Blockbuster News, Pretty Much Brushed Aside
Blockbuster News, Pretty Much Brushed Aside
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/82876
"We could call a national emergency ...
and build it very quickly."
It is reasonable to assume that prior to the Trump administration, those first six words, had they been spoken by any other president, would have been typeset in larger-than-usual points, i.e., in a newspaper's large font size — as these words would have been, as well:
"I may do it. I may do it."
Yet Trump's madness has become such a routine issue in journalism and its readership, those words are merely part of another day of ho-hum chaos and frenzy.
"Oh? Trump is pondering a circumvention of Congress, a military deployment for wall construction, and the presidential exercise of virtual despotic powers, casually expressed? So what else is in the news? Anything of interest?" The headline, size-wise, warranted nothing out of the ordinary.
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The reason for this blessing is swiftly apparent. Except for Dick Nixon and possibly Andrew Johnson putzing around, guzzling scotch, and talking to ghosts in the White House, we've never had an utter lunatic as president. That changed in January 2017, since in November 2016, America went as bonkers as Donald Trump and put the unhinged imbecile in the Oval Office.
Now he's yapping I may do it, I may do it, I just may call a national emergency and deploy my really handy military to the border (again), since Congress won't give me what I want. L'etat c'est moi.
Does anyone believe that Trump would stop there — declaring an emergency just for the wall? Or is it more likely he would find such power addictive — and useful for all manner of congressionally unapproved ambitions.
I know how I would bet.
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