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    US Government Shuts Down (2018)

    CNN, so take it with a grain of salt...
    http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/19/politi...est/index.html

    (CNN)The federal government shut down at midnight Friday as senators continued to scramble to reach a deal to fund the government.
    This is the first modern government shutdown with Congress and the White House controlled by the same party, and it comes on the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump's inauguration.

    Trump's White House however immediately blamed Democrats for the shutdown.

    "Tonight, they put politics above our national security, military families, vulnerable children, and our country's ability to serve all Americans," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement moments before midnight. "We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands. This is the behavior of obstructionist losers, not legislators."
    Trump and his representatives had been labeling the event the "Schumer shutdown" after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, but the New York Democrat was quick to call it "the Trump shutdown."

    "It's almost as if you were rooting for a shutdown," Schumer said from the Senate floor. "And now we will have one. And the blame should crash entirely on President Trump's shoulders. This will be called the Trump shutdown. This will be called the Trump shutdown because there is no one, no one, who deserves the blame for the position we find ourselves in than President Trump."
    Sixty votes were needed to advance the bill to keep the government open for four weeks. Republicans only control 51 seats, so GOP leaders needed Democratic votes to cross that threshold. It failed 50-49.

    Key issue is setting a date

    One of the key issues Friday has been just how long to extend funding. The House passed a measure Thursday night to continue funding the government through February 16, and that measure is the one that failed in the Senate early Saturday morning. Democrats have pushed for a shorter-term continuing resolution of a couple days. Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who said he would not vote for the House proposal, pushed a plan to keep the government open until February 8.

    ...
    Full article on link. Yes, a CNN link, so feel free to post every other outlet that covers the topic.

    Year added to title because they do the same $#@! to us every year.
    1776 > 1984

    The FAILURE of the United States Government to operate and maintain an
    Honest Money System , which frees the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators, is the single largest contributing factor to the World's current Economic Crisis.

    The Elimination of Privacy is the Architecture of Genocide

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    Our central bank is not privately owned.



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    This is horrible, I can't believe it.

    What will we do?
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
    - Kim Kardashian

    Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!

    My pronouns are he/him/his

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    What will happen to our roads??
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
    - Kim Kardashian

    Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!

    My pronouns are he/him/his

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    What will happen to our roads??
    They will disappear overnight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sola_Fide View Post
    They will disappear overnight.
    I really hope you're joking.
    It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.
    - Kim Kardashian

    Donald Trump / Crenshaw 2024!!!!

    My pronouns are he/him/his

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    Heard Schumer Senate speech last night after vote fail, he put all blame for shutdown on Trump and accused him of flip flopping saying where is President who had said in White House meeting few days ago that he would sign any bill we bring to him and he will take political heat (not exact words). This just hours after he met with Trump in WH:


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8twjgNwcG0


    Not sure he realized that Ann "In Trump We Trust" Coulter happened:





    Trump’s immigration meeting was lowest day of presidency: Ann Coulter


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHzUOLOC5eQ


    Trump: I’ll Sign Any Immigration Bill Congress Sends Me

    Kevin Drum Jan. 9, 2018

    “I think my positions are going to be what the people in this room come up with,” Trump said….Trump added if the group presents him with a plan he does not like he would support it anyway. “If they come to me with things I’m not in love with, I’m gonna do it. Because I respect them,” he said.


    ….Sen. Lindsey Graham, foreshadowing how he believes some conservatives will react to the DACA discussions unfolding on television, said he could “hear the drumbeat” on Fox News and that “right-wing radio and TV talk show hosts are going to beat the crap out of us.”
    ….President Trump told lawmakers he would provide political cover for them if they moved forward on comprehensive immigration reform….“I’ll take the heat. I don’t care. I don’t care. I’ll take all the heat you want to give me, and I’ll take the heat off both the Democrats and the Republicans.”
    ….Here’s how Trump hopes to see things move: “We’ll do DACA and we can certainly start comprehensive immigration reform the following afternoon. We will take an hour off and start. I do believe that. Once we get DACA done and it’s done properly with security and everything else, if it’s done properly, we have taken a big chunk of comprehensive out of the negotiations. I don’t think it’s going to be that complicated.
    http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-dru...ress-sends-me/






    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    This is horrible, I can't believe it.

    What will we do?
    Don't worry, CNN reports only non-essential parts of gummit will be shutdown.

    Mueller probe would continue during a government shutdown

    By Eli Watkins, CNN

    Washington (CNN)The special counsel investigation led by former FBI Director Robert Mueller would be able to continue, even if the federal government shuts down over an impasse on the budget.

