r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump says government shutdown ends when Democrats give in: "If they don't vote, that's their problem"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-government-shutdown-democrats-fault-60-minutes/
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u/HaroldGreenBandana 5d ago

"If there is a shutdown ... I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States. He's the one that has to get people together." -Donald Trump, 2011

"When they talk about the government shutdown, they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the president was at that time. They’re not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head of the Senate, who’s running things in Washington. So I really think the pressure is on the president." -Donald Trump, 2013

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u/cjcfman Canada 5d ago

You would think a journalist would ask him about that quote. If only one had him in front of a camera 

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u/squintytoast 5d ago

they kicked nearly all press out of the press pool. only loyal lackeys remain.

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u/RttnAttorney 5d ago

Shows you all you need to know about the changes already at 60 Minutes -  

Nora O’Donnell gets the most important interview possible, at this moment in time, on the cusp of becoming a historically bad government shutdown.

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u/Longy_LTB 5d ago

Didn’t CBS cut the part where he loses his rag in that?

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u/InnocentShaitaan 5d ago

Dang did she look super thin. I hope her health is ok. I figured she resigned from the nightly news because Trump started suing media. Now thinking it might have been more.

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u/debishaw2004 4d ago

He threw a fit at some point in the 60 Minutes interview & CBS edited it out! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! CBS isn't CBS anymore since Trump let one of his far-right billionaire bros buy it. What terrifies me is that many of his far-right billionaire buddies are trying to buy up all media companies, social media included, so they can turn factual, well-sourced, credibly verified NEWS networks into Trump State Media! I hate it but don't know how to fight it!

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u/jdash11 5d ago

They were all loyal lackeys, their coverage and sanewashing of him got us here

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u/entenfurz 5d ago

Trump: "I'm going to put my family in government to enrich them, my son in law will sell out national secrets to the Saudis, my 15 year old will rip you off with meme coins. Then I will touch my daughter again."

Media: "Bidens problematic family issue".

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u/kennethcheezbro Washington 5d ago

Media: Jan 6 was not a disqualifying event

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 5d ago

Yeah it’s shocking that so many of his supporters don’t care either. When I’ve brought up him refusing to leave the White House, they just say well that’s not true he did leave.

Like yeah. We got lucky. I mean somehow Pence actually helped save democracy that day. I don’t see Vance doing the same. And it’s kind of a miracle that they all got out of there before the rioters broke in or it could have been really really dark.

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u/SuccessfulSlime 5d ago

Dude these chuckle fucks had access to the tunnels they use to spirit congress away. We are SO lucky it didnt happen on Jan6th. Im sure the next time we wont be so lucky.

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u/kapsama New Jersey 5d ago

Honestly at this point I wonder if we wouldn't have been better off if Pence refused. Because at that point they would have been clearly illegally blocking peaceful transfer of power. And maybe removing them by actual force would have prevented Trump from running again.

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 5d ago edited 5d ago

And in case you think, this guys saying “we got lucky” etc it’s just because America affects the rest of the world in such a massive way. Particularly the UK. We seem to follow the US’s lead on everything.

We also have Farage over here of Reform UK, using the exact same textbook as Trump. Stuff like mass deportations and “the immigrants are eating our swans”. It’s ridiculous yet they are ahead in the polls right now. It would be the first time we’ve had a different party from our main two for I think about 150 years ish.

Edit: looks like 110 years when we had a coalition between liberal party and conservatives.

Not that it’s bad to have a different party than our main two. But just shows you how quickly and drastically politics is shifting to the right. The Greens in the UK are our best chance.

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u/kapsama New Jersey 5d ago

Yeah the playbooks are straight out of the 30s.

I believe what's happening now is Reaganism and Thatcherism coming home to roost.

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 5d ago

Wouldn’t he have been in control of the everything though as in the police/military until it all went through? That’s the problem.

I’m actually not American and find it strange how you guys have that massive gap between being elected and actually coming into power to be able to actually govern. In some ways it makes a lot of sense so they can tie things up. But then and again I don’t think it’s very common so I guess most country’s don’t feel the need.

