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Congress: Breaking Your Hearts Since 2010
ElJeffe
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While it might not seem like it, there is actually a legislative branch in our country. They are ostensibly there to pass laws and manage our budget, even though they have decided not to actually do these things because of Reasons.
Also, we might default on our debt and launch a global depression in which the only valid currencies are bottle caps and sadness.
Will catastrophe be averted? Who is to blame for this clusterfuck, anyway?
Discuss!
Also, we might default on our debt and launch a global depression in which the only valid currencies are bottle caps and sadness.
Will catastrophe be averted? Who is to blame for this clusterfuck, anyway?
Discuss!
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I think this approaching the time to upgrade it to catastrofuck actually
Also, from Zagdrob's Koch brothers' article, they are precisely the sort of people that need to be putting pressure on congress the GOP to cut this crap out. Either the super rich or the super old will be our salvation. How depressing.
Perfectly encapsulates any legislative mess
x = Forumers bullshit
y = Congress's bullshit
d = Hunger
t = Tiredness
Is this our budget or our page ceiling?
I'm so confused.
look it doesn't matter. Once we near zero hour, @ElJeffe can mint a platinum thread and store it on a terabyte drive someplace. It's in the constitution.
Did He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named kill somebody, or something? His last couple of posts are more or less innocuous, and there's no infraction history. I've asked a couple times and I'm met with stony silence.
Obama has to sign this one, right? Like, he really can't ignore or turn this one away like the other ones in favor of a clean budget or CR, can he?
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
if obama isn't going to sign it, the senate will block it to give him cover
And on the news this morning there was a report that due to the US Government shutdown, that scientists and logistics support staff at the research base in Antarctica were also being recalled back to the states, which of course jeopardizes a lot more than just American science and stuff.
The main thing is that the world down here is just shaking their heads and I'm starting to pretend that I'm canadian on the phone with customer just to get them to leave me alone about Congress.
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Congress!
*ducks*
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
He absolutely can.
It's clearly a publicity stunt to make the Senate and Obama look bad for "DEFUNDING THE SOLDIERS!!!!!", despite the fact that he would gladly fund death benefits to soldiers if the House would stop fucking around
Nobody knows except ElJeffe and Michele Bachmann.
God, it would be hilarious if some unknown Democrat put a secret hold on it...
Bachmann says she will tell me, but only if she is allowed to speak it in Akkadian.
I think there's no chance he signs it. I think he turns around and says "How many of these bullshit bills do you have to send before you realize that shutting down the government is a huge thing that affects a crazyton of people and you're hurting them by sitting there being dicks? And if you don't raise the debt ceiling then you'll hurt even more. Every time you send these bills all you're proving is how much good the government does for people"
I hope he doesn't. It will just give the Republicans more ammo to say "Look! See, we can totally fund the government piecemeal!"
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
So translated Rush Limbaugh is "Now that I've made a bunch of money talking about how anyone who makes less than $1m/year is a leech and drain on the economy and that people need to learn to take personal responsibility, as I soon and the generation that listens to me are about to stop working, we need to make sure that we can leech and drain the government"
That seems a little... suspicious?
"So, brother, are you ready to complete our mission against the American infidels?"
"Oh... yeah... umm, something came up, you know? Just have to run home... left the freezer door open, ice cream's going all melty..."
Alternately:
"No, asshole, you won't be selling these warheads today! I was a mole all along, haHA! Black Panther, this is Scarlet Pimpernel, let's nail these assholes, over. ... Black Panther, I'm ready for extraction, over... Black Panther, please respond, over... Hello...?"
So...
Congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress congress!
Whew, much better. Truly, we do not know what we really have until it's gone.
Man
Now I just want to watch Burn Notice again
Really? Still seems like a steaming pile of shit to me.
Also: Omnishambles is the best of things.
I think that's bullshit, but I'll still be contacting Murray and making sure she knows I expect her to tell the House to go piss up a rope with their terribleness.
I would say "LOCK THE DOORS" but it appears Boehner has anticipated that tactic: (But still, LOCK THE DOORS.)
This won't work. Tiredness has an asymptopic relationship, there's a certain point at which you can't get any more tired of the bullshit. This means that dt/db will eventually go to zero, which means that B will be zero regardless of x and y.
Hey guys, you won free bikes!
Follow me down to the basement.
I wonder if all 18 of them are going to firmly believe that a clean CR doesn't have the votes to pass despite all evidence to the contrary.
I wonder if the reason for the entirely arbitrary 18 people is because that's the only number of people who believe that a clean CR doesn't have the votes to pass despite all evidence to the contrary.
Hm