Hickenlooper is describing exactly what is happening now with DOGE.
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What’s the Dem counter-argument to this? After the government shut down I’m not sure what happens next and I’m also not sure it’d be Dem-favorable.
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My family's story here...centuries long history of standing agnst those who move to subjugate, w/much pain, much anguish, and a 3 years POW...+
Don't buckle to difficulties. It's a loosing proposition.
Commit. Stand. Rise
What is to stop Trump from adjourning Congress now? It's already a power he has under Art. II.
What's to stop him from defunding Congress? Trump already stole purse with USAID, etc.
Hickenlooper is 3 steps behind.
Note- if a government shutdown doesn’t get MAGAts on board, then Trump will be able to get to exactly the same place with the horrible CR plus DOGE.
They have made DOGE the *face* of the government, and thereby tried to link them inextricably.
I say we use that to our advantage. They have already ruined everything the govt was good at, basically.
There was too much wrongness built into it with slavery and the demotion/suppression of women. And I mean written into it.
The good parts, though, NOAA, EPA, Education, etc., we can keep.
The moment they nabbed all of the branches of govt. it was done.
And even if the courts or congress tried to stop it now, I fear it is too late, but beyond that unlikely to even happen.
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We will have to rebuild our way out anyway. Just let them do their own dirty work of clearing out themselves and what’s left.
Shut down the government. It may as well already be.
So we still have the expertise. That is what matters. The people. Keep the people safe, and the rest will follow.
Keep the People safe.
They leave Americans HANGING BY A THREAD.
I don’t see anyone writing about what happens in 2026.
I say ONLY the states hold elections & Trump can neither stop them or stop those elections from seating members of the new Congress on Jan 3, 2027.