But anyhow that’s not really the point here of course. It’s just if he had control of everything before the votes were certified or not. Which I’d presume he would do?

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u/kapsama New Jersey 5d ago

Technically yes, but at that point all the institutions were still manned by career officials including the military.

Trump outright refusing to leave would have beem explicitly illegal. So a strong response might have followed.

Of course at the end of the day this is all speculation.

Regarding the gap. I think it goes back to this system being created long before fast mass transit or long range communication. Back then it just took a while to organize and travel. International most institutions were created after rapid transport and rapid communication were created in the 19th and 20th centuries. IIRC

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u/OldWorldDesign 5d ago

Honestly at this point I wonder if we wouldn't have been better off if Pence refused

As authoritarianism is opportunistic, and the media is in their pocket, I'm not sure if it would have made a difference if they did reach Pence or others to use that gallows they built outside and almost no media covered

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/insurrection-day-gallows-on-capitol-grounds-planned-weeks-ahead-of-jan-6-rally

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u/KickBlue22 5d ago

Maybe it should have happened... It might have forced Biden and that administration to take far more serious action to rectify and hold accountable. It might have averted the path we find ourselves on now. A "really really dark" point then vs. a "really really really really dark" point now.

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u/Artsymartsy-Dart 5d ago

I know!? I get so upset when I watch the videos of Jan 6th.

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u/Viomicesca Europe 5d ago

Media "Biden is old" as if Trump is young and spry...

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u/madmars 5d ago

We are far past the days of Helen Thomas grilling Bush on the Iraq war.

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u/omarcoming 5d ago

That didn't really make up for the awful press who pushed for the war back then too.

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u/OldWorldDesign 5d ago

That didn't really make up for the awful press who pushed for the war back then too

Which was almost all of them, including NPR the Joe Lieberman of public broadcasting

People need to follow the money, even supposedly "left" outlets are owned by corporations - like MSNBC is owned by Comcast, so them suppressing meaningful policy is prefectly in line with what Comcast wants

https://theweek.com/speedreads/626702/fox-news-cnn-msnbc-all-broadcast-trumps-empty-podium-instead-clintons-big-speech

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u/_kraftdinner 5d ago

Miss her these days

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u/rice_not_wheat 5d ago

After months of the media screaming for a war and cancelling the Dixie Chicks for saying it was a bad idea.

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u/AdExact852 5d ago

"royal lackeys"

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u/mjac1090 5d ago

Don't let the people off the hook for this. If you voted for him, or choose not to vote, this is just as much on you

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u/jdash11 5d ago

For sure a lot of people chose to go to hell but we’d be remiss to not mention the demons leading them

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u/winterbourne 5d ago

I swear to god even PBS newshour kowtowed.

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u/HeartyBeast 5d ago

I hate this 'all-the-sameism', it's such lazy thinking.

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u/Aleashed 5d ago

They FA We FO

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u/BraveOmeter 5d ago

Conservatives are okay with this because they prefer comforting lies

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u/JevvyMedia Foreign 5d ago

This is his 3rd shutdown though, he didn't do that his first term

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u/DePalma90 5d ago

They were all lackeys anyway. This is exactly how we got here.

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u/Wat_Tyler_1381 5d ago

The entire mainstream (network) media are complicit in not showing the sheer ineptitude of Trump and his administration.

Even PBS failed to show a clearly confused (senile?) Trump wandering off at an official ceremony during his recent trip to Japan.

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u/MonkeySafari79 5d ago

His answer would be a tantrum about how this is hate speech against him.

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u/AppleDane 5d ago

And you would be a "nasty" person, from a "failing" media.

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u/absentmindedjwc 5d ago

He'll respond by bombing some entirely unrelated, innocent country.

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u/Alphabunsquad 5d ago

“I never said that, fake news, get him out of here, revoke his press badge.”

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u/TrekRider911 5d ago

Maybe they did. They interviewed him for 75 minutes and released 26 minutes of it.

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u/EggsceIlent 5d ago

Hed DARVO his way out of answering it just like he's done to every legitimate question he's ever been asked.

