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Grasswire2's JournalGreenwald is pushing this very dangerous flip of Dem history.
I've begun to see this all 'round social media. That Dems are the war-loving party and Trump is the peacemaker.
Here comes Greenwald with an essay to that effect in The Intercept.
I find it extremely cynical propaganda and dangerous.
[link:https://theintercept.com/2019/01/11/as-democratic-elites-reunite-with-neocons-the-partys-voters-are-becoming-far-more-militaristic-and-pro-war-than-republicans/|
Fallacy in "Declare national emergency and then Congress can vote to open government" updated OP
Why do we assume that one follows the other?
THE KEY IS THIS: McConnell must bring the vote to the floor. There is no mention of that in this prediction.
Trump can declare national emergency, steal money for the wall, and still keep government shuttered.
This premise is a potential trick, is it not?
The extended shutdown is likely to bring chaos to the streets, and increasing trouble in our daily lives. Putin's dream. Chaos in America.
Change it to this: Declare national emergency and McConnell will bring the vote to the floor so government will open.
That ain't what Trump is saying.
a feature of the shutdown? Govt web sites rendered unaccessible.
Shutter government!! That has been the plan.
Here's part of the rollout.
[link:https://screenshots.firefox.com/TQfrvrx1RZQskk5p/twitter.com|
It is illegal to solicit campaign funds from the White House.
Think Al Gore. 1997. He made a few fundraising calls from the WH and was excoriated for it.
In his defense of his phone calls and insistence that they raised no legal issue, Mr. Gore referred today to a statute that makes it unlawful for ''any person to solicit or receive any contribution'' ''in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties,'' such as the offices in the White House.
The statute, Section 607 of Title 18 of the United States Code, has its roots in an 1876 law intended to discourage ''political assessments'': the collection from Government employees of part of their salary to support the incumbent party. The statute carries a maximum penalty of $5,000 and three years' imprisonment.
Unlike the Hatch Act, Section 607 makes no exceptions for any officials -- including the President or Vice President. And on its face, it is broadly worded, seeming to apply to any official who asks for a donation.
[link:https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/04/us/gore-says-he-did-nothing-illegal-in-soliciting-from-white-house.html|
NBC EXCLUSIVE: Wall steel barrier prototype sawed through. Jan 10 2019
[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/test-steel-prototype-border-wall-showed-it-could-be-sawed-n956856|
Jacob Soboroff reporting from the border.
the Nation: It's not a government shutdown; it's a right-wing coup
What we are really facing is a liberal government shutdown—which is to say programs designed to help the vulnerable and poor are gutted, while institutions designed to serve the rich and powerful remain unscathed.
If the last “shutdown” is any guide, the military, Trump’s luxurious vacations, soft power, our bombing of seven Muslim-majority countries, NSA bulk surveillance, agencies that prop up the oil and gas industry, the CIA’s arming and funding of Syrian rebels, and the FBI’s entrapment regime will remain entirely untouched. The parts of government that serve the poor and working class, however, will be first on the chopping block: libraries, tax collection, national parks, labor and safety regulators, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (which oversees the derivatives market), environmental regulators, financial regulators, welfare, and WIC will all be axed. Indeed, the one time the government got remotely close to undermining, even briefly, a pillar of the right-wing state, the powers that be arbitrarily decided to leave the Defense Department virtually untouched.
In principle, the criteria of what is and isn’t “essential” is determined by unelected agency and department heads using guidance issued by the Office of Management and Budget based on a Department of Justice opinion authored in 1980 by then–Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti. That determination, according to McClatchy, defines “essential” activities as those that “protect life and property”—a fundamentally reactionary (and curiously unexamined) criterion that elevates property over justice, feeding people, and protecting the vulnerable.
More at link
Here is the true national emergency: Nearly 40,000 gun deaths last year.
THIS is how Dems could neutralize his hyped fearmongering.
[link:https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/health/gun-deaths-highest-40-years-cdc/index.html|
Plenty of data exists that PROVES the deadly assault on American citizens by guns.
Every time he blabbers about the danger he envisions, show photos of victims.
Members of the commentariat need to stop giving DJT implicit permission for national emergency.
....by saying it appears to be his only route left.
Peter Baker NYT I'm looking at YOU.
John Heilemann I'm looking at YOU.
Among uncounted others today.
Did you see Rude Pundit's Tweet about Stephen Miller? (edited thread title)
[link:https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Stephen%20Miller%22&src=tren|
You don't have to be a twitter member to read.
27.4 thousand tweets last night on Miller.
Look below for Rude Pundit's tweet.
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