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Biden aides are betting that Johnson won't be able to figure this out and are preparing along two tracks.

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[–] TokenBoomer 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Ghostalmedia 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TokenBoomer 14 points 1 year ago

Vote Lemon Party

[–] Guitarist 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Only if the government shuts down and watches porn.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year 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.

[–] TokenBoomer 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Talk about term limits.. zing!

Edit: That was horrible. Can someone else do better?

[–] Additional_Prune 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] DBT 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL is in charge let’s gooooo

Edit: we ain’t goin’ nowhere lmao

[–] ArtVandelay 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

truck swerves off the ravine because Jesus is imaginary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Off the ravine or into it?

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We have left the ravine.

We have entered the canyon.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year 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.

[–] littlewonder 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Geez feels like at least 3.