By Michael Woyton
President Donald J. Felon and his Republican buddies in the Senate and House may constantly be out in front of reporters and television cameras saying how the radical Democrats are the ones who turned out the lights and locked the doors throughout the government.
However, according to four polls of American voters taken between late September and Oct. 1, the GOPmaga message isn’t getting much traction, NBC News reported.
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In the middle of the third day of the shutdown, NBC said that the Washington Post found 47 percent of adults in the United States blame the president and the Republican-led Congress, with 30 percent blaming Dems and 23 percent unsure.
Polls by Marist, Siena and Morning Consult also found pluralities blaming the Republican administration/Congress.
A deeper dig into the Siena poll, which was done with the New York Times, found that both sides were blamed equally by registered voters — 33 percent — with 26 percent blaming Trump/GOP outright and 19 percent blaming the Dems. Twenty-one percent said they didn’t have enough information to make up their minds.
Even though the GOPmagas control all three branches of government, 60 votes are needed in the Senate to pass a funding bill — there are only 53 Republicans seats in the Senate, so they definitely require some Democratic votes.
The problem is the Dems want “an extension of the expiring Affordable Care Act funds, a repeal of the Medicaid cuts and changes in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ and assurances that Trump won’t unilaterally withhold money” that Congress previously authorized for spending, as the wannabe dictator has continued to do of late.
The White House even posted a video laying all the blame on the Democrats, who — again for the cheap seats — are the minority party in the Senate and House and do not have control of the Oval Office.
In the video, the White House claims the Dems want taxpayers to fund health care for illegal immigrants and “transgender for everyone,” whatever the hell that means.
Ironically, at one point, the video states that “Democrats are out of control.” Indeed, that is true: Republicans are the ones who are in control.
And here’s another thing to keep in mind when the Republicans say that the Dems are to blame for keeping the government closed:
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The more that is reported about the raid of a Chicago apartment building this week the more horrific it becomes.
About 300 federal officers and members of other agencies forced their way into the apartment building on Chicago’s South Side from the air and ground, resulting in the detention of at least 30 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally, NewsNation reported.
Officials said “violent members of the Tren de Aragua prison gang are terrorizing residents and carrying out illegal operations,” NewsNation said.
However, it seems from other reports, the agents were doing their own share of terrorizing — by breaking down doors, using flash bangs and bringing children out of their apartments half-naked and zip-tied, the New Republic wrote.
Numerous U.S. citizens were detained and the building was left “ravaged.” Some apartment unit doors were “blown off their hinges.”
One resident returned to his apartment to find his electronics and furniture missing and his clothes and shoes thrown on the floor.
This is our government now, people.
Wait until the military starts using American cities as training grounds.
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