"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
Turns out, when your party's platform is breaking government, you shouldn't be surprised when your party breaks the government.
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Our cousins out in bumblefuck elected their ‘Pub clowns and are surprised they’ve got a circus.
The chaos that they caused, you say?
Oh right - the chamber that could have twice removed the guy who started a lot of this shit but chose not to.
Time to deal with the same frustrations that we have for years now because of these people and your enabling of them. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
Edit: is that thumbnail from when McConnell had one of his freezing episodes? What an odd choice for this article….
Hard to tell, his face has been the same expressionless Moscow-made latex mask for 30 years.
I think he's more beholden to China than Russia. His wife is the daughter, and cousin, of prominent CCP members.
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Makes sense. It's the perfect image to depict a government shutdown. Can we make that his nickname, mitch "shutdown" mcconnell?
Ole malfunction mitch
Says the guys who can't approve military promotions because of one guy.
I believe they finally said fuck it and approved many of them today.
Suck it Tuberville
Schumer preempted it too, Tuberville was going to try and force the votes to happen. Schumer managed to blunt any victory that could be claimed.
I wonder if this'll end up making things worse for Tuberville too. Holding individual votes highlights how long it would take to do every promotion manually, and Democrats can point out that Tuberville is specifically hurting the lower rank people.
Okay McConnell says government shut downs are a loser for republicans politically. Why though? I assumed at this point they could do whatever they wanted and no one in their party would care. Are their doners getting money from the government or something?
Because they're infighting in public. If they had these discussions behind closed doors, and publicly blamed the democrats, the turtle wouldn't have said anything.
doners
No, the government doesn’t sponsor kebabs because they are foreign influence.
Can’t believe the FEC has been ignoring the real threat this whole time
lots and lots of people don't get PAID when the government shuts down.. this upsets just about everybody.. not getting paid for work..
The federal government is the largest employer in the United States and the hardcore R base isn’t big enough for them to get away with pissing off people on the margins. Sure, the true believers will blame democrats. But if a relatively small percentage of Republican voters get pissed and don’t bother voting, they’re not only not going to win the White House, they could easily lose the house and their shot at controlling the senate. And what pisses people off more than not getting paid?
Literally every single person who ever watched the orcs killing each other in Lord of the Rings could have predicted this.
As a LOTR fan I love this.
"looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!" Says Republicans as they stab each other.
I'm impressed Mitch is moving and speaking again. What a specimen. We're in good hands.
when was the last time he said anything that a GPT-Mitchbot wouldn't.. we could keep his exact joie de vivre going indefinitely with current levels of digital horseshit..
Aww, sounds like they’re not liking all those chickens coming home to roost.
he's not really trying to explain politics to these chimps
Hey! Don’t insult chimps they are smart social creatures. Unlike this pack of degenerates.
chimps are actually pretty nasty, and natural killers.. they're not as ideological about their hostility toward their own kind in the wild, as their counterparts in the Chimpublican Party in Congress are toward us..
There's nobody in America that can unite the Republicans. Putin might be able to do it.
Sounds like the taste of your own medicine is bitter indeed.
Them alarmed at what is happening in the house while Tuberville is blocking necessary appointments in the Senate.... Those MAGA people, like Jordan, Graham, Paul and Scott are going for McConnell seat in 2024.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican senators are growing increasingly alarmed at Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) inability to pass spending legislation over the staunch opposition of a small group of conservative rebels, and fear a government shutdown may be days away.
McConnell made his comments after House Republican leaders canceled a key procedural vote on a stopgap funding measure that was scheduled for 2:30 pm Tuesday amid opposition from disgruntled conservatives.
Cramer said members of the House Freedom Caucus should feel good about the debt limit deal McCarthy negotiated with Biden in May to effectively cut nondefense discretionary spending programs and implement new work requirements for federal food assistance.
He said McCarthy will mostly likely have to rely on Democratic votes at some point to pass government funding legislation, something that the Speaker hasn’t wanted to do for fear of antagonizing conservatives in the GOP conference.
McCarthy tried to mollify House conservatives last week by giving them the green light to move forward on an impeachment inquiry into Biden and his family’s finances, but that still wasn’t enough to quell an internal Republican battle over a continuing resolution to keep federal departments and agencies operating past this month.
Republican senators say even if members of the House Freedom Caucus force a shutdown, it’s unlikely to result in Democrats agreeing to any significant spending cuts to get government workers back to work.
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What is the bill for exactly? I read the article but didn’t see anything unless I overlooked it
Government budgets essentially. If they don't approve a budget, then no one gets paid, programs don't get funding, i.e. Government Shutdown.
That's my understanding at least.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who’s had to deal with the political fallout of government shutdowns in 1995-96, 2013 and 2018-19, warned that
buhhhhhhhhh and then teetered over onto his face.
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