Shutdowns always piss people off, and the GOP is always rightfully blamed, no matter their spin.
A shutdown would probably shift things to Harris a solid amount, and lose the GOP the house and keep them in the minority in the Senate.
You can tell most in the GOP know this because every GOP senator is telling the house to cut their shit out, but they ain’t gonna.
A different outlet did. The racist Lee who posted the cat thread said it was from “my neighbors daughters friend.”
A fact check org interviewed the neighbor, and she said Lee was mistaken, and it was actually “a friends acquaintance.” So yeah, right off it became way more ambiguous.
The other issue though is that in her racist tirade, Lee didn’t just mention a cat. She also said geese/ducks had gone missing from the parks, and said she confirmed that with park rangers and police. She of course had not.
Most likely these two racists got together, her and her neighbor, and each one ginned up part of the story, maybe literally. Then Lee posted it and “inadvertently” created a dangerously racist shitshow for her city and nation.