Please Don‘t Shut Down The Government, Democrats, Because That Would Be Awful (Not)

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

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What a tragedy it would be if Democrats made good on their threat and decided DACA was so important that they must shut down the federal government over it. Please don’t! Why, I’d be heartbroken if the government did less and a bunch of foreigners didn’t get rewarded for ignoring our laws. I think this is just the right hill for the Democrats to choose to fight to the death on, and I encourage them to do so. Throw us right in that briar patch, because you are smart and savvy and there’s no way a big dummy like Trump could beat you and make you look like fools.

Again.

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You remember DACA? It’s an acronym that stands for “That Thing Democrats Want To Use To Fill The Voter Rolls With Foreigners And GOP Donors Want To Use To Get More Serfs To Work For Peanuts While Actual Americans Get Shafted And Called ‘Racist’ If They Dare Complain.” The Democrats desperately want DACA because you Normal people have let them down and voted for your own interests rather than in the way Nancy Pelosi instructed you. Bad, bad electorate! You definitely need to be replaced.

The GOP wants it because its big money donors want it because you actual Americans demand to be treated with respect by your employers and, well, paying Americans what they’re worth is bad for business. And the Senate GOP Sissy Caucus of sanctimonious twits wants it because it gives them a chance to pose and preen and pretend to have the moral high ground over those wicked evil bad bad bad Republicans who want to do what actual Republican voters want done instead of being guided by the eccentric moral compass that Jeff Flake keeps inside himself right next to his head.

The “Schumerhole” controversy arose because Donald Trump indicated that giving Big Amnesty everything it wanted, and in return allowing him to totally alienate his base, was a bad deal. “Perhaps creating a controversy wherein a bunch of liberals and simpering Republican Fredocons would go into full fake high-dudgeon mode might coerce Trump into doing something he was not inclined to do,” thought some dummy who had apparently not paid any attention to how Trump operates for a single second in the last two-and-a-half years.

Cory Booker’s crying, damn it! This Schiff just got real.

Well, since Trump refuses to cooperate and commit political hari-kari to help out the people who want him drawn and quartered, they have to try something else. Hey, how about shutting down the federal government? That sounds like a good plan. How could that go wrong?

Please do it.

Here’s the thing – most of Trump supporters aren’t takers – they’re makers. They’re the people the government flunkies come to with their palms up whenever some bureaucrat wants to spend a zillion bucks studying LGBT issues among Antarctic penguins or funding the NPR’s X-rated reenactments of the Nativity. How sad are Trump’s supporters going to be if the deal is, “We don’t hand over citizenship to a bunch of people who shouldn’t be here and everyone they’re related to down to their 29th cousin three times removed, and in return, we make the government stop spending money.”

There is literally no Trump voter who will say, “Why, that’s a terrible deal! If that happens, we don’t give amnesty and we don’t spend money!”

Not one.

To the extent that a shut-down hurts some of the government’s few useful employees, like the members of our military, I eagerly look forward to Chuck n’ Nancy and the other circus freaks who make up the Democrat Capitol Crew explaining to the American people why they chose to make our men and women in uniform suffer so the Democrats can import some new ballot stuffers. “Support the troops unless we need to screw them over so we can ship in foreigners to vote for future Maryland Senator Chelsea Manning” seems like a flawed message, which is why I heartily encourage the Dems to try it out.

We all saw the elaborate kabuki theater of the last shut-down, where Obama’s minions took a break from using our intelligence services to spy on Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit’s political enemies and made sure that the shut-down effects were as public and inconvenient as possible. The Democrat media soiled itself with delight as it covered sad schoolkids forbidden to gaze upon the Washington Monument because the GOP hates children, the Washington Monument, and gazing.

Think that will happen this time? This time, there aren’t going to be a bunch of camera–friendly blockades erected for the benefit of licensed professional journalists. Sure, there will be lay-offs, but somehow you don’t get the same poignant effect of a Battle of the Bulge vet blocked from honoring his fallen comrades at the World War II Memorial when you are stuck interviewing some unionized Department of Education Assistant Deputy Timeserver for Urban Self-Esteem Issues who is sitting in his $750,000 McMansion in Falls Church on a furlough sobbing about how it’s all so unfair.

See, here’s the problem for the Democrats: You shut down the federal government and the vast majority of Republicans will do just fine. Hell, they’ll positively thrive. But the Democrats? Their constituents are both the chunky bureaucrats who make $100K a year shuttling papers from Box A into Box B, and the lazy lay-abouts who exist to wait for the postman – who should be privatized – to bring their check from Uncle Sucker.

So if the Democrats decide to shut down the government over DACA, awesome. Go out and make the case that, in addition to all the other inconveniences, injuries, and expenses Americans have borne as a result of people disrespecting our laws and coming here illegally, we now have to shut down our government because of them too. Sounds like a well thought-out plan. Go ahead, Dems. Give it a try. There’s no way Trump is going to humiliate you again. Sure, you tell yourselves that every time you go up against him, but hey, you gotta win sometime. You Dems are totally due.

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

We need SNAP to be cut off during the shutdown. Tell them they can’t re-fill their EBT because Keith Ellison is fighting for the Beaners, er, Dreamers.

TC
TC

The problem with any shutdown is that it doesn’t save taxpayers any money. Fed employees end up getting made whole for their time off. It’s free vacation time for these moochers. Now if they all, including congress, had to take that shutdown as unpaid time off, I’d be excited about it.

Diogenes
Diogenes

Absolutely TC !!! I seen this stupid dog and pony show so many times it’s fucking banal !

starfcker

“I think this is just the right hill for the Democrats to choose to fight to the death on, and I encourage them to do so.” I agree with you completely, Kurt. They have picked a real winner. But let’s face it. They have no other leverage beyond this. It’s the end of their dream. Zero chance Trump gives them a clean dreamer bill.

