White House officials, at the start of the shutdown, were certain the Trump administration was better positioned to battle the left during a funding lapse.
In early October, several Trump administration officials had a friendly pool going of how long the shutdown would last. The White House, at the time, was confident Democrats would quickly fold.
No one guessed more than 10 days.
The account, relayed by a person close to the White House granted anonymity to discuss internal thinking, underscores just how much the administration miscalculated the Democrats’ will to keep the government closed even amid furloughs and imperiled social programs like food assistance.
As the shutdown heads into its second month, Donald Trump is increasingly frustrated. On Thursday, he called for Republicans to abolish the filibuster to reopen the government — a plea he knows is futile, but that demonstrates his growing irritation with Democrats, said a second person close to the White House.
Frankly, people should be able to abstain from their votes to send a message because the alternative should not be any real support for crazy, obviously evil fascists.
I’ve had phases all over the spectrum but I think I’m gunna lock in on “the only people to genuinely blame for the overtly evil party gaining power are the people who voted for them.” Yes, it is frustrating that there was no DNC primary(the actual issue on that side of the aisle) and that Trump won by a number of votes that theoretically could have been cancelled out but the fact remains that tens of millions of people happily voted for him. He and his party shouldn’t have been anything more than a joke.
Should they be able to? In a perfect world, absolutely, I totally agree. However, when the alternative is fat Hitler, it doesn’t really work out that way.
Go look up the definiton and use of the world “should” and get back to me. I used it twice in specific places to say exactly what you just said.
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Ultimately it’s the electorate but you are fucking the whole world over to limit it to single vote
Just before a miscommunication happens: I’m a Canadian who votes in Federal, provincial, and municipal elections.
I would have voted for Harris but I understand that many people felt, reasonably so, that she was forced upon them. They never got a chance to allow their voices to be heard and were simply told to deal with it. It was aggressively anti-democratic only so they could put a weak centrist in charge. The Dems lost because they told their base that they didn’t really give a shit about them and the country lost because there are tens of millions of piss-soaked cum rags who thought Donald Trump was gunna save them.
As bad as the party is, I do place a lot of blame on fickle voters, who were so offended by the undemocratic process that led to the candidate change that they abstained or voted for somebody else instead of rejecting the “evil” guy in the only effective way we have.
Voting should be a duty we perform every election instead of something we need to get “excited” about in order to follow through with it.
But you just said it right there. It wasn’t that people weren’t excited, it was because the DNC knew that people didn’t really like Biden all that much and yet kept him on way too late, then when they did switch it up they didn’t give anyone a chance. They spat in the face of democracy and I can totally understand why people are fed up and told them to go fuck themselves. I willing to bet many would have voted for Harris anyway if she had won a primary but that’s not what happened.
Centrists are conservatives who only ever have one tactic and that’s where they threaten their voters with an even worse time so they can get away with bullshit. People are tired of that.
Whatever. If you can’t tell, a “need for excitement” really means “unwilling to follow along if something happens along the way that I disagree with”.
Really, how can those voters who did not vote for Kamala but generally support the left be so short-sighted not to see the consequences? They wanted to punish Democrats but ended up punishing the country and the world. They let perfect be the enemy of good.
Where I’m at, a lack of excitement means people are apathetic and don’t feel enegaged or like their vote matters. Strategic voting and the ever right-ward shifting of the centre is a huge reason why Canada and the US are the way they are.
You talk about being short-sighted but the only thing strategic voting has ever accomplished has been the ever right-ward shift of the center. Do you really believe that people don’t understand that there will be consequences? Do you really believe that votes made out of desparation fear are “good”? The centrist threaten the population with the alternative and they don’t genuinely represent anyone because they know you’re too scared.
They didn’t primary Harris, they just shoved her onto the ballot and told everyone to deal with it. There is nothing good about that behaviour.