Official USMB Shutdown Showdown Thread --- Jan 10th, 2019

[Pogo]

Some 800,000 federal government employees have been ordered to stay home or work without pay during the shutdown brought on by a standoff between Trump and Democrats in Congress over Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall on the southern U.S. border.

This is far from the first time Rump has asked workers to work without pay, so he must think it's "normal".

Of course to be fair Rump has never actually held a job, so how would he know.

 

[g5000]

You don't think that Trump announcing a fake emergency giving him powers is going to enrage Pelosi's base even more?

She knows exactly what she's doing, and she's just as cagey as the Turtle. The question is whether the Turtle will have the courage to really pass anything substantive. But that is not going to arise while Trump is president.

Trump could say water is wet and every fact checker will be claiming it is not always wet and Pelosi and the usual suspects will be enraged over it.

Water is the number one enemy of witches like Trump because he would literally melt if any touched his face or hair. The man is literally afraid of the rain. That's why he wouldn't honor our veterans.

 

[bodecea]

'Hundreds of furloughed federal employees chanting “we want to work” gathered for a union-led march to the White House on Thursday, the 20th day of a partial government shutdown over U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand for border wall funding.'

“Hey, hey, ho, ho, shutdown’s got to go” protesters shouted as they assembled in the bitter cold outside of the AFL-CIO union headquarters, hoisting signs reading “Trump: End the Shutdown,” “Reopen Govt” and “Let Me Do My Job.”


Some 800,000 federal government employees have been ordered to stay home or work without pay during the shutdown brought on by a standoff between Trump and Democrats in Congress over Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall on the southern U.S. border.

Trump, in a 2016 presidential campaign promise, repeatedly vowed that Mexico would pay for the wall. But he has said he will not sign any bill to reopen the government that does not provide wall funding.


Protesters, many wearing neon green vests reading, “I am a worker. I demand a voice,” on Thursday demanded the government be reopened, separate from any debate over wall funding.

“We want our pay! We want our pay! We want our pay!” shouted government employees and contractors bundled against the cold in knitted hats and scarves as they gathered for the march.

In its third week, the shutdown of about a quarter of the federal government is the second longest since the mid-1970s. Trump has said it could continue for months or even years.'

'We want our pay!' furloughed U.S. workers shout at White House | Reuters


Interesting.

Ah...that's why tiny trump was out of town.

 

[g5000]

Trump would claim he invented water. Then his Chumps would spend the next two years "proving" he did.

"The more I repeat it, the truer it becomes!"

 

[Clipper]

Trump will be on a tear tonight when he returns from Texass & finds that deuce that one of his aides left on his desk.

Revenge is a dish best served cold.

 

[Votto]

His policies have so radically changed so quickly, it's a fair question, why has the DNC become so extreme and dedicated to obstruction?

 

[bendog]

Maybe it's the way Trump pisses and shits in the water, yelling at everyone about how disgusting and weak they are

 

[bodecea]

Nothing wrong with slamming tables or even overturning them. Even Jesus did it

Of course. It's SOOOOOOO Mature!

 

[Dragonlady]

the ONLY reason Trump was elected was because tens of millions of brain dead Republicans hate government.

Well, I got news for folks: Government aint goin' no where.

And besides that; the only 'red wave' in 2020 is gonna be in Trump's underwear after he sharts in them.

You do realize that it was the dumbass Democrats that kept ignoring those middleclass wage earners. Nice try on rewriting history. And yes, BIG GOVERNMENT is the problem. Dumbass..

Democrats ignored those middleclass wage earners because they were busy trying to save the economy from the mess Republicans made of it.

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

American's have learned not to believe anything our lying President says. He claims he did not lose his temper. So, Schumer said he did and Schumer is more believable than the lying President.

American's have learned not to believe anything our lying President says.

About 10% of the US population that is anti American Citizen have learned not to believe anything your president says, because of what the lame stream media tells you Communist fuckers. Everyone else believes what he says, because he does what he says.

10% your ass dupe. He is the most mocked disrespected President in memory. His lying is a predominant trademark of his Presidency.

Lib please Trump triggers you people daily. Clearly he gets under your skin at will.

Clearly, the American people are triggering Trump into temper tantrums and a meltdown. Mocking Trump and calling him out on his lies have become a national hobby.

ah yes, time for old reliable. I laugh every time I see this...Too precious of the snowflakes.

 

[Norman]

While Pelosi is pretty brilliant at leading the House, neither she nor Schumer are very good at public communication. But the problem with their response to Trump Tuesday night wasn’t so much what they said. It was the same problem that plagued them in their meeting the following day: They were talking to the wrong person.



To borrow a construct from the classical orator Marco Rubio, let’s dispense with the notion that President Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. Because he really, really doesn’t.



