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US Government Shutdown 2018/2019 - read mod post on pg 23

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    I’m seeing stuff that Trump is due to give a live press conference offering “remarks” on the shutdown at 1:30pm EST today? I’ve got a Twitter link to a live broadcast from Euronews, a European public broadcast news service, but so far its just video of lots of reporters waiting around in the rose garden.


    He is running 30 minutes late.

    I looked at Fox they are at least on the website not calling him caving and say its a deal. So who knows if he is rescinding or not.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    He is late.

    ugh, I hope fox isn't sinking this

    What is foxnews saying?

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    Being late to these things is not cause for concern in and of itself

    It happens pretty frequently TBH

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    He is late.

    ugh, I hope fox isn't sinking this

    What is foxnews saying?

    If the GOP are smart, the White House TVs have mysteriously stopped working

  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    Mvrck wrote: »
    Brody wrote: »
    Henroid wrote: »
    Honestly if a two or three week deal is the best the government can do, workers should continue to strike anyway. Because that's a hot load of shit.

    Nobody is striking, and they will continue to not be striking for the foreseeable future, as striking is cause for immediate termination, and I believe giving up any residual benefits.

    The Flight Attendants Union is talking about striking. And they are not Federal employees.

    Yeah, Flight Attendants Union isn't allowed to strike without first going through arbitration, because it is considered a necessary position.

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  • The Dude With HerpesThe Dude With Herpes Lehi, UTRegistered User regular
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    Remember when I said payday lenders would be doing gangbusters business during the shutdown? Well...



    Bloomberg is a news service.

    I'd call them vultures, but vultures actually fill a useful role in the food chain.

    Unsurprisingly the payday loan joints are provided obscene amounts of financial backing from major banks like Wells Fargo.

    It doesn't change the designation of vulture; but when there's an image of them being small time crooks, they're being funded by the banks who happily fuck everything up and then take all the monies from the government.

    So when Wilbur Ross says take out a loan, options are going to be 1) mortgage/equity if you own a home, both bad ideas 2) personal loans, which are typically unsecured and have higher interest rates 3) credit card debt, with obscene interest rates on cash withdraws or 4) payday loans with criminal interest rates.

    In every situation his suggestion is to enrich banks at a hefty cost to the individual with zero benefit, because of a situation caused by an incompetent businessman who was propped up and supported by the same banks and assholes who will still benefit from all of this.

    As has been pointed out, whenever the question of "why aren't businesses saying something?"; why would they? At worst they lose a tiny bit of business if people can't afford their services, but ultimately they will still have those peoples money later, if not already from aforementioned loans/credit cards. And maybe they'll gain more poverty level workers to exploit. Plus, I would suspect that after all this is done, there will be some narrative put forth by conservatives that in order to prevent this happening again more things the government does needs to be privatized, which benefits businesses. on the financial end, there's a misconception that the financial industry fears market drops; the people with the funding like them because it allows them to buy up more, at cheaper, and control more when things inevitably recover. There's some evidence that the great depression was, at least in part, triggered by actions of the wealthy, who dove in after the crash and bought everything; similar things have occurred during major recessions since, even including 2008.

    From a corporate perspective, there is little to speak up about. Even airlines, I would bet money I don't have that they'll push hard (and successfully) for either flat recompense for the effects of the shutdown, or more tax breaks and incentives as "restitution". And, you know they're going to hike ticket prices and point at lost revenue during the groundings as an excuse; and at minimum recover any losses from that.

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  • fRAWRstfRAWRst The Seas Call The Mad AnswerRegistered User regular
    This being over 30 mins late is just *chefs kiss*

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Fox New's article

    It isn't saying cave but it is saying cave and a win for Dems.

    Don't you fuck this up Fox.

    If you do, can we disconnect you for conspiracy to defraud the US Government or something? This is nuts.

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  • That_GuyThat_Guy I don't wanna be that guy Registered User regular
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    This being over 30 mins late is just *chefs kiss*

    Trump is probably sitting in his office fuming that he had to be the one to cave.

  • AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    Tumin wrote: »
    He is late.

    ugh, I hope fox isn't sinking this

    What is foxnews saying?

    Exactly what we don't want:


    Fox’s John Roberts on the reported deal to re-open the government without border wall funding: “It’s difficult to see this as anything but the president giving in to Democrats on Capitol Hill”
    Bobby Lewis is a researcher for Media Matters For America.

