Just saw this on CNN.

[sheshe2]

Dump wants to take money from the funds for Puerto Rico and Texas relief for his wall. Money from the brown people in PR and a red state that has far to many minorities to fund a wall to keep out more brown people. Do you see a pattern here? Hint. Brown people.

It has been allocated and he can't touch it.

Such an evil ugly man.

[lunatica]

1. He is a grotesque facsimile of a human being

Nowhere close to the real thing.

[sheshe2]

4. This!

[ailsagirl]

22. I always thought he could be summed up in one word

GROTESQUE

[atreides1]

29. Well

You have pretty much described the entire Republican party, from Trump to members of Congress all the way down to those deplorables that Secretary Clinton described!

The entire bunch is corrupt, hateful, and would sell out this country without thinking twice!!!

[sheshe2]

44. Sadly.

They already did.

Thirty pieces of silver was the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus, according to an account in the Gospel of Matthew 26:15 in the New Testament.

https://www.google.com/search?q=30+pieces+of+silver&rlz=1C1QXKF_enUS692US706&oq=30pieces+of+silver&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.11616j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[dchill]

33. A grotesque fascismile. Too.

[Freethinker65]

2. Rescind the fucking tax cuts

[maxsolomon]

20. As long as the GOP has 50 senators and the VP, a non-starter

wishing won't make it so.

2021. maybe.

[Palisade]

3. The courts will stop him

At that point he will throw his hands up in the air and blame the deep state or some shit and his cult followers will all agree and still support him

[maxsolomon]

21. If I understand it correctly, the SCOTUS

has already ruled that environmental regulations can be bypassed for border fence construction.

No NEPA, no EIS.

Whether that applies to SEPA (State), I don't know. So, maybe state courts can. But the Feds won't.

[cstanleytech]

24. That is over regulations not however money Congress has already earmarked for other

things as Congress has the power of the purse not the President and if he tries to spend money where it is not authorized it will be in violation of the law.

[keithbvadu2]

27. "in violation of the law" - as if that worried Trump for his own actions.

"in violation of the law" - as if that worried Trump for his own actions.

[dchill]

36. Violation of the law is a Trump specialty.

It's their go to.

[John Fante]

66. The courts have stopped Trump before.

They'll undoubtedly stop him here.

[True Blue American]

70. The people who own land

Along the border say they will fight this with every breath!

Is Lindsey being blackmailed or is he suffering from dementia,too? His eyes look absolutely crazed lately.

[Traildogbob]

85. Lindsey's eyes.

His brain is starved of oxygen from how deep he has his head planted up trump's ass.

[LTG]

94. Congress has passed over 100 laws

giving the President numerous powers to act under the National Emergencies Act. A number of these actually give him powers to re-allocate funds already budgeted to specific projects.

They have expressly ceded their power of the purse in a number of specific instances strictly at the discretion of the President. This has happened a number of times historically.

The National Emergencies Act, as well as the follow up statutes, give the President great discretion in declaring an emergency and very few limits or restrictions on what constitutes an emergency. The term is so vague the courts could easily defer to the discretion granted by congress.

Congress can terminate a Declaration by passing an act ending it, but it would be subject to veto. Both chambers would then have to overcome the veto, requiring a super majority. Unlikely to happen, at least in my estimation.

[NurseJackie]

5. It would be unwise of me to say out loud all the things I wish for him.

[sheshe2]

8. With ya, Nurse Jackie.

I keep those thoughts to myself. I wouldn't want to stoop to his level, even though he has been clear what he thinks of anyone that is not a straight white male.

[Solly Mack]

12. I am riding in that same boat with you.

[jrthin]

34. I loathe this feral thing!!!!!!!!

[littlemissmartypants]

51. +1000 nt

[True Blue American]

71. Same here, Nurse Jackie!

[malaise]

6. Did you see his tweet about cutting FEMA's wildfires' money

Evil does not describe this monster

[sheshe2]

11. Saw that too.

I know evil doesn't cut it. I don't know a word that does.

