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Kevin McCarthy Kills Bipartisan Senate Bill to Avert Shutdown
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Remember: him and (especially) the far-right goons want a shutdown. They know Republicans will rightly be blamed in the short-term. But they're willing to accept that, and even worse: they're willing to damage the entire country and weaken our National Security to hurt the economy while Biden is president. That's all this is! Don't let anyone ever forget...
The problem isn't forgetting, the problem is making them go against the programming they're being fed by whatever propaganda outlet they choose to consume. Those institutions just launder shit ideas and convince the viewer that they are correct and everyone else is wrong. We'd just be "reminding" them of something that "isn't true."
I strongly believe our biggest problem in the US is the conflict between the need for a free press and the press abusing the absolute shit out of that, being literal propaganda outlets.
I strongly believed for years that the benefit of a non-state-affiliated press was that it was free of state control, thus less likely to become propaganda outlets.
Don't worry, I realized the flaw in that logic over ten years ago.
Money. Money was the flaw.
Fuck capitalism.
Most Americans think that literally every decision in DC gets filtered through POTUS, because they don't have a viable concept of what the function of government is or even how the government is structured. A shutdown will be seen by the majority of the population as "Biden's doing".
Living on the border a stones throw from Mexico myself... what border crisis? Care to articulate and provide some citations to back it up?
Not everything is the Republican's fault. Sometimes the Democrats go along with stupid Republican ideas. There is a crisis at the border, but Republicans are offering solutions that will be far less effective at addressing the issue than what Progressives want. There is some blame on the Democrats for not explaining what would solve the crisis, but the Republican solutions aren't going to address the problem effectively, and lead to a ton of death and suffering.
You say that, and there's no denying there are border related problems, but if you think the solution lies within the party that supports someone who thinks a mote filled with hungry alligators is a viable one you might want to rethink a thing or two.
Just a humble suggestion.