On the Government shutdown

On the 22nd of December, 2018, the Government began a partial shutdown.
Today is the 10th of January, 2019.

Phones go unanswered.  Construction is delayed.  TSA lines are long and slow.
But seriously... does ANYONE, other than Government employees, see anything DIFFERENT?
I'm not.  Those who are just moving into Social Security might be.  Medicare?  They're always slow.
FBI?  Still working.  Army?  Going without pay, I gather.

What began as a massive game of Chicken is now a staring contest.  Who blinks first?

Trump isn't caving.  He wants 5 BILLION for the Wall.  The Democrats STILL won't give it to him.

Congress is getting paid.  Trump hasn't been accepting a salary, as such, donating everything to various causes.

The gridlock continues.  Trump is about to go into the record books as the President with the longest shutdown.

There can be no compromises when neither side will budge.

Would this happen if Congress wasn't getting paid?  Probably not.

I've been looking at various scenarios as to how both side can escape unscathed, neither winning, nor losing.  There are none.

So, what are the other scenarios?
1)  Trump caves.  Take it on the chin, you lose.  The Wall was the Primary Promise.  If he can't get the Democrats to fund even the slightest border security, we're in trouble.
2) The Democrats cave.  They've got nothing to lose, here.  They can continue to hold their breath for as long as the shut can go on.
3.)  Congress caves.  They pass a bill to fund the govt, except the wall.  Trump Vetoes.  Congress overrides.  Democrats would need 70 more votes from the House to get that 2/3 level.  And they'd need 23 GOP Senators, if my figures are right.
4) Impeachment happens.  The Senate, however, needs to try, and the possibility of removal is less than 10%, IMO.
5) The People revolt against the DFL.  They demand things be reopened.
6) The people revolt against the GOP.   Ditto comment above.
7)  The People revolt against everyone.  Total civil war.  Death, Destruction, Pestilence.
8) Martial law is declared.  odds:  7-3 against.  But worrisome.
9) Total Economic collapse.  Major trouble for everyone.

I can't see a win for either side.  I CAN see an invasion happening.  Might be Russia, China, North Korea, Mexico or Canada.  Not France, not England.

Trump wants the Wall.  Democrats want murder (Abortion), free stuff (Socialism), open borders (invasion) and Gun Confiscation.

2 years is a long time to be shut down.

Is there any hope, at all?  We're in a tempest, the winds whip about, shit flies like debris in a tornado or hurricane.

What will it take?  I don't care to speculate on that.

Whatever happens will have long term consequences on the US.  And the world.

There are 2 -- likeliest --  scenarios.  One, I may not bandy about in public.
The other-- total collapse unless someone caves.

BUT... Isn't everything still running?  "Non-essential" is curtailed.  But for how long?
HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?
At this rate, 2021... without anything to let the government and the Republic, survive.

Worrisome?  Well... People have been wanting anarchy.  It's on the way...
AS I SEE IT.

Thoroughly disgusted, I am!

A RANT... Please understand how disgusted I am.

I spotted while surfing FB, a picture which was so thoroughly disgusting, so evil, that I cannot help but vent!

It showed a newborn...or maybe a few days old infant...In a PLASTIC GARBAGE BAG! The caption placed by the person who shared said "7 years bad luck if you scroll by. Like and share."

DOES THIS DIMWIT EVEN REALIZE WHAT THE HECK SHE SAID?

IMO, this is condoning MURDER... A BABY, mind you... in a GARBAGE BAG.
This is really sending the wrong message! 1: Supporting MURDER. 2) Calling a Child "GARBAGE." 3. Supporting the abandoning of a BABY...They tell you to "LIKE AND SHARE" such an action or wish you 7 years bad luck?!

THINK ABOUT IT... Do you find it objectionable?

If you don't, you're not human, IMO! Apes, other mammals, birds..they take care of their young!

DOES THIS DISGUST YOU?!

That people do this at all REALLY bugs me. But now... Look at this from the point of view of someone who was forced to give up a child.
Then examine the POV of an adopted child.

THEN, consider ABORTION. It's exactly the same deal. Treat our children as garbage. Leave 'em in a garbage bag to die.

If you're familiar with Swift's "A Modest Proposal," you know what I mean. If not, READ IT.

Then think again...Do you support life?

If this has offended you, maybe you need to rethink your views.

Of Gosnell, Abortion, Liberals, and Hitler

Yesterday I made a comment (On Facebook) linking the left with Gosnell, who has been linked to killing babies who are aborted but still are born alive. He slit their throats, cut off heads, could be much more but this is the allegations that come out through the news. But I say the MSM has ignored this trial. They give tons of coverage to Casey Anthony, tons to OJ, tons to Sandusky. Why nothing to this doctor of death, this Kevorkian, this Josef Mengele? Really, why don't they?

This believed mass-murderer is not given one iota of coverage. WHY NOT?

The left have no qualms about linking every massacre which involves firearms to the NRA. None what so-ever.

Believe it or not, the Evil Hitler was a leftist. People who stick him on the right have forgotten one little thing: The meaning of "Nazi." That is National Socialist ...

Not all "liberals" support abortion. Not all support Gun Bans, not all support same-gender marriage.

What Hitler did (May he burn in Hell) was evil, just as Gosner's alleged crimes are evil.
Hitler had his hands in the murder of millions because they were Jewish. Or blind. Or deaf. Or had traces of Mongolism. Or were black.

"Just following orders." This reasoning has been used to attempt to justify every crime imaginable.

Post birth abortion is WRONG, just as pre-birth abortion is wrong.There may be times when it is medically necessary, but that still doesn't make it right.

You can bad-mouth me, call me a hater and bigot. You won't change my opinion on this topic. Morals are absolute.

Getting rid of "less desirable people" is what Hitler did. But WHO decides who is "Less desirable"? There are plenty of "idiot savants" out there. And who's deciding what is "less desirable" for the babies?

Perhaps expressing my opinion in the way I did was the pits. There are degrees of liberalism. But when it comes down to it, murder is murder. And too many leftists are playing "G_D". True, there are plenty of nut-zoid conservatives, too. I seem to see more of the "fringe" on the left side. Maybe I'm just too blind to see the right-wing loons.

Hitler was a demon in human form. And, in my own personal opinion, Hitler would have loved abortion. You don't have to agree. This IS America, after all. But when censorship takes hold, we become something less.