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rant, snaKKKe, pure factless rant. AOC is speaking some hard truths and you guys are as usual blind and deaf. There are a lot of ways and places where humans are pushing right up against the limits of wehat the earth can support sustainably, sometimes beyond those limits. And we are changing the climate in ways that are going to make it less productivce, and that definitely includes the US, There are hard decisions we'll have to make, and Trump is ignoring them

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is not pleased with a bipartisan agreement reached by Congress in "principle" to avert a second government shutdown over border security and immigration.

"I can't say I'm happy. I can't say I'm thrilled," Trump told reporters as he met with members of his Cabinet at the White House one day after Democrats and Republicans reached a deal giving Trump a fraction of the funds he has requested for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

At the same time, Trump said another government shutdown looks unlikely. "If you did have it, it's the Democrats fault," he added. "I would hope that there won’t be a shutdown. I am extremely unhappy with what the Democrats have given us."

Trump's comments cast doubt on the prospects of reaching a compromise, which must pass the House and Senate and get signed by the president before the clock strikes midnight Friday. If Congress and Trump do not get a spending bill signed, large portions of the federal government will run out of money and shut down just three weeks after the longest budget impasse in U.S. history ended.

The agreement includes $1.375 billion for 55 miles of new border fences – a figure that Fox News host Sean Hannity suggested was peanuts compared to the $5.7 billion Trump had previously demanded for the construction of 200 miles of walls along the southern border. Hannity slammed the deal as "garbage" on his show Monday night and warned that any Republican supporting the compromise would "have to explain" his or her position.

Other conservatives attacked the deal, claiming that it fails to fulfill a central tenant of Trump's presidential campaign: Trump repeatedly promised that Mexico would fund the across the 2016 trail. "Trump talks a good game on the border wall but it's increasingly clear he's afraid to fight for it," author and commentator Ann Coulter tweeted Tuesday. "Call this his 'Yellow New Deal.'"

On CNN, former Republican congressman Charlie Dent said, "You have to say the president lost."

"He lost because he set an unrealistic expectation. He talked about a wall and Mexico paying for – 2,000 miles. He has walked it back. Now that we are having a serious conversation, he is going to get 700 miles, which is what I supported when I was a co-sponsor of the Secure Fences Act," Dent added Tuesday. "It was done with expert consultation. He is doing the things that need to be done, but is not going to get this pie in the sky wall that he foolishly promised during the campaign."

In past negotiations, Trump bowed to conservative backlash over funding. During the first round of negotiations in December, after right-wing pundit Ann Coulter said she would not vote for Trump in 2020 if he could not secure funds for the border wall he promised, Trump changed course and told congressional Republicans that he would not sign a spending bill that did not include money for his wall.

This time around, however, it appears lawmakers from both parties are determined to avoid another shutdown after a 35-day budget impasse forced hundreds of thousands of federal workers to go without pay until Trump reopened the government with a short-term spending bill that gave Congress until Feb. 15 to pitch a new deal. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) welcomed the agreement Tuesday.

"I look forward to reviewing the full text as soon as possible and hope the Senate can act on this legislation in short order," McConnell said on the Senate floor.

Trump has renewed his threat of declaring a national emergency on the southern border, which would allow him to start constructing his wall immediately by redirecting taxpayer money from other projects — without approval from Congress. Republicans lawmakers and White House officials, including Jared Kushner, have indicated they would prefer Trump not to rely on such an option to build the wall because of the legal challenges that would follow.

"I'm considering everything," Trump said at the Cabinet meeting Tuesday.

Trump 'not happy' with bipartisan deal to avoid second shutdown.

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter ripped President Trump on Tuesday, saying he is "afraid" to fight for a border wall and calling a bipartisan compromise to avert a government shutdown his "Yellow New Deal."

"Trump talks a good game on the border wall but it's increasingly clear he's afraid to fight for it," Coulter tweeted to her 2.13 million followers. "Call this his 'Yellow New Deal.'"

The tweet from Coulter, who has repeatedly criticized the president in recent months for not securing the necessary funds to build a wall along much of the U.S.-Mexico border, comes as Trump mulls signing off on the compromise reached by Republican and Democratic lawmakers Monday night.

She also warned in a tweet late Monday that the U.S. "will become a socialist country" if the president doesn't get the wall built.

Trump in December stopped following Coulter on Twitter after she declared she would no longer support his reelection if no progress has been made on the border wall by 2020 and currently follows only 45 people and entities, including several Fox News hosts.

"Why would you [vote for him again]?" the provocative author and columnist asked during a Daily Caller interview on Dec. 20. "To make sure, I don't know, Ivanka [Trump] and Jared [Kushner] can make money? That seems to be the main point of the presidency at this point."

"They're about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again," she added. "Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but he'll have no legacy whatsoever."

Trump on Tuesday told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House that he wasn't happy with the deal reached the evening before.

"I can't say I'm happy. I can't say I'm thrilled," Trump said.

(Ann Coulter)

The first amendment protects people like Anne Coulter.

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Screw ‘Uniting the Country’— That’s Not What Democrats Need in 2020
Republicans have gone terribly low. The way to unite the country isn’t lofty rhetoric but winning the White House and Congress and passing laws to help regular people again.

So that's pretty much what you got out of Mein Kampf, repeat a lie often enough and all of the world's idiots and wankers will start believing it or something like that....

Do they still have Securitate with automatic weapons patroling Bucharesti? Those guys were scary.