US Federal Government Shutdown Thread

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Just now, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Ha right, what I just said notwithstanding. The sky actually did fall.

OK

[Strike 5,995]

1 hour ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

All kidding aside if we get out of this thing the precedents being set are potentially quite dangerous.

What precedents?   Not passing a clean CR?  

[SaintsInDome2006 620]

22 minutes ago, Strike said:

What precedents?   Not passing a clean CR?  

Troops deployed into the states. Obliteration of independent appointees. Destruction of firewalls between President & DOJ & other federal law enforcement. Enabling of executive branch on appropriations. Closing of Congress. Ending of the Confirmation process for political appointees. It’s a long list.

[Voltaire 5,469]

The GOP had the votes to lockthe Democrats completely out out of the budget process, but to do so, they had negotiate closely to get nearly everyone on board and it took a massive amount of arm twisting to get those votes for the Big Beautiful Bill across the finish line. The Dems couldn't stop them then, but they can here since they will need Dem votes to fund the government. Previously, this funding the government maneuver has always been used by budget hawks to wrest a concession or two out of the bloated budget, before getting beaten to a pulp by the overwhelming and bipartisan "I don't give a fock" contingent. In this instance, the Dems, generally the party of big government, are using it to try to blow up the deficit instead.

I don't much care if illegal immigrants or work-averse societal freeloading leeches like GFIAFP are stripped of their taxpayer subsidized health care, but I would like to see SNAP funded, government offices opened, and the people who work there to get paid. These are fair and traditional debates from back in the day, when both/either party was worth voting for when the other one in charge went off the deep end and we'd need the other to rein it in.

I despise the Democratic Party and recognize then as vile, evil human scum turds that have been spawned directly from Satan's colon for other reasons.