What does "Shutting down the governement" means exactly?

[KingVamp]

Apparently it is going to be a long one. Let's see how long it will last.

 

[Noctosphere]

Apparently it is going to be a long one. Let's see how long it will last.

Yea, from what ive heard, he partially shutted down the govrrnement
Right?

 

[GhostLatte]

I honestly can't wait for this clown to get impeached.

 

[Noctosphere]

I honestly can't wait for this clown to get impeached.

Trump for jail january 2019

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[bungboi]

lmao the irony

Spoiler: Image

 

[Xzi]

This actually makes the third shutdown under Trump while his party controlled all three branches. Republicans always say government is incompetent and inefficient, then they get elected and prove themselves right.

 

[KingVamp]

At least he made CBD legal during this time.

 

[Xzi]

At least he made CBD legal during this time.

CBD was already legal in all but like four states IIRC. Good for those states though, it's almost as dumb as keeping tea illegal since CBD is non-psychoactive.

 

[cots]

So the Government is shut down. The supposed made up crisis is upon us! Heaven forbid some unnecessary jobs aren't performed.

 

[KingVamp]

So the Government is shut down. The supposed made up crisis is upon us! Heaven forbid some unnecessary jobs aren't performed.

Well, they are at least necessary for the people that need those jobs.

 

[Xzi]

So the Government is shut down. The supposed made up crisis is upon us! Heaven forbid some unnecessary jobs aren't performed.

Yes, heaven forbid elected officials do the jobs they were elected to do. And heaven forbid that they even try to appear competent, shutting down the government for a third time whilst their own party has had complete control of government.

 

[Joe88]

It doesnt matter becuase you still need 60 votes in the senate, majority doesnt mean anything there.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

The government has already been shut down for years. They just call it congress. Nothing will happen they don't know how. Situation normal.

That's great and all, but even if Congress doesn't accomplish anything I still prefer it when teachers, social workers, and the national park services get paid

 

[Noctosphere]

It doesnt matter becuase you still need 60 votes in the senate, majority doesnt mean anything there.

That's what I admire Legault for at Quebec's Assembly
He will vote a law so that some decision made by the Assembly will require 2/3 of Assembly's vote
So majority won't give you freedom to do everything your party wants

 

[Xzi]

It doesnt matter becuase you still need 60 votes in the senate, majority doesnt mean anything there.

It still means something if your ideas are so dumb that they lose both Democrat and Republican votes. Nobody should be willing to fork over taxpayer dollars for a project that Trump promised Mexico would fund.

Not to mention there's no strategy here. They shut down the government in desperation because they're about to lose absolute control, but then the Democrats get to be the ones to push to re-open it on January 3rd. It'll make Republicans look even worse if McConnell and/or Trump reject those efforts. Even if they manage to get some funding for it, the wall is still a losing issue, and Trump's fan base are the only ones who can't see that.

 

[Ratatattat]

It still means something if your ideas are so dumb that they lose both Democrat and Republican votes. Nobody should be willing to fork over taxpayer dollars for a project that Trump promised Mexico would fund.

Not to mention there's no strategy here. They shut down the government in desperation because they're about to lose absolute control, but then the Democrats get to be the ones to push to re-open it on January 3rd. It'll make Republicans look even worse if McConnell and/or Trump reject those efforts. Even if they manage to get some funding for it, the wall is still a losing issue, and Trump's fan base are the only ones who can't see that.

Trump has a fan base?

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Trump has a fan base?

Ooooooh yeah, the majority of the people who attend his rallies could easily be considered senior fanboys/girls

 

[Xzi]

So turns out that while Trump has the government shut down over a manufactured immigrant crisis, his golf clubs have been handing out fake green cards to illegals working there:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...agers-say-reports_us_5c283ceae4b0407e908346c3

I know, Trump being a hypocrite? Shocker. /s

 

[KingVamp]

Ooooooh yeah, the majority of the people who attend his rallies could easily be considered senior fanboys/girls

Most are probably paid off.

So turns out that while Trump has the government shut down over a manufactured immigrant crisis, his golf clubs have been handing out fake green cards to illegals working there:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...agers-say-reports_us_5c283ceae4b0407e908346c3

I know, Trump being a hypocrite? Shocker. /s

I should have, but I didn't believe it when I read about that.

 

[kuwanger]

So turns out that while Trump has the government shut down over a manufactured immigrant crisis, his golf clubs have been handing out fake green cards to illegals working there:

To be fair to Trump, he probably is too uninvolved (legally required at the moment?, and definitely good for deniability in the long term) and incompetent to even realize it's happen. Also, to be fair to Trump, he never explicitly said building a war would stop all illegal immigration or even be particularly effective. The whole illegals overstaying their visas (and possibly getting fake green cards) is okay as long as they're not Mexicans, right? Or I guess whatever the current caravan is made up of since it *may* have some Mexicans included.

I know, Trump being a hypocrite?

Well, admittedly that's most politicians, plenty of businessmen, etc. Trump is just grossly incompetent at the "conceal his real feelings or motives" part. Trump is like a living caricature of the industrialists from the gilded age, except he's obviously a Trust Fund Baby--like the Kennedys--but with basically zero of the charisma; of course, that's not surprising since his whole election platform was parroting the Republican Party line. All in all, the situation is a joke and clearly the American people are the punchline.