Posted on 01/10/2019 10:13:10 PM PST by ransomnote
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Troop withdrawal from Syria has begun, U.S. official says.https://t.co/GMG2ggMJWY pic.twitter.com/PPLycnWe0g— Military Times (@MilitaryTimes) January 11, 2019
https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/the-shutdown/
The Shutdown
By Richard Fernandez
As the government shutdown took its toll, Washington DC assumed the unfamiliar aspect of a city going through hard times. “It’s like a ghost city — totally dead. ... When other parts of the country suffered during the Great Recession, the area around the nation’s capital boomed.” But now the shoe is on the other foot.
As the country nears the end of its third week of a government shutdown, the consequences of Washington’s political dysfunction are landing right on the city’s doorstep. The Washington metro area is home to the largest number of federal workers in the country, and as their paychecks begin to stop, the negative effects threaten to spread across the region.
This is an unusual problem for a region that boasts one of the country’s richest, strongest economies, powered by government spending and a large, stable federal work force. ...
as long as the shutdown ended before February, the economic effect on the overall region would be minimal ... the longer the shutdown went on, the higher chance it would cause more lasting damage.
The question everybody is asking is: who will blink first? Trump or Congress. It seems apparent that neither can afford to. It has been evident for some time that the Left will settle for nothing else but the president’s head. Within a few short months special counsel Mueller will publish his report and the Democratic dominated house will take it to impeachment. While conviction by a Republican senate seems unlikely, Donald Trump has nothing to lose by hanging tough on the wall issue, knowing if he blinks the circling pack will be upon him in a moment.
The Democrats appear to be equally committed. Nancy Pelosi announced there will be no retreat from the position of not funding a border wall. “President Donald Trump abruptly walked out of a closed-door meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday in the White House Situation Room after Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said she wouldn’t fund his border wall even if he ended the government shutdown.”
Colby Itkowitz of the Washington Post lays out 5 ways the government shutdown could end.
1 Trump simply caves;
2 Congress overrides Trump’s veto of any funding bill that does not include a border wall;
3 Congress gives Trump a down payment on the wall but not the full amount the president has asked for;
4 “The Democrats could revive their deal from last year that would have exchanged $25 billion toward a border wall for a path to citizenship for Dreamers”;
5 “Neither side folds and the agencies remain shut down through the end of 2020, when there’s a presidential election”.
CNN reports that Republican senators are trying to work out a deal as envisaged by Options 3 and 4. But given the life and death stakes of the conflict Options 2 and 5 are not inconceivable. No deal but victory or defeat by a trial of strength.
The world mourns.
#DerpBurger
#UpdateTheChart
Ginsburg to miss next week's Supreme Court sessions, but recovery 'on track'
If it were Clarence Thomas missing oral arguments CNN would be doing 20 minute segments on how unprecedented his absence is, how detrimental to the country, how it's his duty to resign, how attendance is mandatory for Justices.
You can just hear Anderson Cooper interviewing Jonathan Turley on it ...
#TheAiringOfGrievances
#Festivus
The world rejoices.
#DerpSoiHybrid
#UpdateTheChart
#NoSlackers
:: BLASPHEMY!!!! ::
In this case, shouldn’t that be
Blaspheme Me!
?
(Ouch! I slapped my hand!)
I’m sorry Rita; Slid off onto food again!
Party asks me to encourage listening/following Janda.
Maybe consider taking a day off from commenting on every single one of my posts. Who knows, you might enjoy it?
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Here, I merely corrected a massively incorrect bit of nonsense being spread by a YouTube pundit - presumably you might even agree that it's a useful service to Freepers to point out when broad claims that are made are provably wrong.
In which case, maybe just nod happily and move on to another topic for a change?
Yours for a more pleasant, less redundant, less personal Q thread, - JB.
Somebody said earlier that she has a hospice set up at home. No sauce for the article though.
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Interesting question and imagery solution you posted, Cats PJs, with the 6 flag stamps. I was recalling that some of the thinking at the time was that the White Hats were behind the fake bomb envelopes with the 6 flags. If so, I am not sure of what their thinking might have been in selecting 6 stamps each time.
Another place you saw 6 flags, and I'm sure you thought of it, was the SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS.
There actually WERE Six flags which claimed and flew over Texas, and that was where they got the name. In the original park, there were sections of the park depicting the various cultures which prevailed under a particular one of each of the 6 flags. They were: France, Spain, Mexico, the Lone Star of the Republic (now the state flag), the Confederate flag, and Stars and Stripes.
The franchise became so popular that now they are opening one up in Saudi Arabia. This is the imagery being associated with the one in Dubai:
There is definitely room to explore the symbology of the meaning of the number "6."
The Meaning of Numbers: The Number 6
In the Bible, the number 6 symbolizes man and human weakness, the evils of Satan and the manifestation of sin. Man was created on the sixth day. Men are appointed 6 days to labor.
A Hebrew slave was to serve six years and be released in the 7th year. Six years were appointed for the land to be sown and harvested. The number 6 is also associated with Satan in his temptation of Jesus.
The bringing together of three 6's is the number and mark of the end time Beast of Revelation. As such, it represents the very best system of governance that mankind can produce WITHOUT God and under the constant influence of his chief adversary.
Man's system on earth is made up of three parts (economic, religious and governmental) all of which are influenced and led by Satan. When 666 is multiplied by 7 it equals 4662, which depicts man's total imperfection under Lucifer. When added across, 4 + 6 + 6 + 2 = 18; and 18 divided by 3 is 6.
:: Is that who’s REALLY giving care? ::
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The Clintoons maybe giving her some of their adrenochrome stash.
RE your sully post:
practice the maneuver 17 times
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How interesting!
RE: Janda
1. No comms outside 8chan.
2. Cletus trusts 8chan and FReeQs. Others are viewed askance.
3. I have no reason to _not_ trust my backchannel party. Caveat: Rust, but terrify (Red Badger)
4. Jackie-soi*? Meh...not so much.
* - I firmly believe I was the first to call JB this name back in August/September. Did so in a post to baggie. It is not on his “list” because I did not include him on the post. Jackie is getting paid by the post for engagement.
Not bickering, soi. Just wondering what a virulent Q basher is doing posting on the Q thread.
There are plenty of other threads for you to spread your negativity. Join your comrades.
We trust the plan here, and work to support our President. You just don't fit in, is all.
Nothing personal. Try not to be so sensitive.
Yours, for a derp free Q thread. ~ B.
p.s. #UpdateTheChart
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