The nation’s third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay. While they would receive back pay once the impasse ends, many military families live paycheck to paycheck.
During previous shutdowns, Congress passed legislation to ensure that troops kept earning their salaries, but time is running out before they miss their first paycheck in less than a week.
The GOP is truly incapable of doing what they want without punching themselves in the dick.
“We’re gonna give tax cuts to billionaires and millionaires! And take away the poor’s healthcare to get it! And we’re gonna send ICE to come kidnap your brown people! Balance this tarriff situation in our favor! The military is coming to kill you left wing protestors!”
“Uh, sir. The first thing caused the govt to shutdown, which means all our ghouls are off payroll… Also the untrained ICE thugs are pissing off police unions. Also the farmers have no more employees. Also they can’t sell their crop because no one’s buying due to those tariffs. Also we have a supermajority and absolutely no one to blame but ourselves for fucking up royally a layup of an economic situation. Also everyone hates us and our own generals don’t respect us and have indicated the military will be there to protect the protestors.”
Nice.
Not American, but what’s this about the military saying they’ll protect protestors? That’s pretty big, thats what toppled Egypt in 2011, the military sided with protestors.
The general headed to Portland said this in an interview in the last 48 hrs. News cycle is insane right now; tough to find.
It was a subdued but a clear statement. Said they’ll follow lawful orders, and they’ll protect Oregonians, which he in a word clarified, the protestors.
I’ll edit this if I find it. I saw it from a content creator who does a good job gathering these clips by being more terminally online than I can manage.
Content creator was Parkrose Permaculture.
Found it
Clip of general’s statement is at 2:58.
3:40: “[Those deployed] will be protecting any protestors at the ICE facility.”
Just because I was curious, here is the article that YT video is covering. From The Oregonian
Oregon general’s testimony that National Guard troops ‘will be protecting any protesters’ gains traction online
The article is from October 8th, the video clip is “A nine-day-old snippet of testimony in front of Oregon lawmakers.” My curiosity did not extend to digging up the source recording of the full testimony.
I hate how hard it is to find “old news”.
I feel it’s deliberate.
You misunderstand them entirely. They think punching themselves in the dick is a good thing, it’s part of the plan. They are far to fucking stupid to realize the damage until after they’ve done it, and then they’re so embarrassed that they punched themselves in their own dick, they double down and start doing it more, telling people that punching themselves in the dick is cool now and they always meant for it to hurt.
The real fucking crazy part is some people start punching themselves in the dick just to be part of the club.
“Oft evil will shall evil mar” ~King Theoden
That’s the thing, though, we have a whole lot of useful idiots among leftists/liberals and of course “centrists” that keep giving an assist to the Confederate Party by trying to claim the economy last fall was not good and was not heading in the right direction.
So you have The Annoying Orange and his apparatchiks saying things like “we have to dig out from the economic disaster the Biden administration left us in” - and a whole lot of people, not just Republicans, believe that load of horseshit.
There are always minorities to blame!!