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user-inactivated  ·  1888 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Trump signs bill to end shutdown and temporarily reopen government

I think encouraging Trump to self-immolate is the most useful thing the House can do for the next two years, and I think Pelosi thinks so too.





kleinbl00  ·  1888 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, I got buddies that were furloughed, though, and it's rough losing a month's pay. I think they'd be supportive of your standpoint while also sincerely wishing they could do their jobs. Those overflowing garbage cans and flooded bathrooms at the national parks gotta get dealt with by somebody.

user-inactivated  ·  1888 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hear you, but the options are letting the President have his stupid racist symbolic gesture so he can use it to try to give us four more years of this, or not doing that and letting the tantrum resume. The third option of not letting the President throw his tantrum because there are enough Republicans who would rather not to override a veto isn't going to happen because McConnell isn't going to let it.

kleinbl00  ·  1888 days ago  ·  link  ·  

100% agreed. And I can't speak for my friends, but I suspect they'd lean that way, too. I just wish we could find a way to stick it to the Senate instead of the Forest Service.

am_Unition  ·  1888 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    ...his stupid racist symbolic gesture so he can use it to try to give us four more years of this...

I think you are correct in assuming that every move he makes is geared towards ensuring he's re-elected. If somehow his approval rating held steady during the shutdown, he'd have never re-opened the government. Given that he loses in 2020, he'll be indicted for felony campaign finance violation on January 20th, 2021, only months before the five year statute of limitations expires. "Campaign like your life depends on it" is an apt phrase.