The Republicans rather obviously bear the lion’s share of the blame.
However, that was the Republicans’ designated role from the start. Their job was to represent the interests of their plutocratic cronies and patrons by killing a program that spent money to benefit poor people, so they were just doing what they were meant to do and what they were expected to do.
On the other hand, the Democrats’ job was to protect a program that benefitted poor people, and they miserably failed at that job. In fact, they didn’t even simply fail - they forfeited. They gave up even trying.
the schumers and the dinos were most certainly not to protect programs for the poor, they are to play the “paid opposition of the gop” when its convenient. schumer is at least worth 80+million right now, he has vested interest as any gop to end the govt with no benefits for the constiuents. also the shutdown was indirectly hurting the ISRAEli narrative as well.
Which is exactly why I’m not going to stand for a poster trying to saddle me with some asinine strawman version of my actual points.
The other poster self-evidently believed that I was either so stupid that I actually believed that “this is all the fault of the Democrats” or that I was so stupid that I’d let that ridiculous strawman slide. And in either case fully deserved a verbal smack upside the head, and that specifically because this isn’t Reddit. Leave that sort of cheap, intellectually dishonest bullshit there.
So you are saying this is all the fault of Democrats?
Of course not. Don’t be a simpleton.
The Republicans rather obviously bear the lion’s share of the blame.
However, that was the Republicans’ designated role from the start. Their job was to represent the interests of their plutocratic cronies and patrons by killing a program that spent money to benefit poor people, so they were just doing what they were meant to do and what they were expected to do.
On the other hand, the Democrats’ job was to protect a program that benefitted poor people, and they miserably failed at that job. In fact, they didn’t even simply fail - they forfeited. They gave up even trying.
And they very much deserve condemnation for that.
the schumers and the dinos were most certainly not to protect programs for the poor, they are to play the “paid opposition of the gop” when its convenient. schumer is at least worth 80+million right now, he has vested interest as any gop to end the govt with no benefits for the constiuents. also the shutdown was indirectly hurting the ISRAEli narrative as well.
You didn’t need to add that… This is Lemmy, not Reddit. Come on, now.
Yes - this is not Reddit.
Which is exactly why I’m not going to stand for a poster trying to saddle me with some asinine strawman version of my actual points.
The other poster self-evidently believed that I was either so stupid that I actually believed that “this is all the fault of the Democrats” or that I was so stupid that I’d let that ridiculous strawman slide. And in either case fully deserved a verbal smack upside the head, and that specifically because this isn’t Reddit. Leave that sort of cheap, intellectually dishonest bullshit there.