It’s like invading Iraq when a bunch of Saudis that hate Iraq attack you. You have to ask yourself “is this exactly what they want me to do?” And then “If I want my revenge, whom should I attack and how?”

Attacking federal workers on behalf of Trump is not the way to “Stand up to Trump”

Donald Trump wants the courts to stop overturning his random EOs. A shutdown would close the courts.

Can’t loose something you never had.

This is the CR. This allows for more time to work on that budget… which only needs 51 votes because of reconciliation.

Someone should ask Trump if he is successful with this and deporting permanent residents for being against the government, what would stop the next president from deporting Baron Trump?

As I said in the other thread, Republicans could have waited a week or two, got their act together on the budget reconciliation bill and then reopened the government without a single democratic senator. Closing the government hurts democratic interests and the republicans reopening it without democratic votes doesn’t help democratic interests either.

We already have a party that is know for being stubborn, hurting it’s own constituents, and not getting anything in return besides it’s base praising how tough they look - we don’t need a second one.

The Republicans have a once per year “Trump” card called budget reconciliation that only takes 51 senate votes. Right now the republican senators are worried about deficits and whatnot, otherwise they would have already used it. If the CR is filibustered, the government will shutdown until 51 republican senators can get their act together and pass the reconciliation without democratic support.

It will very much look like democrats shutdown the government and republicans alone opened it back up. Best to grow a backbone after the once per year thing is used up and they don’t have the option of just ignoring you.

Wait, I though the man survived a record 100 days and then got a normal heart. Is this the same guy or a different one?

Would a shutdown slow down or speed up the fascist takeover?

Dead in the senate, eh?

To be fair, it wasn’t Trump doing this same shit before 2016, it was Bush, and before that Reagan and before that…

-The internet will become something only old people use and will fill up with old people like radio and TV before it. Something new will be the hip new thing that kids use/consume, though it technically could be considered the internet

-Coal power plants will be phased out entirely in U.S.A. with some taking credit and others morning the loss of a purely economic conversion over to natural gas power. It will look like it is solar’s time to shine, but a “new” way of generating power which is cheaper and slightly cleaner will take over and slowly convert natural gas plants to whatever it is.

-There will be a detracted argument over whether or not what comes after current gen-AI is considered sapient and worthy of rights. While the debate will be straightforward in a vacuum, other semi-related topics will mix in including: the rich wanting their AI doppelgangers to keep control of the money/power they earned during life; something to do with sex and/or relationships because of course there will be; religious opposition until the poll numbers swap, then there will be some regions that view AI rights a helping the disadvantaged

-A young politician from the democrats will get elected on the back of anti-Trump hate. They will have in their first two years theoretically enough support to pass substantial legislation, but will be stopped by a small number of conservative democrats from doing anything substantial save for maybe one big accomplishment. They will loose the 2030 midterms to a bunch of republicans and a “grass-roots” organization that is paid for by rich business owners, but will come back to win the 2032 election against a rich republican from New England. However, they won’t have control over the congress and by 2035 will be a lame duck.

-Someone will scrap NASA’s current human space flight plans to promote their own plan, which in itself will be scrapped when a new administration comes in. By 2035, articles will be printing “it is a shame that no real current alive human has stepped foot on the moon”, taking a subtle dig at China’s AI-human that is currently building structures on the moon.

Are CRs exempt from filibuster rules, and are there 8 democratic senators willing to buck the party to kiss Trump’s ass? Fetterman and …

Musk found out that the most recent batch had battery issues where they would spontaneously explode.

So he paid a bunch of arsonists to go out an torch a bunch of Cybertrucks so that he could have plausible deniability.

“We are falling behind places like China and Uganda in number of child laborers. I call on congress to loosen restrictions and allow these numbers to go up. For it is true what they say: The children yern for the mines!”

No, he rescinded the ones from February so that his base can go around saying “What tarrifs? He rescinded them,” while simultaneously complaining about the retaliation tarrifs.

Basically MAGA thinks only Canada currently has tariffs on us.

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Step 1: Connect all base commodities prices

Step 2: Find tech that makes one (most likely power) cost approximately nothing, causing all the other base commodities cost roughly nothing

Step 3: Though Makerspaces with tool loan libraries/DIY/AR goggles with open source AI/ETC… make it so that anyone with base resources can make anything they could ever want

Step 4: No more need to work for stuff.

Did at least 51 put of 100 cops have to agree before busting down the door?

Pump and dump: Buy shares of a bad company, do something to pump up the stock price, sell the shares for a profit (dump), let the company crash and burn.

Crash and control: Take a good company, cause the share price to drop, buy low, take control.

I think it is more of the latter.