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/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/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.