• Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    So, Trump is maintaining this shutdown because he’s unwilling to maintain the status quo on healthcare, using illegal and unconvincing messages on agency websites to try to blame it on the Democrats, and he just saw on Tuesday that his message is definitely not working. Like, super not working.

    So, what does he hope to gain by continuing to pursue this angle? When you have headlines come out saying that a judge ordered Trump to fund SNAP and that Trump is ignoring and appealing that order, does he think that will somehow make him look good?

    Trump’s brain must be mush at this point.

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Lying is his only course of action, he is literally backed into a corner, trying to make it seem like he isn’t. If he makes it out of this, it benefits him the more people who didn’t know how dire it was. If he doesn’t make it out, then it doesn’t matter what he said or did while he was backed into a corner, the result will be the same since this isn’t even close to the same scale as what he is up against if the government resumes with the ability to successfully release the Epstein files.

      From his perspective, literally any cost is justified if it has any chance of the Epstein files not getting out.