So I was talking to a learned Lawyer on Saturday night. He claims the Executive Branch has the fiduciary duty to get the country moving and must declare Martial Law, if the Marxists will not end the impasse, discuss.
Shutdown Impasse - What can/should the Executive Branch do?
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A government operating way outside its original boundaries and working to subvert the will of the people doesn't seem much better.
I think the Executive Branch should use this opportunity to DRAMATICALLY REDUCE the size of the Federal government. RIF entire departments. Perfect excuse as "no money" so reduce the government. No foreign aide. No UN funding. No WHO funding. No Department of Education. No grants to cities/states.
Serious? Tell your idiot friend don't do drugs. Nothing good would come from declaring martial law over the annual gov shutdown.
We could take this time to just wall off California so people like your friend can't go anywhere else and infect the rest is the country with his stupidity. It's already happened way too much, we need to put a stop to it.
Lightening8 has the right idea.
Yup, weak stupid people, left and right alike, love government overreach. Especially over educated ones.
Martial law for the same bullshit dog and pony show we get at least once a year? To what, use the Marines to duckwalk the Dems to DC, and then...and then...? Tell them they're being big meany-faced buttheads and they need to play nice?
Just imagine how frothy-mouthed the Dems would be at Republicans setting the precedent for invoking martial law over something as stupid and pedantic as our yearly government shutdown circus (that exists only to give Congresscritters something to say during their next election cycle).
Imagine that precedent existed before Covid. Think about that one for a sec, and what we'd all be doing right now if that had been the case.
Cut Congress' paycheck and benefits while the government is closed, that'll ensure any future shutdown is over pretty quick.
Just imagine how frothy-mouthed the Dems would be at Republicans setting the precedent for invoking martial law over something as stupid and pedantic as our yearly government shutdown circus (that exists only to give Congresscritters something to say during their next election cycle).
Imagine that precedent existed before Covid. Think about that one for a sec, and what we'd all be doing right now if that had been the case.
Cut Congress' paycheck and benefits while the government is closed, that'll ensure any future shutdown is over pretty quick.
You think the Congress paycheck is a big incentive to the congress critters? Budget dust compared to their other streams of income!
Permanently fire 100,000 federal employees per day until it opens up. After 30 days, the budget balances itself!
Door number 2. Permanantly cancel 1 billion dollars in funding, grants, handouts, aid... per hour... 24 x 7. After a certain point, the budget also balances itself.
Sirhr
Door number 2. Permanantly cancel 1 billion dollars in funding, grants, handouts, aid... per hour... 24 x 7. After a certain point, the budget also balances itself.
Sirhr
Nah, but at least it would be a figurative "Fuck you lazy assholes" sort of gesture. Short of booting them all out of office - permanently - every time a shut-down happens, not much else for it. Ban stock trades and they'd just play shuffle games with paper corporations to keep them going.
If you think the gov is actually shut down, your "learned lawyer" friend don't know what he don't know. Ain't nothing stopped nowhere. It's all fucking dog/pony show, kabuki theater, a farce, etc.
Keep watching the fucking sports ball on netflix and order shit from Amazon while you sip on CommieBucks coffee bedazzled with coin clippings.
Sincerely,
Someone in a far away land (crotch of Africa) where US diplomatic operations are still in full swing, but just slightly delayed on certain things due to needing to redirect funds from useless bullshit pet projects to things that *might actually matter (not sold on it actually mattering).
P.S. It's a big club and we ain't in it.
But But But... I can't go to a museum or pitch my tent at Yellowstone because it's shut down...
Oh wait... they only shut down the crap that inconveniences and impacts actual Americans.... Personally, I think Yellowstone should stay open... but that the Department of Education can be eliminated permanently. Along with most of Ag, State, Transport, EPA, HHS, IRS, Housinge (It was spelled that way on the van!)... I can go on But you get the idea.
Yeah, you aren't wrong. If it is shut down, the IRS should not be taking money out of paychecks and Customs should not be collecting duty, should it?
Sirhr
I hear talk of them invoking the "nuclear option" to get the govt. open again. They really need to be careful with that. Both sides can do it when in power, respectively. I can see if for SCOTUS confirmations but not for something less important.
So my SIL, Marine Corp O5 is being covered by the Credit Union because the pay checks are not coming in, my passport renewal is in limbo and my can app has not processed, everything is nominal? I am sure State Department has money, look at the price of AU and tell me again it’s all peachy.
They don't need to do anything. The Senate leadership can simply say it takes a simple majority to pass a specific bill and it will be done.
They are not holding out for a majority vote. They are holding out for 60 votes.
Pay the troops, don't care too much about the rest of it. Went to Arches, Yellowstone, and Glacier two weeks ago, didn't miss a beat. Government is overrated.
Doesn't surprise me that a "lawyer" thinks that they are/have the answer.
The government is full of fucking lawyers. They are the problem.
It's funny that one statement by a lawyer got many pointing fingers at everything but the actual problem.
The government is full of fucking lawyers. They are the problem.
It's funny that one statement by a lawyer got many pointing fingers at everything but the actual problem.
It's a dog/pony show designed to hurt regular Americans the most to make them beg/plead with their "elected representatives" to re-open the government at the same spending standard. These people are evil and they don't care about you because we haven't tarred/feathered people in long time.
Perfect example of fiscal responsibility of our tax dollars: Just a few days ago I was present in a meeting where some top UN/EU/US peeps promised $5,000,000 (I'd wager its majority US funded) to a remote shithole village somewhere in central africa/Congo basin area, because the men and male children are being slaughtered, women raped, crops burned, and livestock killed by land pirates ...... and need a school or something to fix the problem....and can't organically figure out how to defend themselves from roving bands of aforementioned land pirates because the government doesn't like regular people to own firearms. Horrific stories, but giving people food and a school ain't gonna do shit about fuck. The roving pirates need Vlad the Impaler treatment, but the home government is corrupt as fuck and cant find it's own dick with two hands and a flashlight. @MK20 has his personal experiences while in a different role in the general area and can corroborate. I digress.
The price of gold has nothing to do with this current shitshow. Its just yet another indicator of the coming financial collapse/reset which has been in the works since Trump’s 1st term and the Chy-Nuh Virus Scamdemic was basically the catalyst. Just my opinion/ $0.02.
I'm still getting tax fucked, so tell me again about this shut down thing?
If the gov was truly shut down why is congress still,... getting fatter?
The fucking sheep kept grazing an asking the same stupid questions, that are self explanatory, if they could think for their selves.
If the gov was truly shut down why is congress still,... getting fatter?
The fucking sheep kept grazing an asking the same stupid questions, that are self explanatory, if they could think for their selves.
Trump should change his gender and become the first female President. Literally every liberal brain in America would explode. Everything Schumer said in the future could be labeled mansplaining and sexiest. The entire apparatus they use for debate would implode. Problem solved.
President Donna Trump
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Not a bad strategy!
He would look fabulous!
But the dems would just claim Clinton was the first woman President as well as being the first black President.
Meanwhile, Schumer would have both images pasted on his ceiling…
Sirhr
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