Politicians influence the public and the public blindly follows them

Orwell made so many jokes about this in 1984

A masterpiece btw (albeit despressing)

@TheBritishGamer ❤🔑 (Meh) as much as I love to give Trump s***, I usually don't blame the politicians. It is our job as the electorate is to keep our politician's in check, we have failed to do so.

People are easy to manipulate

GG @TheBritishGamer ❤🔑 (Meh), you just advanced to level 9!

They're fickle

"The thing politicians love about people is that they do not think" - Joseph Goebbles

Damn!

I didn’t think trumps pledge to drain the swamp would be to bring all the swamp monsters into the White House and let muller just go to town on them... he’s playing 3d chess y’all

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1076132028888825857

https://youtu.be/ArIxKQgreU0

own != proud

do you understand terminology and context?

Did you watch the video? Because I watched it live, and he multiple times said if he didn’t get $5 from congress for a wall (that Mexico was supposed to pay for) that he’d be proud to shut down the government and would own it

So yes I do understand context

$5? damn congress should have coughed up

so yes they do own the shutdown if the dems vote against his bill

$5 Billion

$5 billion is chump change

Well pretty stupid of him to publicly proclaim he’d accept responsibility if he doesn’t get the money then isn’t it.

Even more hilarious is his party controls all the branches of government and he can’t even get his #1 priority funded with chump change

Maga am I right?

you are flat out wrong

the demos have a mjority in the house

Not until January

> controls all the branches of government -- false.

But you know don’t let the facts get in the way

Paul Ryan is still the speaker, it’s a lame duck session but new members don’t take office until 2019 so yeah...

"The Democrats, whose votes we need in the Senate, will probably vote against Border Security and the Wall even though they know it is DESPERATELY NEEDED. If the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time. People don’t want Open Borders and Crime!"

still democrats fault for worrying about a few measly billion

who cares if they build a wall

democrats worried they gonna lose illegal votes?

It’s not the Democrats responsibility to build his racially motivated, pointless wall that won’t work, and that he has From day one claimed wouldn’t be paid for by Americans... why in the world would they vote for that? It’s dumb politically, and practically it’s stupid as well

if its so stupid let him build and then stand back and laugh

what have they got to lose

?

....

oh illegal voters.

Illegal voters are literally not a thing, there have been very few cases of voter fraud, and the majority of those are by right wing voters anyway, but that’s not the point. It’s his stupid fucking wall, if he wants it it’s up to him to figure out how to do it, he’s already claimed he’ll shut down the government for this dumb wall that the people don’t want, so lets let him get his just desserts