Government Shutdown - September, 2025 Editiion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Only takes 51 votes to nuke the filibuster

If the Republicans get rid of the filibuster, they will absolutely tamper with elections to win.

[Anonymous]

They are already tampering:

-mid-decade redistricting
-courts cases to make voting harder
-court cases to repeal the Voting Rights Act
-preparing to have armed goons at voting places in blue areas as a form of intimidation
-preparing to invalidate legally cast votes via mail or other means

I could go on....but you get the idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the senate kills the filibuster, I would expect DC to become a state within 10 hours of Dem control.

why would dems take control? They are not very popular outside of the dc metro area. it looks like the virgina and new jersey gov races that are lowouts for the dems is very close, this should give everyone pause

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only takes 51 votes to nuke the filibuster

The Senate Majority Leader needs to allow a vote on the rule change. If the Majority Leader refuses to bring the issue to the flood, it will never happen.

Frankly, I think Thune would resign his spot as Majority Leader before allowing a vote on a full range that nukes the filibuster (even if only for CRs/budgets).

Rules changes require a 2/3 vote.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only takes 51 votes to nuke the filibuster

The Senate Majority Leader needs to allow a vote on the rule change. If the Majority Leader refuses to bring the issue to the flood, it will never happen.

Frankly, I think Thune would resign his spot as Majority Leader before allowing a vote on a full range that nukes the filibuster (even if only for CRs/budgets).

Rules changes require a 2/3 vote.

No, they don't. McConnell got rid of the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees with way less than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the senate kills the filibuster, I would expect DC to become a state within 10 hours of Dem control.

why would dems take control? They are not very popular outside of the dc metro area. it looks like the virgina and new jersey gov races that are lowouts for the dems is very close, this should give everyone pause

Trump got less than 50% of the vote. His approval rating is terrible and people blame the GOP for the shutdown.

The Dems are not "popular" but they've won nearly every election of 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the senate kills the filibuster, I would expect DC to become a state within 10 hours of Dem control.

why would dems take control? They are not very popular outside of the dc metro area. it looks like the virgina and new jersey gov races that are lowouts for the dems is very close, this should give everyone pause

I guess you haven't checked any recent polling data. Spanberger and Sherill have both gained points over the Republicans. They are highly likely to win.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only takes 51 votes to nuke the filibuster

The Senate Majority Leader needs to allow a vote on the rule change. If the Majority Leader refuses to bring the issue to the flood, it will never happen.

Frankly, I think Thune would resign his spot as Majority Leader before allowing a vote on a full range that nukes the filibuster (even if only for CRs/budgets).

Rules changes require a 2/3 vote.

No, they don't. McConnell got rid of the filibuster for SCOTUS nominees with way less than that.

Technically what he and Reid did were not rules changes.

[Anonymous]

Trump is going to TACO

[Anonymous]

I dressed as Russell bought for Halloween!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dressed as Russell bought for Halloween!

Awesome costume. He’s a tool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dressed as Russell bought for Halloween!

I immediately thought of this, skip ahead to 1:44.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If the senate kills the filibuster, I would expect DC to become a state within 10 hours of Dem control.

why would dems take control? They are not very popular outside of the dc metro area. it looks like the virgina and new jersey gov races that are lowouts for the dems is very close, this should give everyone pause

Trump got less than 50% of the vote. His approval rating is terrible and people blame the GOP for the shutdown.

The Dems are not "popular" but they've won nearly every election of 2025.

+ 1

When the sitting POTUS has a job approval rating of 40% or less, the unpopularity spreads throughout the party and the opposition party becomes relatively popular.. We've seen this story play out over and over since 2017.

[Anonymous]

Federal judges have ordered food stamp funding to continue. One judge said if they don't have enough money in the emergency fund, then the government must get the money from other sources.

[Anonymous]

I have relatives in New England who aren’t getting heating assistance. Any chance they will be resumed like food stamps?

And how does snap and other assistance work— will they get “back pay” for skipped payments or is it gone forever and whatever resources they burned are gone forever ?