Bollards are nothing like steel slats. They are effective at impeding vehicles, not individual people.
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But will he sign it ?
I think Trump wants a shutdown.
I agree.
Reason No. 2: He thinks it makes him look tough.
Reason No. 1: He gets to inflict pain on others.
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I am sure that Bonnie Prince Fat Ass and the Dowager Empress of South Carolina will fuck everything up. Have fun, Mitch and the GOP. Better put that Senate proctologist on alert for when Trump shoves this up your sorry butts again.
Neither the House nor the Senate have any stomach for another shutdown. If McConnnell allows a vote, it will pass the Senate and House comfortably. Trump will then have to decide if he wants to veto it. If he does, then the question is can the Congress override. My guess is, it can. Trump will know this and wonāt veto. Instead he will declare a bogus emergency. Maybe he will take money from defense.
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Traitor McConnell may be sweating his tiny balls off about he and the GOP getting their asses kicked if thereās another shutdown, and may force a veto override if necessary, but who can predict what the āFreedom Caucusā miscreants like Meadows and Gym Jordan and their followers will do in the House. They donāt care about government workers or the rest of the American people. They just like to blow things up. They blow things up REAL good!
Cudos for the rhythm in Pink Floydās āWallā
And then Donnie went on stage and announced that he heard there was a deal but didnāt bother to read the summary because why bother since heās going to do what he wants to do anyway.
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While I hope you are right, that wonāt happen until the evangelicals begin to abandon their leadership which is bound and determined to shove their religious views down the throats of a majority of Americans.
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The cowardly GOP are on their knees with their hands over their heads begging not to be taken hostage by a man with a gun carved out of soap.
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is it? where can I find reliable stats? not challenging you spectre, just want some good news this morning - BBC had a piece on insect die - off that made me severely depressed
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same with McConnell - and to think, he could get all the right wing judges he wants under Pence, and still he supports the traitor from jan 2017 onwards
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not mentioned at the rally last night for some reasonā¦
that would be nice wouldnāt it. also, if the media bothered to interview them about it
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questions that will never be asked by ABC, CBS, or NBC news
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In retrospect, ācongressional negotiatorsā might have been smarter to work directly on Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter, and the rest. Trump does what his teevie tells him to.
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And the wildlife would appreciate it, too!
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From NPR:
According to NBC News, OāRourkeās team said there were about 7,000 people at his rally and mile-long march beforehand, per law enforcement. And Bloomberg News reported that OāRourkeās rally had been estimated at 10,000 to 15,000, according to local police. At various points during his own rally, Trump claimed that 69,000 people had RSVPād and that fire marshals allowed 10,000 people in with ātens of thousandsā still watching outside. But NBC News reported that Trumpās rally was at its 6,500 capacity with 10,000 to 12,000 watching outside or in overflow areas, per the local police and fire departments.
From the El Paso Times:
Trump thanked the El Paso Fire Department for getting 10,000 people in the El Paso County Coliseum, before noting the crowd that gathered outside for his rally.
āTens of thousands of people are watching the screens outside,ā Trump said.
However, a Fire Department spokesman said 6,500 people were inside the venue and denied any special accommodations were made. Several thousand, though, were outside the Coliseum, watching the presidentās speech on big screens. There were no official estimates, though.
An OāRourke spokesman said about 8,000 attended the counter-rally. However, the El Paso Police Department told the El Paso Times that officers had made no official estimates.
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I am nearly innumerate - this means that 45* 's rally was bigger right?
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It sounds like Betoās rally in-person was larger because of the occupancy limit on trumpās venue (6,500 versus estimates ranging from 7,000 to 15,000) - However, there were additional people watching trumpās rally from remote sites and we arenāt sure of that count, so trump may have had more āwarm bodiesā than Beto when those remote sites are counted.
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