Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Remember the Kobayashi Maru scene in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan? Sometimes, you end up with no good options. Donald Trump just had that happen to him with the omnibus abomination, though don’t be fooled by the passive voice – he deserves some blame for letting it come to this. The absolutely essential military spending was wrapped in a fat suit of glistening, rancid pork, and the congressional rats had already abandoned ship and fled out of town when it was dumped on his desk. So he had a stark choice. Trump could sign it, and enrage his base but ensure our military could prepare for the wars looming on the horizon. Or he could veto it, and launch a government shutdown with about 0% of succeeding in getting a significantly better deal.
Trump chose the least worst of two bad options, and I, for one, refuse to lose my Schiff over it.
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This was a last minute congressional jam-down of a swamp-generated monstrosity, and Trump deserves a slice of the blame for not seeing it coming. He evidently failed to ensure that his priorities and preferences were included as this sausage was being made, and suddenly the whole thing dropped on him (and us) seemingly out of nowhere and became a thing overnight. Except it wasn’t overnight. This train had been coming down the tracks for three months; the Congressional weasels succeeded in sneaking it in right before they ditched town. Trump is liable for letting himself be put in that position, but the GOP leadership is responsible for putting him there.
What was the alternative?
Step One: Veto the Bill
Step Two: ?
Step Three: Congress Passes Conservative Spending Bill We All Love
If anyone can explain Step Two to me, I’d sure appreciate it. After all, that’s kind of the key step, and no one seems to have a good answer for what it might have consisted of. The simple fact is that while the GOP has a majority, conservatives do not. Step Two can’t be “Wishing” or “Wanting” or “Waving the Magic Wand.” If you think a government shutdown caused by Trump’s veto would result in a better outcome, well, that requires some explanation. I’d be interested to see a citation to a governmental shutdown that the shutter downer won. There isn’t one; people like us love government shutdowns because we think the government sucks, but the rest of America doesn’t.
It just doesn’t. I don’t want that to be the truth, and I don’t like it, but that’s how it is. We are not yet an unassailable majority, and the United States is not yet the dictatorship the left desires, so we cannot just decree that our wishes become reality. We have to compromise and make deals. And it’s annoying as hell.
This is a over-compromise and a bad deal. This bill is not what Trump promised and not what we voted for. The base is mad. Furious. And it has a right to be.
We’ve been mad at the saps in the GOP Congressional Caucus forever, and we’ve slowly but surely been turning out the simps and the squishes. There are many more to go. But a lot of the anger, fueled by giddy libs and eager Fredocons, is directed at President Trump. Some of it is justified – he let himself get pushed into the corner and he needs to reach out and get some advisors who actually agree with his program. But a lot of the base’s fury is overblown.
It’s absolutely understandable – in fact, it’s inevitable – that Trump supporters are going to be ticked off. We’ve been lied to and betrayed for decades, and anything that even hints at a continuation of that pattern spins us up to Rage Level 11. But the fact is that this was a screw-up that led to him being faced with two bad choices, and we need to see clearly what happened. We weren’t “betrayed.” It’s not “over.” And “Trump has totally lost my support” is exactly what your enemies want you to say.
Don’t say what your enemies want you to say.
This was a bump in the road, as road that includes Justice Gorsuch, defeating ISIS, Keystone, regulatory rollback, tax cuts and many other conservative achievements. Our enemies would love for us to throw that all away because we got a case of the madz. But that would be stupid.
There’s another spending fight coming. Trump says he won’t sign another flaming pile of garbage like this. After the reaction he got the other day, it’s likely he’ll keep his word. He should demand that he receive the next bill in final form 30 days before the deadline – no more 30 minutes to read 2,200 pages nonsense. This will give real conservative leaders a chance to disinfect it with sunlight, like Senator Rand Paul did highlighting the flotsam and jetsam in the last one.
Finally, Mitch McConnell needs to earn the base’s lost confidence by getting the GOP to toss out the filibuster rule and start passing our priorities because if these hacks blow the Senate majority (and they absolutely could) Chuckie Schumer will do that the first day anyway. Oh, and it would be really good for morale to get Ric Grennell and the other hung-up nominees confirmed. If McConnell has to change the rules to outflank Democrat obstruction, okay.
What do the rest of us do? Not quit. Get up, brush off, and get ready to fight. Tighten the hell up and jump back in the game. If you can’t take a hit, if you can’t stand to encounter an obstacle, if you’re giving up everything because something goes wrong, you’re not really committed to recovering your country and your own freedom. This is going to be hard. This is going to take time, a lot of it. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and draining the swamp will not be done in a day either. We are going to have more days like Omnibust Friday in the future, lots of them. That’s how it goes. But also remember that we will have days like November 8, 2016, where liberals are spread out before us, sobbing as their hideous libfascist dreams die before their eyes.
