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Can anyone translate this gibberish from Trump’s mouth?

“Do you know what works? A wheel and a wall. They call it a medieval thing. Well you know, I’m looking at all these very expensive cars all over here loaded up with machine guns and every single one of them has wheels. A wheel is an old thing. There are two things that they work.”

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You can choose not to eat the lettuce.

All produce? All meat? Good luck with salmonella!

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You mean like the cheap labor that drives down the wages of Americans, especially those already on the lower economic ladder?

Farmers are always hiring. Americans are welcome to take those jobs but they don't. And don't tell me you wouldn't bit*h if your food costs rose 35%.

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Putin’s smiling at the work product of his chaos agent , DJT

His main objective was to block HRC from the WH. But his luck with DJT is beyond his wildest imagination. Destroying our Democracy is well ahead of schedule too!

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Dear cons,

Please comment:

Quote:
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Freedom Caucus members tell Trump to back off wall emergency
Conservative hard-liners fear the move would lead to an uncertain legal battle while setting a dangerous precedent for the presidency.
By MELANIE ZANONA and SARAH FERRIS 01/11/2019 10:51 AM EST Updated 01/11/2019 11:38 AM EST
A core group of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus is urging President Donald Trump against the explosive step of declaring a national emergency to build his wall.

Multiple Republicans in the conservative group have privately raised their concerns with the Trump administration, fearing it would lead to a years-long legal standoff that Democrats could win while setting a dangerous precedent for the presidency, according to more than a dozen lawmakers and GOP aides. They want Trump to hold out for a deal with Democrats, regardless of how long the partial government shutdown drags on.



Trump only listens to Limbaugh, Colter and Faux News. That's how we arrived at this mess. He agreed to a deal almost a month ago that had no wall. Once the con cabal started bitc-hing Trump said no deal. Literally in less than two days he flipped from deal to no-deal. Since then he's been offered multiple chances to re-open the government and make the wall issue separate. But now he's so cornered and terrified of his own base he won't do that either. This is a cluster fuk of his own making.

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Dear cons,

Please comment:

Quote:
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
Freedom Caucus members tell Trump to back off wall emergency
Conservative hard-liners fear the move would lead to an uncertain legal battle while setting a dangerous precedent for the presidency.
By MELANIE ZANONA and SARAH FERRIS 01/11/2019 10:51 AM EST Updated 01/11/2019 11:38 AM EST
A core group of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus is urging President Donald Trump against the explosive step of declaring a national emergency to build his wall.

Multiple Republicans in the conservative group have privately raised their concerns with the Trump administration, fearing it would lead to a years-long legal standoff that Democrats could win while setting a dangerous precedent for the presidency, according to more than a dozen lawmakers and GOP aides. They want Trump to hold out for a deal with Democrats, regardless of how long the partial government shutdown drags on.



Trump only listens to Limbaugh, Colter and Faux News. That's how we arrived at this mess. He agreed to a deal almost a month ago that had no wall. Once the con cabal started bitc-hing Trump said no deal. Literally in less than two days he flipped from deal to no-deal. Since then he's been offered multiple chances to re-open the government and make the wall issue separate. But now he's so cornered and terrified of his own base he won't do that either. This is a cluster fuk of his own making.

The absolute best case scenario for me isnthe following and I think it’s possible.

A legal battle ensues over the “emergency” and though the President does have broad discretionary powers that the court confirms , they reason that this isn’t an emergency (based on Trumps failure to act for 2 yrs and then does based on obvious political expediency.

But it paves the way for President O’Rourke , or Warren or whomever to rightfully declare climate change a National Emergency and act accordingly .....

I think some semi-forward thinking cons are beginning to get it ....

Good luck!

PS even IF the packed supremes give him a 5-4 win on wall emergency in 6 or 9 months , his wall STILL won’t be built and it is even a stronger precedent for executive action by president o’rourke

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Dear cons,

From my mouth to the ears of angels ....

Writing in the Washington Examiner, conservative Philip Klein outlines how Trump’s gambit to build his border wall without congressional approval could completely blow up in the GOP’s face.

According to Klein, the worst-case scenario for the president is that the Supreme Court rules he has the right as president to build the wall by declaring an emergency — and then he still loses the 2020 presidential election to a progressive Democrat.

“In that case, Trump wins the case in court, but the decision comes too late for him to get much construction done by the end of his first term,” Klein explains. “Then, he loses re-election. The next Democratic president could then stop construction on the border wall but still turn around and use the precedent set by court decision as a means of advancing any big-ticket liberal items that can’t get through Congress.”

Tee hee
Bwa ha ha
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Sorry cons. RBG is returning to SCOTUS cancer free.

