can i get an explanation of this government shutdown thing?
No. Get lost poop goblin.
>>520258169need 1 vote to release epstein file
>>520258169Is an excuse to cut ebt and make people go back to work and stop being a leech.
>>520258169Imagine you and your friend want to poop in the same place, neither of you can so neither of you do
>>520258169jewish theater to convince people Democrats and Republicans are actually different.
>>520258294Sure go be livestock with them thenAm demanding privacy rights
>>520258218This
>>520258327Yeah good, keep demanding your rights at the polling station, let us know how that works out
>>520258169Deep state (Trump) can do anything without Congress approval.
>>520258169The government needs to pass a bill to actually fund the government every year, and it frequently ends up being a showdown between the Democrats and Republicans over what provisions to actually include in it, since they both want to fund different things and don't want to fund the other side's things. It requires 60 senators to actually pass rather than a simple majority of 51 (or 50 + the VP's tiebreaking vote), and since neither side has 60 senators that means that one party can't just force it through without some support from the other party. Technically the bill only requires a simple majority to pass but there's this stupid thing called the filibuster where, when they call for a vote, all senators are entitled to speak for as long as they want before the vote is actually held, which means that they can delay the vote indefinitely by just speaking for hours and hours by doing shit like e.g. reading the dictionary cover to cover very slowly. Also, certain categories of government spending ("mandatory spending") get funded even though the government is "shutdown", like Social Security (pensions), but SNAP (food assistance for poor people) doesn't fall under this category, which is why people are talking about it (because it will run out on November 1st)
>>520259554This. But also, the House has already passed the budget (all spending originates in the House). This particular budget is called a continuing resolution. It’s not a new budget, it’s the exact same budget as what was passed under Biden. That is to say, the House has decided they don’t need to increase Federal spending this year, they’re good with the same amount as last year. Senate Republicans are saying the same thing. Senate Democrats are holding hard because they want to increase Federal spending and unlike the House, they have the power to stop the budget from passing. So, the government has “run out of money” and so certain non essential operations get shut down. But also this >>520258294
>>520259554It’s just a reason why their bureaucratic bullshit clusterfuck of a system is a con job and needs an overhaul. If people weren’t so stupid and did what they were supposed to do and install a new form of government because this one is fucked for so many reasons, you wouldn’t have things like Nancy Pelosi telling you “we don’t know what is in the bill…we have to pass it THEN we can find out” You wouldn’t have senile old lifer politician coots forever taking a place in the system until they shit themselves and fall down like Biden and Jerry Nadler, Mitch Mconnell, Ruth Bader-Ginsberg and so on and so forth. Hank Johnson talking about Guam tipping over …the people deserve these fools and deserve to be treated like shit because they are complacent and won’t make an effort to change
>>520258169Budget indicates cuts to medicaid, as in if hospitals need to treat illegals, they do so unpaid. Law states that they need to treat them. This means hospitals will be unpaid for services and supplies used without pay or they break the law. It's addressing the issue in the most retarded way possible.
>>520260497What America needs is the same sort of laws that various parlimentary countries have: if congress gets gridlocked and cannot perform basic government functions, everyone gets fired and we have to hold elections to re-fill congress. Congress would be way, way less likely to pull stunts like this if failure to find compromise meant risking losing their seat at the table. There is no downside to it, it just punished people for being fuckwads that refuse to negotiate trying to hold their breath longer than the other guy.
