Sad reality of the shutdown

[Pavlov]

So do they have to pay it back when they get their back pay?Yes, it says that explicitly in the article.

[Winehole23]

Are you supplying any ER bottles of Jergens?I am duly encouraged by the news our detection rate is improving. Thanks, Forbes!

[Blake]

Go find it yourself faggot. I'll give you a hint:

CFBF Agricultural Worker Program Act

Lol angry Christian Chris

[pgardn]

Oh in regards to peegarden question

Residential of course. Upkeep? They are apts not much upkeep besides seldom angies list tbqh


BS

No upkeep on apartments? got to be slumlord

With the fairly drastic weather changes.

Liar.

The orange guy allows for a lot of leeway for posting.

[ducks]

Pelosi’s premature rejection is a hypocritical renunciation of support for policies that Democrats once supported and – in some cases – still pay lip service to today.

Indeed, just five years ago, 54 Senate Democrats voted to double a portion of a southern barrier with Mexico, end chain migration, end the diversity visa lottery, and spend $40 billion on border security (almost eight times what the president is asking for now!).

So what changed?

The person sitting in the Oval Office changed. Democrats now reject the very proposals they once voted for when President Obama sat in the same office.

[baseline bum]

Pelosi’s premature rejection is a hypocritical renunciation of support for policies that Democrats once supported and – in some cases – still pay lip service to today.

Indeed, just five years ago, 54 Senate Democrats voted to double a portion of a southern barrier with Mexico, end chain migration, end the diversity visa lottery, and spend $40 billion on border security (almost eight times what the president is asking for now!).

So what changed?

The person sitting in the Oval Office changed. Democrats now reject the very proposals they once voted for when President Obama sat in the same office.

How many times are you going to plagiarize that Fox News article?

[ducks]

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/50110594_2092373450811521_8216009258831970304_n.jp g?_nc_cat=1&efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=e6e2ad17bdf4b2387ea67ae0790bf59f&oe=5CCE0293

[ElNono]

He's gonna triple-down... IMO

I told y'all he was going to triple down on stupid... he should be getting the idea by now he's not getting that wall through Congress, IMO.

At some point this whole situation is going to start putting pressure on Mitch, right?

[Will Hunting]

Pelosi’s premature rejection is a hypocritical renunciation of support for policies that Democrats once supported and – in some cases – still pay lip service to today.

Indeed, just five years ago, 54 Senate Democrats voted to double a portion of a southern barrier with Mexico, end chain migration, end the diversity visa lottery, and spend $40 billion on border security (almost eight times what the president is asking for now!).

So what changed?

The person sitting in the Oval Office changed. Democrats now reject the very proposals they once voted for when President Obama sat in the same office.
Everyone knows you’re too stupid to string this many grammatically correct sentences together. Quit plagiarizing.

[baseline bum]

Everyone knows you’re too stupid to string this many grammatically correct sentences together. Quit plagiarizing.

If Obama's immigration bill was everything Trump and the GOP wanted as Fox News writer ducks is plagiarizing seems to claim, why couldn't they get a measly six votes from the Republicans in the senate? :lol

[boutons_deux]

Kidnapping and hostage taking, for extortion, shakedown, ransom

Trash proves yet again, he's dickless, classless, gutless, chickenshit, sicko bully with HUGE daddy problems

Bullies are "kick down" to the defenseless, from a position of power or authority

and "suck up" to power and authority (eg, Pootin, Duterte, Hitler, etc)

Trash fits the profile perfectly.

oh, that describes life in the military, too

[boutons_deux]

TSA: Many Employees Skipping Work ‘Due To Financial Limitations’

many of its staff have been calling out of work because they can’t afford to get there.

, “many employees are reporting that they are not able to report to work due to financial limitations.”

“Airports may exercise contingency plans due to call-outs and traveler volume in order to maintain effective security standards,”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tsa-many-employees-skipping-work-due-to-financial-limitations?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

[koriwhat]

Kidnapping and hostage taking, for extortion, shakedown, ransom

Trash proves yet again, he's dickless, classless, gutless, chickenshit, sicko bully with HUGE daddy problems

Bullies are "kick down" to the defenseless, from a position of power or authority

and "suck up" to power and authority (eg, Pootin, Duterte, Hitler, etc)

Trash fits the profile perfectly.

oh, that describes life in the military, too

you sound like such a pussy time and time again.

[boutons_deux]

Senate Republicans all but surrender to Trump on wall despite shutdown’s toll

Republican senators are standing staunchly behind President Trump’s demand for money to build a border wall,

even as the GOP bears the brunt of the blame for a standoff few in the party agitated for

Under pressure from conservatives to help Trump deliver on a signature campaign promise and unable to persuade him to avert the partial government shutdown,

these lawmakers have all but surrendered to the president’s will.

Their comments show how the cracks in the 53-member Republican majority that emerged at the outset of the shutdown have not spread beyond a handful of lawmakers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-republicans-all-but-surrender-to-trump-on-wall-despite-shutdowns-toll/2019/01/20/dc3efb96-1b56-11e9-a804-c35766b9f234_story.html?utm_term=.6927c79fd923&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

[spurraider21]

If Obama's immigration bill was everything Trump and the GOP wanted as Fox News writer ducks is plagiarizing seems to claim, why couldn't they get a measly six votes from the Republicans in the senate? :lol
Black president

[Winehole23]

we're stuck until co-Presidents Coulter and Limbaugh let Trump off the hook.

[BD24]

How much longer yall think this drags on? I would have thought it would be finished by now tbh. Orange shit holding the country hostage over his fucking wall.

[Winehole23]

1087549424220467200

[ElNono]

Now would be the time for Pelosi to bring a counter-proposal that's out of the question, like Medicare for all in exchange for the Wall.

Easy to pitch since it would be giving the GOP an out for replacing Obamacare, and also giving Trump his wall, but impossible to pass on the Senate (much like Trump's wall on the House).

Basically, saves the Dems the go-to play from Mitch here, which is to start complaining Dems won't negotiate his bill, or items like the Wall are off the table.

[boutons_deux]

Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown

“What the [expletive] were we thinking?” :lol you stupid fuck

The shutdown fight, as it has played out over the past month, is

further eroding the president’s support among voters who like the idea of beefing up border security —

but not enough to close the government.

Many here, even those who still support Trump, say they hold him most responsible. They recite his comment from the Oval Office that he would be “proud to shut down the government.” When he said it, they listened.

“It’s silly. It’s destructive,”

“I was certainly for the anti-status quo . . . I’ll be more status quo next time.” :lol the status quo will still fuck you :lol

“As a community it affects us because other people are being affected,” “whether we know them or not.

Maybe I’m getting too yoga-like, but we are all connected. It affects everyone. It affects us as a nation.”

shutdown has caused skittishness among parts of Trump’s base

his net approval rating had dropped seven points since December.

among suburban men, whose approval rating of Trump fell a net 18 percentage points,

“I was doing fine with him up until this government shutdown,” he said.

“It’s ridiculous. You’re not getting the wall built for $5 billion.

And Mexico is not paying for it, we all know that, too.

Meanwhile, it’s starting to turn people like me away.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-voters-now-blame-him-for-the-government-shutdown/2019/01/20/416051de-1b55-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html?utm_term=.7ccfdced9ed8

[boutons_deux]

Federal courts will run out of money by Friday due to shutdown — including Mueller’s grand jury


Schneider said the FBI was already feeling the pinch, as unpaid agents and support staff alike were relying on the help of food banks to get by.

The FBI Agents Association, she said, would be releasing a 70-page report that will describe “how the government shutdown is impacting daily operations and investigations.”

“The judiciary [is] warning that if the government doesn’t re-open by Friday, funding will be even more significantly impacted and additional court-related payments could be shut off.”

“The courts are warning really that funding could run out.

They say the trials will still be going but they have already had to cut back on payments to jurors,” she continued.

“Interestingly, that could impact the grand jurors who are seated for the Robert Mueller probe.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/federal-courts-will-run-money-friday-due-shutdown-including-muellers-grand-jury-cnn/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Blake]

Federal courts will run out of money by Friday due to shutdown — including Mueller’s grand jury

5D chess master

[Trill Clinton]

Food stamps stop. A lot of Trump supporters about to raise hell.

[Will Hunting]

Food stamps stop. A lot of Trump supporters about to raise hell.
Wild Cobra must be freaking out right now.

[Blake]

Food stamps stop. A lot of Trump supporters about to raise hell.

https://s.abcnews.com/images/Politics/trump-clemson-dinner-gty-jef-190114_hpMain_4x3_992.jpg

[Will Hunting]

Now would be the time for Pelosi to bring a counter-proposal that's out of the question, like Medicare for all in exchange for the Wall.

