Elon musk shuts down govt

[Gepetto 1,288]

11 hours ago, seafoam1 said:

Guttermutt is crying by telling others that they are crying. The runt is out of his mind.  

Gutterboy seen in this clip 

 

[lickin_starfish 1,890]

Why would this need to be in a spending bill to fund the government? 

 

https://x.com/sheislaurenlee/status/1869554014691447107

[The Phantom's Phantom 253]

Maga: we need to cut spending or we shut down the govt

Also maga: we need unlimited debt or we shut down the govt

[Engorgeous George 2,126]

7 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Yeah, they could never put that in an actual budget next session. I guess they stop researching now.

Maybe they are relying on Biden curing cancer before his term is up.

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1869934755896025200

This lunatic Liberal is fighting for Female Crash Test Dummies getting added to the bill. It's sexist to have all male Crash Test Dummies.  

[Engorgeous George 2,126]

6 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

https://twitter.com/bonchieredstate/status/1869934755896025200

This lunatic Liberal is fighting for Female Crash Test Dummies getting added to the bill. It's sexist to have all male Crash Test Dummies.  

I think of crash test dummies as being fairly androgenous.  Am I misinformedf?  Do they have external genitalia, and if so to they have various versions based upon race?

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

Just now, Engorgeous George said:

I think of crash test dummies as being fairly androgenous.  Am I misinformedf?  Do they have external genitalia, and if so to they have various versions based upon race?

Can't they just put a wig on it and call it a Female? Isn't that what Liberals have been doing forever? 

[The Phantom's Phantom 253]

2 minutes ago, Engorgeous George said:

I think of crash test dummies as being fairly androgenous.  Am I misinformedf?  Do they have external genitalia, and if so to they have various versions based upon race?

Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm....

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

1 minute ago, The Phantom's Phantom said:

Mmmm mmmm mmmm mmmm....

Put a wig on it and call it a Female. Isn't that what Liberals do? 

[The Phantom's Phantom 253]

7 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Put a wig on it and call it a Female. Isn't that what Liberals do? 

Once there was this poster who

Couldn't stop obsessing over trannies like a fool.

[Maximum Overkill 1,739]

Just now, The Phantom's Phantom said:

Once there was this poster who

Couldn't stop obsessing over trannies like a fool.

Once there was this Pedocrat who thinks Trannies are completely normal and not Mentally ill. 

[MDC 7,124]

 

[Cdub100 3,835]

13 hours ago, thegeneral said:

This spending bill was going to pass. Johnson had the votes. Elon and Trump decided it’s no good and blew it up.

You can think that’s great but it is why they are now scrambling to get a new deal.

If it was a good bill they could have voted and passed it. Trump is not in power yet That's the bottom line.

It wasn't a good bill it was filled with pork and protection for Democrats. 

 

So yes I think it was a good thing. BTW this CR directly effects me. But I'm good with that.

[lickin_starfish 1,890]

Why is the Biden administration shutting down the government right before Christmas? Save us, Joe!

[The Phantom's Phantom 253]

49 minutes ago, lickin_starfish said:

Why is the Biden administration shutting down the government right before Christmas? Save us, Joe!

What a good lil soldier, follow those marching orders.

This is your mess, President Musk is to blame, own it.

[thegeneral 2,896]

1 hour ago, Cdub100 said:

If it was a good bill they could have voted and passed it. Trump is not in power yet That's the bottom line.

It wasn't a good bill it was filled with pork and protection for Democrats. 

 

So yes I think it was a good thing. BTW this CR directly affects me. But I'm good with that.

Trump, or Elon which is crazy, killed something that was going to get through Congress. Now we are here with a potential shutdown, It’s not a question it is was happened was my point.

 

 

[Cdub100 3,835]

3 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Trump, or Elon which is crazy, killed something that was going to get through Congress. Now we are here with a potential shutdown, It’s not a question it is was happened was my point.

 

 

I honestly don't understand why everybody's freaking out. People are acting as if this doesn't happen all the time. 

Every year sometimes twice a year we have the same argument Democrats are shutting down the government Republicans are shutting down the government. And it's always about whose pork gets funded. 

What appears to be different this time around is Elon back by the power of trump is saying we're not funding either of the pork. 

So again yes I am really good with that

 

[lickin_starfish 1,890]

They threaten to shut down the government every year, and each time they swoop in at the last minute and pass some bullschit to act like heroes. You Nancies need to settle down.

[thegeneral 2,896]

14 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

I honestly don't understand why everybody's freaking out. People are acting as if this doesn't happen all the time. 

Every year sometimes twice a year we have the same argument Democrats are shutting down the government Republicans are shutting down the government. And it's always about whose pork gets funded. 

What appears to be different this time around is Elon back by the power of trump is saying we're not funding either of the pork. 

So again yes I am really good with that

 

I tend to agree it’s not world ending. In the past these things just end up costing more money to cover all the stuff that didn’t happen when we were shutdown and people are inconvenienced. It is a sign of disfunction to perform their most basic task however.

That Elon seems to have spearheaded is unusual, but unusual is what I expect from a Trump WH.

 

[The Phantom's Phantom 253]

We went through something similar in 2018 under Trump, figures, when he shut down from Dec 22 to Jan 25.  President Musk has already came out and said the shutdown should last until Jan 20th but we'll see if he changes his mind.

Of course it wasn't catastrophic, but people were affected, people didn't get paid, small businesses were hurt, and the CBO estimated an $8B loss in GDP during that time.  So it's not "good" as some idiots would say.

[HellToupee 1,584]

Can you believe this 81 yo purple haired hag is in charge of spending taxpayer $$$. Has to be a simulation 

 

[avoiding injuries 1,508]

17 hours ago, Engorgeous George said:

I thought Tim would chime in since he apparently knows enough about this subject to question another poster on their subject knowledge.  Me, I know basically nothing about this.  Maybe we have a local who has followed the developments that could chime in.

