Right above the Inflation Dial.

Do you think he has a different button for each Trump indictment, or just an all-in-one button?

Damn that senile Biden, he’s controlling everything with his senility/mastermind!

IANAL, and that crime might be in the sedition/ treason category of crimes. And we have most of a specific political party that has been and continues to engage in this category of crimes.

Add it to the list if you want. It's pretty far down compared to some of the other stuff he's done.

There's a good chunk of the public that is unbelievably dumb, so they'll give whatever cheato Mussolini tells them to believe.

Most of the public will blame the Republicans, but Trump and the Republicans don't care about "most of the public." They only care about their base.

Their base will definitely believe that the government shutdown is not the fault of the Republicans who refuse to accept any deal, but instead is the fault of the Democrats/Biden for just giving the Republicans 100% of what they demand.

At the same time, they'll believe that the Republicans caused the shutdown, but that it's a good thing that they did. Yes, it's contradictory. No, they don't care.

They are counting on the low-info types to believe the bothsiderist narrative the feeble "liberal media" is bound to give on this, and either not vote, or vote for t****.

Maybe if republicans actually passed a stop gap or something, even if it's bat shit insane. As of right now, it's all Republican infighting. The question right now is whether it's McCarthy or Matt Gaetz fault. Biden isn't even in the picture right now, it's not like Republicans can say Biden isn't giving into their demands or whatever. There are no demands, it's just Republican on Republican bickering.

I think McConnell and McCarthy have learned that voters blame Republicans for this instead of Democrats, and the debt ceiling standoff around May just hammered that in further. The plurality believed Republicans were at fault for the whole thing.

It's likely savvy of Republican leadership to avoid another self inflicted crisis like this, especially since House Republicans can't even pass a 100% Republican bill for starting negotiations.

And as usual, Trump felt left out, and now he's advocating they take the worst option and insisting that Dems will be blamed instead. I suspect enough House Republicans know he's full of shit to take this as confirmation they're going to be the ones who get the blame.

You're thinking too logically. Biden is "in charge." That is enough for Fox News to blanket multiple news cycles with. "Biden ineffectual at preventing shutdown," "Biden embarrassed as shutdown enters second week," "Biden nowhere to be found as Congress deadlocks on shutdown reopening plan" and so on. They're just going to say "Biden" and "shutdown" in the same sentence until a viewer believes - without ever having arrived at the conclusion - that Biden owns the shutdown.

Low-information right-wing viewers have no conception of, or interest in learning, how this all actually works.

For the moment, even Fox News isn't denying the current shitshow is the House's problem

Yeah, but there is so much tone policing to be done, as well as the decorum and respect for the norms. Meaning, the Democratic Party is supposed to be a punching bag and not pipe up too much about all the gaslighting and the craziness from the hard right. The Democrats are held to a higher standard, at all times, even if they miss a comma somewhere, while the Republicans are held to none whatsoever, and expected to be awful.

they get blamed

But does anything actually happen?

Are there any actual consequences?

Speaker of the House literally indicated he’d do this in his Inauguration speech