"Mexico will pay for the wall" could have more than one meaning.

Americans invited this Trojan Horse right into their government when they elected Trump, now his devastation and destruction of USA continues. Voices of people in the news become more and more astonished, flummoxed, and bushwacked. In terms of military history, the beauty of this information warfare attack on USA is that once we realize what's being done to us as a people, how the heck do we stop it? By then it will have done so much damage... I watch, and stock up on staples, and put cash aside... seriously
"Mexico will pay for the wall" could have more than one meaning.
Have been working on documentary about Rwanda 1994 genocide, big part of story was the killers' use of RADIO, how hypnotic voices told people listening in their homes to pick up weapons, sharpen their machetes, and attack their neighbors because they were a different tribe. Makes me go, "hmm" thinking of hate radio's effect on rural USA last decades. 
Then things like, "We've got the guns, we can do it" show up in comments on stories around internet, in context that makes me, as an old journalist, feel threatened that at some point they will come after me. 
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Life in the USA on a Wednesday morning in January.
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For decades, every April 15, every local news org ran stories about the long lines at the Post Office for people filing taxes before midnight deadline. Then the fact that every news org ran the story became the story. Now every news agency runs every news story exactly the same over and over until the next story breaks and every news agency runs the new story exactly the same over and over... 
just an observation

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Information Warfare making us self destruct

Information Warfare: spend 20 plus years flooding nation with anti-govt propaganda so that when the time is just right, like when Homeland Security and FBI funding is up in Congress Dec 2018, that is when you pull The Shutdown and a good 40 percent of population thinks it's a good idea. NOTE: this is after a few shutdown dry runs beginning around 20 years ago to see how the USA responds to shutdowns, always in the protective cover of that right-wing propaganda. 
Innocent civilians are casualties of war all the time. Today, U.S. Government employees are innocent casualties of information war. Also, FBI and others with covert $py information are working without pay, slowly breaking their spirits until they finally sell their secrets and abandon USA.
This whole thing, from Fox News showing up on cable TV sets in 1995 to Americans tuning in and- uneducated bk of right wing policy to cut public education- believing it. It's all one big information warfare attack on USA and we are in the Midst of it now and most Americans still haven't figured it out.
Information Warfare makes your enemy destroy itself

Trump's White House is starting to look like the Billionaire Boys Club, in its downfall, before a couple people got killed....

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Whoever is doing this information warfare attack on USA is likely sitting somewhere now, watching our TV news pundits go on and on babbling exactly as expected after every info bomb they drop, and the attackers are laughing and laughing and laughing.

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Perhaps not only is Earth heating, but the CO2 is also poisoning the air, giving us all brain malfunction a little bit at a time and That's Why humans are acting so dang CRAZY

Brexit in UK at same time as shutdown in USA at same time people in yellow vests are rioting in France, almost as if someone arranged it...

USA is Trump's private Mar-a-Lago with the Shutdown

USA is Trump's own Mar-a-Lago with the Shutdown. He can reopen the parts of government he likes and abandon the parts he doesn't like.
If you are close to Trump, the govt stays open, if you are not, you are on the street with a sign in your hand.
Yet another way to destroy a nation from within: Defund social service while backing select business, and as a result throw people out in the streets, while the other half have everything they need and feel no pain.
This is astonishing to watch, gotta hand it to Putin et al, getting Trump elected was One Smart Way to invade a nation without using guns or bombs

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just watched report on France 24 about far north cities in Russia that are prospering now thanks to climate change, as routes of passage across the arctic have opened that they never could cross before. Whole new industries are developing in Russia's far North, connecting to Finland, cutting a month off of shipping times.
In case you wonder why Trump is not concerned about climate change. Vladimir and his guys are benefiting from it.

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Trump] "looks bad, but only if we're going to start counting evidence as proof." -Stephen Colbert, Jan 17, 2019

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This is what information warfare looks like. it took 20 years of brainwashing and twisting truth on Fox and hate radio to prepare Americans to think a govt shutdown is normal. Today the slow moving coup is amping up, attacking more aggressively, but still Slow Moving.

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George Washington, the first President of USA, "could not tell a lie." The last president of USA, Donald Trump. . .

