Many federal employees won't receive paychecks if the government shuts down on October 1.
  • Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
    311·
    11 months ago

    Watch this being portrayed as some glorious act of altruism from the saintly benevolents in the City on the Hill

    Edit: lmao called it. Look at the lemmy thread

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
      241·
      11 months ago

      Wait, last when i checked they were funding people doing this, not the DPR/LPR.

      I love how on the formerly lefitst instance you can routinely read takes which are more bloodthirsty and imperialist than even the most hardcore warhawks in USA govt.

      • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
        232·
        11 months ago

        It has its moments, but World News in particular has gone full reddit. I assume during the reddit exodus they just congregated there.

        • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          11 months ago

          The feds would’ve congregated there for sure, can’t have the unwashed masses getting ideas. Wouldn’t surprise me if they looked up IP address locations of the most active posters there, it would be almost 1:1 with worldnews on reddit.

      • supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml
        16·
        11 months ago

        Bread at home, bombs abroad. The western leftists thought they could have both; peace and social safety nets. Once they realized they wouldn’t be given both by the capitalist class, they started bargaining for the selfish one. They will get neither.

    • Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
      242·
      11 months ago

      Our financials are so structured that money already committed won’t be withheld even if the Republicans have a tantrum and shut the government down.

      Aa yes, the US government is famous for having well-structured financials. Also everything bad is Other Team’s fault.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
    301·
    11 months ago

    If the government shuts down and it’s announced that money is still going to Ukraine, that is the end of the Biden reelection campaign. No one is going to vote for a guy whose openly financing the shadiest country on the planet instead of his own.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        He does, the math is just distorted. Theoretically he can lose the election and it’s possible he actually will because he’s such a fucking moron.

    • 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      11 months ago

      You underestimate liberal mental gymnastics. The people that would be pissed off about it are probably not going to be voting for him anyway.