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Progressives Tell Dems Thinking of Capitulating to GOP on Shutdown: 'You Cave, You Lose'
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this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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Okay... so their offer is, stop standing up to us and let us finish gutting healthcare, and we'll rehire the people that we fired to punish you for standing up to us? Am I getting that right?
Republicans are shitting their pants right now.
To be fair, the president has been doing that for years.
It’s all the rage. Everybody does it. It’s all I hear abooooiuuuuutttttt…. whew.
Remember when certain voters started wearing disposable underwear to rallies?
I just sent that to my Trumper buddy. Like we're crazy for empathy and protesting, while he forgot about diapers and ear bandages.
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And yet they are not backing down. All I can think is that there are a hell of a lot of them in the Epstein files and Trump has them by the balls.
Do you think Jeffrey Epstein was the first or the only guy blackmailing United States politicians for Israel?
Nope. Just the most effective.
How can you even know that? The most effective intelligence agents are the ones that don’t get caught/killed.
Of course, I don't know that. You asked me what I think. My opinion is that he was the most effective.
Compared to who though?
Yes, and then they will fire those rehires again after just a minuscule amount of time has passed.
Just like they have done with a couple agencies.
And we'll fire them again right after that because cruelty and lying is the point of this weird weird game
Imo its better to not negotiate with terrorists.
Yup. You got it right.
Hopefully the Dems aren't stupid enough to fall for it.