This is not a “government shutdown”, it is a fascist coup. The manufactured crisis at the border is Trump’s “Reichstag Fire” (as has been mentioned elsewhere). I know it will be nauseating to see the Orange Goblin prancing and gloating over his “great victory” and it may even give him some political power in the short run, but we have to hold our collective nose and do it, because the FBI agents investigating him, as well as the judges that will try him are not getting paid. How long can they hold out before they have to quit their jobs and look for new employment to feed their families? And when most of the FBI agents and judges have quit, Trump will replace them with flunkies, and that will be the end of democracy in the United States. Plus, giving him his wall will demonstrate, even to his brainwashed moronic base, that Trump’s magic wall will not stop illegal immigration and will do nothing to stop the flow of drugs into their communities. We have been telling them that until we are blue in the face, but they will have to see with their own eyes how they have been fooled and lied to.
See Rachel Maddow’s reporting: www.msnbc.com/...