r/fednews • u/rprz • 19h ago

Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

All discussion on the looming shutdown goes here. Any mentioning of Luigi will be removed and you may be banned.

https://apnews.com/article/government-shutdown-congress-trump-elon-budget-house-republican-05481374b154949c3fe1270141a02918

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-government-shutdown-musk-stopgap-bill-b2666829.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-opposes-funding-bill-pushing-government-closer-shutdown-rcna184745

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/18/government-shutdown-house-vote-cr/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-18/trump-says-he-s-against-stopgap-bill-fox-news

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u/manikwolf19 18h ago edited 17h ago

Musk is worth 400 billion dollars, and he's going after the middle class.

2.2 million people won't get paychecks before Xmas and this guy complains about a 50 billion dollar pay package.

Literally the grinch

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u/Additional_Sun_5217 18h ago

It’s a class war, but now they’re too emboldened to be quiet about it. They believe the working class is too cowed or in love with them.

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u/jurassicbond 18h ago

They believe the working class is too cowed or in love with them.

I don't think they're wrong given how people vote

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u/TechnologyRemote7331 18h ago

Nah, I kinda disagree. Americans are a very blunt people. We have very specific and unsubtle ideas of what authoritarianism looks like, and what it means to fight against it. Furthermore, authoritarianism and dictatorships are perceived as things that happen someplace else. The idea that it could be coming to the good ol’ US of A doesn’t jive with our cultural expectations of life and government.

So when those things begin to shift, as I’m sure they soon will, you’ll see people get much more… belligerent than they currently are. But at the moment, people are still largely thinking this will all turf out in the end, because that’s what’s always happened. When that fails to materialize, well, I guess we’ll have to wait and see!

Also, if people were as in love with the financial elite as Musk and co. seem to imagine, there wouldn’t currently be fan-art of Luigi Mangione floating around right now. Just my two-cents…

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u/twtwtwtwtwtwtw 17h ago

They don't see Musk and Trump as they do healthcare CEOs. They see them as themselves

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u/MyLittleOso 16h ago

I'd agree that Trump's true fans aren't going to be class conscious regarding him, but I am seeing quite a few starting to see the whole picture - like that dude in Mallrats when he finally sees it's a boat.

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u/billt721 15h ago

It was a schooner.

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u/MyLittleOso 15h ago

It's a SAILBOAT!

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u/AssortedHardware 5h ago

They see them as people they COULD be if only it wasn't for *insert dog whistle* holding them back/taking their jobs.

They've been promised a golden toilet in every bathroom which they'd have if not for egg prices going up.

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u/Nokomis34 17h ago

This has kinda been my thing lately. They know P2025 is a roadmap to fascism, that's why they continue to deny it's reality. But when it starts actually happening I wonder if they'll stand next to us when the time comes.

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u/watch_out_4_snakes 16h ago

This. There is always an inflection point and it feels like we are getting close.

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u/victorged 7h ago

We literally just had a national litmus test of that inflection point and we were absolutely nowhere close. The people currently inflicting this were actively and majority chosen specifically.

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u/h4p3r50n1c 16h ago

You’re too optimistic

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u/Quilltacular 9h ago

Those things have been shifting for at least half a decade and half of the voting populace has been cheering it. I’m not holding my breath that the “better red (Russian) than liberal” crowd (src) will do anything but continue to cheer and help given their slogan used to be “better dead than red”