Easy to pitch since it would be giving the GOP an out for replacing Obamacare, and also giving Trump his wall, but impossible to pass on the Senate (much like Trump's wall on the House).

Basically, saves the Dems the go-to play from Mitch here, which is to start complaining Dems won't negotiate his bill, or items like the Wall are off the table.

The fact they haven't already done this is a huge political error IMO. Pelosi could be doing any number of things to put pressure on but as usual she's failing and is content with doing nothing.

Why not propose $5 billion for the wall in exchange for criminal & stricter civil penalties for employers that hire illegals, a task force that's dedicated to enforcement against employers who hire illegals, and restoration of the parts of Obamacare Trump stripped away. Doing that would force Cocaine Mitch & the Senate Republicans to have to justify why they don't want stricter enforcement against employers that hire illegals.

[boutons_deux]

Medicare for All is effectively impossible in USA

The insurance/medical/device/pharma sectors dictate that the rigged, lucrative for-profit status quo they have work for decades to establish will not be touched, ever, because their $100Ms have bought and will buy cheap politicians to abort Medicare for All.

[spurraider21]

The fact they haven't already done this is a huge political error IMO. Pelosi could be doing any number of things to put pressure on but as usual she's failing and is content with doing nothing.

Why not propose $5 billion for the wall in exchange for criminal & stricter civil penalties for employers that hire illegals, a task force that's dedicated to enforcement against employers who hire illegals, and restoration of the parts of Obamacare Trump stripped away. Doing that would force Cocaine Mitch & the Senate Republicans to have to justify why they don't want stricter enforcement against employers that hire illegals.
do you really think the democrats in office want that?

[Will Hunting]

do you really think the democrats in office want that?
Probably not.

[boutons_deux]

Trash ain't gonna give up nuthin that the Dems will accept, and he sees a big majority of Senate Repugs supporting him.

[Killakobe81]

If Trump's base loses their homes from his shutdown and don't blame him and the GOP then I don't care. They got exactly what they voted for when they threw a hand grenade into DC by electing Trump. I feel bad for the people who never voted for the piece of shit and are victims of his ego.

Well said ...

[boutons_deux]

Ann Coulter Demands to Deliver State of the Union Address

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5c47461e9922c254df56c69b/master/w_1298,c_limit/Borowitz-Ann-Coulter.jpg

WASHINGTON —In blistering remarks aimed at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,

Ann Coulter demanded on Tuesday that she be allowed to deliver the 2019 State of the Union address.

“Nancy Pelosi should stop playing politics with the State of the Union,” Coulter told reporters.

“Tradition dictates that I deliver that speech next week, and I intend to do just that.”

The conservative pundit scoffed at congressional Democrats’ condition that she reopen the government before being able to deliver the State of the Union.

“Clearly, since becoming Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has let power go to her head,” Coulter said.

Coulter indicated that she would use the State of the Union to speak to the American people not only about the border wall but also about her plans for the economy, trade, and America’s role in nato.
“The American people have put tremendous faith in me,” she said.

“I am not about to let Nancy Pelosi stop me from doing the job I was elected to do.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ann-coulter-demands-to-deliver-state-of-the-union-address (https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/ann-coulter-demands-to-deliver-state-of-the-union-address)

And if not Coulter, then it should be Hannity or Carlson

[boutons_deux]

McConnell caving?

Senate to hold vote to reopen government,

along with Trump white supremacist bill (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/22/1828511/-McConnell-caving-Senate-to-hold-vote-to-reopen-government-along-with-Trump-white-supremacist-bill)

Senate Democrats have secured a big concession (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/politics/government-shutdown-senate.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur) from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell:

They will get a vote on a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government until Feb. 8

at the same time that the Senate also considers the

Trump proposal (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/22/1828479/-Trump-McConnell-offer-another-White-Supremacist-wish-list-bill-as-compromise-to-reopen-government?utm_campaign=trending) to build a wall and

end the asylum program as we know it.

That’s the vote McConnell insisted over and over and over would not happen.

Both bills are subject to cloture, needing 60 votes on Thursday to make it to the full floor.

One of them, Trump's proposal, won't get it.

The second, the CR, very well could because it doesn't just include reopening the government;

it includes disaster relief money for Gulf states—Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi—

where there are eight Republican senators. :lol

Remember, though, this is the legislation McConnell swore he wouldn’t bring to the floor because

Trump swore he would veto it.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1828511

[Trill Clinton]

Ouch

https://twitter.com/TrueFactsStated/status/1087851268855525377?s=19

[ElNono]

Medicare for All is effectively impossible in USA

That’s the point, you frame the wall in the same parameters, but then they can’t stay you didn’t want to negotiate.

[Chris]

Reality check.


https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1087883789970354176

[Nathan89]

Reality check.


https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1087883789970354176

That's odd. I'm sure the media is all over this.

[boutons_deux]

That’s the point, you frame the wall in the same parameters, but then they can’t stay you didn’t want to negotiate.

The USA for-profit health care status quo is simply unassailable.

Americans are such indoctrinated sheeple into getting raped, absolutely sure nothing is worth doing unless there's "profit", that they won't even fight for Medicare for All, beyond lip-service polling for it.

And the $3T health care industry, overcharging $1T / year, is simply unassailable, just like all the other mega-industries, Too Big To Assail.

The oligarchy makes ALL policy, at the prices they want, through owned, whored politicians.

[pgardn]

Reality check.


https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1087883789970354176

That link says no such thing.
And Crenshaw is a known liar.

So you’ll have to do better than that, next link.
This is what happens when your party relies on lying.

[Blake]

Reality check.


https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1087883789970354176



'Latest Action: House - 01/17/2019 POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - Pursuant to the order of the House of January 17, 2019, the Chair put the question on passage of H.J.Res. 28 and by voice vote announced that the ayes prevailed. Mr. Scalise demanded the yeas and nays and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of passage through the legislative day of January 23, 2019. (All Actions)"

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-joint-resolution/28

[Blake]

The reality is that Chris is a retarded piece of shit.

[Winehole23]

The reality is that Chris is a retarded piece of shit.however this may be, he deserves more credit for being a cynical liar.

[CosmicCowboy]

The fact they haven't already done this is a huge political error IMO. Pelosi could be doing any number of things to put pressure on but as usual she's failing and is content with doing nothing.

Why not propose $5 billion for the wall in exchange for criminal & stricter civil penalties for employers that hire illegals, a task force that's dedicated to enforcement against employers who hire illegals, and restoration of the parts of Obamacare Trump stripped away. Doing that would force Cocaine Mitch & the Senate Republicans to have to justify why they don't want stricter enforcement against employers that hire illegals.

LMAO that you think it's just republicans that don't want Employer enforcement. Democrats are just as bad. This isn't red v blue, it's congressional whores v US.

[Will Hunting]

LMAO that you think it's just republicans that don't want Employer enforcement. Democrats are just as bad. This isn't red v blue, it's congressional whores v US.
Yeah spurraider already pointed that out and I agreed.

[Spurs Homer]

where are the pesos?

[BD24]

More and more TSA employees no showing to work, but continue to tell me how much Trump cares about the security of our country.

[spurraider21]

Reality check.


https://twitter.com/RepDanCrenshaw/status/1087883789970354176
:lmao “reality” check

Qhris, the vote in that link was not to pas the bill. It says on top it was a motion to recommit, which reopens the floor for debate and amendments, which would only delay passage

[boutons_deux]

White House reportedly wants list of programs that would be most hurt by shutdown lasting into March (https://theweek.com/speedreads/819390/white-house-reportedly-wants-list-programs-that-most-hurt-by-shutdown-lasting-into-march)

White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney has asked agency leaders to send him a list, due no later than Friday, of the programs that would suffer most

if the government shutdown continues into March or April,

This is the first known White House request for information about the affect the shutdown is having on agencies, the Post notes, and

suggests the Trump administration doesn't expect it to end anytime soon.

The White House has mostly focused on how the shutdown is affecting wait times at airport security, not the programs being interrupted,

U.S. General Services Administration, which manages leases and contracts, told several departments that

if the shutdown goes into February, there is no plan on how to pay the utility bills and lease payments next month.

https://theweek.com/speedreads/819401/trump-says-hell-deliver-state-union-when-shutdown-over

[Winehole23]

:lmao “reality” check

Qhris, the vote in that link was not to pas the bill. It says on top it was a motion to recommit, which reopens the floor for debate and amendments, which would only delay passagedo you think Chris is a liar, or just tragically gullible?

[Winehole23]

real people, real pain:

1088153266834325506

[Blake]

do you think Chris is a liar, or just tragically gullible?

