The government shuts down. Another spectacular MAGA failure.

[ChloeTzang]

There are some unexpected bonuses to the shutdown too, on top of the expected ones.....

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
One wonders if denying people medical care is really the hill that MAGA is willing to die on . . .

Then you pay for it! Nowhere in the constitution does it give the government the authority to arbitrarily confiscate funds from hard working Americans to provide services for anyone other than its own citizens. As a matter of fact the government doesn't technically have the authority to take money from one citizen to give to another. 36 trillion in debt is a prime example of what our forefathers tried to protect us from. Congress abused their authority and Schumer wants to still spend more.

You write "the government doesn't technically have the authority to take money from one citizen to give to" meaning all that Boston Tea Party nonsense about no taxation without representation was bogus? Even WITH representation there's going to be no taxation, no nation, just Syria style anarchy?

Well, you've got enough guns to make it look like Syria!

Your President is willing to shut down your government because he wants to deny your own citizens Medicaid and ACA healthcare benefits. Is that really the hill MAGA wants to die on?

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
One wonders if denying people medical care is really the hill that MAGA is willing to die on . . .

Ukraine right now has a problem with illegal aliens. Why don't you go tell them that they owe the Russian invaders no end of social benefits?

Sigh.

It's American citizens, you know, the people MAGA pretend to care about, that are having their healthcare put at risk by the legislation MAGA is willing to shut down the government over.

 

[icanhelp1]

• Republicans control congress
• The Republican BBB Tax & Spend Bill adds $4 trillion to deficit spending and the national debt
• ThiNk aBoUt tHaT

Can a republican senate pass a bill without democrat votes? NOOOOO! they can't. They have ownership of the chairs and committees. Technically the republicans control's the senate because of a majority. Democrats have blocked just about every republican initiative Do republicans have control of the house? yes!!! They have a majority (+1) and that majority can pass a bill.

You write "the government doesn't technically have the authority to take money from one citizen to give to" meaning all that Boston Tea Party nonsense about no taxation without representation was bogus? Even WITH representation there's going to be no taxation, no nation, just Syria style anarchy?

Well, you've got enough guns to make it look like Syria!

Your President is willing to shut down your government because he wants to deny your own citizens Medicaid and ACA healthcare benefits. Is that really the hill MAGA wants to die on?

It's not about denying citizens healthcare.

 

[Baztrachian]

Sigh.

It's American citizens, you know, the people MAGA pretend to care about, that are having their healthcare put at risk by the legislation MAGA is willing to shut down the government over.

Those American citizens live in states that have had their Federal subsidies cut due to the leaders of those states using Federal money to provide healthcare and other benefits to illegal aliens.

They need to tell their state leaders to put Americans first.

 

[Rickslaw101]

I'm not a big fan of Government Shutdowns, but this may be the greatest shutdown ever in terms of reducing the Federal Budget Deficit. Make America Solvent Again.

 

[Rickslaw101]

Deplorables are getting all the heat for this.

And rightfully so.

You guys just can't stand that Trump is gettin' stuff done, can you? You're not foolin' anyone with that banana dance, Rory, and the only thing deplorable going on is the Dem's foolish resistance to ANYthing Trump suggests. He's playing you like you've never been played before.

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
You write "the government doesn't technically have the authority to take money from one citizen to give to" meaning all that Boston Tea Party nonsense about no taxation without representation was bogus? Even WITH representation there's going to be no taxation, no nation, just Syria style anarchy?

Well, you've got enough guns to make it look like Syria!

Your President is willing to shut down your government because he wants to deny your own citizens Medicaid and ACA healthcare benefits. Is that really the hill MAGA wants to die on?

It's not about denying citizens healthcare.

Your President is willing to shut down the government to force through a bill that will deny your citizens healthcare. Here's the quote:

". . . Senate Democrats have blocked approval of that bill, to prevent Medicaid cuts that were part of Trump’s major tax-cut legislation and the expiration of federal subsidies for participants in Obamacare. . . . "

Your President is funding tax breaks for billionaires by sticking it to the very same working-class MAGA people who voted for him!

 

[Rickslaw101]

A mentally disabled racist, misogynist, homophobic Alzheimer’s patient thinks 2019 and 2025 are the same.

