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"President Trump will sign the border security compromise package on Capitol Hill to avert another government shutdown and will take the extraordinary step of declaring a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall, the White House announced Thursday."
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QOTD:
The forest may be quiet, but that doesn't mean
the snakes have gone away.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 15 2019, @05:51AM (3 children)
If you take into account that inherently there's more crap than optimal choices, getting rid of a single BS doesn't improve too much your chances the next choice will be better.
On the other side, if you take into account the cost of getting rid of a one BS...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @11:14AM (2 children)
yeah, so the last shutdown reportedly cost the US 11 billion .... in order to stop 1 bullhit 5.7 billion spending
way to go democrats
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 15 2019, @11:31AM
I keep seeing that number circulated here. May I get a run down what is accounted under that number?
Or is it under "87.5% statistics are made on the spot" category?
Besides, your remark doesn't address the point I made: one BS down is no warranty the next thing will not be a (divisive) bullshit too.
I have this nagging feeling that will actually enhance the chances of the next BS ("if they swallowed this one, why not continue to feed them another? Looks like the strategy works.")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday February 15 2019, @07:54PM
If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk. Giving in to the Republicans pitching a fit and threatening to shut down the government just encourages them to pull out the same threat again the next time they want something.
But these are the same morons who keep making bad precedents like refusing to approve a Supreme Court nominee for an entire year in the hope that they'll win the next election and flip the court (which admittedly worked, ugh). They keep breaking rules like that that you just know the Democrats will come right back and do the same thing back at them when *they're* in power. Long-term planning is just so passe.
Or how the Rs finally lost the governorship in Wisconsin to a Dem, so now the R assholes who control the legislature are taking away powers from the governor [nytimes.com] and giving them to themselves. Because it's ours and you can't have it!
It's not enough for partisan politicians to win; they have to make the other guys look bad in the process.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"