How Trump's proposed bump stock ban will actually work

[jmowreader]

Step 1: Trump sends out a tweet saying he has directed the DOJ to issue a regulation banning bump stocks.

Step 2: The DOJ will rightly point out that Trump's edict requires legislative action.

Step 3: The Republicans in Congress will create a bill that has a bump stock ban plus some combination of:
$30 million for Trump's May Day parade
$45 billion for the wall
a repeal of Medicaid
increase in the Social Security retirement age to 86
immediate deportation of all DREAMers
a federal abortion ban
legislative repeal of Obergefell v Hodges
or three or four other things the Republicans will use to attack the Democrats during the 2018 campaign whether Democrats sign off on them or not

Step 4: The Democrats filibuster the living shit out of this atrocity of a bill. Our leadership will get up and say, "if it was a clean bump stock ban we'd sign readily, but this isn't. It is nothing more or less than a way to try to kill the Democratic Party." Fox News will paint our leadership as unpatriotic and willing to kill children to advance our legislative agenda.

Step 5: The bill dies.

Step 6: Trump will then send about 300 tweets blaming the Democrats for not passing the bump stock ban.

Rinse and repeat.

[Stinky The Clown]

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