“Trump, he’s had it with these people, because he knows they’re playing politics,” said the second person. “Nobody thought it was going to last this long.”
Trump and his top aides thought that unpaid federal workers, closed and limited federal facilities and threats of ever-more job cuts from Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, would be too much for Democrats to handle
“I don’t know what’s wrong with them,” he said of Democrats Friday. “They’ve never done a thing like this. They’ve become crazed lunatics. All they have to do is say, ‘Let’s go. Let’s open up our country.’ And everything snaps back into shape. So there’s something wrong with them… It’s their fault. Everything is their fault. It’s so easily solved.”
This is a game of pigeon chess played entirely by pigeons.
If Trump and his cult make the slightest concession the Dems will fold immediately. Then both sides will knock over the remaining pieces and fly back to their flocks to claim victory.
To be fair, I think everyone is baffled that the Dems haven’t caved by now. I didn’t think it was possible to regrow a spine.
Trump is delusional and thinks he can bend reality to what he wants to be real.
This type of delusional thinking is very typical in USA, based on the idea that if you want it enough you can make it.
This mantra has become so pervasive that some have begun to believe that you don’t even have to do anything to achieve what you want. If the wanting is strong enough, reality will bend to your will.
This is what happens in an anti science society where the mentality is driven by religion and superstition combined with desperation and a wish for ultimate freedom.
The idea is spread for instance through numerous self help books and prosperity gospel.USA is a society that has gone collectively insane.
PS:
That doesn’t mean every American is insane, but as a whole American society is de facto insane. It’s obvious to see everyday in the news.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3.5%25_rule
Id imagine it’s a similar number to amount of delusional people, criminals, etc etc.
Just like it’s about 10% of shops in a town/street closing down to make the place look run down
Baffled by Democrats? You mean, the guy that gave this speech was baffled??
“It’s their fault. Everything is their fault.”
A malignant narcissist’s mantra.
In his defense, I’m baffled too! Dems usually cave immediately.
I really hope this means they’re becoming a real opposition party.
They definitely cave every time Republicans do this exact same thing.
If you can do it once, you can do it again. Even if they went back to work, or pressured the Dems to back down this time, what assurance do the federal workers have that the republicans won’t just do it again sometime in the future? It’s not even the Dems fault - the RS have had the power to resume business the whole time. Never mind the random furloughing, shutting down of ‘nonessentials’ and doge creeps running around again? That’s just the surface of it.
They’ve never done a thing like this.
Ikr! Like grow a bit more than half a spine!
This is, the art of the deal.
He is, the weakest link.