    MMFA senior fellow Matt Gertz makes the point:


    That thing where you can't rule out that the whole deal goes up in smoke because the president was watching Fox News and freaked out at criticism.

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  • MaximumMaximum Registered User regular
    That_Guy wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    This being over 30 mins late is just *chefs kiss*

    Trump is probably sitting in his office fuming that he had to be the one to cave.

    He'll spin it into a win somehow.

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Fox New's article

    It isn't saying cave but it is saying cave and a win for Dems.

    Don't you fuck this up Fox.

    If you do, can we disconnect you for conspiracy to defraud the US Government or something? This is nuts.

    If caving looks bad to Fox watchers, hinting you're gonna do it then flipflopping is probably about the worst thing he could do to non-Fox watchers

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Wow. Haven't checked it in a couple hours. LaGuardia's now reporting a 52 minute delay in arrivals, 45 min delay in departures.

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  • DacDac Registered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Henroid wrote: »
    Honestly if a two or three week deal is the best the government can do, workers should continue to strike anyway. Because that's a hot load of shit.

    In two to three weeks the news will have moved on to something else, Trump will probably be distracted by Mueller activity, and there won't be anywhere near as much attention on just passing the funding for the year, so it can just fly under the radar.

    E: assuming Fox doesn't fuck it up.

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  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Fox New's article

    It isn't saying cave but it is saying cave and a win for Dems.

    Don't you fuck this up Fox.

    If you do, can we disconnect you for conspiracy to defraud the US Government or something? This is nuts.

    If caving looks bad to Fox watchers, hinting you're gonna do it then flipflopping is probably about the worst thing he could do to non-Fox watchers

    His base is Fox News. He doesn't care about the rest. So how Fox spins it can change what happens. Quiet literally the reason we are in this shit.

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  • IlpalaIlpala Just this guy, y'know TexasRegistered User regular
    To be completely fair, it is kind of hard for it to not look like that because he painted himself into a corner where his only move was exactly fucking that.

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    God, if he comes out after all this and just gives another "WE NEED A WALL" speech because he was worried that Fox News was being mean to him...

    I don't even know what would happen, really

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    If Trump got the GOP to all agree to reopen the government and then changes his mind because of FOX News I think that might be the last straw for some of them

    I'm not sure it would immediately result in them turning on Trump but I think it would be the start of some major backstabbing

  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    trump is more popular among his base than fox, he doesnt actually have to let them push him around

  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Fox New's article

    It isn't saying cave but it is saying cave and a win for Dems.

    Don't you fuck this up Fox.

    If you do, can we disconnect you for conspiracy to defraud the US Government or something? This is nuts.

    If caving looks bad to Fox watchers, hinting you're gonna do it then flipflopping is probably about the worst thing he could do to non-Fox watchers

    His base is Fox News. He doesn't care about the rest. So how Fox spins it can change what happens. Quiet literally the reason we are in this shit.

    I know that. But I can't imagine the other Republicans being happy about it.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    trump is more popular among his base than fox, he doesnt actually have to let them push him around

    nah

    he is popular among his base because of fox news

  • Desktop HippieDesktop Hippie Registered User regular
    Ilpala wrote: »
    To be completely fair, it is kind of hard for it to not look like that because he painted himself into a corner where his only move was exactly fucking that.

    Honestly, Pelosi seems to have him down to a T. She knows that he can’t control himself. She just makes a simple comment or suggestion or does something small, and he instantly overreacts, without any long term plan or any strategy to make himself look like the winner. She knew that all she had to do was wait and that he had literally no other plan for how to get himself out of the shutdown other than for her to give in for some reason.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    trump is more popular among his base than fox, he doesnt actually have to let them push him around

    Trump cares more about Fox News that he does his base.

  • MorganVMorganV Registered User regular
    That_Guy wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    This being over 30 mins late is just *chefs kiss*

    Trump is probably sitting in his office fuming that he had to be the one to cave.

    I reckon it's more...
    "Go out there."
    "No!"
    "You need to go out there."
    "No!"
    "Mr President, you need to fix this!"

    We've all seen how he is when he's forced to do something he doesn't want to do. Charlottesville walkback, Helsinki walkback. He's a petulant little turd, and I think he's terrified this will be exactly what Lindsey Graham said it would be. That he's going to be seen as a loser.

