Discussion: Pentagon Bigs Visit Border to Review Deployment Stunt

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Stunt. What better word to summarize everything Donnie does?

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{AP} is too lazy today to even bother with “both sides”.

All of that and this:

Critics dismissed his use of the military on the border as a political gimmick on the eve of midterm congressional elections.

is the single “contrasting view” sentence.

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Shanahan also tried his hand at firing a couple of Border Patrol weapons, including one that fires plastic bullets.

Paintball Gun

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“Operation Blackholed Money”

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Good guys without guns including Laurence Tribe Harvard constitutional law professor gonna end the madness.

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Reality TV stunt. The whole goddamn presidency.

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Critics also call the border wall an idiotic idea proposed by an idiot.

This fact is cited as the primary reason Mexico has refused to pay for the wall.

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 His visit Saturday was meant to help him decide whether to
     approve such spending.

bullshit …
It’s a photo op to rationalize and justify a decision that’s already been made …

therefore … another fucking waste of money to go shoot a paintball gun —

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An idiot wrapped in a moron inside an imbecile.

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Smothered in redundancy sauce —

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Flambèed in Boring.

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The military isn’t allowed to do domestic policing. What else can you possibly call this?

Lawsuit for miles… Mybe Trump can build a wall with all the paper they’ll generate.

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with a side of word salad —

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The pedestrian fencing would include detection systems that could alert border patrol agents when someone is attempting to damage or break through the fencing. The money would come from the Pentagon’s drug interdiction programs.

So all of this bullsh*t is to prevent drugs from being smuggled into the US by taking money from programs to prevent drugs from being smuggled into the US.

I mean, I can’t even.

Democrats in Congress, meanwhile, are seeking to block Trump’s emergency declaration to stop the diversion of Pentagon funds for his border wall. The House is to vote Tuesday on a resolution to block Trump.

I assume that the military is counting on Congress & the courts stopping this nonsense.

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I’m old enough to remember back to just a couple of weeks ago when the heads of all the major Intelligence Services testified to Congress and not a single one mentioned our southern border as a national security threat.

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I prefer to look on the bright side — our troops would prefer doing nothing at the southern border through the winter months than risking their lives and freezing their asses off in Afghanistan right now.

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With Russian Caesar dressing

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How can we stop this from escalating?

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Remember this is Trump 'the sissy, sending the Military to the border to protect us from unarmed people looking for a better life.
Remember Trump only knows how to make other people make him look like a man he can never be.

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