Today’s STEEL MILL SATURDAY Open Thread is devoted to your thoughts on the glorious chaos in US Politics.
(Newt Gingrich once said Trump combined the energy of Theodore Roosevelt, the salesmanship of P T Barnum…and the disruptiveness of Andrew Jackson. He sure got that last part right!)
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As always, you can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on. BUT: Keep it civil. Rules much like the Old Treehouse, except of course Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged. A couple of other important things to consider:
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/dear-maga-open-topic-20190101/ contains some general guidelines for things that are really, really not kosher to post here.
And Wheatie’s Rules (as amended by me):
- No food fights.
- No running with scissors.
- If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
- No shooting at the nuclear warheads.
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What a roller coaster these last three days have been, Fellow Deplorables! I think I said twice that President Trump does things I don’t expect…and he certainly did so today! The shutdown is on a three-week hiatus.
Does anyone imagine the Dems are going to cave on the wall in the next three weeks? So I think the Great Glorious Shutdown is just going to be coming back.
Meanwhile anyone with more brain cells than a planarian who is ALSO paying attention will realize the Dems were holding federal workers hostage, given that the Republicans tried to get their paychecks to them on at least two occasions but were rebuffed.
And they did promise to negotiate. Yeah I know, their promises are worthless. You know that and I know it.
But millions of Americans don’t know it, and they’re about to learn.
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MOAR SHUTDOWN!!!
MOAR!!! MOAR!!! I’m still not SATISFIED!!!
Oh, well…
Hey, maybe I can look at it this way: The shutdown is so thorough, that it even managed to shut itself down!
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One last piece of business: Congratulations to Wheatie, who absolutely SHATTERED the comment yesterday. You get another Steel Wheatie!!
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The Standing Liberty quarter design is a favorite of coin collectors, but the mint absolutely hated the coin. It was nearly impossible for them to get the design to strike up fully, and almost all of the coins had flatness on either Liberty’s head or her shield.
The Type I, introduced in very late 1916 (1916s are major rarities) depicted her with a bare breast, and there’s an old story, apparently NOT true, that there was a public outcry over this so after Mid-1917 she sported chain mail. The series ended in 1930, replaced by the Washington quarter.
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MAGA ON!!!