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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel: easy way to really screw up the FBI's ability to function is to take away their
paychecks and put them under serious financial strain. She is opening with this. Spelling out the ripple effects of this.
We all know the wall has nothing to do with border security.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)I bet Miller thought of this. He's very vile and vindictive.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)2naSalit
(86,600 posts)is that he wants to privatize the government, you know russia style.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Trump doesn't think past the end of his nose which he would have to do to make the shutdown an actual plan.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)How will his authority be challenged?
JohnnyLib2
(11,211 posts)The credit risk is real, particularly for younger agents.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Maybe his greed got used, someone telling him of all the money he can make from happy wall builders.
the size of his ransom for it almost sounds as if he knows it isn't really the wall that is the issue.
Most people savvy enough to listen to rachel understand she is talking about Trump's real boss.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)Deripaska's mistress.
Oh god, she's going to have an accident.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)manor321
(3,344 posts)Trump is shutting the government because right-wing loons said he looked weak. There is no plan.
And Rachel is great but sometimes she spreads nonsense conspiracy theories.
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)override that veto. It's not Trump keeping it going; it's McConnell. And he always has reasons for what he does.
lostnfound
(16,179 posts)In creating chaotic situations, the Shock Doctrine gives its perpetrators numerous opportunities to benefit. Not one, but many.
Its not a conspiracy theory. It was simply noting if you wanted to do these things...
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)to Russia !
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Today, lots of companies and organizations use a person's credit rating as a quick substitute to determine a person's character. That is, poor credit = bad person/poor risk. That has real world consequences for everyone, like how much you pay for all types of insurance, the interest you pay on a loan, if you get hired/fired and so on, not just for federal civil servants.
There is no doubt that some of furloughed employees are going to take a hit to their credit rating if they can't make loan, utility or credit card payments. This may impact some of them somewhere down the line, but turning that into a big conspiracy theory that the shutdown is all a plot to damage law enforcement is nutty.
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)... happen now that the FBI is going to be one of the hard hit offices.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)You'd bankrupt it like a Trump.
Putin is a genius.
triron
(22,002 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)wants. Let's not forget what happened here. Not everything is being directed by Poots. Rump did this...he was going to sign it and then his alt reich base kicked into gear..without them he is DONE and SOON.
It's about this wall -- PERIOD.