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Trump tweets into the void as shutdown sets record
Associated Press ^ | January 12, 2019 | By JONATHAN LEMIRE, LISA MASCARO, JILL COLVIN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Posted on 01/12/2019 2:27:22 PM PST by 4Runner

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the partial government shutdown slipped into the record books Saturday as the longest ever, members of Congress were out of town, no negotiations were scheduled and President Donald Trump tweeted into the void.

He did not tip his hand on whether he will move ahead with an emergency declaration that could break the impasse, free up money for his wall without congressional approval and kick off legal challenges and a political storm over the use of that extraordinary step. A day earlier, he said he was not ready to do it “right now.”

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1 posted on 01/12/2019 2:27:22 PM PST by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

Into what “void”?


2 posted on 01/12/2019 2:28:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: 4Runner

That void has 57.2 MILLION followers.

I just checked.


3 posted on 01/12/2019 2:30:18 PM PST by gaijin
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To: 4Runner

It’s not like the internet went down, millions hear him.


4 posted on 01/12/2019 2:30:23 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: BenLurkin

Into what “void”?

The void of the MSM’s sculls.


5 posted on 01/12/2019 2:31:08 PM PST by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: 4Runner

6 posted on 01/12/2019 2:31:43 PM PST by gaijin
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To: SpaceBar

What would happen if the Internet went down for several weeks, could we get by?


7 posted on 01/12/2019 2:32:28 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: 4Runner

Don’t forget the firmament.


8 posted on 01/12/2019 2:34:21 PM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: Captain Peter Blood
Several weeks????

Several minutes and I start sweating....lol
9 posted on 01/12/2019 2:35:35 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: 4Runner
Totally bitchin! Trump is a Sabbath fan - whoda thunk?


10 posted on 01/12/2019 2:37:22 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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11 posted on 01/12/2019 2:37:29 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: gaijin

AP, Here’s a clue, you got voided a long time ago because 57 million of us don’t need you at all.


12 posted on 01/12/2019 2:37:44 PM PST by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: 4Runner

What about the vacuum which exists between the ears of MSM reporters.


13 posted on 01/12/2019 2:38:23 PM PST by Lent
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To: 4Runner

If I were a government worker I would be THRILLED at this shutdown. I’m going to be paid, so I can either use some savings, borrow from family, or borrow at low interest rate from bank to patch me over. In the meantime, I’m going to be PAID for a whole lots of hours that I don’t even have to make up. I don’t see what the big deal is! PAID VACATION AND YOU DON’T USE UP ANY VACATION DAYS.


14 posted on 01/12/2019 2:39:48 PM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: 4Runner

I guess the MSM’s assumption is that only govt bureaucrats read his tweets. If that doesn’t speak to the echo chamber they live in...


15 posted on 01/12/2019 2:39:52 PM PST by EURASLEEP (The EU is Crashing and They're Asleep at the Wheel)
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To: gaijin

NY Times has 3.5M subscribers, digital and print combined - about equal to the #2 Wall Street Journal and the #3 WaPost combined (and CNN’s prime time viewership is smaller than any of the three). President Trump has eight times the reach of these top three print outlets.


16 posted on 01/12/2019 2:52:47 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: DoodleBob

Hard to believe that album was released just TWO YEARS after we landed on the moon. I got that album for Christmas in 1974 and I STILL HAVE IT. I didn’t smoke pot but after listening to that album I sure felt like I did. Hendrix has the same effect.


17 posted on 01/12/2019 2:55:22 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: 4Runner

AP = DU


18 posted on 01/12/2019 2:57:44 PM PST by McGruff
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To: BenLurkin
sad.


19 posted on 01/12/2019 2:59:15 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: BenLurkin

Due to the shutdown, we’re obviously all dead.

We just don’t know it yet

(OK,,,who’s got the book For the Recently Deceased?)


20 posted on 01/12/2019 3:00:03 PM PST by digger48
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