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Trump's week
Topic Started: Jun 23 2018, 05:23 AM (260 Views)
Brewster
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President Donald Trump has taken almost every possible Republican position on immigration in the span of a week as he's tried to deal with the crisis he created of separating thousands of children from their parents at the border.

He's changed policies, made declarations, said his hands were tied, untied them to sign an executive order that may or may not accomplish anything, blamed Democrats, blamed his predecessors, demanded Congress act, tried to force Congress to act, refused to endorse a specific congressional bill, promised a sweeping immigration reform was possible and, most recently, said Congress should just give up for a while.

The tangle of statements coming from the President's mouth, his Twitter feed, and secondhand reports of what he told Republicans during a trip to Capitol Hill are more confusing than his wife's decision to wear an "I really don't care. Do U?" jacket on a surprise trip to see detained kids at the border.

If you were to try to chart Trump's positions over the course of a week week, it would go something like this (we're mostly paraphrasing here and forgive us if we're missing a position or two):
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I hate that I have to do this.
It's Democrats' fault. They should work on legislation with Republicans.
This can help us fix the immigration problem.
We can't let the US become a migrant camp.
I can't do anything about it. It's the law I'm enforcing.
The immigration crisis is a monstrosity.
If we don't do this separate children and families, immigrants will flood the border.
Fine. I'll sign an executive order, but I still have zero tolerance.
These kids are fine and staying in the nicest facilities.
Seriously. People are suffering and it's Democrats' fault.
You guys figure it out, I'll sign a bill you give me.
Doesn't matter which one.
The non-bipartisan so-called compromise bill is nice.
These stories of immigrant children are phony.
Fine. Give up. Don't waste your time before the election.
Elect more Republicans.

Months ago Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the "zero-tolerance" policy, but it has festered until Trump began weighing in, trying last Saturday to blame Democrats for how he's enforced the laws.

It's festered into a full-blown crisis that's impossible to keep track of and which Republicans in Congress, who failed to pass a hardline bill and failed to take a vote on an internal Republican compromise have shown themselves incapable of addressing with legislation despite Trump saying at the White House this week that a systemic reform bill is within reach.

Meanwhile, the outrage and outcry have turned the nation's attention and scrutiny to the border in a way that picks at Washington's inadequacies.

If you were looking for the issue that could make Republican governors openly question the White House and pull National Guard troops ordered by the President, this is it.

If they can't find agreement among themselves, Republicans will be incapable of finding the kind of bipartisan support they'd need to pass something through the Senate, especially if Trump continues to insist on billions in funding for his long-promised border wall. Look for that issue to rear it's head again when lawmakers try to fund the government before the election.

Unclustering things on the border has proven just as difficult, with a lack of clarity about how many children have been separated from their families, how many may have been reunited, how and whether the government will prosecute their parents, how exactly they're being cared for and how the rest will find their way home.
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An Opinion Piece listing Trump's changes of position virtually every day, often twice a day. The US Right will hate it...
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doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh
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Brewster
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Yes, you are truly, senselessly funny...
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Berton
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You are truly senselessly stupid.....
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Brewster
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Nice to see you back, Berton - that "Unnamed Source" Clone of yours is even dumber than you are, although he DOES seem to know how to read with understanding, a skill they apparently don't teach in Oklahoma...

BTW, I'm still waiting for you to start posting without insults - or is it, like Trump's declarations, just another Lie?
Edited by Brewster, Jun 23 2018, 06:42 AM.
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Berton
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I have tried posting to you but everything I post, even a compliment is considered an insult by you. So I gave up trying and joined you in trading insult for insult.


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:hystery: :hystery: :hystery:

Okay, I'll tell you what - I'll not insult you again until I see one from you. (After this post of course.)

I expect the insult-free posts to last about 5 minutes.
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Now, wait, you are saying that I can not insult anyone but you will only refrain from insulting me?

Also, are you talking about general insults or personal insults?

Edited by Berton, Jun 23 2018, 08:20 AM.
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Brewster,

What would be a lot more interesting to read is what was ‘your week like'...? Politicians come and go and don’t understand your obsession with ours…
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Jun 23 2018, 08:20 AM
Now, wait, you are saying that I can not insult anyone but you will only refrain from insulting me?

Also, are you talking about general insults or personal insults?

If you don't insult anyone else, neither will I.

Do we have to classify insults? Whichever way you go, I'll do the same.
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