[dchill]

37. That word is "Trump."

[ginnyinWI]

7. Thinks he's CEO/King of the US.

Thinks all the funds are his. Thinks he owns the Republicans in the Senate. I wish they’d correct him on that point.

[C_U_L8R]

9. He must worship some evil chaos deity (or Vladimir Putin)

He's actually trying to do the most disgusting, despicable and cruel-hearted things to Americans and our country.

[littlemissmartypants]

52. He's a sociopath. Evil is good to the sociopath. To love is to hurt.

It's what they do. It's so twisted.

[FiveGoodMen]

90. Yes

And 100,000,000 pieces of Satan's shit support him.

Disgusting, despicable and cruel-hearted, every one of them.

[BigmanPigman]

10. It will never happen. Lawrence Tribe gave reasons why...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211653788
Here’s the scoop legally:
1. Trump illegally declares emergency, claims power to build wall with tax $ appropriated for other uses only.
2. Courts say it’s premature to block POTUS till he DOES something.
3. Trump signs bill opening government & claims victory
4. No wall.

A fellow DUer wrote this...
5. Trump orders construction of the wall.
6. Dems sue.
7. Tied up in the courts then ends up at SCOTUS.
8. SCOTUS rules against Trump.
9. No wall.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. This assumes #3 actually happens

because Turtle is holding the bills hostage in an undisclosed location.

As a sidenote - I looked at a streamed replay of him adjourning the Senate (for the night because the Democrats kept him from adjourning until next week) and he was slurring and mumbling his prepared schedule update statements. I don't think I have ever seen or heard him in that bad of shape.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4772599/adjourn

[BigmanPigman]

23. Everyone on DU keeps commenting on tRump's

nose sniffing and drugs but what I have noticed is his slurred speech and how that is increasing. I think the stress is getting to the GOP finally. I'd pay money to see McConnell sweat on a long term basis.

[sheshe2]

46. Stroke?

Possible. Have seen that happen.

[True Blue American]

73. With his rages, who knows?

I think Nurse Jackie will tell you, major strokes often start with small ones.

[virgogal]

13. No Puerto Rican that I know is brown.

[pnwmom]

26. Huh? There are Puerto Ricans of every color.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Puerto_Rico

According to the 2015 Race and Hispanic Origin estimate (2011–2015 American Community Survey) published by the US Census Bureau, the data for Puerto Rico was as follows:[23]

White alone 2,495,997
Black or African American alone 301,519
American Indian and Alaska Native alone 11,775
Asian alone 10,159
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone 129
Some Other Race alone 431,443
Two or More Races 332,051
Hispanic or Latino (of any race) 3,547,288
White alone, Not Hispanic or Latino 24,900

[littlemissmartypants]

54. Thank you for sharing this! nt

[virgogal]

67. That proved my point.

[pnwmom]

69. How does that prove that no Puerto Rican you know is brown?

How does this prove who you know, or what color they are?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

89. Because people simplistically keep labeling us as "brown" and we are

more complex than that.

[True Blue American]

74. Been there,know that is true.

[wellst0nev0ter]

28. Uh, you'd be surprised at the number of

black Puerto Ricans.

[mcar]

14. And stopping relief to California

Soulless monster.

[sheshe2]

18. I would think he did that because California is very blue.

Yet he is doing it to Texas which was very red and turning purple now.

Fact is the asshole turned a very very red section of CA BLUE! And I mean bright blue. The ass is in fact changing the landscape in ways he never meant too.

[mcar]

30. He is changing the landscape to blue

I hope for a very long time.

[sheshe2]

45. I love the color blue.

mcar.

[mcar]

48. My favorite

I hope it hits my red FL soon.

[sheshe2]

49. It is coming, mcar.

We can all help you make that happen.

Yes we can.

[littlemissmartypants]

55. We must all stay encouraged.

Our time's coming. Keep the faith.

[bdamomma]

82. ..............

[bluestarone]

15. EVERYDAY

This Fucker does something to destroy the USA!!!!!!

[Kath2]

16. Such a racist.

I just pray for impeachment.

