Posted on 10/19/2025 1:35:12 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats are doing it again.
They’re forced to use conventional political tactics to battle the most unconventional president in history — repeating a scenario that keeps leading them to political disaster.
At first sight, in the third week of the government shutdown, things seem to be working out better than expected for the opposition party locked out of Washington power. They’ve made their key issue — looming health insurance premium hikes — a national story. They’ve opened divisions in the Republican Party. And contrary to stereotype, they didn’t immediately cave, showing supporters a backbone.
In classic shutdown politics, this might have laid a decisive trap for their Republican opponents, as the human cost of the showdown mounts to create a political imperative for the party in power to find an off-ramp.
But this is the nihilistic age of Trump.
The president doesn’t just move the goal posts; he rips up the entire pitch. So assumptions that governed previous shutdowns over 30 years of bitter partisanship in Washington may not apply.
The shutdown started three weeks ago when Senate Democrats refused to back a seven-week spending bill, using the end of government funding as leverage to try to force Republicans to extend expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies and to push for a rollback of Medicaid cuts contained in Trump’s big domestic agenda law.
Republicans are willing to talk about extending the subsidies but won’t do so until Democrats back down and vote to reopen the government on their terms. “Anyone that thinks that tomorrow they’ll suddenly start negotiating, I think is smoking something that is illegal in many states,” Vermont Sen. Bernie...
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I certainly hope so!
“Goal posts” and “pitch” in the same sentence? The author is mixing up different sports.
Although I didn’t like either version of Straw Dogs I liked the man traps. Better visuals of one in the remake.
Welcome, Democrats. 😁
1971 synopsis includes:
The trap breaks his neck and crushes his windpipe, causing a slow death. The film caused a great deal of controversy upon its release in 1971.
I think what this has demonstrated is people are quite comfortable with the government being shut down.
Yeah, the writer probably never went to a hockey ball game.
He’s establishing his “I hate America” bonafides.
Rips up the entire pitch...
More foreign interference, XiNN...?
Government shutdown, things seem to be working out better than expected.
They only lost billions on pet projects now how to pay back the bribes in another question?.
Given the author’s resume, I’d say that’s a safe bet.
Are they closing the walls in on Trump again? Maybe this time..right.
“Block that metaphor...”
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
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They might have to protest every single weekend at this rate 🤣
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https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1979990691938758952
Click at the pic at the link and crank it!!!
First off the use of the metaphors goal post and pitch. They do not belong in the same sentence in the good ole U S of A. Full stop for me.
I caught that too. An American author?
Anyway, why would something called the Affordable Care Act need subsidies to keep it, well, affordable?
A Deep State guy. From 2014...
https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/09/cnn-politics-hires-afps-stephen-collinson-196104
AFP is state supported.
The article is over a thousand words and not one mention of the fact that the Democrats want the taxpayers to pay for illegals’ healthcare.
Well, he was a Varsity Letter wearer - Varsity Checkers.
He is english
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