I strongly object to the message the Department of Agriculture has posted on the White Mountain National Forest website, saying “The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government.”
It's only a lie to the ignorant, uneducated, or brainwashed. The Republicans have continued to put up a clean Continuing Resolution for a vote, yet the Democrats keep attaching new policy changes, spending increases, or unrelated provisions. In other words, a reversal of the Big Beautiful Bill, which is now law. So, you can lay the blame for this shutdown squarely at the feet of the Democrats, who still refuse to accept the results of the last election. Rather than try to negotiate, or find compromises, or solutions in an open session, the radical Left wing has taken control of the Party. They believe holding the country hostage is a winning strategy. Once again, a small vocal radical minority is dictating terms for the majority of moderate Democrats.
It's not a lie at all. MA Democrat Katherine Clark recently admitted that even though people are hurting, the Democrats need to continue the shutdown because this is a point of leverage they have and they are going to use it.
It is true that both sides play the shutdown game when needed. But the difference here is that the Republicans did not put things in the continuing resolution that were objectionable to the Left. It was a clean bill. That the "big beautiful bill" passed previously and was signed into law by Trump is not relevant to the continuing resolution. That ship had already sailed. The Democrats are trying to change that decision by using one of their favorite topics (Obamacare specifically and healthcare in general) to try to win points with their base before the midterms, and to protect leaders like Schumer from their Far Left, Socialist-Communist-Marxist-Palestinian base. Doesn't Schumer realize yet that the regular Leftists are no longer in charge of his Party? He apparently doesn't yet, but he soon will.
Are you for real? The Republicans didn't put anything in this bill that were objectionable to the Left? Maybe you've already forgotten all the things in Trump's previous bill that were beyond objectionable to the Left (and anyone with working brain cells). So now the Democrats actually have a chance to negotiate, and your advice to them is just to give up because Trump's already gotten everything he wanted in the previous harebrained bill they couldn't stop? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't advocate that course if the situation was reversed. It's sheer idiocy.
By the way, not that both parties don't engage in topics to placate their base, but at least the Democrats are fighting to keep millions of people's health care that Republicans already took away as part of the aforementioned previous bill.
It's lunacy to claim the party that controls the White House and both houses of Congress isn't the primary culprit in the shutdown, especially when it's a matter of public record Trump had his people cancel negotiation sessions and clearly already had plans to cut government employees during the shutdown and not pay the ones that are furloughed. Think for yourself, stop believing Trump's lies!
Sadly, this is just another example of the Republican Party debasing itself for their dear leader, acting as infantile and petulant as Trump, while parroting his lies for him. There are no real Republicans left in the party, and absolutely no one with a spine or an ounce of integrity. Anyone with any integrity has been ousted by Trump supporting their opponent or has quit to avoid having to deal further with the infant king.
You constantly refer to President Trump as "dear leader". Being the POTUS does make him the leader of the Republican Party. It does beg the question: Who is the current leader of the Democrats? Because the only ones leading or speaking for the Party are a handful of radical loons. Who's calling the plays? Who's making decisions? Who's in charge?
I refer to him as dear leader because that's what dictators are called. Once again you try the "what about" change-of-topic method to try to distract from your insane devotion to your dear leader. Nothing the Democrats do or have done changes what Trump is doing and has done. He is attacking democracy at all levels in an attempt to be a dictator or king that no one is permitted to question. Before Trump I held both parties in equal contempt, but now there is a clear choice; MAGA Republican authoritarianism or democracy. I choose democracy, you have clearly sold yourself into servitude to Trump's authoritarianism. Good luck with that.
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It's only a lie to the ignorant, uneducated, or brainwashed. The Republicans have continued to put up a clean Continuing Resolution for a vote, yet the Democrats keep attaching new policy changes, spending increases, or unrelated provisions. In other words, a reversal of the Big Beautiful Bill, which is now law. So, you can lay the blame for this shutdown squarely at the feet of the Democrats, who still refuse to accept the results of the last election. Rather than try to negotiate, or find compromises, or solutions in an open session, the radical Left wing has taken control of the Party. They believe holding the country hostage is a winning strategy. Once again, a small vocal radical minority is dictating terms for the majority of moderate Democrats.
It's not a lie at all. MA Democrat Katherine Clark recently admitted that even though people are hurting, the Democrats need to continue the shutdown because this is a point of leverage they have and they are going to use it.
It is true that both sides play the shutdown game when needed. But the difference here is that the Republicans did not put things in the continuing resolution that were objectionable to the Left. It was a clean bill. That the "big beautiful bill" passed previously and was signed into law by Trump is not relevant to the continuing resolution. That ship had already sailed. The Democrats are trying to change that decision by using one of their favorite topics (Obamacare specifically and healthcare in general) to try to win points with their base before the midterms, and to protect leaders like Schumer from their Far Left, Socialist-Communist-Marxist-Palestinian base. Doesn't Schumer realize yet that the regular Leftists are no longer in charge of his Party? He apparently doesn't yet, but he soon will.
Are you for real? The Republicans didn't put anything in this bill that were objectionable to the Left? Maybe you've already forgotten all the things in Trump's previous bill that were beyond objectionable to the Left (and anyone with working brain cells). So now the Democrats actually have a chance to negotiate, and your advice to them is just to give up because Trump's already gotten everything he wanted in the previous harebrained bill they couldn't stop? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't advocate that course if the situation was reversed. It's sheer idiocy.
By the way, not that both parties don't engage in topics to placate their base, but at least the Democrats are fighting to keep millions of people's health care that Republicans already took away as part of the aforementioned previous bill.
It's lunacy to claim the party that controls the White House and both houses of Congress isn't the primary culprit in the shutdown, especially when it's a matter of public record Trump had his people cancel negotiation sessions and clearly already had plans to cut government employees during the shutdown and not pay the ones that are furloughed. Think for yourself, stop believing Trump's lies!
Sadly, this is just another example of the Republican Party debasing itself for their dear leader, acting as infantile and petulant as Trump, while parroting his lies for him. There are no real Republicans left in the party, and absolutely no one with a spine or an ounce of integrity. Anyone with any integrity has been ousted by Trump supporting their opponent or has quit to avoid having to deal further with the infant king.
You constantly refer to President Trump as "dear leader". Being the POTUS does make him the leader of the Republican Party. It does beg the question: Who is the current leader of the Democrats? Because the only ones leading or speaking for the Party are a handful of radical loons. Who's calling the plays? Who's making decisions? Who's in charge?
I refer to him as dear leader because that's what dictators are called. Once again you try the "what about" change-of-topic method to try to distract from your insane devotion to your dear leader. Nothing the Democrats do or have done changes what Trump is doing and has done. He is attacking democracy at all levels in an attempt to be a dictator or king that no one is permitted to question. Before Trump I held both parties in equal contempt, but now there is a clear choice; MAGA Republican authoritarianism or democracy. I choose democracy, you have clearly sold yourself into servitude to Trump's authoritarianism. Good luck with that.
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