Mentally disabled MAGA sheep are the weirdest.

What's weird is your denying the obvious, Major: the Dems put an incompetent in the White House and then had a bunch of frat-boy aides engaging in elder abuse by using the auto-pen to drain the Federal Treasury and fill the country with illegal aliens in a thankfully failed attempt to rebalance the electoral map and take control of the country forever (along with a host of other pranks). In order to LURE the illegals here, they gave them free phones, free plane trips, free healthcare, free housing, free food...the list goes on and on. Only the left could actually succeed in getting Sleepy Joe elected and then fail to use the opportunity to complete their mission.

When the history of the 21st century is written, the Biden Presidency will be to the 21st Century as the four years of James Buchanan were to the 19th or the four years of Jimmy Carter were to the 20th.

 

[DeluxAuto]

What's weird is your denying the obvious, Major: the Dems put an incompetent in the White House and then had a bunch of frat-boy aides engaging in elder abuse by using the auto-pen to drain the Federal Treasury and fill the country with illegal aliens in a thankfully failed attempt to rebalance the electoral map and take control of the country forever (along with a host of other pranks). In order to LURE the illegals here, they gave them free phones, free plane trips, free healthcare, free housing, free food...the list goes on and on. Only the left could actually succeed in getting Sleepy Joe elected and then fail to use the opportunity to complete their mission.

When the history of the 21st century is written, the Biden Presidency will be to the 21st Century as the four years of James Buchanan were to the 19th or the four years of Jimmy Carter were to the 20th.

Your president is a convicted felon and a senile pedo.

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
Sigh.

It's American citizens, you know, the people MAGA pretend to care about, that are having their healthcare put at risk by the legislation MAGA is willing to shut down the government over.

Those American citizens live in states that have had their Federal subsidies cut due to the leaders of those states using Federal money to provide healthcare and other benefits to illegal aliens.

They need to tell their state leaders to put Americans first.

On the contrary, it's the USA citizens in the MAGA states (you know, the ones where the authorities are most likely to follow policies of cracking down on immigrants doing those construction, farming, meatpacking etc. jobs) who are getting hit the hardest. Here's the headline:

Red states likely to feel the pain of Medicaid cuts

. . . and all so President Trump can hand some new tax breaks and loopholes to billionaires.

 

[Baztrachian]

On the contrary, it's the USA citizens in the MAGA states (you know, the ones where the authorities are most likely to follow policies of cracking down on immigrants doing those construction, farming, meatpacking etc. jobs) who are getting hit the hardest. Here's the headline:

Red states likely to feel the pain of Medicaid cuts

. . . and all so President Trump can hand some new tax breaks and loopholes to billionaires.

So...the Democrats in blue states did the shutdown so they can preserve Federal funding for people in red states who don't want it?

 

[DeluxAuto]

Anyone find the part that allocates healthcare money to illegals yet?

You idiots create your own misery.

 

[icanhelp1]

Your President is willing to shut down the government to force through a bill that will deny your citizens healthcare. Here's the quote:

". . . Senate Democrats have blocked approval of that bill, to prevent Medicaid cuts that were part of Trump’s major tax-cut legislation and the expiration of federal subsidies for participants in Obamacare. . . . "

Your President is funding tax breaks for billionaires by sticking it to the very same working-class MAGA people who voted for him!

It’s not a bill, it’s a continuing resolution. It’s basically Biden’s plan.

 

[Hel_Books]

When the history of the 21st century is written,

I'm wondering about the Trump biographies and documentaries . . .

They'll start with him avoiding military service because of "bone spurs." Then there'll be a bit about him and his father and racial discrimination towards tenants in the buildings their real estate corporation managed. They'll spend a lot of time on the Access Hollywood "Grab them by the pussy" story. There's Roy Cohn and the failed casinos, all the suppliers he did business with then stiffed when it was time to pay his bills. . . . drinking bleach . . . " I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want." about Putin attacking NATO allies . . . the attempted 6 January coup . . . paving over the Rose Garden . . . DOGE firing inspectors general (you know, the ones who investigate waste, fraud and abuse) to save money . . . National Guard troops sent to DC to pick up trash and scatter mulch at the parks (because the park staff had been let go, to "save money") . . .

