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Trump is dreaming about the declaration of emergency again. His people are preparing a draft declaration.
“The massive amount of aliens who unlawfully enter the United States each day is a direct threat to the safety and security of our nation and constitutes a national emergency,” a draft of a presidential proclamation reads.
“Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C 1601, et seq.), hereby declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States,” the draft adds.
“The massive amount of aliens” – whoever wrote the draft doesn’t rite so good.
If the President proceeds with the declaration, it’ll likely be challenged in court and by Democrats in Congress, as critics have argued that Trump cannot use the national emergency authority to free up taxpayer funds and build the border wall he has long promised his political supporters.
The question of legality and court challenges is still one of the main hang-ups in using executive action to secure the wall funding. Trump’s advisers have cautioned that taking that route would lead to certain legal challenge, meaning the wall construction would still be delayed.
Well that’s no fun. He wants it to be all “I, Donald Trump, do here sine my naym in big thick black up and down loops and say that I can billd Wall” and the thing is done. He’s the boss! He should be able to have Wall just because he says so!
Well, even if a declaration of a national emergency doesn’t get him Wall straight away (and I’m still amazed that a man who has spent his life in construction seems to think that Wall will magically appear ((or refugees magically disappear)) once funding is secured) he can console himself with watching Great American Soldiers shooting Nasty brown Aylyuns at the border.
AoS, Trump didn’t really work “in construction”, though. That is actual work, and I don’t think he’s ever really done any of that. He mostly gave them his name to use, and that can be done quickly. He probably knows it takes time to build a building, but buildings are complicated. They have, like, rooms and things. Plumbing. Wiring. Foundations. Permits.
Walls? Just go slap some stuff together. It’s a single, unitary structure without wiring, plumbing, or rooms. Or foundations. Or, in the case of Trump’s Wall, no permits, just old-fashioned blood and guts (in his mind, not in mine. The only blood and guts are those spilled by the asylum seekers).
True. And the ultimate irony would be in who would do the bulk of the physical construction work in erecting Wall. Hint: not people with recognisably U.S. accents.
What? They’re going to have it done by Brooklynites?
Okay, I’ll throw myself out.
Oh, please stay; that’s comedy right there.