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its an emergency because trump turned down a 25 billion offer from schumer?
It’s an emergency because Mexico didn’t want to pay for it
its an emergency because trump turned down a 25 billion offer from schumer?
The U.S. Government Shutdown Is Screwing Up the World's Biggest Weather Conference
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) will host the largest annual gathering of the world’s largest weather nerds this weekend. But a key group of cons uents will be notably absent.
The shutdown over Trump’s border wall means federal scientists have had to cancel their trips to this year’s confab in Phoenix, and their absence could have reverberations long after the federal government reopens for business.
the annual AMS meeting is an extremely significant week for the weather enterprise,”
“It’s where connections are made, ideas are sparked, projects initiate, and students and early career professionals have the opportunity to connect with potential employers.”
few other conferences draw together such a wide cross section of scientists and sectors. We’re talking meteorologists, climate scientists, atmospheric researchers, social scientists, satellite geeks, radar nerds, and a host of other experts from the federal, university, private, and broadcast worlds. All of those worlds are built on top of federal data and research.
. An estimated 500-700 federal employees could be forced to bail on the conference that normally attracts roughly 4,000 attendees, potentially causing the rest of the enterprise to begin to wobble.
“The AMS meeting is a critical forum for science, policy development, collaboration and professional development,”
“It’s a fact that a decent portion of today’s meteorologists and atmospheric scientists could end up working for the federal government, and it’s frustrating that federal employees can’t be with students to share their perspectives about their lines of work,”
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-us-g...+%28Gizmodo%29
Trash, Repugs to
Trash wants to call the shutdown a strike, which is associated of course with Labor, not Management
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-wants-to-call-the-shutdown-a-strike-he-has-it-completely-backwards_us_5c30fe1fe4b0d75a98314121
Trash's brain is totally ed as are his emotions, vocabulary, articulations.
a total PIECE of , voted in by 60M Americans.
Sean Hannity Tells Trump to Continue Shutdown ‘Straight Through the State of the Union’
Hannity says Trump could take his case directly to the American people in the annual address at the end of January
https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment...n-13511195.php
Just Do It!
nobody watches TV anymore... he probably has a bigger audience on Twitter than for the SOTU
The Rot Runs So Deep
It seems conceivable, though highly unlikely, that there’s an innocent explanation for
the National Parks Service decision to keep a small site tied to President Trump’s hotel open
while everything else is closed or unstaffed.
Assuming it is what it looks like,
another example of the federal government being harnessed to the personal finances of the President,
it will be just a more minor example of what we’ll learn far more about in the years to come.
There is so little transparency in this administration,
so much corruption that has become commonplace,
that I don’t think we can really even imagine just how deep it all runs.
there’s every reason to believe that
the whole country’s foreign policy is being harnessed to the President’s personal financial interests as well.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog...+%28TPMNews%29
as in Trash's personal financial interest in pleasing Pootin to keep that pee tape hidden
Loser Trash folding, of course
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...litics+News%29
What do the American People think about spending $716 Billion/year on defense and running 800 military bases abroad?
It doesn’t matter what we think.
That's not a compromise, that's a steel barrier.
Do you have wall in your house ?
Do you have a fence (wall ) around your yard?
Walls and fences never stopped home invasions, tbh
^low iq post
Enough Is Enough. The Air Lines Pilots Association Writes Trump A Letter Telling Him To Get Real
the president of the Air Line Pilots Association, International, representing 61,000 pilots, wrote a candid letter to his nibs, breaking down the reality of the situation.
Basically, in human terms, the safety and security of the entire airspace system is in jeopardy and its workers are unfairly being asked to put themselves in egregious financial straits, from which they may never recover.
So the pilots are asking Trump to stop the shutdown “immediately.” Here’s the letter:
the disruptions being caused by the shutdown are threatening the safe operations of this network.
When any of their responsibilities are placed on pause due to a shutdown there are safety, security and efficiency gaps that immediately emerge.
are fewer safety inspectors than are needed in order to ensure the air traffic control infrastructure is performing at its peak levels
oversight activities that either stop or are significantly reduced.
safety issues that put passengers and airline crews at risk.
The shutdown is a significant stumbling block in the FAA’s efforts to ensure the safety of the airspace from those drone operators who may be operating in an unsafe manner.
air traffic controllers, airspace system maintenance personnel, and the airline passenger security workforce are being asked to work unpaid.
The pressure these civil servants are facing at home should not be ignored. At some point, these dedicated federal employees will encounter personal financial damages that will take a long time from which to recover,if at all.
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"This problem of call outs is really going to explode over the next week or two when employees miss their first paycheck," a union official at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport told CNN.
"TSA officers are telling the union they will find another way to make money. That means calling out to work other jobs."
Trump is cornered like a rat right now, whether he has the sense to realize it or not. He’s not going to get his wall,
and every day the shutdown continues, there are going to be more call outs at TSA, airports will become increasingly dysfunctional, and there will be more letters from figures in other industries affected by this folly, you can count on that.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...im-To-Get-Real
others furloughed or forced to work without pay.
In particular, it has wreaked havoc on our national parks, with reports of overflowing human waste, uncollected trash, damage to hiking trails, and even three deaths reported as of yesterday, all due to the lack of policing and supervision. Iconic landmarks and museums on the National Mall have been shuttered or have gone unstaffed, and the American public has been denied access to them.
Yet a single rather obscure historical site has somehow managed to remain open and fully staffed:
the clock tower in the federal building that houses the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.
As reported by the Associated Press:
Smithsonian museums are closed.
There are no federal staffers to answer tourists’ questions at the Lincoln Memorial.
And across the United States,
national parks are cluttered with trash.
Yet despite the federal government shutdown,
a historic clock tower at the Trump International Hotel remained open Friday for its handful of visitors,
staffed by green-clad National Park Service rangers.
According to the AP, its ranger staff often outnumbers the tourists.
The Trump administration appears to have gone out of its way to keep the attraction in the federally owned building that houses the Trump hotel openhttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...-fully-staffed
and staffed with National Park Service rangers, even as other federal agencies shut all but the most essential services.
'Fear. It's just plain, flat-outfear.' Trump's shutdown sends federal workers to food pantries
“The lunches that are missed and the shopping that is missed, people are staying at home, and that really hurts our small-business community.”
One furloughed IRS employee is considering becoming a plasma donor to supplement her partner’s income during the shutdown.
A food pantry has opened to furloughed workers, and a case manager there says that what she sees is “Fear. It’s just plain, flat-out fear.”
One longtime IRS employee described going to the food pantry as “kind of embarrassing,” but with no paycheck and a disabled adult son to support, “I have to.”
“I’m really angry at the president,” she said. “How can he do this to his own people?”
Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
Trash doesn't have "his own people", he has cult mob of duped suckers
They should get a chance to respond -- though their use of complete sentences and truthful statements will probably trigger you.
nobody wants to see more than 2 minutes of those mummies moving their dentures around their mouths
Respond to what? Trump hasn't even said anything yet, and TeamResist already wants to control the narrative. You and your ilk are some really sick people.They should get a chance to respond
See, the way this works is Trump gives his address first, and then the Dems, you know, respond to it.
BUT WHY SHOULD THEY WANT TO RESPOND WHEN HE HASN'T EVEN SAID ANYTHING YET?????
Schumer is actually younger than Trump...
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