And those days make it all worthwhile.
“Trump could sign it, and enrage his base but ensure our military could prepare for the wars looming on the horizon.”
Your premise is false – the only wars on the horizon would be those instigated by the US. Don’t plan on starting the war(s) and you wouldn’t need to sign the Bill for war preparation.
The US is the only country itching to start a war; an unjustified one at that.
Pompeo, Bolton and now this. It certainly does seem that Trump is gearing up for war. If I were an Iranian computer programmer working on the Arak heavy water reactor, I think I would look for another job. Hopefully those S-300’s are ready to kick some cruise missile booty.
https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=saudi%20iran%20attack
Anon……………that is the pot calling the kettle black.
SA has been killing Yemeni’s for 3 years and SA is now upset that Yemen has landed a missile on SA that was probably built in Iran.
But is is OK for SA to kill Yemeni’s with bombs, bullets, etc. built and provided by the US.
Links and timeline?
Who started it by making the first attacks against who?
lazy shitbag… you cant use google
or read excerpts from news outlets around the world. of course if it didnt fit your narrative you would likely pass it off anyway
Digital.
Exactly my sentments. That’s the moronic bullshit they do on City Data and survivalist board. Anyone can find a link to make them sound like an authority.
“The absolutely essential military spending was wrapped in a fat suit of glistening, rancid pork, and the congressional rats had already abandoned ship and fled out of town when it was dumped on his desk.”
“Absolutely essential” mititary spending my ass. I consider the military spending as the glistening rancid pork.
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Diogenes.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Its essential because 2 or 3 trillion of prior defense money got sucked into a mysterious black hole, or maybe they were white or Asian ho’s. Or an elephant stepped on it or it found its way into a slush fund or 3.
Cheetos Jesus had to sign it. Those mean ole Dems made him.
Now shut up and hold your nose and try not to PUKE while you vote for the Republicans in the midterms and then we’ll be able to finally get real serious after 20 years of suckering you hapless chumps.
It is surely a steaming pile of crap, but there are some nuts in there that can be picked out and moved around to get some of the things in the agenda done. There still may be ways to pull out monies to make unintended accomplishments since none of the traitors have read it. I’m still not ready to throw in the towel to the communists in DC.
Not sure if this is accurate, but I have seen in various forms by various people so I am still not sure, I will have to do more research when I get the time. The accuracy I am referring to is that the President has declared a Human Rights Emergency and has invoked the Balanced Budget Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 which opens up options for him with this Omnibus bill.
https://mobile.twitter.com/5Strat/status/977677766668636160
The dems and rhinos with $$ in their eyes saw this Omnibus as a way to turn the spigot back on for all their pork slush money and POTUS gave it to them in exchange for the very large defense outlay. Now if he can slow roll or reallocate the pork, it might just work out a little better then we thought. Only time will tell.
Not sure if anyone cares, but it makes a difference to me.
There is a BIG difference between a Budget and a Bill that is passed in the House and the Senate. And, this is exactly why that black-ass that claimed to be President refused to sign a Budget for eight years, but always signed a Bill.
A passed Budget defines specifically where exactly the approved fiat currency must be spent.
A passed Bill makes suggestions / recommendations where the fiat currency should be spent. BUT, but (a very big but) the President ultimately gets to decide where the money gets spent. Which is exactly why the black-ass previously in the position would never approve / sign a Budget, but would sign a Bill – he decided where the fiat currency was ultimately spent (Obamacare funding, etc).
I personally think that the Left/Demos/Deep Sates/Et Al have been Trumped again. JMHO.
What you have written is completely false. The President DOES NOT decide where the money is spent. Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.
Admin, your comment is absolutely correct for a congressionally passed Budget, an omnibus spending bill is not a Budget. There is some merit to the statement that POTUS has the ability to move spending around, especially under a declared State of Emergency, which POTUS declared concerning human trafficking. Why do you think the Dem’s never gave Obama a Budget, but spending resolutions and spending bills? Looks like Trump may have used a page off the Dem’s playbook.
So far I haven’t been disappointed in the RESULTS of what Trump has DONE versus what the never-trumpsters keep saying he’s GOING to do. I’ll wait and see.
Okay, my bad. I hate egg on my face so if you want to delete that post go ahead. Save everyone some time.
