"That is my two cents worth. If Donald Trump does not get the border funding he needs, I hope, I really, really, hope - he shuts down the government AND the border. This has gone on way, way, way too long. Time to end it."
Sooner or later the Democrats will figure this one out. They continue to play checkers with the President while he plays three dimensional chess with them. And as well as they think they know this man, they really don't. Trump always reminds me of the old cartoon in which someone is surrounded by four thugs. One of the thugs tells the man to hand over his wallet, or they will beat him to a pulp. The man responds, "If you are going to beat me to a pulp, you better bring more guys." That is Trump. Outnumbered by the outlaw press, the socialists, the statists, the establishment Republicans, and so forth, Trump never feels outnumbered. Our President always says, "If you want to fight, bring more guys."
Donald Trump will always try reason first. We have a real problem with our southern border. Anyone who can't see that, is a effing idiot. Is a wall a perfect solution? No - but it is a great start.
I have a much better, more permanent solution, along with building the wall. Shut down the Mexican border. From ear to ear. With a wall built, and the southern border shut down, amazing things would happen. Just like the days after 9/11, when we needed to shut our borders down. Drug trafficking would be reduced to a trickle. Human trafficking would be reduced. Illegal crossings would be reduced to about zero, and bad ass Central American gangs would have a very tough time getting in the country.
Here is what I have recently come to understand. Call me a slow learner, as many have learned this long before me. Having immigration policies such that we have, on top of a porous or non-existent border, has allowed illegal aliens and unfettered drug running to become OUR problem exclusively.
Now for the first time since 9/11, all the misery which "open border policy towards illegals" has visited upon us, is also visiting Mexico. And they hate it. It is bankrupting Tijuana. If we close our borders, all those drugs, all those bad ass gangs, all those illegals, all those traffickers, will become Mexico's problem. And once all those problems become owned by Mexico, that is when our problem will be solved.
Mexico will not tolerate having the border with one of its largest trading partners shut down. They will not tolerate being overrun with people who should not be in Mexico. They will not tolerate being inundated with tons and tons of drugs. They will want this fixed, and fixed fast. Once they truly fix the problem, we can re-open our borders, and peace will once again return to the shire. However, should the peace be short lived, Trump can once again shut down the border in a New York minute.
That is my two cents worth. If Donald Trump does not get the border funding he needs, I hope, I really, really, hope - he shuts down the government AND the border. This has gone on way, way, way too long. Time to end it.
Climate Change opinion of the day..............
ReplyDeleteI have never in my life before witnessed this kind of magnitude of willed ignorance. Not only does the president himself peddle the nonsense that global warming is illusory, but he has appointed persons throughout his administration who not only share this belief, but also work hand in hand with fossil fuel giants to produce even more gas, oil and coal.
In fact, we now know that the decision last year to roll back the boundaries of many national parks — boundaries that were put in place to protect fragile lands and their denizens — was done in compliance with maps prepared by the oil and gas industries showing where additional reserves were located, consequences to the environment be damned.
What do you mean, shut the border down?
ReplyDeleteClose the official border crossings?
That will only hurt our economy and Mexico's by stopping legitimate personal and business traffic.
It won't stop the illegal crossings out in the desert, where the bad guys and the traffickers do their dirty work.
It would reduce some of the drug traffic, but it would just move it to isolated desert areas.
I think he should shut the government down and tell Congress to create comprehensive immigration laws and when passed, reopen the government for business. I think both parties and their bases would appreciate a permanent solution.
"willed ignorance"? Really? Do you really know how badly those climate models actually predict the past, let alone the present? How foolish it is to blame recent "extreme weather" on "global warming" when the weather is not extreme and there is negligible warming, not to mention the complete lack of scientific linkage between the two?
ReplyDeleteDo you appreciate that the only "proof" we have of fossil fuel burning causing "catastrophic" temperature rises is in the wildly inaccurate and imprecise computer models? That the only reason they predict manmade CO2 warming is because they are programmed with that assumption? That when they model the effects of supposed "planet saving" treaties like Kyoto, Clean Power or Paris, that the result is a negligible decrease (0.01 to 0.37 degrees) in warming 100 years hence? It is truly dubbed, deliberate or just collusion, "the greatest pseudo-scientific hoax in history."
As for closing the border, I think the President should do it as often and for as long as necessary to prevent the "caravan" from succeeding in their unlawful invasion. Then, if Congress will not fund the Wall, he should close the official border crossings until they do. This will effect "legitimate personal and business traffic" and cause a lot of screaming that Congress cannot ignore. We cannot solve the many crossings of the desert in dark of night because we simply cannot put enough warm bodies on the border to do that and, even if we did, we would still have the same terrible "catch and release" problem that we have now. Now I suppose Trump could "reluctantly" agree to negotiate immigration reform AFTER the wall is up, But let's avoid the word "comprehensive" because we all know what that means.
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