Month: February 2019

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Recent politics

We are seeing and living in the natural progression of 24/7 satellite news feeds and politicians who are trying to “move the needle” a little more in their direction.
Everything, absolutely everything is done for the optics and desire to be “trending” in order to influence the masses.

Very little actual substance exists in anything that you see in the first 8 minutes of broadcast. And the commentary portion of the feed has gone from Andy Rooney getting his 5 minutes to hour long shows of political talking points spouters arguing with other talking points spouters for ratings.

Rush used to be a blast to listen to. The parodies and commentary were difficult to hear without laughing. Now it’s the most depressing show on radio, the “others” who want to destroy our country and our wayoflife. 
Somewhere around Obama’s re-election Rush turned into a ranter rather than a parody barker.

Reagan defeated liberals by laughing at them, not ridiculing them. I would hate to have had CNN, Fox, and all the bombthrowing media multi millionaires shredding everything he did, said, looked like, thought about saying, expected to do, “may have thought about looking like he was about to think of doing” type of colonoscopy we have today.

It’s not about the country. It’s about ratings points, poll number shift direction, expected turnouts.
You can actually sit in a group with little dials in your lap to gauge how you feel about a speech while it is in progress according your demographic, age, political leaning, and party affiliations.

And this is touted by the experts as “research”

It does seem that the GOP will do things to benefit or further their own voters
While the Democrooks want to hurt the oppositions voters, taking their own for granted.

The Republicans will promise and ignore their demographic, national reciprocity and gun free zone for example, only to “throw them a bone” and assume their support.

The Ds will promise their demographic the destruction of their assumed enemies. And follow through on just enough to not get voted out by the majority. Gun control is a good example, even Obama knew better than to just give lip service to the issue.
Everytime they try it with an actual (not a safe vote) legislation, they pay for it. Clinton may have stayed after the AWB but a lot of Dems paid the price. The best they could do was a half hearted campaign to stop the sunset of it

We need a secure border. Number one on the hot list. Number one by a light year. I am fully in support of securing our border like a Tupperware bowl can only wish it could, a vacuum chamber of a border on every border, port, etc
The “wall” is a joke and a campaign slogan. Build walls, fences, barriers anywhere we can. But that isn’t much, we have to secure the border.
How to do it?

The DOJ consists of every federal law enforcement agency. US Mashals, ICE, Customs, Border Patrol, even TSA. The executive (President) is the leading law enforcement official in the country. These agencies are under his control and he can prioritize what he wants to focus on. Be that drugs, guns (as Obama did), riot control (the ‘60s), Clinton and Reno had studies about dealing with the militias (remember that)

Any President, by virtue of the office can close the border, mobilize LEO resources to the border, increase workforce, increase firepower, transfer responsibility, focus on what he deems important.
I have stated before, not just with Trump, the President could secure the border with a memo of they wanted to. It’s already part of his job, he doesn’t need any more funding for it. The DOJ is already funded very well thank you.

Understand how the legislative process works. Just because a bill was voted on, committee reformed, passed and signed doesn’t fund the bill. That has to go through the budget process. Remember Kerry voting for the war before voting against it, that was it. Voting for the war powers bill, but voting against the funding of it.

Congress can go back and fully fund the Reagan amnesty bill and secure the border, the law already exists. It was never funded (Tip O’Neil)
The legislation in 2006 for the border security was neverfunded. If it was funded right now, we would have all the funds needed. But congress defunded the border security measures in both of those laws. That’s how they backstabbed Reagan, and he never trusted their word again.
Ted Cruz brought this up in the primaries, but was drowned out by the MAGAMAGA chants.

Listen very carefully, and think about this……….under budget reconciliation, that we use as a matterof course now, the Republican controlled congress (House and Senate) could have done this with a simple majority for the last two sessions.

Why didn’t they? Why doesn’t Trump?
It’s not rocket science, its the will to actually do it rather that campaign on the issue.
If Trump had secured the border in the first six months of this administration, I would be among the first Trumpers to chant MAGAMAGA.
But he hasn’t, doesn’t want to, isn’t going to.

We have to stop being rubes. Government isn’t a pep rally, think past the brim on your MAGA hat.

Taken from conversation on a popular online forum