Official Trump Shutdown Thread

[BD24]

File that away in questions Chris will never answer.

[Trill Clinton]

Dude just flat out lies to Americans and doesn't give a single fucc smh

https://twitter.com/ScottMcGrew/status/1083378976465121280?s=19

https://twitter.com/joshuavkidd/status/1083376955121127424?s=19

[BD24]

So how many more checks do people miss before they start turning on trump? Or do they care about the wall more than a place to live and food on the table. Or do they just blame the dems like dear leader tells them to?

[Trill Clinton]

Acosta in the cartel ridden, warzone known as McAllen texas

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1083411819354558467?s=19

[CosmicCowboy]

This is a fucked up deal. Both sides have backed themselves into a corner. If either capitulates now their base will be furious and they will look weak.

The only way this gets resolved is if moderates on both sides of the aisle in the Senate get together and come up with a compromise plan that gives both sides something they can declare victory on....DACA, border funding less than 5.7 million, and hopefully some more immigration judges and then just cram it publicly down Trump and Pelosi/Schumers throat.

[Fabbs]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SLFGXjKJGao/hqdefault.jpg?v=56a80c39

[CosmicCowboy]

So how many more checks do people miss before they start turning on trump? Or do they care about the wall more than a place to live and food on the table. Or do they just blame the dems like dear leader tells them to?

Well duh. Some will blame Trump and Some will blame Pelosi/Schumer. Probably on a 50/40 split with 10 percent not giving a shit.

[spurraider21]

Acosta in the cartel ridden, warzone known as McAllen texas

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1083411819354558467?s=19
so the steel slats are working?

[spurraider21]

if moderates on both sides of the aisle in the Senate get together and come up with a compromise plan
:lmao

[CosmicCowboy]

:lmao

Laugh if you want. It's the only way I see this shutdown ending except for Trump declaring the border a national emergency and using money from the military budget.

[spurraider21]

Laugh if you want. It's the only way I see this shutdown ending except for Trump declaring the border a national emergency and using money from the military budget.
i get it. im laughing at the fact that it's not gonna happen.

they tried when daca was being revoked.. and going further back with the gang of 8 stuff. we know how it goes. democrats have been dumb for whining about the "immoral" aspect of the wall, because now they've backed themselves into a spot where they can never even negotiate it. rather than placing the focus on the funding/expense and alternate solutions. in that case, they could have said we'll give you x percentage, or only x miles of wall, but in exchange we want x more immigration judges or whatnot.

it might be bias, but i think the optics are worse on trump since he owned the shutdown going way back. the people out of work care more about their mortgage than a wall. having the border security standoff made sense in the context of daca negotiations. doesnt make a lick of sense here. i dont think he's gonna win out.

[CosmicCowboy]

It's different with this Pelosi/Trump standoff. She can't show weakness to the left wing Jackals nipping at her heels in the House and Trump really doesn't give a shit if 800,000 federal workers go without pay. Neither one is going to back down until they are forced to.

[spurraider21]

It's different with this Pelosi/Trump standoff. She can't show weakness to the left wing Jackals nipping at her heals in the House and Trump really doesn't give a shit if 800,000 federal workers go without pay. Neither one is going to back down until they are forced to.
its only those employees for now. the longer they stay in shutdown, the more people it's going to reach. food stamps could be out by march

[clambake]

i heard they'll just make adjustments to their lifestyle. i heard it from the top.

[Pavlov]

ROLE MODEL
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[DarrinS]

Acosta in the cartel ridden, warzone known as McAllen texas

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1083411819354558467?s=19


Isn't that a section of fence from the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which Hillary, Biden, and Obama all voted for?

Looks like it works

[Pavlov]

Isn't that a section of fence from the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which Hillary, Biden, and Obama all voted for?

Looks like it worksDo you want that fence along the entire Mexico border, Darrin?

Yes or no.

[Isitjustme?]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SLFGXjKJGao/hqdefault.jpg?v=56a80c39

What is this?

[DarrinS]

Do you want that fence along the entire Mexico border, Darrin?

Yes or no.


No, only where it's needed.

[Pavlov]

No, only where it's needed.Oh, where is it needed?

