Turns out that having the legislature operate via a Gentleman’s Agreement that assumes good faith behavior and concentrates power in the hands of a small number of people was really bad for Freedom, Liberty, and Democracy.
Always has been
Isn’t shutting down the federal government better?
States rights, amirite?
Oh, so its actually, factually, Johnson who shut down the government.
Good to know as trivia I guess, not like right wingers are on speaking terms with reality.
I’m curious why the GOP seems to be actively pursuing a shutdown right now, that they have full trilateral control over the Federal Government. Trump already isn’t bothering to staff or govern the administrations they don’t like, it seems like this would only hamper their goals with ICE & DHS, right?
Is there even an actual goal here? Or are they betting on Schumer et al caving at the last possible nanosecond?
They’re betting on Democrats getting the blame. They might be right, though I hope not.
Along with what others have said, a user in another thread pointed out that with a new financial year, they can repeat their performance with their July bill, basically doing whatever they want, so they probably consider it a win all around.
This still serves their larger goal of portraying government (supposedly representing the will of the people) as a whole as inefficient and unreliable. This furthers simplistic “strongman” attitudes as well as a continued push towards privatisation.
Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”
https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333
They are ideologically opposed to the government doing basically anything other than police and military duties, and having the bare minimum legal system required to facilitate criminal convictions for the poor, and the contract emforcement of private business.
Basically, they want the level of government that exists in Night City from Cyberpunk 2077, but probably without mass transit or even public roads.
This is what Rush Limbaugh’s ditto hesds have been told they want for about 40 years, and now they are just doing it.
You can prosecute people for thought crimes snd not being the right sexuality or religion or skin color with this, so, that’s all good with them.
It’s a reasonable question. I don’t know how many ICE agents are ok without getting the paycheck.
Ice turning on the administration was not on my bingo card but maybe I should pencil it in real fast
Should they bet on consequences?
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas):
There are more mentions of Donald Trump in the Epstein Files than there are House Republicans here in Washington D.C. today.
Also this
Yup, this very much. Mike Johnson can go fuck himself.
Based on the actions he’s taken to cover up for pedophiles, he’s more likely to go fuck a child.
He definitely gives off child fucker vibes. He joined the right friend group.
My guess is that app his son and he use to stop online wanking behavior is to keep his shady desires in check. It’s either for kids or dudes, cause no one in the GOP gives two fucks about lust and sexual misconduct with women.
MikeyJ gonna get on Grindr tonight to soothe his fee-fees and his pee-pee
That’s not how you spell kindr (God I hope that doesn’t actually exist)
there’s a decent BBQ sauce maker named kinder’s, but i sure as hell ain’t googling kindr. i feel like merely making that search would put me on a list.
Did you want them to rush the podium and eat Mike Johnson alive like a pack of hyenas, then reclaim congress?
Actually I could get behind that.
I’d actually respect them a bit if they did.
I’m a fan of javelinas myself
Personally I’m more of a Daneaxe with a claymore duckedtaped to the end kinda guy.
Then they’d get the GOPrions
A slow mob with spoons.
Great, now I have a new fetish.
I loved that yesterday Vance claimed that he wanted to work with Dems on not cutting health care, and they should fund the government, then work with the GOP on healthcare.
This guy is such a liar. The GOP absolutely refused to work with the Dems during the creation of the “Big Beautiful Bill,” despite very loud calls to not cut healthcare to fund billionaire tax cuts.
He gets creepier every day. They’re gonna find bodies under his house.
bodies of young men, dudes about to have his Grindr profile and IP leaked by a tiktoker apparantly lol.
So that’s the reason they had to buy tiktok
there’s no way some freaky shit isn’t happening with someone who has a porn pact with his son.
Anything but the Epstein files… There must be some really juicy stuff in there.
Yes. Evidence of Dump “allegedly” juicing all over some under aged girls with his BFF Epstien
Given the recent government, a shutdown might be an improvement.
Try turning it off and on again
Before turning it back on, plug in your flash drive to install Arch Government
Then unplug it and plug it back in
Their point is that turning it off this time… will remove whatever safeguards were left. What comes back up will be a rooted POS fully under their control.
Oh no, if we don’t let the Republicans gut healthcare and restructure the distribution of power they will destroy healthcare and restructure the distribution of power!
Let it shut down, let every single American suffer for as long as it takes for us to get fed up and ____ our leaders.
They have no shame.
Except for being on grindr. I’m sure they feel deep shame about being on grindr.
Doesn’t he share his masturbatory habits with his son, in a sort of watchfulness pact or something? It’s so very weird.
They’re definitely into that though.
But the democrats are the obstructionists?
I mean, NPR said so.
Didn’t they get defunded recently?
CPB did. NPR’s getting by with some billionaire donations.
Like much of the administration, incompetence and yesmenship is what you get when you hamfistedly shove a junior statesmen into leadership.
Shit like this is why I spend time volunteering with potential candidates nationwide.
What cracks me up is when they can’t get things done and you always get this. The democrats need to bring us something good enough. Does not matter if they are majority or minority they can’t figure shit by themselves.
At what age do kids typically learn what a compromise is? Anyhow, half the house are below that age, the other above.
aww shit, I wish. They’re doing it knowingly.
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