 

[DeluxAuto]

It’s basically Biden’s plan.

You're a lying traitor.

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
On the contrary, it's the USA citizens in the MAGA states (you know, the ones where the authorities are most likely to follow policies of cracking down on immigrants doing those construction, farming, meatpacking etc. jobs) who are getting hit the hardest. Here's the headline:

Red states likely to feel the pain of Medicaid cuts

. . . and all so President Trump can hand some new tax breaks and loopholes to billionaires.

So...the Democrats in blue states did the shutdown so they can preserve Federal funding for people in red states who don't want it?

It looks rather like President Trump is shutting down the government so he can squeeze out the most from the poor and working class in both blue and red states in order to funnel that money to the billionaires. Bad leaders end up screwing their supporters just as badly (or worse) than their opponents.

 

[Hel_Books]

Hel_Books said:
Your President is willing to shut down the government to force through a bill that will deny your citizens healthcare. Here's the quote:

". . . Senate Democrats have blocked approval of that bill, to prevent Medicaid cuts that were part of Trump’s major tax-cut legislation and the expiration of federal subsidies for participants in Obamacare. . . . "

Your President is funding tax breaks for billionaires by sticking it to the very same working-class MAGA people who voted for him!

It’s not a bill, it’s a continuing resolution. It’s basically Biden’s plan.

Really? President Biden tried to cut healthcare? You seem to be trying for a 1984-style memory hole!

 

[Bray123]

You guys just can't stand that Trump is gettin' stuff done, can you? You're not foolin' anyone with that banana dance, Rory, and the only thing deplorable going on is the Dem's foolish resistance to ANYthing Trump suggests. He's playing you like you've never been played before.

We know that he's getting stuff done (actually, telling other people to get stuff done).

He's getting his name put on street signs, putting gold trim on everything in the White House whether nailed down or otherwise, putting a concrete silo on the side of the building for him to perform his dance in and store more secret documents without the hassle of flying them down to Florida. He's saved the expense of pruning the roses in the Rose Garden by pouring cement over it. He's told Israel where in Gaza he wants his golf resort. He's told Putin the terms of the Ukraine surrender. He's told the Queen of Pro-Wrestling what is to be taught in schools relating to slavery and the Queen of Fox News how people who fly drones in the military should shave.

He played golf which unfortunately prevented him from going to the Washington memorial for his Bestie Kirk. He issued pardons for thousands of criminals, all signed with his sharpie. He's had his name deleted from the Epstein files as well. No wonder he's had no time left to pass a budget.

 

[Hel_Books]

You guys just can't stand that Trump is gettin' stuff done, can you? You're not foolin' anyone with that banana dance, Rory, and the only thing deplorable going on is the Dem's foolish resistance to ANYthing Trump suggests. He's playing you like you've never been played before.

Early polls show Trump and GOP taking more blame than Democrats for shutdown

 

[whiskeytangofoxtrot]

Can a republican senate pass a bill without democrat votes? NOOOOO! they can't. They have ownership of the chairs and committees. Technically the republicans control's the senate because of a majority. Democrats have blocked just about every republican initiative Do republicans have control of the house? yes!!! They have a majority (+1) and that majority can pass a bill.

It's not about denying citizens healthcare.

Sounds a lot like the Republicans a few years back.

 

[Lazaran]

Early polls show Trump and GOP taking more blame than Democrats for shutdown

Democrats need to keep hammering the FACT that DonOld & the MAGAt republicans are cutting health care (etc) to give tax breaks to the rich & corporations.

Democrats ALSO need to keep hammering the FACT that DonOld & the MAGAt republicans have gutted financial & environmental regulations to benefit the rich and corporations - at the expense of average Americans (especially their HEALTH) and the entire world.





We. Told. Them. So.

 

[Baztrachian]

It looks rather like President Trump is shutting down the government

Bullshit. Trump can't keep the government running without the funding from Congress.

 

[RoryN]

You're not foolin' anyone with that banana dance, Rory, and...

The dancing banana always triggers Deplorables nicely.

 

[Lazaran]

Bullshit. Trump can't keep the government running without the funding from Congress.

MAGAts are sooooooo dumb (and gullible).



We. Told. Them. So.