What are the odds that enough of the Republicans kick the bucket to force them to negotiate? Or would they allow their new candidate to be sworn in by the speaker while still denying any democratic actions?

Wonder if military paychecks will be withheld for Nov 1. Historically speaking, things tend to get pretty interesting when soldiers don’t get paid. Just ask Sam Doe.

Remember, this isn’t about funding, this is about not swearing in the new house member from Arizona who gives the Dems enough seats to force a vote on the release of the Epstein files

Same story as ever: Republicans refuse to negotiate in good faith and then blame it on the people not bending over to be raped by them.

The entire Republican apparatus is basically a DARVO abuser in the form of a political party.

Hell yeah, let’s sit in stalemate for 3 more years

Hopefully, if enough people lose their income, we can go back to making real social change again, like in the BLM riots.

Tomorrow this ties for the second longest shutdown in US history. A week after that, Trump beats his own record for least functional government in the entire history of the United States.

We’re less than one mooch from the record.

For those wondering:

No signs ANYTHING has changed in the bill. So it is just “we’re going to vote on it until you approve it” yet again

Thune: “We’re not going to negotiate on anything until Democrats stop holding government funding hostage”

So it’s “hostage taking” when you’re the ones getting leveraged?

Countdown until Repubs start chanting “free the hostages!” in reference to the American people… 🙄

are we ever gonna release the epstein files?

FYI Trump no longer calls out CBS as “fake news”. There are reasons for this.