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Rosco T.

(6,496 posts)
4. Going to find a way out of the shutdown...
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:04 PM
Jan 2019

my bet, "National Emergency, I;m building my wall out of disaster relief funds... fuck real victims"

long shot, "Reopening government and we'll go for 30 billion for my wall"

brettdale

(12,383 posts)
6. Speech will be nothing
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:06 PM
Jan 2019

"There is a problem at the border"

"The dems are doing nothing"

"Call your congressman"

blah blah blah.

There will be nothing earth shattering.

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
13. He already did that with his last big "announcement."
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:12 PM
Jan 2019

The response was a collective yawn. My thinking is tomorrow he goes with the national emergency. It's his only out at this point short of surrender.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
9. Space Force? Steel slats? National non-emergency emergency?
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:11 PM
Jan 2019

Who knows the twisted mind of that flaming asshole?

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
10. My guess? National Emergency
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:11 PM
Jan 2019

He'll end the shutdown and declare a national emergency. The courts will tie it up and he'll be clear of it. Ultimately Trump doesn't care about a wall. If he did he would have gotten it done his first two years. He just wants his base rabid and ready, and this will keep him from losing face. Trump's approval is in free fall and this shutdown is damaging him. He knows he can't let it go on for much longer. He also knows by now that the Dems aren't going to budge, something he didn't believe at first. He honestly thought he could throw his weight around and they would cave.

Basically he's got three options, and a national emergency is the one that will end the shutdown the soonest and save him face. The other two are carry the shutdown for two more years, which would be disastrous for him, the Republicans, and the country, or have enough Republicans defect and override him. Neither of those two possibilities are anywhere near as appealing to him as the national emergency one, which would save him the most face.

Which is why he will go with the national emergency.

C_U_L8R

(45,005 posts)
15. National emergency declared. Closes congress and Judiciary.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:14 PM
Jan 2019

Coronates self Emperor for life. The crown is gold and the cape red, oversized to clownish proportions like his neckties. Hands still look teeny and brain is like that of a halfwit. Country renamed Trumpville.

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
16. Maybe declaring a fake emergency at the border.
Fri Jan 18, 2019, 10:19 PM
Jan 2019

drumpf has no other way to save ugly face over his absurd wall.

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