Democrats Cave In and Crash Out

[ProfD]

After 43 days of hand-wringing, Democrats caved in on a piece of legislation that reopens the government.

 

SNAP benefits restored. Air traffic controllers and other folks will get paid.

 

Surely, the Democrats got something in return...yeah no.

 

Adding insult to injury, the Democrats are crashing out against each and pointing fingers at who's responsible for this cluster f8ck.

 

Right now, I do not see how Democrats plan to reclaim the House and Senate and White House any time within the next several years.

 

The Democratic party is still weak, spineless and rudder-less. They need a makeover and agenda to overtake the ruthless Republicans.

[Pioneer1]

First of all, the fact that a national government can actually "shut down" or "close down" should make people suspicious that this is all just one big game.

The United States government isn't a McDonalds or  Jiffy Car Wash franchise designed to lock it's doors and "close down".
It's a GOVERMENT which means it operates 24/7 365.
That's like you telling your children the home is "shutting down" and you refuse to feed them.
It makes no sense.
You're just refusing to feed them because you're REFUSING TO FEED THEM.

You don't read anything about a "government shut down" in the U.S. Constitution.
Because it didn't exist.

Any services that were stopped were INTENTIONALLY STOPPED with the desired effect of causing chaos.

The police were still arresting people.
The prisoners in Federal prisons were still kept.
The payments of foreign aid continued to get issued out to other countries.

So what's with air traffic controllers not being paid and there not being enough money for food stamps?
It's all MADE UP.
They didn't "run out" of funds, they arbitrarily DENIED payments to these people for a desired effect and used Congressional disagreement as an EXCUSE.

I personally think they designed this situation to cause chaos and instability in society.

Kind of like how traffic lights and street lights will go out in an entire half of a major city and they'll blame it on a "solar flare".


Like you said and like we discussed in another thread, Democrats are just CONTROLLED opposition.
They're working right along with Republicans to get the same Agenda pushed and passed but just PRETENDING to oppose it and PRETENDING to put up a little resistance so that their supporters will continue to have a little more faith in them and not replace them with REAL opposition.
 

[ProfD]

13 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

First of all, the fact that a national government can actually "shut down" or "close down" should make people suspicious that this is all just one big game.

So what's with air traffic controllers not being paid and there not being enough money for food stamps?
It's all MADE UP.
They didn't "run out" of funds, they arbitrarily DENIED payments to these people for a desired effect and used Congressional disagreement as an EXCUSE.

Beyond appropriations law and all that stuff taught in US Government classes...it is definitely a game.

 

13 hours ago, Pioneer1 said:

Like you said and like we discussed in another thread, Democrats are just CONTROLLED opposition.
They're working right along with Republicans to get the same Agenda pushed and passed but just PRETENDING to oppose it and PRETENDING to put up a little resistance so that their supporters will continue to have a little more faith in them and not replace them with REAL opposition.

Right.  In order order to play most games, there must be at least two teams or opponents.

[aka Contrarian]

Life goes on. Utopia is a pipe dream yearned for by idealists. The strong will survive.

 

Bye-bye to a sign of the times. RIP. 

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, aka Contrarian said:

Life goes on. Utopia is a pipe dream yearned for by idealists. The strong will survive.

Absolutely.  We either adapt or die.  The latter is guaranteed.