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Shut it down - shut the government down

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by DaDakota, Sep 30, 2025.

  1. Surfguy

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    You could meet somebody and who knows?

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  2. Reeko

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  3. StupidMoniker

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    I'll happily pay for my own safety, thank you. I don't want to pay for all of the freebies.
    Correct, we don't like the part where other people are "entitled" to the fruits of our labor.
     
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  4. SamFisher

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    It's just quaint against the backdrop of the culmination of the right wing fascist project - a movement that for most of its lifetime packaged itself in a fd fake *very loosely held* libertarian ethos - now results in armed occupation of american cities, the effective suspension of the constitution, the nationaliziation of economic sectors, bulldozing of the white house, the imposition of a for-profit police - when a 1990's teenage libertarian walks in and says things like "thank you, i don't want to pay for all the freebies" as if it's 1994 and we're debating Hilarycare.

    LMFAO - get back in your cave you dope.
     
  5. StupidMoniker

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    Nothing about Trump and MAGA was ever libertarian, r****d. Trump is literally saying the opposite of me, he wants to override the filibuster so the food stamps turn back on, I want to keep the government shut down.
     
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    Xerobull ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    The blue wave will push reopening hard.

    There's the looming threat of the Epstein files. Don't be surprised if people die.
     
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  8. Reeko

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    What even is the republican rationale for not extending these ACA subsidies and allowing people’s healthcare premiums to literally double and triple in price?

    How are they marketing this decision to the American people? We can’t afford it? The subsidies are to give illegals healthcare and for sex changes for children? What is their reasoning? Not the r****ded incoherent Trump reasoning, but the rank and file MAGA drones in the House and Senate?
     
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  10. SamFisher

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    Folks, I have wonderful news

    It looks like that after last night the winds have shifted because your attempt to slur me with the r word was duly censored above

    *WOKE IS BACK*

    Anyhoo I get that the evaporation of the facade of libertariansm is, on some level , going to be met with the moving goalposts that TRUE LIBERTARIANISM HAS NEVER BEEN TRIED . This has been the response anytime it fails and always will be. But that's boring, and to be fair, you aren't explicitly making it here (but you have & no doubt will elsewhere)

    and of course I also get that masked thugs grabbing Americans off the streets and throwing them into foreign gulags or industrial sectors being nationalized & captured by a Mafia president with gargantuan foreign& domestic corruption, all of these pale - in terms of issue salience - in your strain of teenaged "libertarianism" to something like a child getting a SNAP subsidized meal and not having permanent developmental disabilities as a result of childhood malnutrition.

    I would say "never change bro" , but we know you never have & never will.
     
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    DOT just announced that if the shutdown extends into Friday, they will reduce airspace capacity by 10% due to a shortage of air traffic controllers.

    It's increasingly clear that Republicans had no strategy for this shutdown except to assume Democrats would cave. They had no options when Democrats did not cave. And now they are stuck.
     
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    Only a handful have a spine, and bless her heart MTG is one of them, the rest can't stop sucking up, maybe it's the power or they know they will quickly be ostracized if they don't tow the company line. MTG loves trump but she even knows it isn't right, she's also with the epstein files and signed on with the dems. I don't get it man, you risk your reputation for that sick MF`er.................the majority are SPINELESS
     
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    They ain't gon open until 2026.

    Whoever is flying this holidays, good luck. Except for those who voted for this. I hope your flight gets delayed until 2028.
     
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    As a reminder, Democrats have voted 14 times to keep the government closed. All over the enhanced COVID-era health insurance benefits that were originally intended to be and approved as being temporary. Oops, they were lying again! Now they want them permanent and are holding government workers' pay hostage! Democrats -- you just can't trust them, ever. No moral core.


    GOOD DAY
     
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    All the damn GOP needs to do is agree on funding affordable healthcare. But .......they could care less about those suffering. It's all about keeping those Epstein predators secret, stopping the investigations into the sex trafficking circle of wealthy scumbags, and blaming Democrats for those suffering. They are turning a blind eye to the blatant corruption going on in the grifting family of Trump, his abuse of power, and his pathological lying. Let there be galas for the wealthy, embracing Trump decorating everything around him in gold, as the people suffer. They embrace retributions, and abuse of power, roughing up, beating, tear gassing, and terrorizing people on the streets. It's disgusting.
     
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  17. SamFisher

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    This is exactly what I want - no freebies for lazy planes - try not to crash into each other on your own dime not mine

    - very serious economic freedom hayek bruh who lives in a Faraday cage with the Libertarian national committee
     
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    it’s crazy because republicans are basically telling Americans “I want your healthcare premiums to double or triple in price”

    they have no healthcare plan…it’s been over a decade now and they have never presented anything close to a plan…Dems are saying, “hey, let’s extend these ACA subsidies so people can afford their plans” and the GOP refuses

    Why?

    if Dems were trying to sneak in 10 different other things in addition to the subsidy extensions, then maybe I could squint and see the rationale, but there isn’t any of that
     
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    News flash... She use to Love Trump... Now its like The Movie.. The Roses... She hates him more than @DaDakota... That's a whole Lotta hate...

    T_Man
     
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    You're a failed lawyer. Wouldn't toss insults at others.

    You're also a midget lol
     

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