So, how did we get here?

October 1: The federal government officially shut down at midnight, after lawmakers failed to pass new funding bills

14: The number of times the Senate has voted to advance a House-passed spending bill during the shutdown. Each bill has been rejected

60: The number of votes needed to advance a spending bill in the Senate, so far no more than 55 votes have been cast in favor

$7 billion to $14 billion: How much spending losses from the shutdown will cost the U.S. in gross domestic product, according to the Congressional Budget Office

About 670,000: How many government employees—about half of the federal workforce—were furloughed at the beginning of the shutdown. Another 730,000 “essential” employees are working without pay

The ripple effect of this government shutdown reaches far beyond the small businesses on Main Street. To get a fuller picture of how this political stalemate is affecting the country, keep scrolling below for more insightful coverage from Forbes.

and shockingly nothing happens, yet again. I thought everything would collapse if the government shut down? what happened?

>>1454866
>Just ignore all those people not getting food

>>1454868
That's the new talking point they've been given
It's gone from "DEMOCRATS OWN THE SHUTDOWN AND IT'S THE WORST THING EVAR!!!1!" to "OMG WHO EVEN CARES THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS SHUT DOWN!!?!?!?!" overnight

>>1454869
Democrats crybullying again.
>do what we say or you're being mean!
>*shoots charlie kirk in the neck*

>>1454870
Fix your bot Vikram. It's spitting out gibberish again.

>>1454872
Oh sorry, you're not American, you don't understand how our government works.

silly shilly belties out melties

>>1454874
>how our government works
Republicans control every branch of the federal government.
Republicans have been in control of all branches of government both times the government has been shut down for more than a month.
Republicans could end the shutdown right now by using the nuclear option but won't. Even the Republican president has pointed this out several times.
Republicans have refused to use the nuclear option, and have refused to negotiate with Democrats to get to 60 votes in the Senate to pass a budget and reopen the government.
The Republican Speaker of the House has unilaterally decided not to reopen the House until the shutdown is over, making it impossible for Senate Republicans to negotiate with Democrats even if they wanted to do so.
Republicans lost literally every race last night because America is sick of the Republican shutdown.

>>1454876
wrong
America hates democrats, and is lulling them into a false sense of safety ahead of the real elections in 2026
This election was a stunning rebuke of democratic extremism, and I'm going to be enjoying sorosbots melting down about it all week

>>1454878
>Be me
>Be voting in the election
>Hate dems
>Idea.jpg
>Vote dem now, then, in 2026, they'll think they'll win and voter turnout will be lower
>Republicans win across the board
>Votes for the radical dem candidate
>Le long con has begun

>>1454880
>be shitty dem bot
>cry constantly about shitty village and not being an american
>keep posting badly translated propaganda and forced to reply despite not knowing english
>don't understand brilliant american strategies, like getting rid of gays by infiltrating grindr and pumping them for information

I'll let every homo in America suck my dick before I vote blue, clanker

70% of the 40 million people on SNAP are obese.
50% of the 5 million disabled people on SNAP are disabled due to obesity.

>>1454878
>>1454884
Ahh now this is the chud cope I came here to see.

>>1454884
>I'll let every homo in America suck my dick before I vote blue, clanker
Fag

>>1454887
So what you're telling me is cheap food tends to be high calorie because of corn subsidies and farmers should get fucked for ruining America.

>>1454892
>its gay to get your dick sucked
If I'm imagining a woman on the other side of the wall, then its a womans mouth
simple as

>>1454901
Nah fag, you said you'd let every homo suck your dick
There's no pretending it's a woman when you're the one that set the conditions
You're gay. Just admit it.

>>1454894
The kind of people who end up on SNAP are the kind of people who generally lack discipline and self-control.
>b... but muh food deserts!
Wallmart has plenty of fruit and veggies as well as decent proteins at affordable prices.

Trump is practically begging Senate Republicans to use the nuclear option and they won't do it
There is no way to spin the shutdown as being the fault of anyone except Congressional Republicans.

Trump changed his mind and says maybe his shutdown was a mistake.

Hey, people make mistakes. Everyone does. Maybe the mistake wrecks the economy, maybe it's forgetting to pay a traffic ticket. It takes a real man to admit it though. Trump is that man.

>>1454878
based cope. one upvote.

