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In reply to the discussion: Senator Jack Reed just released statement on Trump declaring a national emergency to build wall [View all]jmowreader
(50,557 posts)If Trump attempts to divert already-allocated defense funds to his wall without congressional approval, he will have become a full-blown Tinhorn Dictator and a Domestic Enemy. The Founding Fathers were very much against Tinhorn Dictators, and the oaths of enlistment and commissioning that all military members swear out require us to defend the country against "all enemies, foreign and domestic."
I would never recommend that the 82nd Airborne should go to Washington, enter the White House, capture this entire administration and put them up against the wall...there are well-defined procedures for removing a tyrannical president from his office, and if the Republican Party has a grain of patriotism left in their corrupt little bodies, they damn well better cooperate with us in sending him away. Yes, I know the Republicans have the right to have a president of their party in office, if he wins the election. This 8-ball is no president.