Just had a great session w/an #SSA customer service asst who, despite me calling ½hr before closing time on a Friday night before a holiday weekend, was cheerful, helpful, patient, & spent all the time I needed to get my problem solved - and solve it she did.
Wasn't til we were signing off I realized this great svc had just been rendered by a person who's not only's not being paid b/c #TrumpShutdown, but also likely not sure she won't be "RIFFed" by evil #OMB director, Russ Vought.
Evil #GOP.
Trump shut down? Wrong branch of government. The legislative branch is having appropriations legislation blocked, and the executive branch doesn't get a vote in that.
They may not get a vote, but they get a voice & Trump has made it clear to his lackeys what he wants. If they don't obey, he threatens them with supporting a candidate to challenge them in a primary next time they have to run for office - and they know the Trump-backed candidate will win and they'll not only be out of a job, they'll be out of favor in conversative circles.
@ginaintheburg and yet the point remains that Trump doesn't get a vote.
Firstly, it's not true that Trump backed candidates are such a luck. The guy is quite a loser.
But more importantly, the only way a challenger will win is because the voters want the other guy. And so this is, in the end, representatives representing their constituents, not Trump.
And that's critical.
That's how the legislative branch works. They answer to their voters, not to Trump. If their voters would replace them for voting a certain way, well, they're right to listen to that under our representative system.
It's still between representatives and the voters who empower the representatives to represent them.
Sorry, I think your analysis is completely wrong.
Well, where?
Completely means 100%, ie here, there and everywhere.
@ginaintheburg so, like, you don't think people vote for representatives? Do you think United States doesn't hold elections? Do you think all elections are rigged in the US?
Do you believe the entire US government to be the result of some Grand conspiracy, installed without legitimacy?
Honestly, if you are going to go that far to say completely, then you might as well give up trying to change anything because at that point there is no real government to address at all.
@ginaintheburg I was hoping to find someone interested in discovering what's happening in the country, and looking for solutions to the problems that we all face, but you've already shown that you're not interested in that either.
So, I don't mind matching insult with insult. Yay social media!
@volkris
I think you need to find someone who's interested in your desire for debate & your combative, insulting manner.
Because I'm not.