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To: Brumar89 who wrote (1049526)	1/20/2018 12:53:48 PM
From: James Seagrove	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576160

“I truly don’t know”. C’mon Brumar by your own posts here you are the leading expert on all things pornographic. You even have knowledge of what Trump does behind closed doors with multiple women. How do you know these things?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (1049526)

1/20/2018 1:38:13 PM

From: Brumar89

Respond to of 1576160

Trump Whines: Shutdown Fight Could Make Me Miss ‘My Party’

You would tweet too if it happened to you.

LACHLAN MARKAY
ASAWIN SUEBSAENG
01.19.18 10:25 PM ET

On the eve of a possible government shutdown, President Donald Trump privately vented frustrations that the political impasse could possibly keep him from attending a glitzy inauguration anniversary bash and fundraiser set for Saturday at his Florida getaway Mar-a-Lago.

Two sources close to the president, one a White House official and the other a longtime confidant, told The Daily Beast how excited he was for the event and relayed his growing concern that the potential failure to strike a deal to keep the federal government open could keep him from “my party,” as the president has said.

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thedailybeast.com

The government has "shut down" a number of times over the course of my life and I've never been able to tell anything unusual was going on. They say they keep essential personnel on and those are about 17% of federal employees as I recall. That tells me we probably don't need 80+% of the federal workforce. All this talk of who is to "blame" for shutdowns. They should be talking about "credit" not "blame." The only thing bad about shutdowns is after they're over they pay the non-essentials backpay. That's just wrong.

So not only does the federal government get reduced temporarily to a more appropriate size (yay), I get to laugh at President Baby Fingers fuming about his his party, Win, win.