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Anonymous wrote:Can’t they still vote on the original CR? I mean Biden is the one who would sign it.

Elon told Johnson not to allow a vote, and Johnson answers to Elon. This is an R problem.

It’s not really an R problem if Democrats won’t support a short term clean CR to get through the holidays.

It’s an R problem when Trump and Vance and Elon all say the bill is terrible so Johnson won’t put it up for a vote.

Anonymous wrote:Every shutdown is a presented as a GOP shutdown.

"The GOP won't fund Obamacare!"

"The GOP wont let us not fund the border wall!"

Budget bills are required by the Constitution to begin in the House.

The House is controlled by the GOP.

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Anonymous wrote:There's still two days. Any predictions?

Something will pass by Friday because Congress wants to go home. They will find an excuse to give Trump the middle finger and Trump will accept it because his a weak, lame duck and Musk will Xhit some lies and we'll all move on.

I doubt it. Trump shut the government down right before Christmas in 2018 for 5 weeks. He isn’t even President yet, and somehow these fools are letting him run the show. How is that going to look in the history books? “The GOP followed the President-ELECT’s lead and shut down the government for…. Costing the government $XX… “ It’s so stupid.

Trump will say "it happened under Biden" and his idiot followers with a 5th grade education will cheer it on.

Then President Doge will convince Rs in Congress to raise the debt ceiling to bankrupt the country like every Trump company, and his idiot followers will cheer him on.

Democrats were always complaining when Republicans balked at raising the debt ceiling. Now it is a bad thing to raise the debt ceiling?

We are not at the ceiling. They just want to blame Biden for raising it.

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Anonymous wrote:There's still two days. Any predictions?

Something will pass by Friday because Congress wants to go home. They will find an excuse to give Trump the middle finger and Trump will accept it because his a weak, lame duck and Musk will Xhit some lies and we'll all move on.

I doubt it. Trump shut the government down right before Christmas in 2018 for 5 weeks. He isn’t even President yet, and somehow these fools are letting him run the show. How is that going to look in the history books? “The GOP followed the President-ELECT’s lead and shut down the government for…. Costing the government $XX… “ It’s so stupid.

Trump will say "it happened under Biden" and his idiot followers with a 5th grade education will cheer it on.

Then President Doge will convince Rs in Congress to raise the debt ceiling to bankrupt the country like every Trump company, and his idiot followers will cheer him on.

Democrats were always complaining when Republicans balked at raising the debt ceiling. Now it is a bad thing to raise the debt ceiling?

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Anonymous wrote:Trump - the great Christian - is going to shut down the government for Christmas.

The people have spoken and he is their savior!

ATCs and TSA won’t get paid during the busiest part of the year.

It would be kind of cool if Trump trashes Christmas. Kind of a “welcome to my second term”.

I hope he does but not even Trump is that stupid!

I, for one, am extremely troubled by the power of Elon Musk who is a naturalized citizen but acting like he is the power of behind the throne. His blackmailing US senators to either give Trump what he wants or be primaried is chilling. When will Trump figure out that Musk intends to be the power behind Trump's throne.

Anonymous wrote:Well, this is what people wanted.

It's just so god da*n disheartening.

As someone posted on DCUM he did a better job lying to voters. So, yes, it seems like everyone is actually going to bend to him, including the media. Goodbye government, goodbye health care, goodbye disaster relief, goodbye reasonably priced eggs, goodbye federal oversight of education. The billionaires, at least, are loving it!

Anonymous wrote:Biden is asleep. Trump is a puppet. Elon is king of the world.

This quite possibly could be true. What a country!

Biden is asleep. Trump is a puppet. Elon is king of the world.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like MAGAS voted for South African Musk for President. He's calling the shots for Trilogy Dumpty.

And yet , he is too drug addled and corrupt to get a security clearance.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-denied-access-to-spacexs-biggest-government-secrets-over-drugs-and-foreign-contacts/

It literally says the felon can give him whatever he wants. So, a billionaire druggie dumpster fire will soon know all of our secrets.

Anonymous wrote:Other thread got bumped here.

How is Elon not in violation of the Logan Act

Wondered the same. As a contractor (which Musk isn’t), you can’t under (or over) report hours worked for the government. Seems like working for free having access to highly sensitive calls would be illegal. Has Biden just handed over the keys to the WH already?!

We need to start calling this the Trump Shutdown.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like MAGAS voted for South African Musk for President. He's calling the shots for Trilogy Dumpty.

And yet , he is too drug addled and corrupt to get a security clearance.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-denied-access-to-spacexs-biggest-government-secrets-over-drugs-and-foreign-contacts/

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Anonymous wrote:There's still two days. Any predictions?

Something will pass by Friday because Congress wants to go home. They will find an excuse to give Trump the middle finger and Trump will accept it because his a weak, lame duck and Musk will Xhit some lies and we'll all move on.

I doubt it. Trump shut the government down right before Christmas in 2018 for 5 weeks. He isn’t even President yet, and somehow these fools are letting him run the show. How is that going to look in the history books? “The GOP followed the President-ELECT’s lead and shut down the government for…. Costing the government $XX… “ It’s so stupid.

Trump will say "it happened under Biden" and his idiot followers with a 5th grade education will cheer it on.

Then President Doge will convince Rs in Congress to raise the debt ceiling to bankrupt the country like every Trump company, and his idiot followers will cheer him on.

They can try, but all the headlines say right now that TRUMP wanted to shut it down.

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t they still vote on the original CR? I mean Biden is the one who would sign it.

They can. But Trump and Musk are telling Republicans they will be primaried if they vote for the CR.

So this is what we have to look forward to for the next 4 years

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Anonymous wrote:There's still two days. Any predictions?

Something will pass by Friday because Congress wants to go home. They will find an excuse to give Trump the middle finger and Trump will accept it because his a weak, lame duck and Musk will Xhit some lies and we'll all move on.

I doubt it. Trump shut the government down right before Christmas in 2018 for 5 weeks. He isn’t even President yet, and somehow these fools are letting him run the show. How is that going to look in the history books? “The GOP followed the President-ELECT’s lead and shut down the government for…. Costing the government $XX… “ It’s so stupid.

Trump will say "it happened under Biden" and his idiot followers with a 5th grade education will cheer it on.

Then President Doge will convince Rs in Congress to raise the debt ceiling to bankrupt the country like every Trump company, and his idiot followers will cheer him on.

And why isn’t Biden saying anything now?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/18/statement-from-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-on-republicans-threatening-a-government-shutdown/

It is titled: “ Statement from Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre” and includes no statements or messages attributed to the President. I think we are now at the Weekend at Bernies point of the Biden administration.

Biden respects the separation of powers.

This is a legislative matter at this point.

It should be a legislative matter, but for some reason a bunch of the Republican legislators are taking their orders from an unelected billionaire playing bureaucrat.

Not sure why this is happening, but pretty sure money and kompromat are involved.