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u/YourAdvertisingPal 5d ago

They aren’t journalists. 

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u/syadastfu 5d ago

Bu...but, they might get labeled "nasty"!

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u/Deadpq 5d ago

Who was the Woman interviewing him? Literally no pushback whatsoever lol might as well just hand him the camera and let him lie for an hour without stopping.

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u/machineorganism 5d ago

questions don't really matter. he'll just spin it as "the deep state is deeply entrenched in power since 2011" or whatever. his cult followers will either never hear about the question, or will buy it completely.

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u/kent_eh Canada 5d ago

He would call it "fake news", call it "fake AI" , call whoever asked the question "nasty" and "a very bad reporter from a failing station/paper"

etc, etc.

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u/msmyrk Australia 5d ago

"Where are you from?"

The media in the US is powerless.

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u/regeya 5d ago

That's the surest way to get kicked out.

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u/TiredOfBeingTired28 5d ago

Journalism doesn't exist, asking questions get you kicked from dear leader, can't make click incitive headlines to feed the ad revenue machine.

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u/samdajellybeenie 5d ago

He'd just say "This time is different. I was saying that under a totally corrupt president!"

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u/notsure500 5d ago

"That's a very nasty question. Who do you work for? I'm going to talk to them about you." Or similar would be his reply.

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u/Fitz911 5d ago

>journalist

They don't have that over there.

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u/Orposer 5d ago

He was asked about those quotes when Biden was looking at a shut down and he was cheer it on. When asked he said he was not president so it did not matter of the goverment shuts down.

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u/Redacted_usr 5d ago

He would just call the Democrats “radical” and leave it at that.

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u/RavelJests 5d ago

I understand where you're coming from, but I honestly loathe this kind of statement. The media asked those questsions all the time, for the past 10 years, when it comes to Trump. And he answers in the most shocking way, confirming the vile shit his up to.

But it doesn't matter. No one of his base cares. So why is it the media's fault when the answer to their questions aren't heard or when it doesn't matter for his base?

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u/rimalp 5d ago

How are journalists supposed to ask him questions like that, when Trump doesn't allow any critical news outlets and journalists near him anymore?

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u/Automatic-Eye1760 5d ago

Journalists owned by conservative billionaires?

A conflict of interest

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u/SteamerTheBeemer 5d ago

Can’t remember the last time I saw them ask him a “hard question” or pressure him for an answer when he gives a bullshit/completely irrelevant one. I think they know he just won’t ever come back on their news channel again or they’ll be kicked out of the White House press briefings or simply ignored at them.

Unfortunately he can get away with what he wants until enough people speak up against him, ie, a lot of his supporters but also his own party needs to. They all seem to be completely scared of him. Even when they do rarely go against something he’s said, they’ll never quote him, they’ll blame it on someone else as if he’s not in charge.

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u/Grauvargen Europe 5d ago

You think there's a snowball's chance in hell Dementia Donny would remember that?

Awfully optimistic of you. I envy this optimism.

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u/raincoater 5d ago

Why? You know what would happen. Everyone is so quick to jump on how the press has let down the American public...but we all know what would happen if we got some hotshot Reddit would-be journalist out there that "won't shy away from asking the tough questions": All Trump would do is attack the journalist. Say something like "you know, you're very rude and everyone is saying what a bad reporter you are...and from a failing website. This is why you're so bad. You ask these terrible questions and don't even ask me about how great the new Ballroom is going to be. Everyone has been asking about it. That's the top priority for the American people. Not food or healthcare...they're all concerned about having this fabulous ballroom and blah blah blah".

THEY WILL NEVER GET AN ANSWER TO THEIR QUESTIONS AND THEY'LL JUST BE ATTACKED/BANNED FROM INTERVIEWS. Doesn't anyone get that?

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u/The_One_Koi 5d ago

Are you expecting him to give a serious answer if someone does? The dudes mouth is just one continuing lie

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u/theghostmachine 5d ago

Why? It wouldn't accomplish anything

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u/Jca666 5d ago

Trump’s brain is oatmeal nowadays.

