Current Events > The Republicans just shot themselves in the foot.

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I don't know how much the rest of you know about Political culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in North Korea where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in America, you bring shame to your party, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the American public, after hearing about the Government Shutdown, is not going to want to buy MAGA hats for friends or family, nor will they purchase any of Republican merchandise. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Republicans have alienated an entire market with this move.

Republicans, publicly apologize and cancel Trump for President or you can kiss your party goodbye.
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Bump.
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Do you guys like orange juice or apple juice better?

The republicans got their base to believe the Dems were responsible for the last shut down and sadly they will believe the Dems are also responsible for this one.
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ImaAskAQuestion posted...

What this means is the American public, after hearing about the Government Shutdown, is not going to want to buy MAGA hats for friends or family, nor will they purchase any of Republican merchandise. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Republicans have alienated an entire market with this move.

lol no they're just gonna blame the democrats and suck up whatever trump shits out on twitter
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ImaAskAQuestion posted...

It's not like it is in North Korea where you can become successful by being an asshole.

Counterpoint: President Donald Trump
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creativerealms posted...

The republicans got their base to believe the Dems were responsible for the last shut down and sadly they will believe the Dems are also responsible for this one.

This

Hell, Trump has publicly stated before that he would let something happen and then blame the Democrats for it happening
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I haven't seen it yet, but did republicans stop the shut down?
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muchdran posted...

I haven't seen it yet, but did republicans stop the shut down?

Nope.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rule-of-shutdown-politics-1516234911?mod=e2fb

Notable: GOP leaders want to negotiate a two-year budget deal separate of negotiations over immigration. But Democrats are refusing, though the date when new work permits will no longer be issued to the so-called Dreamer immigrants is the first week of March.

Democrats are refusing even though the tentative budget deal being hashed out behind the scenes would also give them a big increase in new domestic non-entitlement spending over two years. Republicans would get more defense spending. Such a deal will give more Republicans heartburn on the policy merits, but Democrats still wont accept.

On Wednesday Democrats were even refusing to accept a short-time spending bill to fund the government for a month that includes reauthorization of the CHIP program for childrens health care. Democrats have spent weeks attacking Republicans for not reauthorizing CHIP, implying that children will be denied care.

This is a program that was created in a bipartisan way, that has always been bipartisan, said Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio in December. Its ready to go. And if Republican leaders put it on the floor today, it would pass. There is no excuse for this delay that is hurting families. He was still tweeting about the urgency of passing CHIP on Tuesday. But now that Republicans are offering to reauthorize CHIP in return for almost nothing, the Brown Democrats refuse.
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Trump will blame Dems on Twitter and they will all believe him
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