[Chris]

Acosta in the cartel ridden, warzone known as McAllen texas

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1083411819354558467?s=19

Jim getting destroyed over this :lol :lmao

You posted this thinking it was bad for Trump :lol :lmao

[Pavlov]

Jim getting destroyed over this :lol :lmao

You posted this thinking it was bad for Trump :lol :lmaoWhere's det CRISIS tho?

[spurraider21]

Where's det CRISIS tho?
Qhrisis

[Pavlov]

Qhrisis:lol missed opportunity

[Chris]

Where's det CRISIS tho?

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083404900862545920

Thanks Obama!

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1083450103375880192

[Pavlov]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1083404900862545920

Thanks Obama!:lmao out of context Obama good now.

Where is the crisis today, Chris?

Were it an actual crisis, Trump would be paying the border patrol.

[Chris]

:lmao out of context Obama good now.

Where is the crisis today, Chris?

Were it an actual crisis, Trump would be paying the border patrol.

THANKS OBAMA!

[Pavlov]

https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1083450103375880192
Is that his crisis windbreaker?

[Pavlov]

THANKS OBAMA!Where is the crisis today, Chris?

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1083446725346381824?s=19

People look up to this clown:lol

[boutons_deux]

People look up to this clown:lol

what's your problem with his eloquence, his sophisticated articulation, his mastery of elaborate vocabulary.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1083453969861693440

[Pavlov]

https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1083453969861693440

Are you going to build a wall in Mexico to keep the Mexicans out too?

[Spurs Homer]

https://twitter.com/DLoesch/status/1083453969861693440

Some people also got killed in yemen the other day!

Build another wall! NORTH/SOUTH/EAST/WEST!!! Now!!!


Crisis!!!!

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1083461979992408066

[koriwhat]

all you stupid fucks downplaying the border and the crimes that come from some that cross is stupid. until you know someone who was stuffed into a barrel and burned out in victoria, tx this shit doesn't become reality for yall. yall have no clue about any of this shit tbh.

[Chris]

Some people also got killed in yemen the other day!

Build another wall! NORTH/SOUTH/EAST/WEST!!! Now!!!


Crisis!!!!

Don't @ me with your troll.

[Pavlov]

https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1083461979992408066

Old lady says the wall is DOA.

[spurraider21]

nobody forced trump to draw a red line at the wall. if he wants to make it contingent on daca discussions, that's his prerogative. keeping hundreds of thousands of americans off pay just so he can break his promise to have mexico pay for it? turd.

[hater]

:lmao we have officially reached next level :lmao

https://twitter.com/Mediaite/status/1083198943805296640?s=20

[Spurs Homer]

Where are the pesos! #wherearethepesos!

[FlAVaK]

https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1083446725346381824?s=19

People look up to this clown:lol

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[ElNono]

This is a fucked up deal. Both sides have backed themselves into a corner. If either capitulates now their base will be furious and they will look weak.

Democrats on the House started to send appropriations bills to the Senate so the government can be open piecemeal, without the border security part. Then it's on Trump and cocaine Mitch. That's their gameplan, and it makes sense, there's no need to keep the government shut down over this discussion about the wall.


The only way this gets resolved is if moderates on both sides of the aisle in the Senate get together and come up with a compromise plan that gives both sides something they can declare victory on....DACA, border funding less than 5.7 million, and hopefully some more immigration judges and then just cram it publicly down Trump and Pelosi/Schumers throat.

Nah, what's going to happen is people are going to start getting angry, Democrats and going to point the finger at those bills above, and say it's up to them, and Trump is going to save face by declaring a national emergency and try to save face that way (blaming the democrats, obviously). Then it's up to the courts to decide.

[ElNono]

From what I ready, Graham, being the moderate he is, tried to broker a deal and was told to GFY by the WH...

[hater]

1083484831277899778

:lol

[hater]

I dont think it will go to the courts

Over the weekend ppl will really start getting their blood boiling. By Monday these fuckface politicians will take a look at the pitchforks and shit their pants and work on a face saving deal.