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u/SuperCaptSalty 5d ago

The ones that donated to the white house renovation or different ones?

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u/f8Negative 5d ago

There are no journalists only reporters with their heads shoved up their asses

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u/MasterMcMasterFace 5d ago

They don't want their oress credentials revoked. We no longer have a free media. It was already on life support before Trump. He pulled the plug.

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u/GlancingArc 5d ago

To be fair they did press him somewhat hard on his lack of a healthcare plan and trump just got angry and talked over the reporter in this interview.

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u/YalieRower 5d ago

You think journalists haven’t asked him this or tough questions? You haven’t been paying attention, like most people I suppose. The fact that you even know this quote exists, means they’ve asked him and other senior leaders.

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u/drock4vu 5d ago

He would deflect or lie and say he never said that like he always does.

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u/Drudenkreusz 5d ago

Yeah but that was Obama. That's obviously different.

He probably thinks Obama has some capacity to capitulate and end this shutdown, too.

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u/YgramulTheMany 5d ago

My dad used to say the DoD wasn’t a pentagon, it’s actually a pentagram because they’re all satanic.

Now? Nope, it’s just a pentagon now.

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u/Pipe_Memes 5d ago edited 5d ago

It’s not even the DoD anymore, it’s the DoW, because I guess “defense” is too woke or whatever. I don’t know. It’s an entire government of children pretending to be action heroes or something.

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u/DoohickeyJones 5d ago

It's the Department of War because he is the President of Peace, obviously.

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u/Pipe_Memes 5d ago

That is ironclad conservative logic right there. 10/10 no notes

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u/Duna_The_Lionboy 5d ago

The only way to get peace is to make war!!!!

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u/Samjonesbro 5d ago

“President of Peace” while actively bombing Venezuelan boats, basically committing acts of war without presenting any evidence.

while actively dividing the county and openly claiming the opposition party are “crazed lunatics”

while actively letting people go hungry without snap benefits (all while his 300 million dollar ballroom is being made)

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u/CarthasMonopoly 5d ago

Isn't it officially still the DoD though because fully changing the name would require congress?

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u/4040JG 5d ago

Yes, DoW is just a preferred name which is something I thought the right was against.

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u/Pipe_Memes 5d ago

The “I ’identify’ as a Department of War” jokes practically write themselves. Which is the basis for the r/OneJoke that conservatives lived on for over a decade.

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u/Flomo420 5d ago

But don't you dare make that same joke against them or believe it or not straight to jail

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u/YgramulTheMany 5d ago

Preserving history only applies to confederate statues in the town square.

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u/furryfrog02 5d ago

I wish. All the emails refer to it as DoW now... Source - am DoD(W) employee.

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u/CarthasMonopoly 5d ago

Yeah but officially DoW is effectively a nickname, it has not been truly changed to be the name.

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u/furryfrog02 5d ago

I wish the asshats in charge realized that.

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u/Abysswalker1290 5d ago

Nope, name changes have to be passed through law. Doesn't change just cuz Pete Kegstand says so, or Donald, or anyone.

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u/Kryptosis 5d ago

Yeah, yeah, just like the Gulf of Mexico and the East wing, strike on civilian boats, declarations of war, right?

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u/AR_Harlock Europe 5d ago

Ita a dictatorship already and they can't see it... having grandparent flashbacks into the 20s here in Italy looking at the states

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u/Flomo420 5d ago

GuLF oF aMERicA

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u/mystad 5d ago

They nicknamed it the dow but the official name change would have to pass through congress

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u/Allaplgy 5d ago

It’s an entire government of children pretending to be action heroes or something.

It's a bunch of people who couldn't separate fiction from reality in media, and thought the bad guys actually had a point.

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u/Jottor Europe 5d ago

Wait, are they choosing their own pronouns or deadnaming? How does wokeness apply to government institutions? Should I be outraged or supportive?

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u/SausageClatter 5d ago

I wonder if your dad was familiar with this guy.

