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2018-07-30 Home Front: Politix

Trump threatens US government shutdown over immigration

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Posted by Fred 2018-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Midterm elections coming...

Posted by BrerRabbit 2018-07-30 05:15|| 2018-07-30 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 ...yep. Schumer, Pelosi and Company wanted to play this issue to their core globalist/socialists, now it appears someone is going to make them ride it to November or blink. "Hey, you love illegals more than you love Americans."

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-07-30 06:45|| 2018-07-30 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 "Hey, you love illegals more than you love Americans." Additional narratives.

Schumer, Pelosi and the Dems want to shut down the government...again?

Dems are obstructing the will of the people?

Dems and Soros want to destroy America by having no borders?

What about the other American citizens who are dreamers too?

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-30 08:23|| 2018-07-30 08:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Considering that illegal immigration is one of the top, if not the top issue this year, this must be polling well with independents.

Shut it down, Mr. President.

Posted by DarthVader 2018-07-30 09:46|| 2018-07-30 09:46|| Front Page Top

#5 Call their bluff. It's make or break time. Shut it down and then see how the voters react. Democrats rely on MSM to spin it their way but it might not work this time. They could lose big.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-07-30 09:59|| 2018-07-30 09:59|| Front Page Top

#6 The MSM will ride to the Democrat's rescue in a thundering herd. I distinctly remember a spot that kept being aired on CNN in the '95 Shutdown -- the local LA station had an interview with a half-blind (!) weeping (!!) elderly (!!!) Latino (!!!!) Bag Lady (!!1!!!) that was terrorized, simply terrorized that Newt Gingrich and his GOP Goons were going to take away her Social Security checks. She was going to starve and freeze in the blowing snowstorms of East LA, no doubt...

Goebbels would have been proud...

Posted by magpie 2018-07-30 10:11|| 2018-07-30 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Just remember the country song when the left is acting nuts: "God is great, beer is good and people are crazy."

Posted by JohnQC 2018-07-30 10:26|| 2018-07-30 10:26|| Front Page Top

Posted by Skidmark 2018-07-30 11:43|| 2018-07-30 11:43|| Front Page Top

#9 The government will shut down and nobody will notice

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-30 13:13|| 2018-07-30 13:13|| Front Page Top

#10 Small comment: In the 1995 shutdown, a Dem was president, there was no internet only the MSM, and most people still trusted both. The truth only had Limbaugh and the AM radio talk shows.

Times have changed. Have they changed enough?

Posted by Boss Spoper5850 2018-07-30 13:46|| 2018-07-30 13:46|| Front Page Top

#11 nothing will happen in DC anyway. All the shutdown will do is give people a paid day off....

Posted by 49 Pan 2018-07-30 14:16|| 2018-07-30 14:16|| Front Page Top

#12 At least a Republican shut down is unlikely to spend money to put up barriers and hire guards to keep people from visiting the national parks and monuments. If it goes on long enough we might actually find how overstuffed different layers of government bureaucracy are.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-07-30 14:59|| 2018-07-30 14:59|| Front Page Top

#13 If it goes on long enough we might actually find how overstuffed different layers of government bureaucracy are.

Trump plays Kriegsspiel, and "professional politicians" play checkers?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-30 15:03|| 2018-07-30 15:03|| Front Page Top

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