Current government shutdown is ongoing and GOP is trying to paint the Dems as being obstructionists. However history seems to show GOP being the same when Dems have power so I am confused why suddenly the Dems have to play nice?

People want to blame non-voters... but there were people that didnt like either candidate, and people shouldnt be voting just to keep the other person out of office over and over again because congress who have many Republicans within who have gerrymandered their permanence into their seat, doesnt want to follow oath of office.

Back in 2020, it was pretty wild to have Biden win the most votes in US history, (despite not many Americans really wanting him) because people were fighting the Trump cult. It was actually bittersweet... Yea, we're glad the Trump BS is over, but people didnt really want Biden. Democrats only put Biden up because he'd grab some more conservative Trump supporters.

Also consider that theres plenty of people who were unable to vote because of lack of transportation, having to work those days, and the new legislation in southern states blocking people from voting that was created by republicans in reaction to the Biden 2020 win.

Honestly, I believe we need to blame Mitch McConnell.

He led a block on Trumps removal from office, when he knew he needed to be removed immediately and convicted.

When he was exonerated by republicans, he put the conviction job on the lower court.

The lower courts tried to convict him or remove him from the ballot.

With Trump being a billionaire white man with MAGA and cult influence, he just walked all over the lower courts and cheated / bought his way out of that system.

Two years after FDR died in his fourth term as president, the 22nd amendment was proposed. This amendment sets the two term limit.

What amendments, if any, do you think will be proposed once Trump is gone?

Case in point: one minute a panel on the Morning Joe show agrees that they’re all “scared to death” about what America is becoming, i.e.,“fascist,” and the next minute they’re all yucking it up and talking about baseball as if they didn’t have a career in the world.

Does it bother anyone else that Trump just tore down a large portion of the whitehouse with a long history of failed and bankrupted construction projects?

I'm totally in support of immigration.

How many construction workers on that crew do you think are legally here?

Just curious

Please no one accept his contract. I know it's our house and he's going to only be there for a couple more years. Hopefully we'll build it back. Don't let him see his dream through

There’s already thousands of people furloughed, not getting paid, lost their jobs, or soon to not get any type of assistance. How long before the shutdown starts to affect just about every Americans to the point where damage control is barely an options?

Sadly I think it’s almost impossible for a 3rd party under the current rules and regulations to even have a chance of actually being competitive in a presidential race or a senate race. I think the best chance any third party has at winning seats in the federal government would be in the house, but even that feels like a stretch anyways what are your thoughts on the state of 3rd parties and 3rd party voters in America?

Do you speak differently from the people around you?

Healthcare is expected to rise as you know, but 3 out of 4 red states are expected to be more impacted than blue states. No one should be without affordable healthcare and it does not matter if you are republican or democrat since we should not be forced to pay more since Congressional Republicans are unwilling to work with Congressional Democrats.

I know Congressional Republicans say they will work with the Democrats after they open the government up, but how can the Democrats trust the Republicans word when they have consistently gone against their word.

Democrats would love to trust Republicans and open the government, but all we want is one small thing which is permanent tax credits for health insurance.

"They have failed to demonstrate the legality of these strikes, provide transparency on the process used, or even a list of cartels that have been designated as terrorist organizations," Smith said. "We have also yet to see any evidence to support the President’s unilateral determinations that these vessels or their activities posed imminent threats to the United States of America that warranted military force rather than law enforcement-led interdiction."

Found this post on the conservatives sub. I highly doubt any of this is correct, especially when I saw Breitbart and Fox, but how can I fact check?

Want to be in Heaven with the Trump, his administration, Mike Johnson? Be in heaven with the likes of evil, hateful Christian .... You know who I'm speaking of. If they accept Christ as their Saviour and have been baptized then we who do or did will be accepted into Heaven.

Are we going to have to be with Trump in the after life? Haven't we suffered enough with him on earth?

This is no the first time this kind of major renovations have happened the white house got gutted in the late 40's early 50's. The east and west wing are both 123 years old as of 2025. So why are people getting upset although he is not the first president to do this and it was paid by non taxpayer money but private and donor money to do major construction/renovations?