The nation's 42,000 active-duty Coast Guard members missed their scheduled paycheck Tuesday, as the only military branch to work without pay during the government shutdown.
Because the Coast Guard is under the Department of Homeland Security, it is getting no funding during the shutdown. All other parts of the military are under the still-funded Department of Defense.
Right now I can think of 42,000 families extremely pissed off at trump's obsession to force Congress to pay for his monument to his ego.
And the idea of forming a mess of a Homeland Security Department is starting to bite our own armed forces in the collective ass.
The thing about a partial Shutdown is that the longer it goes the likelier it's going to cut off other parts of the federal government that had been funded but will soon run out of money.
And this Shutdown will NOT end because the Republican leadership - not just trump but also Mitch McConnell may he rot in the deepest pit of Hell with the other traitors - profits from this destruction. This has been the political party obsessed with cutting at the federal system with a fireaxe, whittling it down to where Grover Norquist can drown it in his bathtub, and the Republicans are reveling in watching federal workers struggle to work at jobs that won't pay them and then stumbling out to the streets to beg for food.
This Shutdown won't end until it becomes perfectly clear too many people and too many families are suffering for the nation to ignore, when the workers fight back somehow and in any way they can, and there's nothing left but the tears to count.
And by then, too many will be hurting that didn't deserve any of this.
GODDAMN YOU, REPUBLICANS. Curse your dark empty hearts.
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Nancy Pelosi has written Fergus a letter suggesting that he reschedule his SOTU address until after the government reopens because of the strain an address to a joint session of congress would put on the attenuated security staff in a partially shut down government.
Or, she suggested he could submit it in writing, which was just trolling him, as he can barely tweet, much less write a coherent SOTU statement.
Perhaps he could just copy and paste extensively from "Mein Kampf" or the "Cornerstone" speech...
-Doug in Oakland
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