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Yes, the litterbugs were the problem.
Mea culpa. For the next three weeks at least./me reads back through vv.1 posts from those attacking Pelosi for her age, her politics, fearful she'd "play nice," their desire for "new blood," and starts giggling at them...
President Goldfish doesn't have the memory capacity to retain details like that. He'll say what he's gonna say regardless of what people have told him.Actually, a shutdown typically costs money over what it would normally cost to run the government for that period of time. Including the fact that employees are still paid (even though they do not pay contractors) for not being there.
Are you sure that this did not cross his feeble mind ?What if he hires Mexican contractors to build the wall and then has the US declare bankruptcy? Boom! Mexico just paid for the wall.
This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting LeakedHoping something distracts him and the media in the meantime so a proper funding bill can squeak through without further trumper tantrums.
Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find the tables turned on them later this week when a new leak site unleashes a compilation of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails and gigabytes of leaked documents. Think of it as WikiLeaks, but without Julian Assange’s aversion to posting Russian secrets.
The site, Distributed Denial of Secrets, was founded last month by transparency activists. Co-founder Emma Best said the Russian leaks, slated for release Friday, will bring into one place dozens of different archives of hacked material that, at best, have been difficult to locate, and in some cases appear to have disappeared entirely from the web.
“Stuff from politicians, journalists, bankers, folks in oligarch and religious circles, nationalists, separatists, terrorists operating in Ukraine,” said Best, a national-security journalist and transparency activist. “Hundreds of thousands of emails, Skype and Facebook messages, along with lots of docs.”
The annoyance is in 3 weeks we will just be back at it. Great that people get paychecks but they need stability! A good part of the 3 weeks will be spent catching up on work that piled up and preparing for a likely next shutdown.It took him a while, but as expected, he's trying to spin the narrative away from the fact that he caved:
Probably it was before as the contractors not being paid is still a sticking point.Hmm... It seems that, according to this (published before the end of the shut-down) at least some Federal contractors will get paid (though perhaps this is for work they did before the shutdown began): https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/25/unpaid-federal-employees-recalled-work-pay-federal-contractors/?utm_term=.edad668e8465
He's been blasting Twitter all day about the importance of his wall, so, no, he's not particularly smart. Nor is his base, who will mercilessly hound him about the wall for the rest of the time he's in office, however long that may be.If Donald was smart, which he is not, he would stop even mentioning any wall and hope everyone forgets what a disaster it has been for him.
He might want to consult with McConnell about the value of second kicks of mules.
This is news?he's not particularly smart. Nor is his base