Donald Trump has hosted a fundraiser for his White House ballroom construction project as hundreds of thousands of federal workers go unpaid amid the ongoing government shutdown.
It’s been 15 days since Congress failed to pass a bill to keep federal agencies funded, slowing down or stopping government operations, as essential employees continue to go to work without pay.
But this dark period of partisan gridlock is not keeping the president from having a good time with those helping make his dreams of a glitzy ballroom come true.
Wasn’t he supposed to be paying for this himself?
And then the price doubled. And then he’s using funds from lawsuits for it.
And now this
How else is he going to accept more of that sweet sweet Qatar money
Why isn’t anyone fucking crucifying the republicans over this shutdown?
Where is the outrage?
Why do the republicans get to set the narrative?
No one cares because essential services are still operational, everyone believes it’s just a blip that will soon pass, and the country is being fed a steady diet of Confederate propaganda because they control nearly the entire media.
I’m of the opinion that we should just leave it shut down. No good was happening by having it open, and federal workers were being fired en masse anyway. If we can’t overthrow a fascist government, then at least we can cut off most of its ability to do harm. ICE agents aren’t being paid, so that’s a start.
When Social Security or Medicare workers start walking off the job and checks are delayed, people will start to complain. Not before.
I believe the air traffic controllers quitting en masse will, once again, be the lynchpin. But as you said, the conservative controlled media is working 24/7 to blame democrats and glaze over everything the republicans have done and are doing.
Yeah, ATC disrupting air travel further would also be a catalyst. They don’t even need to explicitly quit—just walk off the job.
It’s not really quitting working if the employer quits paying you first.
I think they will find a way to pay them. Here’s an article from yesterday saying they plan to do just that.
Military, yes, but I didn’t really read anything in there concerning ICE or, more crucially, Social Security workers, Medicare workers, and ATC.
Also, shame on the BBC for propping up fascism by both sides-ing the impasse and not including even a single line about the reasons for the shutdown.
Both US political parties continue to blame each other for the shutdown
Have you seen what the British government has been doing lately?
They’re kind of down with the fascism. 😒
They’ve spent every waking minute creating one of the most effective political propaganda machines in the world, since Watergate showed that the media alone could effectively control what the average person believed.
“Rome has never been this bright.”
– NERO-
Because they control the stream of disinformation to their voters. Their voters don’t actually live in the real world, but in a fantasy scenario dreamed up by Republican talking heads.
What’s Trump’s weekly golf outings up to this time around?
He might be too afraid to golf this time. Since he knows for a fact thousands of people both want him dead and are capable of making it happen. He’s an idiot if he doesn’t realize that. What a way to live a life.
Sounds a lot like the czars been the Bolshevik revolution
Was there a typo there?
Let him and his rich friends fund it all, and the moment this fool is consigned to history, level it.
Better yet, wall it off and leave it to rot.
The government is shutdown, they gotta raise some money somehow
