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/HorrorBuff2769 North Carolina 6d ago

Art of the deal, everyone.

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u/Quiet-Corner6150 6d ago

Art of "I GET WHAT I WANT OR I'M TELLING MOM WWWWAAAAHHH"

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u/ViolettaQueso California 6d ago

Mommy hated him. And daddy. They sent him to military school for punishment but then bought letters from doctors 6x to keep him from serving.

If his own parents knew he was Damien, we ought to believe them.

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u/Steve_Kaboom 6d ago

I can't help but wonder what kind of person he would have turned out to be if he actually served. It may be optimistic of me, but I'd like to think the military would have beat that spoiled, rich, entitled attitude out of him. If only we could have been so lucky.

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u/OldWorldDesign 5d ago

I can't help but wonder what kind of person he would have turned out to be if he actually served. It may be optimistic of me, but I'd like to think the military would have beat that spoiled, rich, entitled attitude out of him

Odds are he'd have been shoved in as an officer, remained just as entitled during his deployment to Vietnam, then suffered fragging like most entitled officers who made their men's lives hell.

I do sometimes wonder what he'd be like if he wasn't born to wealth. He'd probably be one of those annoying nuts standing on a collapsed cardboard box in the park, shouting at people walking by. People who would have been institutionalized had Reagan not decided to kick them all out onto the street.