Posted on 02/12/2019 4:57:12 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Ok, the whole “black face” thing just very predictably veered off into the theater of the absurd. – Semi-tone deaf pop singer Katy Perry fell into the “black face” controversy on Monday for no good reason at all, because of course she did. Social media always takes any real issue like the one swirling around Virginia Democrats to the most ridiculous extremes possible.
Ms. Perry has attached her name to a line of shoes, and some, like those pictured above, have little eyes, nose and mouth glued onto them. Sort of like something your 6 year-old granddaughter might design (trust me, I know about this first hand). Anyway, because the shoes pictured above happen to be black in color, a bunch of nitwits on Twitter desperate to be offended accused the singer of being a racist yesterday.
Never mind the fact that the line of shoes come in a variety of different colors – it’s only the black ones that are somehow offensive. Ms. Perry has yet to apologize, something she should never even consider doing in a million years. Because the truth is this: Had her line of shoes included a variety of colors, but not black ones, she’d have then been accused by the very same nitwits of discrimination. You all know that is true.
The people who know “Beto” best would rather go see Trump. Take this as an object lesson. – When the White House announced last Thursday that President Donald Trump would travel to El Paso for a political rally on Monday, Irish Bob O’Rourke, an El Paso native, quickly announced he would hold a “counter-rally” of his own.
Hearts began to flutter throughout our fake news media – as they always do whenever the cute ex-sheep suit-wearing punk rocker opens his mouth – as the wags began to rampantly speculate that their precious “Beto” would surely draw more people to his rally than the President would. After all, El Paso was his home town! Why surely the people who know and love “Beto” best would turn out in mobs to hear his immaculate pronouncements!
Uh, well, no. That didn’t happen. Not even close. The fake news media did its best to cover it up, but the reality is that the President had an overflow crowd of 8,000 or so inside the arena in which he spoke, and another 20,000 or so standing out in the elements watching on large TV screens. Here’s a shot of a small part of that outdoor crowd:
Meanwhile, a few blocks down the road, only a couple of thousand showed up to listen to the city’s fake favorite son. It turns out that familiarity really does breed contempt.
But the reality won’t stop the fake news media from lying about it all anyway. The shameless fake newsers at The Week have a piece out this morning with this headline: “Trump Seemed Very Interested in Beto O’Rourke’s Evidently Larger Crowd During His El Paso Rally,” thus deceitfully implying that Irish Bob actually drew more people than Trump did, something not even the most biased fake reporters on the scene attempted to claim.
How false is that headline? Despite massively inflating O’Rourke’s actual turnout by a factor of seven or so, The Week’s own piece admits the Trump crowd was far larger:
Trump’s audience inside the coliseum was 6,500, at capacity, El Paso Fire Department public information officer Enrique Aguilar told the El Paso Times. “It might be 10,000 with the people outside,” watching on monitors. The rally O’Rourke spoke at, following a mile-long march, drew at least 7,000 people, The Texas Tribune reports.
Um, last time I looked, 10,000 is more than 7,000, even when those absurdly-faked numbers appear in a fake news publication like The Week.
Another bad deal on the border. – The very Swampy congressional negotiators announced a very, very, very bad “bi-partisan” deal on border security funding as President Trump was flying out to Texas on Monday. The “deal” includes just $1.375 for “border barrier” funding – because we mustn’t say “wall”, you know – far below the President’s $5.7 billion demand. It’s a lousy deal, negotiated by lousy Republican swamp rats and open-borders Democrats. The outcome was thus predictable.
If this smelly “deal” passes both houses of congress and is sent to his desk, the President has only three options that would preserve his electoral viability going into 2020:
- Reject the bill, which means another fake partial government shutdown; or
- Sign the bill and immediately announce either a national emergency declaration or, as White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney laid out on Sunday, that he will use his presidential authority to reallocate unused funds from the Defense, Homeland Security and other departmental budgets to fund the wall. Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Mulvaney said:
“Any president can do this…There are certain funds of money that he can get to without declaring a national emergency and other funds that he can only get to after declaring a national emergency. The whole pot is well north of $5.7 billion.”
That is the path the President should take. The Democrats are desperate to force another shutdown in order to change the subject from racist, baby-murdering, women-assaulting Virginia Democrats, disastrous Green New Deals and anti-Semite Minnesota congresswomen. So they’ll be all too thrilled to deny more paychecks to those same 800,000 federal workers and cry their crocodile tears over them.
The President should not give them that gift when he has them so clearly on the defensive.
What President Trump cannot do is sign this atrocity of a “deal” and do nothing else on border security. More than any other element of his 2016 campaign, his promise to secure our Southern border is why he was elected. He cannot leave that promise unaddressed any longer and expect to be re-elected in 2020.
The time to act is now.
That is all.
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Hold out for at least 2.5 and show what compromise is. What a worthless army he has.
Q: What’s to prevent Congress, after Trump inks a deal, from passing legislation that takes away access to the money he could use, and then overriding his veto.. ?
The cave caps and then cuts Ice beds every year !
That was reported last night .
Why post this misinformation ?
he can skip signing the bad deal and just go straight to building it on his own.
Why get your shorts in a knot when we know bugger all at the moment? The people talking don’t know, and the ones who do ain’t talking.
Patience, grasshopper.
At a minimum, I want $1B to show that Congress has funded significant money for the Wall. Take away their moral figleaf that the Wall is immoral. Make them pay $1B so that they are on record that this is legitimate use of money in their eyes.
And then use Army money and build a great big Wall exactly as the president wants.
Can Congress take away Trump’s access to that money, anyone know?
Fox and Friends is in full “TRUMP SHOULD SIGN THIS!” propaganda mode, including the brilliant intellection analysis of Brian Kilmeade (yes, I’m being sarcastic. That guy’s barely smart enough to be a jock).
Nothing if, with the collaborationist GOP, they have the votes to override his veto. Of course, at that point, it is time for a general uprising against a government that is the declared enemy of Americans and is colluding with invaders bent on the destruction of the US.
Sign it with the cap on the number of beds? No, he shouldn’t sign it with this poison pill in it. It is catch and release 2.0.
But can Congress take away the Army money?
It Cuts Ice beds every year .
Why sign this bad deal?
Beto had a 'couple of thousand'... small crowd, but the press did their best to make Beto's crowd look as large.
Trump needs to follow his gut on any 'deal'... democrats are known for cheating... taking the parts they like and NOT funding the parts they don't like. No one should trust democrats - they're crooks and liars to the bone.
If I assume anything anymore, it is that Congress will always try to act against the best interests of the nation. If they can harm us by screwing with Trump, they will.
FWIW, I think he needs to do a partial shutdown, wait thirty days, then start issuing pink slips till HE gets what WE need.
Bloomberg?! You believe everything you read in Bloomburg?!
ROTF!
NC, dude, trust but verify. :-)
They are paid Barking seals for the Globalist cabal in DC . They must know how awful this cave is . Full court press by the Globalists to destroy the country . The deal is worse than doing Nothing !
Shelby leans left and talks out of the right side of his mouth. What’s not to like?
Three human rocks on a sofa.
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