BeeUrSelf,
I’m having a hard time understanding, could you explain why, if he gets that much money to spend on anything he wants to spend it on why is he saying he will never sigh another bill like this?
If it were me, I think I’d be wanting to sign as many like that as possible.
But maybe I’m not like everyone else and just don’t understand things the way they do.
For me, this paragraph is key:
Could it be the swamp is too mucked and the mountain too high for a lone, art-of-the-deal making, 6-level-chess playing, presidential triathlete?
Or is there something else going on?
Either way, and along those lines:
Even though Kurt says it’s a “bump in the road” – paying back the $1.3 trillion will be like climbing Mt. Everest barefoot.
Admin and Jim Morrison are likely right: “This is the End” and “No One Here Gets Out Alive”.
“So Stormy says she and Trump had sex only once. I guess if you want the guy to screw you repeatedly, you have to be one of his voters.”
Ann Coulter
Liking Ann more and more every day. At least she tells it like it is.
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Thanx for that one
In September this continuing resolution runs out. The nutless Repukes and Trump will have a chance to redeem themselves. Anybody taking bets?
I ain’t crying. The shrew is not potus. Any other accomplishments is icing on the cake. Any failures don’t matter to me because I got at least a few more years to prepare for the collapse. I am content.
After labor day the rinos will start sounding like fiscal conservatives, again.
Then we’ll get another choice between a turd and a piece of shit.
I’ll probably go for the turd
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They had to pass this bill to stay on track for $30 trillion in debt by 2025. It’s a no brainer. The Fed needs debt to buy in order to bail out the next recession!
A couple of things left out. The entire point of the Kobayashi Maru academy exercise was to teach cadets that sometimes they would fail and to learn to deal with it. Capt. Kirk famously changed the parameters of the exercise and “won”….by thinking outside of the box. So many Trumpers simply lack imagination. Trump is fighting an entrenched powerful ruthless group of DC swamp rats and globalists authoritarians……playing by the rules, in their game (Omnibus, Stormy, Mueller whatever) is a guaranteed loss…..be Captain James T. Kirk instead.
Kirk always wins by doing the unexpected, the seemingly irrational….but his actions are not irrational as he has seen opportunity that others simply miss.
Trump is at his best when he is a bull in the china shop….where he is operating inside the OODA loop of his opponents. By the time they (GOP primary challengers, Congress Critters, MSM etc) formulate a response Trump is 10 miles down the road talking about Rocket Man and who has a bigger button.
What happened on Omnibus is troubling…..as Trump was not Trump….and does the mean he is being normalized by his advisors? Mainstreamed? God help us.
Napoleon, despite his flaws….was right about one thing L’audace, l’audace, toujours L’audace or Audacity, audacity, always audacity. Patton used that also. Attack these Swamp MFers as the vile creatures they are. Take the budget to the people, the Defense spending to the people, DACA etc. Shut the government down for the rest of the fiscal year if need be….that just would allow Trump to use his emergency powers and commander in chief powers…..and build the wall.
Run right around the Swamp……and just start executing the agenda with the resources available…..the military loves to build stuff….build the biggest wall ever and with the troops there no border crossings….a huge win…..
This is hard, it is simply a matter of will….what does Trump have as a downside…nothing! Even a loss in 2020 would be fine if he disrupted the MIC WWIII plans and secured the border and did a few other things….not even requiring Congress.
Stop playing by the rules Mr. Trump……and win the Kobayashi Maru……
I’m not losing my mind.
Until I see crystal clear defunding of the MIC and Israel (for staters) it’s all just bovine excrement.
Quit reading after the, “So he had a stark choice. Trump could sign it, and enrage his base but ensure our military could prepare for the wars looming on the horizon. Or he could veto it, and launch a government shutdown with about 0% of succeeding in getting a significantly better deal.” crap. Trump had, just like all presidents do, 3 options. Option 1, sign the bill and piss off the base! Option 2, veto the bill and have the veto overridden by congress. Option 3, let the festering pile of shit lay on his desk and become law without signing.
Now me personally, I would have vetoed the bill. If the congress voted to override the veto, my finger would point squarely at the assholes in congress saying, “Hey look! Those assholes in congress voted to screw you folks. I vetoed the bill to protect you, my base.” But that is not what happened.
Additionally, he failed to use option 3 which may have saved him with his base because he could have told the people “I absolutely refuse to sign that bill into law. If I veto the bill, my veto will be overridden anyway!”
No, Trump does not get a pass or a get out of jail free card from me.
He should have vetoed the bill and made the asses come back to Congress from their recess if they wanted to override it. Would have served them right.