The fact Trump and the GOP are trying so hard to convince us this is good for them should tell everyone everything they need to know.
Keep it shut down. Fuck it. ICE isn't getting paid.
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As if he wasn't going to do this anyway. It's just faster for him to do it without the uproar. If the media were doing their job calling out how batshit stupid he is, maybe it wouldn't have gotten to this point.
Maybe forcing them to speed up will turn the temperature up too quickly, and make the frog jump out of the boiling water. I doubt it, though.
It's definitely a thought, though. I think they've been doing that lately. Moving too fast. Overplaying their hand. Being too overt in their power grabs. Rocking the boat more than they need to. A lot of pundits seem to think the urgency is because of Trump's quickly failing health. That does seem to track
Yep. They did nothing to vet him at all in 2015-2016, although any one of them in the media even paying the least bit of attention could have told America just what a shitstain Taco was.
They fell down on the job even further in 2021-2024, helping spread the BidenSoOld shit, along with, "Democrats are just sooo unpopular" stuff...yeah, and I guess constantly beating that drum isn't going to influence people to start believing it and acting accordingly. Not to mention how they'd treat almost anyone talking about Project 2025 or speaking frankly about Taco's J6 Day of Terror and parallel coup attempt as just being hysterical or whatever.
The corporate media is as much to blame for this as anyone.
They wanted to cut all the federal agencies, why would they care about a shutdown?
They’ll make everyone work without back pay until they get the attrition numbers they want.
I was promised that this kind of thing couldn't happen in America
Maybe the USA isn't exceptional
The shutdown won’t end ever. This is the plan.
when all the atc quit and rich people become fireworks in the sky since they are the only ones who can fly, the shutdown will quickly end.