Discussion Thread: 2025 US Government Shutdown, Day 35

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1. Just a reminder for everyone feeling the pain: Members of the House of Representatives have collected over $20,000 in pay for being out of session and either sitting on their asses at home or in the case of Mike Johnson, self-righteously pontificating about how it is Democrats fault that the Republican Speaker of the House is keeping the House closed.

2. https://i.imgur.com/XgaOyp3.jpeg

   did my part this morning

3. So Trump has successfully tied himself in the loser race.

4. Is this now officially the longest shutdown in history?

5. It appears that Dick Cheney has finished his 84-year vacation on earth and has returned to the darkness from whence he came.

6. Conservatives never believed in public governance. For them, everything has to be private. Trump only had to pick 20 misfits to destroy quickly the federal government. “Communist” China has an easy time defeating the U.S. with its weak government, a bankrupt government in fact, bankrupt morally and economically.

7. Man these polls for Trump are brutal. He keeps doubling down as well and his supporters are burying their heads in the sand ignoring the downfall.

   That stuff on 60 minutes about pardoning the guy he is in business with is going to hang over his head his whole Presidency. They claimed Biden was pardoning people he didn’t know about and people his family was doing business without evidence. Trump just went on live tv and admitted doing both.

   Awesome stuff!

8. >Senators and aides involved in negotiations tell us some Senate Democrats are warming to Thune’s offer to open the government and then hold a vote by a date-certain on extending the expiring Obamacare subsidies. Senators involved in these talks include Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.).

   I hope there isn’t enough democrats to vote yes.

9. It is time for Democrats to dare explain that Republicans control the government, that Republicans know how to get what they want when they control government, that Democrats could not stop Republicans from installing Neil Gorsuch into the deciding seat of the Supreme Court then, and Democrats cannot stop Republicans now from either cutting off or continuing food and medical programs.

   The polls may be bad, but they should be much much worse.

10. Hang on for dear life Democrats. You will be blamed no matter what you do for things you do, things you don’t, things you won’t, and things you can’t, and any and all permutations not listed.

    So the least you can do is keep strong to this. It’s your only real tool. American people will hurt, but this was by and large the country the voters wanted, and what the voters who didn’t vote wanted. Let them reap what they sowed. Actions (and inactions) have consequences. They will come around, probably kicking and screaming, and they won’t blame the right people, at least not publicly…but fuck it. But they need to experience this shit. That’s their job, whether they wanted it or not.

    Your job, the you reading now, the rest who continue to fight this, don’t want for this, and demand better of America, rally around your community of those who want the same things. Vote today if you are part of the 33 or so states having elections today. Even if it’s a general election, or a local one. This is all about course correction. You HAVE to vote. You ALWAYS have to vote.

    Signed,

    -A pissed off, but still hopeful veteran.

11. Hopefully this crap ends this week so people can get paid.

12. I live in a very small conservative town. Our Grocery Outlet was in the news because it was going to give SNAP recipients 10% off because of the shutdown.

    Today, the very right leaning news had to report that Grocery Outlet was unable to give the discount because the USDA said it was discrimination and not allowed.

    Maybe, though unlikely, this might change the minds of a few

    Over one quarter of this counties population uses SNAP benefits.

13. The most beautiful and most frustrating thing about democracy is when we’re forced to make decisions that appeal to all. In a negotiation, both sides win a little and lose a little. It’s a fail safe against rapid radical change, for better or worse.

    Republicans won’t have this negotiation – and the base can’t wrap their head around it. They proposed an aggressively conservative budget that will push our healthcare from bad to worse, with promises that they will fix the ACA when the government reopens.

    Crossing the aisle is a sign of weakness to Donald Trump – but it is the pinnacle of democracy.

14. Can we go for a new record, folks?

15. It took only 10 ATC employees to call in sick last time to end the last shutdown. 10. Out of a total of over 11 thousand employees. Just 10.

    Good news is [it’s starting to happen.](https://abcnews.go.com/US/delays-safety-concerns-shortages-air-traffic-controllers/story?id=127055961) I predict this shutdown will be over sometime this coming week when Congress gets a phone call or two from Richie rich on why their private jet is grounded and they can’t get to their sex island

16. Just a reminder that Republican, Democrat, and Progressive political bodies are all waiting for the elections across the country tonight to see if their candidates over perform. They’re using the elections as a bellwether to gauge how the country is feeling towards each other and from there will determine how much they’re willing to negotiate to reopen.

17. That clip of Trump saying the president is responsible for a shutdown… why isn’t that being played on repeat?

18. I think the shutdown is a good thing. Our debt is too large, and the shutdown is demonstrating that we don’t really need a lot of these services. Many of these programs should be permanently cut or slashed.

    DOGE didn’t go far enough imo.

19. Fuck John Fetterman

20. Dick Cheney died.

    Burn in hell 🙂

21. So out of the big 4 elections today it looks like we’re only going to lose in NJ?

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