Sat May 5, 2018, 08:19 PM
babylonsister (166,945 posts)
Trump floats 'closing up the country for a while' over border security
Unhinged.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/politics/donald-trump-border-wall-close-country-remark/index.html Trump floats 'closing up the country for a while' over border security By Elizabeth Landers, CNN Updated 6:44 PM ET, Sat May 5, 2018 (CNN)President Donald Trump seemed to float a new idea about border control during at a tax reform roundtable in Ohio. The President was in the midst of criticizing Democrats during a riff about border security when he slipped in the idea that people might "have to think about closing up the country." "They don't want the wall, but we're going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while," Trump said. "We're going to get the wall. We have no choice. We have absolutely no choice. And we're going to get tremendous security in our country."
Trump then mentioned the notion a second time, saying, "And we may have to close up our country to get this straight, because we either have a country or we don't. And you can't allow people to pour into our country the way they're doing." It was not immediately clear what Trump meant by the remarks. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment. Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington said Saturday in an interview with CNN's Ana Cabrera that Trump "is absolutely out of his mind to think that is any kind of a reasonable solution for our economy or compassionate or in line with our values." more...
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babylonsister | May 2018 | OP |
Cha | May 2018 | #1 | |
babylonsister | May 2018 | #2 | |
PoindexterOglethorpe | May 2018 | #3 | |
Girard442 | May 2018 | #4 | |
Initech | May 2018 | #23 | |
rickford66 | May 2018 | #5 | |
Kirk Lover | May 2018 | #6 | |
Docreed2003 | May 2018 | #7 | |
Freethinker65 | May 2018 | #8 | |
Wellstone ruled | May 2018 | #9 | |
nature-lover | May 2018 | #10 | |
jmowreader | May 2018 | #14 | |
nature-lover | May 2018 | #17 | |
jmowreader | May 2018 | #22 | |
dweller | May 2018 | #11 | |
Hekate | May 2018 | #12 | |
eShirl | May 2018 | #13 | |
jmowreader | May 2018 | #15 | |
smirkymonkey | May 2018 | #16 | |
JustABozoOnThisBus | May 2018 | #18 | |
Hortensis | May 2018 | #19 | |
treestar | May 2018 | #20 | |
Mc Mike | May 2018 | #21 | |
Initech | May 2018 | #24 |
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 08:22 PM
Cha (269,199 posts)
1. Right Now.. This is what is best for America
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 08:26 PM
PoindexterOglethorpe (18,219 posts)
3. How exactly would you go about closing up the country?
Response to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #3)
Sat May 5, 2018, 08:33 PM
Girard442 (4,956 posts)
4. You start by pounding corks into the asses of Trump and Pence.
It's no less nonsensical than anything else you might try -- and won't hurt anyone undeserving.
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Response to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #3)
Sun May 6, 2018, 12:21 PM
Initech (86,571 posts)
23. Put a dome over us like they did with Wakanda?
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 08:34 PM
rickford66 (4,384 posts)
5. How is this punishing Mexico ?
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 08:36 PM
Kirk Lover (3,608 posts)
6. What a GREAT IDEA !! And right before the midterms. Splendid. nt
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 08:53 PM
Docreed2003 (12,561 posts)
7. Ugh...the mere idea of a wall is fucking horseshit
There is no dire need for a wall, you shitbag. None, zero, ziltch!!!
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 08:53 PM
Freethinker65 (7,262 posts)
8. Closing borders, military parades of weaponry, clamping down on media,
paying to dig up dirt on the opposition party, inciting division among the nation's citizens, ...
So much winning. MAGA |
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 09:20 PM
Wellstone ruled (34,661 posts)
9. Frank Luntz has said,
the Border is one of his Focus Groups favorite wedge issues. That and Abortion. So these will be the GOP talking points for the Mid Terms,count on it.
This is the DU member formerly known as Wellstone ruled.
