If so, you could have easily tried to counter his statement rather than resort to what you typed.
Please, further the discussion.
Funk, stay out of this one. You’re incapable of intelligent reasoning, conversation, comprehension or any form of critical thinking
In case you haven’t put two and two together yet. This shutdown was planned and it was planned to go on for long as needed to try to change the narrative to use for the midterms.
Jobs losses (since October) markets, everything. This is the lefts MO. They did it with the fake lockdowns and they did it with the fake J6 “insurrection”. All designed to sabotage Trumps agenda that 89% of the country mandated. Lets have this discussion.
What is left to discuss? What I typed is pretty much verbatim what Coach posted to Funk. So yes, I resorted to repeating what Coach typed because ‘if the shoe fits, wear it.’
Which job loses is Coach referring to? Many of them were instigated by Trump's agenda. The job losses since October 2025 are primarily a result of an ongoing government shutdown and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, with around 670,000 to 750,000 employees furloughed and some tens of thousands facing layoffs due to DOGE. Additionally, federal job losses are part of a broader trend of over one million total layoffs in the US in 2025, driven by a mix of cost-cutting, AI, and the DOGE impact. U.S. employers announced 153,074 job cuts in October, which was up 175% from the 55,597 cuts announced in October 2024. These cuts have little to do with the government shutdown.
Neither the Covid lockdowns nor the 'Capitol attack' have anything to do with the current government shutdown as Coach implies it does.
The lockdowns during COVID were very real, although in retrospect they were something of a knee jerk reaction as a result of fear of the COVID pandemic. They were not politically motivated by the left.
Regardless of what anyone, including Coach calls the January 6th events at the Capital, they were a complete fiasco. Trump attempted using an army of his MAGA followers to storm the Capitol to try and overturn the 2020 election results. Despite the January 6, 2021, break-in and damage to the Capital, which Trump instigated and watched but chose not to take any action to stop, his plan failed greatly. Pence refused to fall in line, despite the angry crowd calling for him to be hanged. After nearly nine hours the Capital was cleared of the intruders the Senate reconvened. Congress officially proclaimed Joe Biden the victor when it certified the Electoral College results in a joint session on January 7, 2021, at approximately 3:45 a.m.
If the shutdown was the left's M.O as Coach said, why was it shut down by the GOP? Of course, the current shutdown was likely planned. Would Coach have preferred it to not have been planned as in the 35-day shutdown in 2018 when Paul Ryan was House Speaker and Trump was in office? This time, it was Speaker Johnson who sent the House Reps home on September 29, 2025, and he has yet to reconvene. This would appear to be his modus operandi since he called an early start to the "House August recess" July 22, 2025, a move many believe was to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein files. This recess lasted for six weeks.
