>>4415138 (last)

Is Corker reading this? In his speech he just said "people watching this may not understand what just happened …"

What just happened seems quite dangerous to me. They were not voting on funding the government, but on something strange. They've got a deal whereby the next vote on the budget won't be held until there's agreement among Trump, both Senate leaders and both House leaders.

So it'll all be behind closed doors now, the sausage will be made, in a way that's not regular order, not in the sunshine. What internal rules will be weakened further so that Trump can say he got his wall? An amnesty for DACA? Legislation (not just a SCOTUS decision) requiring free k-12 education for illegals? A whole new immigration deal giving away too much?

This is actually very spoopy. Trump, please just shut down the damned government. Regular order!

>>4415586

On second thought, maybe it's genius.

Trump can now just not agree to stuff, and he didn't shut down the government. The Senate did, by not even voting on anything.

>>4415648

Do we know this? Trump had already won the nomination, and there was some behind the scenes stuff, and maybe Trump didn't have an absolute right to it yet, but do we know he had to take Pence?

I do remember the first Trump-Pence sign, it had a logo with T and P. That has to remind you of toilet paper. It was quickly changed though.

>>4415713

Rethinking about this, I believe Trump just outsmarted them. Now nothing will be voted until Trump agrees in private negotiations. If Trump never agrees, nothing is ever voted, and it's the Senate that shut down the government, not Trump.

>>4415724

Why then did I read of a 5-4 vote with Roberts voting with the majority?

>>4415759

The Israel-firsters are NOT the ones complaining about Trump's withdrawal from Syria.

Sorry, keep hoping, maybe you'll get some good news for the anti-semites someday. Prolly not during the Trump administration though.

>>4415478

Get as much cash as you can out of joint accounts into your name only right now, yesterday. Use the cash to hire the best, toughest divorce lawyer in town. Visit and have consultations with all the good ones so they're conflicted and can't work for her, unless she's already represented.

Follow the lawyer's advice. Try to win. Forget any compromise, she's taken that off the table for the rest of your natural lives by a claim such as "spousal abuse." As another anon said, strive to leave her penniless and, if you've got kids, go aggressively for sole custody with her paying child support.

Good luck. And get the money, and contact lawyers, tomorrow!

Fucking senators giving speeches saying we must avoid a shutdown because then fed employees won't be paid.

That's a reason TO have a shutdown.

>>4415917

I don't understand. But anyway if you just confessed to a crime choking your wife for a minute, then I can't help.

Senate just passed a bill to pay fed employees laid off by the shutdown.

Why don't they pay other people who work in the real economy laid off due to adverse business conditions?