Shut it down.
Shut it all down.
General strike until every Republican resigns and gerrymandering is criminalized nationwide.
You know I LOVE this idea. Fuck Dems pushing for the healthcare subsidies; go for the Federal gerrymandering ban instead - do A LOT more good!
What kind of a dysfunctional, mismanaged country has to struggle every single year to avoid its entire government shutting down, and sometimes fails to do so? Are any other countries like this?
Well, it doesn’t help that a big faction of one of the two major parties, the republicans, fundamentally doesn’t believe in government or democracy. They do not want a government that provides services to the public.
Not just every single year, but every three to six months.
It’s only when Republicans control the House and Democrats control the Whitehouse.
At least, it was. Now the Republicans can’t even help but sabotage themselves.
The Belgians sometimes do weird shit like this, but not at the same frequency.
While normally such a government shutdown is disastrous, with all the crazy ICE stuff and all the cuts to mandatory services it now it seems like the best course of action and I hope the democrats keep it up (fat chance of that)
Good point. If the National Guard no longer gets paid, how long will they continue to invade our cities?
I fully expect the spinless Democratic leadership to bail the fascist Republicans out yet again.
They already fucked up by even offering a compromised solution in my opinion. Why keep giving these incompetent fascist slack when they clearly want to Mike Pence themselves.
Does congress still get paid during a shutdown?
I genuinely don’t know the answer to that question, but if the answer is “no,” then I think we’ve uncovered a significant clue. Personally I feel like a huge part of the top Democrats’ horrifying fecklessness on all of these type of issues is that, at the end of the day, they’ll be fine, and you can sometime divine their priorities by seeing what does make them start sweating and working hard to avoid.
Lol, of course they still get paid!
More or less as soon as I typed it I realized, you know what, that’s a stupid question, I would be very very surprised if they don’t get paid.
I still feel like the fact that it impacts their workplace directly, is the reason they freak the fuck out about it and start actually trying, in a way they usually don’t when someone else is getting kidnapped to an ICE facility or losing their workplace or home or family or life.
Lisa Murkowski is very concerned.
I’m interested to hear what Susan Collins has to say.
I’m not.
Agreed, a shutdown is necessary and the logical next step for a real opposition party.
If the government shuts down we should also not have to pay taxes
finally the news says the quiet part out loud
BOTH PARTIES are the problem
I mean, no… But both parties do suck. It’s just, the Republicans are trying their best to destroy the world, and the democrats are just ineffective and wanting to tax sugar.
