The expiry of food aid to 42 million Americans came the same night Trump threw a lavish party themed around a book critiquing the moral emptiness of wealth built on social inequality.
Trump obviously was never campaigning on or making a promise to shut down the government, so the first condition of LAMF (supporting the politician’s promise to do X) literally can’t be met.
But he’s the self-proclaimed world’s best deal maker, no?
If your implication is that his failure to make a deal caused the government shutdown, that only supports my point more. Failing altogether to deliver on a campaign promise also is mutually exclusive with a LAMF situation.
You can’t have a ‘he promised to do X, I assumed he’d do it to these other people only even though he didn’t say that, and now he’s doing it to me’ situation, if X never gets done in the first place.
But he’s the self-proclaimed world’s best deal maker, no?
If your implication is that his failure to make a deal caused the government shutdown, that only supports my point more. Failing altogether to deliver on a campaign promise also is mutually exclusive with a LAMF situation.
You can’t have a ‘he promised to do X, I assumed he’d do it to these other people only even though he didn’t say that, and now he’s doing it to me’ situation, if X never gets done in the first place.