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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
How long is a piece of string? I'm sorry but that question is kind of pointless, you're asking someone to quantifiably measure how Donald Trump would react to events that have yet to transpire.
Entertaining the notion for a second that Trump would attempt that then there is no way the GOP would stand for it on account of the bad optics, the damage that would do to the country and the economy, and how it would keep increasing the chance that the democrats will take the Senate back in 2020 and thus stop them from being able to pass the legislation they want. No matter how much of their souls the Republicans have sold to Trump they're not going to fall on the sword for him unless they're getting something worthwhile out of it.
WaPo
and other sites are reporting that Trump is apparently looking to get disaster relief funds that should have gone to California to pay for his wall.
I'm not religious, but I wish I was, just to have the certainty that he would burn in hell for this.
It's been fun.
I'm not religious either, so I'll just settle for wishing Trump somehow ends up in prison orange.
If this actually happens and Trump takes money California needs to deal with the various ass-reamings Mother Nature gives it on a regular basis to fund his precious penis monument, then I will hold every single death that happens in California due to these disasters over Trump's head.
It's not just California that's losing out either. Puerto Rico, Texas, and Florida need that money too.
Edited by M84 on Jan 11th 2019 at 6:41:13 PM
Disgusted, but not surprisedI have a sick feeling in my stomach Trump is trying /hoping to cause a Reichstag fire by shutting down the government,or least he might cause one unwittingly and take advantage of it,essentially shutting down the Government has made security weaker from what I've gathered and it's disrupting their investigations and it could allow threats to slip through their fingers (a common cause of successful terrorist attacks is that while they were aware of them they acted too late,with 9 /11 it was agencies not sharing information they had,which lead to formation of a branch that meant that they had to work together)
source of the claim that the shut down is effecting security
Edited by Ultimatum on Jan 11th 2019 at 1:08:54 PM
have a listen and have a link to my discord serverOcasio-Cortez had a great tweet
about the double standard of the GOP:
We’ve seen in the past that Republicans are fine w/ their own members committing sexual assault. Yet they believe a nude should end a woman’s career? #Patriarchyinaction
God I love her.
Edited by golgothasArisen on Jan 11th 2019 at 8:05:41 AM
"If you spend all your heart / On something that has died / You are not alive and that can't be a life"![]()
And who's the SA and SS in that pipedream? Where's a military leadership tacitly to openly supporting such an act?
Sorry but that scenario is pure disasturbation. Hitler did not coup as a one-man-army and Trump has a far more chaotic house and none of the muscle
Edited by 3of4 on Jan 11th 2019 at 3:29:14 PM
"You can reply to this Message!"Not only they're chronically disaburbating, they don't even clean up after they're done.
Remember, these idiots drive, fuck, and vote. Not always in that order.

It'll get tied up in the courts for sure.