The lawmaker said Democrats are worried they would get the blame for a shutdown if they voted to defeat the House bill. The House is out of session for the rest of the week, upping the pressure on Senate Democrats.

Voters haven’t punished Republicans for their numerous shut downs. But that said, voters are always more likely to blame Democrats for anything at all.

In the article there are definitely some interesting points. Like how Elon would probably use the shut down to fire even more people. Or Trump would use it to take even more power from Congress.

I still think the Democrats need to stand firm and refuse to vote for it, make Republicans pass it via reconciliation. Shut it down if necessary. But there’s definitely a lot of possibly terrible outcomes to a shut down to consider.

He was elected to his FIRST term, at 70??? That’s fucking insane.

And they’re planning on passing it in the Senate with Budget Reconciliation so the Filibuster won’t stop it.

Edit at the top: turns out, any party that is below 5% doesn’t make it into the Bundestag, so the multiple leftist parties that fell below that 5% were waisted when it comes to getting seats. The country though still has the majority left leaning vote percentage wise. I’m only keeping the original comment for posterity, some of it is wrong as has been pointed out by the Germans in the thread.

Interestingly, if all the center-left and the leftists parties all added up their percentages of the vote, they get roughly 51.2% of the vote. Now I’m not super knowledgeable on how that affects their Bundestag, but if that means that said 51.2 percent have a majority of seats, they could join together to make a coalition government and keep the far right out of power.

Course that won’t happen because us leftists love infighting and refusing to compromise with our fellow leftists for the greater good while the right easily falls in line.

Also interestingly, this could mean that the far right/conservative party is going to be put into power in Germany winning the minority of the vote overall for the second time that I know of. And we all know what happened last time.

Edit: And again, this is all preliminary so it could change and as another commenter mentioned the AfD is a pariah and is still unlikely to be a part of the government due to the conservatives saying they won’t be. But who knows, people lie.

I’m pretty sure that Mike Pence as Governor of Indiana also got rid of HIV information on their sites which lead to a massive increase in HIV cases. So that’s something to look forward to country wide now.

I once did that at Meijer for a switch pro controller, waited 30 minutes only for the person, who was supposed to have the key, just come over and rip the cardboard to get it off the locked hook. We only stayed because we had a Meijer gift card. Insane how long this kind of thing takes.

I’m honestly surprised Israel would admit to anything.

I think a lot of rich people don’t understand that being rich precludes them from being a part of the working class. They think that because they’re working, that must mean they’re a working class person. And then that leads to shit like this, rich folk calling other rich folk working-class.

Obviously, there are more reasons for people calling the CEO a working class hero, but I think what I said is still one of those reasons.

Breaking news: Nazi expresses support for fellow Nazis. More at 11.

And many of them voted for the guy who said he had “concepts of a plan” to maybe fix it, if it can be done better. So them being unhappy about it doesn’t mean much when we are about to get a government that is actively hostile to improving any kind of health care for anyone ever.

Ya know what’s great about this article? It opens saying that Mace says she was assaulted and that all the witnesses say that it was a handshake. Then says “Whatever the truth…”. By using that phrasing, HuffPo is literally caving to Mace’s threat of a defamation lawsuit. They’re essentially saying “sure all the witnesses say this was a handshake, but we can’t possibly know the truth” all because they believe her that she will sue the places that report it as the handshake that it was. The decision for this phrasing was likely made by an editor, but it still sucks that they’re acting like we can’t possibly know the truth.

Missouri voters: Let’s vote to enshrine abortion rights into law and also elect the people who want to make abortion illegal. That totally won’t have any impact on if our ballot measure gets respected.

Isn’t it great that the only thing that has caused his nominees to drop out are either because they did something defended/held firm on the lock downstairs during covid, or had sex with a minor? So great.

Dude could randomly give 147,000 people 1 million dollars but he’s more likely to just give it to charities that his buds or family will benefit from.

He didn’t threaten to do it. He said he was going to. Threaten has the implication he might choose not too but he directly said he’d be doing it on his first day in office. That is not a threat. It’s a plan.

The Steam forums are fucking awful. Filled with bigotry and nazis complaining about gaming be woke. There’s literally a list of “Woke games” for people to avoid, it has thousands of games on there.

When people talk about the new Dragon Age, it’s filled with people calling it woke propaganda and pushing the transgender ideology all because it has a trans character that you can’t not accept.

If you ever wonder “should I go on the steam forums to check this one thing I’m curious about?” The answer is always no.

This kind of thing is constant. Anti-trans pieces of shit will often use discredited doctors or doctors from completely different fields or doctors they paid to say those things or doctors they specifically looked for while passing by all the actually knowledgeable doctors on the subject or the friends of people doing studies who happen to be doctors and are transphobes. They never use actual good data and studies and testimony because if they did it would show they’re wrong.

Nope, I’m expecting it to be alphabetical by author like all other places that I go to. They’re just a mishmash of authors and I’ll often find the same authors books be in different places in the same section. It sucks.

At the Barnes and Noble by me, the books aren’t in alphabetical order, and it pisses me off. It’s good to have more actual book stores but I wish my local one fucking alphabetized their books.

“Hey, your hate isn’t welcome in our city! Now take it to DC so you can govern the country!”