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Hey Nancy, Let more illegals into your state. Send them to Venice Beach.



With swelling transient encampments abutting seven-figure homes, the beachside enclave has emerged as a flashpoint for the inequality shaping Los Angeles — and a real-world test case for the liberal ideology of the area’s showbiz residents.

After the first attack, Randy Osborn figured it was just his turn. Tire slashings in his east Venice Beach neighborhood had become commonplace. But when his vintage Land Rover was hit a sixth time in the course of a few months, Osborn, who runs a small virtual reality company and has lived in Venice for seven years, began to worry he was being singled out.

"It may have been random, but it sure felt targeted and concentrated," says Osborn, who now protects his tires each night with a jury-rigged plywood-and-chain contraption that has so far deterred the assailants. Every time he takes his family out of town, he worries about his house being robbed. "It's not a very fun way to live," he says. A lot of residents within Osborn's 15-block area just east of Lincoln Boulevard — where actor Viggo Mortensen owns a home and director Jon Favreau is opening a production office — have similar stories. And though they can't say for sure, Osborn and others suspect the crime is tied to several homeless encampments that have sprung up nearby in the past 15 months.

Los Angeles is grappling with a homeless epidemic. "It's the worst human catastrophe in America," says Andy Bales, a pastor who runs the Union Rescue Mission on Skid Row. Faced with a growing crisis, city leaders last year budgeted more than $100 million for affordable housing, addiction treatment, job placement and mental health services. And yet, as L.A.'s real estate prices soar, so does the city's homeless population. And nowhere have the twin forces of inaccessible housing and inequality created a more explosive mix than in Venice Beach, a hotbed of entertainment executives and talent where the median home price is $1.9 million. Many of these residents are now grappling with a quality-of-life issue that defies their own liberal ideals.

Sleepless in Seattle and Community producer Gary Foster, who moved to the area two years ago from Westwood and works with the homeless advocacy group The People Concern, says he was surprised by the number of residents who expressed exasperation with — if not outright disdain for — the transient population. "They tend to be liberal, they want to do good in the world, but they're balancing their beliefs with how that might impact the value of their real estate," says Foster, who began his activism after producing The Soloist, about a journalist who discovers a musical savant living on Skid Row.



"There are actually [residents] advocating driving the homeless out of Venice — shipping them off somewhere, which is such a proto-fascist move," says television writer Evan Dunsky, a 27-year resident of the area. "And then what? Do we have to build a wall around Venice?"

Venice is now home to the largest concentration of homeless anywhere on L.A.'s Westside, with nearly 1,000 non-domiciled people. During the past 18 months, several encampments have swelled in more residential areas where homes can easily sell for eight figures and up. Tents, many of them equipped with mini refrigerators, cupboards, televisions and heaters, vie with pedestrian traffic.

Residents who live near the encampments say mail regularly goes missing. Break-ins have jumped. Hypodermic needles and human waste are appearing on sidewalks and at local playgrounds. Residents have complained to police about harassment and even physical assaults. "This is more of a criminal problem than a homeless problem," says nonprofit worker Carly Voge, who lives next to the so-called Frederick camp adjacent to the Penmar Golf Course.

"There are crime problems in Venice," concedes Mike Bonin, whose Council District 11 includes Venice Beach. Bonin has come under intense criticism for his handling of the homeless crisis by Venice residents displeased with his support of a measure to introduce a massive, $5 million transitional housing project in their city. At the same time, Bonin says, "I can't accept the idea that there is an inextricable link between crime and homelessness. It is wrong, it is not backed up by the data, and it leads to bad policy."

Disagreements over the potential causes of the crimes have begun to factionalize Venice's neighborhoods. "It was six months of terror, absolute terror," says radiologist Maria Altavilla, who lives in east Venice. She says that the period of increased health and safety concerns coincided with the expansion of the homeless encampments the past year. She recently arrived home with her two children to find a woman shooting up in her yard. Lately, her husband has expressed a desire to move because of his frustration with the encampments. Several residents shared an unconfirmed theory — suggested to them by a local patrolman — that certain assailants were using the social media app NextDoor to monitor which residents are most vocal about their opposition to encampments and then targeting those individuals for retribution.

As the problem worsens, homeowners are banding together to try to reclaim patches of sidewalk in an effort to deter future encampments. At the corner of Millwood Avenue and Lincoln, bulky wood planters now hog much of the sidewalk. Those planters emerged mysteriously two months ago outside a Staples office supply store that was once a popular resting spot for a handful of tent dwellers. The same pattern can be seen on another block, further south on Palms Boulevard, where similar metallic planters have recently appeared.





