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wildcat09

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  1. It's not a close call. It's not easy, but it's not a close call. The argument against a shutdown is that Dems don't really have any leverage anyway and letting the government shut down means Trump/Elon/Vought can choose to shut down whatever they want. But they're already doing that. Courts will continue to function but DOJ staff will be greatly reduced, and hobbling the DOJ's ability to defend Trump is a good thing, not a bad thing. The argument for a shutdown is that Trump is weaker right now than he will be in six months if they let this CR pass. He's shocked a lot of people who still remember when things were actually pretty good just a couple of months ago and he's galvanized a furious opposition again. If Dems cave on this CR that opposition will splinter and another six months of Trump's insanity will cause a lot of people to just go numb and tune it all out. Besides, he and Elon and Vought have been shutting the government down for nearly two months already. Passing this CR will effectively ratify their crimes and essentially cede Article 1 powers to Trump. It will render Congress a rump institution. Better for Congress to just shut down and not operate and not fund anything for the next 3.5 years than that. That's not even getting into how the bill defunds DC's cops, probably so they can replace them with some ICE shitheads who will arrest any troublemaking protesters. And they don't really want a shutdown. Elon may sort of think he does occasionally, but he's a fucking idiot. If there's a shutdown Trump and the GOP will get the majority of the blame because the shit they're doing right now is wildly unpopular and people want it to stop. There's a reason the GOP unified to pass this fucking thing and it's not any 4d chess shit. Trump can't even fucking play checkers, much less chess, and is already talking about supporting a primary challenge against their lone holdout. He doesn't want a shutdown. These guys are fucking bullies, which means they're cowards. There's nothing a coward is more afraid of than someone fighting back.
  2. Schumer thought he could cut a deal with Thune to get votes on some proposed amendments that were doomed to fail in exchange for the cloture vote, so he could pretend that the Dems fought. All he wanted to do was lie to voters on his own side to pretend he wasn't really surrendering, but Thune either told him "lol no" or didn't even respond.
  3. Schumer has a mutiny on his hands. No clue how the cloture vote ends up going, but he may not have the votes and he's betrayed his caucus, house Dems, and Democratic voters so thoroughly and openly that there's not really any way he can remain part of the Dem senate leadership.
  4. Along those same lines, Matt Taibbi is either the dumbest person alive or pretending to be:
  5. Because they've already said they didn't detain him for violating any laws.
  6. Oh yeah, Tesla has never misled its shareholders before.
  7. The law protects everybody or the law protects nobody. Pick one.
  8. This is just a lie.
  9. Does it count as sodomy if one buries their own head up their ass? Asking for Ana.
  10. Get this bullshit propaganda disguised as JAQing off out of here.
  11. Why would you be ashamed of banging a woman who is solidly average in appearance? That's not what shame is for.
  12. I member when slacks was saying the Senate couldn’t vote to impeach him after 1/6.
  13. Negged for describing Bari Weiss' rag as having high credibility.
  14. I'm honestly impressed by @realgreggym's ability to make a post that is not only so perfectly the literal exact opposite of reality, but has been proven to be so to every person with a functioning brain this quickly.
  15. Delaware might as well abolish the business judgment rule. Short-sighted doesn't even begin to describe it.
  16. It's just Paradox (games) brain. Someone showed him Crusader Kings or Hearts of Iron and he was like "wait, you can move the lines on the map?" And then he realized that's what Putin was doing and wanted to join the fun.
  17. Yeah, that's pretty obviously it.
  18. I'm honestly stunned that someone who's been pretty politically engaged for decades hasn't heard of Sam. He's not Dan Rather or anything, but he's very well known on the left.
  19. It's infuriating, but the thing to keep in mind is that these polls are essentially lagging indicators, because the majority of those polled don't pay much (if any) attention and have no idea what's going on yet. There's no constituency outside of Trump's really rabid base of support for a trade war (or an actual shooting war) with Canada. That might change as he escalates shit and really ramps up the propaganda to support an invasion, but I doubt it. He really should have started with Mexico. The American people would've been a lot more likely to tolerate this shit with them.
  20. The similarities between Trump's new rhetoric about Canada and Putin's rhetoric about Ukraine are hard to ignore.
  21. Without Elon, TSLA is no longer a meme stock. So they don't care how much he destroys the actual brand, because if they replace Elon the market will start treating TSLA like an automobile manufacturer and not like a magical tech company.
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