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Originally posted by entropy:
He's a deal maker. He's making deals. HIS deals. Fine by me. Remember at the Inaugural how he went out of his way to find Hillary? He schmoozed her while at the same time cutting her off at the cankles...a brilluant move.

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Singling out states and cities with punitive threats and withholding federal resources as today’s order on sanctuary cities does is unconstitutional,” de Leon said.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Any other SF members seeing liberal family and friends having absolute meltdowns over Trump?

I'm a little taken aback at some of the insane freaking out I'm seeing on social media. The man has been on the job just a few days and they are melting the hell down!

It's going to be a LONG 8 years for these snowflakes!

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A whole lot of rocket launcher orders just got put on hold.

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Source says State Department has notified Ramallah the funds will not be immediately available, while it examines the transfer

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The State Department is reviewing a last-minute decision by former Secretary of State John Kerry to send $221 million dollars to the Palestinians late last week over the objections of congressional Republicans.

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Originally posted by PASig:
Any other SF members seeing liberal family and friends having absolute meltdowns over Trump?

I'm a little taken aback at some of the insane freaking out I'm seeing on social media. The man has been on the job just a few days and they are melting the hell down!

It's going to be a LONG 8 years for these snowflakes!

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Originally posted by roberth:
Trump freezes Obama’s $221,000,000 parting gift to the “Palestinians”

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A whole lot of rocket launcher orders just got put on hold.

Palestinians say Obama’s last-minute $221 million payout frozen by Trump

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Source says State Department has notified Ramallah the funds will not be immediately available, while it examines the transfer

The Trump administration has frozen Obama’s quiet attempt to send $221 million to Palestine

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The State Department is reviewing a last-minute decision by former Secretary of State John Kerry to send $221 million dollars to the Palestinians late last week over the objections of congressional Republicans.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
Any rumblings from the Nobel Peace Prize committee? I'm mean it's late January of his first term and with the precedent and all......

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Originally posted by SapperSteel:
Showdown coming between DJT's administration and a cabal of leftist "sanctuary" mayors (bolding of some interesting parts done by me): LINK

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Trump’s intervention into policing, voting and immigration sets up showdown with America’s largest cities

[Go to link above to view photo] Members of LUPE, La Union del Pueblo Entero, gather along with supporters to express their concern for President Donald Trump's immigration policies at the United States border wall Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017, in Hidalgo, Texas. (Joel Martinez/The Monitor via AP)

By Katie Zezima, Wesley Lowery and Jose A. DelReal January 25 at 8:08 PM

In the past 24 hours, President Trump has signaled sweeping federal intervention in the way local and state officials carry out policing, treat immigrants and run elections, setting off a wave of defiance and apprehension from leaders of some of America’s largest cities.

In an executive order signed Wednesday, Trump directed the Department of Homeland Security to find ways to defund cities and jurisdictions out of step with his immigration priorities. That action — which could cost sanctuary cities including Washington, New York and Los Angeles millions of dollars — is the latest in a series of moves where Trump has appeared willing to step on state-level or municipal prerogatives.

In the scuffle, U.S. mayors have emerged as key players in the resistance to Trump’s agenda.

“Cities know how important local control is, because we are in touch with the people we represent most closely. This is a president who’s been clear that he wants to centralize as much authority as he can in himself,” Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said Wednesday. “That is dangerous for our democracy, I believe, and he is using the levers of our democracy to centralize his authority.”

At the center of the sanctuary city debate is a disagreement over whether local police officers should be required to help immigration officials enforce federal immigration laws. Many liberal mayors, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and New York City’s Bill De Blasio, have argued that requiring local police departments to assist immigration agents with deportations could sow distrust among immigrant populations. It could also discourage undocumented victims or witnesses from coming forward to report crimes.

[Go to link above to view video] Trump moves to start wall as voter fraud controversy continues Play Video 2:35 | President Trump on Jan. 25 vowed to start “immediate construction” of a wall on the Southern border while lawmakers reacted to his unfounded claims about voter fraud. (Bastien Inzaurralde, Jayne Orenstein/The Washington Post)

“This is a federalism issue,” said Jorge Elorza (D), the mayor of Providence, R.I., who is the son of immigrants. “The idea of local control is deeply embedded in American history, and what we have now is a very aggressive attempt by the federal government to commandeer our local police departments to become immigration agents.”

He vowed “massive and aggressive lawsuits,” a resistance echoed by several local leaders.

Kevin de Leon, the Democratic president pro tempore of the California state Senate, said the state legislature is prepared to “explore all of our legal options” to fight the order.

“Singling out states and cities with punitive threats and withholding federal resources as today’s order on sanctuary cities does is unconstitutional,” de Leon said. “It’s not the job of our local and county and state law enforcement to turn the cogs on President Trump’s deportation machine.”

For states and mayors, the debate also comes down to dollars.