"Or"?

[Trill Clinton]

Ross: 'I don't quite understand' why federal workers need food banks during shutdown (https://thehill.com/policy/finance/426741-ross-i-dont-quite-understand-why-federal-workers-need-food-banks-during)

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (https://thehill.com/people/wilbur-ross) said Thursday that he was confused why thousands of federal workers, who've already missed one paycheck, are relying on food banks during the partial government shutdown.

Ross said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that he didn't understand why some of the roughly 800,000 unpaid federal workers have flocked to food banks for meals instead of taking out loans against back pay guaranteed by a bill President Trump (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump) signed last week (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/425725-trump-signs-law-guaranteeing-back-pay-for-federal-workers).

"I know they are and I don’t really quite understand why," said Ross, who's reportedly worth roughly $700 million.

"So the 30 days of pay that some people will be out, there’s no real reason why they shouldn’t be able to get a loan against it, and we’ve seen a number of ads of financial institutions doing that."

Hundreds of banks and credit unions have offered low- or no-interest loans against back pay to federal workers who will not be paid until the shutdown ends. But thousands of those employees are still struggling to cover basic expenses, and furloughed federal contractors may not receive backpay at all.

The shutdown, now in its 34th day, could take a steep toll on the U.S. economy. The president's top economist said Wednesday that the shutdown could wipe out all of the country's first quarter gross domestic product growth (https://thehill.com/policy/finance/426580-trump-economic-adviser-us-could-have-zero-growth-in-first-quarter-if-shutdown) if it lasts through March.

[Trill Clinton]

These old politicians are so out of touch man. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck so yea, missing one paycheck for most of us is crucial. People like Ross make me sick. Instead of Americans helping each other out, his solution is to take on more debt smh. Sick.

[baseline bum]

These old politicians are so out of touch man. Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck so yea, missing one paycheck for most of us is crucial. People like Ross make me sick. Instead of Americans helping each other out, his solution is to take on more debt smh. Sick.

Motherfucker is basically telling low wage TSA workers to take out usurious payday loans. What a piece of shit.

[Will Hunting]

Motherfucker is basically telling low wage TSA workers to take out usurious payday loans. What a piece of shit.
When Republicans say stuff like “Black people should vote Republican since voting Democrat clearly isn’t working for them!”, these kinds of comments are why that’s retarded :lol

It’s clear people like Trump and Ross have no fucking idea how shitty of a position it is to have to go get a payday loan in order to buy groceries or pay bills.

[baseline bum]

When Republicans say stuff like “Black people should vote Republican since voting Democrat clearly isn’t working for them!”, these kinds of comments are why that’s retarded :lol

It’s clear people like Trump and Ross have no fucking idea how shitty of a position it is to have to go get a payday loan in order to buy groceries or pay bills.

And most TSA workers are going to have shit credit on that wage, so getting a loan without any collateral from a real bank? Right.

[Spurminator]

do you think Chris is a liar, or just tragically gullible?

I'm just disappointed that Dan Crenshaw parlayed his SNL appearance about unity into a career as another fake news peddling Republican.

[FrostKing]

When Republicans say stuff like “Black people should vote Republican since voting Democrat clearly isn’t working for them!”, these kinds of comments are why that’s retarded :lol

It’s clear people like Trump and Ross have no fucking idea how shitty of a position it is to have to go get a payday loan in order to buy groceries or pay bills.
None of those politicians have any idea. Democrats seem more preoccupied with understanding how difficult it is to sneak into this country and/or receive benefits. As usual, the middle class gets screwed most.

[spurraider21]

do you think Chris is a liar, or just tragically gullible?
the latter

[Pavlov]

When Republicans say stuff like “Black people should vote Republican since voting Democrat clearly isn’t working for them!”, these kinds of comments are why that’s retarded :lol

It’s clear people like Trump and Ross have no fucking idea how shitty of a position it is to have to go get a payday loan in order to buy groceries or pay bills.But did you know that Democrats didn't like blacks during Reconstruction?

DID YOU?

[Will Hunting]

And most TSA workers are going to have shit credit on that wage, so getting a loan without any collateral from a real bank? Right.
The best they'll do is if their credit card company is offering some kind of deal for government workers on backpay, but yeah I doubt some low paid TSA agent who's FICO score is in the low 500s is getting any loans at reasonable rates.

[spurraider21]

But did you know that Democrats didn't like blacks during Reconstruction?

DID YOU?
https://images.gawker.com/wlbzd2dssllrs1vfau5n/original.gif

[Will Hunting]

But did you know that Democrats didn't like blacks during Reconstruction?

DID YOU?
I heard they were in teh KKK too!

I CAN'T BELIEVE BLACK PEOPLE ARE VOTING KKK OVER THE PARTY OF LINCOLN!!!

[boutons_deux]

Billionaire Wilbur Ross Says Unpaid Federal Workers Don't Have "Good Excuse" for Running Out of Money During Shutdown

"Ross and Trump may not get it, but it's not complicated. Federal employees go to food banks because they have to feed their kids, and they can't do that without a paycheck."

https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large/public/headlines/ross_workers.jpg?itok=0e6N4N0d

Displaying what one critic described as

"malignant indifference (https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1088449850956337153)" to the suffering

the ongoing government shutdown has caused for hundreds of thousands of federal workers,

President Donald Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday said

he doesn't "understand" why public employees who haven't been paid in over a month (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/16/us/politics/federal-shutdown-salaries.html)

are resorting to food banks (https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-government-shutdown-food-pantries-20190122-story.html) and homeless shelters to survive.

"I don't really quite understand why because...

the obligations that they would undertake, say, of borrowing from a bank or a credit union are, in effect, federally guaranteed," Ross told CNBC.

"So the 30 days of pay that some people will be out is no real reason why they shouldn't be able to get a loan against it."

While conceding that workers "might have to pay a little bit of interest,"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/24/billionaire-wilbur-ross-says-unpaid-federal-workers-dont-have-good-excuse-running?cd-origin=rss

interest? and closing fees?

Ross is a liar and very probably a criminal, as well as yet another Trash kakistrocrat deeply involved with Russians, including the Russian mob.

[Nbadan]

“That’s what happens at a time like this, they know the people, they’ve been working with them for years, and they work along. The grocery stores work along,” Trump claimed.

:lol

[Winehole23]

1088444561322463234

[DMX7]

“That’s what happens at a time like this, they know the people, they’ve been working with them for years, and they work along. The grocery stores work along,” Trump claimed.


:lol

Did he actually say this? :lol

[Winehole23]

You should listen to the whole reply.

[boutons_deux]

"Suffice it to say

in 2019, most grocery stores do not extend store credit to customers who cannot pay for food.

In a subsequent interview with Bloomberg, Ross said he was "painfully aware" that workers were suffering hardships.

He added that in his earlier remarks, he'd been

trying to let workers know that credit union loans were available

for those "experiencing liquidity crises" :lol

— hardly the language of those living paycheck to paycheck.

It all contributed to perceptions that the Trump administration was out of touch with workers bearing the brunt of the shutdown impact.

"Is this the 'Let them eat cake' kind of attitude?" said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"Or call your father for money?"

With her comments, the speaker evoked Marie Antoinette and

took an indirect jab at Trump for inheriting family money."

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/trump-shutdown-federal-government-store-credit-13559731.php

[Mark Celibate]

This thing has real human cost even outside of federal workers. Pelosi vs. Trump sniping makes good headlines and is entertaining at times, but this family probably isn't finding any of it very funny.

1086020341330337792

Meh, but this kind of stuff happens everyday. It sucks to go through it, but people take risks starting businesses all the time yet still fail due to factors seemingly outside their control. Whether or not it's Mother Nature, the economy, or gay politicians, it's still a risk you choose to take.

[baseline bum]

"Or call your father for money?"

With her comments, the speaker evoked Marie Antoinette and took an indirect jab at Trump for inheriting family money."


:rollin

[boutons_deux]

‘He has met his match’: TrumpNation author says White House has ‘lost the messaging’

Trump biographer Tim O’Brien explained Trump’s “strange” relationship with women while declaring he has “met his match” in Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“Well, he is an affluent man who was born into wealth and he doesn’t have an authentic connection to the struggles and the needs of average people,”

“We saw that when Puerto Rico got hit by a hurricane,” he noted.

“It took the president a long time to go to a war zone.

He didn’t get out to California when the wildfires were burning and

now he has shut down a government and

the people who work for him are struggling and

he doesn’t have any empathy with what that struggle involves.”