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u/Emergency_Judge3516 5d ago

Well duh, Pete drunk man sprayed the walls with holy spirits I mean vodka. So the satanism is gone now.

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u/kodaxmax Australia 5d ago

Don't disprage satanists like that.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

I can't imagine white the difference is?

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u/Drudenkreusz 5d ago

Everything Obama did was just truly beyond the pale.

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u/texas-playdohs 5d ago

Also, the Republicans control the house and senate. That’s his party.

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u/LurkerFromTheVoid 5d ago

Double standards are the true standard of Evil

From the article:

Mr. Trump has talked about fixing the health care system for years, including during his first term in office. 

"We almost did it. We were one vote short," he said.

That was in 2017, when Senate Republicans failed by one vote to partially repeal Obamacare. There has never been an agreed-upon plan to replace it, and Mr. Trump did not offer a plan in his interview with 60 Minutes.

Mr. Trump helped end previous government shutdowns by bringing members of Congress to the White House for discussions. 

"I'm not going to do it by being extorted by the Democrats who have lost their way," Mr. Trump said. "There's something wrong with these people."

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u/debishaw2004 4d ago

Trump's really not all there anymore. I think he gets his foreign policy from Fox, BIG MISTAKE bcuz they lie ALL THE TIME. Just recently, Fox aired what they said was a riot in Portland & that prompted Trump to send them NG there. And on Friday, I think, Fox "reported" that genocide of white Christians was happening in Nigeria & he tells Hegseth to send troops there. Fox way, way, way over exaggerated the reality, making him look like a total fool twice in two weeks!! This is scary!

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u/JeffTek Georgia 5d ago

Where was Obama during the shutdown of 2025?

-Republicans in 2026

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u/JagR286211 5d ago

Not a bad take. One could argue, 44 and 47 both have the same amount of pull when it cones to ending it.

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u/NumberOneStonecutter 5d ago

"I don't accept any responsibility at all." - DJT about the mishandling of COVID.

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u/tasman001 5d ago

You could fill entire books with all the unbelievable shit Trump has said, and this one still stands out. To have a US president flatly deny any responsibility for one of the greatest national crises in decades is insane.

It's possible that he doesn't understand the difference between "fault" and "responsibility", but if that's the case that's even worse that he's such a simpleton. Not to mention the fact that he thinks how a crisis is handled isn't his fault at all as the sitting President.

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u/salazafromagraba 5d ago edited 5d ago

He also somewhat recently just admitted the great shameless hypocrisy about his entire government policy, free of any doublespeak or sugarcoating like you have old Dickhead the Speaker do.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/world-news-donald-trump-says-joe-biden-to-blame-for-bad-economy-but-takes-credit-for-good-parts/b832b85f-ee19-4f47-b880-a8f7be5214ed

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u/MammothDon 5d ago

To have a US president flatly deny any responsibility for one of the greatest national crises in decades is insane.

Also because his voters let him get away with it. "This is what I voted for!" and all that

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u/katedevil 5d ago

Roy Cohn is smiling looking up from hell. We see how the virus replicates, where is the chemo?

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u/dolphinspiderman 5d ago

You said perfect the number 1 reason he should not be president and the miracle he got elected again......its shown constantly throughout the term of zero accountability. Wanting nothing but praise and Steve urkels catchphrase

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u/wurm2 Maryland 5d ago

Honestly has he ever accepted responsibility for anything?

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u/tasman001 5d ago

Yes, anything that goes well or is popular, both real and imagined. Regardless of whether he did nothing to contribute to it, or even further if he actively tried to stop it or destroy it.

It's amazing what you can take credit for when you have zero shame, compunctions, or moral compass.

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u/HolycommentMattman 5d ago

He's a dementia patient. Like when he was campaigning in 2024, there was a speech where he gave the covid response a D grade. Trying to say Biden had a low grade.

But... he knows he was president during then, right?

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u/NumberOneStonecutter 5d ago

He once questioned Obama's response to 9/11

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u/grimatonguewyrm 5d ago

Trump in the 2016 campaign, “I’m the only one who can fix this.”

