Amerika du hast es besser

[Peiresc]

Der Präsident hat gesagt, der shutdown wird noch Monate oder Jahre gehen, wenn er seine Mauer nicht kriegt.

Prolonged shutdown could leave millions without food stamps and hit small businesses
"There's going to be rioting in the streets when they cut the stamps off," one grocery store owner said. "Get your timber ready."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/prolonged-shutdown-could-leave-millions-without-food-stamps-hit-small-n955136

Drohende Hungerrevolten im reichsten Land der Welt.

[Peiresc]

Wie ist Trump eigentlich auf die Idee mit der Mauer gekommen? Die Frage ist natürlich falsch gestellt: er ist darauf gebracht worden. Es war der Geniestreich seiner Einflüsterer, um ihn beim Thema Einwanderung halten zu können (sonst wäre er nach 3 Minuten abgedriftet und hätte wieder seine eigene Größe verherrlicht):

As Mr. Trump began exploring a presidential run in 2014, his political advisers landed on the idea of a border wall as a mnemonic device of sorts, a way to make sure their candidate — who hated reading from a script but loved boasting about himself and his talents as a builder — would remember to talk about getting tough on immigration, which was to be a signature issue in his nascent campaign.

"How do we get him to continue to talk about immigration?" Sam Nunberg, one of Mr. Trump's early political advisers, recalled telling Roger J. Stone Jr., another adviser. "We're going to get him to talk about he's going to build a wall."

Talk Mr. Trump did, and the line drew rapturous cheers from conservative audiences, thrilling the candidate and soon becoming a staple of campaign speeches. Chants of "Build the wall!" echoed through arenas throughout the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/us/politics/donald-trump-border-wall.html

Die Genialität des Gröfatzkes in der Bedienung der Volksseele wurzelt im Einfallsreichtum seiner erfinderischen Zwerge.

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Trump just said illegal immigration has been a problem a problem in America for "thousands of years."

Ich habe aber keine weiteren Quellen finden können, die das auch berichten.
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Über Tucker Carlson:

But untruths were everywhere. After watching it, the conservative writer David French picked apart its inaccuracies on the subjects that he knows best. And he reached an astute conclusion that cuts to the core of the Fox host's larger project: "Carlson is advancing a form of victim-politics populism that takes a series of tectonic cultural changes—civil rights, women's rights, a technological revolution as significant as the industrial revolution, the mass-scale loss of religious faith, the sexual revolution, etc.—and turns the negative or challenging aspects of those changes into an angry tale of what they are doing to you."
https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/579460/

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Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says he is "heavily involved" in discussions about allowing Trump to invoke emergency powers to build "the wall."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/presidential-emergency-powers/576418/

Walter Shaub:
The analysis they're doing now is not "is it legal" but "can they stop us." That's always the calculus for Trump's team. (Motto: "No consequences? No problem.") Just ask Matt Whitaker who ignored the guidance of ethics officials that he should recuse from Mueller's investigation.

[Peiresc]

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wird nach der Finanzierbarkeit ihrer linken Pläne gefragt:

Anderson Cooper: "How are you going to pay for all of this?"

AOC: "No one asks how we're going to pay for the Space Force. No one asked how we paid for a $2 trillion tax cut. We only ask how we pay for it on issues of housing, healthcare and education."

Punkt für sie, würde ich sagen. 

Daran schließt sich übrigens folgende Diskussion an:

Josh Barro:
I seem to recall a lot of people asking how we were going to pay for a $2 trillion tax cut? And people don't ask what the Space Force will cost because they think it's fake.

Das mag schon sein, aber:

Not the people who passed the tax cut.
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Sure, some people asked but Paul Ryan responded with "It will pay for itself!" And the media continued to call him a policy wonk.
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This is literally what @RepKevinBrady said to voters when we were in line to vote in the midterms.  And they believed it and looked away when I called him out on it.
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She shoulda said mexico is gonna pay for it

[Peiresc]

Rechts deckt man weiter die furchtbaren Wahrheiten über das Vorleben von AOC auf.

Jim Hoft
@gatewaypundit

EXCLUSIVE: Yorktown Elitist and Bronx Hoaxer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Went by "Sandy" Well into College at Boston U (VIDEO)

Kevin M. Kruse:
I have it on good authority that your real name is "James" and yet you go by "Jim" to this very day.
How do you plead to this crime, sir?
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Henry Gilbert:
I'm guessing your college nicknames were either "shithead," "don't invite him," or "whiny dumbass"
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Danko Ramone:
Lady Ga Ga's real name is neither Lady nor Ga Ga, too.

[sailor]

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Trump just said illegal immigration has been a problem a problem in America for "thousands of years."

Ich habe aber keine weiteren Quellen finden können, die das auch berichten.
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Frag mal Azteken, Inkas, Cherokee und andere native americans... wenn du sie noch antriffst. Trump hat recht, illegale und unkontrollierte Immigration wütender weißer Männer ist Ursache für die meisten Probleme Amerikas heute

[Peiresc]

Daran wurde in der Tat auch in der Diskussion erinnert, aber die Mayflower ist erst 1620 gelandet. Passt also auch nicht so völlig.

[Tezcatlipoca]

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Trump just said illegal immigration has been a problem a problem in America for "thousands of years."

