Shutdown 3: the Shutdownening

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What are the odds that there's a government shutdown in a couple weeks?

Minimal / zero
0
No votes
<25%
4
11%
26% - 50%
4
11%
51% - 75%
8
22%
75% - 99%
6
16%
Virtually guaranteed
15
41%
 
Total votes: 37

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LordMortis
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Re: Shutdown 3: the Shutdownening

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RunningMn9 wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2024 6:04 pm I would like it noted that I *definitely* want Trump supporters to suffer. I want them to suffer to such a degree that they might not be able to recover from it.

I don’t want innocent people to suffer, but innocent people are going to suffer regardless. I just don’t want them to suffer alone.
I want them to get what they've been begging for but not to take us with them. Go ahead and live a lawless society with no public services and see if you and your gang of thugs are better than the next gang of thugs and see how you can bargain for healthcare and try to seek justice when you get hit by a car when there is no respect for traffic laws and see how much good your money does you when you collapse an economy. But don't take me with you and your attack attack dogs and $50,000 in guns and ammo and your spread of major preventable illnesses. I like a civil society. I want, quite frankly, want more of it. Not less.

Maybe shutting down government will bring back $.69 a dozen eggs and $1.50 gas and give everyone raises so they can get more of all of these goods concurrent with hoarding more wealth in our newer larger repair free running on almost free coal electricity except for our extra fuel roaring almost free gas stoves like we were promised. :pop:

... Yep. Still not over it.
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RunningMn9
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Re: Shutdown 3: the Shutdownening

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Good news I guess is that Elon said today that when he vaporizes my job, he will give me a 2 year severance package, so problem solved I guess?
And in banks across the world
Christians, Moslems, Hindus, Jews
And every other race, creed, colour, tint or hue
Get down on their knees and pray
The raccoon and the groundhog neatly
Make up bags of change
But the monkey in the corner
Well he's slowly drifting out of range
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Re: Shutdown 3: the Shutdownening

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If it comes to that, I'd be making sure to cash that check immediately.

Well, assuming he's planning on paying you in American legal tender and not Dogecoin or some other Musk bullshit.
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Re: Shutdown 3: the Shutdownening

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Elon is fond of promising severance.

Elon is not fond of paying severance.
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Re: Shutdown 3: the Shutdownening

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Punted, again.
Under the House-passed stopgap, government funding will again run dry on March 14. Lawmakers hope to clear a spending package before then with new funding levels for fiscal 2025, which will be half over by then. The March deadline will allow the incoming Trump administration to get involved in a final funding deal.

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The package that passed the House includes more than $110 billion in disaster aid and a one-year farm bill extension but is stripped of Trump’s demand: a debt limit extension.
Maybe next year, maybe no go
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