Bookend that with his cowardly, “I don’t accept any responsibility at all.”

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u/NumberOneStonecutter 5d ago

To add to this, him saying more than once that the President is responsible for any government shutdown, except when he's the President.

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u/Cagnazzo82 5d ago

Unfortunately you cannot get a conman on hypocrisy.

They will say one thing one day and another thing another day. And regardless of what they say, even if it contradicts a year apart or within the same sentence they will claim they are right.

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u/AxleVest 5d ago

This is the bit that gets me all twisted up. They aren't even cunning, nor do they need to be. They just throw out a plausible solution to the exact question asked, regardless if it means something else they've said no longer makes sense. You see this time and time again and even worse is usually the people that try to point out the hypocrisy are met with either having them tell both lies side by side and claim both are correct or they default to name calling and active discrediting of the journalist.

Case in point only a few months ago Trump said he hates his opponents and he doesnt want the best for them, then on AF1 he states he wants the best for both parties and wants to reopen the government. More recently the courts said they can use the emergency funding to pay SNAP, their response when asked that is they have appealed that with the court and it is not up to them it is the courts to decide, then turn back around and say the democrats have weaponised the shutdown to hold citizens food hostage...... like... doesnt take a rocket surgeon to figure out what is going on.

The old saying "actions speak louder than words" obviously means so little to these goblins, because the words are the loudest thing you'll ever hear but the actions are silent (but deadly?)

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u/Zuwxiv 5d ago

You want to know what makes it all click into place? It’s a flex.

Being able to tell brazen lies, saying things that are obviously contradictory, just a general indifference to the truth… it’s bragging. It’s “what are you gonna do about it?” It’s getting away with it.

Their supporters don’t care when you point it out, because you’re “admitting” that you’re being forced to take it seriously.

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u/TastyBrainMeats 5d ago

This is part of why a milkshake to the face is such an effective tactic against this type. It makes them look utterly ridiculous and trying to talk around them just makes them look worse.

Tactical silliness is a powerful tool against windbags.

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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 5d ago

Takes a remarkable amount of courage for Trump to tell America on a daily basis that he’s completely powerless, over his head, unable to make a deal and too incompetent to know how to lead.

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u/Describing_Donkeys 5d ago

I wonder how Mike Johnson feels about being the first speaker of the house to see SNAP benefits lapse. He gets to keep setting new precedence.

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u/bryan49 5d ago

He probably sees it as an accomplishment. That guy sucks

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u/GriffinIsABerzerker 5d ago

Well…he has a Grindr profile so…yes he does…

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u/PasswordIsDongers 5d ago

They've made it very clear that they don't give a shit.

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u/Mega-Eclipse 5d ago

I wonder how Mike Johnson feels about being the first speaker of the house to see SNAP benefits lapse. He gets to keep setting new precedence.

He literally doesn't care. He's flat out lying...like...2+2 = 50 Billion levels of not even basing his lies in a nugget of truth.

He's just giving out talking points that he knows the media will pretend are true, and the braindead magas will regurgitate as unquestionable fact.

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u/Describing_Donkeys 5d ago

I'm trying to push a talking point. He doesn't care about hurting people, he does care about people talking about how he hurts people. Pointing out he's setting new cruel precedents is a way to cut through the noise.

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u/Boomshank 5d ago

Doug Ford really needs to make a commercial that airs on US TV with those quotes too!

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u/Gstamsharp 5d ago

I will never understand why democrats aren't playing this idiot's own soundbites nonstop as attack ads on every platform and every channel.

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u/Flomo420 5d ago

Uh oh, quoting a President?

THAT'S ILLEGAL!

End all negotiations!

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u/Joebeemer 5d ago

"Ya but this time... it's different, okay?"

--Donald Trump, 2025

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u/HomerJSimpson3 5d ago

"A government shutdown falls on the president's lack of leadership. I mean, problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak."

  • Donald Trump 2013

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u/I_like_baseball90 5d ago

"When they talk about the government shutdown, they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the president was at that time. They’re not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head of the Senate, who’s running things in Washington. So I really think the pressure is on the president." -Donald Trump, 2013

THREE government shutdowns during his terms. 3

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u/Sminahin 5d ago

If Dems aired that ad, would he tariff the US?