On Venice Boulevard in front of Vice Media's offices, a chain-link fence was erected to prohibit tents from going up. Residents around Penmar Golf Course have started a GoFundMe page and have hit their goal of raising $80,000 to fill a pedestrian pathway with native plants and landscaping — a project being called the Frederick Avenue Pass-Through but whose real objective is to deter the large encampment that has ballooned there.

"Honestly, I think we are a step and half away from vigilantism," says a talent manager who has lived in the area for two decades. "I feel like this is heading toward a Guardian Angels type situation that you saw in 1970s New York. Someone is going to go out there with a lead pipe and give someone a serious beatdown. It's awful to say, but I don't see what prevents that from happening."

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The absolute best case scenario for me isnthe following and I think it’s possible.

A legal battle ensues over the “emergency” and though the President does have broad discretionary powers that the court confirms , they reason that this isn’t an emergency (based on Trumps failure to act for 2 yrs and then does based on obvious political expediency.

But it paves the way for President O’Rourke , or Warren or whomever to rightfully declare climate change a National Emergency and act accordingly .....

I think some semi-forward thinking cons are beginning to get it ....

Good luck!

PS even IF the packed supremes give him a 5-4 win on wall emergency in 6 or 9 months , his wall STILL won’t be built and it is even a stronger precedent for executive action by president o’rourke

Land owners already have lawsuits lined up to prevent property seizure. Environmental groups also had suits ready to go. He could get funding tomorrow and nothing would be up until well past 2020. His 5B wont build much of anything. Dont forget too, every prototype they tested, all 8, were breached with common tools to can buy at El Walmarto.

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Life in Venice Beach has always come with its own distinct form of urban grittiness. Unlike its bougie neighbors to the north in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, Venice has embraced its counterculture past. It's the land of head shops and street art that celebrates icons like Jim Morrison, Dennis Hopper and Jerry Garcia. And, to a degree, that grittiness added to the area's allure, helping turn Venice into one of L.A.'s most desirable neighborhoods. Venice now counts as residents actress Emilia Clarke, screenwriter Mark Boal and Participant Media's David Linde, among many others in the industry. The area also has become "Silicon Beach," home to tech giants Snapchat and Google.

Dunsky has witnessed Venice's transformation from a battleground for gangs to one that boasts several Michelin-starred restaurants. A self-proclaimed progressive, Dunsky says he fears that recent gentrification has altered people's sympathies. "There is a fever of money in Venice that has nothing to do with its past. Whatever progressive elements were historically here have dwindled, and they're being replaced by tech money."










"It's worse than it's ever been," says Tami Pardee, Venice's top real estate broker, who moved to the area in 1993. "But sometimes it has to get like this for a real movement to start." Compass' Mark Kitching says that in the past year, four buyers he worked with opted out of purchasing after unpleasant encounters with homeless residents when touring the area. "The Palisades is looking way more attractive when you are thinking about schools and cleanliness," he says.

The most common refrain heard when discussing the cause of L.A.'s homeless crisis is soaring housing costs. But there are other forces at play in Venice and throughout the city involving various laws and ballot measures that date back more than a decade. A 2006 ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Jones v. City of Los Angeles required that law enforcement and city officials no longer enforce the ban on sleeping on sidewalks anywhere in the city until a sufficient amount of permanent supportive housing could be built. Further complicating matters were two state ballot measures that voters overwhelmingly approved in 2016 — Propositions 47 and 57 — which decriminalized certain felonies to misdemeanors in an effort to address the state's overburdened prison system. Officials, including Bonin, admit that those measures have complicated matters for law enforcement, who make arrests only to see the same perpetrators back on the street days later.

The people living in the encampments say they have been unfairly maligned, even as they admit there is little policing when they do break the law. City rules dictate that tents be taken down between the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. But police rarely enforce the code, say several members of the Frederick homeless encampment. "We get away with a lot," says Randy "Dee" Collins, 25, who adds his family has long owned property in Venice and that he has chosen a life on the street against their wishes. The Frederick camp, home to about a dozen tents and twice as many people, is littered with nine weeks' worth of trash. These homeless people say neighbors are openly hostile to them. Collins says he offered one resident money for water but "she didn't want to participate in anything that would help us."

John Maceri, executive director of The People Concern, takes issue with residents who complain about the problem and then go on to criticize every proposed remedy. "The criminal element needs to be dealt with, but statistically, homeless people aren't committing more crimes than other people, it's just more visible and they are easier to blame," he says.