Trump is not in control of Washington. He’s not even in control of his own administration, where officials simply ignore his diktats until his feeble attention shrivels. Trump is not in charge even of the West Wing of his White House, where his own aides regularly leak embarrassing details of his ignorance and buffoonery and his recently departed chief of staff definedhis personal achievements in terms of repeatedly foiling the boss’s half-baked (and not quite half-legal) schemes. And, of course, the reason Trump still doesn’t have a wall is that his fellow Republicans refused for two years to fund one.

With Democrats in charge of the House, Pelosi should stop wasting time and energy on the reality-television president and deal instead with the closest we’ve got to the real thing: Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

If she truly wanted to help the country she would sign up for the wall construction force. A wall is what the country needs right now.

 

[Harry Dresden]

While Pelosi is pretty brilliant at leading the House, neither she nor Schumer are very good at public communication. But the problem with their response to Trump Tuesday night wasn’t so much what they said. It was the same problem that plagued them in their meeting the following day: They were talking to the wrong person.



To borrow a construct from the classical orator Marco Rubio, let’s dispense with the notion that President Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. Because he really, really doesn’t.



Trump is not in control of Washington. He’s not even in control of his own administration, where officials simply ignore his diktats until his feeble attention shrivels. Trump is not in charge even of the West Wing of his White House, where his own aides regularly leak embarrassing details of his ignorance and buffoonery and his recently departed chief of staff definedhis personal achievements in terms of repeatedly foiling the boss’s half-baked (and not quite half-legal) schemes. And, of course, the reason Trump still doesn’t have a wall is that his fellow Republicans refused for two years to fund one.

With Democrats in charge of the House, Pelosi should stop wasting time and energy on the reality-television president and deal instead with the closest we’ve got to the real thing: Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

you are right Ed....she should stop wasting every ones time and retire...half the dam congress needs to follow her out that door...

 

[g5000]

 

[g5000]

While Pelosi is pretty brilliant at leading the House, neither she nor Schumer are very good at public communication. But the problem with their response to Trump Tuesday night wasn’t so much what they said. It was the same problem that plagued them in their meeting the following day: They were talking to the wrong person.



To borrow a construct from the classical orator Marco Rubio, let’s dispense with the notion that President Donald Trump knows exactly what he’s doing. Because he really, really doesn’t.



Trump is not in control of Washington. He’s not even in control of his own administration, where officials simply ignore his diktats until his feeble attention shrivels. Trump is not in charge even of the West Wing of his White House, where his own aides regularly leak embarrassing details of his ignorance and buffoonery and his recently departed chief of staff definedhis personal achievements in terms of repeatedly foiling the boss’s half-baked (and not quite half-legal) schemes. And, of course, the reason Trump still doesn’t have a wall is that his fellow Republicans refused for two years to fund one.

With Democrats in charge of the House, Pelosi should stop wasting time and energy on the reality-television president and deal instead with the closest we’ve got to the real thing: Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

you are right Ed....she should stop wasting every ones time and retire...half the dam congress needs to follow her out that door...

Only half?

 

[Mikeoxenormous]

the ONLY reason Trump was elected was because tens of millions of brain dead Republicans hate government.

Well, I got news for folks: Government aint goin' no where.

And besides that; the only 'red wave' in 2020 is gonna be in Trump's underwear after he sharts in them.

You do realize that it was the dumbass Democrats that kept ignoring those middleclass wage earners. Nice try on rewriting history. And yes, BIG GOVERNMENT is the problem. Dumbass..

Democrats ignored those middleclass wage earners because they were busy trying to save the economy from the mess Republicans made of it.

But, but I thought Obama had a roaring economic recovery? Are you saying it wasn't so? Are you Jim Acosta because you sure act like him by sticking your foot in your mouth...."again"..

 

[caddo kid]

McConnell places the stamp on this shutdown that Trump OWNS this shutdown; period.


OTHERWISE:
Amazing how so many here @ USMB scream the deflection bullshit & have no intention to discuss the OP topic.

Why even post when all you post is nonsense bullshit drivel deflection?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Nothing wrong with slamming tables or even overturning them. Even Jesus did it

Of course. It's SOOOOOOO Mature!

Nobody cares, Plywood. Nobody cares. You're insignificant

 

[Rambunctious]

The democrat party is changing from the ground up....the youngest members of the party are pushing the agenda....a not so well thought out agenda...the media isn't helping them either with their far left beliefs...

 

[pismoe]

How long will it take for numbnuts Trump to rant fake news & they're all Democrats?

Right after he & Hannity have their nightly pillow talk.

----------------------------------------- probably are mostly 'dems' . Let them quit and get different jobs Clipper .

 

[SNAFUBARIFIC]

Schumer, like the rest of the Dems, realize that they have to import voters, as America is tired of getting screwed by their assinine policies...HOPE & CHANGE comes to mind...

And THAT, my friends, is Obummer's true legacy...