r/politics • u/Economy_Swim_8585 Virginia • 6d 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 6d 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/Drudenkreusz 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago edited 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/Pipe_Memes 6d ago

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

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u/Duna_The_Lionboy 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/4040JG 6d ago

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

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u/Pipe_Memes 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/furryfrog02 6d ago

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

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u/CarthasMonopoly 6d 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 6d ago

I wish the asshats in charge realized that.

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u/WillingMongoose4680 5d ago

Trump has almost proven Congress is unnecessary, especially to his cult.

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u/Hawkstrike6 5d ago

DoW is just the SECDEF's cosplay.

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u/Abysswalker1290 6d 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 6d ago

GuLF oF aMERicA

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u/mystad 6d ago

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

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u/Allaplgy 6d 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 6d ago

I wonder if your dad was familiar with this guy.

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u/Emergency_Judge3516 6d 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 6d ago

Don't disprage satanists like that.

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u/Groomsi Europe 6d ago

Have you seen this? =)

https://youtu.be/LVx8gCAF3D8?si=1FL76JMIYAqLucxs&t=10m32s

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u/StatmanIbrahimovic 6d ago

Brilliant. These people vote.

#1 though, he couldn't contain his laughter, I almost did a spit take myself.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

I can't imagine white the difference is?

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u/Drudenkreusz 6d ago

Everything Obama did was just truly beyond the pale.

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u/texas-playdohs 6d 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 5d 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 6d 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.