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mucholderthandirt

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17. None of us want a shutdown! FFS But we manage to get through it, every single time.

Reply to cadoman (Reply #8)

Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:59 AM

Mar 2025

Letting the Republicans get away with supporting Trump's destruction of the country, and Dems VOTE FOR IT?????? What the actual fuck with wrong with people?

Side note: a lot of people who would lose jobs/not be paid? Already fired! Many of us worried about SS payments? Not going to be any more certain.

History all over again. I know, let's appease Hitler! He'll be nicer to us then!

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anyone who is ragging on Schumer should acknowledge their newfound comfort with government shutdowns cadoman Mar 2025 #8

None of us want a shutdown! FFS But we manage to get through it, every single time. mucholderthandirt Mar 2025 #17

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