There’s A Crisis At The Border!
BY Herschel Smith5 years, 1 month ago
Days after threatening to close the U.S. border with Mexico, President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that his administration would slap tariffs on autos long before it considered sealing the nation off from its southern neighbor.
“I don’t think we’ll ever have to close the border,” Trump said in the Oval Office.
Trump’s statement marked a significant departure from his position last week, when he said there was a “very good likelihood” he would close the border this week. The White House faced sharp blowback from business groups and Republicans on Capitol Hill for the threat. A closure would disrupt the flow of roughly $1.5 billion in daily trade.
White House aides sought to soften the language through the week as the president prepared for a visit Friday to the border in California. Trump said earlier Thursday that he would give Mexico a year to halt the flow of illegal drugs coming into the USA. If the drugs didn’t stop, he said, the United States would impose tariffs on Mexican-made cars.
Seeking the Latino vote, is he?
There’s a crisis at the border! There’s a crisis at the border! There’s a crisis at the border! Oops. Not so much. There will be a year from now.
What a blowhard. In other news, a brand new gang appears.
The Cártel de Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL) emerged from a 2017 split from the CJNG which is led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka “El Mencho.” As a result, this new cartel—the CSRL, led by José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, aka “El Marro”— now dominates the illicit fuel trade in Guanajuato
But be of good cheer. Maybe they won’t charge too much for “protection” and fuel when they get here. And Trump will have his Latino voters for the next election. And America will be the land of “bring all the people here, we’re rich, we can afford it!”
On April 5, 2019 at 9:04 am, George said:
So Trump is no longer worried about invaders crossing the Border in massive unknown numbers. He is now, apparently, only concerned with drug smuggling and we will give them a year to fix that. We will of course stay in Syria and other parts of the Middle East to ensure Israel’s Borders.
We could fix our Border issues with a small fraction of the money we spend defending other nations borders if congress would also pass some immigration laws with teeth in them. None of that will happen though because we have no politicians in the USA who care about America.
Mr. Trump, you are mostly a man of talk. Not a man of action.
On April 5, 2019 at 9:18 am, revjen45 said:
How about paying for the wall with a 50% tax on remittance money sent out of the country?
On April 5, 2019 at 10:25 am, ragman said:
Trump needs a primary challenger, a true American that is afraid of nothing and will put America first. How about “President Tucker Carlson “?
On April 5, 2019 at 10:55 am, MTHead said:
We should grab a couple cargo ships, load them up. and go take over Guatemala. I mean, why not pull an end run?
On April 5, 2019 at 3:46 pm, Deter Naturalist said:
Nothing will change until this period of Plenitude (bought with the Big MasterCard) ends.
As long as borrowing a dollar, then spending it (on what it doesn’t matter) creates TWO dollars of “wealth” (a GDP-counted dollar cascading through the economy plus a second, free dollar of wealth that’s called a bill, a note or a bond and goes onto the asset side of the creditor’s balance sheet), then the borders will stay open and the poz continue.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up almost 20,000 points in the last 10 years. If not for the brief, almost perfect 20% decline last fall, we’d currently be in the longest bull run (without a 20% “correction”) in history. Don’t you feel wealthy? Isn’t prosperity growing like Jack’s proverbial bean stalk?
Just don’t notice that the DJIA was about 600 (six HUNDRED) back in 1974 when total debt was “only” $2.2 trillion, and Q3-2018 total debt hit $71 trillion, following a nice exponentially rising curve. There just couldn’t be any connection, could there?
I can’t wait to see what happens when everyone realizes that their “savings” is actually IOU’s, and those who issued the IOU’s are deadbeats who pissed away the capital value on parties, hookers, blow and building toll bridges to nowhere.
On April 7, 2019 at 3:00 pm, Ned said:
So, after eight years of hearing how Obama was going to ban guns, and everyone buying guns & ammo like there was a fire sale, the president that conservatives have a love affair with -and with the blessings of the NRA – actually went and did it. With barely a peep from “conservatives.”
All because one was supposedly used in a crime – and they’re so sure of that they wouldn’t even let BATF examine the alleged offending weapons. But because of that crime, 500,000 + MAGA people are now instant felons.
What hill will “conservatives” choose to die on? A Republican MAGA president eroded the crap out of the Second Amendment. Yet “who else you gonna vote for?” is the answer I get.
So I’m told the President can’t control the border, because, you know, “he’s not a king, and congress, etc”. and forget what Ike did, because – times were different. But he can injure RKBA with the stroke of a pen. He just can’t keep out illegal aliens, and has opened the floodgates for more legal ones.
So much winning.