Wet fucking noodles.
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I'm sure we'll see a shutdown, but that was still a funny joke
How many signs will they hold up this time?
Oh no! They'll send another strongly-worded letter! Better lookout, Trump! 
Eh a shut down is more than a strongly worded letter at least.
Anarchists too. Make sure the police and prisons are all shutdown too. Just keep EMS on payroll.
looks oh, it's politico. No thanks.
lol nope
Ha. No they won’t. They scared.
This is tone deaf, but I guess after so much yelling from trump, how can anything be heard clearly
How about getting serious about using force if Trump attacks an ally or annexes other countries territory? Draw that fucking line in the sand now before this goes any further.
Are we taking about the same lame ass Democratic leadership that sat down with stupid ass ping pong paddles and kept speaking about searching for bipartisanship?
Yeah, sure this will happen and I'm going to find a job in Canada at age 40+, and move.
I thought the paddles were genius myself. What is it you would have done specifically at the presidents talk. no apples to oranges as the paddles were a thing for his speech and helped fight their willingness to throw folks out.
More people should have done what Green did. Make them censure the entire Democratic caucus.
I for one thought the paddles were clever. Im not sure if I can say they were more effective. If they could get themselves all thrown out without making to much of a ruckus. In other words make it were they are thrown out and most people would view it as unfairly. That would do a good job of spotlighting the totalitarian ways. Thing is it has a good chance of failure whereas the paddles will definitely work but to less effect. Believe it or not these are actually the things they weigh when doing things. If I was a male congressman though I would have worn pink somewhere although I may be unaware of some dresscode preventing them since women tend to get more leeway with things like that in formal precedings.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is what Trump wants.
He'll argue (or will be told to argue rather) that the constitution mandates that Congress does this job. He'll then use that as an excuse to dissolve congresss by means of the supreme court.
If he needs an excuse to do something he will always just manufacture one, so worrying about some action against him giving him that excuse is pointless and will only serve to hamstring any resistance to him. It's time to throw everything at the wall until enough sticks to tear it down.
Ive been far too optimistic in the past.
I think shutting down the government is a great idea. People won't work if they don't get paid. A week or two? Maybe. A month? Less likely. But beyond that? No way.
But that's the part I can't be optimistic about. The DNC will reason "it's better that the government keeps running so those employed by the government can keep their source of income." Meanwhile the government workers are paid to destroy the government.
Good. Shut it down. And don't reopen it.
This is your only real leverage, dems
It's like you didn't even see their renegade ping pong paddles
Shhhh. They'll notice and cave.
Oh people, they already did. We just don’t know yet
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