The republicans have the house. Why would this be on the Dems if Trump can't muster up the votes?
This is fucking glorious.
This is fucking glorious.
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Trump: "I will be the one to shut it down" (if border wall funding isn't passed)
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They should say, "The Trump Shutdown will be as popular with the people as Trump Steaks and Trump University"
Pence just sitting there thinking about what curtains he'll put up when the Psycho to his left is imprisoned.
Attempting to "compromise" with republicans while accomplishing next to nothing.
If they are talking about the comments this year then I think this was the compromise.
Some people couldn't read between the lines.
You do kinda wonder with all this time to soak in Trump's idiocy, was there ever a point where this dude was like "Ah see, look he's acting idiotic to fool the Democrats agai—— oh wait... oh my god he's actually an idiot. Oh NO."? Probably not, but man.
Look at his tweets since then, he's completely in the deep end. He's a goddamn nutjob who believes all of this "Trump is a genius" bollocks.
Do you realize anything about politics?
Attempting to compromise, while making Trump look like a fool for himself, looks so much better than opposing absolutely everything and being unreasonable.
When one side tries to get something done, and the other side just doesn't, that looks bad.
We could very well go for Democratic Grand Standing, but with this Congress. It's not going do a single thing, and it will hurt the reputation of Democrats.
Working with Republicans, or at least the facade of working with Republicans gets a lot more results. That doesn't mean we can't push progressive ideals. But now simply isn't the time of that.
It's going to be fascinating to see the kind of arguments that thrown out by this guy and QAnon to justify the "long game" Trump will be "playing" two years from now to "strategically lose the election" and carry out more "great work, like the Kingpin" from jail if he goes to trial and is found guilty. I guess then it will be rationales like, "Hey, we've all watched the Sopranos, the Godfather, and other organized crime movies, you know who REALLY gets things done? The guy in 'jail.'"
How is it a lie? Over some indeterminate period of time, they have probably caught ten terrorists.
Yeah, as always he was very vague. Remember last night in Sweden? Dude made shit up then it actually happened days after and he still thinks he was in the right.
There's no winning. Find crimes and send him to jail. Only solution.
I'm pretty sure that there are people out there that are already planning their summer vacation to The Wall.
This is like muhammad ali vs george foreman all over again.
I have never seen such pure an example of political rope-a-dope than today.
I have never seen such pure an example of political rope-a-dope than today.
Seeing Trump hang himself with his own stupidity is quite cathartic.
But this tweet is a bold proclamation. Seriously, what's stopping Trump and Republicans from blaming Democrats anyway (or re-frame it as Trump's only reluctant option in the face of Dem obstruction)? It's not like they fear being fact checked by the fourth estate or have any sense of shame. I just don't see this as a checkmate when one side doesn't even acknowledge the rules of the game.
To be fair, there isn't. They know there are at least 30 million Americans that will simply believe what they are told at a given time, and they'll appeal to those. Then there are the millions of other Americans less easily brainwashed, but who's primary source of information is Fox and Alt-Right websites, that won't mention this at all, so they're cushioned by the "I didn't hear it on Fox, so FAKE NEWS!" conceit.
The rest of America that still managed to hold onto critical thinking skills... Okay, they lost those guys, but since most of them are in cities, not in rural areas, maybe they're calculating that it's an acceptable loss since they're protected by the electoral college and the way it favors rural areas over urban ones. The people that NEED to know Trump is contradicting himself won't hear or believe anything that points out his flaws.
Nancy pelosi is a fucking badass that gets shit done!
Fucking period.
And that's the main reason why certain people wanted her gone.
Pelosi and even Schumer deserve some credit here. They simply stepped out of the way and left Trump throw himself (and his entire party!) off of the cliff. It wasn't some political masterstroke but if this is what the next two years look like for the president then I'll be goddamn happy. Pelosi looked extremely reasonable, which is important to winning over the middle, and Trump&GOP will 100% own this shutdown.
The media will be apoplectic trying to find a way to blame both sides but Trump robbed them of that, I think.
Trump is repeating the phrase "government shutdown" because his fuckwit supporters think it means he can just turn the power off on anyone governing therefore giving himself absolute power. You know, like Hitler!
She looks like a videogame character here. Isn't there someone in a fighting game that has super-long sleeves and a giant turtleneck? Skullgirls, maybe?