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Originally Posted by bobman0330
Who cares if it's transparently false? If someone's mad about the shutdown, you just say you thought stopping the wall was really important and play the video of Trump saying he owns the shutdown. You can't lose.
But you can do the same thing based on procedural and democratic norms arguments. If we give in to Trump's shutdown demands there will just be more shutdowns, we can't let this be the norm, etc. And that case has the benefit of being true!
And who cares if "not spending 5 billion on a wall is crucially important" is a transparent lie? Well, the guy mad about the shutdown might care if he concludes the Democrats are transparently lying about their motivations for the shutdown.