Thursday, 20 December 2018

Sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground

quote [ Defense Secretary James Mattis has resigned. Here’s the letter

“Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position.” ]

After the out of the blue announcement of the withdrawal in Syria followed shortly the announcement of the withdrawal from Afghanistan Mattis seems to have had enough.

Standing on the precipitous of a goveremnt shutdown over funding for a Mexican border wall these moves by Trump seem bizarre and are in direct opposition of the Republican party , the military, and inelegance agencies.

This is beyond the "normal" Trump weirdness. (It is getting hard to even say that)

It looks like Trump is going to close down the goveremnt over the wall that Mexico is suppose to pay for, then go to Florida for a few weeks of golf. He has changed defense deployments by tweet with no prior notice or consultation with the pentagon the joint chiefs or congress...Merry Christmas, world.

The reason for the sudden switch is obvious.

Conservative media turns on Trump for going wobbly on the wall

Fox News, Breitbart and others have stuck with Trump through almost everything — but the wall is different.


His true constituency "Conservative Media" turned on him. My question is what is going to happen when he eventfully has to back down..because he will not get funding even through a Republican congress.

Even though it has passed the house it will never get through the Senate...it will not get one Democratic vote.

There will be a few back and fourths in DC but most of DC has gone or getting ready to go home...this is headed to a brick wall (pun intended). Trump has to blink or accept the consequences...pay the devil to the left (His base) or the devil to the right (the 70% that is the rest of us.) He has never faced anything like the pressure he is about to face...and he look like he is about to crack now.
[SFW] [politics] [+4]
[by bbqkink]
<-- Entry / Comment History

bbqkink said @ 2:48am GMT on 22nd December
CONGRESS WALKS! SHUTDOWN CERTAIN

bbqkink said @ 3:17am GMT on 22nd December
CONGRESS WALKS! SHUTDOWN CERTAIN

Seems a fitting end.

The Republican Majority's Last Act: A Government Shutdown

They can not govern.



<-- Entry / Current Comment
bbqkink said @ 2:48am GMT on 22nd December
CONGRESS WALKS! SHUTDOWN CERTAIN

Seems a fitting end.

The Republican Majority's Last Act: A Government Shutdown

They can not govern.




Posts of Import
Karma
SE v2 Closed BETA
First Post
Subscriptions and Things

Karma Rankings
ScoobySnacks
HoZay
Paracetamol
lilmookieesquire
Ankylosaur