America is Closed
Okay, see, I don’t know what this means.
Trump was speaking at a tax reform roundtable in Ohio and the subject of the wall came up. What that has to do with tax reform beats the hell outta me, but Trump loves to talk about his wall.
So, here’s his new threat.
The President was in the midst of criticizing Democrats during a riff about border security when he slipped in the idea that people might “have to think about closing up the country.”“They don’t want the wall, but we’re going to get the wall, even if we have to think about closing up the country for a while,” Trump said.
Okay, so what does that mean, close up the country for a while? Maybe more importantly, who told him that he has the power to do that and where can I find them to knock them upside the head? Does he think he can plant a CLOSED sign in Nebraska or some damn place and declare the United States closed?
Oh no, this wasn’t just a slip on the tongue.
Trump then mentioned the notion a second time, saying, “And we may have to close up our country to get this straight, because we either have a country or we don’t.
Here’s what troubling me. The day Trump came up with this whole wall idea, I didn’t like it. I think it’s a trick not to keep Mexicans out, but to lock me in. I do not like the idea that my escape route is being closed.
And they say the third time is the charm, but not so here. He just had to talk about it one more time:
Trump also told supporters at a speech in Michigan last weekend that if Congress did not meet his funding demands for border security, he may support a government shutdown this fall.
All I hear is the sound of a spoon being beat on a high chair tray.
Yeah, go ahead. Shut down the government during an election, Buddy. Smart move. Did Jared come up with that?
Thanks to Papa for the heads up.
I’d guess an idea that foolish could only come from Rudy Giuliani. Has anyone told Drooling Donald that his hotels are supported by tourism? Including foreign tourists? Plus, what about the H1B Visas that so many industries use to drive down wages?
Of course, he may have just been playing to the audience.
1no doubt we all have friends and family that are doing the high five thing and dancing around shouting “Hell yeah! maga!” over this.
2And if that doesn’t work, he’ll hold his breath till he turns blue. We can only hope.
Damn, I miss having an adult President.
3An assured exit from the U.S. is why I live close to Canada.
4who knows one of his idiot savants advisors may have convinced him that if he shuts down the gov. for election day that it will not count and he can just keep the rubber stamps in congress that have learned to like kissing his okole.
5Trumpkin is too st00pid for words to describe. But the real horror are the number of dimwitted aholes that think he is our savior. This may explain why jesus has a high following, people like their leaders to be more st00pid then they are!
6Does the POTUS have the capacity to just shut down the Fed. government, even if it is funded?
7I believe it’s gonna eventually come out that this kinda crap has come from the putrid cesspool that is the mind of Stephen Miller.
8Government shutdown. Thats actually what he means but there are times when he cannot get this tongue around an idea. Yes, he can pretty much do that. The fiscal year is only so long. It usually ends in September and if the Hill hasn’t voted funding for the government for the next fiscal year, things kind of stop but not the military or Social Security which spits out checks mechanically. He can also stop it by throwing a two year old idea of a hissy fit if he doesn’t like the funding bill, particularly if there is nothing in it for this fictional wall. And I say fictional cuz even if he ever did get the money, getting the wall to materialize is quite another thing.
9ITMFA–and convict the Traitor. Don’t let him get away with this nonsense.
10Well, now that Melania’s parents have arrived via the chain-immigrant route, why not close the country down?
11Although not fluent in whatever it is that passes for “speech” from Spanky Drumpf, I suspect Spanky is talking about shutting down access to his Huhmerika from the world. So tourists that expected to visit Flow-rye-DUH and maybe stay in one of Spanky’s properties: to effen bad Huhmerika’s closed. And those high-rollers who might want to visit a Spanky casino, Hey you money colored dewds and dewdettes, Huhmerika is closed. Go spend chore money elsewhere.
Of course this crime family’s arrogance is immeasurable, but here’s hoping they’ll each get to spend some quality time in a Club Fed soon.
12Who knew that “Make America Great Again” would turn out to be so simple? All you gotta do is hang out a “closed” sign. Great! Again!
13@Ted:
I’ve had the idea of moving much closer to Canada more than a few times lately.
14Maybe we will closed down the country and paint the walls, clean up the grease in the corners, pick up garbage and make everything pretty for the guests and visitors?
15I live in Minnesota, a nice blue liberal state. BTW, it happens to border on our lovely neighbor, Canada. It’s a very easy matter to drive up there and visit our friends. If the country is closed I suggest driving to Baudette, Minn, and taking a lovely morning walk — northward. There are lots of rivers and lakes up that way so it might be simpler to cruise a little farther west to the farming area, maybe see the fine folks in Roseau, and pack up for a nature hike.
Personally, I’m going with the Roseau plan.
16@Ted. Move to Mexico-the climate is better, the food is better, and literally there will be a wall between you and Trump
17@Mike. Agree about climate, food, and wall. But have you heard the music?
18slipstream: actually I love mariachi music.
OTOH perhaps we SHOULD ask for America to close – for one day and force the citizens to attend a day long meeting for racial bias training. We could also have a new “flag” on our avatars, similar to the French tricolor, but in shades of brown, beige, very light beige and white. And label them “je suis barista”.
19Why did the white evangelicals vote for Trump? I know they didn’t like Hillary but why did they vote for him instead of Cruz or Bush or Pence, and why do the white evangelicals back Trump over Pence five to one today? It’s simple, since Nixon the Republicans have used the “Southern Strategy” to get into office and as soon as they got in said “it’s too early now wait until next year, next election”. Now along comes Trump who is an open bigot: he ran as a bigot and he is serving as a bigot. To put in white evangelicals terms he is their Moses leading them to the Jim Crow promised land. When he says he could kill someone in the street and they will still back him it’s true they will back him till the day they die.
20“All I hear is the sound of a spoon being beat on a high chair tray.”
It may be only Monday, but that’s the line of the week, right there
21@Ted
@Mike
several work acquaintances who fished together in Texas retired together in Puerto Peñasco, a town of 60ish thousand on the Mexico side of the Gulf of California. They purchased homes for a few thousand USD and fish pretty much every day in the green water. 60ish highway miles from Yuma Arizona. Regular air service to and from LA and LV.
I hear there is a Sonic and a WalMart*.
22This is merely a further manifestation of the belief he holds that he is king. All the EOs like a king would fling. Shutting down the government and the country. Well – look at what has happened to kings in history … Just sayin’.
23“Yeah, go ahead. Shut down the government during an election, Buddy. Smart move.”
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Trump’s entire motivation is to destroy the Republican Party.
And that’s to say nothing of the country.
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