Textbook first amendment violation

This. The honest answer is some degree of “We’ve been generous, but they will kill us once they outnumber us.”

The people to whom this happened should make sure to follow up with every single person they sent an automatic reply to and inform them that the message was changed without their consent.

They can only buy a politician so many gold statues.

It’s magnetism and solar winds, or something. Don’t ask me how it works, your round earther brain wouldn’t get it. ~this is sarcasm~

You know, I think the admin trying to make thought crime a thing actually deserves attention.

Darth Sidious: I will make it settles.

This explains why he stopped highlighting the dangers of bears in his shows.

It’s true, we’re all laughing at you. Yes, you. I’m tired of pretending we aren’t.

Threw human death and suffering at it until it was done.

I’m starting to think a humiliation kink is a prerequisite for being in this administration.

Telling myself “Don’t be a bitch” with a thick Russian accent has been way more effective at getting me to do things I don’t want to do than it would be if I were normal.

Because I forgot what it was like

If 100% of republicans vote to pass and 100% of democrats vote to fail, then it is undeniably the Democrats initiating the shutdown. There’s no way around this fact.

Bullshit. Democrats have no obligation to vote for a bill they had no say in. If Republicans want Democrat votes, they negotiate. If Republicans want to pass it with no Democrat votes, they do away with the filibuster. They want to keep the filibuster but have it be a tool that only Republicans get to use.

My point is that it’s not Democrats initiating this shutdown. I don’t think the reason the perception is otherwise is because of the population being dumb, I think it’s the Democrats’ own poor messaging. Well, maybe a little of both.

It’s absurdity to think a shutdown isn’t the Republicans’ fault while they completely control the government.

If Democrats have the harder argument, they have only themselves to blame. Every hard fact in this fight is in their favor. The Republicans could end the filibuster and keep the government open with only Republican votes - it would only take a few minutes. They just don’t want to. Republicans could have a temporary shutdown with no layoffs, like all the other shutdowns we’ve had. They just don’t want to. Republicans could negotiate to win Democrat votes instead of trying to browbeat Democrats into voting for a purely Republican bill. They just don’t want to.

We’ve been through several shutdowns now, and everyone knows mass layoffs aren’t a part of them, unless Trump decides they should be. He’s very openly threatening to blow us all up if he doesn’t get his way. If Democrat leadership was competent, everyone in the country would know that, and they’d have already won this fight.