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State of Emergency = One Mile of Wall

10 Monday Feb 2020

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That’s all we have to show, o far, for all that chanting.

The White House budget document estimates the money would pay for approximately 1,000 miles.

Much of the construction would be slated for 2021 and beyond, presuming Mr. Trump wins a second term in office.

The administration has concentrated its construction efforts on federally owned land, where it faces the fewest legal hurdles. Across swaths of the border, particularly in Texas, the administration is meeting resistance from private landowners unwilling to forfeit their property so that new sections of wall can be built on it.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said that through the end of January it has erected 104 miles of new fencing, though only one of those miles covers a portion of the border where no barriers previously existed. The administration has said it hopes to have 450 miles built or under construction by the end of 2020.

One down, 1,999 to go! I suspect the whole thing will be completed by the time Hillary is checking into the NY MCC.

Not Even a Small, Ugly Wall… (With FICTION Note by PBL)

30 Sunday Jun 2019

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Another federal judge halts Trump’s beautiful, beautiful, very impressive plan to stem the tide of invasion.

A California federal judge issued a ruling blocking President Trump from using $2.5 billion in military funds to build a wall along the southern border.

The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, who is an appointee of former President Barack Obama, ruled to permanently block the $2.5 billion after issuing a temporary injunction in May to stop the administration’s use of the funds. The ruling stymies several construction projects in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

There’s a simple workaround for this problem that does not involve a physical wall nor locking Gilliam in a cage, both of which are still defensible. But, hell, we’re just not into solutions anymore. Hey, look! Here comes more “tasty ethnic food,” now!

Groups of hundreds of Africans, Haitians and others from Central and South America continue to trudge across the U.S.- Mexico border in record numbers, despite promises from Mexico to help stop the massive migration.

Footage from the Del Rio Sector of the border in Texas shows scores are making their way in mini-caravans, with many arriving well-dressed in designer clothes, toting luggage and backpacks with their children in tow.

Well-dressed, designer ethnic food! The best kind.

Friends, I really, really tire of this shit. As many of you know, I’m moving deeper into fiction, with which I apparently do a good, popular job and which I also enjoy tremendously. Moving into the second half of 2019, that’s where my focus will be directed. I’ll still do “reality” columns for TPC (maybe elsewhere) and I’ll still link short bits, with commentary, here. But the focus is going to be on issues and stories I directly control, and which both generate better profits and serve to better express theory and polemical messages, if any. Unlike the situation at the border, it’s going to be great. You’re invited.

Paying for the Wall?

31 Friday May 2019

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I’m not sure how much money it will raise, but Mr. Trump vows new tariffs on all things MEX:

In a surprise announcement that could derail a major trade deal, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is slapping a 5% tariff on all Mexican imports, effective June 10, to pressure the country to do more to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants trying to cross the U.S. border.

He said the percentage will gradually increase — up to 25% — “until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied.”

Was this a January 2017 oversight item? Anyway, better late than never.

THE WALL Progresses!

22 Wednesday May 2019

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At THIS RATE the entire border should be (nominally) secure within  500 years!

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has put up just 1.7 miles of fencing with the US$1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border, a federal judge was told.

A lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives provided the information Tuesday to the judge in Oakland, California, who is weighing requests from 20 state attorneys general and the the Sierra Club to block Trump from using funds not authorized by Congress to build the wall.

“The administration recently provided updated information to Congress on the status of its efforts as of April 30, 2019,” the attorney, Douglas Letter, said in a court filing. “Based on that updated information, it appears that CBP has now constructed 1.7 miles of fencing with its fiscal year 2018 funding.”

That was 3/4 of a mile more than the administration reported at the end of February, Letter said.

U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam had asked for the information at a May 17 hearing.

Representatives of Customs and Border Protection didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment after regular business hours.

And, it will only end up costing about $2 Trillion! What. A. Deal!

The ALL NEW 2019 Giant Migrant Invasion Caravan!!!

30 Saturday Mar 2019

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It’s like the Dodge Caravan except that it never breaks down or stops moving. Right now, it’s headed to (and through) MEX. Next stop – the U.S.E.!

Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the “mother of all caravans,” even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big.

Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming.

“We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they’re calling ‘the mother of all caravans,’ and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people,” Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday.

But a WhatsApp group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador to set off for Guatemala only has about 206 members.

