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Why the fucking fuck does that shitty government always shut down?
It seems like only weeks ago it was shut down to get rid of the free/cheap(lol) healthcare.
This is pathetic. A government should never shut down, it's not a fucking burger van. Jesus.
Chuck Schumer is a fascist collaborator. I’m so tired of the presumption that he will ever represent any kind of opposition to the republican fascist project.
Holy shit the democrats are a joke
So they’re going to break off the DHS funding for a separate, later conversation instead of doing an extended shutdown. Gee, where have we seen this brilliant strategy before.
FFS, someone primary Schumer he is absolutely a toxic enabler of fascism.
So they just gave up their leverage?
Man can't wait to see them shut it down for 2 weeks to then get absolutely nothing for it again.
They don't want to even dismantle ICE all they wanna do is change who's in charge.
I fucking wish we had an opposition party in America
Yeah why do they think he won't just put some other asshole in there?
These people all need to go. This is a shit government and it should be ended if they aren't working for us anymore
They would settle for simply doing more training or identification. You know things they try with the police which has been extremely effective at wasting more money
I suspect if the government shuts down for two weeks, what you’ll get is a lot of Americans in the streets.
Don't tempt me with a good time.
You’re not the boss of me 😜
We shutdown for a month last year. Another two weeks isn't too much more.
To my understanding the people hurt the most were the poor on food aids last year. This time it's more federal programs that will be hurt. I would think this shutdown won't hurt the common person as much? But I'm an illiterate idiot, please teach me.
No one’s going to lose SNAP benefits tho. And DC workers will be paid.
Come on. Neither of those things were supposed to happen last time either. Holding back the SNAP benefits and not paying DC workers were both patently breaking the law and how it's structured and every agency bent over and did it for Trump anyway.
Sick of people pretending that they won't do the cruel shit because "it's not allowed." They keep doing it and getting away with it even though it's not allowed!
Last time was over a month
Yah sure. But no way they will stay strong enough for that again.
He will do as Israel commands
Fucking worthless Democrats.
So great to have the Dems help calibrate the goon squad to be more palatable to the public.
The office of Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, confirmed the deal calls for splitting a funding bill for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from a package of other funding bills, and that the deal would fund DHS for two weeks at its current levels.
There's the spineless Democrats that we all know and love.
Body cameras are going to help make us safer, they wouldn't want their murders caught on camera. You can tell that by the way one of them took the trouble to use his cell phone to film him murdering a woman. Ohhhh...
They'll cave. They aren't doing this because they think it's the right thing to do, they're doing it to keep their jobs. They weren't even interested in the idea of blocking DHS funding until the uproar about the latest ICE murder was louder than they anticipated, so now they'll act like they care, at least for a couple weeks until they cave.
Idiot spineless assholes.
Yet we're still supposed to support these old jackasses who refuse to just drop dead where they'll find better use as maggot food.
Schumer won't let them have a dime without body cameras and retraining. That will surely solve the problem!
They wanted to give them more money!
Headline is straight up lies. They literally said they would fund DHS on a temporary basis to buy time to discuss ICE reforms
Let's fund it so we have more time to stop funding it!
And it works, look at the comment you replied to and how many people think it's a good point.
Does the DHS funding also require 60 votes? Or is that gonna just be a majority vote that Dems can be like “sEe iTs NoT us!”?
Reforms? No. Abolish ICE and the entire DHS.
A DHS funding package that Democrats in the house passed to get in front of the Senate.
All of this is nothing more than a complete failure of democratic leadership.
Why?
Shut it all down for as long as we need. Stop shopping for anything but essentials. Update your W2 and stop paying income taxes. Put that change into an overseas avings account, JIK. Every strategic day at work...PTO...every AI project....drag it out and produce terrible results. Oooohhhh we should all take out money out of the banks...cash out your 401ks ....this is not just going to fade away. People need to start to prepare for what comes next.
I mean, good. Now don't compromise
Hold the line, or retire.
Sadly they will do neither, just use it for fundraising