Shutdown standoff: White House preps for Johnson to fail

Additional_Prune, 6 months ago

If Johnson can’t herd the nutbags, that’s not a failure because Johnson is a nutbag. Johnson won’t cut a deal with the Democrats like McCarthy did. Johnson, like the rest of the nutbags, will crash the US government because that’s the plan.

EmpathicVagrant, 6 months ago

Lmao I just pictured him with two bags of walnuts on the table gently coaxing them. I think it’s time for coffee…

ATDA, 6 months ago

That’s a lot of nuts

DBT, 6 months ago

JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL is in charge let’s gooooo

Edit: we ain’t goin’ nowhere lmao

ArtVandelay, 6 months ago

truck swerves off the ravine because Jesus is imaginary

swope, 6 months ago

Off the ravine or into it?

We've been in the ravine for a while I guess.

vaultdweller013, 6 months ago

We have left the ravine.

We have entered the canyon.

TokenBoomer, 6 months ago

Will his son get an alert notification when the government shuts down?

Guitarist, 6 months ago

Only if the government shuts down and watches porn.

TokenBoomer, 6 months ago

Talk about term limits… zing!

swope, 6 months ago

Someone should look at how much porn downloading and streaming bumps up when government employees are furloughed and have idle hands.

Maybe the evangelicals can be swayed to avoid a government shutdown with that kind of consequence.

FlyingSquid, 6 months ago

He’ll have a lot more time to watch porn when the government shuts down.

Although there’s nothing quite like being in his congressional office with his little Johnson out.

Ghostalmedia, 6 months ago

I guess government shutdowns are basically porn for the far right.

TokenBoomer, 6 months ago

Vote Lemon Party

someguy3, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

So how many months ago was a functional house supposed to pass a budget?

littlewonder, 6 months ago

~1.5

someguy3, 6 months ago

Geez feels like at least 3.

stolid_agnostic, 6 months ago

This isn’t about budgets. It’s about not fixing what is broken. Basically prior to Nixon, Congress authorized a maximum debt amount and the president was meant to spend it on programs that Congress wanted. Nixon decided he wouldn’t spend the money, which offended Congress and they changed how laws were written so that the president wouldn’t have a choice. Nobody ever removed the system of spending caps and here we are.