    A Justice Department spokesperson confirmed to CNN that employees in the special counsel office are considered exempt from furlough and "would continue their operations in the case of a lapse in appropriations."
    The shutdown looms for Friday at midnight as congressional and Trump administration negotiators grapple with an agreement to continue funding the government, and some Democrats mull how to force a plan to protect recipients of the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program.

    http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/16/politi...own/index.html




    Also there seems to be a branding issue, this was was supposed to be "SchumerShutdown" but instead Dems seem to have manipulated trends:





    #TrumpShutdown becomes top trending hashtag worldwide

    By Brandon Carter - 01/19/18 11:44 PM EST



    http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...htag-worldwide

    Some of the tweets may have crossed the line:




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    It really is $#@!ed in the head. They have to vote on a budget (passed in October), then a spending bill to fund the budget, then a debt ceiling increase to pay for the spending and budget.
    I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.

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    Trump will win every single state primary by double digits.
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    There won't be a contested convention
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    The shooting of Gabrielle Gifford was blamed on putting a crosshair on a political map. I wonder what event we'll see justified with pictures like this.

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    Shut it down and buy everyone a beer .



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    They’re all worried about who gets the blame. I’m wondering who really deserves the credit!
    "And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works." - Bastiat

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptUSA View Post
    They’re all worried about who gets the blame. I’m wondering who really deserves the credit!
    It seems like partisan immigration talks killed it. Trumps $#@!hole comments poisoned the well. Good job Trump now make them pass appropriations bills or leave it shut down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nikcers View Post
    It seems like partisan immigration talks killed it. Trumps $#@!hole comments poisoned the well. Good job Trump now make them pass appropriations bills or leave it shut down.
    What's going to happen is a compromise on immigration, and then a cheerfully bipartisan vote to raise the debt ceiling and increase spending.

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    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    What's going to happen is a compromise on immigration, and then a cheerfully bipartisan vote to raise the debt ceiling and increase spending.
    Hopefully Rand talks to Trump last, I read a Trump quote that sounded like he talked to Rand Paul last yesterday. It was something to the effect of if it does shut down we should change the way we budget government we haven't been budgeting government correctly for a real long time. I can't find the quote right now though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    What's going to happen is a compromise on immigration, and then a cheerfully bipartisan vote to raise the debt ceiling and increase spending.

    All part of Trump's 6D chess master plan. The deep state has no idea what they're in for. /s
    Chris

    "Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon

    "...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul

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    Quote Originally Posted by CCTelander View Post
    All part of Trump's 6D chess master plan. The deep state has no idea what they're in for. /s
    Look, out of all of the ideas to criticize Trump on this is not one to criticize him for spreading

    "If the country shuts down, which very well could be, the budget should be handled a lot differently than it has been handled over the last long period of time" - Trump

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    So is this going to be a whole weekend without federal government?

    thats cool
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
    Ron Paul 2004

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    It's all about Freedom

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    Yeah, I've been hoping for a smaller government. It's too bad this isn't really one of those things that causes smaller government.

    They just say they are shutting down, but they keep spending the money anyway.



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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    What will happen to our roads??
    Some will be rolled up and put in storage . On the highway nearest me I intend to install a toll booth .

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    https://twitter.com/USAB4L/status/954788346064179202
    "Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country, and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." - Ron Paul
    "Beware the Military-Industrial-Financial-Pharma-Corporate-Internet-Media-Government Complex." - B4L update of General Dwight D. Eisenhower
    "Debt is the drug, Wall St. Banksters are the dealers, and politicians are the addicts." - B4L
    "Totally free immigration? I've never taken that position. I believe in national sovereignty." - Ron Paul

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    The views and opinions expressed here are solely my own, and do not represent this forum or any other entities or persons.

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    Quote Originally Posted by r3volution 3.0 View Post
    What's going to happen is a compromise on immigration, and then a cheerfully bipartisan vote to raise the debt ceiling and increase spending.
    Status Quo.

    A verse from The Doors song L.A. Woman. "There she is walking out the door,..like she did a thousand times before".

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    "This appears to be racist."- Sparebulb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nikcers View Post
    What are they being tested for?
    Does it have anything to do with climbing trees?
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    I remember the 1996 shutdown vividly.
    Within 24 hours all the meat at the grocery stores was rancid.
    It didn't turn rancid - they were just waiting for the USDA inspectors to be out before they intentionally stocked the shelves with rancid meat.
    There are no crimes against people.
    There are only crimes against the state.
    And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.

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    Then there was the young lady I knew who got a haircut, but without the occupational licensers watching, she ended up getting her ears cut and a severe gash across her forehead.
    But it was worse: without the licensing authority to tell her she didn't get a good service, she didn't even know, and ended up walking around bleeding for days, thinking nothing was the matter.
    There are no crimes against people.
    There are only crimes against the state.
    And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.

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    When the federal government came back online we found out that eighteen thousand different species of freshwater crayfish had gone extinct.
    There are no crimes against people.
    There are only crimes against the state.
    And the state will never, ever choose to hold accountable its agents, because a thing can not commit a crime against itself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fisharmor View Post
    When the federal government came back online we found out that eighteen thousand different species of freshwater crayfish had gone extinct.

    I'm beginning to detect a pattern to your posts in this thread.
    Chris

    "Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon

    "...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul

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