How is the Government shut-down affecting you?

[quintessentone]

I know rich people without souls.  

Life is hard.  I guess it would be harder if people didn’t have a device and a data plan that allows them to post.

Life in a first world country should not be that hard. People are begging for assistance and it's falling on deaf ears.

[WallFlowerActive]

Nope. Planned war, planned genocide, planned colonial conquering tactics to pillage others' land and now your leader will get a piece of that action by putting up one of his resort towers on the bones of children.

Where Hamas still cowers in tunnels and behind children.  You can spread all the propaganda you want.  Still no excuse for Hamas in charge of Gaza to cower behind children and hostages.  I think there was a point if Hamas just gave back the hostages it would have stopped.

[WallFlowerActive]

Life in a first world country should not be that hard. People are begging for assistance and it's falling on deaf ears.

Who said it was falling on deaf years.  Lots of food banks in my area run ok without federal grants.  Without the federal government.  Where huge portions are covered by direct donations from everyday people.

So.  Cuba with its nanny state isn’t a first world country.  So how is making the US more like Cuba going to protect a majority of US citizens’ standard of living.

[quintessentone]

Where Hamas still cowers in tunnels and behind children.  You can spread all the propaganda you want.  Still no excuse for Hamas in charge of Gaza to cower behind children and hostages.  I think there was a point if Hamas just gave back the hostages it would have stopped.

Hamas are in Qatar enjoying the high life. There are only starving people left in Gaza.

No excuse to start a genocide and pretend that's not what is happening here.

Anyway, I've said what I wanted to say to ANNEE and I'm done going around in circles on off-topic subjects that we will never agree on. Good night.

[WallFlowerActive]

Hamas are in Qatar enjoying the high life. There are only starving people left in Gaza.

No excuse to start a genocide and pretend that's not what is happening here.

Really.  Then who is using hostages as shields and bargaining chips in Gaza.

[UltraBudgie]

I think there was a point if Hamas just gave back the hostages it would have stopped.

Lol, no. As Mr Netanyahu said earlier this year, hostages returned, Gaza completely disarmed, and "Trump's Plan" implemented:

On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said President Trump’s plan to remove the Palestinian population from Gaza was a condition to end Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged territory.

“I am prepared to end the war in Gaza, under clear conditions that will ensure the safety of Israel – all the hostages come home, Hamas lays down its arms, steps down from power, its leadership is exiled from the Strip … Gaza is totally disarmed, and we carry out the Trump plan. A plan that is so correct and so revolutionary,” Netanyahu said, according to The Cradle.

What "Trump's Plan" was he referring to?

Alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, President Trump said Palestinians should be removed from Gaza on a “permanent” basis.

“You look over the decades, it’s all death in Gaza. This has been happening for years, it’s all death. If we can get a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes where they can be happy and not be shot and not be killed,” Trump told reporters.

Permanent relocation of Gaza's entire population.

The "if only they would return the hostages this would all end" talking-point is, and always has been, total bs.

[WallFlowerActive]

Hamas are in Qatar enjoying the high life. There are only starving people left in Gaza.

No excuse to start a genocide and pretend that's not what is happening here.

Anyway, I've said what I wanted to say to ANNEE and I'm done going around in circles on off-topic subjects that we will never agree on. Good night.

Or maybe just stop firing rockets at Israeli..

Hamas fires rockets at Tel Aviv as Israel renews Gaza ground campaignhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2dr7jd7mno.amp

[WallFlowerActive]

Lol,

What happened to the ceasefire?  And how did it lead to the current state.

[DBCowboy]

So, I don’t really want to get political, I just want to know how this is affecting the American people on this forum.

As a Canadian from the outside looking in, I’m just curious.

Are you all doing ok? Has it affected you personally yet?

No need to get angry about the cause, just asking.


Tecate

I work for the VA.

Business as usual.

[UltraBudgie]

What happened to the ceasefire?  And how did it lead to the current state.

Dunno. Maybe both sides looked at each other and said "ya know, no cap, I really just love fighting you" and then they were both like "samesies!" and after a brief bro-hug the slaughter proceeded apace, but the fond memories of shared hatred run deep, and the memory of the God of War briefly pausing to adjust his tighty-whities will not soon be forgotten.