A fence for Crump and a bunch of dildos for the retqrded democrats

[hater]

The next fight is the next Supreme Judge

These nigas need to regroup and take a breath

The old lady about to kick it. Trump will choose his 3rd supreme judge :lmao

That fight will make Kavanqughty fight look like kumbaya :lmao

[baseline bum]

Hopefully TSA starts walking off the job when they don't get paid tomorrow and Cocaine Mitch is forced to tell our Dear Leader to fuck off and reopen the government with a veto-proof majority early next week.

[boutons_deux]

At White House, Empty Desks and Unpaid Bills as Trump Shows No Sign of Relenting

President Trump seemed to express wonder at being alone in the White House with little but the cheeriness of heavily armed guards to keep him warm for the better part of a week.

“I was waving to them,” Mr. Trump said just after New Year’s Day. “I never saw so many guys with machine guns in my life.

Secret Service and military. These are great people.”

And the Secret Service agents Mr. Trump was so impressed with, ... are all working unpaid — everyone in the Secret Service is,

Only 156 of the Executive Mansion’s 359 full-time employees are allowed to report for duty because their work is considered essential,


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/politics/white-house-government-shutdown.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

[Trainwreck2100]

Hopefully TSA starts walking off the job when they don't get paid tomorrow and Cocaine Mitch is forced to tell our Dear Leader to fuck off and reopen the government with a veto-proof majority early next week.

That would be nice, but you won't find enough Republicans with the stones to vote it, i believe they'd need some house Rs as well

[boutons_deux]

Now on Craigslist, Facebook: Household items from furloughed workers trying to make ends meet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/10/now-craigslist-facebook-household-items-furloughed-workers-trying-make-ends-meet/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8edbb502013b&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

[boutons_deux]

FBI Agents Complain To Trump That Shutdown Undermines The Bureau -- Maybe That's The Plan? (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/10/1825173/-FBI-Agents-Complain-To-Trump-That-Shutdown-Undermines-The-Bureau-Maybe-That-s-The-Plan)


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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/10/1825173/-FBI-Agents-Complain-To-Trump-That-Shutdown-Undermines-The-Bureau-Maybe-That-s-The-Plan?detail=emaildkre

[Pavlov]

Tired of the winning tbh.
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[BD24]

All of this because our toddler of a president is throwing a temper tantrum about his wall

[Winehole23]

Tired of the winning tbh.
1083709713202716672if nothing else, the shutdown may tend to answer the question "what is government good for?"

[boutons_deux]

"what is government good for?"

That this is even a question in America shows how deeply, widely the oligarchy has lied Americans into fantasyland.

My question is "When is (American) Capitalism good for non-Capitalists"

[boutons_deux]

Trump Got Rich by Screwing Over Workers—Of Course He’s Doing It Again as President

“For decades, Trump repeatedly didn’t pay those who worked for him, and now that he’s in the White House, little has changed.”

The biggest lie ever told in American politics is the claim that Donald Trump cares about working people.
He never has. He never will.

As a bankruptcy-prone business mogul, Trump has always financed his lavish lifestyle at the expense of the workers and contractors he screwed over.

Now he is doing the same thing as president, having engineered a government shutdown (https://www.afge.org/article/shutdown-update/) that on Friday denied 800,000 federal employees their paychecks.

“Cheating, scamming, and ripping off workers is a Donald Trump tradition that goes back decades.

Federal workers are just Trump’s latest victims,”

federal workers ... have take home pay of about $500 a week and

in many case “struggle to make ends meet even without a missed paycheck.”


Trump has as president “betrayed workers at every turn.”

“From

rolling back health, safety and wage protections to

misleading coal miners to tax giveaways for billionaires and big corporations that

left most Americans with a pittance,” says Weissman,

“it should be obvious by now that Trump holds working people beneath contempt.

(https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-government-shutdown-screwing-workers/)https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-government-shutdown-screwing-workers/

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1083747011889893377?s=19

:lmao

[Pavlov]

:lmao We have "some" border security.

It's been phenomenally successful for 20 years.