People who lose their jobs and homes soon from "govt shutdown" may then be shipped to the Southern border to live in camps where they will build the wall.
that image just popped into my head

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Was Ayn Rand a Russian sleeper cell?

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This Whole Right Wing revolution is rooted in the writings of Ayn Rand, who came to USA after WW2. Her books are mostly an extreme reaction to Communists in her home Russia,  and her words became the foundation of "Libertarianism." 

The idea came from Russia...
I just think that is a funny coincidence.

Libertarians Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich were the first to close the govt in 1995 while Rush Limbaugh cheered from his perch on Hate Radio. Now in this revolution in 2019 the Russians seem to have gotten to right wing politicians such as Ron's son "Rand" Paul through media characters such as Rush Limbaugh and in backroom deals.
Right now a libertarian coup is causing the U.S. govt to make policy that is destroying the USA, including a government shutdown that no one balked at in early December, bk shutdowns have been done before.
It all started with one Russian girl Ayn Rand coming to USA and getting a job writing in Hollywood which you just don't get without connections. Then she started writing looong mesmerizing books full of the new right wing political rhetoric.
hmm

Watching downfall of USA from my laptop continued

That line in Trump's speech last night re building a wall because "they love the people inside'' could have been written by a professional propagandist in the Kremlin.
People build walls "not because they hate the people outside but because they love the people inside,'' our President said. 
We Are All Being Set Up. 
It works better when you say the line with a Russian accent: 
People build walls "not because they hate the people outside but because they love the people inside.''
Very persuasive line as it leads you off the lemming cliff.
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Something very creepy is going on in USA w Trump Putin et al, happening in increments, so we only see a little of it at a time. I think there was no accident in that line from Trump last week, "Enjoy the ride" as that is about all we can do right now. I'm sitting here thinking that govt shutdown in 1995 was first of a couple dry runs, same year Fox News showed up on everyone's cable lineup. Putin and his friends militarized misinformation and right now we are experiencing the results of 20 plus years of infiltration and ... mesmerizing, mind controlling a large part of the population to go along with it, mostly on Fox with red white and blue sets and anchorettes in short skirts, but also with hate radio permeating rural America, and local cells flooding local papers with letters to editors and the St. Petersburg troll farm. It all worked together to bring us Trump the puppet president and the USA's self destruction, which is entering a new phase now.
"Give me five billion dollars or I won't reopen the govt."
The USA is held hostage.
I have known many Russians in my life and one characteristic they don't have that Americans have is a trust in govt, a belief that the people in charge will make things right. Americans are really pretty naive. We've only been around 250 years, Russia's been around a lot longer. 
I think those of us living in USA right now need to develop a more crafty attitude. Many Russians I've known are parts of black market networks and have underground secretive ways to make things happen where no one trusts anyone. You can't expect anything in govt to work, even if there is a law saying it should work.
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This is a slow moving coup
They took over the USA without firing a shot*, using... journalists basically, and very persuasive PR people. At least no American cities got bombed. Some of us may end up better off under our new colonial leaders.
I'm ready to just ride this out for now and see what happens next.
Hope I live to read the analyses of this whole thing 20 years from now.
*although they did help us shoot each other as the Maria Putina / NRA story will reveal.
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It's like watching a bad movie. Last night the Donald was to take to the air to declare a national emergency that doesn't exist after setting us up with the last 2 years of chaos. Then he didn't.

The USA is being run by a dictator on Twitter. 

You could not write that script and get past the first readers at a production company, yet that scenario is happening in real life.
and worst yet, this coup runs on the USA's inability to stop things. The entire nation is standing by shrugging going, "not my department."

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I'm watching this coup with its bizarre hourly news breaks on my 2 laptops, I bet it's even weirder on TV screens.
strange times

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on a mountaintop watching it all happen from my laptop 

Watching downfall of USA from my laptop, continued

it's like watching a bad movie, tonight the Donald takes to the air to declare a national emergency that doesn't exist after setting us up with the last 2 years of chaos. The USA is soon to be run by a dictator on Twitter. 
You could not write that script and get past the first readers at a production company, yet that scenario is about to happen in real life. 
and worst yet, this coup runs on the USA's inability to stop things. The entire nation is standing by shrugging going, "not my department."