, in signing the Omnibus, he is accepting the funds under the provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities within the budgets of individual executive branch departments.
Finally, lets also note that, last October, the President declared a national emergency related to opioid abuse.
Now, read the text of that first tweet again, in the context of what is laid out above. “Building a great border wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense.” Combine that with “”Build wall through M!” and, it’s not unreasonable to think that Mr. Trump is at least considering the possibility of reallocating some portion of the beefed-up military budget to pay for building the wall along the southern border.
Doing that would of course create a media firestorm, but hell, what else is new? And such a decision would also inevitably lead to a raft of lawsuits filed by leftwing activist groups before carefully-selected Obama-appointed federal judges, and possibly even a lawsuit from congress challenging the action. But at the end of the day, such cases would have to go before the Supreme Court, where the President would most likely prevail, given the constitutional separation of powers.
As I’ve repeatedly pointed out, contrary to what the fake news media wants you to think, President Trump doesn’t just belch stuff out onto his twitter feed at random. His tweets almost always have a purpose. Often that purpose is to elicit a specific reaction from the fake news media. Sometimes the purpose is to send up a trial balloon to gauge how the public would respond if he took a specific action.
I think the latter is what Mr. Trump was doing with those two tweets.
Just another day in there really is good news out there if you look for it America. That is all.
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I think what happened is someone, probably Pence, pointed out to him the votes where their to override.
I wish he had vetoed it but he did not so now we need to live with what is, rather then what we wish.
Why would the president tweet about some old dried up pro-slut drenched in jizz?
You do know what she does for a living right? Porn isn't just a word.
Search "Stormy Daniels" on line and take a look at how she makes a living.
The design came from businesses invited to bid. Not all these businesses had the infrastructure to take on the job. My father had a small pipe wrapping company, he was invited to bid on the Alaskan pipeline. Company will be paid for design, Army Corp of Engineers will build it! It is going to be awesome! Think of the jobs!
He said he would consider “vetoing” it to make it clear that he was pissed at the treachery of Ryan and McConnell - he made that even clearer during the Presser when he threw down the gauntlet...hard to veto something that had a veto-proof majority so the most he could have done was not sign and let the government close down for 10 days which would have been leveraged by those who want him gone...only needed a handful of votes in the House to get to the super-majority and already had enough for a super-majority in the Senate....if he had vetoed, they would have shoved it down his throat.
She a ho!
Another strong signal that Omnibus bill money will be used for the wall, much to the chagrin of Amanda Carpenter and the Cruzettes.
Why?
Agreed. Time will tell. If anyone can make lemonade out of this lemon ....
ping
I think what happened is someone, probably Pence, pointed out to him the votes where their to override.
I wish he had vetoed it but he did not so now we need to live with what is, rather then what we wish.
If the override votes were there, why didn’t Trump veto, let the senate override, and then they would own the bill, and the criticism? This is all on Trump...30 Bil for schumers tunnel, but not 25 for the wall?
What’s most important at this point is his apparent willingness to change things up until he gets the right man or woman for the job. We saw that in his campaign, too.
Trump has a number of people who have worked for him for decades in the private sector.
back under the bridge with you
Patriots, please consider that Pres. Trump can probably do more with $1.6 billion than corrupt Congress can do with $10 billion.
I think President Trump played the dems, media and the GOPe with the budget. I think Trump was acting big time at the signing ceremony. He was right about the Military being the overwhelming priority. We need to buy spare parts just as fast as industry can make them. Invocation of the 1985 law so he can move money and not spend money allocated are huge. Some dem sacred cows may be butchered. Stay tuned.
Trump is smarter than you: he doesn't play the DNCMSM's games...
"The federal budgeting process is very complex and arcane [??? emphasis added], ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The joke is on us voters as usual. This is because the Founding States constitutionally required Congress to publish expenditures and receipts which it is not doing a good job of imo.
"Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time [emphasis added]."
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
The states need to amend the Constitution to require all branches of fed government, however many branches there are, to publish the constitutional clauses which justify every official action for that branch of the government.
And failing to do so should result in automatic impeachment and removal from from office.
In fact, Congress should be constitutionally required to list the constitutional clauses that justify a given bill at the top of first page of every bill, regardless if bill never gets passed.
Patriots now need to be working with their state lawmakers to support Pres. Trump to lead the states to make his vision for MAGA and all the things mentioned above as permanent as possible by repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
I could be wrong, but I think POTUS Trump and Sec. of Defense Mattis had a nice conversation before the Bill Signing.
He had Mattis say a few words about the Defense Budget and the threats we face.
It will be hilarious if tomorrow Morning Orders go out to the Army Corp of Engineers to start construction of a “defensive fortification” on the Southern Border.
I don’t think a Liberal Judge can overrule Military Orders.
We will see...
NDAs swing both ways so that isn't surprising, everything, however, is dependent on contract language.
That would be a hoot!
Not sure if he could do it, but the Republican House and Senate would probably impeach him if he did. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
Thanks, L.
I know you’ve talked about it before. Just didn’t know if new information made any sense.
I appreciate.
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