[Phoenix61]

19. As close as Beto got, that could be just the

move to flip Texas blue. Maybe he should go ahead and pull funds from the Florida Panhandle that's trying to dig out from under what Hurricane Michael did. See how the Trumpsters there like him after that.

[wellst0nev0ter]

25. We have no president n/t

[bdamomma]

42. He's a thug

and white racist pig. I wish Stephen Miller would get his ass kicked so hard into Prison.

[littlemissmartypants]

56. +1

[keithbvadu2]

31. "take money" - and take some property from Texans.

"take money" - and take some property from Texans.

Haven't seen how Texas as a whole supports Trump taking property.

Cruz? Gohmert?

[George II]

32. This afternoon they were talking about him wanting to take FEMA funds from the California...

...fire victims, too.

Yes, an evil, nasty excuse for a human being.

[Glamrock]

35. You got it wrong hon.

That fucker ain't no kind of man. You can tell just by his treatment of women alone.

He's a fucking pig.



No seriously though. A fucking pig.

[spike jones]

38. If Trump looked on the outside how he is on the inside.

/revision/latest?cb=20120304185615

[NoMoreRepugs]

39. Madame Speaker needs to hear from us..... DONT GIVE IN.

I'm calling in the morning.

King tRumpy needs a good bitch slapping to understand that his actions have consequences.

[Honeycombe8]

40. The Texas relief funds wouldn't be just for brown people. That's for the hurricane disaster.

From last year, I guess? That's a variety of Texas residents.

[sheshe2]

47. I stated minorities in Texas.

minorities that include any and everyone that is not a straight white male. Sadly the poor white males that are his base will pay as they cheer him screwing over the non whites and women that they hate.

Beto closed a huge gap in Texas. They are in fact looking purple.

[littlemissmartypants]

61. So is NC, sheshe2.

But we are so damned gerrymandered. Get this, there were more votes by Democrats than Republicans in the state's midterms in some and still the R's won. It's SO messed up. We worked SO hard to GOTV. Fund raising, canvassing, meet and greets, dinner parties, barbecues, phone calls and we got close in so many long shot races, with women running and running the show! The good news is that local governments have started to turn. We'll be even more ready next time.

[sheshe2]

62. You all are awesome.

Keep up the good fight. You will do this, lmsp. Brava for fighting so hard.

[bdamomma]

41. Watching

MSNBC, Stephen Miller name was brought up by a Democratic House Rep. how tRump is making every legal Immigration way to get into the US stopped. Sorry I didn't get her name.

This is all about having the US "purely white again".

[sheshe2]

59. Not going to happen.

Census is going to tip the scales in 2045. They are terrified of becoming the minority.



The US will become ‘minority white’ in 2045, Census projects
Youthful minorities are the engine of future growth

[herding cats]

64. So, it's President Miller now?

He's the new man behind the Trump facade now that Bannon is gone?

[bdamomma]

83. Stephen Miller

is the tRump whisperer.

I am inserting this site/article about what Stephen Miller's uncle thinks of his nephew.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/08/13/stephen-miller-is-an-immigration-hypocrite-i-know-because-im-his-uncle-219351

[IronLionZion]

43. And he'll let California burn

since they are also too brown and too liberal

[littlemissmartypants]

50. And STUPID.

The president is an idiot. He's in way over his head. Mitch is laughing his ass off watching him squirm. He's just as evil (if not more evil) as pres-tidigitation. His own legislators are throwing him under the bus, watching him flounder, egging him on, like a bunch of frat boys yelling "drink, drink, drink" at the drunk freshman at his first keg party. If the president wasn't so stupid he would have figured this out. He's toast. Stick a fork in him, he's done. The RWNJ's have thrown him under the bus.

They are next in line. This wall obsession is going to flip on them like a pancake and slap them up side the head, hard.

More and more domino's are going to fall. Their constituents are getting hurt just based on the exponential mathematics. People are getting pissed off and the worm is going to turn.

Stay strong. Stay encouraged.

