It's like he wakes up in the morning and asks himself "How can I be as weak as possible?" Them going back on what they said yesterday about stopping the bill until Republicans negotiate makes them look even weaker than if they'd just let it through straight away.
I'm not an advocate for "Both sides are the same" but I am an advocate for "Democrats are failing to meet the moment and we should fire the whole leadership."
"The president is, through Elon Musk and DOGE, trying to illegally seize the power of the purse from Congress by unilaterally shutting down programs that congress funded and Americans rely on. If we don't use every tool available to us to protect the separation of powers, we would be in violation of the oaths we swore to protect and defend the constitution."
Thats all they should need to say. This is a pretty black and white situation.
I'm a federal employee. Being furloughed for awhile scares me less than what DOGE is doing. Every coworker I've discussed it with (and it's frequently discussed at my office) feels the same way.
I've had enough of this "you can't blame democrats for what Republicans are doing." They've set up and maintained a system where they're the only people who can push back on the fascists, and now that the time has come they're refusing to stand up, and keeping anyone else from standing up.
They're not just incompetent, they're complicit. The billionaires and Republicans are our Nazis, and the Democrat leadership are our Vichy France.
4133 employees... So if we assume their salaries average out to $100,000 a year (let's be honest, it's less than that, but whatever.) then laying off all of them might just barely make up for Donald Trump's golf trips.
"We refused to negotiate with them and filled the CR with Republican amendments, but if Democrats and 2 Republicans don't vote for it then the shutdown is the Democrats fault!"
If a human being can be that dishonest and still convince himself he's a good person, maybe our species never had much of a chance.
He's probably having his stock broker sell off a bunch of stuff, announcing tariffs, then buying back. His stock transactions should be public record while president.
If people have been telling you he wants to be a fascist dictator, but you aren't quite sure you believe it, how does this not set off alarm bells?