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Tom Nichols
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While I want my colleagues in government service to get paid, if Dems cave now to any "deal," the only people who will be empowered will be Coulter and Limbaugh, and there will be no end to the mischief that will follow; it will make this shutdown seem like a dress rehearsal.
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If Democrats give in to Trump now, he will use these same tactics every time he doesn't get his way.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)And it'll be just the begining of what they'll do. Trump's being manipulated by Coulter's words shows just how weak and clueless he really is now.
malaise
(268,913 posts)Do not budge
BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)At the Women's March I attended the people there backed Pelosi standing strong.
Toorich
(391 posts)"Never give a goddamn inch."
mysteryowl
(7,376 posts)NJCher
(35,652 posts)I think there needs to be an interest-free loan organization formed. The families who need money could borrow from it and pay it back when the government goes back into regular operation and they get their paychecks.
mysteryowl
(7,376 posts)I heard USAA is doing just that for the National Guard. They put up millions for them to borrow at no interest.
NJCher
(35,652 posts)a state is doing this. They will have up to nine months to pay it back and the state (CT) is backing the loans.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)Why the government has to suffer says it all. He knows full well this is a crock of steamy, warm shit, and the ONLY WAY he will get it to come to pass is if he takes hostages and refuses to hear reason.
We already know he will lie and stoop to any depth to keep his sick fan KKKlub behind him. Doesnt matter how many or how big a lie. He could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, and it wouldnt make a difference to these sick fuckers. He even said so, and they are too gdamned stupid to hear what he said and process it.
Nation of fucking low life morons.
Martin Eden
(12,863 posts)That would only serve to empower the extortionist in chief and those who can goad him into doing it again.
getagrip_already
(14,708 posts)Best demand that get raised NOW also.
paleotn
(17,911 posts)They just kidnap someone else for even more ransom. Guys in Colombia and Somalia turned it into an art form. Rethugs are no different.
kairos12
(12,852 posts)to execute the next shutdown to defund PP. They are watching to see if Dems cave.
lindysalsagal
(20,666 posts)The house is the only body that can force him to play by the rules, even if it destroys people's lives.
The fact that he did the public negotiation stunt shows that he knows he has to drop the wall.
Wounded Bear
(58,642 posts)who's to say they will actually come through and open up the gov't?
He didn't say shit about the shutdown in his little photo op.
Trump ain't trustworthy, and neither is McConnell.
Open the gov't first, then we'll talk.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Why keep bringing it up.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,435 posts)
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)No one gets a win. Period.
Kitchari
(2,166 posts)And that is the most important thing
dchill
(38,471 posts)PatrickforO
(14,570 posts)I'm sick to death of terrible human beings like Limbaugh and Coulter having as much influence as they do. If we all work together we can bury them.
Ponietz
(2,957 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Rule #1.
quakerboy
(13,919 posts)I will go a step further and say I think that if Dems cave to trump, 2020 will see dems slaughtered at the polls. Its not just doing the right thing, its also self preservation.
a kennedy
(29,644 posts)Coulter and Limpballs??? Seriously WHO THE FAWK ARE THEY??? To has been talking heads, thats it.....THEY ARE NOTHING PEOPLE, AND YET HAVE THE POWER OF THE PRESIDENT.
pazzyanne
(6,547 posts)What else would you use on a 72 year old toddler throwing a tantrum?
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)Hold the line!!
They_Live
(3,231 posts)spanone
(135,818 posts)DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)That its HIS shutdown. Use the video clip.
We must keep repeating it.
Why? Because this country is too big for long, nuanced arguments about not paying terrorists (although that sums it up nicely), and a third of the country is just clueless. We have placed teachers economically and socially beneath the average plumber. (And no offense to plumbers they deserve even higher wages too).