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In reply to the discussion: Please Attack Trump and Musk - Not Democrats. Please. [View all]Bluetus
(2,737 posts)I don't know what movie you are watching, but Congress is lost and the courts are lost. The only thing remaining is public pressure.
Trump and Musk are shutting down the government on their terms, which is to say they are protecting the billionaires by shutting down the IRS and any regulators, while sending more money to defense contractors. They are killing Education (bye bye Pell grants) and Medicaid directly, and precipitating the failure of Social Security and Medicare. That is happening. We have a government shutdown in slow motion.
It would have been infinitely better to call the issue to a real confrontation, rather than give Trump yet another chance to normalize all of this illegal activity.
I guess many people here are determined to deny all of this until everything is gone beyond redemption.