US Politics January 2019: we are #ready to drop something much, much bigger

Trump is now talking about "the military version of eminent domain" to build the wall

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 4, 2019

Aw.

Asked if he'd ask landlords to go easy on federal workers not getting paid right now, Trump says, "I think they will...I think that happens. Hey, I've been a landlord for a long time...they work with people." Pressed, he eventually says he would indeed tell them to go easy.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019

Please please please when the time comes can we indulge his nigh-erotic obsession with walls and give him the 'Black Cat'-ing he so clearly desires?

It's about time the United States invaded Texas and seized their land

Jade Helm redux

but this time a (slight?) majority of texans would be all "invade me, Daddy"

Trump's executive order to tell Landlords that they are required to maybe consider possibly being lenient on rent payments from federal employees, y'know, if they can.

giving Texas back to Mexico would probably solve a lot of this nation's problems tbh

Landlords are ime total bros who absolutely have the best interests of their tenants at heart. Caring about people is why they got into the game. Why just look at our president.

Trump's executive order to tell Landlords that they are required to maybe consider possibly being lenient on rent payments from federal employees, y'know, if they can.

― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, January 4, 2019 3:12 PM (three minutes ago)

the fuck? this is the stupidest shit ever . god i hate this fucking idiot

Landlords are ime total bros who absolutely have the best interests of their tenants at heart. Caring about people is why they got into the game. Why just look at our president.

i know some landlords that treat the tenants fucking great but they have fucking mortgages to pay too .

sorry for the overuse of the f words . this is just too much for me today. im out

xpost Oh, I know there are some good ones but again ime they've been massive shitwipes almost to a number.

He didn't really issue that E.O.

I feel like there was once a major #SCOTUS case in which the President seized property within the United States during what he claimed was a national emergency even though Congress hadn't authorized him to do so.

(It didn't end well for the President.)https://t.co/esGUHGCf1l https://t.co/Ei40QeKMGr

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) January 4, 2019

the fuck? this is the stupidest shit ever . god i hate this fucking idiot

― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, January 4, 2019 2:18 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

evergreen post

"Usually it's a left, not a right." Here's the full Trump quote on the driving routes of human traffickers. pic.twitter.com/4VM5DjrSZi

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 4, 2019

And BTW

BIG MUELLER NEWS: The federal grand jury in DC that Mueller has been using was just extended for another six months, per my colleague @kpolantz. The original 18-month term was set to expire but the chief judge of the DC District Court has extended the grand jury's mandate.

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) January 4, 2019

NYC is the home of landlords working with people

or in Jared's case, with rat infestations

can't wait for Trump's lifelong crime syndicate to be fully revealed on the exact day he leaves office

Will the democrats give him the wall?

It seems like he kind of has them in a bind as he is willing to destroy the country to satisfy his ego if need be and they’re not.

or in Jared's case, with rat infestations

also known as "Jared infestations"

It seems like he kind of has them in a bind as he is willing to destroy the country to satisfy his ego if need be and they’re not.

if enough GOP people in the Senate (like Cory Gardner) start to feel the heat/see the writing on the wall re: politically surviving a total financial meltdown while the IRS collapses and people don't get their tax refunds then they won't need Trump.

an unlikely scenario but who knows where this is going

It seems like he kind of has them in a bind as he is willing to destroy the country to satisfy his ego if need be and they’re not.

there's also the argument that giving into trump would also set a bad precedent. if he succeeds by taking a hostage, he'll do it again. (he probably will do it again, regardless, but he'll definitely do it again if it works even once)

xp

I don't see this nat'l emergency/military eminent domain thing flying, legally speaking. Congress and the SC are going to jealously guard their political power and perogatives on points like that.

Maybe he will declare he's going to do that, let the issue get kicked to the courts, and reopen the govt in the meantime.

Pelosi should tell him to do that actually, that'd be funny

we're at partial shutdown now, with most of the federal workforce still at work. when does it become full shutdown?

Yea he has no intention of doing it. It's like the "considering firing Powell" shit.

Xpost

isn't everything else already funded through December?

Congress and the SC are going to jealously guard their political power and perogatives on points like that.

Congress has practically ceded its exclusive war-making powers to the executive already, and that was before it became enthralled to our current ogre.

yeah this is different

One party always blinks

In this case the GOP will shit

this plus no IRS refunds are going to be the breaking point if it gets to february

First on CNN: Hundreds of TSA screeners, working without pay, calling out sick at major airports, @Rene_MarshCNN and @gregorywallace report: https://t.co/XT3Z4av8OC

— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) January 4, 2019

TSA should absolutely stay home

They’re not good for anything anyway

if this goes on for a whole lot longer, tsa agents are going to stop showing up to work without being paid. (sounds like food stamps would be seriously curtailed after the end of january, but nobody cares about those people.) shit will really start grinding to a halt, not just having tons of trash in yosemite. the real magaheads won't care, but i think trump will be hard-pressed to blame democrats for the shutdown when both houses of congress, which had gop majorities at the time, passed a spending bill that he then vetoed

will this wall let Americans flee to Mexico in case Yellowstone erupts/Canada invades/... ?

xp - It wasn't a true veto, in the sense that it never got as far as final passage by Congress. Now the Senate Republicans will be careful not to pass anything he won't sign off on ahead, to save him the political cost of using an actual veto. Those senators are being held hostage, too, except they all have Stockholm Syndrome and won't escape even with an open door in front of them.

But of course

A senior admin official tells me lawyers from Pentagon, DHS and White House are "working out the details" over how the president could declare a national emergency to use DOD to build his wall, bypassing Congress.

— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) January 4, 2019

Meaning they were all caught off guard as well.

so not gonna happen

guess who controls the military budget (it is not the DOD)

A follow up (that was posted a couple of hours back)

An Obama admin official says Congressional committees would still need to approve DOD resources being reallocated to border. Not something that can be easily waived with the magic words "national emergency"

— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) January 4, 2019

just add it to the 9/11 national emergency that remains ongoing

caek and shakey, i think other depts are funded through 9/30/19

Clowns.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/millions-face-delayed-tax-refunds-cuts-to-food-aid-as-white-house-scrambles-to-deal-with-shutdown/2019/01/04/b5b58616-0fa3-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html?utm_term=.f20d5ad47042

Food stamps for 38 million low-income Americans face severe reductions and more than $140 billion in tax refunds are at risk of being frozen or delayed if the government shutdown stretches into February, widespread disruptions that threaten to hurt the economy.

The Trump administration, which had not anticipated a long-term shutdown, recognized only this week the breadth of the potential impact, several senior administration officials said. The officials said they’re focused now on understanding the scope of the consequences and determining whether there is anything they can do to intervene.

it's almost as if someone with no experience in government has no idea how the government actually works

Safe to assume he also has no concept of how it feels to normal people to must things like food stamps and tax refunds.