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Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.

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[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Except maybe it's worse. We are in this situation now in large part because many Democrats for the last 12 years have believed the line that it's always okay to vote for the second most evil candidate... At some point either you have a bottom line or you don't have any values.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

But it genuinely isn’t. You aren’t sending a message to the dems because they are way too stupid to realize that, they forced Hilary who was unpopular in 2026 Biden who was way too old in 2020 and Harris who had all of the negatives of being a vp with none of the positives

It’s like trying to explain to a dog that the mailman doesn’t need to be barked at you can try all day but they retain nothing

However when you mention the second most evil candidate, we wouldn’t be using the military against our own citizens, funding ICE more than most countries militaries, and attacking universities for allowing free speech

That’s a pretty substantial difference, this country was literally damaged for a generation because some people decided that the 500lb bag was the same as the 5lb bag. I say decided but it was very much the work of complex propaganda movements