Totally normal to threaten withdrawal of federal funding from the nation’s capital. Certainly and no question this is a thing a sane chief executive would do.
Normal, as I say, and pure Trump. Always with the strong-arming. I’ll take money from you if you don’t let me parade my storm troopers around and crow that I “restored order.”
The way subsequent Presidents and Congresses handled the aftermath of the Civil War set in stone our path to eventual failure.
Threatening to selectively slashing funding to Democratic lead cities is most likely just more trump BS. On the other hand encouraging voters to vote twice might wake up some of the undecided if the Lincoln Project and Biden can make a big enough issue of that.
Much as I can’t wait to see this moron get his knuckles rapped, it does tickle me that he’s opening the door to review funding going to debtor red states. In my fantasy world, those leeches would be kicked to the curb and told to live off their own resources.
Just so I’m clear, you mean the subsequent presidents and Congresses after a southern fanatic killed Lincoln?
Clearly a PR stunt to get attention on his L&O “agenda” and to keep COVID-19 Epic Fail out of the headlines for another news cycle.
Travel much? When you do, do you visit different regions of the nations you travel to? Just curious.
Any review of the “Reconstruction” will surmise it was anything but.
trump is highlighting the weaknesses and what is wrong with the experiment. A better solution would be to learn from his corruption and work toward never allowing someone to make the same moves he has made.
No argument but I think Lincoln’s death was consequential as well.
Round 645 of the Arsonist-and-Firefighter routine: Break something so that you can (pretend to) heroically fix it.
It’s a no-lose proposition for him: If he loses, he can take the world down with him; if he wins, he gets a head start on executing all the vengeance that lives inside his bloated, diseased heart.
We’d both agree that once something bad happens in your life the test is what you do going forward from that moment. You can’t undo the bad, but you can mitigate the damage wrought. Lincoln was killed, and then we set about as a nation crafting a plan that made it worse.
Why not? It is not the Peoples money, it is his.
The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?
Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my fucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied: Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldn’t have both his money and a transition.
Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition.
That’s cruel. I would send each of them a pair of bootstraps to pull themselves up.
give the govenors and state reps random drug tests, work requirements, and implement austerity measures / claw back wages and benefits from elected officials and the sherrif’s department, restrict the amount of development and religious exceptions/tax creidts the state can give, choose the food they eat in the state capitol cafeteria, and close the low interest fed window to banks located in the “red state zone”
Open the flood gates to other predatory and payday lenders (IMF, etc), auction off state buildings, privatize the state highways, and sell state land to the feds.
Nationalize the charter schools and tear down monuments to scofflaws and traitors, all of which cost too much for these broke ass failed states to maintain themselves.
These states simply cannot be trusted to manage their own finances any longer. This is what we do to “help” low income communities so, naturally, it should work with the states, too?
Right?
Let him. Let him try. He does not control the purse. He may have Congress in his pocket but elections are coming up. He can’t STOP money coming. Everyone will sue. He is bluster and drool and completely offensive POS.
I suppose if Trump was to do this it would justify the non payment of taxes by the folks that live in those cities. But he can’t do this.
This will last for about a minute once it goes to court.
Although it’s much more likely that before anything like President Lowlife is suggesting will be effective, Joe Biden will be president.