Clown Car IV: The Dotard and Dunce Parade

[Broken_Erika]

Trump border wall: US president suffers new construction setback

US President Donald Trump has again been thwarted in his attempt to use military money to fund his wall along the border with Mexico.

On Saturday, he lodged an appeal against a ruling by a judge blocking him from using defence department funds for anti-drug activities.

But a panel of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the freeze, saying it was up to Congress to allocate funds.

Mr Trump declared a national emergency over the wall earlier this year.

He said he needed $6.7bn (£5.3bn) to it as a matter of national security.

Building the wall was a major election campaign promise.

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Two of the three-judge panel in San Francisco agreed with the lower court's decision.

"As for the public interest, we conclude that it is best served by respecting the Constitution's assignment of the power of the purse to Congress, and by deferring to Congress's understanding of the public interest as reflected in its repeated denial of more funding for border barrier construction," the two judges wrote in their ruling.

In May, federal judge Haywood Gilliam temporarily blocked the use of defence department funds because it had not been approved by Congress.

About 20 states, along with groups including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), have filed lawsuits to try to stop the president using the emergency declaration to bypass Congress.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48869710

 

[Takhisis]

Examples of democratic lunacy?

Gun control.

 

[adcarrymaokai]

Gun control.

How is it pertinent just to the Democrats? Most countries in the world have gun control.

 

[Takhisis]

Yes, but Commodore is very nearly a single-issue voter. If you vote for gun control you are a lunatic.

I was also referring to Sean Hannity's usual headline on Faux News: ‘Liberal lunacy’.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Yes, but Commodore is very nearly a single-issue voter. If you vote for gun control you are a lunatic.

I was also referring to Sean Hannity's usual headline on Faux News: ‘Liberal lunacy’.

To much of the world it looks like US lunacy.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh, yes, liberals are ‘Americans’.

 

[r16]

ı don't know , ı was grew up in a time Russkies were the best and here's some VE Day Parade in contrast to Bradleys on trailers ; scroll down for seals

 

[Broken_Erika]

So apparently in 1775, the Continental Army captured all the Airports from the British.

Donald Trump's 'airport' revolution sees people rewrite history
A speech by the president of the United States will always get attention, especially on 4 July.

But Donald Trump's 2019 address to mark America's Independence Day has been flying around on social media more than usual.

During the address in Washington DC, Mr Trump suggested the Continental Army "took over the airports" during the revolutionary war against Britain in the late 18th Century.

It's not clear exactly what Mr Trump was referring to. The first successful plane to take flight was the Wright Flyer, in the US, in 1903 - more than 100 years later.

In response, people have been adding their own, imagined references to air travel within established history.

The hashtag #revolutionarywarairportstories has been used nearly 4,000 times on Twitter so far, and the term Revolutionary War used more than 16,000 times.

Twitter user @King_Of_Shade invented the Battle of Baggage Claim in 1776.
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User SlumdogSkillionaire commented: "By the end of the war there was not a single airport on the continent that was under British control. The troops were nothing if not thorough."

While another user added that: "Not a single RAF aircraft was in the skies above America during the Battle of Yorktown. What a strategic accomplishment!"

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-48880867

 

[Kyriakos]

If you play right, by 1776 in civ3 you can have a first airplane running. And controlling nearby airports is crucial, particularly if your very few ww1 tanks are killed by a pikeman who had full hitpoints exactly due to the absence of a bombing run

 

[Takhisis]

Pikeman on mountain + barricade + nearby radar tower and on the other side of a river… oh yeah, it just might work.

 

[Kyriakos]

Pikeman on mountain + barricade + nearby radar tower and on the other side of a river… oh yeah, it just might work.

Sorry, I meant spearman. The immortal spearman in a metro or size 2 city can and will take out at least one ww1-era tank.

 

[Takhisis]

Oh! Well, if it's a spearman then you don't need barricades or mountains or anything.

 

[Arakhor]

So, Trump is blaming his Revolutionary airports gaffe on the teleprompter being "kaput", but apparently forgot how he'd started the sentence and ended up contradicting himself mid-lie.

"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it but despite the rain it was just a fantastic evening."

 

[Cutlass]

ı don't know , ı was grew up in a time Russkies were the best and here's some VE Day Parade in contrast to Bradleys on trailers ; scroll down for seals



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They probably built that street intentionally in such a way as they could handle it. The M1 tanks are over 60 tons. This outweighs anything which can legally be used on an American road to such a great extent that we simply do not build roads that can handle that weight.

Even when they transport an M1 by truck, they dissemble it so reduce the weight.

 

[Socrates99]

So, Trump is blaming his Revolutionary airports gaffe on the teleprompter being "kaput", but apparently forgot how he'd started the sentence and ended up contradicting himself mid-lie.

"I knew the speech very well so I was able to do it without a teleprompter but the teleprompter did go out and it was actually hard to look at anyway because there was rain all over it but despite the rain it was just a fantastic evening."

Just sayin' the teleprompter may not be to blame.

 

[adcarrymaokai]

Where were you when you learned of general Washington’s glorious triumph at LaGuardia?

 

[FriendlyFire]

ı don't know , ı was grew up in a time Russkies were the best and here's some VE Day Parade in contrast to Bradleys on trailers ; scroll down for seals

Ivan is big on Red square parades and WW2 glorification
Well they did lose 20+ Mil dead, just wish they would discared the old soviet era distorted version of history

 

[Colon]

So apparently in 1775, the Continental Army captured all the Airports from the British.

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-48880867

Pretty sure he's doing stuff like this on purpose. It's not going to cost him support from his voters, but it does win sympathy from having snooty liberals piling on him again. Distracting his opponents from discussing real issues is a bonus.

 

[Cloud_Strife]

Dude's sundowning/suffering heavily from dementia.

 

[Lexicus]

Pretty sure he's doing stuff like this on purpose. It's not going to cost him support from his voters, but it does win sympathy from having snooty liberals piling on him again. Distracting his opponents from discussing real issues is a bonus.

Yes, exactly. He is expert at getting the press and the Twitterati to attack him over issues of no real substance.