“And I think beyond the lack of empathy, there is also a lack of strategic sophistication —

they have lost the messaging,”

He is being painted publicly as

someone who doesn’t care about the human impact of the shutdown as well and

that will live with him for a long time.”

“Trump has had a very interesting and strange history with women.

Attractive women or beautiful women he treats them like ornaments on his Christmas tree.

And then he’s had strong-minded women in his organization,

they tend not to be women he is interested in romantically and

he has varying levels of respect to them.”

“I think in Nancy Pelosi, he has authentic respect,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/met-match-trumpnation-author-says-white-house-lost-messaging-shutdown/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/met-match-trumpnation-author-says-white-house-lost-messaging-shutdown/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

Nancy has busted Trash's balls, he should go with "I call her Nutcracker Nancy"

[FrostKing]

‘He has met his match’: TrumpNation author says White House has ‘lost the messaging’

Trump biographer Tim O’Brien explained Trump’s “strange” relationship with women while declaring he has “met his match” in Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“Well, he is an affluent man who was born into wealth and he doesn’t have an authentic connection to the struggles and the needs of average people,”

“We saw that when Puerto Rico got hit by a hurricane,” he noted.

“It took the president a long time to go to a war zone.

He didn’t get out to California when the wildfires were burning and

now he has shut down a government and

the people who work for him are struggling and

he doesn’t have any empathy with what that struggle involves.”

“And I think beyond the lack of empathy, there is also a lack of strategic sophistication —

they have lost the messaging,”

He is being painted publicly as

someone who doesn’t care about the human impact of the shutdown as well and

that will live with him for a long time.”

“Trump has had a very interesting and strange history with women.

Attractive women or beautiful women he treats them like ornaments on his Christmas tree.

And then he’s had strong-minded women in his organization,

they tend not to be women he is interested in romantically and

he has varying levels of respect to them.”

“I think in Nancy Pelosi, he has authentic respect,”
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/met-match-trumpnation-author-says-white-house-lost-messaging-shutdown/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/met-match-trumpnation-author-says-white-house-lost-messaging-shutdown/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

Nancy has busted Trash's balls, he should go with "I call her Nutcracker Nancy"



Pelosi's father was Mayor of the city

:lol

[CosmicCowboy]

0D-PRJuUDoc

[boutons_deux]

Factbox: U.S. companies warn government shutdown will hurt business, economy

Economic growth is expected to take a hit in the current quarter because of the shutdown, a Reuters poll of economists showed on Friday,

while a dearth of data is already impacting traders in U.S. fixed income and currency markets.

U.S. companies say the shutdown is hurting their businesses and can cause more damage if it persists.

Here is a sector-wise breakdown of how some of the biggest U.S. companies have reacted to the government’s shutdown:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-companies-factbox/factbox-u-s-companies-warn-government-shutdown-will-hurt-business-economy-idUSKCN1PJ1LH?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reu ters+Politics+News%29

[boutons_deux]

Senate GOP will stand with Trump,

kill the same funding bill it unanimously passed last month (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/24/1829137/-Senate-GOP-will-stand-with-Trump-kill-the-same-funding-bill-they-unanimously-passed-last-month)

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1829137

So the Repug Senate confirms that

the (Repug) Pres can shutdown the govt on a whim,

and the Repugs will provide no checks and balances

(because they know the oligarchy will take care of them for taking care of the oligarchy)

[benefactor]

:lol
This is moving into ridiculous levels of stupid.

[MultiTroll]

While I'm sure some of the lower paid Feddies are in a serious bind and should get assistance (even before the shutdown), most of the ones holding cushy jerk off positions:

Federal Employees Earn 50% More Than The Private Workforce

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/moneytips/federal-employees-earn-50_b_8855508.html?fbclid=IwAR3lqgwLtMS9y7AqSfQVKrq mlMFCHAfr2U90OM43A8wn5xHTtDOswa7fdOs

[Winehole23]

Cushy jerk off positions like Border Patrol, TSA, US Armed Forces, Air Traffic controllers, DEA, FBI/CIA, US attorneys, food inspectors, etc....

[MultiTroll]

Cushy jerk off positions like Border Patrol, TSA, US Armed Forces, Air Traffic controllers, DEA, FBI/CIA, US attorneys, food inspectors, etc....
I already showed you the stats on TSA. 70% of fake weapons make it thru on test runs.

And yes, the CIA and FBI have extreme jerk off positions as part of the whole.
Ask the 9/11 bombers how easy they were to play.

Not insulting the hardworking rank and file workers. Like the ones who brought it to upper managments attention "Hey all these ragheads are taking flying classes. Need to intervene!"

[MultiTroll]

Bizarre things the US Gov't actually spends money on:

https://www.rd.com/culture/wasteful-government-spending-examples/

[Winehole23]

Despite your GOVERNMENT BAD hyperbole, the real economy relies on the legal and regulatory framework it provides. Simplistically dismissing government functions as dross and waste per se is dishonest.

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1088812445139910657?s=19

[CosmicCowboy]

All over a couple hundred miles of fence the border patrol and homeland security have requested.

How dumb is that?

[Pavlov]

All over a couple hundred miles of fence the border patrol and homeland security have requested.

How dumb is that?You've moved the goalpost to that?

When did Trump publicly say that's all he wanted?

[Winehole23]

All over a couple hundred miles of fence the border patrol and homeland security have requested.

How dumb is that?It's dumb that that the US Congress already voted to give Trump 1.6 billion to get started and he turned it down, after saying he'd be cool with that.

[Winehole23]

All because he saw Ann Coulter bitching about it on Fox.

What a moron.

[Trill Clinton]

All over a couple hundred miles of fence the border patrol and homeland security have requested.

How dumb is that?

Exactly. Fuck them lil hundred miles and open the government up.

[boutons_deux]

While I'm sure some of the lower paid Feddies are in a serious bind and should get assistance (even before the shutdown), most of the ones holding cushy jerk off positions:

Federal Employees Earn 50% More Than The Private Workforce

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/moneytips/federal-employees-earn-50_b_8855508.html?fbclid=IwAR3lqgwLtMS9y7AqSfQVKrq mlMFCHAfr2U90OM43A8wn5xHTtDOswa7fdOs

The oligarchy has suppressed Real Household Income as essentially FLAT for nearly 40 years, so Capital could destroy the wealth of Labor and pocket what was due to Labor.

private employees, aka Labor, pissed and envious that the govt employees are better off and should to be pulled down private employees' level is proof that Labor losers have bought Capital propaganda that all govt is bad and must be destroyed, which would hurt Labor even more.

[CosmicCowboy]

Exactly. Fuck them lil hundred miles and open the government up.

Exactly. Give the border patrol what it needs and open the government.

From right wing extreme NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684037990/border-patrol-makes-its-case-for-an-expanded-border-barrier

[Winehole23]

The President shutting down the government until Congress gives him exactly what he wants isn't negotiating nor should rhe US Congress reward it as such.

It's playing chicken with the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of families as well as public safety.

Trump should give up, he's the one who's being an unreasonable dick.

[boutons_deux]

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/50827323_2263154577341188_1949326595835559936_n.jp g?_nc_cat=108&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-2.xx&oh=51518685fee7f014806e55be67480275&oe=5CCA828E

[Winehole23]

The House has already voted to open the government, the Senate should just have a voice vote.

[boutons_deux]

Trump should give up, he's the one who's being an unreasonable dick.

The Senate Repugs reversing their unanimous YES-to-open vote a while back to NO-keep-closed vote proves they are truly Trash's party, a party of intimidated, dickless shitbags.

[Trill Clinton]

Exactly. Give the border patrol what it needs and open the government.

From right wing extreme NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/11/684037990/border-patrol-makes-its-case-for-an-expanded-border-barrier

The majority of Americans taxpayers disagree with the need of spending billions on a few sections of wall. Shutting down the government over a wall is dumb.

[baseline bum]

Wonder if Orange Faggot is backing down after the chaos at LaGuardia today

1088847187520438272

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/Stalsomething/status/1088824432439775237?s=19

[boutons_deux]

FAA delays flights at New York’s LaGuardia airport, citing staffing shortages amid government shutdown

The restrictions come as the government shutdown enters its 35th day

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/01/25/faa-delays-flights-new-yorks-laguardia-airport-citing-staffing-shortages-amid-government-shutdown/?utm_term=.b722a82144f8&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

[boutons_deux]

‘This is your fault’: GOP senators clash over shutdown inside private luncheon

“This is your fault,”

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at one point, according to two Republicans who attended the lunch and witnessed the exchange.

“Are you suggesting I’m enjoying this?”

