Read My Lips:\u00a0 No new amnesties.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meme that if you have the artistic ability.<\/p>\n

And Trump strikes out with strike three:<\/p>\n

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1. I wrote “Why Trump would Fail” and said I expected at least Obamacare to be repealed because the Republicans couldn’t be that stupid.\u00a0 I was wrong.<\/li>\n
2. Trump is sending troops to Afghanistan for some unknown reason and has alienated the anti-war (me) wing of his supporters.<\/li>\n
3. Trump is working on amnesty for 800,000 illegals, and doesn’t get anything in return of note.\u00a0 That’s 640,000 eventual dem voters in Texas, Florida, and Arizona, among other places.<\/li>\n
4. Bonus Strike 4 was raising the debt ceiling.\u00a0 I don’t totally blame him for that.\u00a0 We all know that the repubs would have caved, so Trump defanged the dems on their ploy.\u00a0 Repubs would have been beat up by the press, and after being totally shamed, they would have caved anyway. \u00a0 It is more a reflection on how screwed up a good chunk of the repubs are, and especially the leadership, than shading Trump.\u00a0 I have to throw them a bone on the Senate.\u00a0 With McCain, Lindsey Graham, and the 2 women Senators, kiss any real spending reform goodbye.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

   Go back and listen to my “Forward” podcast.\u00a0 I’m not surprised at this, though it is more complete than I imagined.<\/p>\n

   Why is Trump doing something so stupid?\u00a0 I can think of a few reasons:<\/p>\n

   \n
   1. \u00a04D Chess.\u00a0 I doubt it, but he will get dems and repubs in Trump states to vote for amnesty.\u00a0 This could help a lot during 2018 midterms assuming his base isn’t completely demoralized.\u00a0 Possible.<\/li>\n
   2. He’s cutting a deal with the dems, likely with tax reform.\u00a0 He understands that the market is going to tank, likely in 2018, but definitely before 2020, and wants to help the economy.\u00a0 Likely.<\/li>\n
   3. He truly wants to give these people residency and eventual citizenship.\u00a0 Also likely.\u00a0 Trump isn’t the Nazi the press makes him out to be.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Bottom line the USA is so far gone there is no way to get the reforms we need.\u00a0 With amnesty we’ll ratchet one more click to the Left and eventually lose Florida, Texas, and Arizona.\u00a0 The path to the third world hell hole is almost a certainty.<\/p>\n

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