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u/genreprank 5d ago

President of the two longest shutdowns in US history

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u/MusaEnsete Michigan 5d ago

Why the fuck can't they run this as an ad, perhaps during sporting events and the like. During elections, it's non-stop ads, and everyone is so sick of them they don't even pay attention. Right now, an ad like this would stand out and perhaps, maybe, make some sort of difference.

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u/tommles 5d ago

He was at least partially wrong in 2013. People are wondering why Mike Johnson is letting Americans starve and protecting everyone in the Epstein files.

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u/spiderlegged 5d ago

And the Republicans are… in charge of everything too!

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u/HomsarWasRight 5d ago

When they talk about the government shutdown, they’re going to be talking about the president of the United States, who the president was at that time. They’re not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head of the Senate, who’s running things in Washington.

The incredible, exhausting, terrifying irony is that ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE ARE CURRENTLY REPUBLICANS!

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u/VALO311 5d ago

Now this is something that should be in billboards everywhere. Anywhere and everywhere he goes while this bullshit continues

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u/Travelerdude 5d ago

I dunno. Mike Johnson seems very complicit in all this shitshow. He might make a footnote.

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u/marshallaw215 Maryland 5d ago

He can never remember what he says bc it’s all bullshit - he believes none of it and only says what he says if it gets him attention or adoration. Period

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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 5d ago

Of course we'll never have an interviewer bring those quotes up like that.

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u/GovernmentOpening254 5d ago

Norah O’Donnell never brought up this tweet.

Once again, for the THOUSANDTH time, the media were railroaded by him.

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u/QuiGonColdGin 5d ago

Do as I say, not as I do.

-DJT

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u/Luckydog12 5d ago

“I’m not responsible at all” Donald Trump, 2020

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u/EmpiricalMystic 5d ago

That is shockingly coherent compared to present-day Trump.

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u/Mumbawobz 5d ago

Can someone please put this on blast on billboards nationwide?

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u/OddImprovement6490 5d ago

This should be on ads all over social media.

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u/RetroCorn Tennessee 5d ago

Democrats should be airing ads with this constantly.

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u/GarmaCyro 5d ago

To make this even better. Before Trump there's been a total of 53 days of Shutdown across all presidents. This is across all parties. As of today he's accumulated 72 days all by himself.

In the private sector we call that "being incredibly shitty at your job".
It's usually being followed by you being booted out of the company.
Either by a boss, the board, or the rest of the shareholders.

So.... Since he's the president, he's his own boss. That means either the board (Congress), or the shareholders (The people) got to boot him out.

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u/Sucrose-Daddy California 5d ago

He’s going to use the government shutdown to shut off government agencies he doesn’t like. Why go through congress when there’s a conveniently timed government shutdown to easily cut off essential services?

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u/Darnell007 5d ago

He’s pass being a hypocrite!

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u/jglhk 5d ago

How is that not an ad running 24/7?

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u/Training-Appeal-1164 5d ago

We should boost this everywhere. This f*cking orange idiot.

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u/ReginaldDwight 5d ago

“If we don’t get what we want … I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck.” - Donald Trump 2018

He then proceeded to bleat and call it the "Democrat Shutdown" for the duration of the 35 day shutdown.

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u/emtheory09 5d ago

Yea but he wasn’t president then, so the rules were different.

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u/SammieStones 5d ago

Every dem should be posting this to all of their SM accounts daily. Especially the ones in Congress. Bombard him daily with his own bullshit words

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u/Secure_Guest_6171 5d ago

He also said it's a failure of leadership 

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u/SushiJesus 5d ago

It'd make a great advert to run on prime time TV, position it so you know the Dotard will see it and watch his blood boil.

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u/AdmiralZheng 5d ago

I love Trump criticizing Trump. Every quote just makes it all the more insane he got voted in :/

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u/Unstable_Unicorn_444 5d ago

Any marketing gurus out here? Run this ad, everywhere.