McConnell snapped back,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/this-is-your-fault-gop-senators-clash-over-shutdown-inside-private-luncheon/2019/01/24/cde0ca22-2045-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eb17b52c30c6&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/this-is-your-fault-gop-senators-clash-over-shutdown-inside-private-luncheon/2019/01/24/cde0ca22-2045-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eb17b52c30c6&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1)

So much fun being whores to the oligarchy and bitch-slapped for enabling Trash.

and they are still getting paid and all benefits in place.

[djohn2oo8]

1088863566508175360

:lol no wall

[FrostKing]

The President shutting down the government until Congress gives him exactly what he wants isn't negotiating nor should rhe US Congress reward it as such.

It's playing chicken with the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of families as well as public safety.

Trump should give up, he's the one who's being an unreasonable dick.
Are you arguing against illegal migration here?

[Pavlov]

Are you arguing against illegal migration here?A fence is not worth crashing planes over tbh.

[FrostKing]

1088863566508175360

:lol no wall
Democrats Won

No border safety for Americans

[vy65]

lol

[Pavlov]

Man, Trump is walking back hard on det wall today.

[Spurs Homer]

president "distraction" agreeing to a deal after stone gets indicted


:lol:lol

[Spurs Homer]

crisis "magically" disappeared!

[vy65]

Bet ole DJT is tired of all that winning he just did

[Trill Clinton]

My 4 year old nephew reads better than this clown.

[Xevious]

So... the government is temporarily opening back up but there's still no deal. Could have just said that and skip all the other bullshit he said. He went on and on like he got funding for the wall.

[Pavlov]

Damn, Trump got rolled so hard. Rambling about duct taped women and Google Maps directions....

[Spurs Homer]

Secretary of State Coulter not gonna be happy!

[boutons_deux]

Trump Caves, Agrees to Re-Open Government Without Wall Funding

The art of the deal

“I am very proud :lol

to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and

reopen the federal government,” Trump said from the Rose Garden.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-shutdown-over-784623/

[benefactor]

:lol bodied by an old woman

[Killakobe81]

Trump Caves, Agrees to Re-Open Government Without Wall Funding

The art of the deal

“I am very proud :lol

to announce today that we have reached a deal to end the shutdown and

reopen the federal government,” Trump said from the Rose Garden.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-shutdown-over-784623/

Old cully ion Twitter as Dale Robinson ...
Dont you back down Mr. President not an inch ...
Trump PResident ...not Clinton.

I wonder how he views this loss or will he calim vistory like his "hero"?! :lol

There has never been a finer president to walk this earth ... :rollin

[Pavlov]

:lol
1088888030901882880

[benefactor]

Old cully ion Twitter as Dale Robinson ...
Dont you back down Mr. President not an inch ...
Trump PResident ...not Clinton.

I wonder how he views this loss or will he calim vistory like his "hero"?! :lol

There has never been a finer president to walk this earth ... :rollin
He's heading to the reading room for the duration after det one

[baseline bum]

Orange Faggot sounds like he'll shut it down again in three weeks.

[Pavlov]

Orange Faggot sounds like he'll shut it down again in three weeks.Shart of the Deal.

[Killakobe81]

Orange Faggot sounds like he'll shut it down again in three weeks.

yup but he will look worse for doing so ...

[boutons_deux]

‘It’s over for him’: Right-wingers furious as ‘biggest wimp’ Trump caves to Democrats on border wall

right-wing Twitter users lost it Friday

“Trump is a broken man,”

Mike Cernovich, a far-right figure known for touting the Pizzagate conspiracy theory (https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/pizzagate-conspiracy-theorist-wants-fans-pay-1000-month-can-retire-public-life/) in which Democrats allegedly ran a child sex ring out of a DC pizza restaurant, tweeted.

“It’s over for him.”

Cernovich went on to claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is an “alpha.” :lol

Coulter:

“Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States,” she tweeted.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/685140910934503425/-5NFgf2e_bigger.jpg (https://twitter.com/EWErickson)Erick Erickson
(https://twitter.com/EWErickson)@EWErickson
(https://twitter.com/EWErickson)
I’ve been writing for weeks that if Trump caved without a border wall, he’d be giving Pelosi a win and conceding defeat.

He’ll look weak to his base.

The public vote of confidence from supporters right now is not necessarily their private sentiment.

1:44 PM - Jan 25, 2019 (https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1088885310258405376)


Cam Adair
(https://twitter.com/camerondare)✔@camerondare
(https://twitter.com/camerondare)
(https://twitter.com/camerondare)@Cernovich (https://twitter.com/Cernovich) Trump just imploded the energy #Covington (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Covington?src=hash) created.

1:44 PM - Jan 25, 2019 (https://twitter.com/camerondare/status/1088885391346810881)


Michael Malice
(https://twitter.com/michaelmalice)✔@michaelmalice
(https://twitter.com/michaelmalice)
(https://twitter.com/michaelmalice)Apparently a wall isn't as good as a cave

(https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=1088891164437217282)2:07 PM - Jan 25, 2019 (https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1088891164437217282)


Mike Cernovich https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f98d.pnghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f1fa-1f1f8.png
(https://twitter.com/Cernovich)
(https://twitter.com/Cernovich)✔@Cernovich
(https://twitter.com/Cernovich)
(https://twitter.com/Cernovich)Old enough to remember when "experts" were saying Nancy Pelosi didn't deserve to take back the position at Speaker of the House.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/924253996411506693/PwLdhPMI_bigger.jpg (https://twitter.com/willchamberlain)Will Chamberlain https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/72x72/1f1fa-1f1f8.png@willchamberlain (https://twitter.com/willchamberlain)


(https://twitter.com/willchamberlain)She'll be remembered as the most effective Speaker of her generation

She destroyed a President within a month of taking office

Joe Walsh
(https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom)✔@WalshFreedom :lol
(https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom)
Anybody check to see if @seanhannity (https://twitter.com/seanhannity) is okay?


https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/right-wingers-furious-biggest-wimp-trump-caves-democrats-border-wall/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29 (https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/right-wingers-furious-biggest-wimp-trump-caves-democrats-border-wall/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29)

[Spurs Homer]

lol

"hey hannity - step back off that ledge!"

:lol:lol

[RD2191]

MAGA :lol so much winning :lmao

[Winehole23]

1088875965436981248

[Winehole23]

White House dangled an emergency before the midterms, lost 40 seats in the House.

Dangled it again during a 35 day shutdown, then caved without getting any wall money.

The emergency will remain in suspense for another 21 days, at the end of which he'll declare an emergency if he doesn't get what he wants.

Orange man is sinking. Someone throw him an anvil.

[baseline bum]

LOL at this idea that the white nationalist right will ever leave Trump.

[Will Hunting]

MAGA :lol so much winning :lmao
:lmao “I make THE BEST deals!”

[clambake]

:lol
1088888030901882880

lol

[Pavlov]

LOL at this idea that the white nationalist right will ever leave Trump.Exactly. Where else can the dead-enders go? Trump is the dead end.

[Winehole23]

One million plus USG contractors won't get back pay.

DJT played chicken with the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of families for a month, just to end up exactly where he started.

Some dealmaker.

[Will Hunting]

LOL at this idea that the white nationalist right will ever leave Trump.
I could see their turnout reaching 2012 levels if there’s two years of Pelosi handing Trump his ass and making him look weak, but not like they’re voting Dem :lol

[Spurminator]

1088875965436981248

Of course Russia is mad that the US government will be operating again.

[boutons_deux]

Trump on the shutdown:

“We will not cave!” :lol

Trump one day later: I’m caving.


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/25/18197731/trump-we-will-not-cave-shutdown

[boutons_deux]

Trump Still Isn’t Getting His State Of The Union After Shutdown Cave

Speaker Pelosi made it clear that Trump caved, but there will be no SOTU until the government is open and they agree on a date.

Pelosi was asked if the State Of The Union is planned.

She answered,

“It is not planned now.

What I said to the president, when the government is open we will discuss a mutually agreeable date and

I look forward to doing that and

welcome the president to the House of Representatives for the State Of The Union when we agree on a date.”

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/25/trump-still-isnt-getting-his-state-of-the-union-after-shutdown-cave.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

Nutcracker Nancy still have Trash by the balls.

[Trill Clinton]

Was this video o f lying Ted getting his ass handed to him posted yesterday?

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1088527424436883456?s=19

[boutons_deux]

Flights grounded at U.S. East Coast airports as controllers call in sick

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/25/flights-grounded-at-u-s-east-coast-airports-as-controllers-call-in-sick.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29


Wanna Get Away

for the weekend,

or get home?

[boutons_deux]

Is the government going to shut down again in February? Here are 4 scenarios.

The government is reopened for three weeks. What happens next?

