I like that title. REALLY like it. It has the word “ass” in it. Twice. At this point in history, I can only be talking about this completely asinine 25% government shutdown. And let’s stop pretending we haven’t seen this many times before.
Government shuts down. Blame game ensues. Some milquetoast “agreement” happens. Government reopens.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Fine, it’s now the longest shutdown in history. That’s SO Trump, right? The biggest. The best. THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME! I’d expect NOTHING less.
This one’s different, though. A sign of the times, I suppose. There simply seems to be no resolution forthcoming to the fundamental dispute at hand.
A Mexican Standoff, if you will. (I know…WAY too easy…Hee Hee).
Now, I’m not going to cut and paste my entire blog from a couple of weeks ago, where I totally eviscerated the Lib narrative here…walls are immoral, walls are racist, walls don’t work, yada, yada.
Jesus…My cat Chloe could have eviscerated their dumb ass narrative between regurgitating fur balls. So I’m not patting myself on the back.
At least they have pretty much abandoned the “immorality” nonsense…I mean, how much ridicule and embarrassment can people take?
But even more amazing than the ‘69 Mets…they’re STILL clinging to the “ineffectiveness” of walls bullshit. This, despite a mountain of facts higher than Mount F*cking Kilimanjaro. For the millionth goddamn time…San Diego. Yuma. El Paso. Israel. The rest of the planet. BUILD BARRIER. ILLEGAL CROSSINGS REDUCED 90% – 95%.
Says every single law enforcement/border patrol expert with two and three decades of experience IN THE TRENCHES.
Reality check…Trump’s “ask” here, if you will, is next to nothing. A few billion for border security…barriers IN SPECIFIC AREAS, NOT ACROSS 2,000 MILES as the fake news media likes to tell you…more border agents…more technology…more immigration judges…more beds.
Several times since 2006, ALL of these same Dipshit Democrats have voted for 10X the amount of money Trump is requesting…for ALL of those things, INCLUDING BARRIERS.
But NOW? Not a thin effing dime. At least not if a barrier…the epicenter of border security upon which all other assets are supplemental…is included.
Just like it’s all about the Krispy Kreme’s and all-you-can-stuff-in-your-piehole buffets for Michael Moore, it’s all about the politics…specifically 2020…for Pelosi and Schumer, who refuse to even negotiate for something so fundamentally basic.
So, despite what the media and their worthless polls tell you, the blame game is split among party lines…and will stay there. As such, nobody is feeling enough pain to blink. Hence, the stalemate.
Here’s the money shot, so to speak…why the Dumbocrats lose the politics, and by extension, 2020…
Trump is demonstrably…every which way…on the right side of the issue. Campaign promise or not, every effect of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION is horrible. Period.
Note the word “ILLEGAL,” Libs.
The crazy open border, sanctuary city narrative may give California and New York big, raging woodies, but who cares? Those collective 84 electoral votes are in the proverbial bag for the Dems as we speak.
What, they get even MORE Libs in Lib states to vote for their nominee in 2020? BFD. (That’s Big F*cking Deal for you acronym challenged folks). All that gives us is a bigger popular vote win for whatever Socialist loses to Trump…Never ending cries to get rid of the Electoral College…and the rest of us reaching for the nearest Xanax.
If these numb nut, crackpot liberals think for a nanosecond that those moderate, blue-collar Democrats in the Rust Belt that flipped from Obama to Trump in 2016 are in any way endeared by their current behavior, they need to put down that big Bob Marley joint, pronto.
Or at least pass it down.
Hey, I’m no Pollyanna. Trump is absolutely getting bloodied here by the Leftist Media, 24/7. But our Masochist-In-Chief seems to strangely enjoy it…politically speaking, of course.
Trump’s been sitting in the White House for almost a month now trying to throw a negotiation party…but no Democrats showed up. And he’s ready and willing to channel his inner Jerry Maguire…”You had me at three billion.”
Pelosi and Schumer think they’re winning in the court of public opinion? When they refuse…AND even prohibit their members…to even show up at the table? Who’s Trump going to negotiate with, his f*cking sous chef?
I see it. You see it.
And the Rust Belt SURELY sees it.
Agree 100%. The fact that Democratic Senators and Governors were elected in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin in 2018, and he got obliterated in the House are signs Trump is truly beloved in the Rust Belt. Compound that with two more years of spiraling deficits and an economy that will sag further each day he holds out for funding he’s never going to get, and the Trump win party is on!!!
As I’m sure you learned in your U.S. Elections 101 class, midterm elections are completely and fundamentally different than presidential elections in every which way. Obama got his ass handed to him in the 2010 midterms, but destroyed Romney in 2012. Tons of other examples. Referendum on Obama in 2010? Referendum on Trump in 2018? Really makes no difference how it’s characterized. I don’t know that Trump’s gonna win in 2020. I think he will. But I DO know that drawing correlations between the 2018 midterms and the 2020 presidential election results is neither legitimate, nor supported one iota by history.
Excellent job avoiding my other data points, the disaster that is Trumps direct impact on the deficit and the impact of Trumpdown 2018 on the economy and mood of the country. This nonsensical standoff won’t help any incumbent associated with this absolute malpractice of government and leadership. Outside of the Fox and Friends Fan Club, Trump is not winning any fans with this idiotic move.
Just to be clear…No intent on my part to avoid tangential issues which were not subjects of this post.
I completely disagree with you, Taco. Pelosi stated just today that the Dreamers and border protection are two entirely different topics. She is a complete and utter idiot. Trump tries to compromise, but the whole Democrat Party refuses to try and find any common ground. As long as the Democrats continue behaving this way, I fully support the shutdown.