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(269,328 posts)It's that simple - the naked emperor does not give a flying fuck about elections
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)malaise
(269,328 posts)and yesterday I was watching Local 10 in Florida and saw some well fed and healthy people organizing for this trip. I had to ask whether some Fundie church is funding this shit on the Con's behalf.
ITTMF!
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)It's cynical and cruel.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I think he's reached the point where he's actively slashing and burning our nation because he knows he's losing and just maybe it will be a distraction from his downfall.
Russian Agent cripples US government for a month.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)For the Democrats to retake the Senate and the White House back. With a lot more to expose him and his gop friends in Congress , it'll only get worse for all republicans , and trump is finished . trump's donors are running for the hills away from him now also. They probably realize he's using all campaign funds for legal bills , and personal use, and its nothing but another scam.
RicROC
(1,204 posts)So when do we start talking about having a national strike?
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)because a lot of airports will close soon. If there is a ruling against forcing TSA to work without pay, the airports will just close.
TrishaJ
(798 posts)After the Super Bowl in Atlanta. Hartsfield is already becoming long and slow. Just wait until all that extra traffic in and out of Atlanta for the Super Bowl.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Trump/Putin shut down the government.
We Democrats aren't as good as the Russian GOP in our messaging, the Trump/Putin/GOP party is much better.
McConnell got 1.5 million from Putin to shut down the government, I'm sure that Trump got a lot more. Was the guy who Putin gave a share of Rosneft to? or was it Gazprom? I forget, but it was one of them.
ancianita
(36,238 posts)Trump, McConnell, and their corporatist peers have moved into the United States' democratic house to stay.
Regardless of all our rationalizations, jokes, memes, normalizations, stresses and exhaustion of resistance, their depopulating shutdowns of cabinet departments, government, acquiescent military, increased party financial control, resemble more a corporate campus, not a former democratic republic.
To the "inhabitants" of the former state they've taken over, corporate campus owners (Trump/McConnell aid and abet them) owe no explanation.
Other than by some pretence of an election, they've taken great pains to not announce their arrival.
Secrecy is no longer a bug, but a feature of their corporate campus world.
Our resistance, so far, is to cope, scope, hope that rule of law will be backed by force.
As Tim McGraw's song says, it's their world; we just live in it.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)He is a despot and we are his subjects, under his fat greasy thumb!
The damn republicans used to call President Obama that but now Trump is one in reality.
The pig and his traitor party wipe their asses with the Constitution daily and not a thing is done about it!
Russia's coup of the USA is now complete!
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)Enough with the fatalism vibe, this frak hole is about to get his shit pushed in, big time.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Joe941
(2,848 posts)He didn't want to waste the time when GOP owned house and congress. But now that democrats own congress its a great time to let this grind to a halt and waste democrats time instead of GOP time. If GOP held house I guarantee you the government would not be shut down right now. This is simply to steal time from Democrats.
MissKat
(218 posts)You wait, Trump will declare he saved all this money by getting rid of useless Democrats who were clogging up the system. He will turn this into a win and his people will believe it.
He is a drug to his base. They just can't get enough.
I don't know what we'll do with them once he's ousted, but we'd best be prepared. They are loud, deplorable, and like Trump, they want what they want when they want it. They could care less about anyone but themselves.
Do you remember when Bannon talked about destroying the administrative state? It's happening.
Do you really think newly graduated college folks will want a job in the government? So who will fill those jobs? Less qualified. Further eroding the system.
Putin must be full of joy.
Meanwhile, China lands on the moon.
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)they are trying to destroy the administrative state. Bannon said so in the beginning.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,574 posts)The gutless GOP will go down with them rather than grow a spine and bypass Mitch before the party's over.
2020 is coming.