'Open the freakin government before somebody gets killed.'

[bigtree]

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Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT 7m7 minutes ago

No more demands. No more bargaining.

Open the freakin government.

Before somebody gets killed.

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[Wounded Bear]

1. That's probably his flight home...

[haele]

2. People have probably already started to die due to the shutdown. We just don't hear about it.

We're 35 days shut down - in the middle of a cold winter, after the holiday employment boom, and before the spring hiring season for construction and other seasonal part-time and full time employment prospects - that typically shut down over the winter.

This is not the time one can quickly find a part-time job to help cover the bills.

Evictions (or eviction notices), rationing of expensive and dosage-critical medication, weakened immune systems due to slow starvation, inability to afford transportation to get to a doctor or to get medicine and groceries, hypothermia due to a cut-off, or cutting down on utilities in the middle of a f'n cold winter...

A sudden loss of income is often the cause of an increase in suicide, domestic violence, and murder-suicide.

Saw it during the recession. Basic standard of living drops suddenly and drastically, and most Americans are physically and mentally not capable of adapting quickly enough to a suddenly changed environment. There was no "thirty day grace period" or understanding that the job was going to end after a specified period that a federal contractor or employee could prepare for, it was "Merry Christmas - oh, by the way, we're shutting it all down because Boss Man got scared of some uppity new people that don't worship him and is throwing a tantrum."

Job losses and evictions drove people crazy. Some people were so wrapped up in their work, they will take their families out with them if they feel they can't "provide" for them.

Haele

[EllieBC]

3. That's Trump's plan.

The shutdown will cause more and more suffering. Our side, being decent human beings, won’t be able to let that happen for too long. This is exactly what The Cheeto is banking on.