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yeah I'm totally in Eeyore mode right now - I see this as a very significant strategic mistake. I heard the words he spoke but it rang pretty hallow - he talked about how bad we need a wall and then said I'll get to in a couple of weeks.

I didn't hear a big beautiful wall - I heard crap about drones and fences, how he never said building a wall across the Mexico border. I heard baloney about there are places we can't build a wall and nobody would ever try to cross there anyhow. Have you ever seen the Great Wall of China? I heard how wonderful all our government workers are and how we are so lucky to have them. I heard a guy whose heart wasn't in anymore. Meanwhile illegals will continue to poor across some will go on to murder US citizens

So what was the point of this 35 day shutdown? What got accomplished the centrists are now thinking "you know that Nancy Pelosi is a very bad person"? I doubt it - All he did was expose that the best defense against president Trump is frenetic patience

yeah I’m totally in Eeyore mode right now - I see this as a very significant strategic mistake.

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I look more on the glass-half-full side.

A. It pulls the plug on the RAT / media “woe is me!” talking points for furloughed workers.

B. It gives the worthless Congress a firm deadline when they have to come up with something... or Trump will go over their heads, declare a national emergency and get it done some other way.

C. It takes away Queen Nancy’s excuse for cancelling the State of the Union, allowing Trump to make an appeal for his agenda directly to the public.

Real confrontation with the DemComs has only just begun. It's been sniping in the past, but no more. I among others have been waiting for this. Secondly, no large issue with a lot of moving parts is ever settled in one or two moves. Ever. That's not how the world works. It's a process and it's not fast, so those out there who are expecting quick gratification are not going to get it. And there's more than just a "wall" in play - I detected that long ago. People like to say that the DemComs when "given an inch, they take a mile" - true, but so does Trump. That's why there's such a battle - each side actually wants more than what they are openly professing. It's political brinkmanship publicly in play for all to see, and even learn from if so inclined. You don't seem to be someone who has had a lot of broad experiences in life, so all these sort of machinations must be very overwhelming to you.