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FYI Trump no longer calls out CBS as “fake news”. There are reasons for this.
Why not just call out that Larry Ellison’s son owns it and he replaced the head of CBS with a right wing nut job masquerading as a fair and balanced “journalist”?
What are you implying?
Probably saying cbs no longer reports actual facts, just what the neo-Nazi-MAGAs tell them to talk about
Remember, this isn’t about funding, this is about not swearing in the new house member from Arizona who gives the Dems enough seats to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files
Thune: "We're not going to negotiate on anything until Democrats stop holding government funding hostage"
So it's "hostage taking" when you're the ones getting leveraged?
Countdown until Repubs start chanting "free the hostages!" in reference to the American people... 🙄
For those wondering:
No signs ANYTHING has changed in the bill. So it is just "we're going to vote on it until you approve it" yet again
I hope the shutdown lasts through election day.
Tomorrow this ties for the second longest shutdown in US history. A week after that, Trump beats his own record for least functional government in the entire history of the United States.
We're less than one mooch from the record.
Don't forget, the Republicans are the ones in power right now. If they wanted to, they can change the rules of the senate to pass the budget with a simple majority instead of the current 60 vote requirement. This shut down is all on them.
Same story as ever: Republicans refuse to negotiate in good faith and then blame it on the people not bending over to be raped by them.
The entire Republican apparatus is basically a DARVO abuser in the form of a political party.
Hell yeah, let's sit in stalemate for 3 more years
Hopefully, if enough people lose their income, we can go back to making real social change again, like in the BLM riots.
A government shutdown isn't a general strike, but it could be the start of one
They're in no rush. Every day the shutdown goes on, Trump and cronies can get rid of employees they couldn't get the courts to let them fire, and that's not counting the ones who quit because they can't afford to be without income.
Meanwhile, Trump can executive order anything he considers critical to be essential and therefore funded anyway, and none of the machinery of fascism misses a beat. There are no jobs reports to alarm people that employment is collapsing, and the stock market keeps climbing.
Meanwhile, Congressional republicans cry crocodile tears. "Oh, no! Please don't play hardball with us!"
This is what happens when you try to exert leverage when you don't have any left.
are we ever gonna release the epstein files?
Wonder if military paychecks will be withheld for Nov 1. Historically speaking, things tend to get pretty interesting when soldiers don't get paid. Just ask Sam Doe.
What are the odds that enough of the Republicans kick the bucket to force them to negotiate? Or would they allow their new candidate to be sworn in by the speaker while still denying any democratic actions?
Yes.
as per usual the republicans can't do anything when they are in power but beg the democrats to fix everything.
Twenty? Those are rookie numbers.
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