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hoolstoptheheels

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Ok, but don't complain when President Ocasio-Cortez declares states of


emergency to fund UBI for all Americans (citizens and residents, including undocumented) of 100k per year in today's dollars (I think she has to wait at least 7 years or so to run), national high speed rails, windmills the length if highway 66, and so on. And oh yeah she'll need some of the emergency dollars to tear down the wall that Trump is planning to build with his faux emergency dollars now.

This is ridiculous, and I wish it were unacceptable to everyone. I agreed that Nancy should have shown more flexibility during the shutdown, but she didn't, and politically, Trump was outmaneuvered. I also agree that the notion of a wall as part of the border solution was a very bipartisan idea at one time, but now it isn't, because Trump turned the "Wall" into a symbol to bring his seething masses to a boil. He turned it into a flashpoint for controversy in order to be elected, and that has consequences in terms of new inflexibility from the other side.

He can't deal with the consequences which has him copping out and doing an end run around the Constitution. Hopefully, that's how the courts will see this. And you should be hoping for the same thing, unless you're looking forward to President Ocasio Cortez one day exercising her dictatorial powers over the national purse strings.

(In response to this post by Hoodafan)

Posted: 02/14/2019 at 4:04PM



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