Republican government shutdown 2025 v2.0

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nakedfrog

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Apr 3, 2001
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I do want those rural voters to have healthcare, hospital access, high speed internet, clean air and water, and other nice things; they, however, have proudly declared that they do not want those things. Far be it for us to deny them their wish.
 
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nakedfrog

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Here's a screenshot:

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Forestry Service:
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As of yet the National Park Service does not have the Great Leader-mandated Ultimate Truth message of Truthiness applied, nor any of the military homepages I checked.
 

hal2kilo

Lifer
Feb 24, 2009
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Get begging emails and text messages everyday from the Dems (happens if you ever dare to contribute). They ain't getting anymore from me if they don't shut this farce of a government down.
Well, I might start up a monthly. Starting to see signs of a spine.
 
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DZero

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Maybe... is what Trump wanted... to shut down the government to massively fire people and "save" dollars in it.
 

VRAMdemon

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"The projects are in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA," will be the ones that are canceled

--- Russ Vought

I guess those "blue states" don't have any Republican lawmakers in those states. Great move, Russ :rolleyes: Great opportunity for the blue states to stop sending their tax dollars to Washington - which subside the red states. Those 16 states are 39% of the US population 47% of US GDP.

This clown Vought claims it's "Green New Deal" funding, but the funds actually came from an infrastructure bill passed four years ago. No piece of legislation called the "Green New Deal" has ever been passed, nor has any aspects of it. Dumbass.

Those projects are being built with union labor. Many of these workers voted for Trump and the Republicans. And we all know how pro union Trump and Project 2025 is. slap in the face. Idiocracy.

Project 2025 Russ Vought. He over rules Congress now too?

Meanwhile Trump is bailing out Argentina with 20 billion of our taxpayer dollars to his wanna be dictator buddy/clone. Another slap in the face. America first? lol
 

Moonbeam

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Syphoning money away from blue urban areas to pay red area farmers to grow products nobody wants to buy is not justifiable. They decided to twice (at least) elect a man who has destroyed their export market. This is not my problem.
Such feelings are understandable given that's what Republican farmers are in the most part, I suspect, willing to go along with. But they are told they are being robbed to support worthless urban welfare queens, etc. And owing to elect-ability issues, like a need for corporate money to be elected Democrats can't fully fund all political issues and have to try for rational compromises which by the way make few people happy.

In my opinion proper governance isn't a walk in the park and taking one side over the other furthers divisions. Republicans are now supporting sending troops into Democratic cities. They weren't happy with just siphoning away funds. In order to end such insanity at the top will require some of the farm vote. Hate makes people deaf. So you are shooting yourself in the foot, in my opinion.
 

Puffnstuff

Lifer
Mar 9, 2005
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I was watching the news this afternoon and the CNN host confronted Schumer over his stance today vs back in March when he said that policy differences should not be used to shutdown the government.

Honestly I can't support either party which is why I no longer have a party affiliation. And to be fair the last and longest government shutdown did occur on the orange watch.
 
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Indus

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What's next?? cut social security payments to blue states!!!

C'mon Trump.. you can dooooo itttttttt!!!

Will be more of a reason to break America up once and forever!
 
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Indus

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Haha blackpilled Indus is the best

There are leftys here dime a dozen but they are wusses.

And there are misfits like me who are the distance from earth to neptune left of the leftys here.. one who fully wants justice and payment of the aggressions back onto the aggressors with interest. You won't find many here with my stomach for justice.

I mean many here will just label the Taj Mahal as a beautiful work of art.. a wonder of the world and there's me who will tell you it's a monument to the largest genocide in history.

Do you think they just paid workers/ artisans to work on it?? Or they did what the white people did.. enslave people who weren't their kind and massacring others.

I'm not crazy.. I'm just an amateur antropologist and historian that knows you can't trust certain groups of people even as far as you can throw them!

I'd love to live in a country without them!
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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I was watching the news this afternoon and the CNN host confronted Schumer over his stance today vs back in March when he said that policy differences should not be used to shutdown the government.

Honestly I can't support either party which is why I no longer have a party affiliation. And to be fair the last and longest government shutdown did occur on the orange watch.
Schumer's stance is irrelevant to the shutdown. The Republicans literally need no Democratic votes to pass a budget. That is what being the majority in both houses and holding the White House means. The Republicans are dumping on the Democrats when they can't get their own shit together.
 

Indus

Lifer
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Schumer's stance is irrelevant to the shutdown. The Republicans literally need no Democratic votes to pass a budget. That is what being the majority in both houses and holding the White House means. The Republicans are dumping on the Democrats when they can't get their own shit together.
Don't tell that to apnews which seems to be going on board the MAGA train:

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Maybe the Baileys own apnews.. and that's why Schumer caves everytime.
 
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Pens1566

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Oct 11, 2005
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--- Russ Vought

I guess those "blue states" don't have any Republican lawmakers in those states. Great move, Russ :rolleyes: Great opportunity for the blue states to stop sending their tax dollars to Washington - which subside the red states. Those 16 states are 39% of the US population 47% of US GDP.

This clown Vought claims it's "Green New Deal" funding, but the funds actually came from an infrastructure bill passed four years ago. No piece of legislation called the "Green New Deal" has ever been passed, nor has any aspects of it. Dumbass.

Those projects are being built with union labor. Many of these workers voted for Trump and the Republicans. And we all know how pro union Trump and Project 2025 is. slap in the face. Idiocracy.

Project 2025 Russ Vought. He over rules Congress now too?

Meanwhile Trump is bailing out Argentina with 20 billion of our taxpayer dollars to his wanna be dictator buddy/clone. Another slap in the face. America first? lol

I could see a whole bunch of districts that barely went red in '20/'22/'24 swing back because of this. Especially NY. Also gonna royally fuck any chances of the republican VA governor race.
 

K1052

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Say what you will about the lackluster messaging coming from party leaders but the strategy of picking the fight over ACA subsidies is sound (and apparently politically successful so far). Given this a Democratic cave would not seem to be on the horizon so Trump will probably do increasingly unpopular things to try to get them to move. Failing that he'll force Senate Rs to go nuclear ensuring the worst outcome for voters.


https://archive.is/VDa4M

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I told you that Trump and Vought were going to burst through the wall like the Kool Aid man to take every possible shred of credit for the shutdown because they are morons.

Russell Vought thinks he's King of Appropriations.

I hate that one of my senators is a doddering old centrist idiot and the other is the head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, but only seems to care about her crown for Queen of Concern.
 

K1052

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Russell Vought thinks he's King of Appropriations.

I hate that one of my senators is a doddering old centrist idiot and the other is the head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, but only seems to care about her crown for Queen of Concern.

It do be like that in Maine. Though it's possible that Trump/Vought's actions become so objectionable that even King and CCM tell Thune to fuck off. Fetterman is just a lost cause at this point and should resign because he is not going to survive a primary.
 
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Say what you will about the lackluster messaging coming from party leaders but the strategy of picking the fight over ACA subsidies is sound (and apparently politically successful so far). Given this a Democratic cave would not seem to be on the horizon so Trump will probably do increasingly unpopular things to try to get them to move. Failing that he'll force Senate Rs to go nuclear ensuring the worst outcome for voters.


https://archive.is/VDa4M

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That 30% blaming Democrats is just the Patrick Wallets meme.
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