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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. Hea 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 wont 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.

CTyankee
(67,128 posts)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)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 wont be alone. The pressure to cave wont be on Dems alone.
Hang tight.
BlueKota
(4,647 posts)will not just bend over and kiss his big tushy pet usual?
Mr.WeRP
(980 posts)obamanut2012
(28,867 posts)ShazzieB
(21,683 posts)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.
And Medicare not effected right now at least.
CTyankee
(67,128 posts)and thank you for your reassurance!
yellowdogintexas
(23,479 posts)Mine comes later in the month.
Last time everything went ok but I have no faith this time around
Lovie777
(20,523 posts)Father-in-law was advised. I dont 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)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.
Mr.WeRP
(980 posts)Regardless of any funding bills.
Mossfern
(4,392 posts)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)Some of our lives literally depend on SS and Medicare and/or other government programs.
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.

You who should not be paid is congress or the president.

Blue Owl
(57,461 posts)
bluestarone
(20,394 posts)To get paid? How does that work?
Mr.WeRP
(980 posts)bluestarone
(20,394 posts)Releasing names of ICE people (MONSTERS) still getting paid during shutdown? That's kinda the way i read the law.
surfered
(9,523 posts)They probably went 55% to 45%, maybe 60/40. So, when he punishes those states he will be hurting the 45-40% who voted for him. But he doesnt care!
CTyankee
(67,128 posts)Attilatheblond
(7,359 posts)And Just Dance is probably feeding him Big Macs by the carload.
republianmushroom
(21,510 posts)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. Hes the one who has to get people together. Donald Trump, interview with Meredith Vieira, NBCs Today, April 7, 2011.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220692590
JT45242
(3,647 posts)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)Saturday October 18. No Kings!
Find a No Kings protest near you
https://www.nokings.org/
ShazzieB
(21,683 posts)Just found my local event and signed up!
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,143 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(34,247 posts)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)When you're a dotard with cardio issues, it has to compound that as well.