US Politics December 2018: ~very legal and very cool~

so glad they're working out Senate processes at the last minute lol

"process only" = there's no bill, no one's talked to the House GOP leadership, and Schumer didn't commit any votes for passage of non-existent bill?

the "fence" IS the wall,

not exactly, iirc the $1.6 billion was to repair existing fencing, not construct anything new

yeah they didn't say 1.6 billion for artisanal steel slats

xp ah, thanks, that is a genuine relief.

I can't figure out what the hell is going on and I don't think the legislators know either as you point out

are the tax returns stapled to the artisanal steel slats with the Camebert and elk foie gras

they are covered in ketchup from McD's packets

maybe they're just going to slap DACA reinstatement onto the House bill and see what votes that gets in the Senate.

whether that would pass the House once it's passed back seems like a bit of a gamble. If I was Pelosi I wouldn't take that deal, but really it would be up to the Freedom Caucus I suppose

yeah who knows what's happening

Kasie Hunt of MSNBC just acknowledge that Democrats have all the cards.

btw RBG voted from her hospital bed to fuck Trump over today

We're back to the original $1.6 billion offer.

lmao

hahaha

master negotiator!

Trump will just lie, say this was the plan all along, and btw lots of the wall is already built and now he has money to build more of it

and Rush Limbaugh will still be upset!

and ann coulter, who somehow seems to have been very influential in this debacle

the wall's a stealth wall, so you can't see it

wall is stealth wall

I've said all along that everyone should just tell Trump that the wall is built but only the very, very most highly intelligent people can see it

only the best people

Coulter said in a podcast interview on Tuesday with the Daily Caller that she would not vote for Trump in 2020 "if the wall wasn't built."

“Why would you [vote for him again]?” the provocative author asked. “To make sure, I don’t know, Ivanka [Trump] and Jared [Kushner] can make money? That seems to be the main point of the presidency at this point,” Coulter responded.

“They’re about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again,” she added. “Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but he’ll have no legacy whatsoever."

Coulter not entirely wrong tbh

no offense everyone but there are TONS of typos on this page, let me just correct them:

Are they going to put DACA on the table? Depending on the details that might possibly be worth a few billion for wall that will be abandoned as soon as Trump disappears.

― A is for (Aimless)

Schumer's an idiot but he literally doesn't have the votes to deliver to McConnell even if he wanted to. There are not 9 Dem Senators that will vote for wall, and there's no time to negotiate some kind of other totally new deal/bill that would ostensibly flip votes.

― Οὖτις

After a GOP lunch on Friday, Republicans said that in a private meeting with senators, Trump took a hard-line but did not give a specific number on what amount of wall might satisfy him.

"I don’t believe a strong sense came out of the meeting," said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.). “Mostly a nuclear option and shutdown is acceptable to him, would be the two takeaway points, I think. And wall matters and will be beautiful when built."

what song is that from ?

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, December 21, 2018 3:19 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Money for wall is setting that money on fire. Is the KLF filming?

― Yerac

Yeah. Unless DACA reinstatement is in the same bill as wall and Trump must sign them together, I wouldn't accept any promise Trump makes about his future actions. He lies.

― A is for (Aimless)

the "fence" IS wall, not sure why y'all are shrugging it off, gonna have hugely negative local impacts whether it's 1.6B or 5B.

― sleeve

Trump will just lie, say this was the plan all along, and btw lots of wall is already built and now he has money to build more of it

― Οὖτις

His legacy will be (I hate to say it) three SC justices that will remind us of him for the next 30 years.

I've said all along that everyone should just tell Trump that wall is built but only the very, very most highly intelligent people can see it

― Οὖτις

Tell him they used the most modern technology to put the wall underground.

wall

I see wall u did there

lol, sorry.

this year is the silliest, stupidest year

2019 promises to surpass it

Yeah, we're nowhere near rock bottom.

And right on cue, he just tweeted a picture of the proposed wall, which looks like Barron designed it 5 years ago.

including a closeup of the spikes on the top of it

wall is sharp

the better to impale moose and squirrel

no spikes, no credibility

wanna pee through wall tbh

the little patrol car 😂

wall is sharp WALL

Stop illegal urination!

wall, pictured below

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2013/05/16/1226644/764356-riverton-car-crash.jpg

http://www.walldrug.com/media/historic/wall-drug-1980s.jpg/thumb/1000/0/fill

every year can be stupider

every wall can be brickier

omg how did they get the drugs in wall, wall was supposed to keep drugs out

https://www.metro.us/sites/default/files/main/articles/2015/01/05/time-bandits-4_2.png

http://www.retroland.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Breakout.jpg

lmao this is not a joke account

A design of our Steel Slat Barrier which is totally effective while at the same time beautiful! pic.twitter.com/sGltXh0cu9

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018

House conservatives are not for the .6 bn deal that Pence, Mulvaney and Kushner were pitching. Government shuts down in six hours and forty minutes.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 21, 2018

Probably not a good sign … SPOTTED: @RepCurbelo on a flight to Miami tonight.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) December 21, 2018

McCarthy says he'll give House members "ample" warning before there is a vote on funding the government.

Right now, the House will have another series to vote on flood insurance, and then members will leave.

Guys, face it, they're shutting it down.

— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) December 21, 2018

made a derp wall pic

https://i.imgur.com/gJY9hKj.jpg

I'd approve a giant spiked wall to keep out even bigger dinosaurs, but *only* to keep out dinosaurs.

Maybe Trump thinks there are dinosaurs? Didn't I see him express surprise that there were coyotes coming over the border, with the implication he thought they were actual coyotes?

“A nation without borders is not a nation at all,” Trump said. “Without borders, we have the reign of chaos, crime, and — believe it or not — coyotes.”

That's a real quote. From Thursday, which was a year ago, iirc.

don't blame me I voted for coyote