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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAwesome - Trump Declaring Emergency For Political Reasons - Can't Wait Till We Retake White House
Democrats will get to call some REAL EMERGENCIES.
Sorry Foxworld inhabitants.
fleur-de-lisa
(14,704 posts)Afromania
(2,809 posts)cstanleytech
(28,577 posts)rownesheck
(2,343 posts)next dem president can call national emergency and expand supreme court to 16 seats and fill the seats with leftist 30 year olds.
maxrandb
(17,491 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)jmowreader
(53,351 posts)cstanleytech
(28,577 posts)Brawndo
(535 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)This is how we ram through the green new deal, health care for all, 15 dollar minimum wage, sensible gun laws etc!
Oh and this is how we get back the SCOTUS seat that was stolen from Obama as well!!
Thanks GOP and tRump for opening that unshutable door!!!!
ooky
(11,015 posts)as soon as we take thee White House and immediately put them on an affordable plan like Medicare. Even if they are "under 50". It should be a "day 1" promise.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)National Income Inequality Emergency!
National Firearm Violence Emergency!
Motherfuckers wanna go extra-Constitutional, lets ride!
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)Free abortions for everyone, funded by a tax on Chick Fill A sandwiches.
SCantiGOP
(14,749 posts)That is not how democracy functions.
The primary function of Congress as specified in the Constitution is to pass laws and appropriate money. Trump is simply bypassing Congress since he doesn't agree with their law or appropriation. He will fail, and future attempts to subvert this critical check and balance should also fail.
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)Chief resigned yesterday. We need to get a meme going that's it's time to implement the 25th. Riff off the publicity of McCabe's book to do it. They must be awful close to indicting Jr. If he's getting this desperate. Today's been one of the more intense news cycles in recent memory.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)world wide wally
(21,836 posts)We have a 3 year old throwing a tantrump in aisle 45.
Repeat: EMERGENCY!
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)Even if we ARE due a pendulum swing back to full control, one day unfortunately it will yet again swing to them.
I don't know if vigorous use of this is a good idea or not.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)however, I believe Trump today gave us the keys to WhiteHouse, and majority in the Senate in 2020...... by then u can look far and wide and not find nare Republican to be had,,,!!!!!