The old bridge was sufficient. There’s 3 ways to get through the city. I’ll combine the Harbor Tunnel and the Fort McHenry Tunnel as 1. They both go straight through the city. 695 is a highway/beltway that circles the city and you can go east or west off of 95. The Key Bridge connected the east side, which is no longer an option. While I’d estimate only 15% of traffic used the east side, the tunnels immediately picked up that additional 15% and has been a traffic nightmare going south in the mornings and north in the evenings. The tunnels don’t allow hazmat trucks, so that traffic has been diverted to 695 west, which was already a sh!t show. 
I don’t know why it’s costing so much, or why the amount suddenly increased like it did. Definitely some pork built in. 
I also don’t know why the timeline is so long. The original bridge was built in about the same time 50 years ago. It’s hard to believe technology hasn’t advanced enough to get this built quicker.

 

[The Phantom's Phantom 253]

Almost as bad as this causing the whole thing

 

[Hardcore troubadour 14,927]

Just now, The Phantom's Phantom said:

Almost as bad as this causing the whole thing

 

Your derangement was amusing. Now it’s sad. 

[Mike Honcho 5,096]

How much would it cost? (from Sept 2023 shutdown possibility story)

The answer mostly hinges on how long a government shutdown might last.

The most recent one lasted 34 days in the winter of 2018-19 and delayed at least $18 billion in spending, which was resumed once the government reopened. That shutdown cost $11 billion at the time, of which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated $3 billion was lost permanently.

The 2018-19 shutdown dragged down U.S. economic growth, leading to an $8 billion hit to real gross domestic product, or a loss of 0.2%, according to the CBO. This time around, the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank forecasts a shutdown could cost upward of $1 billion a week.

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[Fnord 2,051]

#elonald

The greatest bromance ever known. Many people are saying this.

[thegeneral 2,896]

28 minutes ago, Mike Honcho said:

How much would it cost? (from Sept 2023 shutdown possibility story)

The answer mostly hinges on how long a government shutdown might last.

The most recent one lasted 34 days in the winter of 2018-19 and delayed at least $18 billion in spending, which was resumed once the government reopened. That shutdown cost $11 billion at the time, of which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated $3 billion was lost permanently.

The 2018-19 shutdown dragged down U.S. economic growth, leading to an $8 billion hit to real gross domestic product, or a loss of 0.2%, according to the CBO. This time around, the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank forecasts a shutdown could cost upward of $1 billion a week.

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Yep. The dog and pony show just ends up costing more. Maybe this time will be different!

[Reality 3,096]

12 hours ago, The Phantom's Phantom said:

The CR they tried to pass cut out $200M for childhood cancer research.

Checks out.

Liar.

[Strike 5,186]

49 minutes ago, thegeneral said:

Yep. The dog and pony show just ends up costing more. Maybe this time will be different!

If they end up cutting 100 billion in pork from the final CR and it costs us a few billion I would call that a win.

[thegeneral 2,896]

5 minutes ago, Strike said:

If they end up cutting 100 billion in pork from the final CR and it costs us a few billion I would call that a win.

We’ll see.

The one guarantee is Elon via his mouthpiece Donald will claim a yuge victory over the evil Democrats!

[MDC 7,124]

8 minutes ago, Strike said:

If they end up cutting 100 billion in pork from the final CR and it costs us a few billion I would call that a win.

They should start by cancelling givernement contracts with SpaceX and Tesla.  

[squistion 1,947]

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1870149713774706855

Leader Jeffries:

Republicans "would rather enact massive tax cuts for their billionaire donors than fund cancer research for children."

[Cdub100 3,835]

1 hour ago, thegeneral said:

I tend to agree it’s not world ending. In the past these things just end up costing more money to cover all the stuff that didn’t happen when we were shutdown and people are inconvenienced. It is a sign of disfunction to perform their most basic task however.

That Elon seems to have spearheaded is unusual, but unusual is what I expect from a Trump WH.

 

I'm glad it's unusual because usual isn't working.

[Strike 5,186]

Good video about how "bad" things will get if the gov't shuts down:

https://x.com/JohnStossel/status/1870127238953197713?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^1870127238953197713|twgr^410755e8ce6b638e7b8c5ddeff1b98d0431dc712|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbrandon_morse%2F2024%2F12%2F20%2Fjohn-stossel-exposes-just-how-big-of-a-crisis-a-government-shutdown-is-not-n2183459

[Strike 5,186]

6 minutes ago, MDC said:

They should start by cancelling givernement contracts with SpaceX and Tesla.  

You want to strand Astronauts at the ISS?  What's wrong with you?

[Mike Honcho 5,096]

4 minutes ago, Strike said:

You want to strand Astronauts at the ISS?  What's wrong with you?

I'm sure the Boeing capsule's fine...    

[The Phantom's Phantom 253]

MAGA cares more about Astronauts in space than American kids suffering from cancer and our own military.

[lickin_starfish 1,890]

6 minutes ago, Strike said:

You want to strand Astronauts at the ISS?  What's wrong with you?

He only cares about himself.

[Fnord 2,051]

1 minute ago, The Phantom's Phantom said:

MAGA cares more about Astronauts in space than American kids suffering from cancer and our own military.

No they don't. They DGAF about anything. It's all talking points and trying to own libs. There is no there there.

[thegeneral 2,896]

7 minutes ago, Cdub100 said:

I'm glad it's unusual because usual isn't working.

If your concerns are our debt, check out how that went during Trump’s last run. In this bill he wants to eliminate the debt ceiling and made comments that our debt is a meaningless number