The Trump Presidency 13: The (James) Baker's Dozen

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Drug trafficking at our southern border has exploded.
CBP seized nearly 5X as much methamphetamine in 2018 than it did in 2012.
The crisis at the border is impacting nearly every community in America.
Democrats need to work with @realDonaldTrump.

Ronna McDaniel and Trump need to work with Democrats and stop all this campaign nonsense. Stop the fearmongering, stop skewing everything to try and gain political advantage. This happened last Saturday:
Customs and Border Protection agents intercepted nearly $13 million worth of methamphetamine inside a truck carrying frozen strawberries that crossed into the U.S. from Mexico. The agency on Tuesday said officers working at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge cargo facility in Texas used imaging equipment and dogs to inspect the truck on Feb. 16. Link
 
Ronna McDaniel and Trump need to work with Democrats and stop all this campaign nonsense. Stop the fearmongering, stop skewing everything to try and gain political advantage. This happened last Saturday:

Yeah that's the question isn't it? Where is all this meth coming in and what will actually interrupt the supply? Not to mention that maybe the US should look at why demand for meth is so high.
 
In case you haven't noticed this thread has a number of simultaneous parallel discussions going. It was not at all obvious to me who you were talking about because I WASN'T FOLLOWING THAT DISCUSSION.

The quote feature allows users to follow back individual discussion trains within a thread, please use it - it won't hurt you, it doesn't disadvantage you in any way, it only takes one click of the mouse (which you have to make anyway when you click reply) it makes discussions much easier to follow.

Thank you for your input; I appreciate your concerns.
 
The news report below is from a border state, Arizona. It demonstrates the callous deceit practiced by Ronna McDaniel and Donald Trump.
TUCSON — Border agents and officers confiscated less drugs overall at the U.S.-Mexico border last year, but seizures of hard drugs like heroin and methamphetamine spiked to the highest levels in years...Despite the increased workload on customs officers, the Office of Field Operations, which staffs the ports of entry, has not received additional resources from the federal government. For the past few years, the number of trucks with Mexican produce crossing through Nogales, Arizona, has been on the rise. But U.S. Customs and Border Protection is under a severe shortage of officers and inspectors along the border.

Meanwhile, in his 2019 budget request, President Donald Trump asked for $211 million to fund the hiring of 750 additional Border Patrol agents. His proposal makes no additional requests for customs officers or improvements to the ports of entry. Link

As the chart below demonstrates, seizures of cocaine are up, but upwards of 90% of the seizures are by Customs officers at Ports of Entry (in blue), not Border Patrol agents along the border (in red). This is why Democrats -- and even Homeland Security -- have argued that stepped up enforcement along with improved technology needs to be done at Ports of Entry, rather than spending vast sums of taxpayer money building a wall along the border. Republicans like McDaniel and Trump need to halt the phony waterworks about Democrats don't care about crime, they don't care about lives, they don't care about American families. They need to stop this garbage and begin to act like responsible adults.

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HOLD THE DATE! We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It will be called “A Salute To America” and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!

Great, let's make the National Mall even more of a nightmare on the 4th. Why would he even want to address a crowd in a public space in DC? This is the bluest place in the country. The District's Republican party is one guy sitting alone in a bar drinking shots of Jack on election night.
 
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Very productive talks yesterday with China on Trade. Will continue today! I will be leaving for Hanoi, Vietnam, early tomorrow for a Summit with Kim Jong Un of North Korea, where we both expect a continuation of the progress made at first Summit in Singapore. Denuclearization?

President Xi of China has been very helpful in his support of my meeting with Kim Jong Un. The last thing China wants are large scale nuclear weapons right next door. Sanctions placed on the border by China and Russia have been very helpful. Great relationship with Chairman Kim!

Chairman Kim realizes, perhaps better than anyone else, that without nuclear weapons, his country could fast become one of the great economic powers anywhere in the World. Because of its location and people (and him), it has more potential for rapid growth than any other nation!
 
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Poll: Suburban women are coming back into the Republican Party in droves “because of the Wall and Border Security. 70% support Border Security and the Wall.” Not believing the Walls are immoral line. Beverly Hallberg, Independent Women’s Forum @KatiePavlich A great USA issue!

93% Approval Rating in the Republican Party. 52% Approval Rating overall! Not bad considering I get the most unfair (BAD) press in the history of presidential politics! And don’t forget the Witch Hunt!
 
There have been problems with Trumpspeak. And us liberals.

I now get ”drain the swamp.” Like racism, definitions have been redefined. Trump wanted to drain the cabinet of people who want to regulate or control by other means. His regulators unregulate, his department heads unfund. School lunches? Cut then. Birth control? Cut that funding.
 
I don’t know if this has been posted already, but it’s great:

https://youtu.be/yaWa61AyT3g

Clearly, Trump has no idea what a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) between two countries is.

1) I like the somewhat condescending way our trade representative explains it, and then latches onto a simple way to get around Trump’s ignorance on the matter.

2) Watch the faces of the Chinese representatives as this transpires!
 
I don’t know if this has been posted already, but it’s great:

https://youtu.be/yaWa61AyT3g

Clearly, Trump has no idea what a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) between two countries is.

1) I like the somewhat condescending way our trade representative explains it, and then latches onto a simple way to get around Trump’s ignorance on the matter.

2) Watch the faces of the Chinese representatives as this transpires!


I feel so bad for that guy trying to explain to trump what an MOU is
 
"There'll be an end to all misery when the world is our rotissery, yes we'll all go together when we go". Tom Lehrer.

"Down by the old maelstrom . . . ."

That has to be one of the best song lyric parodies of all time ("Down by the old mill stream. . . .").
 
I don’t know if this has been posted already, but it’s great:



https://youtu.be/yaWa61AyT3g



Clearly, Trump has no idea what a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MOU) between two countries is.



1) I like the somewhat condescending way our trade representative explains it, and then latches onto a simple way to get around Trump’s ignorance on the matter.



2) Watch the faces of the Chinese representatives as this transpires!
I've heard Humpty Dumpty has thrown the towel in.
 
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So funny to watch people who have failed for years, they got NOTHING, telling me how to negotiate with North Korea. But thanks anyway!
 
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1) I like the somewhat condescending way our trade representative explains it, and then latches onto a simple way to get around Trump’s ignorance on the matter.
That's generous of you. I thought the announcement 'we'll just call it an agreement' was more like kissing the ass of the naked emperor.
 
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