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Showing Original Post only (View all)The goal is not to end the shutdown... [View all]
The goal is the shutdown itself.
That's why he brought it up now, with a Dem congress, when he could have done it and passed it any time in the past 2 years.
Full on autocracy.
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He didnt even know he could do the national emergency until a reporter told him he could.
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2019
#2
Rump owes putin 4 billion and will do every single thing he is told to do.
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2019
#5
I wonder if that 5 billion he is demanding will find its way into Putin's pockets?
kimbutgar
Jan 2019
#6
The Republicans didn't want it either, so he couldn't have passed it in the past 2 years.
Chemisse
Jan 2019
#18
OK, assuming what you say is true, the smart play is to give him the money
Algernon Moncrieff
Jan 2019
#28