“Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics,” said the second person. “Nobody thought it was going to last this long.”
Trump and his top aides thought that unpaid federal workers, closed and limited federal facilities and threats of ever-more job cuts from Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, would be too much for Democrats to handle
“I don’t know what’s wrong with them,” he said of Democrats Friday. “They’ve never done a thing like this. They’ve become crazed lunatics. All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape. So there’s something wrong with them… It’s their fault. Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”
To be fair, I think everyone is baffled that the Dems haven’t caved by now. I didn’t think it was possible to regrow a spine.
I think it’s just theater. Both sides pretend they our outraged by the shutdown while using it to cut all the things their donors wanted to cut for a long time. They will keep cutting social programs and firing federal workers as long as they can and when they finally re-open the government to great fanfares the programs and jobs will still be gone. All the money the government saved will then be funneled to the rich.
I said something similar and got destroyed
Schmuck Schumer thinks he is punishing us as much as the Republicans. He should have shut the government down in the Spring, and he took a LOT of heat for not doing it.
So he let it go forward this time, and probably expected Dems to chicken out by now, only to be surprised that the citizens are demanding that he hold the line.
High health care costs and SNAP benefits hit the Red states much harder than the Blue states, despite the nonsense from the Conservative Propaganda Machine. All the Dems have to do is remain steady, and the MAGAs will either fold, or get destroyed in the Midterms.
Unless they cancel Midterms for the first time in American history, and then it’s on.
And BTW, it’s LONG past time for Schmuck to go. He’s rich enough, time to disengage him from the Congressional Insider Trading Club. Leave some for the rest of them.
I’m glad he’s holding the line now, but it would have been so much better to do it back then.
I really don’t expect them to try and cancel the midterms, but we are going to see voter suppression that’s completely off the scale. We already know they plan to deploy the national guard in all 50 states to “secure the election”. The obvious goal will be to scare minorities away from the polls because of ICE and the normalization of racial profiling, but I wouldn’t put it past them to straight-up cheat as well.