Border wall speech: Trump is losing the macho game of staring himself down in the mirror

[nitpicker]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/09/border-wall-speech-trump-is-losing-the-macho-game-of-staring-himself-down-in-the-mirror

Border wall speech: Trump is losing the macho game of staring himself down in the mirror

Richard Wolffe

Wed 9 Jan 2019 05.08 GMT Last modified on Wed 9 Jan 2019 06.30 GMT

The Oval Office is an iconic space in American political life. Televised addresses from the seat of presidential power have marked historic moments of national anxiety: JFK and the Cuban missile crisis, Ronald Reagan and the Challenger disaster, George H. W. Bush and the start of the Gulf War. To that august list we can now add Donald Trump and the most pressing crisis facing this commander-in-chief: the disastrous damage already inflicted on his own ego by his dopey idea of a beautiful border wall. This is a very real crisis inside one man’s cranium and it’s playing out in the living rooms of a weary nation. That crisis is called reality.
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At this point, it’s hard to know which one of his many delusions are winning the day. When Trump’s lapdog Republicans controlled all of Washington, he couldn’t get Congress to pay for his wall. Now the Democrats control half of Congress, he thinks he can force Congress to pay for his wall. His forcing mechanism is to shut down his own government, claim credit for the shutdown, and then blame everyone else.

Now he looks like a fool both before and after he loses this macho game of staring himself down in the mirror. A genius move nobody has ever dared consider. Until now. These desperate times call for desperate measures. If reality won’t bend to Trump, then Trump will have to bend reality.
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In one way, Trump is right. There is a national emergency threatening the peace and prosperity of its citizens. Americans desperately need a drastic intervention to wall off unprecedented and unwanted dangers to our law and order. But the solution is less of a construction than a prosecution.

There are concrete and steel-slatted structures that can deal with the nefarious actors who are undermining America’s national identity in such profound ways. They may be a fifth century solution to containing threats to the public order, but they do succeed, no matter what the Democrats say. They’re called prison cells and you can find several of Trump’s one-time closest aides inside them now or soon.

It is beyond time to recognize that foreigners have infiltrated this country’s borders, as malicious governments send us their very worst people. Unfortunately they are not crossing the southern border but rather taking flying caravans as they travel from Russia to meet with Trump’s aides in various foreign capitals. Some have even tried to melt into the heartland as card-carrying members of the National Rifle Association. If we ever needed a space force, it’s now. Failing that, the president could trust his own CIA and FBI again.
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[underpants]

1. That crisis is called reality.

[terip64]

2. Kick n/t

[duforsure]

3. He reducing any doubt

He's stupid, and a serial liar , and career corrupt criminal who'll hurt anyone to get his way, even abusing what powers he already has, and he's taking hostage other republicans down to hell with him now. The 2020 election will once again show them how badly they've done allowing trump to do this to the American people. This will have consequences in 2020 for trump and the republicans. trump will not run knowing this, and all he's doing now is trying to get donors to use the funds for legal bills for himself, and not really running, and just a scam to get money with from them. He's a crook. They didn't learn anything from the Mid Terms results.

[Scarsdale]

4. tRump's friends, the Russians

are much more dangerous to this country than any immigrant at the border seeking asylum. The immigrants are seeking a better life. The Russians are trying to destroy the lives we have now. The gop took lots of Russian money, now they are trying to keep that information quiet.

[KPN]

5. Thank you Guardian. Too bad the M$M doesn't have

the morality and allegiance to our Constitution and democracy to proclaim the same. Instead, they ignore the real crisis in fealty to the Trump Party.