How the fuck can this shut down be Pelosi's fault?

[louis c]

Trump is trying to blame Pelosi for this shut down. How stupid does that Orange Asshole think we are? The God Damned bill he wanted, with the $5 billion for wall funding passed the Republican controlled House. The bill is stalled in the Republican controlled Senate, where President* Scum Bag needs 60 votes to break a filibuster to pass the measure. Nancy Pelosi has nothing to do with that. The Republicans can change the filibuster rules and pass the bill, with the wall funding, by a simple majority (50 votes). The problem is at least 7 Republican Senators have said that under no circumstances will they change the filibuster rule for this bill.

You can make a case that Schumer is blocking this bill. You can make a case that a handful of Republican Senators are blocking this bill. You can make a case that McConnell is blocking this bill. But you can't make a case that Pelosi is blocking this bill.

If Trump wants to start blaming (I would call it crediting) Pelosi for anything, wait until next week. He'll have plenty to whine about

[mikeysnot]

1. He is so stupid

he thinks people think he is smart. And when he makes dumb jokes and people laugh it just reinforces his idiocy.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. It's not

Trump's just playing to his brain dead know nothing supporters.

[marylandblue]

3. You are not the target audience, so it doesn't have to make sense

It's all about the base, which hates Pelosi, therefore she is the best person to blame. That's all you need to know.

[question everything]

4. Are you really trying to find logic or reason in anything

that Whiny Donny does or says?

[malaise]

5. Well M$Greedia is repeating that shit n/t

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

6. Obviously not.

[a kennedy]

7. Heard Mulvany saying that as well, that it's Nancy's fault......

[BootinUp]

8. Come 'on everybody's drinkin' it! Kool-Aid!

[Caliman73]

9. Sexism works with his base.

You are absolutely correct that this situation has nothing to do with Pelosi. She is the Minority leader until January 3rd. The problem (in Trump's eyes) is that she challenged him in front of the Press when she said he didn't have the votes to pass the spending bill. Even though Schumer took a more antagonistic tone with Trump at the meeting, Trump focuses on Pelosi because she is a woman and no woman will ever get the better of Trump, even though she did. Everything has to be her fault for his base because again, she is a women who will be in power, who opposes his agenda come January 3rd she will have the ability to seriously mess up his life. He is scared, but it comes out in bluster and false bravado.

The shut down is completely Trump's fault, and the fault of the Republican congress who did not have the courage and integrity to tell Trump that the Republican base is small and is not indicative of any actual public support for a Wall. They let him paint himself, and them into a corner and now he is doing what he always does, trying to blame others for his own stupidity and ineptitude.

[dlk]

10. It's the Republican "Blame Women First" Propaganda Machine

[peggysue2]

11. This is typical Republican schtick

Keep repeating The Big Lie incessantly. Of course, a video is available with Trumpski taking full credit for the shutdown--carrying the mantle proudly, he said. That video needs to be on a continuous loop.

Won't change cultists' minds but will highlight the ongoing nonsense.

[niyad]

12. because the kool-ade drinkers really are that stupid.

[Pisces]

13. In upside down world anything is possible

[bdamomma]

14. the media needs to keep

playing the tape how this is Trumps wall, and he owns it.

didn't his ears perk up when Ms. Pelosi said it during the visit to the oval office.

I hate this fucking man, January 3rd can't come any faster.

And all this belongs to the Repigs they have had control over the three branches. You don't hear shit from them.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. trump shutdown -- he claimed it; video

Tv needs to replay this, every time one of his toadies tries to blame a Democrat.

[Flaleftist]

15. It makes about as much sense as blaming Obama or Hillary,

but if he did his knuckle-dragging basket of deplorables would go along with it. He has that 1/3 of the population locked up pretty tight, seemingly immune to facts, reason and logic.

[gratuitous]

16. Because nothing is ever Trump's fault

So it's gotta be somebody's fault, and why not just blame the broad?

[bullwinkle428]

17. "Never hesitate to blame a woman when a man has fucked up."

[Hekate]

18. 1984 all over again: just lie and lie and lie

[SMC22307]

20. Yeah, I just listened to some Republican operative on BBC...

point out that Pelosi is vacationing in Hawaii and that it's all on her. Oh, and that most federal workers live in DC and Northern Virginia, so who cares, they're Democrats!

[Generic Brad]

21. And we must all be Mexicans now

Trump said he would make Mexico pay for the wall. If he insists on "negotiating" with Nancy Pelosi to extract taxpayer money to make that happen, then he must think we are all Mexicans.

Muy loco.