Anonymous wrote:Meh seems like a nothing burger to me. Don't have family that are federal workers. Don't use federal services or transfer payments. Don't plan on traveling for the next few weeks.

So for the millions of people traveling to see family over Christmas, they should just...change their plans on a dime?

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently the House GOP has a plan forward. We'll see.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5049416-republicans-government-funding-agreement-thursday-vote-shutdown/

The dems will not help on this and there won't be enough GOP to support it.

We'll see. If they give the Ds something, they'll bring them over. Since Johnson can't count on his party for votes.

Anonymous wrote:Meh seems like a nothing burger to me. Don't have family that are federal workers. Don't use federal services or transfer payments. Don't plan on traveling for the next few weeks.

The stupid is strong with this one.

President Elon Musk getting the shutdown he wanted.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the House GOP has a plan forward. We'll see.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5049416-republicans-government-funding-agreement-thursday-vote-shutdown/

The dems will not help on this and there won't be enough GOP to support it.

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Anonymous wrote:Just asking but why is the shutdown bad for republicans? Don't they get better negotiating advantage when Trump takes over in a few weeks with full congressional control.

I'm just asking about the politics and not whether this shutdown is wrong or bad for federal workers which is without question.

They didn't last time. And the thing is, there's nothing wrong with this CR. It had 1500 pages of bipartisan spending for various needed things, added by both Rs and Ds. There's no problem with this CR except that Musk tweeted that he didn't like it.

When your party is the cause of the shutdown you have to entice the other parties back to the table to negotiate and what you offer has to be worth it to them or make them look bad. That’s harder to do, when there was a deal on the table that offered things both sides wanted and many needed and you blow it up anyway. It’s harder still when you’re doing this near a major and usually expensive holiday. iAnother problem is the funding deadline does not come up out of the blue meaning there was lots of time to actually focus on getting this done.

Further, many people don’t realize the federal services that actually impact their lives, UNTIL things drastically slow down or come to a stop. It’s like a domino effect. Essential workers continue coming to work for a time (maybe) on the idea they will get back pay. However, their bills and daily lives don’t stop so eventually they too get frustrated. Who are they going to blame?

I'm sure pretty engaged voters will attribute blame appropriately but let's face it the majority are not informed and this will be a distant memory by the times the midterms rolls around.

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Anonymous wrote:Meh seems like a nothing burger to me. Don't have family that are federal workers. Don't use federal services or transfer payments. Don't plan on traveling for the next few weeks.

Hahaha. Yes you do use federal services but thank you for illustrating why we are in this mess.

+1. The stupidity is just too much for words.

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the House GOP has a plan forward. We'll see.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5049416-republicans-government-funding-agreement-thursday-vote-shutdown/

But does Elon like it? Turns out that’s all that matters

Anonymous wrote:Apparently the House GOP has a plan forward. We'll see.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5049416-republicans-government-funding-agreement-thursday-vote-shutdown/

They had a plan before too. We’ll see if this one is in good faith or not.

Anonymous wrote:Meh seems like a nothing burger to me. Don't have family that are federal workers. Don't use federal services or transfer payments. Don't plan on traveling for the next few weeks.

Hahaha. Yes you do use federal services but thank you for illustrating why we are in this mess.

Apparently the House GOP has a plan forward. We'll see.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5049416-republicans-government-funding-agreement-thursday-vote-shutdown/

Anonymous wrote:Just asking but why is the shutdown bad for republicans? Don't they get better negotiating advantage when Trump takes over in a few weeks with full congressional control.

I'm just asking about the politics and not whether this shutdown is wrong or bad for federal workers which is without question.

It’s bad for Republicans because it makes people angry.

The shutdown will force a pause in inaugural preparations and funding.

Oh well.

There has never been a time when the government shut down and the country was better for it. And no the GOP has never gained politically from shut downs, and the party has caused 100% of them.