Posted on 01/08/2019 5:28:26 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
Time to get that wall built. – President Donald Trump will deliver a nationally-televised address on the border situation this evening at 8:00 p.m. Central Time, at which time it is rumored that the Evil Orange Man plans to declare a national emergency and order the border wall to be financed via the military budget. This would be an entirely reasonable move for the President to make in the face of an obstructionist congress, one he clearly has the constitutional authority to enter into, one that has all sorts of precedent in American history.
But of course, the national broadcast networks and 24 hour fake news channels – all of whom have agreed to carry the speech live after spending most of Monday afternoon contemplating censoring the President – will be filled with shrill leftist talking heads and hosts who will contend the move is illegal and completely without precedent. They are all professional liars, and liars gonna lie.
No doubt, were the President to declare such an emergency, the way it would all play out is highly predictable. Leftists would file suit in California or Hawaii, where some Obama-appointed “judge” would make up a reason to declare the state of emergency unconstitutional, and that judgment would be upheld by the nitwit majority on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The case would then inevitably go to the Supreme Court, where the four reliable constitutionalist justices would vote to reverse the 9th Circuit’s decision, and our nation would then be left at the mercy of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Roberts would have the choice of doing the right thing under the law, or carrying the water for the Deep State, as he did in his Obamacare decision in 2010, and a couple of other key decisions in 2018. Not a good situation.
But factually, there is no doubt there is ample reason to declare the border situation a national emergency. The levels of drug trafficking, child trafficking and other forms of human trafficking that take place every day across our southern border are scandalous and society-threatening. Hundreds of Americans die every day and hundreds more disappear every day because of the Democrat Party-enforced neglect of the situation. It is a human tragedy of unimaginable proportions and it is scandalous that the Democrats continue to treat the situation as just another political football to be rolled into their Evil Orange Man agenda.
Democrats demanded the networks give them time to respond to the President’s address tonight. No word if their message will be delivered by representatives from the Sinaloa Cartel and the MS-13 gang, but it seems likely and would be totally appropriate.
In a seemingly unrelated event… – Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was unable to show up to hear oral arguments in the Supreme Court chamber on Monday, the first time she has missed a day on the bench in her 25 years on the Court. Ginsburg, 85, is in extremely frail health and recovering from last month’s surgery to remove two cancerous tumors from her lung.
But hey, because she’s a certified member of the Deep State, she’ll be able to just keep voting on the cases during her absence, which she will supposedly judge from reading transcripts of the oral arguments. In other words, her clerks will be doing the judging, which they’ve no doubt been doing for quite some time now anyway, as Ginsburg continues her grim quest to outlive the Evil Orange Man’s first term in office.
Aw, heck. – Alleged serial sex-abuser Kevin Spacey had his first court hearing in the initial prosecution against him on Monday, and had another run-in with the law as he tried to return home. Upon leaving Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC on his drive back to his Baltimore condo, Spacey was pulled over by local cops for …wait for it…A SPEEDING TICKET! I swear I do not make this stuff up.
Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw has got game. – You may remember Georgia Democrat Congressman Hank Johnson. He’s the clown who, in a congressional hearing several years back, expressed his genuine concern that, due to its booming population, the island of Guam might actually capsize into the Pacific Ocean. Think I made that up? Think again.
Anyway, in a speech over the weekend, the nitwit Johnson had this to say about President Trump and his supporters:
“Much like Hitler took over the Nazi party, Trump has taken over the Republican Party. It’s now known as the Trump Republican Party…Donald Trump’s supporters are older, less educated, less prosperous, and they are dying early. Their lifespans are decreasing, and many are dying from alcoholism, drug overdoses, liver disease, or simply a broken heart caused by economic despair,”
Freshman Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw, after learning of Johnson’s remarks, decided not to take them quietly. He tweeted out a video in which he took Johnson to task for his incivility. Here are a couple of outtakes:
“OK Mr. Johnson, President Trump is a lot of things, but he’s not Hitler. He didn’t kill millions of people. He didn’t start a world war, he doesn’t have any concentration camps, and to accuse him of being Hitler is intellectually dishonest, and frankly a huge insult to the millions of Jews who died under Nazi Germany.”
But it gets better. Crenshaw also took Johnson to task for his idiotic, dishonest portrayal of Trump supporters:
“You went on to insult, degrade, and demean tens of millions of Americans who voted for him, to call them drug-addicted, uneducated, unhappy alcoholics — this is a cowardly form of politics.”
Crenshaw went on to challenge Johnson to “pick on someone your own size,” reminding him that “my office will be right down the hall from yours.”
Fantastic.
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These are inherent powers of the president not under judicial review any mote than a drone strike in Yemen.
A mote would be good too.
Leftists judges think the Constitution is a “living document” written by “dead white male slaveholders”—translation—the leftist judges are all powerful social justice warriors and no piece of paper will prevent them from making up stuff at their whim.
Speaking logically to these folks is like debating a hungry wolf—good luck... :-(
This is about the future of the country and, frankly, whether we live or die. It has become too important to be left to a politicized and compromised judiciary and Roberts is an example of who should not decide our lives.
Augusto Pinochet is what we need.
When did control of the US military get transferred to the Supreme Court?
just ignore the supreme court. How many soldiers do they have to enforce?....move on and just build the freaking wall.
Roberts is being blackmailed over the illegal adoption of his two children. They were born in Ireland and by Irish law only Irish citizens can adopt Irish born children. The children were spirited out of Ireland to an undisclosed “South American” country and then to America as Roberts’ children. The New York Times posted this story when Roberts was up for confirmation and did a BIG U TURN when they realized that it would be a good thing to have a judge that could be blackmailed as the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Roberts clearly got “the call” before voting wrong on gay marriage and Obamacare twice. The second time a stunned Justice Scalia said, Forty five minutes ago this guy said he was voting the right way!” when he saw and heard the second vote.
Roberts was probably blackmailed in the sanctuary case last week which if allowed to be followed would mean EVERY PERSON WHO SOMEHOW IS ABLE TO ENTER AMERICA LEGALLY OR ILLEGALLY MUST BE ALLOWED TO STAY. This is a very dangerous time for America.
Great post—blackmail is the coin of the realm in the swamp.
Autocratic government is our future. We were too stupid as a nation to elect competent legislators, so we’re left with an autocrat in the executive branch.
You claim you like it now.
What “state of emergency” will the next Democratic president declare, and what rights will he seize? This is a very dangerous precedent Trump is setting.
Texas Patriot
Luck has nothing to do with it. People have been a match for the wolves of the world since we developed weapons - a God-given and constitutionally-protected individual right. I hope America's enemies will, for once, make prudent choices.
People should try to post this all over Facebook, Twitter, every comment section etc. to try to get it out there to the American public and force the media to pay attention and for Roberts to refute it if it is not true. Maybe Trump could tweet a suggestive tweet about it.
Dear John, remember according go Nancy Pelosi infanticide is moral. The wall is not.
RBG will be room temperature by then so Roberts can go F himself
Roberts probably secretly agrees with RBG...?
I’d rather have a moat.
Ducks!
8^)
Please stop spreading fake news.
They should take due care and settle for the State of Emergency. The next step will be Martial Law and that will put every leftist in this country in extreme peril. Declaring certain States to be in insurrection will not end well for any of these seditious scumbags. Martial Law, just do it!
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