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The Longer The Shutdown Lasts, The Better
Issues & Insights ^ | 23 Oct, 2025 | I & I Editorial Board

Posted on 10/25/2025 6:45:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 10/25/2025 6:45:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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More time to shut down wasteful programs and to fire unnecessary government employees.


2 posted on 10/25/2025 6:45:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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What happens when the shutdown goes into week 8 of a 7 week spending bill? We are only a month away from that, and the SNAPpers would have nothing on their plates for Thanksgiving. Groceries and convenience stores everywhere will be clamoring for paying customers.


3 posted on 10/25/2025 6:50:30 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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I give it to 11/6/25. By then there will be riots in the streets over no ETB cards and Chuckie will be hiding!


4 posted on 10/25/2025 6:54:50 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: Bernard

What does happen? If Trump’s people are being paid, the SNAPpers (like that term!) might see the ‘Rat leadership as impotent, and blame them.


5 posted on 10/25/2025 6:55:13 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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Guys like Thune live by polls so hopefully this news will help them stand strong.


6 posted on 10/25/2025 7:04:26 AM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: Lockbox

EBT cards run empty AND on that same week:

....Donks lose 2 off year elections—or barely squeak by in blue states in which they traditionally win—and it finally hits home.

America is not with you, they’re with MAGA. Schumer Shutdown is on the Donks. Time to open it up before it gets worse.


7 posted on 10/25/2025 7:06:21 AM PDT by chiller ( Davy Crockett said:"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." I'll go ahead.)
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It will end when blacks are slaughtered in the streets for looting.


8 posted on 10/25/2025 7:07:09 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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As I see it, the longer that the shutdown continues, the more that people will come to understand that we neither need or can afford this bloated, parasitic Federal Leviathan.


9 posted on 10/25/2025 7:08:37 AM PDT by Howie66 (America First!!)
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More time to shut down wasteful programs and to fire unnecessary government employees.

This is the best part.

10 posted on 10/25/2025 7:12:40 AM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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After the so-called shutdown ends, we still have to deal with Congress’s refusal to end their use of baseline budgeting...


11 posted on 10/25/2025 7:14:43 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: Bernard

“SNAPpers would have nothing on their plates for Thanksgiving“

Ghettopotami can survive months without food. They’ll be fine.


12 posted on 10/25/2025 7:19:36 AM PDT by packagingguy
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Not so fast...look for desparate Ghettopotami ...they do NOT know what a fast is, and their feeling starved will have them lashing out, imho.


13 posted on 10/25/2025 7:25:35 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: chiller

Donks? Are we using the urban meaning of big wheel cars? If so self explanatory, and a good use of the term!


14 posted on 10/25/2025 7:32:35 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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My daughter is a Civil Servant for the DoD. Her specialty is computer security. She was declared essential last week. She’s working for no pay.

She is not upset, good conservative woman!


15 posted on 10/25/2025 7:32:56 AM PDT by FrogMom (Time marches on....)
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More time to shut down wasteful programs and to fire unnecessary government employees.

From your keyboard to God's ear.

16 posted on 10/25/2025 7:41:52 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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In the past if anyone felt the effect of a shutdown, it was because the Democrats went out of their way to make it painful. They’d rent barricades and use more people to keep something closed than were needed to keep it open.


17 posted on 10/25/2025 7:49:08 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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More time, also, for the “Resistance” to work its way through the court system.


18 posted on 10/25/2025 7:50:14 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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I keep forgetting there is a government shutdown.

It hasn't affected me at all.

19 posted on 10/25/2025 7:53:33 AM PDT by Angelino97
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If I had any control over a retail store anywhere where the EBT crowd hangs out, I would prepare for 11/1 by moving most inventory to warehouse and be in readiness to react within minutes to:

- Close the store with everything of any worth locked up;
- Barricade the doors with vehicles that are hard to damage or already worn;
- Have pre-made banners hung as staff are sent home saying “Closed; no EBT” or some phrase that might get it through looters’ heads that there’s nothing to take, maybe; and
- Assure staff that for the duration you’ll pay them for shifts they can’t work (otherwise someone will accidentally forget one of these security steps).

Any PD that doesn’t pre-position forces at likely looting areas ready to decisively act has leaders that want the looting for D optics.


20 posted on 10/25/2025 8:02:47 AM PDT by No.6
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