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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the fuck can this shut down be Pelosi's fault?
Trump is trying to blame Pelosi for this shut down. How stupid does that Orange Asshole think we are? The God Damned bill he wanted, with the $5 billion for wall funding passed the Republican controlled House. The bill is stalled in the Republican controlled Senate, where President* Scum Bag needs 60 votes to break a filibuster to pass the measure. Nancy Pelosi has nothing to do with that. The Republicans can change the filibuster rules and pass the bill, with the wall funding, by a simple majority (50 votes). The problem is at least 7 Republican Senators have said that under no circumstances will they change the filibuster rule for this bill.
You can make a case that Schumer is blocking this bill. You can make a case that a handful of Republican Senators are blocking this bill. You can make a case that McConnell is blocking this bill. But you can't make a case that Pelosi is blocking this bill.
If Trump wants to start blaming (I would call it crediting) Pelosi for anything, wait until next week. He'll have plenty to whine about
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)he thinks people think he is smart. And when he makes dumb jokes and people laugh it just reinforces his idiocy.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,304 posts)Trump's just playing to his brain dead know nothing supporters.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)It's all about the base, which hates Pelosi, therefore she is the best person to blame. That's all you need to know.
question everything
(47,544 posts)that Whiny Donny does or says?
malaise
(269,219 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)a kennedy
(29,723 posts)BootinUp
(47,201 posts)Caliman73
(11,752 posts)You are absolutely correct that this situation has nothing to do with Pelosi. She is the Minority leader until January 3rd. The problem (in Trump's eyes) is that she challenged him in front of the Press when she said he didn't have the votes to pass the spending bill. Even though Schumer took a more antagonistic tone with Trump at the meeting, Trump focuses on Pelosi because she is a woman and no woman will ever get the better of Trump, even though she did. Everything has to be her fault for his base because again, she is a women who will be in power, who opposes his agenda come January 3rd she will have the ability to seriously mess up his life. He is scared, but it comes out in bluster and false bravado.
The shut down is completely Trump's fault, and the fault of the Republican congress who did not have the courage and integrity to tell Trump that the Republican base is small and is not indicative of any actual public support for a Wall. They let him paint himself, and them into a corner and now he is doing what he always does, trying to blame others for his own stupidity and ineptitude.
dlk
(11,582 posts)peggysue2
(10,844 posts)Keep repeating The Big Lie incessantly. Of course, a video is available with Trumpski taking full credit for the shutdown--carrying the mantle proudly, he said. That video needs to be on a continuous loop.
Won't change cultists' minds but will highlight the ongoing nonsense.
niyad
(113,619 posts)Pisces
(5,602 posts)bdamomma
(63,931 posts)playing the tape how this is Trumps wall, and he owns it.
didn't his ears perk up when Ms. Pelosi said it during the visit to the oval office.
I hate this fucking man, January 3rd can't come any faster.
And all this belongs to the Repigs they have had control over the three branches. You don't hear shit from them.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)Tv needs to replay this, every time one of his toadies tries to blame a Democrat.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)but if he did his knuckle-dragging basket of deplorables would go along with it. He has that 1/3 of the population locked up pretty tight, seemingly immune to facts, reason and logic.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So it's gotta be somebody's fault, and why not just blame the broad?
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Hekate
(90,865 posts)SMC22307
(8,090 posts)point out that Pelosi is vacationing in Hawaii and that it's all on her. Oh, and that most federal workers live in DC and Northern Virginia, so who cares, they're Democrats!
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Trump said he would make Mexico pay for the wall. If he insists on "negotiating" with Nancy Pelosi to extract taxpayer money to make that happen, then he must think we are all Mexicans.
Muy loco.