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The Great Partial Government Shutdown of 2019

View Poll Results: How long will this government shutdown last?

2 weeks

2 1.85%

3 weeks

7 6.48%

4 weeks

22 20.37%

6 weeks

24 22.22%

8 weeks

10 9.26%

10 weeks

7 6.48%

3 months

8 7.41%

6 months

3 2.78%

1 year

1 0.93%

the remainder of trump's term

24 22.22%

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01-05-2019 , 06:49 PM

#51

goofyballer

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Originally Posted by El Lobo Gordo

Only brainwashed left thinks Trump and the republicans are on the same team.

lolol is this guy real

01-05-2019 , 06:54 PM

#52

Hellmuth was right

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Originally Posted by uDevil

Six weeks pushes it past state of union. Stakes will be too rich for his blood at that point. He'll want a "win" before then.

I think the majority of his supporters see the government being shut down for six weeks as a good thing and would consider the shutdown ending as a huge loss unless he gets the wall.

01-05-2019 , 07:33 PM

#53

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Listening to the recent Weeds podcast about the shutdown, I think someone said January 11th would be the first day that federal employees would have received a paycheck, but won't due to the shutdown.

So, that would be a big day for employees to really get pissed and pressure to ramp up.

01-05-2019 , 07:37 PM

#54

ScreaminAsian

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those guys should have been striking already. working for free hoping trump will pay you back? lol not me

01-05-2019 , 08:13 PM

#55

uDevil

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This scene is in a lot of Korean movies. Probably a lot less fun irl.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1080697810528411649?s=19

01-05-2019 , 10:56 PM

#56

OmgGlutten!

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they need to start smashing windows of republican offices.

01-06-2019 , 03:39 AM

#57

El Lobo Gordo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Hellmuth was right

I think the majority of his supporters see the government being shut down for six weeks as a good thing and would consider the shutdown ending as a huge loss unless he gets the wall.

I think you are 100% spot on.

01-06-2019 , 08:31 AM

#58

Lilu7

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What is this declare national emergency nonsense? Can this stupid mother ****er actually do anything remotely close to fumding a wall under 'national emergency ' declaration?

And Lobo shut the **** up

01-06-2019 , 11:06 AM

#59

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Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

they need to start smashing windows of republican offices.

I think that’s a wrong hot take. Their most powerful weapon is to just not show up to work until they get paid, and I think that moment is coming soon. Who could possibly hold that against them, so they don’t lose any public sympathy, and at the same time, that is a lot more powerful and disruptive than breaking windows.

01-06-2019 , 12:18 PM

#60

Trolly McTrollson

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Why not do both?

01-06-2019 , 12:37 PM

#61

MrWookie

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilu7

Can this stupid mother ****er actually do _______________________

The answer to this question is, as always, "Who will stop him?"

01-06-2019 , 12:53 PM

#62

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Originally Posted by Trolly McTrollson

Why not do both?

Because the first one accomplishes enough while simultaneously not alienating anyone while the second one doesn’t actually add any value to the power of their protest (since shutting down the airports is really powerful).

01-06-2019 , 01:06 PM

#63

lozen

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Originally Posted by Hellmuth was right

I think the majority of his supporters see the government being shut down for six weeks as a good thing and would consider the shutdown ending as a huge loss unless he gets the wall.

I agree and what a entertaining state of the Union it will be

01-06-2019 , 03:04 PM

#64

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Frequent flyer forums/facebook groups always have a massive anti-union bias but their lawnmowers are absolutely in orbit over the rumors of TSA sick-outs coming up this week.

01-06-2019 , 03:05 PM

#65

pvn

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Originally Posted by Lilu7

What is this declare national emergency nonsense? Can this stupid mother ****er actually do anything remotely close to fumding a wall under 'national emergency ' declaration?

lol of course not

01-06-2019 , 03:07 PM

#66

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It’s not even a real sick out. Like these people legitimately are about to not be able to afford gas to get to their non paying jobs. Sick outs are when unions use it to negotiate for better benefits, pay, whatever. This is not that.

01-06-2019 , 03:08 PM

#67

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Also the Trump Administration is about to get an economic lesson about what happens when you decide to stop paying your employees in a 3 percent unemployment environment.

01-06-2019 , 03:49 PM

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**NSFW**

https://twitter.com/jiveDurkey/statu...19703407308801

01-06-2019 , 03:51 PM

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goofyballer

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A++++ would recommend watching

01-06-2019 , 03:56 PM

#70

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Originally Posted by jman220

Also the Trump Administration is about to get an economic lesson about what happens when you decide to stop paying your employees in a 3 percent unemployment environment.

I don't think the Trump Administration cares.

01-06-2019 , 04:04 PM

#71

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Originally Posted by eyebooger

I don't think the Trump Administration cares.

They’re going to when they lose the ability to keep the trains running on time.

01-06-2019 , 04:13 PM

#72

JonnyA

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jman220

They’re going to when they lose the ability to keep the trains running on time.

Trains are mostly used in the D areas, so it's a double win for Trump. He gets to shrink D-leaning federal workforce, while making it take longer for D's to take the train.

Trump is doing everything right now to demoralize and shrink federal workforce, so less people coming back from shutdown is a feature not a bug.

01-06-2019 , 04:17 PM

#73

uDevil

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They do care, in some ways. Just too late, because they're stupid. From two days ago:

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The Trump administration, which had not anticipated a long-term shutdown, recognized only this week the breadth of the potential impact, several senior administration officials said. The officials said they were focused now on understanding the scope of the consequences and determining whether there is anything they can do to intervene.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.43ae6edc41d6

01-06-2019 , 04:42 PM

#74

Trolly McTrollson

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Originally Posted by jman220

What I’m taking away from this is that they should be throwing Molotovs instead of bricks.

01-06-2019 , 04:43 PM

#75

El Lobo Gordo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

they need to start smashing windows of republican offices.

The YouGov poll someone posted earlier suggest the blame for the shutdown is falling on the democrats and Trump but not the republicans themselves. If you guys go out and start smashing the windows of people perceived as being innocent by most of the population, its not going to help your cause.

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