PS in last Thursday night’s reading several people, including me, felt the shutdown would end in February but no specific day in February.
Trump reminds me of the spoiled child in the Walmart checkout line who throws a fit to get a candy bar. The parents give in just to shut them up and, in the process, teach the child to throw a fit every time they don't get their way.
At some point there might be enough Republican senators who go along with the House bills to not only pass them but override Trump's inevitable veto. Note that this would not only get government open but also give Trump a chance to save some face.
Not sure what will happen but I hope Pelosi hangs tough.
I hope Pelosi hangs tough, otherwise, Trump will continue to take hostages for the next two years. I don't know how this will end, but when I think about Pelosi I get a very solid, clean feeling. She's genuine and firm, but not callous in any way.
I agree with lynn; Pelosi will not cave. She proved her mettle as an expert stateswomen when she first held the speaker's gavel 2007-11, and then again this past month when she overcame the "never Pelosi" faction of freshman Democrats and regained the speakership. She has literally an entire lifetime of experience in politics behind her, and she won't give in to a temper tantrum.
Pelosi is not going to cave to Trump. This man does not know how government works nor how business work either since he has fail after fail of his own companies. He just rants and raves like a little kid thinking he will get his way like he has been getting since he became president but now he has met his match. Pelosi is smarter and calmer and does her homework and she is also a women which he thinks he is superior to her but he is screwed. What he offered Pelosi last Saturday was nothing. Why would she give him something that would be permanent and receive something that is only temporary and would not help The Dreamers. He thought that they would have taken the bait after yesterday. The Supreme Court did not take act on the appeal that govement had on the Dreamers in taking away their protective status. He thought that the Supreme Court would have ruled in his favor instead they did nothing and now he has no chips to bargain with. That is why he offered that garbage on Saturday. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/us/politics/supreme-court-daca-dreamers.amp.html
Now instead of trying to find a way to end this he instead decided to come up with a cool slogan “build the wall and crime will fall” https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/426553-trump-unveils-new-theme-build-a-wall-and-crime-will-fall%3famp
Just came back to check on the forum. The trigger was those tensions that were reported widely between teenagers on MAGA hats and a Native American tribal elder near the Lincoln Memorial. Yeah, it reminded me immediately of the remote viewing exercise on Washington DC. My contribution was lost, but I was the one that saw first the Washington Monument attacked. Back then I'm sure a lot of people thought the vision was too grim. Today, I'm sure that it doesn't look so unlikely to many people here.
I said it before and I'll say it again: it's only beginning. Trump will be out soon, but Trump is just the beginning. Pence has had a chance to learn a lot of the wrong lessons. War will be coming to the mainland U.S.A. Even if war is avoided, economic destruction will be almost as bad as a war.
When Jeanne asks us to send light to help and protect people like Mueler I try although I'm not sure what I'm doing or indeed if I have any light. I shut my eyes and think of the person and surround them in light. When I have done this for Nancy Pelosi I keep seeing her in a huge ball of radiant light. So much light I can't even really see her. I have only seen her this way when I try this, no one else.
I believe she knows she's negotiating for the life of the USA, not just this one budget, one wall or no wall, and that she is painfully aware of the distress and damage done to the government workers, the government as a whole, but she can't afford to give on this or it will be shut down after shut down, and bleeding of the civil servants and the erosion of the country beyond what has already happened. She's playing for keeps here and she knows it. It feels like a 'last stand' in some ways.
As for Maria's vision, I've always had a nagging feeling that the USA will have a civil war, but really isn't that what is happening right now? Maybe not with people fighting on battle fields, but it feels so unsettled and like you are at war with yourselves from outside looking in.
Adora, thank you for such a light filled post. Pelosi is a brave warrior for us all. I love that you see her radiant. I do too. And you helped her by seeing her that way. She is radiant because so many millions of people are supporting her. She is a great warrior dealing with the darkest of forces.
We can all direct the light and protection of this universe to her.
Maria what do you mean by saying war is coming to the U.S. Please elaborate.