Former President Trump urged Republicans to dig in as a shutdown looms over Washington, arguing Sunday that President Biden will take the blame if the federal government closes. Congress faces a Se…

Former President Trump urged Republicans to dig in as a shutdown looms over Washington, arguing Sunday that President Biden will take the blame if the federal government closes. Congress faces a Se…

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    8·
    1 year ago

    Does anyone else think the public is smart enough to blame the shutdown on the guy who keeps loudly pushing for a shutdown?

  • blazera@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    I feel like intent to undermine the functioning of the whole US government should be a crime

    • ForestOrca@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      IANAL, and that crime might be in the sedition/ treason category of crimes. And we have most of a specific political party that has been and continues to engage in this category of crimes.

  • Rottcodd@lemmy.ninjaEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t bother with the right-wing propaganda networks so I don’t know, but I can’t imagine how they might spin this to blame Biden when his administration hasn’t even been involved in the process.

    The whole thing hinges on a purely internal conflict not just within Congress, but in the House specifically. How does that even colorably come to be blamed on an entirely separate branch?

    I don’t doubt that the propaganda outlets and the grifters will simply lie, and conjure up some entirely different account of things that won’t match up at all with the plain objective reality of the whole thing stalling because a group of hard right House members are demanding concessions and refusing to vote in favor of a budget that doesn’t include them, but I can’t even imagine what it will be, since it will have to be essentially completely false, from start to finish.

    Unfortunately, I also don’t doubt that some significant part of the Republican base will believe whatever it is, since they’ve been so thoroughly indoctrinated and made so subject to their emotions that they literally can no longer distinguish between reality and fantasy.

    Still though, even with as confused and misled and blinded by emotion as much of the Republican base is, and as brazenly dishonest as the propagandists and grifters that are profiting off of them are, I can’t imagine how it might be the case that Biden will get the blame for this. It’s not just that it’s not narrowly true, but that there isn’t even a colorable basis, as far as I can see, to even pretend that it is.

    • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      You’re thinking too logically. Biden is “in charge.” That is enough for Fox News to blanket multiple news cycles with. “Biden ineffectual at preventing shutdown,” “Biden embarrassed as shutdown enters second week,” “Biden nowhere to be found as Congress deadlocks on shutdown reopening plan” and so on. They’re just going to say “Biden” and “shutdown” in the same sentence until a viewer believes - without ever having arrived at the conclusion - that Biden owns the shutdown.

      Low-information right-wing viewers have no conception of, or interest in learning, how this all actually works.

  • oldbaldgrumpy@lemmy.world
    35·
    1 year ago

    How are we constantly out of money? This seems to happen every few months. Rather than trying to borrow our way out of debt we need to learn to live within our means. Our government is a total mess.