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Mr.WeRP

(980 posts)
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:21 PM 15 hrs ago

Trump Is Raging - This is Good

Trump is pulling out the stops to rage about the Shutdown. Good. Of course he is going to do every evil thing he can think of. He’a a white trash hillbilly akin to JD Vance. This is what we want. We want him unhinged. We want him raging. We want him to be as extreme as possible while he has no real way of paying the people ordered to do the evil shit. This will burn out at some point and it will burn out on his minions faster.

ICE nazis need to pay their bills. At some point they won’t be able to and all the financial promises made to them will come undone.

This is good. This is the point. To remind these asshats they are nothing without us.

This is resistance. Resist.

Please keep it up. And please tell your reps and senators to keep it up. If we do, we win.

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Trump Is Raging - This is Good (Original Post) Mr.WeRP 15 hrs ago OP
I won't be able to pay my mortgage or my bills if I don't get my SS check directly deposited in my bank account. CTyankee 15 hrs ago #1
SS payments are exempt from shutdowns. Of course Mr.WeRP 15 hrs ago #2
Are we sure the SC6 BlueKota 7 hrs ago #27
If they did, there would be a full on rebellion Mr.WeRP 5 hrs ago #30
SS checks are supposed to still come obamanut2012 15 hrs ago #3
Same here (except substitute rent for mortgage). ShazzieB 12 hrs ago #19
SS Rebl2 12 hrs ago #20
oh, thank goddess for that! CTyankee 12 hrs ago #21
Same with Mr YD and me. I will feel considerably better after the 15th which the date for his check yellowdogintexas 6 hrs ago #28
I read SS will make it's payments..... Lovie777 15 hrs ago #4
ICE got funded in the Big Beautiful bill in the spring IbogaProject 15 hrs ago #5
NO Federal Employees get paid during the shutdown Mr.WeRP 14 hrs ago #8
Not necessarily so Mossfern 13 hrs ago #16
It is so Mr.WeRP 13 hrs ago #18
Thank you for this vitally important information! ShazzieB 12 hrs ago #22
Tell Rebl2 7 hrs ago #25
For sure Mossfern 6 hrs ago #29
Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Blue Owl 15 hrs ago #6
So, can someone explain to me, how Federal workers get no pay until this is settled, and ICE continues bluestarone 15 hrs ago #7
It is the law Mr.WeRP 14 hrs ago #9
Well, i'm thinking these ASSHOLES in charge should be bluestarone 14 hrs ago #12
His demented mind thinks a state that voted against him is a Democratic state. surfered 14 hrs ago #10
Of course he doesn't! He thinks he is President for Life. CTyankee 14 hrs ago #11
Probably gonna turn out that way. He looks/acts pretty unhealthy already Attilatheblond 13 hrs ago #15
Quote of the day republianmushroom 13 hrs ago #13
"I'm just trying to make my nut" -- Mr Mackey former guidance counselor and ICE agent on South Park JT45242 13 hrs ago #14
Saturday October 18. No Kings! Find a No Kings protest near you https://www.nokings.org/ Bernardo de La Paz 13 hrs ago #17
Thanks for this. ShazzieB 11 hrs ago #23
Thank you for letting me know that I have been helpful in this regard. It is encouraging! . . . .nt Bernardo de La Paz 11 hrs ago #24
Will this be the excuse and how they take our Social Security and Medicare? Eliot Rosewater 7 hrs ago #26
When people lose emotional control then they make mistakes misanthrope 1 hr ago #31

CTyankee

(67,128 posts)
1. I won't be able to pay my mortgage or my bills if I don't get my SS check directly deposited in my bank account.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:27 PM
15 hrs ago

And I am not alone. I am beyond nuts about this situation.

Our prez is nuts. Criminally insane.

It's a good thing that the only repub. I know can be at a distance from me now. Otherwise this old lady would be outta control on him.

Mr.WeRP

(980 posts)
2. SS payments are exempt from shutdowns. Of course
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:30 PM
15 hrs ago

Trump will try to withhold them but this will rapidly be overturned in court.

And if SS payments for some reason are withheld, the entire economy will start shutting down, so you won’t be alone. The pressure to cave won’t be on Dems alone.

Hang tight.

ShazzieB

(21,683 posts)
19. Same here (except substitute rent for mortgage).
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:36 PM
12 hrs ago

Either way, we'll be out in the street pretty fast without both of our SS checks. And evidently being homeless is a crime now, so we'll be instant criminals. Wheee.

yellowdogintexas

(23,479 posts)
28. Same with Mr YD and me. I will feel considerably better after the 15th which the date for his check
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 10:04 PM
6 hrs ago

Mine comes later in the month.

