The 6th grade rec basketball team i coached last winter IIRC had 5 Chinese-American kids (called themselves the Chinese Posse) 3 white kids, a couple of Indian-Americans and my favorite - the hacky, toss up 3s (even though they don't count 3s in 6th grade) take-no-shit point guard from some former Soviet republic (I think). We won the league because one of the Chinese Posse went off for like 15 in the final. Normal scores are like 25-21.
Nobody knewww... 1083756934233116672 is not a valid tweet id Yeah, this makes sense.. BREAKING: Three Republican sources tell me even if Democrats did give Trump wall funding, he wouldn’t reopen the government. He apparently is thrilled about the shutdown. Likes how FBI agents & other federal workers have been furloughed. Truly thinks all federal workers are Dems.— Scott Dworkin (@funder) January 10, 2019 Trump has something on Shirley... Mr. President, the Democrats are not working in good faith with you. Declare emergency, build the wall now.— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 11, 2019 Don’t forget this man is the one killing democracy: McConnell blocks House bills to reopen government https://t.co/OVwaepL3U6 pic.twitter.com/QTW5zV4l6y— The Hill (@thehill) January 11, 2019
On a totally different note, Respect to Canada and Trudeau......and F**** MBS! 1083797829561315328 is not a valid tweet id
1083582316990083072 is not a valid tweet id That…is a FENCE. https://t.co/HJNWlA3qk2— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) January 11, 2019 This actually happened: Border official shows Trump tunnels under border wallhttps://t.co/Cdlae8xwLo— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 11, 2019 That awkward moment when @realDonaldTrump goes to the border and a border agent explains to him why his vanity border wall won't work. #FailedPresident #StopTheShutdown #TrumpShutdown pic.twitter.com/fZqT5yCrJ9— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 11, 2019
It blows my mind that Republicans are oblivious to how a form of this same argument is an even more powerful one for gun restrictions. While immigrants actually commit crimes at lower rates than native-born Americans, guns result in many many preventable deaths. https://t.co/WyzkDEDtjE— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2019
Republicans are immune because it's not really an argument, in the sense that they aren't bothered if it's wrong. The MSM can cite facts until it's blue in the face about illegal immigrants' crime rates, and it matters not. The details are beside the point.
I laughed. Then I got a little pissed. Then laughed again Why don’t we use thoughts and prayers to protect our borders just like we use them to protect our schools #SorryNotSorry #MAGA #NoWaterNoWall— Mari Copeny (@LittleMissFlint) January 11, 2019
You know, I personally think that Eric Trump gets a bad rap when he gets portrayed as the dumber of Cheeto Benito’s remora-like sons. He at least has the good sense to keep his mouth shut more often than DJTJ. (So yes, this makes Tiffany and Barron the smartest ones by default.)
I think being told to shut up has been Eric's life. "Shut up Eric, the men are talking!" So much so, he doesn't offer to talk any more.
The Fake News Media keeps saying we haven’t built any NEW WALL. Below is a section just completed on the Border. Anti-climbing feature included. Very high, strong and beautiful! Also, many miles already renovated and in service! pic.twitter.com/UAAGXl5Byr— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2019 I've always thought that building this wall was a terrible idea. I have to admit however, that after I read that it has an anti-climbing feature included I'm starting to rethink this.
As far as it supposedly stopping drugs from crossing the border, wouldn't people be able to reach their arm through and hand a package off or be able to throw a package over it? It doesn't seem all that impenetrable to me.
This, BTW, is how the Berlin Wall was effective: Guard towers staffed by people with orders to shoot on sight. I'm also cynical enough to believe that this is also the reason why the Border Patrol union is wanting the wall. Oh sure, they're not asking for it now, but imagine how many more members they'd get out of having a guard tower ever 100 yards.
Or one can spend a few minutes with the appropriate saw and create a hole in it? Sure. Never mind that most of the drugs coming into the country come through the usual ports of entry.
"In the days after President Trump fired James Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests,” the New York Times reports. “The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.” “The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.”
He fondled Putin's balls out in the open so many times that it would be shocking if the FBI didn't consider Donnie a national security threat.
Here's how you stop drugs from coming into the United States: You search 100% of the cargo coming into the United States. 100%. That means that every truck, railcar, and shipping container gets searched. That container full of frozen fish? Sorry, we're opening it to search for drugs - too bad if the cargo spoils. This is why we're never going to stop drugs from coming in. Yes, some guy can fly an ultralight over the Sonoran desert and drop a package of coke to someone on this side, but that's literally a drop in the ocean of what comes in via cargo. You want to stop drugs? Stop trade. Sorry Donald, you malignant fvckface, you have no idea what you're talking about.
Donnie being a twit isn't the problem. The issue is tens of millions of Americans who hang onto his words, and who have convinced themselves despite all evidence to the contrary that: 1) There really is a border emergency, and 2) A wall will solve it. This is what happens when the desires of the salt of the earth are satisfied. They should be politely obeying their betters. Having written the above paragraph, I haven't decided whether that was tongue in cheek or not. At the current moment, it's not. But perhaps I will mellow after some coffee.
The other part of this problem is the Border Patrol has a vested interest in all of this. Trump's attention and The Wall mean more money for them. Same reason the DEA refuses to cede any ground on pot, lobbying to keep it in the same class of drugs as heroin. There is a lot of money in it for them.
The ridiculous I’m not trying to be a jerk but the Times still owes its readers an explanation about what the f*** was going on with this vector of its reporting in 2016. pic.twitter.com/YKGzEvyK8g— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 12, 2019 And the sublimely ridiculous That's because -- and I speak from experience -- taking a live raccoon into McDonald's is frowned upon. https://t.co/r7y10TuZok— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 11, 2019
....the FBI was in complete turmoil (see N.Y. Post) because of Comey’s poor leadership and the way he handled the Clinton mess (not to mention his usurpation of powers from the Justice Department). My firing of James Comey was a great day for America. He was a Crooked Cop......— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2019 .....who is being totally protected by his best friend, Bob Mueller, & the 13 Angry Democrats - leaking machines who have NO interest in going after the Real Collusion (and much more) by Crooked Hillary Clinton, her Campaign, and the Democratic National Committee. Just Watch!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2019 Wait, i thought it was 17 Angry Democrats.
I just watched a Fake reporter from the Amazon Washington Post say the White House is “chaotic, there does not seem to be a strategy for this Shutdown. There is no plan.” The Fakes always like talking Chaos, there is NONE. In fact, there’s almost nobody in the W.H. but me, and...— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2019 ....I do have a plan on the Shutdown. But to understand that plan you would have to understand the fact that I won the election, and I promised safety and security for the American people. Part of that promise was a Wall at the Southern Border. Elections have consequences!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 12, 2019