:lmao rubes

[Monostradamus]

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1083747011889893377?s=19

:lmao
:lmao typical Trumptard

[spurraider21]

"I may lose the farm, but I strongly feel we need some border security."

https://i.imgur.com/1hlGYxq.jpg

[Chris]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwp8cWaV4AEIQjX.jpg:large

[ElNono]

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1083747011889893377?s=19

:lmao

lmao

[baseline bum]

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/1083747011889893377?s=19

:lmao

:rollin

[LkrFan]

Turns out tRump needs 17 additional lawyers. Then he shut the government down. Now we know why:
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Nuttin but another distraction :wow

[LkrFan]

The real national emergency! :lol

[Winehole23]

Freedom Caucus suggests asset forfeiture and declaring a state of emergency to fund the wall:

https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/11/wall-trump-mark-meadows-freedom-caucus

[Winehole23]

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[Spurtacular]

:lmao Alpha Trump bitch slapping Jim Acosta.

https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=so4Or_1547240313

[BD24]

:lol at anyone stupid enough to continue to work in the government sector with this moron as president.

[Winehole23]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwp8cWaV4AEIQjX.jpg:largeMore people probably died from lightning strikes, tbh

Maybe we should build a dome over the US to protect ourselves from the murdering sky.

[Winehole23]

800,000 households going without pay because the President is throwing a tantrum is nothing to sneeze at, unless you're Chris.

[boutons_deux]

and no sympathy for the Trash voters who elected him "to hurt OTHER people" but hurt themselves :lol

others being blacks, browns, yellows, LGBT, Muslims, etc.

[Chris]

More people probably died from lightning strikes, tbh

Maybe we should build a dome over the US to protect ourselves from the murdering sky.

Go tell that to the victims you piece of shit.

[Spurminator]

Go tell that to the victims you piece of shit.

Why don't you talk to the victims who don't appreciate being used as pawns in a racist vanity project temper tantrum, you lonely faggot. (Note this would require having actual human interaction.)

[Chris]

racist

You're a dumb motherfucker.

[Chris]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DweQZI9UwAApOlp.jpg:large

[Spurminator]

You're a dumb motherfucker.

Don't change the subject. Here's the father of a girl who was killed by an illegal immigrant. Look him up and talk to him about it, since you have such empathy for the victims. Hell, you can even chat with him online so you don't have to speak to someone directly and get that whole shake-voice thing that socially awkward loners get when they try to have a conversation in real time. :lol

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mollie-tibbetts-father-tells-politicians-stop-politicizing-daughter-s-murder-n905761

[Spurminator]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DweQZI9UwAApOlp.jpg:large

What are you afraid of?

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1084227291843051523

Walls are immoral.

[Winehole23]

Go tell that to the victims you piece of shit.The troll thing.

No biggie, I know it's hard for you to stay on topic.

[Chris]

The troll thing.

No biggie, I know it's hard for you to stay on topic.

No, I genuinely think you are piece of shit. No trolling - real talk.

[Winehole23]

Yeah, name calling is pretty much the definition of trolling.




I think you need to get straight with families of lightning strike victims you just turned your back on.

[boutons_deux]

At least 35,000 Texans with federal jobs aren’t being paid because of the shutdown



https://www.texastribune.org/2019/01/11/shutdown-anxiety-sweeps-both-texas-and-washington/

[boutons_deux]

Non-College White Voters Are Abandoning Trump As America Suffers From His Shutdown

Trump’s approval rating is underwater among white voters without college degrees – one of his strongest areas of support during the 2016 campaign – for the first time since February 2018.

Forty-seven percent of these voters disapprove of the job he is doing,

while just 45 percent think he’s doing a fine job.

More stunning, according to CNN, is that this group of voters believes by a

45-39 margin that Trump – not Democrats – is responsible for the government shutdown.

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/13/non-college-white-voters-abandon-trump-shutdown.html

[boutons_deux]

Trump’s Shutdown, the Longest in History, Mostly Hurts States That Voted for Him (https://splinternews.com/trump-s-shutdown-the-longest-in-history-mostly-hurts-1831705841)


On Saturday, Axios reported that rural western states that voted for Trump in 2016 “are disproportionately affected (https://www.axios.com/record-shutdown-hits-trump-states-hard--bb128475-0679-46ce-a597-b9e7f4b6d8db.html) by the government shutdown,”

six of the 10 states with the most federal employees affected by the shutdown went for Trump over candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016. Those states are

Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, and West Virginia.

