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Originally Posted by mapuc
Many say Trump lost this fight.
Did he ? or did he just felt pity over his people the employees that have been without money for weeks.
And for how long will this "Opening of the business" be before the next lockdown happens.
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The Democrats want to believe they've won with Trump ending the shutdown. I've read feminist articles claiming that a man (Trump) lost to a woman (Pelosi), even comparing Trump to a raging out of control bull and Pelosi as an in-control highly skilled feminist female matador who has bested him, trying desperately (and failing) to stoke the idea that women are somehow smarter and better than men in leadership roles.
I think they are highly delusional and desperately seeing what they want to see from it.
While at first it makes Trump appear to have lost to the Dems, namely to Pelosi since she is the House speaker, the reality is this - the Dems are in a very bad spot right now. The ball is in their court and in this case, that's not good for them at all. Here is why...
If the border wall isn't approved before the 3 week deadline, then there will be no doubt in anybody's mind that the Dems are simply refusing to work with President Trump on something that they themselves previously said they wanted built, back under the Obama administration, and they will be blamed entirely for another government shutdown if they do not approve it by the deadline. Not good for the Dems. Not good at all!
It's also a catch 22 situation for the Dems...
If the Dems approve the border wall during the 3-week shutdown, then they will be accused of the previous government shutdown because they could have, and should have, approved the funding before that ever happened. So, those poor 800,000 federal employees the Dems talk about will only have the Dems to blame for why they went all those weeks without a paycheck, while Nancy was playing hardball with Trump - ultimately losing to him in the end no matter what.
So much for feminist Matador Pelosi, either way she goes now. Plus, the wall will be going up, either way she chooses. In short, the Dems shot themselves in their own butts on this and have nobody to blame but themselves for it. The border wall was always a bipartisan issue. They should have never made it a partisan issue by playing hardball with President Trump out of spite and their hatred of him. He is a master strategist and he's now caused the Dems to paint themselves into a corner. No way the Dems can get out now without stepping in their own paint.
