It's a bureaucrats revolution.

Payback for Benghazi?

I think in some ways, Trump being in office is actually a good thing. Obviously it's bad for many of the reasons that have been mentioned repeatedly. But think about it for a second. I don't think we would have had this kind of response if a professional politician like Ted Cruz got in and proposed to do everything Trump has. They'd do a lot of the same GOP stuff but the optics would be done in such a way that protests would be minimal and outcry wouldn't be as extreme and rampant across not just the general population but the media as well. It would be done quietly and swept under the rug. We would see the same incompetence in line for administration positions but there'd be less outcry because it's a professional politician doing this and since he is a pro the general population would assume that he knows what he's doing.

We are certainly on the brink of oblivion here as a democratic society but Trump is the wake up call we need. The rug of democracy has been pulled further and further away from us for years by professional politicians without anybody really noticing. That slow, insidious erosion has now become a buffoon trying to rip the rug out completely. This sharp, unexpected movement has awoken the people on top of it and now we're trying to maintain our balance and keep it in place. Dubya pulled harder than his predecessors when he signed The Patriot Act and we conceded. Now Trump is pulling even harder and people are finally starting to wake up. All we have left as a country is how we respond to this crisis. We either give in and take a huge step towards a dictatorship or stand our ground for the sake of democratic values.

There must be some instinctual attraction to authoritative figures. When we have leaders like that, we no longer have to think for ourselves and answer pesky questions that may not have easy answers. That's partially why religion is so popular throughout the world: if offers easy answers to difficult questions so we don't have to work hard.

The overarching theme that pervades every Trump supporter is "**** liberals!" That is the goal and anything done to anger liberals is justified regardless of illegality or immorality.

History is irrelevant. Precedence is irrelevant. Feasibility, viability, experience, intelligence, common sense are all completely unimportant. Trump said "**** liberals!" louder, more aggressively, and in more ways than everybody else and so he won. People didn't want an intelligent person who uses multi-syllabic words to run the country. They wanted BillyJoe from the watering hole in Who-gives-a-****, Mississippi who gets hammered on Natty Light everyday while telling the bartender what he'd do to brown people if he were the President as he jerks off the handgun hanging from his hip.

It's scary that 24-hour media networks don't have the time to keep up with everything that's going on. It's the bed of nails theory at work.

Bingo. Trump is a salesman before anything else. He didn't sell solutions when running. He still doesn't sell solutions. He sells feelings. He sells the illusion that something will be done. The wall and repealing Obamacare will look as though they're happening but they never will. There'll be hitches along the way that make those things essentially impossible. I think Trump even knows that they won't get done but he gets so much love from his base that he just keeps repeating it for the adulation.

Pretty sure it's a revolution when you take over the government. Resigning from it is something else.

I saw well researched estimates that the wall would cost $10.6 Billion.

Mexican President cancels visit to D.C.

Expect a lot of this unless from Philippines, Syria, Iran or Russia. Trump has the very best diplomacy.

Unless the scope of the wall is something other than promised then no. Not to mention all giant construction projects have estimates and most of the time they end up low.

It's pretty easy to built this magic wall cost any amount by literally stopping to build it whenever you choose. Others have noted there are all sorts of logistical problems that people have not had to deal with and even if they tried to predict them all they will be wrong on some of them.

But I am sure Trump can build us an affordable border wall that is EFFECTIVE.

Trump will just sit back and watch it happen. These countries are all going to try and burn him out on these issues such as tariffs and what not. Inevitably though Trump knows they're like the cutoff rich kid. Eventually he's going to come crawling back. These countries are going to try and do this for 3 plus years in hopes Trump will lose the 2020 election but I'm not sold many of them can hold out that long. Mexico in all likelihood cannot.

Nah, he will favor robot machine guns that shoot anything that moves.

This is an interesting article about how they might go about building a wall and the challenges they might face.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/an-engin...o-implausible/

I think the Doomsday Clock people are gonna have to come out and give us another update.

Trump could probably slowly back off the wall idea. I think if he otherwise effectively secures the borders with other measures that aren't too absurd and the economy continues improving that most of his supporters will forgive him over no wall.

lol'd hard at "I knew you wouldn't bomb Denmark, little bitch president"

The producers modeled the aliens' actions on the demonisation of Jews in the Third Reich.

Re the wall, surely it's very likely that it will be built - very nice and tall/strong/pretty in some places, barely a fence in others - and there will be a political agreement with Mexico where they pay some of the cost, but in a way that looks like much more when presented on Fox etc.

Wow, I really had no idea

I am guessing this is a reaction to Trump's statement that unless he is prepared to pay for the wall, he shouldn't come to Washington.....

British PM says hello

Is the Wall going to go through the Tohono O'Odham Nation? Is it going to go through Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument? Could Trump survive more than 30 seconds alone in the Sonoran Desert?

The Maybot knows not what she says.

Might as well cancel meetings with Mexico if the State Dept senior leadership isn't there to organize them.

That seems worse.

I overheard some clown GOP rep on CNN this morning saying that the reason the bolded is true is because NAFTA shipping all our jerbs to Mexico lol

In before profit connection from wall construction to Trump is revealed (and ignored).

I'm not actually sure which case is worse.