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Wounded Bear

(58,792 posts)
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 02:58 PM Jan 2019

There are many Repubs who don't want to end the shutdown...

in fact, they'd be happy if it was permanent. After all, that is their stated goal, to destroy the government.

When you tell them stories of how many people are suffering they don't fucking care. They blame the victims anyway, as people who 'can't get real jobs' and have to live off of the government. They figure the people who are suffering deserve it, unless of course it is them. Even then, they don't blame their heroes, they blame Liberals and Democrats and Communists and various political boogeymen they have been trained to hate.

That's your basic 30-35% core of the Repub party, which through McConnell and Trump now has a strangle hold on our government.

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There are many Repubs who don't want to end the shutdown... (Original Post) Wounded Bear Jan 2019 OP
Our food and skies are unsafe, just as putin ordered. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2019 #1
Yep! Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #2
Grover Norquist and his ilk are loving every minute of it dalton99a Jan 2019 #3
I know. The sick fucks who started all of this... Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #4
They have been raised on Ohiogal Jan 2019 #5
It's a matter of time when their voters are going to be impacted, and soon. In many ways... SWBTATTReg Jan 2019 #6
Remember tRump campaigned on reducing the size of government? Joe941 Jan 2019 #7
People who 'can't get real jobs' and have to live off of the government Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2019 #8
Steve Bannon bdamomma Jan 2019 #9
now we know how handsmaid tale starts in reality AlexSFCA Jan 2019 #10
This part; "unless of course it is them", is why Republicans are actually miscalculating now Tom Rinaldo Jan 2019 #11
I hope you are right... Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #12

Eliot Rosewater

(31,143 posts)
1. Our food and skies are unsafe, just as putin ordered.
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 03:00 PM
Jan 2019

Rumpers love seeing people they dont know suffering, they actually love it.

Ohiogal

(32,196 posts)
5. They have been raised on
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 03:03 PM
Jan 2019

Saint Ronnie’s “Government is the problem.”

They have no clue as to the important things government does to make all of our lives safer.

They would happily destroy all of it.

SWBTATTReg

(22,214 posts)
6. It's a matter of time when their voters are going to be impacted, and soon. In many ways...
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 03:07 PM
Jan 2019

government is going to be impacted and they will be too. This is NOT the way to streamline government and I want these idiots on record stating such, for I view them as traitors to responsible government, not irrational government. This is why the federal government exists, to act as a united front instead of 50 different states and/or multiple territories.

Irresponsible and every single republican supporting this shutdown should automatically be thrown out of office, since they don't seem to want to do their job. If not, find someone else that will. NOW. Don't wait until the damage is too severe.

 

Joe941

(2,848 posts)
7. Remember tRump campaigned on reducing the size of government?
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 03:07 PM
Jan 2019

He will keep the shutdown long enough a large amount of workers move to the private sector. Its part of his plan.

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,474 posts)
8. People who 'can't get real jobs' and have to live off of the government
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 03:09 PM
Jan 2019

They can't see the irony of that statement

Tom Rinaldo

(22,919 posts)
11. This part; "unless of course it is them", is why Republicans are actually miscalculating now
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 03:23 PM
Jan 2019

When government is slowly chipped away at those who are hurt by any single cut are more easily ignored and written off, because the rest of that 35% number you speak of mostly aren't feeling it themselves at that moment. But if they allow this shutdown to go on for an additional week or more, the number of people feeling the pain simultaneously will skyrocket, as they collectively come to understand that they too need government services.

I think the true percent who would knowingly dismantle government knowing full well what that would do is closer to 10%. Republicans are entering a real danger zone now.

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