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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:06 AM Jan 2019

I think the long game play of breaking this country apart

has begun with the traitor in the white house and the traitor leading the senate to do an end run around this partial shut down to privatize the agencies in the partial government shut down..........................then to go after the remaining ones in February when the omnibus bills must be passed and then in October for the fiscal year ending in October................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.......................

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flor-de-jasmim

(2,125 posts)
3. Oh, it began much earlier - at least with G. Norquist's statement about drowning the govt to fit in
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:08 AM
Jan 2019

a bathtub (2001). Or Reagan's decision to fire the striking air traffic controllers (1981). This has been a long (painful) game.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
6. If what you believe happens?
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:13 AM
Jan 2019

Then November 3, 2020...isn't going to make any difference! If Trump and McConnell are wiling to go as far as you think...then they must be willing to take it all the way, and find a reason to keep Trump in the White House without having to win the next election!

And the first Tuesday in November will nothing more then just another day!!!

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
8. That's what happens when a bankruptcy grifter is installed in the WH
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:16 AM
Jan 2019

He's running the country like he ran his businesses, into the ground. Of course, all the ones in on the scam make a ton of cash. Anyone with a real interest in the long term success of the enterprise is left broke and broken.

It's like he's the love child of Grover & Vlad, destroy our government and plunge the world into a dark, virtual (online) cold war.

Nikita said the West would sell the tools to bury themselves.

FiveGoodMen

(20,018 posts)
11. Which, in turn, is what happens when a multi-decade stream of propganda is allowed.
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:58 AM
Jan 2019

What's that free speech going to be worth once MORE than 50% of the country are Nazis?

 

Perrenial Voter

(173 posts)
9. Interesting. The long-term goal for the US in relationship to the
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:43 AM
Jan 2019

USSR was to use ethinic nationalism to break it apart. Now Putin espouses ethnic nationalism as an ideology and gains favor with some in the US for doing so. One difference, though, is that our various ethnic groups are not concentrated in specific regions like they were n the USSR.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
10. We play by the rules. (wait to vote) while they eat our lunch.
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 11:44 AM
Jan 2019

We can't wait til 2020. Somethings got to give. They pay NO price for doing illegal things, shuttering govt, insulting other nations, fracturing alliances, but...we wait for a date to vote. 2 years per vote is too long to wait. Especially in a National Emergency/take-over. He's such a bitch. This is unsustainable. We are at war w russia. Congress has war powers. Time to declare and start using them.

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