Ich habe aber keine weiteren Quellen finden können, die das auch berichten.
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Frag mal Azteken, Inkas, Cherokee und andere native americans... wenn du sie noch antriffst. Trump hat recht, illegale und unkontrollierte Immigration wütender weißer Männer ist Ursache für die meisten Probleme Amerikas heute

Fing nicht alles mit den Isländern vor 1000 Jahren an, die ohne Erlaubnis der Behörden in Nordamerika einwanderten? Trump soll Leif Eriksson verklagen!

[Peiresc]

Zählt nicht. Die wurden aufgeraucht, ganz ohne Mauer. Außerdem waren sie WASP, und deswegen trifft das alles nicht auf sie zu.

[sailor]

WASP - White Arian Scandinavian Pagans?

Auch die native americans sind wohl in mehreren Wellen immigriert... Aber seis drum, Trumps Antibildung ist weder zu toppen noch zu verstehen... oder meint er am Ende etwa deutsche "Tausend Jahre", dann könnte er über Obama herziehen, das wäre dann aber auch nur ein Vogelschiss (Birdshit).....

[Peiresc]

Und die Bundesangestellten (die Mehrzahl lebt von Paycheck zu Paycheck) würden für ihren Anführer sterben. Sagt ihr Anführer.

REPORTER: Can you relate to the pain of federal workers who can't pay their bills?

TRUMP: I can relate, and they will adjust, they always do, and they agree 100% with what I'm doing.

On behalf of all regular hard working Americans, F U @realDonaldTrump!

[Peiresc]

Es wird eine große Rede zur Mauer erwartet, nicht tear down, sondern build up.

ChuckGrassley
@realDonaldTrump when u give ur tv speech Tuesday night deliver it as if u were conversing with Iowans not New Yorkers
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile Of Mild Acceptance:
so there's a special way to lie to Iowans vs lying to New Yorkers?

Dave Weigel:
Need a second source, but my early reporting suggests that "New York" (sp?) is also part of the United States.

Daniel W. Drezner:
Big if true.

[Peiresc]

Man kann ziemlich sicher sein, dass Trump keine Ahnung hat, was ein shut down bedeutet.

The relationship between the length of a shutdown and its impact is not linear. A 30-day shutdown is not ten times as damaging as a three-day shutdown. It is probably 100 times as damaging.

The impending reality of millions of Americans going hungry and homeless is just one aspect of the horrors that await us. At some point, the shutdown will impinge upon Trump's C-suite constituency. Employees of the Transportation Security Administration have had to work without pay, but that cannot continue indefinitely. Already, employees at some airports have begun staging sick-outs. At some point, air travel will grind to a halt, and with it large segments of the economy. By next month, tax refunds will be in jeopardy.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/01/trump-shutdown-government-did-not-know.html

Seine Ministerien haben auch keine Ahnung. Bei denen weiß die rechte Hand nicht, was die rechte tut:

HUD instructed landlords to use reserve funds during shutdown – not knowing federal program had expired
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Calling it "a last-minute effort to prevent the eviction of thousands of tenants," the Post notes a "lot of those tenants live in units covered by a HUD program that many agency officials didn't realize had expired on Jan. 1," and adds that "they are now unable to renew."
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/hud-instructed-landlords-use-reserve-funds-shutdown-not-knowing-federal-program-expired/

[Peiresc]

Der Präsident und sein Mauer-Flitz.

"I have never had so much support, as I have in the last week, over my stance for border security, for border control and for, frankly, the wall or the barrier," he told reporters. "I have never had this much support."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/07/trump-border-wall-fight-government-shutdown-1086050

Inzwischen weiß man ja solche statements zu deuten. Translate Trump: Er war noch nie so einsam mit seinen Ideen wie diesmal.

[Peiresc]

Mein kursorischer, gebiaster, unsystematischer Überblick über die Meldungen heute morgen sagt mir, dass der fallout des shut downs über Trump und nicht über die Demokraten hereinbrechen wird.

Ronald Reagan hat mal auf den Vorwurf, er hätte Wahlkampfthemen aufgegeben, in etwa erwidert: er sei lieber damit zufrieden, 80% zu erreichen, als mit wehender Fahne von der Klippe zu springen. Trump will offenbar springen. Genauer: er glaubt natürlich nicht zu springen, sondern er glaubt, das Tor zur grenzenlosen, unbeschränkten Macht zu durchschreiten.

In gewisser Weise ist das sogar stimmig: wenn er diesen Mauer-Schwachsinn durchbringt, dann müssen die Demokraten zu allem ja und amen sagen. Ein Grund mehr für die, nicht nachzugeben. Und im Moment jedenfalls wirken sie kühler, überlegter als die Republikaner.

[Peiresc]

Die Amerikaner haben den diplomatischen Status der EU-Gesandschaft herabgestuft.

The unannounced move by the US State Department, which has not previously been reported, downgraded the EU delegation's diplomatic status in Washington from member state to international organization.

"We don't exactly know when they did it, because they conveniently forgot to notify us," an EU official who is familiar with the matter told DW in an interview.
https://www.dw.com/en/trump-administration-downgrades-eu-mission-to-us/a-46990608

(Meine Hervorhebung).