Yet another GOP shutdown?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait Trump promised to eliminate the national debt, why does he want to eliminate the debt ceiling instead?

We should get rid of the debt ceiling. It's a dumb thing and only causes problems.

However, two days before appropriations run out is not the time to get rid of it. SMH

Exactly. It's super annoying/disappointing that the dems didn't raise the debt ceiling to 1 google dollars or something when they could have. That said, the debt ceiling right now is a total red herring. Elon/Trump clearly want chaos and a shut down, and they would have chosen whatever random item to do it.

Elon might, but Trump doesn't. He has nothing to gain from a shutdown and a lot to lose. Does he really want to force a shutdown that will cripple airports and leave military/LEOs unpaid the week of Christmas? And undercut preparation for the inauguration? He doesn't want to take office and have to spend his first days in office brokering a deal to end a shutdown.

LOL he absolutely doesn’t care. Chaos is what fuels him. If the military thinks he cares about him, they’re fools. In no time, they’ll be doing all his bidding, pay or no pay. Top brass will get pay/kickbacks/special favors. Mark my words.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely fascinating to see how an unelected rich South African can simply shut down the US government with a few tweets. And I marvel at how enthusiastic Republicans are in their devotion to this rich South African. In Congress, Republicans are tripping over themselves to give this wealthy foreigner more and more power. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Maybe Rasputin in 1917?

Please, explain how the tweets did anything?

Elon has 200 million twitter followers, a big chunk of whom are MAGA types. Yesterday, Elon began tweeting incessantly for hours complaining about the CR, describing it as "criminal," and threatening to primary any republican who voted for it. He also urged his followers to contact their reps and demand they vote against the CR. He tweeted at least 50-100 times about it over the course of a few hours.

The algorithm tweeted it. I wish these bast ards would risk being primaried for the good of the country. But, people are selfish.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely fascinating to see how an unelected rich South African can simply shut down the US government with a few tweets. And I marvel at how enthusiastic Republicans are in their devotion to this rich South African. In Congress, Republicans are tripping over themselves to give this wealthy foreigner more and more power. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Maybe Rasputin in 1917?

Please, explain how the tweets did anything?

Elon has 200 million twitter followers, a big chunk of whom are MAGA types. Yesterday, Elon began tweeting incessantly for hours complaining about the CR, describing it as "criminal," and threatening to primary any republican who voted for it. He also urged his followers to contact their reps and demand they vote against the CR. He tweeted at least 50-100 times about it over the course of a few hours.

And then lots of Rs started coming out against the CR and Johnson pulled the vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait Trump promised to eliminate the national debt, why does he want to eliminate the debt ceiling instead?

We should get rid of the debt ceiling. It's a dumb thing and only causes problems.

However, two days before appropriations run out is not the time to get rid of it. SMH

Exactly. It's super annoying/disappointing that the dems didn't raise the debt ceiling to 1 google dollars or something when they could have. That said, the debt ceiling right now is a total red herring. Elon/Trump clearly want chaos and a shut down, and they would have chosen whatever random item to do it.

Elon might, but Trump doesn't. He has nothing to gain from a shutdown and a lot to lose. Does he really want to force a shutdown that will cripple airports and leave military/LEOs unpaid the week of Christmas? And undercut preparation for the inauguration? He doesn't want to take office and have to spend his first days in office brokering a deal to end a shutdown.

A war on Christmas courtesy of the GOP inspired at the urging of a SA billionaire. Wild stuff.

+1 If MAGA think they won't be impacted by the shutdown, they're delusional.

Neither of these two are impacted heavily by the shutdowns, but ordinary Americans will be.

MAGA /s

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely fascinating to see how an unelected rich South African can simply shut down the US government with a few tweets. And I marvel at how enthusiastic Republicans are in their devotion to this rich South African. In Congress, Republicans are tripping over themselves to give this wealthy foreigner more and more power. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Maybe Rasputin in 1917?

Giving them that old razzle dazzle. I was thinking of this parallel just the other day, he’s definitely giving Mad Monk energy. Hm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait Trump promised to eliminate the national debt, why does he want to eliminate the debt ceiling instead?

We should get rid of the debt ceiling. It's a dumb thing and only causes problems.

However, two days before appropriations run out is not the time to get rid of it. SMH

Exactly. It's super annoying/disappointing that the dems didn't raise the debt ceiling to 1 google dollars or something when they could have. That said, the debt ceiling right now is a total red herring. Elon/Trump clearly want chaos and a shut down, and they would have chosen whatever random item to do it.

Elon might, but Trump doesn't. He has nothing to gain from a shutdown and a lot to lose. Does he really want to force a shutdown that will cripple airports and leave military/LEOs unpaid the week of Christmas? And undercut preparation for the inauguration? He doesn't want to take office and have to spend his first days in office brokering a deal to end a shutdown.