Anonymous
Anonymous

A “shutdown” has always been a Democrat strategy to force Republicans to give them what they want.

That’s because they successfully manage to both scare the people about how badly it is affecting them (in reality almost no one would even notice it if it wasn’t pointed out to them) and place the blame on the Republicans who fear angering the voters who won’t be voting for them anyway.

It’s a PR campaign, nothing else. In reality, a short “shutdown” doesn’t do much of any real significance to the majority of Americans.

We’ll see how the Republicans handle it this time. To their own advantage for a change, or as an excuse to capitulate to the Democrats again.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Exactly right. R’s support the same liberal policies as the D’s but always want to appear forced unwillingly into voting for them.
“Conservatives” keep voting Republican so I guess its working.

Anonymous
Anonymous

DACA is nothing but blackmail. They don’t want to give the Donald an easy win. All this is anticipating a midterm election where the Democrats take control again. Oh, what a gift the Donald was to the Democrats! A Hillary win would have ruined their chances for years. Whose ox is getting gored? Hispanics are getting bad-mouthed all around, Ann Coulter even blamed them for the troubles of the poor blacks. In time we shall hear morons accusing moderate folks of being “beaner-lovers”.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Moderate-schmoderate. Most Americans would tolerate some regularization of some illegals after the border has been sealed, other enforcement mechanisms have been put in place, we’ve switched to a merit-based system and no longer let people petition to bring their parents, uncles, cousins, etc. That’s moderate. What the Dems wants is all illegals made instantly legal with a pathway to citizenship and the border left wide open (although they’ll put drones in the sky to watch the people sneaking in). If the Dems don’t accept something along those lines, ramp up the deportations.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Iska, Iska, Iska, It’s a dicey situation to apply for a green card based on family; you have to pay through the nose and jump through hoops – going to the point of leaving the country and possibly getting denied there.

While getting the green card is tricky enough, you can open yourself up for further investigation and possible deportation by applying for citizenship.

Immediate family, a spouse or minor child, is given preference. Yes, you can apply for your uncles, cousins and whatnot but that involves getting a lawyer, paying out some moolah and holding on during a waiting period of 15 to 25 years, hardly a ‘chain migration’. But calling it that gives it a riveting spin; it’s a short circuit around real thought, it’s political truth – sorta like Welfare Queen or Privileged White or Dumb Hillbilly.

Mad as hell
Mad as hell

And….whom do you think benefits by making that such a problematic process. Oh, that’s right the DONORS. If it was a streamlined and straight forward process, you could secure the border, make sure that the people that did apply were screened and approved in an efficient manner, and we would have a sane immigration policy. That would be bad for business you see, because those immigrants would now be citizens, and would have to be PAID and treated as citizens. Can’t have that, can we. Fuck em all. Shut it all down, and let the Demos and Repub’s both swing in the wind. And as far as that getting paid back pay for this, it would be GLORIOUS if Trump declared that NONE of those people, other than maybe some military would receive anything, AND would all be up for review upon return. Talk about firing up the base. That would trim the deficit all by itself…courtesy, and how ironic would this be, the Democrats.

Bilco

I have been so lucky(not) to have this F**ktard Schumer as my representative Senator. He has held that position only by gerrymandering. The bulk of his votes come from the cesspool known as NYC. We can not stand him upstate,but have never been able to get rid of him. He has been on the wrong side of what is best for America his whole political career. In a normal world this should be the last straw for this idiot,but the media will spin it in his favor. We in upstate NY,and here at the TBP wish he would just go away. He sickens me.

Lt.Dan
Lt.Dan

Amen and amen to that. He needs to go and take that skank Gillenbrand with him. Upstate is sick of these two idiots.

Hope
Hope

I want to have Kurt’s baby.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Suit yourself, Esperanza. I never think like that.

Card802
Card802

I’m being selfish but I have flights booked, camera gear packed, clothes packed and friends waiting for me to arrive at Yellowstone for a couple weeks of seeing what we can see.

If the gov shuts down today I’d have to believe the park will close tomorrow. Fuck it, going anyway.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

The park will stay open – it’s just that the park rangers’ pay will be delayed. In 2013 Obama shut down the parks because he “weaponized” the shutdown. Trump will try to minimize, not maximize, the upheaval.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Iska, if the wife shuts down the playground, does that mean the pussy is now weaponized?

nkit
nkit

Love when Mulvaney puts Acosta in his place starting at 9:20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6nSIma_UbI

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

I still have the newspaper headline from our local paper from back in the 90s the first time the government shut down. “FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUT DOWN!” No lovelier words have EVER been printed.

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PhotoGoblins
PhotoGoblins

The “Government shutdown” should continue until the midterms. Dems campaign slogan “Shutdown America! Illegal aliens, drug cartels and terrorists, WELCOME.”

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

In all seriousness, they have completely lost the script. They have ignored the needs and desires of the American public for so long they no longer care what they think, nor can they sense the deep anger that has been brewing for quite some time.

Which is cool.

Guess we’ll know what’s what in an hour and a half.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR

Greetings,

This is what happens when you live in a bubble surrounded by yes men. This is what happens when you believe what Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow are ‘splaining to the American people. This is what happens when you huff your own farts. Voila!

The Democrats thought they were going to go sailing into the 2018 elections pushed by an ocean breeze on a fair day. The collapse of the Russian narrative, Uranium One, Fusion GPS and now, for no apparent reason other than spite, the shutting down of the Federal Government, has changed that ocean breeze to a howling wind. This looks like a big mistake.

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