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sat May 5, 2018, 09:45 PM
nature-lover (1,051 posts)
10. He just can't let it go. Any ideas on how to get this stupid wall idea out of his head?
Is there anything way to "negotiate" him out of this and on to something else that might actually help this country?
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Response to nature-lover (Reply #10)
Sun May 6, 2018, 03:06 AM
jmowreader (44,581 posts)
14. There's only one thing I can think of
Add the following language to any wall bill:
"Public Law 115-97 is repealed in its entirety upon enactment of this legislation." P.L. 115-97 is the Trump Tax Cut bill. "No public or private funds may be used to conduct any Department of Defense parade outside a military base in the National Capitol Region." "Any lease on the GSA property located at 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, is terminated upon enactment of this legislation. The current tenant of this property will have 60 days from the enactment of this legislation to vacate the premises. A full audit of the current tenant's business activities will be conducted." "The president shall pay all travel and security expenses related to non-working vacation time spent outside the National Capitol Region. 'Working vacations' shall require the president to spend at least 51 percent of the time between 7 am and 7 pm occupied in business essential to the nation." "The president shall retain all social media postings made during his or her term of service as official records. They shall be printed with a laser printer in black toner on paper of quality equal to or greater than National Stock Number 7530-01-364-9488*, one posting per sheet, bound into three-ring binders in chronological order, and shall be presented to the National Archivist for secure storage by the last business day of the month in which the posting was made." * NSN 7530-01-364-9488 is just 20-pound white bond paper. |
Response to jmowreader (Reply #14)
Sun May 6, 2018, 10:02 AM
nature-lover (1,051 posts)
17. Love it!
Also, what we have assumed to be proper "presidential behavior" now has to be law. We never expected the violations of white house standard operation procedure. It can't happen again.
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Response to nature-lover (Reply #17)
Sun May 6, 2018, 12:16 PM
jmowreader (44,581 posts)
22. I forgot one
“No member of the President’s family except his or current spouse may represent or work for the United States in any capacity.”
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 01:37 AM
dweller (18,190 posts)
11. I'm all for it
just wait til the Tangeranus is abroad ...
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 01:48 AM
Hekate (67,124 posts)
12. That is truly chilling
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 02:45 AM
eShirl (17,160 posts)
13. Trump wants "tremendous security in our country."
he's been talking to Bannon again, btw
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 03:08 AM
jmowreader (44,581 posts)
15. The quickest way to have "tremendous security in our country"...
...is to throw Vladimir Putin's agent in the most secure dungeon we have, and leave him there.
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 05:19 AM
smirkymonkey (58,503 posts)
16. Give it up asshole and resign already.
Nobody wants their tax dollars to go toward your stupid, ridiculous, ineffective wall.
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 10:04 AM
JustABozoOnThisBus (20,738 posts)
18. When does the government shutdown start?
Assuming he gets his wish ...
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 10:16 AM
Hortensis (43,991 posts)
19. Great. Can we get him to double down on
"closing up the country" before November 6?
![]() Btw, if you can still afford crab now, maybe indulge. Maryland's seafood industry lost 40% of its workforce from the visa lottery, including many dependable regulars who've been coming to work here seasonally for decades. Prom's over, school's out. Let's see how many new grads think filling in the empty places on the lines is an appropriate future for them. We know Trump and many of the conservative extremists in congress do. For them, need for unskilled labor means no need for higher education |
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 10:17 AM
treestar (78,332 posts)
20. What does that mean?
What country has ever been "closed up?" Even North Korean has visitors.
Our country has always had people coming to it. It wouldn't be our country otherwise. |
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 12:04 PM
Mc Mike (8,964 posts)
21. So that's MAGA.
He made all those casinos in Atlantic City great again, then.
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Response to babylonsister (Original post)
Sun May 6, 2018, 12:22 PM
Initech (86,571 posts)
24. Shut the fuck up Donny!!!
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