permanent legal status for the DACA recipients and long-term funding for the CHIP program.

It's time that we stopped allowing Republicans to toy with the lives of these children and young people.

And I know that a stand has to be taken. I just hope we can annihilate the damn Repukes in the midterms so it doesn't come to this kind of crap again. Hell, if we take both houses, I want us to completely ditch any procedure that requires more than a 1 vote victory and then run roughshod over those assholes.

with DACA, right?

It'll end the day before that.
( yes, I know it isnt checks anymore, but it'll be the day before grandma is supposed to get paid. Trump is dumb enough to fuck around with that payment, but McConnell isn't, I think).

My grandma wife gets hers this Wednesday.

They get to borrow my money for most of the month.

Not enough pay to qualify for a car loan much less a HOME loan, so no home nor new car despite the fact I had a permanent full-time job w/benefits.

I was making abt. $6.00/hr. at that time and my rent took up most of my income for the month and that was in 1979 during the Carter years prior to Reagun.

All was not well in the pre-Reagun years only to worsen upon Reagun as president.

We'll be there again soon with inflation on the rise. Who will be able to flip houses and refinance ad infinitum when the rates go up to 8-10%+? Who? Only the rich, the usual suspects!

n/t

ICE detains a Polish doctor and green-card holder who has lived in the U.S. for nearly 40 years

Lukasz Niec was 5 years old when his parents brought him and his sister to the United States from Poland. With two suitcases in tow, his parents — both doctors — left behind a country on the verge of social turmoil. It was 1979, about two years before the country’s authoritarian communist government declared martial law.
Niec received a temporary green card and, in 1989, became a lawful permanent resident. He grew up in Michigan, went to medical school, became a doctor, and raised a daughter and stepdaughter.
But on Tuesday morning, immigration authorities arrested Niec at his home, just after he had sent his 12-year-old stepdaughter off to school. Niec, a physician specializing in internal medicine at Bronson Healthcare Group in Kalamazoo, Mich., has been detained in a county jail ever since, awaiting a bond hearing and possible deportation.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/01/22/ice-detains-a-polish-doctor-and-green-card-holder-who-has-lived-in-the-u-s-for-nearly-40-years/

and vote for a budget that does not give them a substantial payback like permanent status for DACA. Once the budget issue is resolved, the Democrats will be moved back to irrelevant status in what they can accomplish in Congress. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer need to pull the Democrats behind closed door and hammer out one cohesive messaging plan for how they publicly respond to the shut down.

People have a serious misunderstanding of this situation.

to get what we NEED!! DO NOT TRUST THE BASTARDS plain and simple. If we learned anything we learned this!!!!

are "bad at messaging" once again, too.

And we've heard it repeatedly over the weekend, last week, last month as well.

It's hard to get the message out when the news programs and pundit programs largely bring in Republicans tho.

And when you have such willful denial that there is any messaging being done. How often do we hear people complain that Democrats in office arent' saying anything about any of the insane things going on but if you go and actually look at their social media side where it shows their statements as well as local interviews and the like where they take their stands. It's come down to "if it doesn't get full national coverage of being said, then nobody is saying anything and we're failing."

All day long yesterday I had CNN on while working on my taxes for 2017.
Let me tell you, they were sounding more and more like Faux News with
each passing hour. All of these stations are corporate-owned but I
expected more of CNN.

The only hope is that Dump continues to do and say more horrific things
between now and the mid-terms.

NUFF SAID.

If this shutdown ends soon (and there are no others--I wouldn't be sure of that myself) I don't think most people will care by then. They will move on to something else. And Trump will almost certainly do something else reprehensible (probably many things) before then.

Democrats really need to keep up the pressure. AND keep showing videos of obstructionist Republicans.

They have done this in the past for previous shut downs. Randolph Brooks FCU here in San Antonio is also offering interest free loans too.

I bank with USAA and think they are an excellent company.

Being they lost the account! Glad I never funded it!

Maybe we don't deserve blame, but that isn't how this will play out. It was a miscalculation.

that you are so concerned. I wonder why?

I'm really feeling overwrought about the 2018 elections. I want us to take both houses of Congress so badly. I'm so worried that just about anything will turn on us and leave the Republicans in charge of one or both houses. I know that Trump's numbers are in the dumpster and Congressional Republicans are attached at the hip to him (not really the hip, more like their lips to his ass) and that should result in a massive turnaround in Congress and gain us at least one of the houses. But I saw the country ignore a qualified woman who had the most lopsided victories I've ever seen in debates and saw the media run with so many false equivalencies and then every moron in America turned out to initiate the Idiocracy. I'm worried that the same morons will grasp at any excuse to come out again and ruin the country for at least another 2 years. After seeing Trump get elected, I'm paranoid about disaster. I think the shutdown is the right thing to do. But in this country, that doesn't mean you get rewarded for it. Quite the opposite most of the time, it seems.

Link to tweet

That is really good news.