Scenario 1: a big, beautiful immigration deal is reached and this fight is over


Scenario 2: no deal and the government shuts down again

Scenario 3: no deal, but the government stays open and Trump declares a border emergency to get his wall

Scenario 4: no deal, but the government stays open and Trump doesn’t declare an emergency

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/25/18197710/government-shutdown-over-trump-border-wall-deal

[Xevious]

Was this video o f lying Ted getting his ass handed to him posted yesterday?

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1088527424436883456?s=19

Holy shit :lol

[Chris]

:cry muh floods and medieval walls :cry

Totally destroyed Ted.

[Chris]

https://twitter.com/Jason66Thomas/status/1088765953683279873

Sadly agree with this assessment.

[DarrinS]

Was this video o f lying Ted getting his ass handed to him posted yesterday?

https://twitter.com/briantylercohen/status/1088527424436883456?s=19

Response from Ted was better tho

[boutons_deux]

Lou Dobbs Goes Off: Nancy Pelosi Is the Winner Today, Trump ‘Got Rolled on This’

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/lou-dobbs-goes-off-nancy-pelosi-is-the-winner-today-trump-got-rolled-on-this/

[DMC]

Liberal media -Trump is insatiable, non negotiable, disconnected from reality

Liberal media - Trump caved in, he's weak, taken down by a woman.

In reality the people who want to get paid will credit him.

[Winehole23]

^^^ disdains wishcasting and prognostication when others do it.

[ElNono]

well, hate to steal from my niglet hater, but I called this shit :lol

[DarrinS]

At the end of the day, it was all about a cheap political victory, tbh

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1088872307274235904

https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1088880310073389057

https://www.thecoli.com/media/pelosi-2.18936/full?d=1548456214

[baseline bum]

At the end of the day, it was all about a cheap political victory, tbh

Trump wanted to pick a fight to motivate his base for 2020 and didn't give a shit who he hurt in the process. He obviously didn't really want a wall since he had two years to fund it through a reconciliation bill and there would have been nothing the Democrats could have done to stop him. But instead he waited until it was impossible, when senate Republicans were ready to go home for Christmas and Democrats were ready to take the House. Then President Snowflake could play the victim and scapegoat the evil Democrats for stopping something he never wanted. Thirty five days of government shutdown for a fucking campaign slogan. Your boy is a disgrace.

[lefty]

Flights grounded at U.S. East Coast airports as controllers call in sick

https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/25/flights-grounded-at-u-s-east-coast-airports-as-controllers-call-in-sick.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29


Wanna Get Away

for the weekend,

or get home?
I confirm, flew to and from LGA, delayed flightd each time

[Pavlov]

At the end of the day, it was all about a cheap political victory, tbhSure, because Pelosi won, right?

[DMC]

I confirm, flew to and from LGA, delayed flightd each time

In air now from NY, no delay

[boutons_deux]

Hannity Insists Trump Didn’t Cave in Shutdown Fight:

‘You Don’t Really Know the Donald Trump I Know’

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/hannity-insists-trump-didnt-cave-in-shutdown-fight-you-dont-really-know-the-donald-trump-i-know/

[Winehole23]

1088918830343225346

[DarrinS]

1088918830343225346

And...?

[Winehole23]

Just a factoid, I was surprised to see anything attached to it. Thought it was going to be a clean CR.

[Winehole23]

Underrated take:

Threatened strikes by flight attendants and air traffic controllers caused Trump to fold like a cheap suit.

[lefty]

In air now from NY, no delay

Good.
Fuck delays

[Ginobilly]

Lmao at maga supporters thinking rich repugs want a wall. Who do you think hires all those illegals working construction and maintenance all over the usa? In reality both parties don't want a wall, it's just the repugs who pretend that they do in order to please their base.

[Ginobilly]

A wall would probably most likely disrupt( not eliminate) movement of contraband and people. Do you really think border patrol, police, fbi, cia, homeland security, dea, etc want that? Fuck no! It will cut into their jobs and funding. What the fuck are they going to do when theres no more chuntaros (mexican indians) to pick on, molest and harass? All those drugs and there destruction fund their livelihoods. Its like running out of Nazi's to kill in call of duty. The majority of americans don't benefit from this but they do. Along with their supporters who in turn hire cheap labor. Everybody benefits expect for poor and middle class americans in the private sector.

[boutons_deux]

Even anti-immigrant hate groups are frustrated with Trump's wall obsession (https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/24/1829198/-Even-anti-immigrant-hate-groups-are-frustrated-with-Trump-s-wall-obsession)
even conservative anti-immigrant groups are frustrated with President Dotard's single-minded obsession with building a "big, beautiful" border wall.

That's because

anti-immigrant think tanks, the places that try to put a veneer of respectability on white nationalist demands

that the nation reduce immigration so that "white" America is not overwhelmed or "out-bred,” are

perfectly aware that a wall is mostly a pointless exercise.

And they're worried that Trump's insistence that he be given a

"wall" is reducing the chances that the administration will be able to push for the measures they want,

the ones that would

sharply reduce legal immigration by, for example,

ending the visa lottery system and

sharply pulling back family-based migration (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/23/trump-border-wall-immigration-hawks-1121835?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0fa-dd93-ad7f-f8ffe0400000&nlid=630318).

RJ Hauman, government relations director at Federation for American Immigration Reform, which also wants more enforcement,

called Trump’s “build the wall” approach simplistic.“

President Trump was elected to put forth a multi-pronged approach to immigration, not just build a couple hundred miles of border barriers,” he said. “It’s disappointing to see what he’s doing now.”

FAIR is a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform)with

ties to white supremacist groups and a history of explicitly white nationalist rhetoric.

The group's

primary objective is to reduce non-white immigration,

premised as usual on the white nationalist theory that whites are in danger of being overwhelmed;

anti-Semitism,

anti-Catholicism, and

Nazi-linked eugenicists

are all featured in their sordid past. It is a hate group,

as is the similarly premised and also-Politico-quoted Center for Immigration Studies (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/center-immigration-studies).

even they are peeved that Donald has lost the plot here.

he has reduced his entire xenophobic message to building a concrete or steel wall

through the middle of a whole lot of nowheres

as a visible monument to his supposed negotiating prowess.

But that's money that then can't be spent,

mutter the actual think-tank racists,

on effective racism.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1829198

[baseline bum]

Lmao at maga supporters thinking rich repugs want a wall. Who do you think hires all those illegals working construction and maintenance all over the usa? In reality both parties don't want a wall, it's just the repugs who pretend that they do in order to please their base.

Pretty much this. I would support Trump 100% if he would take that $25 billion he keeps "asking for" for the retarded wall and instead wanted to put that towards prosecution and jailing of Americans who hire illegals, but what's he going to do: throw himself in jail? As long as there is huge unchecked demand for illegal labor they're going to keep coming.

[boutons_deux]

I would NEVER support Trash under any condition. Nothing positive he would do would offset his negatives.

Repugs had 6 years under dubya/dickhead, and 2 years under Trash to "fix" the immigration system.

They did nothing, until Jew Steven Goebbels-Himmler Miller got his ethnic cleansing campaign rolling.

That doesn't fix anything.

racist Repugs campaign successfully to their racist base on immigrants, and

Repug businesses, eg Trash, exploit cheap/robbed immigrant labor.

Together, that's the 2 reasons Repugs, in power, have done nothing about immigration.

[mrsmaalox]

Good.
Fuck delays

My 23 yr old daughter got on a cross country flight last weekend without any form of ID. I saw the TSA agent roll his eyes, wave her though, and say “Just go—you are the 8th one today!” But no delays :tu

[Pavlov]

CROFL if true
1088659184516845569

ETA link: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/challenge-coins-secret-service-government-shutdown/index.html

[Will Hunting]

My 23 yr old daughter got on a cross country flight last weekend without any form of ID. I saw the TSA agent roll his eyes, wave her though, and say “Just go—you are the 8th one today!” But no delays :tu
Yeah when I flew 10 days ago the TSA more or less combated being short staffed by not giving a shit. They kept yelling at the people in the full security check line to keep their shoes on and to not take laptops out of their bags :lol

[Pavlov]

Yeah when I flew 10 days ago the TSA more or less combated being short staffed by not giving a shit. They kept yelling at the people in the full security check line to keep their shoes on and to not take laptops out of their bags :lolDamn, we really dodged a bullet. If terrorists get three weeks lead time to plan for the next shutdown, you could see some shit falling from the sky.

[FrostKing]

Damn, we really dodged a bullet. If terrorists get three weeks lead time to plan for the next shutdown, you could see some shit falling from the sky.
Wanna stop airline terrorists? Just racial profile. Not complicated.

