FrancieFootball

Thanks for proving my point. We need a strong two-party system, where Democrats and Republicans work out deals for the betterment of Americans. MAGAs just want a one-party system and to shove their agenda down everyone's throats and expect Democrats to just bend over and accept blame for the issue. I want a strong Republican party. We'll never get anywhere with a mindset such as yours. Republicans will find out in 2026.

Will they be handing out food to poor people?

Trump said that when there is a shutdown, the president takes the blame. He didn't specify Obama. Democrats and Republicans share the blame for the shutdown. Do you really believe it's 100 percent the Democrats' fault? A political paradigm that believes in one-party rule with an authoritarian at the helm and laying blame at the feet of everyone but themselves is called a dictatorship. Trump could use discretionary funds to feed the poor, and a federal judge has ordered him to do it. Instead, he and MAGAs are trying to circumnavigate what little we have left in the form of checks and balances and screw the poor and benefit the rich, which is what happened in Hungary. Oligarchy. Authoritarian. Dictatorship. Whatever you want to call it, this is what MAGA wants, so quit crying about one aspect of the political system that has checks and balances and that Democrats are standing up for the less fortunate instead of bending the knee to a wanna-be king and his cultist followers.

This is real simple, honey. Trump said the president gets the blame for a shutdown. MAGAs believe everything Trump says. Therefore, MAGAs must blame Trump for the shutdown. I think it's great that there are Republicans refusing his demand to eliminate the Senate filibuster. At least we still have a shred of checks and balances that forces the two parties to negotiate and compromise, which is what America is all about!

Are you saying Trump was wrong and lying?

I posted a video of Trump in 2011 saying the president gets the blame for a shutdown. So the shutdown is Trump's fault. Pretty crystal clear here.

I totally agree on this.

We shall see, but I question the point of kicking the can down the road and expecting different results, which would be insanity's definition. We need to take care of the less fortunate, and that's a hill upon which I am most willing to die.

What's a "knat?"

Transgender awareness and my fantasy-football expertise.

You tell me. I'm trying to educate myself on all the inside baseball on this thing. I got this:

Everyone blaming Democrats here, even though Trump blames presidents for shutdowns (except himself, of course), is free to provide evidence that what Republicans want will be a brutal blow to our health-care industry.

The proposed Republican spending bill has unreasonable health-care cuts that will devastate millions of people and result in higher health-care costs for all of us due to medical treatment for those who will not be able to pay their bill. Everyone loses. Every this administration does negatively impacts millions of low-income Americans, most of them who work hard but can't get ahead swirl the drain in the vicious poverty cycle.

Game. Set. Match.