Our time is coming.

Madame Speaker, Keep Pounding.

[smirkymonkey]

53. I so fucking hate him!

This is money that is needed to deal with REAL crises right here, right now. Instead he wants to waste it on a manufactured crisis that he has invented in order to divert funds from worthwhile causes.

He can burn in hell for all I care.

[Blue Owl]

57. Fuck you Donald Trump

and every rotten, corrupt thing you stand for...

[bdamomma]

84. He will get his

ass kicked by Americans sooner than later. tRump is using people to get his fucking way. Randi said is he breaking the USA, and this thing about NSA is very dangerous and our airlines are going to suffer too. Destroying our National Parks too.

He's breaking the US for Putin. Mnuchin relaxed the sanctions for Russia.

[herding cats]

58. This will seriously impact local economies.

Greg Abbot, John Cronyn and Ted Cruz all stood by his side today in McAllen. I hope this stench rubs off on all of them, too.

[sheshe2]

60. Pretty sure it already has.

That or their stench, in close proximity, has commingled into one being. Evil breeds evil.

[herding cats]

63. Oh, I don't disagree!

I mean with the locals when they're being impacted by this cruel move to appease Trump. I don't want the local Texas gang of 3 to escape the blowback.

[sheshe2]

65. One day, herding cats.

One day they will all feel the blow back. Time is short and it's coming.

[lunasun]

68. Hey trump

1. Your soul is an appalling dump heap, overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable, mangled up in tangled-up knots.

2. You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile. (2a. Given the choice between the two of you, I’d take the seasick crocodile.)

3. The three best words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: “Stink, Stank, STUNK.”

4. Your heart’s a dead tomato splotched with moldy purple spots.

5. Your brain is full of spiders.

6. You’re a bad banana with a greasy black peel.

7. You have termites in your smile.

8. You’re as charming as an eel.

9. You nauseate me.

10. You’re a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce.

11. You’ve got garlic in your soul.

12. I wouldn’t touch you with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole.

13. Your heart is full of unwashed socks.

14. You’re a vile one.

15. Your soul is full of gunk.

16. You’re as cuddly as a cactus.

17. Your heart’s an empty hole.

18. You’re a monster.

19. You’re a foul one.

20. You’re a mean one.

21. You’re a nasty wasty skunk.

22. You’re a rotter.

23. You’re the king of sinful sots.

24. You really are a heel.

25. You’re a crooked jerky jockey and you drive a crooked hoss.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/grinch-burns-ranked-1830631157

[Vinca]

72. He also wants to take money away from California fire disaster funds.

It's hard to imagine anyone can be as stupid and heartless and self-centered as this.

[oasis]

75. MF45. nt

[SpankMe]

77. K&R to "evil and ugly". n/t

[alfredo]

79. 25 45

[sheshe2]

80. Works for me!

[alfredo]

81. Anything that sends him away,works for me.

[Linda Ed]

86. Gop had 2 years

Clearly this is not an issue of DEMs Not Wanting a Wall?!?!?! They had 2 years of GOP House and Senate, and couldn't fund this Myth. Republicans alone don't want this either. Shameless

[sheshe2]

87. Exactly right, Linda Ed! nt

[marble falls]

88. Everytime you think he's gone to the bottom he plumbs new depths. Ruerto Rico, yet ...

fortunately Mueller's report is coming. Cohen's speaking openly in the House. It is getting better.

[NastyRiffraff]

91. This is just vicious

He's punishing Puerto Rico, in part because he hates Carmen Yulín Cruz, San Juan's mayor who was justifiably highly critical of Trump after Hurricane Maria. Not sure what he has against Texas; Cruz's reaction to stealing relief funds should be interesting.

This is criminal. He's like a spoiled child, testing limits and throwing tantrums when someone like Nancy Pelosi tells him NO. Sadly, so far Republicans are telling him there are NO limits.

[homegirl]

92. And California

fire victims. He knows he will never get California's 55 electoral votes so we are to be punished!

[sheshe2]

93. Yes.

California too.