[Pavlov]

Wanna stop airline terrorists? Just racial profile. Not complicated.DB Cooper says lol

[Will Hunting]

Damn, we really dodged a bullet. If terrorists get three weeks lead time to plan for the next shutdown, you could see some shit falling from the sky.
Not to mention how easy it'd be to sneak stuff in through the dreaded Southern border given the scaled back border patrol we have during shutdowns :lol

But yeah, the scary thing is that it seemed to vary airport by airport (and even checkpoint by checkpoint) as to how the TSA was handling it. DFW cut a lot more corners on security to keep the lines shorter, while from what I've seen Atlanta wasn't sacrificing any security at all no matter how long the line got. There was clearly way too much discretion given to lower level employees as to how to handle staffing shortages.

[boutons_deux]

During Shutdown, Trump’s NY Golf Club Fired a Dozen Undocumented Workers (https://splinternews.com/during-shutdown-trump-s-ny-golf-club-fired-a-dozen-und-1832086402)


https://splinternews.com/during-shutdown-trump-s-ny-golf-club-fired-a-dozen-und-1832086402

[Blake]

Damn, we really dodged a bullet. If terrorists get three weeks lead time to plan for the next shutdown, you could see some shit falling from the sky.

No but the real crisis is walls

[boutons_deux]

Nutcracker Nancy still busting those tiny balls

" the Speaker still isn’t giving him the green light.

The State of the Union address to Congress, which

was supposed to be held on Tuesday, January 29th, is “not planned” yet

and won’t be until the two sides can find a “mutually agreeable date.” "

https://washingtonpress.com/2019/01/26/pelosi-just-let-trump-know-he-wont-be-holding-his-state-of-the-union-on-tuesday/?fbclid=IwAR0-xR_IpCWqZsPbUWcGPJWwZ8Vohqp8QSzdzJls3Cllfnb_Ukzlx3 BCow4 (https://washingtonpress.com/2019/01/26/pelosi-just-let-trump-know-he-wont-be-holding-his-state-of-the-union-on-tuesday/?fbclid=IwAR0-xR_IpCWqZsPbUWcGPJWwZ8Vohqp8QSzdzJls3Cllfnb_Ukzlx3 BCow4)

I would block his fucking horrible speech at least until all 800K employees see backpay in their bank accounts.

[Winehole23]

During Shutdown, Trump’s NY Golf Club Fired a Dozen Undocumented Workers (https://splinternews.com/during-shutdown-trump-s-ny-golf-club-fired-a-dozen-und-1832086402)


https://splinternews.com/during-shutdown-trump-s-ny-golf-club-fired-a-dozen-und-1832086402half the winter staff, I've heard.

[boutons_deux]

half the winter staff, I've heard.

he didn't react when his illegal hiring of foreign help for his MaL, fake SS cards, fake green cards

[Winehole23]

Lashing out however he can. Pelosi knocked his dick in the dirt.

[boutons_deux]

Would Trump Shutdown Gov’t Again? Chief Of Staff Says ‘Um, Yeah

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/would-trump-shutdown-govt-again-chief-of-staff-says-um-yeah?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20tpm-news%20%28TPMNews%29

[boutons_deux]

"Trump walked away from Friday’s Rose Garden address “humiliated.”

“I think that the major loss for the president this week was that

the fraud and the con of Donald Trump,

that he is the master negotiator,

that he’s the king of the art of the deal.

that he always wins when he sits down at the bargaining table

was finally shattered” Wilson began.
“This is a guy who spent–

who threw our government and economy into chaos for 35 days and

who insists, absolutely categorically that under no circumstances would he stop this shutdown unless he got $5.7 billion for his wall,”

he continued.

“He walked out of the room with nothing,

he didn’t even have his pants.

At the end of this negotiation,

he had been humiliated and been shamed.

“He was knocked down hard

he got spanked hard by Nancy Pelosi and

it still hurts so much he can barely sit down,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/rick-wilson-last-word-trump-humiliated-shamed-pelosi-left-without-pants/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[Pavlov]

"Trump walked away from Friday’s Rose Garden address “humiliated.”

“I think that the major loss for the president this week was that

the fraud and the con of Donald Trump,

that he is the master negotiator,

that he’s the king of the art of the deal.

that he always wins when he sits down at the bargaining table

was finally shattered” Wilson began.

“This is a guy who spent–

who threw our government and economy into chaos for 35 days and

who insists, absolutely categorically that under no circumstances would he stop this shutdown unless he got $5.7 billion for his wall,” he continued.

“He walked out of the room with nothing, he didn’t even have his pants. At the end of this negotiation, he had been humiliated and been shamed.

“He was knocked down hard

he got spanked hard by Nancy Pelosi and

it still hurts so much he can barely sit down,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/rick-wilson-last-word-trump-humiliated-shamed-pelosi-left-without-pants/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29


:lol Pelosi:
https://media.giphy.com/media/5qII4FPBe5aqQ/giphy.gif

[boutons_deux]

‘All for nothing’: Trump’s wall retreat bewilders allies

Before the president was done talking on Friday, a group text chain with several former Trump aides lit up with complaints.

Speaker Nancy "Pelosi ordered everything off the menu and left Trump hanging with the bill,” one Trump ally texted to the group.

“President Nancy Pelosi, she runs the country now,” said a former White House official.

“We went from indefinite shutdown, to down payment, to cave — all within a span of 24 hours.”

Trump’s core supporters and former aides are “furious” and “melting down.”

some of his most loyal supporters fretted that Trump was in danger of losing his fervent base that has fueled his presidency.

Trump also defended himself late Friday on Twitter.

"I wish people would read or listen to my words on the Border Wall. :lol

This was in no way a concession. :lol

It was taking care of millions of people who were getting badly hurt by the Shutdown with the understanding that

in 21 days, if no deal is done, it’s off to the races!" he wrote.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/25/trump-government-shutdown-end-border-wall-1128564

[boutons_deux]

U.S. government agencies gear up to restart operations Monday

Federal workers are owed about $6 billion in back pay,

It will take agencies days to dig out from weeks of unread emails and deal with other logistical issues like expired email passwords or ID badges, agency officials said. Furloughed workers were told not to read emails or answer phone calls while off duty.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-contractors/worries-remain-for-u-s-government-contractors-as-shutdown-ends-idUSKCN1PK0QN?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F +US+%2F+Top+News%29

Trash SHITS on the country, got nothing for it, and America now has to clean up his shit

No way this asshole wins in 2020, even he makes it that far.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Scoffs at Ann Coulter:

‘Maybe I Didn’t Return Her Phone Call or Something’


https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-scoffs-at-ann-coulter-maybe-i-didnt-return-her-phone-call-or-something/

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1089893713030119430?s=19

[boutons_deux]

CBO Finds the Economy Lost About $11 Billion During Trump Shutdown


https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/28/cbo-finds-the-economy-lost-about-11-billion-during-trump-shutdown.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[FrostKing]

https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1089893713030119430?s=19
Ill explain

1)People were questioning immigration policy after attacks by whites in Boston marathon

2)When white immigrants or 1st generation commit crime this is highlighted. But other whites in America are glossed over as "permanent residents". When blacks commit crime do people question African immigration? No because these are people with little or no connection to their heritage

C)People are especially bewildered when an immigrant would leave his homeland and then commit crime to rott in American prison

[Trill Clinton]

I read somewhere that illegals are illegaly sneaking across the border en mass like trump says. The problem is them coming on work visas and staying longer and employers hiring illegal workers. Thoughts?

[boutons_deux]

Diapers, Tampons, Nursing Bras: The Trump Shutdown’s Unseen Costs for Working Families

missing just one paycheck can put diapers, nursing supplies, and menstrual products out of reach.

normally provides “diapers, period products, formula, breastfeeding supplies, adult incontinence supplies, and other hygiene products” to social service organizations that then distribute them to those in need.

But during the government shutdown, there was “a massive increase in need,” Cannon said.

“We had an increase in requests for individuals,

an increase in requests from organizations—

we saw a lot of folks who we’ve never talked to about diaper needs before coming [to us].”

For many federal workers and contractors affected by the shutdown,

the loss of even one paycheck left them unable to afford food, rent, medical services (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/government-shutdown-federal-workers_us_5c34abdde4b01e2d51f77054), and personal hygiene necessities.

“a lot of people who are affected by the government shutdown that are living paycheck to paycheck that are

coming to us asking for a package or two of maxi pads or tampons,”

said Marlowe, “just to get them by until when they get their paycheck again.”

the requests weren’t just from those in the D.C. area.