"I understand both sides. No one wants to see a tent city outside their window," says one woman who lives at the Frederick camp. "There could be a solution if everyone wasn't so hell-bent on destroying us." This woman, who declined to provide a name, is a former heroin addict who left her two daughters in Tennessee and moved to Venice several years ago. She claims neighbors have pulled guns on her and says that "the biggest crimes we're guilty of are digging in the trash and being homeless." As if to make her point, a well-dressed jogger happened through as she was talking, exclaiming, "Oh, aren't we lucky to have a new city dump right here!"



Things reached a boiling point at a packed town hall meeting in October, when residents got a chance to address the city's plans to open a 154-bed transitional ("bridge") housing shelter set to be built on a former Metro bus yard at Sunset and Pacific avenues (the plan was approved by the City Council in December). At the four-hour meeting, Bonin and Mayor Eric Garcetti were targets of angry chants and tirades that effectively centered on whether Venice was being asked to unfairly shoulder the burden for the entire Westside's homeless population. Bonin says he had an obligation to place the bridge housing for his district in Venice because that is "where the problem is most acute" (each council district is required to open a bridge-housing shelter under a City Hall directive). Those opposed to the shelter contend that the site is too close to schools and residences.

"We have a homeless problem that needs to be addressed," says screenwriter and Venice resident Michael Lerner. "But the solutions being proposed are these pie-in-the-sky ideas that don't make economic sense. If you're talking about providing shelter for tens of thousands of homeless people but your solutions are costing $475,000 per unit, you're not going to shelter a lot of people."

Even the homeless woman at the Frederick camp says the city's housing plans aren't a viable long-term solution. "I'm not going to rub my tummy and jump through hoops just to live inside," she says, "I shouldn't have to go through that much of an act just to get housing. People should be allowed to live how they want."

Bonin alleges that critics of the city's efforts are resorting to hyperbolic, inflammatory language in an effort to smear the homeless. "One of the anti-bridge-housing organizers posted something online that said, 'We need to call in Stephen Miller to help us deal with this,' " says Bonin. "The similarities in the language used when referring to the homeless and how Trump refers to immigrants is startling." The councilmember's critics say his efforts are simply misguided.



"Bonin sent out a survey like 10 months ago asking residents where would be a good place for the shelter," says software executive Travis Binen, who lives directly across from the Metro bus depot and has emerged as one of the most vocal opponents to the bridge shelter. "Of the 641 surveys returned, only 5 percent pointed to [the Metro bus depot] as a good location. More people pointed to Bonin's house. He is, like, the most hated man in Venice." Binen, who spends four hours a day online organizing against the shelter, says his activity has pushed him rightward.

Garcetti has hinted that once enough shelter beds and sup*portive housing have been built to meet the court's requirements, it would clear the way for the city to start enforcing the former law that banned sleeping on sidewalks. Says Bonin, "We have approved a **** ton of money, and if we are building housing with it, we should be able to go to the courts and say no to [certain] encampments."

No one expects Venice to resolve its homeless issue soon, if ever. For now it remains a worrisome microcosm for one of L.A.'s most intractable questions: How much burden should homeowners bear for transients? And perhaps more important, where do we expect them to go?



This story first appeared in the Jan. 9 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

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Land owners already have lawsuits lined up to prevent property seizure. Environmental groups also had suits ready to go. He could get funding tomorrow and nothing would be up until well past 2020. His 5B wont build much of anything. Dont forget too, every prototype they tested, all 8, were breached with common tools to can buy at El Walmarto.

People run stop signs and red lights all the time.
We don't take them down.
People lock their cars, and they are still stolen. You don't leave them unlocked .
Do Liberals ever think ?

The Democrats blocking this , it has nothing to do with the subject at hand.
They just DON"T want Trump to get what he was elected to do.
They are crybaby sore losers.
They have so little power, they have to try anything.

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Sorry cons. RBG is returning to SCOTUS cancer free.

Until the next health crisis.

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Just curious about what connection Nancy Pelosi has to Venice Beach.

Are the cons aware that Venice Beach is not in her congressional district ?

Oh cons ....when your butt hurt moves you to further reveal your true, very challenged and dumb nature to the world I simply smile at the shock and awe you have yet to experience ....

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Until the next health crisis.

Awe and allmthe guys on the court are at high risk to just infarct in their sleep just like Scalia did ...no warning ....

I’ll roll the dice ....especially since Trump could never fill the seat ....the campaign has begun ...trump is holding campaign events and selling
Campaign merch . A dem has announced . Campaign has been started therefore the American public wouldnhave to weigh in ....Merrick garland precedent

Mitch won’t bag the filibuster just before Dems take the senate . That would mean lots of great dem initiatives in 2020 when thy have the house senate and wh and NO filibuster

Just try and ram a pick through .....

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