The Government is "Shut Down" and My Life Is...

[baboon]

I read earlier this morning that examiners @ BATFE are not on the job so processing forms 1 & 4's have come to a halt.

 

[phoenix]

phoenix,

Texas will NEVER be Blue or even Purple in the lifetime of any living Texican.

yours, satx

God I hope not. IF we lose Texas we lose the country. It sort of balances out california. Sadly short of civil war, repeal of the 13-15th amendments, repeal of the voting rights act, requiring someone to have skin in the game to vote I am wondering how? The demographics are how dems play the games and lets be candid more whites support republicans and are not making as many babies as blacks and latinos who tend to support democrats MUCH more than whites support republicans.

 

[TX OMFS]

I read earlier this morning that examiners @ BATFE are not on the job so processing forms 1 & 4's have come to a halt.

Well, might as well get rid of the NFA. Buncha crap anyway.

 

[RoadRunner]

 

[easy rider]

I'm just horrified, horrified I tell ya............. Oh look, shiny!

 

[Kar98]

 

[HKShooter65]

1. First. I'm for a wall.

2. I'm tired of hearing that the shutdown is Trump's attempt to deliver on a campaign promise. Wrong!!!

3. His campaign promise was that he'd get Mexico to pay for a wall.

How is it that we've forgotten about #3 !?!?
Time to revisit the actual promise.
I don't want my taxes to pay for the darned thing.

?

 

[easy rider]

Your taxes are going to be used regardless, and there are worse things to spend it on.

 

[sharkey]

Things are getting dark for some federal workers.

https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/12/...lling seized cocaine amid government shutdown

 

[easy rider]

Things are getting dark for some federal workers.

https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/12/coast-guard-begins-reselling-seized-cocaine-amid-government-shutdown/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Duffel Blog&utm_content=Coast Guard begins reselling seized cocaine amid government shutdown

Yeah right LOL!

 

[satx78247]

1. First. I'm for a wall.

2. I'm tired of hearing that the shutdown is Trump's attempt to deliver on a campaign promise. Wrong!!!

3. His campaign promise was that he'd get Mexico to pay for a wall.

How is it that we've forgotten about #3 !?!?
Time to revisit the actual promise.
I don't want my taxes to pay for the darned thing.

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HKShooter65,

1. I'm 100% FOR BUILDING the wall & IMMEDIATELY.
2. I'm SICK TO DEATH of the leftist DIMocRATS "talking points", vague promises & constant LIES.
3. I don't care who pays for the wall, as long as it's built & SOON.
(IF the POTUS wants to be re-elected he will NOT back off even one inch to "get along with" the BIGOTED/HATEFUL/SWINISH DIMocRAT moronic leftist extremists.)
and
4. IF we want the wall buiit W/O spending additional taxpayer's money, tell every federal agency to CUT their budget by 1 percent. = ONE PERCENT would be MORE than enough money for the wall.
(I was once a federal investigator & there is PLENTY of money being WASTED now on worthless projects, fraud & outright theft to pay for SEVERAL walls.)

yours, satx

 

[gshayd]

The Government is not shut down. I got my Retirement checks from the military and Army Civil Service and my check from the VA.

 

[satx78247]

gshayd,

I too got my Army pension check about 2 minutes after Midnight this AM.

The "main-SLIME media" simply LIES.

yours, satx

 

[HKShooter65]

The Government is not shut down. I got my Retirement checks from the military and Army Civil Service and my check from the VA.

The consensus here seems to want to build a wall.
Agree.

What is less clear is whether or not it is acceptable for Trump to continue to strong-arm the policy by holding hundreds of thousands of loyal American workers at financial hostage. They are feeling like pawns in a terrible game.

Every conservative and most of the smart liberals (not an oxymoron, beat you to it) that I know are sick of the liberal press and many of our legislators doing everything they can to make Trump look a failure.

If the wall is a good idea it should be sellable on its own merits.
Trump found it tough enough to coerce his own party, formerly in control of congress, to do his bidding.
I'm thinking it's time to open the government without wall funding and then let the wall funding pass on its own merits as part of a much needed much larger immigration reform.

Time for Trump to man-up.
Playing the autocrat is beginning to make him seem the oppressor as he bludgeons financial hardship on our citizens.

I agree with his mission, though I no longer believe his method to be productive.

 

[easy rider]

I believe with the mentality of the average liberal the only way they would be in favor of building the wall is if Trump came out against a border.

 

[karlac]

Schumer and Pelosi, along with rinos eaten up with TDS, are ultimately responsible for the shutdown.

Just as their refusal to stop illegal immigration, jeopardizing National security and politically weaponizing the issue, is responsible for the deaths and misery from and to the caravan.

2A issue ... exactly the same methodology, different name, same goal.

 

[HKShooter65]

I believe with the mentality of the average liberal the only way they would be in favor of building the wall is if Trump came out against a border.

Maybe he should try that?


I think he should go back to Mexico paying.

THAT was the promise.

Most sensible Dems and GOPers are for sensible immigration reform and a secure border.
It's one of the issues where most are actually pretty much in agreement.
CNN and Fox fomenting malcontent is a source of so much manufactured division.

I have yet to know of a liberal who wants an open border or a conservative who wants to shut out farm or construction laborers. When do we get real?

 

[easy rider]

Maybe he should try that?


I think he should go back to Mexico paying.

THAT was the promise.

Most sensible Dems and GOPers are for sensible immigration reform and a secure border.
It's one of the issues where most are actually pretty much in agreement.
CNN and Fox fomenting malcontent is a source of so much manufactured division.

I have yet to know of a liberal who wants an open border or a conservative who wants to shut out farm or construction laborers. When do we get real?

What I've seen is that many democrats, probably because of media bias, are in the Never Trump mode. Sensible has gone out the window, even some republicans jump on board that train hoping that will boost their support.

 

[satx78247]

easy rider,

ImVho, ANY GOP member who fails to FULLY SUPPORT our party platform AND building the wall should be DUMPED off the RNC & other $$$$$$$ lists.
Being a RINO should be punished.

yours, satx

 

[Kar98]

easy rider,

ImVho, ANY GOP member who fails to FULLY SUPPORT our party platform AND building the wall should be DUMPED off the RNC & other $$$$$$$ lists.
Being a RINO should be punished.

yours, satx

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