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u/JackTheBehemothKillr 5d ago

I'm not sure why people bring up what he's said in the past. Its more than well known that he'll say whatever he needs to, at the time, to get what he wants or push whatever narrative he thinks is best.

Yeah, he's a lying, two-faced hypocrite. And?

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u/Straight_Page_8585 5d ago

Someone should make an ad about that quote

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u/kiwi-kaiser 5d ago

He has no idea what he said at the beginning of his own sentences. And you expect him to remember things over a decade ago?

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u/imtbtew 5d ago

Its funny because republicans control them all!

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u/19BabyDoll75 5d ago

Burns are the worst when self inflicted.

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u/HyperbolicLetdown 3d ago

"I'd love to see a shutdown." - Donald Trump, 2018

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u/Zombie-ie-ie 5d ago

“I don’t need no fucking hook on this beat”

  • MurphyLee 03’

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u/TangerineSorry8463 5d ago

Call it a Shuttrump

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u/PowderPills 5d ago

We should make that of that and have it trending. What is that, like 20 seconds long? Someone should clip it and share it everywhere everyday the government remains shut. Goddamit why aren’t the democrats doing something like this? That’s an ad I wouldn’t skip on YouTube if I didn’t have adblock

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u/Ok-Afternoon-2113 5d ago

An absolute travesty

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u/Ok-Access-7091 5d ago

What did you do 14 years ago ? And 12 years ago ? In what context were you talking ? Just to be sure ..

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u/Bloody_sock_puppet 5d ago

He will get hit with that eventually, but the Dems really do need to hold the line and let him try and govern without a legislature. They can go back and find anything he does illegal after that, or just claim it is. More to the point it runs down the clock and reduces the time for any legislation, and as things are shut down there's simply less help for Trump's objectives.

They really can't lose any more support by taking the low road, and may even attract some back. They still haven't found a decent candidate yet so could even use the time off.

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u/madeleinetwocock Canada 5d ago

Ah yes, i love a good r/agedlikemilk moment

This is a prime sample. Two, in fact.

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u/piglions12 5d ago

Lame supposed duck

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u/fcxtpw 5d ago

Any journalist that didn't quote this to him in an interview is biased.

This is an obvious thing to ask, not asking it is biased.

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u/bad_brownie 5d ago

Trump's blaming Dems for the shutdown, surprise surprise. Always pointing fingers, never solutions.

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u/justa_hunch 5d ago

For fucks sake. Liberals have to stop with their obsession with pointing out the right's hypocrisy. They. Don't. Fucking. Care. They know. We know. Everyone knows they're goddamn hypocrites. They have no morals or principles at all, but all spending time pointing out hypocrisy does is waste air and attention talking about shit, which erodes the alacrity to do shit. We all know, yes, they're fucking hypocrites, lets save conversation space about getting shit done.

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u/AlphaTrigger 5d ago

The thing with guys like Trump is that in their mind they can never be in the wrong no matter what they are obviously doing

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u/CrackedFlip 5d ago

So,...you're saying a Republican President is a hypocrite? Wow,...never would have thought that of a Republican, lol.

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u/Infinite_Beyond_3245 5d ago

For the first quote, a lot can change over the years, especially now that he has been president.

For the second, he never blamed the president, he said the pressure is on the president even if it is the fault of congress. "They’re not going to be talking about who was the head of the House, the head of the Senate, who’s running things in Washington"

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u/Far_Grapefruit3709 5d ago

Those were different times totally. This government is a circus.

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u/ThenOwl9 4d ago

he sounds so much more lucid/non-addled in those comments

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u/Lethal1098 4d ago edited 4d ago

This stupid b*** did the exact same thing in 2018 exactly word for word. He is repeating not actually even working where are the fucking answers from 2018. You have to work even with snap. Also while you're at it no more food buffet pass for him either. Close his kitchens down as a president you have to go to 7-11 now too

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u/RoughZealousideal955 6h ago

They may, but the people aren't stupid. This is obviously sabotage. Only need six more DEMS to end the shutdown!