They came from California, Florida, Texas, Maryland, Virginia, Alaska, Georgia, and North Carolina,

https://rewire.news/article/2019/01/29/diapers-tampons-nursing-bras-the-trump-shutdowns-unseen-costs-for-working-families/

Will the Repugs vote the Dem bill to give back pay to contractors? I'm betting yes.

Capitalism keeps Labor living in fear, in precarity, on the edge, to obtain obedience, cooperation, to stifle dissent.

MfA would promote mobility of Labor, since quitting a job wouldn't mean losing health care.

[Trill Clinton]

https://twitter.com/SashaAnnSimons/status/1089994926518095872


Just before 7:30 a.m. Monday, NASA employee Darryl Lomax returned to his office in Greenbelt, Md. to carry out business as usual. It was just a week ago that Lomax applied for unemployment benefits to help his family survive the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. On that day, the 53-year-old spent the afternoon at a community event geared toward connecting furloughed workers of color (https://wamu.org/story/19/01/22/shut-down-the-shutdown-black-federal-workers-in-prince-georges-county-speak-out/) with critical health and social services.

Now, Lomax admits he had to psych himself up to report to work at the place he’s been employed for the last decade.

“I was saying, ‘Ok I’m ready to go back,’ but mentally and physically, I’m worn down,” Lomax said.

The five-week partial government shutdown took a damaging toll on his personal life. After Lomax became furloughed in late December, the Bowie, Md. resident fell behind on child support payments to support his 17-year-old son. Bills piled up, his vehicle broke down and his eight-year marriage came to a sudden end.

“I felt like I needed a vacation, because the stress level was so high,” said Lomax.

As for the unemployment application, Lomax said he’ll allow the 21-day processing period to continue to run its course. That’s in large part because the deal President Donald Trump signed to reopen the government (https://wamu.org/story/19/01/25/the-shutdowns-temporarily-over-what-that-means-for-washingtons-federal-workers/) applies only to the next three weeks.

“So I have to find out if that’s going to affect the [unemployment] process,” Lomax said. “Do I have to start all over again and wait for another 21 days?”

As the hours wind down on his first day back to work, Lomax holds on to one glimmer of hope: he should receive his backpay by Friday.

‘That’s When The Stress Builds Up All Over Again’
The road ahead remains uncertain for Lomax and about 800,000 federal employees across the country who went without paychecks during the shutdown.

Workers missed a second paycheck last week. Many of those employees were considered “essential” and worked without pay, but all will be paid in full for the shutdown’s duration. Many contractors (https://wamu.org/story/19/01/08/most-contractors-do-not-expect-to-get-back-pay-when-the-shutdown-ends/) with the federal government are not expecting backpay.

Lomax said the paychecks this week are crucial, because workers might find themselves cut off again next month.

“The thought of three weeks hanging over us,” Lomax said. “That’s when the stress builds up all over again.”

Until a long term funding bill is passed, Lomax, a human resources specialist, plans to focus on getting his department back up and running to full capacity. That includes triggering the process to onboard new NASA hires, who were supposed to start work during the first week of the shutdown. Lomax is contemplating when their first day of work should be.

“We might even try to see if we can get them in sometime this week,” Lomax said. “But with so much going on, who knows.”

[boutons_deux]

Lord of the Flies takes over the National Parks

Piles of poop, toilet paper 'flowers' greet rangers as parks reopen after government shutdown


https://www.latimes.com/resizer/dMDZJivZEPsI9zEde0BgzlTZdMs=/800x0/www.trbimg.com/img-5c51fcfb/turbine/la-1548877038-upar54rdmt-snap-image

In Death Valley, piles of human feces and hunks of what rangers call “toilet paper flowers” were left scattered around the desert.


At Joshua Tree, officials found about 24 miles of unauthorized new trails carved into the desert landscape by off-road vehicles, along with some of the park’s namesake trees toppled.


And at Point Reyes along the Marin County coast, a colony of elephant seals made a popular beach their new home and welcomed 40 new pups into the world.

authorities are beginning the tally to damage that occurred to some of California’s national parklands during the weeks in which many park officials were off the job.

park officials said the damage to the parks was scattered but not widespread. The cleanups are underway, and that includes removing vandalism and fixing up trashed facilities.

“While there was a certain segment of the population like that, the majority of visitors love this area and love the park and behaved themselves. This is not a virtual wasteland.”

Some of the most concerning losses involved three Joshua trees that were cut down or damaged and two mature juniper trees were cut for firewood along with dozens of cat claw acacia trees,

Joshua Tree — which was on track to have more than 3 million visitors in 2018 — also missed out on roughly $1.03 million in entrance fees,

estimated it could take centuries for the park’s namesake trees and other sensitive vegetation (https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-in-parks-closure-20190106-story.html) to recover from damage inflicted during the shutdown.

Some trees appear to have been chopped down (https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2019/01/joshua-tree-national-park-close-cleanup-repairs-vandalism-illegal-roads), but Land said rangers don’t know how many were harmed or how the destruction was caused.



off-road drivers cut destructive scars in the desert floor’s delicate biological soil crust.

So much human waste piled up in Yosemite National Park from visitors using the side of the road as a toilet during the shutdown that officials closed two campgrounds and a popular redwood grove, citing public safety concerns (https://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-yosemite-human-waste-closed-campgrounds-mariposa-grove-20181229-story.html).

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-national-parks-shutdown-20190129-story.html#nws=mcnewsletter

Thanks, Trash, The Best President Ever.

And very probably the park vandals were mostly Trash voters.

[boutons_deux]

It could take years for these workers to recover from America’s record-breaking government shutdown

Contract workers are among the lowest paid federal employees. Most won't be getting back pay when the government shutdown ends.

long after government paychecks start being reissued, thousands of contract workers across the United States will continue to struggle to regain a solid financial footing — and may be unable to do so for years.

Contract workers, including security guards, food service workers, and janitors working at federal facilities, often earn barely enough to get by. They are uniquely vulnerable to losing even one day’s pay,

contract workers are technically employees of middleman companies that placed a winning low bid to provide these services to the federal government.

“Our members are predominantly, if not exclusively, African American and Latino.

They don’t necessarily have health care benefits or pension benefits and most of them have multiple jobs,” Karant told ThinkProgress.

“They are part and full time. Sometimes even the full time workers have to work a second job.”

“Thanks to good union contracts they don’t make poverty wages, (but) they make a wage that is just enough to get by,”

Some contract workers are making ends meet with assistance from food pantries and church donations.

When they do miss a single paycheck it makes all the difference in the world…. It does mean they’re going to have to choose between prescription drugs and food and getting electricity shut off,”

Many workers who are directly paid by the government missed a paycheck for the first time on Friday — or they received one with zeroes where a dollar amount should have been.

https://thinkprogress.org/it-could-take-years-for-these-workers-to-recover-from-americas-record-breaking-government-shutdown-49cafcda22f8/

Did Trash and his ethnic cleansers give a tiniest shit about the WORKING people they would be crushing with their goddamned shutdown?

Note the SEIU contract prevented its enough-to-get-by members getting totally crushed, giving them some shield from the oligarchy.

[boutons_deux]

There are plenty of government workers still waiting for their back pay (https://theweek.com/speedreads/822398/there-are-plenty-government-workers-still-waiting-back-pay)

People working for a variety of agencies

either have not yet been paid,

or they've just received a small portion of what they are owed.

Doug Church of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said people who worked during the shutdown have not received their overtime pay, which violates the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Donna Zelina's husband works for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in South Dakota, and she told APhe's been given only part of his back pay, and doesn't expect to be fully paid for another week.

Her creditors wouldn't work with her during the shutdown, she said, adding,

Contract workers were hit hard by the shutdown, as they are not entitled to back pay.

his group has helped find government contract jobs for about 2,000 people with disabilities.

Many worked as custodians and in mail rooms, and had a difficult time finding jobs in the first place.

Kelly said that as of Wednesday, close to 60 percent still have not been called back to work.

The Census Bureau told AP that about 850 employees have not received back pay yet,

https://theweek.com/speedreads/822398/there-are-plenty-government-workers-still-waiting-back-pay

[boutons_deux]

Mulvaney: Trump May Declare Border Wall Emergency Even If Congress Approves Funds

Mulvaney also said

“you absolutely cannot” rule out Trump shutting the government down again at the end of the week

if he isn’t satisfied with what Congress approves.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/mulvaney-trump-may-declare-border-wall-emergency-even-if-congress-approves-funds?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

bluff? intimidation?

[boutons_deux]

No more congressional talks scheduled to avert shutdown


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-shutdown-talks/no-more-congressional-talks-scheduled-to-avert-shutdown-source-idUSKCN1PZ0IW?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F +US+%2F+Top+News%29