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In reply to the discussion: Another Shutdown? How can any shutdown be legal? [View all]peggysue2
(10,828 posts)We're being lead by a bunch of mini-me mobsters who don't give a hoot about the Rule of Law. In fact, their basic desire is to break from any law that doesn't suit them. The Institution breaking is not a bug, it's the whole purpose. The Trumpster is wanna-be dictator/King and as such wants to rule without any accountability, the way he's run his entire life. His followers and hangers-on want the same thing or are being coerced into agreeing because they're compromised up to their eyeballs.
Trump has already warned that if he doesn't get the adequate funds, he'll 'move things around.' That means money. Mulvaney has threatened a 'firestorm' over funding shortages, says they'll rob the emergency disaster funds for Puerto Rico and California. Puerto Rico announced this morning that the island will be instituting water rationing; the island is nowhere near a comeback since the massive storm. As for California? They're all a bunch of liberal Democrats on the West Coast, so the Trumpster doesn't care--they're not his people.
So yes, the whole bunch of goons in the White House have decided to weaponize the power of the Executive branch, daring anyone to block them.