I love the new, hip, cool, and trendy caravans, with apps and activists. 20,000 is a drop in the 1.5 Million bucket, folks, don’t worry. Nothing a wall wouldn’t stop. Or an A-10. (Maybe two A-10s for 20K).

If the catch and release system is overwhelmed, then why not just make it a straight release program? Texas towns, churches, and bus stations: strength, economic growth, and nebulous “blessings” are coming.

Some other notes:

Venezuela. I made mention of a follow-up video. I have the material I need. Now, I’m just looking for the time and energy. Stand by.

Christchurch. I finally watched the original video of the false flag at the terror training camp in Christchurch, NZ. (Ms. Ardern, consider showing real solidarity with your conquerers by changing the name to “Allahmosque, NZ”). I’ll definitely give my analysis, maybe here, at TPC, or even on Post-literacy Tube.

This, here, will do for a Saturday afternoon.

Does Trump Own a Veto Pen?

14 Thursday Mar 2019

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He says he’ll kill the bill after Senate GOPers cave (as usual) on national security and sovereignty.

The Senate voted Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration over the southern border, a sharp bipartisan rebuke of the president’s flex of executive power.

The chamber comfortably passed the measure in a 59-41 vote. Twelve Republicans who worried about executive overreach supported it in an embarrassing blow to the president.

Trump plans to reject the bill, which the Democratic-held House has already passed. In one tweet after the vote, he simply said, “VETO!” In a subsequent message, he said he looks “forward to VETOING the just passed Democrat inspired Resolution,” thanking Republicans “who voted to support Border Security and our desperately needed WALL!”

I’m serious about the pen question. Will he follow through? So far we have zero wall. Will we get zero veto?

The invasion really is an emergency. Maybe it’s time to treat it as such.

A Party I’d Like to Attend

14 Thursday Mar 2019

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Ann Coulter is keeping the heat on Trump to put up or shut up about the Big Beautiful Wall. She wants to know the exact location (of what’s already been built) and host a party there.

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter issued a put-up-or-shut-up demand Tuesday to President Donald Trump, challenging him to identify exactly where his administration has erected new border barriers between the U.S. and Mexico.

Trump claimed Saturday on Twitter that the ‘[m]ajor sections of Wall are being built.’ He tweeted a day earlier that his long-promised border wall ‘is being built and is well under construction.’

Coulter told DailyMail.com in an email that she wants details.

‘The President’s tweet says he’s already building the Wall. Could he give me the precise latitude and longitude of its location?’ she asked. ‘Also, how many miles long is it?’

‘I want to throw a party there and need the exact coordinates,’ she wrote.

I’ll bring some chips.

No Shutdown and No Wall

25 Friday Jan 2019

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This was predictable: Trump caves on Shutdown/Wall.

The Senate swiftly and unanimously approved the deal, and the House was ready to follow suit and send the legislation to Trump for his signature.

Trump’s retreat came in the 35th day of the partial shutdown as intensifying delays at the nation’s airports and another missed payday for hundreds of thousands of federal workers brought new urgency to efforts to resolve the standoff.

The shutdown was ending as Democratic leaders had insisted it must — reopen the government first, then talk border security. “The president thought he could crack Democrats, and he didn’t, and I hope it’s a lesson for him,” said the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of her members: “Our unity is our power. And that is what maybe the president underestimated.”

It’s certainly a lesson.

Okay, now we wait two days for the strategery, if any. Actually, we’ve been waiting for two years now. Trump admits there’s an emergency and that he has the authority and power to deal with it … later. We wait.

The shutdown isn’t the problem – next to none care about it. It’s the invasion and the decline, Mr. President.

Maybe This Will Spur Things Along

16 Wednesday Jan 2019

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Aloha Snack Bar! from the Deep South:

Federal authorities on Wednesday announced a terrorist case against a metro Atlanta resident accused of plotting to destroy the White House and other Washington D.C. government buildings.

Hasher Jallal Taheb, of Cumming, was arrested in Gwinnett County and appeared briefly in court in downtown Atlanta in the case brought the FBI.

Hasker Jallal Taheb – ancient Southern name, there. Plotting the terrorism that lazy Americans just won’t plot anymore. A vibrant reminder of the benefits of DIEveristy.

Again, maybe this will shake things up. Eh, who am I kidding?