• Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s great that there won’t be a shutdown, at least for another 6 weeks, but why does this have to be such a stupid game of chicken every damn time?
    Something as important as deciding the fate of millions of government employees should not be something the government handles as though they were a university student who forgot a coursework deadline was tomorrow.

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      There doesn’t have to be. But there is because Republicans want it. They love the media circus. They love the leverage to play hardball. They refuse to pass measures that prevent it in the future. And with our current form of government, it would take 60 senate votes to pass something like fixing shutdowns, which aren’t there.