This whole narrative is a master class in gas lighting: the rabid, frothing at the mouth, racist base and the trembling left so terrified of their own shadows that they jump at loud noises. All he has to do, apparently, is throw some stupid shit out there like chum and watch the Internet go mad. And everyone just lets him.
He retreats to the Oval, eats half a dozen happy meals then giggles at his own farts because that is just the kind of guy he is.
First, the amount of funds he sought to “redirect” from the Pentagon was $2.5 billion and, believe it or not, that is a fraction of what that ridiculous vanity project of his would cost were it ever to be built. That appropriation was NEVER intended to go towards construction of this albatross: there will be some heavy equipment stationed in obnoxiously plain sight at the border for media to photograph moving dirt around and digging holes for some cheap metal alloy posts to be planted. Nothing of substance — that most average humans can’t slip through, unless you are fat as f**k like he is — will ever come of it.
It is simply not enough cash to matter at all in the actualization of a project of this magnitude. And he knows it.
That money has always been intended to be channeled into the offshore accounts of Trump’s cronies. Now they are trying to move it before someone wises up and stops them.
Dig a little deeper and you find that SCOTUS did not give Trump a pass on moving money from the Pentagon budget to this nonsense: what the ruling says is that the plaintiff — the Sierra Club — does not have standing to file this case. My suspicion is that the conservatives on the Court thought long and hard on finding a creative way to give Trump and Republicans political cover without actually ruling in his favor on the points of law. This is what they came up with.
I am not a lawyer, but you don’t need to be a lawyer to know that a) owing to “Posse Comitatus,” the United States military cannot be deployed to police the continental U.S. and b) the military cannot be deployed to construct a project that is not specifically a military installation. This stupid wall is neither. And this fool’s calling it an “Executive Order” don’t make it so.
What is really happening here is that Trump and his butler, Bill Barr, are working overtime to get these funds moved and in the coffers of his dark money contributors before Congress reconvenes in roughly six weeks. And before another entity wakes up and files an injunction against his ability to move this money under cover of darkness and bureaucratic red tape. All it takes is someone “with standing” to file another suit in the court to stop this.
Trump and Barr know this: this is nothing more than another device to move money before someone points a spotlight and rats them out.
Please everyone, stop acting like wounded birds and somebody file a suit against this affront to nature and all mankind now.
Please stop acting like this waste of humanity has the power to break you. It’s all in your heads.