Of course it's not an emergency. The shutdown via the wall is a power grab. Trump doesn't give a shit about border security or a wall; he wants autocratic power.

Gitmo, so only Halliburton had the expertise to do it.

The question should have been who is going to get the contract to build the wall.

let alone 45 million.

carapass. [Sorry!]

Too much $s/rubles have been exchanged (and well recorded by the KGB) for the turtle to escape unscathed. Unless the USSR just won WW-III.

Sorta like when a tantrum-focused child tells the parents, "I'll behave for now, but don't provoke me."

Dictionary dot com

"a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action"

IMMEDIATE

"To be or not to be? That is the question."

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not even close.

every single fucking time anything/anyone threatens his stupid world view.

"If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to tune in your area for news and official information."

if it were truly an emergency, it would be the initial plan.

Maybe his next temper tantrum is to coordinte an orchestrated stand down of personnel that includes plausible deniability resulting in a tragic event which gives him the immediacy that his current ‘emergency’ lacks...

Link to tweet

by Lawrence O'Donnell.