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Hugin

(34,728 posts)
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 08:35 AM Sep 2023

Act II: How do you plan to weather Kev's "Freedom Caucus Dollar Days Sell Out"? (UPDATED)

Yes, “Act II” is intentional. Looking at you, Alannis Gropebert.

It’s always good to be proactive.

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Act II: How do you plan to weather Kev's "Freedom Caucus Dollar Days Sell Out"? (UPDATED) (Original Post) Hugin Sep 2023 OP
There won't be an economic depression Fiendish Thingy Sep 2023 #1
Sure... Sure... n/t Hugin Sep 2023 #2
You're not familiar with the definition of a depression, are you? Fiendish Thingy Sep 2023 #3
How presumptive of you... Hugin Sep 2023 #4
I told you so Tansy_Gold Oct 2023 #5
So, to sum up... Hugin Oct 2023 #6
It hurts most when . . . . Tansy_Gold Oct 2023 #7

Fiendish Thingy

(18,768 posts)
1. There won't be an economic depression
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 08:57 AM
Sep 2023

Any shutdown will be over within 30 days max.

It may affect the economy, but not to the point of a depression.

Fiendish Thingy

(18,768 posts)
3. You're not familiar with the definition of a depression, are you?
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 09:04 AM
Sep 2023

Now, if the shutdown is accompanied by a default on the debt, a depression is definitely possible.

But a shutdown alone, no.

Previous shutdowns didn’t even trigger a recession.

While the Freedom caucus might want to burn it all down, the rest of the republicans don’t have the stomach for it and know an extended shutdown will guarantee they lose the WH and their majority next year.

Hugin

(34,728 posts)
4. How presumptive of you...
Fri Sep 29, 2023, 09:31 AM
Sep 2023

Thanks for that.

My rebuttal is that ultimately this is Trump’s shutdown. The second law of Trump is that anything he touches turns to shit. So, I guess we’ll have to see where this leads.

Hugin

(34,728 posts)
6. So, to sum up...
Sun Oct 1, 2023, 04:11 PM
Oct 2023

Putin wins.
The GrOPpers manage to push back a meaningless shutdown until after the VA elections. Well, most elections. So, that's a win for them, they live to screw up another day.
The Democrats voted against their own best interests.

All they had to do was hold Kev hostage.



Tansy_Gold

(18,058 posts)
7. It hurts most when . . . .
Sun Oct 1, 2023, 04:29 PM
Oct 2023

. . . . the good guys won't/don't fight back.

When they go low, we go high and get the rug pulled out from under us.

Sorry.

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