I also wonder how a man who unquestionably thinks of himself as a winner will deal with what certainly seems to be a defeat? That regardless of how the government shutdown was resolved it would have been portrayed as a defeat for Trump is irrelevant. At this point it is a defeat. I suspect we haven’t heard the end of Trump’s wall. As George Santayana said, only the dead have seen the end of war.
The entire notion of a government shutdown is an artifact, a political strategy. Without omnibus spending bills or continuing resolutions there would be no government shutdowns. We should amend the Constitution to prohibit omnibus spending bills or continuing resolutions and to mandate single-subject bills written in plain language. Anything else is a formula for corruption.
Trump will still think he’s won even when he’s lost, or he will blame others or move the goalposts. Such is the mind of an egotist.
From the perspective of the starving government service workers, they were championed by the Democratic House, who managed to come off as most caring, as usual. What if they’re wrong. What if Trump was actually moved by the nonstop television coverage of suffering Federal workers in bread lines?
I fail to see humor in Liberal gloating over a win that keeps the heroin and fentanyl flowing as usual.
Nearly all of the fentanyl coming into the U. S. was made in China and is arriving here by ship in ordinary ports. A border wall is irrelevant to the trade in fentanyl except insofar as it might allow more resources to be put other places than at our southern border.
The more efficient way of doing that would be by a much-enhanced eVerify program accompanied by an advertising campaign in Mexico and Central America. Think the anti-Soviet radio campaigns of the 1950s through 1990s.
An ad campaign aimed at the soft heart of the cartels. Joe Camel saying he’d rather work than deal drugs. Hmm.
What I’m hearing is that if Trump wants a border wall to stop drug flows, then we’ll just live with the drugs.
And we wouldn’t want to rock the boat with China any more than we have. I’m sure that if fentanyl is produced there the communist government is unaware.
“I fail to see humor in Liberal gloating over a win that keeps the heroin and fentanyl flowing as usual.”
Go to He$l. After having had repeat conversations this month with the families of overdose victims and telling mothers that we will take good care of treat respectfully their dead children as we harvest organs, this is a bit much to take. I can assure you that I am not gloating about narcs coming into the country and I dont know any liberals who are either. As Dave noted, and this information is easily available but I dont think Trump supporters actually care, the narcotics are really coming in through legal ports of entry. If you really want to keep out the fentanyl and heroin then stop it where it is coming in. Take that $5.7 billion and spend it there. I could maybe even say that you conservatives are gloating about keeping those illegal drugs coming in by wasting money on the wall rather than spending it where it might help, but I won’t actually say that. That is way too awful a thing of which to accuse anyone.
Steve
Back on topic, Trump will just blame others. He doesn’t lose, others just let him down. Agree that this is not over. Can only hope that if and when he gets the wall that we also do something that will actually reduce narcotics flows into the country.
Steve
Look to his past.
Trump is 70 years old, 50 in the spotlight. He’s been through plenty of humiliations, some perhaps worse then this. And there probably will be more to come…
“What if Trump was actually moved by the nonstop television coverage of suffering Federal workers in bread lines?”
Horseshit. If any lines moved him at all, it was those at major airports.
Dave: “Anything else is a formula for corruption.”
Dave, I think you may be starting to get it.