Last time everything went ok but I have no faith this time around

Lovie777

(20,523 posts)
4. I read SS will make it's payments.....
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:44 PM
15 hrs ago

Father-in-law was advised. I don’t know about Medicare and Med-cal (Medicaid).

He did receive the military payment for PTSD (Marine veteran, heavy combat in the Vietnam War).

IbogaProject

(5,061 posts)
5. ICE got funded in the Big Beautiful bill in the spring
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:46 PM
15 hrs ago

Ice will have money for quite awhile. And I read that the total impoundment since this January is over $400 billion. Even if a lot of that has already been squandered, I will bet ice will stay funded.

Mossfern

(4,392 posts)
16. Not necessarily so
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:23 PM
13 hrs ago

I know that those who provide emergency services like search and rescue teams in national parks are being paid.
Some Federal employees are being furloughed but still need to work to provide only "essential services" but they will not be paid until the government re-opens. Others are furloughed but are forbidden to work at all and will also be paid eventually.

It's very complicated and it seems that some departments are running around like chickens without heads because they don't know what the new rules are regarding this.

ShazzieB

(21,683 posts)
22. Thank you for this vitally important information!
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 04:44 PM
12 hrs ago

Some of our lives literally depend on SS and Medicare and/or other government programs.

Will I continue to receive my Social Security and SSI checks?

Recipients will continue to receive their Social Security and SSI checks. The Social Security Administration (SSA) will provide limited services like issuing Social Security cards and holding appointments for benefit applications. However, SSA will stop services like benefit verifications and processing overpayments. Customer service wait times will dramatically increase.

Will Medicare and Medicaid benefits be affected?

Current Medicare, Medicaid, and disability insurance beneficiaries will continue to receive their benefits assuming a shutdown lasts less than three months.


It's an outrage that Republicans think it's just fine to jerk us all around like this whenever they feel like it. Fuck them all, especially their dear leaders.

Blue Owl

(57,461 posts)
6. Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:47 PM
15 hrs ago

bluestarone

(20,394 posts)
7. So, can someone explain to me, how Federal workers get no pay until this is settled, and ICE continues
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 01:48 PM
15 hrs ago

To get paid? How does that work?

bluestarone

(20,394 posts)
12. Well, i'm thinking these ASSHOLES in charge should be
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:10 PM
14 hrs ago

Releasing names of ICE people (MONSTERS) still getting paid during shutdown? That's kinda the way i read the law.

surfered

(9,523 posts)
10. His demented mind thinks a state that voted against him is a Democratic state.
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:06 PM
14 hrs ago

They probably went 55% to 45%, maybe 60/40. So, when he punishes those state’s he will be hurting the 45-40% who voted for him. But he doesn’t care!

Attilatheblond

(7,359 posts)
15. Probably gonna turn out that way. He looks/acts pretty unhealthy already
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:09 PM
13 hrs ago

And Just Dance is probably feeding him Big Macs by the carload.

republianmushroom

(21,510 posts)
13. Quote of the day
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:52 PM
13 hrs ago

Quote of the day
“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 who has to get people together.” — Donald Trump, interview with Meredith Vieira, NBC’s Today, April 7, 2011.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220692590

JT45242

(3,647 posts)
14. "I'm just trying to make my nut" -- Mr Mackey former guidance counselor and ICE agent on South Park
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:08 PM
13 hrs ago

Some will want to bully brown people just cause. But some (many? I hope at least) were just looking for a fat paycheck -- still deplorable because all that Buddhist philosophy about right behavior and right livelihood and all 3 Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianty, and Islam) with that love your neighbor as yourself.

But many may decide that not getting paid make this not worth it,

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,143 posts)
17. Saturday October 18. No Kings! Find a No Kings protest near you https://www.nokings.org/
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 03:30 PM
13 hrs ago

Saturday October 18. No Kings!

Find a No Kings protest near you
https://www.nokings.org/

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,143 posts)
24. Thank you for letting me know that I have been helpful in this regard. It is encouraging! . . . .nt
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 05:06 PM
11 hrs ago

Eliot Rosewater

(34,247 posts)
26. Will this be the excuse and how they take our Social Security and Medicare?
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:28 PM
7 hrs ago

We all realize now I hope that they want to take our Social Security and our Medicare, right?

Right?

Right?

Hopefully when they do something along those lines and they will, there are enough angry people to make it unsafe for them to go out the front door.

misanthrope

(9,206 posts)
31. When people lose emotional control then they make mistakes
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:14 AM
1 hr ago

When you're a dotard with cardio issues, it has to compound that as well.

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