Thursday marks the 30th day of the federal government shutdown and the American public has grown more concerned about the shutdown throughout the month and more disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the federal government, according to an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll conducted using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel.

More Americans blame Trump and the Republicans in Congress than the Democrats for the shutdown, the poll finds.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Red states are still stuck at the Federal level of $7.25, but Blue states are higher, often twice as high or even higher.

    The message to working people in red states is “we got ours, fuck you.”

    It’s the Dems that have been working to lift wages and support unions and workers’ rights.

    It’s the dems whose final message to working people was Sinema’s thumbs down.

    Are you paying attention at all? Dems are constantly taking fire for the very poor choice of the phrase “Defund the Police,” which MAGA was happy to smear Dems with.

    And dems were happy to have the excuse to, as biden gleefully said in a state of the union address “Fund the police!” He was clearly eager to get back to the brutal status quo. And he got a standing ovation for it.

    There’s a big difference between not wanting something, and not accomplishing something. The Dems WANT all those things,

    Enough lies. Democrats have been claiming to want things and then doing nothing to pursue them for decades. They dropped everything for netanyahu’s slightest whim, since it what they wanted to do. It’s the only time I’ve seen them chuck incrementalism out the window. It’s the only time I’ve seen them actually stand for something in the face of pushback.

    If democrats were a quarter as serious about keeping their campaign promises as they were about giving netanyahu whatever he wanted, you wouldn’t be like “we totally wanted to do what we voted against. bEhInD tHe ScEnEs.”

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      You make no sense at all. Sinema was never any kind representative of the Dems. To use her treasonous record as representative of the Democratic agenda is wildly disingenuous, and destroys any credibility you have.

      Stop thinking like a MAGA Traitor, and start thinking like an American.

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        Sinema was never any kind representative of the Dems.

        Then they need a new messenger, because her thumbs down is the entire democratic message to workers.

        Stop thinking like a MAGA Traitor

        Stop acting like a class traitor.

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          You can struggle all you want to make Sinema the face of the Democratic Party, but the truth is that she is an irrelevant footnote, whose own constituents replaced her with a different Democrat. They literally fired her.

          If you want an example of a Democrat standing up for workers, then point to Joe Biden attending the picket lines of various strikes, while he was campaigning for president. You can question his sincerity, but at least he was making the gesture, instead of demonizing them.

          And “Class Traitor?” WTF is that? What “Class” do you think I belong to that I am betraying?I have never once thought of myself as belonging to ANY Class, other than my graduating class. Truly baffling.

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            You can struggle all you want to make Sinema the face of the Democratic Party

            None has been more clear on labor.

            biden’s appearance on one picket line was a photo op to try to gloss over how he had broken the rail strike.

            And “Class Traitor?” WTF is that? What “Class” do you think I belong to that I am betraying?

            Oh, you don’t like being called a traitor? Or is it only ok to use that word when you’re using it to claim that anyone to your left must be all the way to your right?

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              Dude, you keep trying to make Sinema relevant, she’s sooo not. You’re like that MAGA I recently spoke with who kept trying to make me defend JFK. WTF?

              CLASS Traitor? What Class? Or are you just saying you are just making some nonsensical claim? Whatever, you’re point isn’t clear, and if it’s what I think it is, it’s pretty weak.

              Besides, I’ve been lifelong patriot, from a military family, with a degree in history, and excellent Critical Thinking Skills. NOBODY could ever make a case that I’m a traitor, except actual scummy traitors desperately trying to flip the script.