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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From 2008 through Bidens term, when the GOP wanted to use the threat of a Govt shutdown against Democrats as leverage negotiating as a minority party. Now, the Democrats want to use the same methods as a way to have some power. The problem with this line of thinking is that the current administration does not want most of the Government open. They want to shut it down and give DOGE time to make sure none of the employees come back. This is the total opposite of the leverage the GOP had over Democrats who only wanted to keep the Government open. It was never going to work and they would have just been helping DOGE complete their goals. After all their goal is to dismantle as much of the Federal Govt as possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what should the Democrats do? Open another government?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Trump cant do nearly as much damage to a government thats utterly closed down, so they should have shut it all down for 3 years and 10 months if they could. If the dems had a single stone shared between the lot of them they'd shut it all down. Or maybe the dems are corrupt, but its the same outcome either way.