U.S. government to shut down today unless last-minute deal reached

nancy-wheeler-bull-shit

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Buh bye

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I’ll bet they blame it on Obama.

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Ted Cruz’s filibuster led to the 2013 shutdown, IIRC.

Given that this is Matt Gaetz we’re talking about here, what are the odds that McCarthy gets voted out of the Speakership, then they have, like, 50 votes for Speaker before McCarthy ends up being voted back in so that, come American Thanksgiving, they can keep the government open until Chrismas?

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Yelling King Of The Hill GIF

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… point conceded, and mind changed. My only defense was that I wasn’t quite awake when I wrote that.

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Happens to all of us!

Tired Wake Up GIF by CSDRMS

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At first, he was afraid. He was petrified…

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Watching this now…

OMG, he STILL TRIED TO BLAME IT ON THE DEMOCRATS WHEN ONLY ONE DEMOCRAT VOTED AGAINST IT (about 2:45 in) and she called him on that shit. Kind of… until she didn’t…

rage GIF

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You joke, but there is a non-zero number of people who thinks Obama is really in charge. :confused:

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Wait, I’m confused: are those the same people who think Trump won the last election?

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Their enemies are weak and all-powerful at the same time.
Their heroes are strong conquerors and undermined and weak at the same time.
Foreigners and immigrants are stealing all of the jobs and lazy welfare slobs at the same time.

You get the idea.

Joined-up thinking is not their strong suit. And that is also seen to be a strength, in their world.

Another and far greater author once named it Doublethink.

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Federal buildings are exempt from DC law.

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