Extra normal that this one is likely to do permanent harm 
Tfw the biggest labour disruption in the US each year is when the ruling class voluntarily shuts down 50% of the state’s workers while they negotiate between themselves, as opposed to working class strikes.
A crumb of solidarity in these hard times
There should have been a full strike of all federal workers the first time they tried to pull this shit until a law was passed to prevent it
These last few years would look very different if those federal workers had been organised and radical. But It’s the US goverment, so anyone in a position to start something got weeded out way before that.(I assume)
In other countries if the government fails to form a budget it automatically dissolves and a new one needs to be voted in
True democracies don’t need a way for the government to collapse.
one day it’ll shut down forever and that will be normal
Maybe they don’t manage to get it restarted this time, and it turns out this is how the great satan dies.
Fuck Swan Lake, we’re blasting LCD Soundsystem this time!
when they really started in with this in like 2013 (picking up where they’d left off in the 90s) it should have been clear to any thinking person that america was fuckin donezo
I am astounded every day that such a dysfunctional mess of a country managed to win the Cold War. Maybe they were less dysfunctional in the 70s and 80s and I just wasn’t alive to see it, but I doubt that. But hey, sure we lost the Cold War, but now I’ll get to watch the USA collapse, instead of reading about it in a history textbook in middle school, so that’s nice I guess. Small consolation for the loss of the Warsaw Pact and the Comintern, though.
The sino-soviet split is so goddamn depressing
China dont have ass foreign policy challenge: impossible
Communist states that don’t offer meaningful support to fellow communists, really grind my gears. Especially when it loses us massive conflicts like the Cold War.
“No way to stop this says only country where this regularly happens.”
Tbf western Europe fires all of their leadership for this sort of thing fairly regularly
Out of a cannon into the sun?
I think it’s been more than 10 years since the last full shutdown actually
Edit: no there was a 3 day one in January 2018
So what happens if someone nukes America during the shutdown? Will Donny not press the button because he’s busy playing golf during the shutdown?
“Dear Kim-Jong-Un… [insert “liberate us” copypasta]”
Will Donny not press the button because he’s busy playing golf during the shutdown?
To be fair, this is equally likely without a shutdown. He wanted to nuke the US himself when there was a hurricane coming
the whole budget thing is dumb, just write it so that things auto-renew at the same level as before if Congress doesn’t update them
They won’t do that because they need to keep raising the budgets for the military, ICE, and aid to
True but this makes me wonder why there isn’t already a provisional budget law that raises those things to like one trillion times the current amount until the new budget is passed
But then how will we do political theater with the budget if it is governed by sensible processes??
I bet dems will cave
Republicans are counting on it for when they find it convenient to end the shutdown.
I bet that the number 7 is larger than the number 2
Wanna go double or nothing?
It has been 7 years since a shutdown but every year they threaten to shut it down.
Would be nice if they’d just shutdown and stay down
If the shutdown lasts months, it does permanent harm.
If the shutdown is avoided, the funding bill does permanent harm.
