Shut out by Trump's shutdown

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

THE PARTIAL government shutdown that began December 22 is now in its third week, and unless an agreement is struck fast, 800,000 out of 2.1 million federal workers won’t be getting paid this Friday.
As everyone knows, the shutdown began after Trump signaled he would veto a December House of Representatives funding proposal that didn’t include $5.6 billion for a 200-mile section of border wall between the U.S. and Mexico....

The shutdown doesn’t just affect federal employees. The 2.1 million federal civilian employees share workplaces with millions more contracted workers who often fill low-wage jobs....

Trump may believe he has the support of federal workers, but that’s likely because he only talks to the ones who support his agenda, such as Border Patrol agents and ICE agents. When we talk over lunch in my workplace, we all know this shutdown is all about Trump’s racist wall, and there is not one voice raised in support.

To read more:

https://socialistworker.org/2019/01/08/shut-out-by-trumps-shutdown


The GOP has always been the "hate government " party. Anyhting that causes the Federal Government to function less efficiently is a good thing to the GOP.

[riversedge]

1. I will not turn on the TV networks for Trump speech. Twitter yes.

[guillaumeb]

2. I have a union meeting tonight.

But I would not watch it either.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Of course not, I will watch the patriots who come on after but not the traitor.

Media is so complicit now I dont know what to do.

I have defended them until now.

[guillaumeb]

5. The many branches of the corporate mediaare corporations first.

Acting as an actual Fourth Estate comes second.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. complicit means traitors, now

The M$M does not have the excuse of not knowing if Trump works for foreign powers. That they are complicit in aiding him spread propaganda in this way means they are traitors. ABC, CBS, NBC, and, of course, FOX are working to assist Putin, Erdogan, and MbS in damaging our democracy.

They could report on the speech after the fact, with the facts, but instead chose to give the orange foreign agent a national megaphone.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Hard to argue with that

[bdamomma]

4. Well

the consensus here on DU is that we will not watch this AH tonight.

[guillaumeb]

6. Millions of the least informed will.

With predictable negative consequences.

[bdamomma]

7. his obsessed

base.