“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.”
Look, honestly, I kind of am too. Though for much different reasons.
They’re plating politics?
He’s always baffled, the only thing that gets his full attention are little children. The fucking nonce.
Addled Terrorist Confused That People Who Have A History Of Not Negotiating With Terrorists, Isn’t Willing To Negotiate With Him.
FTFY.
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.
This is a game of pigeon chess played entirely by pigeons.
If Trump and his cult make the slightest concession the Dems will fold immediately. Then both sides will knock over the remaining pieces and fly back to their flocks to claim victory.
“Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics”
The irony of that statement is so thick you can cut it into pieces.
Trump is as self-aware as a bar of soap.
Like when he clutches his pearls at when he whines about the extensive criminal activity of James and Comey?
Or shoot it from across a field
Well, sure, can’t blame him for that. After decades of the weakest appeasement shit imaginable, why wouldn’t he expect them to fold? It’s what every Democrat has done since Carter - without a single exception.
All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape.
Except it doesn’t. There’s several cuts that have been made to the budget. While ACA has been the most visible because of the Democrat’s demands. There are cuts that will remove 3 million people from SNAP. $300 Billion removed from Federal education grants to various schools around the country, including rural schools that severe small populations.
The ACA cut has been the one that Democrats have really dug in on, but the OBBBA has tons of cuts that are going to affect everyone. And Democrats have been asking since March to have a seat at the table for shaping what was in OBBBA only to have all their motions to bring to the floor denied.
And that’s the thing. Everyone knew that Senate Democrats were going to be needed for the coming CR. They knew this all the way back in March. By May House Republicans started shutting out Democrats and Senate Democrats told them what was going to happen if the House kept pushing Democrats out of everything. They knew what was coming and they still did it.
Republicans don’t get to do the “my way or the highway thing”, even when the ACA went into effect there were Republican riders that were enacted along with it. Build Back Better included plenty of pork projects for red states. Inflation Reduction Act helped out tons of deep red districts. I’m sure everyone remembers the member of Congress who voted against it but then told constituents how great it was going to be.
Democrats help out Republicans, and the OBBBA completely shutting Democrats out of the process isn’t how Congress does things. So yeah, Republicans are seeing the result of their choices. And they have the opportunity to make different choices.
If only the Dems/Ukrainians would give up and surrender then my administration/Russia could finally give us all Peace
Living in the US, it certainly feels like the GOP is a hostile foreign invader holding us all hostage.
The GOP is the South rising again, but with a New Yorker at the helm.
“It’s their fault. Everything is their fault.”
A malignant narcissist’s mantra.
Trump is delusional and thinks he can bend reality to what he wants to be real.
This type of delusional thinking is very typical in USA, based on the idea that if you want it enough you can make it.
This mantra has become so pervasive that some have begun to believe that you don’t even have to do anything to achieve what you want. If the wanting is strong enough, reality will bend to your will.
This is what happens in an anti science society where the mentality is driven by religion and superstition combined with desperation and a wish for ultimate freedom.
The idea is spread for instance through numerous self help books and prosperity gospel.USA is a society that has gone collectively insane.
PS:
That doesn’t mean every American is insane, but as a whole American society is de facto insane. It’s obvious to see everyday in the news.That’s not America, that’s MAGA. They are profoundly, even proudly, ignorant, with absolutely no Critical Thinking Skills. When you don’t know how to think properly, your brain substitutes a sort of ad hoc chaotic thinking instead, and now THAT is in charge of America.
Most Americans have some level of Critical Thinking Skills, although many apply it only when it’s convenient. For instance, they tend to tuck away their Critical Thinking Skills in church. Unfortunately, some also do this with politics. They’ll accept bullshit in politics that they would never accept anywhere else.
But it is, by definition, America. Just because some parts of the brain are firing like normal, if the end result is punching yourself in the face and screaming that you’re not going to stop until your ex wife releases the aliens in her trunk, you’re still insane. America (speaking as an American, so I think it’s fair) is well off the tracks.
No it’s not just MAGA because this started happening way way way before MAGA was a thing.
Absolutely true, but ignorance has blossomed, and become not only acceptable, but a MAGA virtue.
I agree with MAGA it has become worse, especially with regard to immigrants and minorities.
And with MAGA it has become utterly unashamed.
But sociopathy has been a virtue in USA for decades, because It’s the ultimate expression of freedom.
And Americans consider individual freedom to be above everything else, even health and well being.The Three strikes law is a clear example of this sociopathic mentality against fellow citizens.
Another clear example is the lack of healthcare for all, despite experience from other countries show it’s actually cheaper. These things date back to way way before MAGA.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law
The first true “three-strikes” law was passed in 1993
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule
Id imagine it’s a similar number to amount of delusional people, criminals, etc etc.
Just like it’s about 10% of shops in a town/street closing down to make the place look run down
In his defense, I’m baffled too! Dems usually cave immediately.
I really hope this means they’re becoming a real opposition party.
They definitely cave every time Republicans do this exact same thing.
Because they hold the cards and know its their responsibility to negotiate. They also know MAGA elected a pedophile, so good luck getting them to flip.
Nobody has ever said “no” to him before
Not even his own daughter.
They did, he just didn’t listen. It’s the literal definition of the crime he’s convicted of.
Well, he hasn’t heard anyone saying “no” to him before. I’m sure it’s happened, and his best friend might have known a bit about that.
Well, no one has ever said no to him and ‘really’ meant it, or could withstand the frivolous lawsuits he brought against them. All the other times didn’t really happen. One imagines anything that doesn’t match his own warped sense of reality fades very quickly in his mind. The parts of the story where he isn’t the big strong guy are quickly rewritten by the people surrounding him, and they never print out headlines or pictures to remind him about that sort of thing.
I’m sure there is some chapter in the art of the deal that describes something like this that the democrats could quote back to him.
