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3. Exactly. It's all performative. Thune isn't breaking with Donnie, he's doing exactly what Donnie wants him to do.
Fri Oct 31, 2025, 02:58 PM
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Donnie gets to pretend like he wants to end the shutdown.

"Hey look at me I'm trying this door that I know is locked and my buddy has the key but gosh it must be the democrats' fault!"

And on the house side Johnson is also blaming democrats for not doing their job when he's literally preventing a democrat from doing her job by refusing to swear her in.

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