Thursday marks the 30th day of the federal government shutdown and the American public has grown more concerned about the shutdown throughout the month and more disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the federal government, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.
More Americans blame Trump and the Republicans in Congress than the Democrats for the shutdown, the poll finds.
I don’t think the Republicans really honestly give a shit if more people blame them or not.
I also honestly don’t think they intend to re-open the government anytime soon. Possibly ever.
They want Trump as a dictator, and they’re basically getting what they want with this, likely eventually arguing that Trump has to make the decisions because congress “no longer works.” They’ve always run on government not working and have spent the better part of fifty years working to make that a reality. Once the executive is the only branch of the government still functioning, they’ll have what they want.
The longer it is shutdown, the more essential agencies that keep people accountable and keep the country actually running will be shut down as they funnel more money into ICE and the military, the more authority they can hand off to the Executive branch. They will keep the IRS at bare minimum, but now that they’ve given ICE carte blanche to access citizens’ tax records, they will also use them to enforce tax code.
If people start rioting because of loss of services like SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security, all the better for them so they can institute the Insurrection Act. Expect the Pinkertons (who still exist and will just go back to their old ways) and ICE or the military shooting striking workers to come back en vogue.
Also it’s clear that they’re preparing to either royally fuck with the next election or just cancel it entirely.
As much as I want to believe there is a way out of this, we may already be out of political and legal options to stop this madness.
I will be very unsurprised if they end up giving Blackwater a fucking enormous contract and then set them lose on the public. They have… shall we say, quite a track record in Iraq.
Yeah, the run up for ICE is too slow, and they’re not coming out of the pipe willing to kill people. Blackwater and the various other mercenaries in the US (don’t care what hairs you wanna split, they’re mercenaries) absolutely are willing to massacre whoever so long as their paycheck cashes.
I shall serve the new Pacifica republic then o7
A shutdown means that the government is insolvent, though. At some point, the funds will run dry without borrowing more. A default would likely send the US and world economy into a recession. Though could be that Trump will just bypass congress to borrow more money anyway.
This is such a stupid picture.
No taxation without representation.
A shut down government isn’t representing anyone. So it should come out of taxes.
The explosive growth of gig jobs that count as contracted work that don’t automatically take taxes out of pay may accidentally be the best way to achieve this.
Because if you work a traditional job, generally your taxes get pulled and sent to the Federal government automatically every paycheck unless you have asked for an amount to be withheld from that (and I don’t actually know if you can withhold all your tax money from being taken out of paychecks or not).
There’s also options like this that I found on (slight retch) reddit:
DISCLAIMER: This is not an endorsement to not pay your taxes. This is a thought experiment about how such a thing could be achieved.
Intriguing. Any tax pros willing to weigh in?
I think republicans don’t care at all what the majority thinks. They understand fully that our Federal system is rigged from top to bottom to give rural landowners disproportional voting power. So you can just lie your ass off to the 30% of your base that is ride-or-die, and as long as that 30% happens to live in the right areas of the right swing states nothing else matters.
Well no shit! When one party controls the House, Senate and presidency while owning the Supreme Court, the fuck are we supposed to think?
FFS
The fact any significant amount blame democrats really shows you just how powerful republican propoganda and mindshare is right now.
They’ll likely kick the can with a CR and they’ll do it all over again.
What is a CR?
Continuing Resolution
It feels hopeless, the aca will just be refunded and ERs will be full of uninsured debt ridden sick people. I remember having to go through that, please not again
I remember having to go through that, please not again
People in red states still have to go through that. Democrats don’t care at all.
EDIT: If they cared, they would have revisited the public option or attempted to close the loophole that lets red states opt out of medicaid expansion when they had a majority. They got theirs, so they don’t give a shit.
That’s not the democrats fault. That means the people voted for Republicans and chosen not to expand medicaid. Vote out the Republicans denying you Healthcare if that matters to you.
That’s not the democrats fault.
They didn’t pursue it at all during the most recent majority. Yes, it absolutely is their fault for not even trying at all.
My only hope is that democrats on the national level will stop being useless on purpose some day. My state is run by republicans and their opposition is more concerned with opposing progressives in primaries than winning general elections. I have no choice but to count on democrats to keep their campaign promises.
Since I deserve to go bankrupt and die for being outnumbered, according to you.
I don’t disagree with you that democrats need to be doing more. But when half of the country seems committed to tearing the country apart, passing multiple pieces of meaningful legislation (don’t forget things like Build Back Better) sadly feels like a high bar.
And I apologize for the accusatory tone, I know that’s not something directly in your control. But let’s also be honest, the Republicans are the ones preventing Healthcare expansion in your state, democrats may not be perfect, but they’re not the ones holding power in your state.
I don’t disagree with you that democrats need to be doing more. But when half of the country seems committed to tearing the country apart, passing multiple pieces of meaningful legislation (don’t forget things like Build Back Better) sadly feels like a high bar.
Oh, I haven’t forgotten about how democrats gutted build back better of any tangible individual benefit except for 10 discounted drugs for boomers who already got theirs.
And I apologize for the accusatory tone, I know that’s not something directly in your control.
Not accepted. You are fine with me suffering as long as you’re comfortable.
But let’s also be honest, the Republicans are the ones preventing Healthcare expansion in your state
And I deserve it because I’m outnumbered. Democrats doing nothing to rectify the problem their overcomplicated half measure caused is my fault because I’m from a red state so I deserve bankruptcy and death.
democrats may not be perfect, but they’re not the ones holding power in your state.
They had power at the national level. They chose to help netanyahu with that power instead, since it’s their only fucking priority.
eh my life experience has thought me that there is a fine line between polls and wishful thinking