Elorza, who has vowed to defy any federal order to change how his city handles undocumented immigrants, said that officials within his administration have watched anxiously as Trump and his surrogates have leveled threats and suggestions that federal funding for sanctuary cities could be at stake. He estimates that about 10 percent of the city’s $700 million budget consists of federal money.

Garcetti criticized the order in a statement Wednesday and stressed his city’s crucial economic stature. “Splitting up families and cutting funding to any city — especially Los Angeles, where 40 percent of the nation’s goods enter the U.S. at our port, and more than 80 million passengers traveled through our airport last year — puts the personal safety and economic health of our entire nation at risk. It is not the way forward for the United States.”

In Boston, Mayor Marty Walsh (D) said that he would open City Hall itself to immigrants if that’s what it takes to keep them safe.

“You are safe in Boston. If necessary, we will use City Hall itself to protect anyone who is targeted unjustly,” Walsh said during a news conference Wednesday after Trump signed the order. Asked about what funding Boston might lose, Walsh said, “I guess we’ll find out.”

Sanctuary city funding is just one of many ongoing concerns, though certainly the most tangible. Trump has also made other broad — if vague — statements in recent days that have caused outrage and alarm. He tweeted from his personal account Wednesday that he planned to ask for a “major investigation” into allegations of widespread voter fraud, as he reasserted a false claim that cheating caused him to lose the popular vote in November.

States oversee elections and certify results, and some members of Trump’s own party have voiced opposition to some of his ideas. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted, a Republican, said during an interview with The Washington Post on Wednesday that his state investigates voter fraud every two years and that it is “not widespread” or systemic. He said elections need to be kept in the states’ hands.

“Every time the federal government touches something, with all due respect, it gets worse, not better. Our system of elections with federal involvement, it’s not going to improve it,” he said.

Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Wednesday called the president’s call for a probe “lunacy” after delivering remarks at a National Governors Association gathering in Washington. He also expressed concerns that such rhetoric or executive action could lead to actions restricting voting rights.

“What I worry about is they use these types of comments and tactics to deny people’s access to the voting booths, make it harder for people to vote, to justify more stringent voter ID laws,” ­McAuliffe said.

Another flash point came Tuesday night when Trump vowed in a Twitter message to “send in the feds” if leaders in Chicago are unable to end the ongoing spate of violence in the city. Many were left speculating whether Trump meant he would send National Guard troops or expand the number of FBI agents embedded in Chicago. At a briefing on Wednesday afternoon, White House press secretary Sean Spicer clarified that Trump’s tweets were a reference to providing more federal resources to Chicago via the U.S. attorney’s office as well as other federal agencies.

Newark’s Democratic mayor, Ras Baraka, sounded a defiant note before the order had even been signed. “Newark will continue to protect undocumented immigrants despite whatever executive order is issued later today by President Trump,” Baraka said in a statement to the news media. “Newark has a policy of protecting undocumented immigrants from deportation by U.S. immigration authorities. We see no reason to change that policy.”

Ain't it great how these leftist dip-shits have suddenly become fans of Federalism? This is going to be great to watch as DJT shoves their Hate-America-First nonsense up their respective (Democrat donkey!) asses.

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Originally posted by Tubetone:
Whether its mayors or Mexico or the UN, other leaders do not like having Trump's will imposed on them. But, we needed someone to add clear leadership to the helm of government.

It looks like Trump is going to work with Congress and use his constitutional authority to refocus things. It is what he was hired to do but there will be a lot of folks who won't like his choices - including, maybe, many of us at some points along the way.

Trump's continued ability to lead will be found in the results along the way. There will be pitched battles where it may not be pretty at times. Some people are forks in the road; President Trump is one of them. The yada, yada left's Olbermann already shouts that Trump should resign.

HERE is a link to an article that gives a sense of what the left may see as its strategy to thwart President Trump in making the changes he has commenced.

There will never be a full acceptance by those who must bend to President Trump's leadership. Some won't like it because of their egos. Some will not like the policies. Some will not like his/her own perceived loss of political power. And, some will not like it because of prejudice no matter how much Trump's leadership may benefit them and others.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by PASig:
Any other SF members seeing liberal family and friends having absolute meltdowns over Trump?

Oh yeah. The planet is virtually imploding for some people I know. It's unreal.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Yep, I have a gay half brother that lives the full gay life in Manhattan.

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Originally posted by wheeler10k:
Bad Lip reading on the inauguration:

BLR_DJT style

LMAO

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Yep, I have a gay half brother that lives the full gay life in Manhattan.

"full gay life"? So, he wakes up every morning in a musical, or what?

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Yep, I have a gay half brother that lives the full gay life in Manhattan.

"full gay life"? So, he wakes up every morning in a musical, or what?

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Yep, I have a gay half brother that lives the full gay life in Manhattan.

"full gay life"? So, he wakes up every morning in a musical, or what?