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    3 hours ago

    Wasn’t he elected precisely because of things like gas prices?

    If he was PM here in UK he would be facing calls to resign. This would be seen as abandoning the electorate or breaking a manifesto pledge.

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      In normal countries if a budget can’t be decided on, the government collapses and an election is held. In the US, they have indefinite 6 month extensions where they end up not paying government employees every 6 months for a month. The whole country is broken.

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        Christ, if anyone in the public sector went a month without pay over here the unions would be rioting in the streets. It just wouldn’t happen.

        Come to think of it, regardless of whether a budget passes or not, I suspect the government would still be legally bound to pay wages. I don’t know for sure though cos I can’t remember it ever happening.

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          In parliamentary democracies, it defaults to the status quo. Basically last year’s budget, plus that changes that it entailed. Taxes are still coming in, so there is no reason to stop money from going to places it needs to go and the difference between balance is called a deficit. Belgium could not form a government for 1-2 years rcently and ran through this scenario.

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      No, that’s fake news. What he said — he said you hear me ? He said he was gonna lower the price of eggs. And he did, it’s tremendous, the eggs… They’re cheaper than ever before. And they’re huge, huge eggs you wouldn’t believe it. I saw an egg… hear me, an egg that was so big it made Xi Jinpin afraid. Bigger than Greenland, and it was a cheap egg, a proud American egg. But now people don’t want cheap eggs, they want cheap gaz. Because that’s what woke Biden told em to want. /s

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        And they’re huge, huge eggs you wouldn’t believe it.

        The likes we’ve never seen before… And probably won’t again… 😅