National Emergency

[a_unique_person]

I was hoping for a National Emergency that will force all Republicans to walk around with their pants around their ankles.

Brilliant.

 

[Minoosh]

Pence is a weak, stupid nutjob who believes that Devine Providence will give him everything, hence he won't have to fight for anything.
Pelosi could crush him, just by asking for a 1 on 1 meeting.

Pence's wife would nix that meeting anyway.

 

[IXP]

I think the wall is an ecological disaster. For many animals it's a barrier like none other. The ocelots and jaguars can no longer move between the countries.

Good, Mexican ocelots and jaguars will be prevented from killing our sheep.

IXP

 

[dudalb]

Check again.
You are probably being robbed, stabbed and raped by immigrants at this very moment.

The main danger of being on the border is eating in a restaurant on the Mexican side without being careful about what restaurant you choose, with "The Gringo Two Step" as a result.....

 

[Segnosaur]

Good, Mexican ocelots and jaguars will be prevented from killing out sheep.

That should be the job of good American bobcats.

 

[Belz...]

Pence's wife would nix that meeting anyway.

 

[IXP]

Yes, who wants bobcats on unemployment?

IXP

 

[Segnosaur]

Pence's wife would nix that meeting anyway.

Bit off topic, but I wonder how Pence's wife really feels about Pence meeting women in private.

I mean, its a really dump rule that he has. (Does he honestly think every woman he meets would be all over him, if only she could get him in a private meeting.) I just wonder if his wife agrees with the rule, or whether Pence is doing it on his own initiative and his wife doesn't care.

 

[Trebuchet]

That was, without a doubt, the worst speech I have ever seen.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Trump, of course, passed that point long ago.

 

[smartcooky]

I am pro-wall, and I think reducing the required enforcement coverage will make the corridors easier to police, as well as freeing up resources at the ports of entry.

Read this carefully

IT WON'T WORK

Walls by themselves DO NOT WORK. In order for walls to work, they must be heavily guarded and patrolled throughout their entire length, otherwise people will go around them (by swimming or boating) over them (by microlight) or under them (by tunnelling). There are numerous recorded incidences of all of the above. There are also recorded instances of drug smugglers using drones to get drugs over the border. They may even go through the wall (a power diamond concrete/steel cutter in a remote location). Therefore, rather than "freeing up resources" they will actually take more resources. The drugs will still get in through tunnels and through ports of entry and via the Gulf of Mexico in boats and drug submarines.

However, if you take that $5-8 billion Trump wants for his white elephant vanity project, you could build a gold-plated, state-of-the-art electronic frontier with, hidden sensors and observation posts covering every inch of the border, even in places where building a wall is physically impossible.

Do you know how I know this will work? Its because it already has, right there in the USA. There are two places protected by just such electronic frontiers - Area 51 and Dugway Proving grounds. In over 50 years, very few people, if any have ever been able to get into them, and those that have were caught almost immediately.

The addition of surveillance drones to a US Mexico electronic frontier would make it even more secure.

 

[Tero]

I live in the middle here, way North of Texas. When will these hordes arrive? Will the wall be built in time? Will it be built under President Pence in 2021? Ever?

 

[quadraginta]

Now we find out if the Republicans really love the constitution as much as they claim too, or if they are willing to sell it out for some temporary political gains.

We already know the answer to that. They've spent several decades making it obvious ... and the last two making it abundantly clear.

I am afraid it is going to be the latter.

Exactly.

I have deceded that the GOP, as it now exists,is as much as clear and present danger to Consituional Government in America as Trump.

More, I'm afraid. For better or worse, he'll be gone in a few years at the longest.

The morally and ethically bankrupt GOP will be with us as long as the party survives.

 

[quadraginta]

I was hoping for a National Emergency that will force all Republicans to walk around with their pants around their ankles on fire.

FTFY

No you didn't.

They've been walking around with their pants on fire pretty much since the day Trump was elected.

Pants around their ankles would be in line with the respect they deserve.

 

[Apathia]

Quick lesson. The US/Mexico border states are, from west to east

California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas

And taken together they spell "CANT." Sorry Donald, you can't have your Great Wall of Trump.

 

[quadraginta]

I think New Mexico has been forgotten also. It also has a short border with Mexico. ETA: Oh, smartcooky covered it.

By himself? That really is a short border.

Very approximately 350,000 smoots (according to Google Earth).

I'm not sure if smartcooky is shorter or taller than Oliver was (5'-7").

 

[Apathia]

I live in the middle here, way North of Texas. When will these hordes arrive? Will the wall be built in time? Will it be built under President Pence in 2021? Ever?

I live in southern Arizona. They're already here. They were here before 1912 when the territory became a state. And they were here before the USA wrested the land from Spain. It was their home already.

 

[smartcooky]

I live in southern Arizona. They're already here. They were here before 1912 when the territory became a state. And they were here before the USA wrested the land from Spain. It was their home already.

BOOM! Right there!

 

[smartcooky]

Bent over with their Pants around their ankles would be in line with the respect they deserve.

FTFY

 

[William Parcher]

That should be the job of good American bobcats.

The collared peccaries need to flow back-and-forth across the border!

 

[carlitos]

Report at 1400 EST (2pm) says that he has signed the National Emergency Bill, but not signed the Budget Bill yet. This could still go even more crazy.

There wouldn't be a national emergency bill; that's the whole point. No Congress involved. It would have to be a presidential declaration or whatever that is called.