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They want a shutdown lol this idea that negotiating will avert it is silly since you don't negotiate for things you don't want.
Yeah… this ain’t going to give them the effect they want. They’ll get blamed by the public and I’m here for it
The conservative news sphere is unfortunately largely impervious to reality and rational thought.
The GOP always does poorly after they force a shut down in an election year though. They just dint know how to operate any differently
Trump desperately needs swing voters in the upcoming general and looking at the exit polls from the primaries, he is in deep shit (even within his own party at times.) This does not serve that goal in any way outside that right-wing bubble, which is a huge problem for Republicans. Here's to Biden standing his ground.
True, but conservatives are not the majority of Americans
Unfortunately, the electoral college exists, which means that isn’t as important as it should be.
My boss is one of those "ultra Maga" lunatics. He likes to say "well, wherever you get your news isn't giving you the full story." I said "did you ever think that maybe you're being lied to by Newsmax?" He got very indignant about it. The notion that a Russian propaganda channel would lie to him of all people...
That's the thing; Dunning-Kruger is rampant among these people. And, it hasn't escaped me that it's mostly people with a Southern accent. The fact that the American South has some of the lowest education scores and highest rates of religion kind of tells you everything you need to know about who the civilized world is up against.
There's a reason Hitler had a hard-on for the Jim Crow South. The line between Confederate sympathizer and Nazi is razor thin.
The Venn diagram of confed simps and neo-Nazis is a circle, tbh.
All they care about is their base
Anyone keeping track of how many of these shutdowns are caused by idiot republicans being idiots? I'm sure we're up to at least a half dozen by now...
All of them are caused by idiot Republicans being idiots would be my guess!
But google says 21 of them in the last 5 decades, or 14 since 1980, or 4 since 2010.. depending on the article and how far you want to go back.
I'll tell you how to fix this; make a law where if there is a shutdown, an immediate freeze goes into effect on the assets of every member of Congress. No access to their bank accounts, no flights, no income until the shutdown ends.
These dorks can't get anything done.
By dorks, you mean gop
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The spending showdown that has brought the government to the brink of a partial shutdown this week is being fueled by Republicans in Congress, who, after failing in their efforts to slash federal funding, are still insisting on right-wing policy dictates.
Complicating the picture for Speaker Mike Johnson, who met at the White House on Tuesday with President Biden and the other top congressional leaders, Republicans themselves have been divided over what to push for in spending talks.
Ultraconservative lawmakers who rarely support spending legislation have been the loudest voices in favor of cuts and hard-line policy provisions, but more mainstream and politically endangered Republicans have refused to back them.
In one case last fall, the more moderate lawmakers helped to sink a spending bill that prevented money from being spent to enforce a District of Columbia law that protects employees from being discriminated against for seeking contraception or abortion services.
Hard-right Republicans have tried to use their party’s razor-thin majority in the House as leverage to wring spending cuts and conservative policy conditions on how federal money can be spent from Mr. Biden and Democrats in the Senate.
Right-wing Republicans have grown increasingly unhappy as they have watched government funding keep flowing without cuts or policy changes, and they are ratcheting up pressure on Mr. Johnson to secure some kind of conservative victory in the current spending negotiations.
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Right-wing Republicans have grown increasingly unhappy as they have watched government funding keep flowing without cuts or policy changes
Only because the government is spending money on citizens and social programs. They don't mind the enormous military budget or all the oil, coal, gas, and farm subsidies.
Some of the GOP mandates mentioned seem like obvious poison pills, that will definitely slow down the budget bill's passage.