Box
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- Mar 19, 2018
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"Objective truth" being what it is theses days - exactly how are we going to define "properly secured"
...is it a turnstile that accepts tokens?
...is it a 20 foot high border wall that would rival anything ever built by the Ming Dynasty?
...is it 2000 miles of chain link fence secured by a few hundred gates held shut with Series-300 padlocks?
...is there a clearly defined consequence for violating the sanctity of said border?
Verily I say unto thee - to solve a problem, one must first define the problem.
The next thing is to figure out what our politicians will use as a campaign platform should they actually surrender to their voters and FIX the actual problem that they ran on.
There is no sustainable profit stream connected to "securing the border" - which should be enough to convince people that the problem - as it impacts the average aMErickan - is NEVER going to be solved.
Properly secure it - and the maintenance becomes little more than changing the oil in your car every few thousand miles.
Opening the discussion - creating dialogue - reviewing courses of action
These are all great ways to "show progress" without actually fixing anything and unless there is a true super-majority in both houses of congress that are willing to support any given presidents' campaign promises - talk and band aids is all we will ever get.
Trump had the congress AND the senate his first time around and people like John McCain FUCKED him out of pure spite. They didn't care that their ego and irresistible urges to score some camera time at any cost - they just wanted to fuck the Orangeman for being mean to them.
I lived in Yuma and watched McCain campaign on "completing the wall" as he walked side by side with a uniformed Border Patrol Agent. I listened to countless ramblings from them man on getting rid of Obamacare and then when he had the chance...
- he helped scuttle the ship because OrangeMan bad.
It isn't about what President Trump wants to do - or how bad "we the people" want him to do it.
It's about the 535 voting members of the US Congress that fill their days with networking and fundraising...
- what? you need me to cross the aisle and vote for your silly little partisan pet project so you can sell it as "bipartisan?
Well why not; I'm not up for reelection this cycle and my constituents will have long forgotten about it before I run again.
I'll tell ya what - if one of your lobbyists makes a charitable donation to the "Box Foundation" - your silly assed pet project has my zealous bipartisan support. Hell, I may even be able to get one of my colleagues to vote for it if you stay quiet about that donation to the "Box Foundation"
Rinse and Repeat
...is it a turnstile that accepts tokens?
...is it a 20 foot high border wall that would rival anything ever built by the Ming Dynasty?
...is it 2000 miles of chain link fence secured by a few hundred gates held shut with Series-300 padlocks?
...is there a clearly defined consequence for violating the sanctity of said border?
Verily I say unto thee - to solve a problem, one must first define the problem.
The next thing is to figure out what our politicians will use as a campaign platform should they actually surrender to their voters and FIX the actual problem that they ran on.
There is no sustainable profit stream connected to "securing the border" - which should be enough to convince people that the problem - as it impacts the average aMErickan - is NEVER going to be solved.
Properly secure it - and the maintenance becomes little more than changing the oil in your car every few thousand miles.
Opening the discussion - creating dialogue - reviewing courses of action
These are all great ways to "show progress" without actually fixing anything and unless there is a true super-majority in both houses of congress that are willing to support any given presidents' campaign promises - talk and band aids is all we will ever get.
Trump had the congress AND the senate his first time around and people like John McCain FUCKED him out of pure spite. They didn't care that their ego and irresistible urges to score some camera time at any cost - they just wanted to fuck the Orangeman for being mean to them.
I lived in Yuma and watched McCain campaign on "completing the wall" as he walked side by side with a uniformed Border Patrol Agent. I listened to countless ramblings from them man on getting rid of Obamacare and then when he had the chance...
- he helped scuttle the ship because OrangeMan bad.
It isn't about what President Trump wants to do - or how bad "we the people" want him to do it.
It's about the 535 voting members of the US Congress that fill their days with networking and fundraising...
- what? you need me to cross the aisle and vote for your silly little partisan pet project so you can sell it as "bipartisan?
Well why not; I'm not up for reelection this cycle and my constituents will have long forgotten about it before I run again.
I'll tell ya what - if one of your lobbyists makes a charitable donation to the "Box Foundation" - your silly assed pet project has my zealous bipartisan support. Hell, I may even be able to get one of my colleagues to vote for it if you stay quiet about that donation to the "Box Foundation"
Rinse and Repeat
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