>>1454944
He's only saying that because even though he controls the media and they've been blasting it's the democrats fault 24/7, a majority of people still rightfully blame him and the republicans for shutting down the government.
The problem is he will never capitulate, which is why he's screaming at senate republicans to nuke the filibuster and then slam through his voter suppression laws to steal the midtems since as everyone who isn't drinking the orange kool-aid is drinking, even with the Republican supreme court rigging the midterms for the republicans when they gut the voting rights act, enough people are pissed with how republicans ruined the economy that democrats will overcome that.

>>1454905
>women can't be gay
watch out, you'll get black bagged by antifa for rhetoric like that

>>1454866
The military isn't getting paid and their mess halls are being shut down for lack of funding. You know what historically happens when someone fails to pay his army?

>>1454878
Oh that's some Russian-grade copium right there.

>>1454954
>a majority of people still rightfully blame him and the republicans for shutting down the government.
Its Republicans fault Democrats have voted 11 times not to fund the government?
>The problem is he will never capitulate
Correct.

>>1455023
>wins some local races in deep blue states
>HOMG REPUBLICANS BTFO
'kay

>>1454954
>which is why he's screaming at senate republicans to nuke the filibuster
I'm old enough to remeber when you dudes right here on /news/ were saying the shutdown is Republicans fault because they wont use the nuclear option to end it.

Now you're complaining that they are thinking of using the nuclear option?

>>1455025
>>1455028
Republicans have the votes to end the trump shutdown by coming to the table to help working families keep their healthcare, but it's clear trump and Republicans want to take that away and leave more people to die since having them starve while trump holds a rich person feast for the cameras isn't enough.
This is why the American people don't fall for your lies.

>>1455033
Democrats can end the shutdown and complete their constitutional obligation to fund the US government by dropping their hyper-partisan demands.

>>1455035
You can never stop being a shill though

>>1455038
You can never stop being a shill though

>>1455035
>Keeping people alive is a hyper partisan demand
I mean, of course Republicans would see it like that given they support trump starving children.

>>1455059
>spend a trillion dollars on the 6% of insured who will see their insurance climb because we passed shitty insurance laws
>keeping people alive

>>1455063
If only republicans let the health care system get nationalized instead to cut out all the leeching middle men.

>>1455059
>they support trump starving children.
Democrats have voted - more than 11 times - to keep the government defunded knowing this whole time that it would result in SNAP running out.

They are literally and personally responsible for poor families running out of food next week.

>>1455068
>trump withholding emergency funds that have already been passed
Why are you supporting trump actually starving children? I mean more than being a conservative, given you're inherently evil.

>>1455070
>trump withholding emergency funds that have already been passed
Wrong. Try again.


Dems should really think about the children and fund the government.

>>1455076
Wrong, trump said he's withholding snap, aka letting children starve even though the money is already allocated and he's ignoring the courts too. So if any children die, it makes him a premeditated murderer.
But he's already a rapist and trump had epstein murdered to keep him from implicated him, so it's not a step up.
You defending it on the other hand, shows why conservatives are once again evil.

>>1455080
The only thing your post shows is how weak your grip on reality is.

>>1455082
>Coping this hard that trump is a rapist and murderer who is willingly letting children starve while he holds lavish dinners for the rich straight out of France before the French Revolution.
I'm sure that'll work

Normally when Trump bankrupts a company he files for bankruptcy, what is he gonna do this time? Chy-na is gonna get one hell of a deal, pennies on the dollar.

>>1454861
Trumps just maintaining this to distract you all from the Epstein Files.

This is a believable Trump record.
Rapist shutdown US government to erase criminal records to stop prosecution. Sounds like a mob boss move, he would be thrilled I said BOSS so it is okay.

>>1454884
You talk like a Russian.

>>1455160
His fanbase genuinely doesn't care about the Epstein stuff and even if the files were released in full with Trump's name all over they would just be dismissed as a democrat fabrication and smear campaign.

>>1455182
They aren't. If he was a major player in it there would be a bigger story about it than the made up Russiagate shit.
In fact I think the bitching about Epstein files not being released was supposed to be the Dem's October surprise, but it turns out that Democrats shutting down the government is being blamed on Republicans so there's no need to complain about the Epstein files.
I suppose the late night comedy shows are pushing the narratives you are or something.

>>1455218
How did milquetoast Jimmy Kimmel get you this upset?