President Spanky's "Douche-henge"

The other day, not long after he signed the $1.3 trillion spending bill with piddling funding for "border security" (not the border wall Mexico was supposed to pay for), white supremacist con man Donald "Rump" Trump (a.k.a., "President Spanky") was trying to keep up the con for his mouth- breathing base:

Great briefing this afternoon on the start of our Southern Border WALL! pic.twitter.com/pmCNoxxlkH

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2018

The fact is that those pictures Rump used were of a 2- mile stretch of what was a scrap metal barrier in Calexico (dating back to the '90s) being replaced, an upgrade that had been planned for years.

Last night on CNN, Republican strategist/ wit Rick Wilson had a good summary of what's going on here: 

“The fundamental promise is ‘I will keep the brown people away from you,'. The modality is ‘I will build a wall. Mexico will pay for it.’ There is no wall. There is no funding for a wall. He’s got these four pieces of concrete, sample sections in California, which I call ‘Douche-henge.’ It’s a symbol for these people, these suckers that believe the wall is real.” (our emphasis)

We've checked Rump's Twitter feed so you don't have to, and yes, there are many suckers who "think" the wall is going up and Rump is keeping his promise. (Sic transit gloria, America.)

Once again, to be clear, this is the totality of Rump's wall -- pardon -- "Douche- henge:"

So Much Winning: Build The Wall Edition

Fresh off of his Hindenburg experience with the disastrous TrumpCare failure, neo-fascist loser Donald "Rump" Trump may be facing another humiliating setback soon for his signature campaign promise: Congress may not fund a border wall separating the U.S. from Mexico this year. Reports indicate that Rethuglican congresscritters are worried that Dems will block passage of an April 28 debt ceiling bill allowing the Government to stay open unless the requested $1.4 billion in initial funding for Rump's wall this year is stripped out. As an alternative, Rethugs may propose a separate funding bill for the wall, which would also likely face defeat in a closely-divided Senate.

Adding to Rump's political problem is that the public is cold to building a wall especially if the U.S. ends up paying for it -- which it will. Then, there are the logistical challenges to construction, including terrain, and major swaths of private land that the wall would intrude on.

Will Rump continue to bat zero as this next promise of his evaporates? We certainly hope so, but we also hope that Rump expends massive political capital in his doomed boondoggle.

Rump's "Hate Wall" Con Collapsing

As a con artist supreme during the campaign, neo-fascist demagogue Donald "Rump" Trump fired up the xenophobic mouthbreathers with promises to build a wall on the Mexican border, and to make Mexico pay for it. Most lucid people knew he was bullshitting his gullible followers. Now, with a few weeks before the inauguration, he's shrugged off that campaign promise, too: he's asking Congress to front the costs for the "wall", which his staff is now trimming back as a "wall or fence upgrade." Moreover, he thinks Mexico will later reimburse us for the "wall," presumably through high tariffs on their exports, which will hit his xenophobic mouthbreathers in the chops with higher product costs (Mexico is the U.S.'s third largest trading partner). In retaliation, Mexico would likely raise their tariffs on incoming U.S. goods, resulting in layoffs for domestic businesses exporting to Mexico. That won't end well.

Rump's vanishing promises to "drain the swamp," to jail Secretary Clinton, and now this may disillusion or even anger some of his cultish followers. But when he could, as he said, shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and not lose support, it's hard to know where they'd draw the line with him and his lies.

(cartoon: Tom Toles, via Gocomics.com)