LOL he absolutely doesn’t care. Chaos is what fuels him. If the military thinks he cares about him, they’re fools. In no time, they’ll be doing all his bidding, pay or no pay. Top brass will get pay/kickbacks/special favors. Mark my words.

This was the whole point, I assume.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just don't understand why they don't let Trump take office now- He wants to- ELon wants too0- WHY NOT let Biden retire and let Trump take over now>

If Biden retires now then Harris becomes the 47th president and all Trump's "47" merch becomes worthless. On the other hand it would give him the opportunity to sell lots of new "48" merch...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait Trump promised to eliminate the national debt, why does he want to eliminate the debt ceiling instead?

We should get rid of the debt ceiling. It's a dumb thing and only causes problems.

However, two days before appropriations run out is not the time to get rid of it. SMH

Exactly. It's super annoying/disappointing that the dems didn't raise the debt ceiling to 1 google dollars or something when they could have. That said, the debt ceiling right now is a total red herring. Elon/Trump clearly want chaos and a shut down, and they would have chosen whatever random item to do it.

Elon might, but Trump doesn't. He has nothing to gain from a shutdown and a lot to lose. Does he really want to force a shutdown that will cripple airports and leave military/LEOs unpaid the week of Christmas? And undercut preparation for the inauguration? He doesn't want to take office and have to spend his first days in office brokering a deal to end a shutdown.

I don't think any of that will bother him as much as "President Elon/Vice President Trump" trending on X.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is absolutely fascinating to see how an unelected rich South African can simply shut down the US government with a few tweets. And I marvel at how enthusiastic Republicans are in their devotion to this rich South African. In Congress, Republicans are tripping over themselves to give this wealthy foreigner more and more power. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it. Maybe Rasputin in 1917?

Please, explain how the tweets did anything?

Elon has 200 million twitter followers, a big chunk of whom are MAGA types. Yesterday, Elon began tweeting incessantly for hours complaining about the CR, describing it as "criminal," and threatening to primary any republican who voted for it. He also urged his followers to contact their reps and demand they vote against the CR. He tweeted at least 50-100 times about it over the course of a few hours.

And? Why is this an issue? If the public doesn't like the CR they should contact their reps. I believe the democrats call this democracy and the nice thing is this all happened in the public view. Not sure what the issue is...

[Anonymous]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-strikes-deal-avert-government-235056837.html

deal struck.

Interesting that Rs fought for subsidies and disaster relief aid funding for hard hit areas, mostly in red states.

So, basically, the Rs wanted welfare.

I stated that the government shutdown would've hit MAGA land hard. MAGA land can now breathe a sigh of relief that they got their welfare, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-strikes-deal-avert-government-235056837.html

deal struck.

Interesting that Rs fought for subsidies and disaster relief aid funding for hard hit areas, mostly in red states.

So, basically, the Rs wanted welfare.

I stated that the government shutdown would've hit MAGA land hard. MAGA land can now breathe a sigh of relief that they got their welfare, too.

That article is from Tuesday night and that deal has been thrown out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-strikes-deal-avert-government-235056837.html

deal struck.

Interesting that Rs fought for subsidies and disaster relief aid funding for hard hit areas, mostly in red states.

So, basically, the Rs wanted welfare.

I stated that the government shutdown would've hit MAGA land hard. MAGA land can now breathe a sigh of relief that they got their welfare, too.

That's from two days ago. Keep up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-strikes-deal-avert-government-235056837.html

deal struck.

Interesting that Rs fought for subsidies and disaster relief aid funding for hard hit areas, mostly in red states.

So, basically, the Rs wanted welfare.

I stated that the government shutdown would've hit MAGA land hard. MAGA land can now breathe a sigh of relief that they got their welfare, too.

So all the Elon moping from Blue-anon pointless...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No aid specially to red states. We all know what is coming. Dems should kill this now.

Part of me thinks the Dems should just sit back and let the Republicans do their destructive and idiotic things and let America see the damage, rather than continually trying to be the adults in the room trying to reduce the damage.

I'm seeing and hearing this idea everywhere, from Democrat friends, tons of comments on SM, Bulwark podcasts all day long. Will Dems actually do it? They bailed out Mike Johnson last time and literally saved his job, look how he repaid them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-strikes-deal-avert-government-235056837.html

deal struck.

Interesting that Rs fought for subsidies and disaster relief aid funding for hard hit areas, mostly in red states.

So, basically, the Rs wanted welfare.

I stated that the government shutdown would've hit MAGA land hard. MAGA land can now breathe a sigh of relief that they got their welfare, too.

Your yahoo article is from Tuesday, when there was a deal, which was promptly scuttled on Wednesday by Elon Musk. Mike Johnson has since removed the bill from consideration. And now it is Thursday and there is not even a glimmer of a deal.