  • kaidkaid Registered User regular
    Tumin wrote: »
    Would another shutdown really go the way this one went? Just shut down air travel day 1 and the government caves, that's the way out in the future. There is nothing the President can do to disarm aviation workers from exercising their power that way. Just massive walkouts everytime they are "working without pay" or there is a huge furlough.

    I think if nothing else democrats should pass some bills to not make it illegal for federal employees to strike during a shutdown. I think this stuff would end pretty fast if the people not getting paid could safely strike to protest not being paid.

  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    trump is more popular among his base than fox, he doesnt actually have to let them push him around

    Trump cares more about Fox News that he does his base.

    Yeah, it's pretty well established at this point that he ignores polls and gets mad when the TV box says mean things about him

  • BrodyBrody The Watch The First ShoreRegistered User regular
    MorganV wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    This being over 30 mins late is just *chefs kiss*

    Trump is probably sitting in his office fuming that he had to be the one to cave.

    I reckon it's more...
    "Go out there."
    "No!"
    "You need to go out there."
    "No!"
    "Mr President, you need to fix this!"

    We've all seen how he is when he's forced to do something he doesn't want to do. Charlottesville walkback, Helsinki walkback. He's a petulant little turd, and I think he's terrified this will be exactly what Lindsey Graham said it would be. That he's going to be seen as a loser.

    The meeting where he met with Schumer/Pelosi and then walked out almost immediately, iirc he was complaining that he only went to the meeting anyways because his staff made him.

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  • Desktop HippieDesktop Hippie Registered User regular
    Ok on the Euronews live feed some announcer type person said the program will begin in two minutes.

  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    Khavall wrote: »
    God, if he comes out after all this and just gives another "WE NEED A WALL" speech because he was worried that Fox News was being mean to him...

    I don't even know what would happen, really

    I know that the past two years have done their best to try and normalise it a bit, but it really is absolutely fucking batshit that the President of the United States of America's behaviour is strongly dictated by his favourite TV channel.

  • AstaerethAstaereth In the belly of the beastRegistered User regular
    Democrats won’t oppose a CR because they are excited to get to step two in these negotiations

    Step one:

    Trump: *shuts down the government* “I want a wall”
    Democrats: “Reopen the government and then we’ll talk”

    Step two:

    Trump: *re-opens the government* “I want a wall”
    Democrats: “No”

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    edited January 2019
    Brody wrote: »
    MorganV wrote: »
    That_Guy wrote: »
    fRAWRst wrote: »
    This being over 30 mins late is just *chefs kiss*

    Trump is probably sitting in his office fuming that he had to be the one to cave.

    I reckon it's more...
    "Go out there."
    "No!"
    "You need to go out there."
    "No!"
    "Mr President, you need to fix this!"

    We've all seen how he is when he's forced to do something he doesn't want to do. Charlottesville walkback, Helsinki walkback. He's a petulant little turd, and I think he's terrified this will be exactly what Lindsey Graham said it would be. That he's going to be seen as a loser.

    The meeting where he met with Schumer/Pelosi and then walked out almost immediately, iirc he was complaining that he only went to the meeting anyways because his staff made him.

    This is probably what he's doing right now:

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    He really is a petulant child. Hopefully he sucks it up and reopens the government despite what he's probably hearing on TV right this second.

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  • jgeisjgeis Registered User regular
    He's speaking now.

  • VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    Starting now.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    He's up talking now!

  • VeagleVeagle Registered User regular
    Says we are re-opening!

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    Trump trying to polish a turd here

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  • MatevMatev Cero Miedo Registered User regular
    Bless you folks watching this for those of us who can’t stand to hear his dumb whiny voice.

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  • joshofalltradesjoshofalltrades Class Traitor Smoke-filled roomRegistered User regular
    "I had a very powerful alternative but I didn't want to use it"

    So strong

    Much manly

    Wow

    Fuck off, dude. We know you didn't use it because you were told it wouldn't work.

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Yup. And this is why he shouldn't have gotten the State of the Union, claiming the furloughed people were behind him and encouraged him to keep going.

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  • SeñorAmorSeñorAmor !!! Registered User regular
    Trump is saying that "so many" of the affected workers actually encouraged him to continue the shutdown.

    Like really?

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