I haven't written on the shutdown because in the years I spent negotiating on a daily basis as a defense lawyer, one thing I learned was you can't analyze a negotiation strategy effectively if your negotiating partner is irrational. Trump's shutdown can't be competently analyzed.
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3/ Trump's shutdown will therefore end whenever his dangerous mental and emotional pathologies permit it to—an unknowable in the equation—or Democrats decide to cave to Trump's instability, which would be just as dangerous a precedent as that instability is in the first instance.
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4/ A third possibility, but one not worth discussing because Mitch McConnell is ultimately not a functioning human soul, would be the House and Senate bypassing Trump to strike a deal that's veto-proof. I think we're many weeks away from McConnell being willing to go that route.
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Trumps sheer stupidity and the scale of how far removed he is from reality is as unnerving as it is bizarre. He’s just given some of the most rambling & incoherent answers I’ve ever witnessed yet seems utterly convinced he’s just rivalled the Gettysburg address. 100% narcissist.
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Pretty sure the downward spiral in GOP intelligence started with their rejection of evolution.... they’ve been devolving evermore
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The Trump Admin. has never completed any kind of a scientific study on whether a wall would work, whether there are alternatives, exactly where it would be built, what design would work the best or how much it would cost, yet he expects everyone to be on board no questions asked.
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Ask yourself whether Trump, the real estate tycoon, would invest money in a project without any kind of feasibility study beforehand. He is expecting us to fork over $5.6 billion without knowing much of anything.
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Trump says he’ll call a national emergency and have the military build the wall. Why the hell has his campaign promises all of a sudden become a national emergency ?
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Yup, I know, truckers tend do that a lot.
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When I read that Republicans were waiting for a clear plan from Trump my heart sank bc I don’t even think he’s lucid enough to place his McDonald’s order without a side of sociopathic word salad.
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Yeah. Time to just spend all free time calling GOP offices, demanding they get on the over-ride stick, because he’s never going to be functional enough. (Am so sorry.)
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He’s holding federal workers hostage. The US Congress should not negotiate with hostage takers.
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He only has that one strategy where he throws a tantrum until he gets everything he wants. The problem is that Democrats have nothing to lose by waiting. His popularity is already low, and Mueller arrest people regularly. Trump will get the blame and Pelosi knows it.
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Indict Pence and trump now.
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It's the same reason that you can never give in to a child's temper tantrum. At this point, any concession at all will just teach Trump that if he's not getting his way, he just needs to up the ante.
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Yes as per
@duty2warn he’ll worsen now that Dems are in the House (and partially restoring checks and balances).Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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House Dems need to sue
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Its whatever code
@seanhannity at the#doorknob@FoxNews tells him to do! Betting you’ll find sean’s leash-holder as none other than#kochbros#chinacorp Look for who is the awarded company thats going to build this bs wall. Bet ya find that leash-holder & who getting $$$!!!Thanks. Twitter will use this info to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The only thing that makes sense to me of why he is so blind to a lot of this...is he knows is on the way out and he is holding on for one big payment from the wall construction industry.
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Yes. Any media speculation based on what would *typically* happen is not applicable here because Trump is not in a rational place. And his advisors are extremists.
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