https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5d42w4ZcY4
trump is literally turning into this kid
See this is what I expect to see, people actually talking about something. Not going "blah blah blah it's the other side doing it" it's "we need to work together."
"You see Ivanka, Daddy's is the loooongest"
The suffering is the point for his base
Trump supporter complains shutdown is 'not hurting the people he needs to be hurting'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/we-will-be-out-for-a-long-time-unless-democrats-budge-trump-says-as-shutdown-enters-4th-week/2019/01/12/54400f02-1672-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/11/mitch-mcconnell-could-end-shutdown-hes-sitting-this-one-out/
Imagine if this had happened before the election, Dems might've captured more seats in the Senate if voters knew this was what they got to look forward to from Republican "leadership".
Good god, that's an unflattering photo of McConnell. Granted, I'm not sure flattering pictures of him exist but to quote that Preacher panel. where the fuck is his chin?
Not a fan of McConnell but we all get old eventually. Now that dude who had 4+ heart transplants was something to behold.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/237814/d1e0e4f3-585c-4b8b-817b-3f902bb27d5e/David-Rockefeller-Sixth-Heart-Transplant-Successful-At-Age-99.jpg
Its amazing how people still support the chap after the shit he's done, really shows you how people like Mussolini could build up cult of personality's despite being incompetent as fuck.
I preferred History when it was just on the History channel
And here I thought that Liches were fantasy creatures.
Christ, he looks like a walk-on extra from a Rob Zombie music video.
Six heart transplants? Or six phylacteries created?!
Shutdowns should trigger automatic elections. EVERYONE in elected offices in congress gets fired and barred from government permanently at any level. They are barred from lobbying or participating in government at any level for life.
Except the house is the only leg of the government actually doing their job. We have a senate that literally refuses to bring a vote to end the shutdown because they are working with the president directly. It should be, if a leader is openly working under another branch of government, they should be removed from their position immediately.
That is an awfully reactionary and short-sighted solution to a problem where there are far more solutions.
Eh. It either keeps it from happening again or it rerolls the dice on a body that really should have had term limits from the start.
Our current government is so garbage that we have forgotten what a good government even looks like. We just accept that corporations own our government. That money is the only voice that matters. That is all well and good until you disenfranchise the population for too long. Do you want violence? That is definitely how you get violence.
I recognize that the shutdown is being maintained by a spare few. However the overwhelming majority of the Republicans in office are complicit in the events that lead to it.
So because of Mitch McConnell and a handful of other Republicans, you would throw out, and permanently bar, every sitting Congressman, no questions asked?
This would be a fantastically straightforward way for foreign governments to easily overthrow any American government that they don't like.
Want to prevent Mr. Western Ideals from having a say against your pro-Israeli/pro-Communist/pro-Saudi/pro-Turkish agenda? Literally throw enough money at the problem to make it go away while having the collateral of destabilizing the entire structure of the government.
Think that couldn't happen? Every president that has been elected since 1977 has experienced a shutdown except for George W. Bush, with Reagan having the most separate ones (albeit each being only one day long, a feat that also happened under Carter).
Hmm, good point. It is a shit idea. Sorry about that.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1084466503574016006
Wat
Oh thank god, we'll all be safe from the democrats if we stay in Washington, since they're everywhere BUT there.
So basically...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEaKX9YYHiQ
He tweeted a day or so ago that he is In his office, "ready to sign!"
And, I mean, yeah, but the only thing he's willing to sign is something that budgets billions of dollars to his stupid wall and he doesn't understand that the House is now controlled by Democrats, he lost the midterms, and they have all the leverage now. He's sitting in the middle of a burning room yelling that whenever the Democrats can't stand the heat and want to surrender he'll call in the firemen to put the fire out.
The Democrats are in space, they're on Mars, they're taking them to Isengard!
But they're not in Washington.
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