The report includes an interactive map showing nine departments affected by the partial shutdown—Homeland Security, HUD, Commerce, Interior, Transportation, State, Agriculture, Justice, and Treasury—as well as employees affected at the EPA, FDA, Indian Health Services, NASA, and Small Business Administration.

https://splinternews.com/trump-s-shutdown-the-longest-in-history-mostly-hurts-1831705841

https://www.axios.com/record-shutdown-hits-trump-states-hard--bb128475-0679-46ce-a597-b9e7f4b6d8db.html

[boutons_deux]

Trump Reportedly Flays Mick Mulvaney In Shutdown Meeting: ‘You Just Fucked It All Up’

In negotiations over border wall money, Trump was reportedly sticking to his asking price, but Mulvaney was willing to come down.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-mulvaney_us_5c3c244ae4b01c93e00b22e4

[Winehole23]

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[boutons_deux]

Rural farm country, Trump's base, has been devastated by his shutdown—everywhere but in California (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/12/1825269/-Rural-farmland-Trump-s-base-has-been-devastated-by-his-shutdown-everywhere-but-in-Cali)

Donald Trump has literally ruined thousands of farms that have suffered tremendously with the large drop in commodity prices and falling income.

Trump’s reckless trade war with our allies has cost billions so far. Through it all, however, the farmers have largely stuck with him.

Well, that may be about to change. (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/us/farmers-trump-administration.html)


But as the government shutdown now drags into a third week,

some farmers say the loss of crucial loans, payments and other services has

pushed them — and their support — to a breaking point.



While many rural conservatives may loathe the idea of Big Government,

farmers and the federal government are welded together by dozens of programs and billions of dollars in spending.

Now, farmers and farm groups say that

federal crop payments have stopped flowing.

Farmers cannot get federally backed operating loans to buy seed for their spring planting,

or feed for their livestock.

They cannot look up new government data about beef prices or soybean yields

to make decisions about planting and selling their goods in an ever-changing global market.




https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/12/1825269/-Rural-farmland-Trump-s-base-has-been-devastated-by-his-shutdown-everywhere-but-in-Cali?detail=emaildkre

Farmers and other rurals like rural telephone/electric coops love "free market", "capitalism", Rugged Individualism, vote Repugs,

but they are perennial beneficiaries of taxpayer $Bs, aka, redistributive socialism.

[LkrFan]

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:lol

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/OmarJimenezCNN/status/1084808098240516098?

[Winehole23]

More US government serfs ordered to work without pay.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/15/685583770/d-c-judge-tells-furloughed-workers-they-must-stay-on-the-job

[Trill Clinton]

Gangster

https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1085549944969285634?s=19

[Will Hunting]

https://twitter.com/OmarJimenezCNN/status/1084808098240516098?
I feel really bad for the TSA workers, but :lmao people who still won’t spring the $85 it takes to get TSA pre-check for 5 years and are waiting in those long ass lines.

[Spurminator]

I feel really bad for the TSA workers, but :lmao people who still won’t spring the $85 it takes to get TSA pre-check for 5 years and are waiting in those long ass lines.

Shh, don't encourage them, I like the short lines.

[Trill Clinton]

I feel really bad for the TSA workers, but :lmao people who still won’t spring the $85 it takes to get TSA pre-check for 5 years and are waiting in those long ass lines.

Right.

[hater]

I dont think it will go to the courts

Over the weekend ppl will really start getting their blood boiling. By Monday these fuckface politicians will take a look at the pitchforks and shit their pants and work on a face saving deal.

A fence for Crump and a bunch of dildos for the retqrded democrats

Called this shit :tu

Too easy

[Winehole23]

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[Trill Clinton]

Caveman getting less money than what was originally offered

http://i68.tinypic.com/29kp9u1.jpg

[boutons_deux]

Trash claims the wall construction is well under way. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Flight attendant union calls for general strike if government shuts down again

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/429396-flight-attendant-union-calls-for-strike-if-government-shuts-down-again

Trash getting bullied by the ladies

"Coffee, tea, or me yanking your balls?"