#government shut down

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

Wait I'm a federal worker and if the govt shuts down I may not get paid during that time and all bc fucking republicans wanna get rid of abortion and trans healthcare, two things I also depend on 😭

[squishyproductions]

House Votes to Remove McCarthy as Speaker

Republicans have a razor thin majority in the house and so they needed the votes of Gaetz and the fascists of the Freedom Caucus to get anything done. To get voted in as the Speaker, McCarthy had to give the Freedom Caucus a great deal of power. One of the powers they were given was the ability to call for him to be removed as speaker any time they wanted.

The Freedom Caucus wanted to use the shut down to push through RIDICULOUS cuts to medicare, social security, and other social service because, during the Trump administration, they passed massive tax cuts for the rich that ballooned the debt by 7.8 trillion during his presidency.

Of course Republicans didn't say a word about the debt during his term despite that 7.8 trillion. But, as soon as Democrats got into power, they immediately began to wail about the debt so they could use it as an excuse to cut social programs. Handing tax breaks to billionaires and then paying for them by cutting our social programs are how the Republican party has been eroding our safety net programs for decades.

But the cuts the Freedom Caucus wanted were far too extreme even for some Republicans. McCarthy didn't have the votes to pass it. To avoid a shut down he turned to Democrats and voted in a debt extension of 45 days.

McCarthy was ousted because he ruined the Freedom Caucus's plan to burn down the country if they couldn't fuck us all over.

Democrats voted with the Freedom Caucus to oust McCarthy because they have no loyalty to Republicans and weren't about to help McCarthy stay in power.

And so, McCarthy is out and Republicans need to vote in a new speaker before this short extension on the debt ceiling expires.

Since Matt Gaetz, Trump, and their ilk have openly proclaimed they WANT a shut down they may intentionally vote against anyone put forward to the seat just so the shut down will happen.

This MIGHT force Republicans to work with Democrats even though it would be political suicide for them to do so. The alternative will be 45 days of failed House Speaker election votes as we march towards the next shut down deadline. Even right wing media would have a damn hard time spinning that circus as a positive.

[wyn-n-tonic]

friends who receive SNAP or WIC benefits:

Delivery won’t be interrupted for benefits like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — once known as “food stamps” — as well as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). Both programs have contingency funds, but if the shutdown lasts longer than 30 days, it could become difficult for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to continue operations. WIC would shut down entirely a few days after the federal contingency fund runs out, according to the White House. SNAP delivery could last longer, but for how long will be up to the USDA. During the 34-day partial shutdown in 2018-2019, the USDA worked with state agencies to keep the program running for the entire duration.

[republicansaretheproblem]

Two drug addicted lunatics hell bent on punishing the commoners.

[parttimereporter]

Government shutdown watch.. Republican infighting watch

Reporting from THE HILL..

Senate Republicans were left fuming Thursday over what they called the dysfunctional “s— show” and “fiasco” they witnessed in the House as two proposals to fund the government through Christmas failed this week.

“I get weary with the drama associated with this. This is so dysfunctional and so distracting from the things we should be doing,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who still expressed hope “we’ll pull the rabbit out of the hat” by reaching a last-minute deal to avoid a shutdown.

[geezerwench]

How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights | The New Republic

How #Republicans plan to keep women from voting and how trump is shrieking to shut down the government before the election.

[jim-fetter-illustrations]

We The People are the problem, government is just doing what we elected it to do, which is stupidity!

Ya know this pending government shutdown is par for the course as a golfer might say, and because it's a routine happenstance!

Our American government has a chronic inability to follow its own appropriations process, and because they can't follow their own imposed Bipartisanship agreements.

In fact, in the five "decades" that the current system for budgeting and spending tax dollars has been in place, Government has passed all its required appropriations measures on time only four times, in 50 years!!!

So this is nothing new with the inept people We The People tend to elect to represent us,... probably because We The People are just as inept as our elected officials are,.......... I mean that's what the results of our governmental experiment have proved out,............. it takes one to know one,..... stupid that is!

We The People vote for people closest to our own ignorance, and we don't want anyone smarter than we are so we vote for the positive side of candidates, ignoring anythng negative that might suggest corruption.

So you might say we are represented to the best of our voting ability,......... which is mediocre at best, because we Americans are mediocre at best ourselves any more.

We are like the wealthy kid who has a Grifter dad who makes his money from suspicious nefarious means, and we see things only through rose colored glasses, having a tendency to see everything in a positive light, albeit an unrealistic light ignoring 75% of societies shortcomings.

Which means everything is Normal in America according to our own voting logic.......

Ya see,... in order for things to be different, better then they are, we have to do something different, and better than we have.............. and we aren't doing that,............ haven't for the last 50 years!!!

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[navree]

genuinely would love for some of the "both parties are the same" people to name me a single election in the entirety of the twenty first century where the outcome for the country wouldn't have been better if a democrat had won

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[wizardnuke]

can't stop thinking about a shadowgast "i'm not looking to fuck do you have a screwdriver my bathroom is flooding" grindr au