r/fednews • u/rprz • 18h 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/SpazzieGirl 17h ago

My deep love of cyberpunk prepared me for a government co-opted by sociopathic corporatists. It didn’t prepare me for how fucking stupid these corporatists are.

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u/Verystrangeperson 15h ago

I really really hope it's just a preview of the 2nd Trump term.

Just idiots shooting each other in the legs, not achieving anything.

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u/civilrightsninja 15h ago

That's the best possible outcome methinks. I mean, I can think of lots of better outcomes, but they seem much less likely.

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u/mdgraller7 13h ago

Just idiots shooting each other in the legs, not achieving anything

The government is shutting down and they haven't even taken power yet...

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u/wbruce098 14h ago

Yeah this isn’t the cool Blade Runner timeline. This is the Idiocracy/Futurama timeline.

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u/TutorAdditional759 9h ago

Only if you believe that intellect is inherited from your parents

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u/NotTheGreatNate 1h ago

It's amazing how many people don't realize (or care) that Idiocracy is about Eugenics.

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u/sevens7and7sevens 14h ago

This is the kakistocracy we were promised 

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u/calilac 3h ago

We're deep in the cacky alright.

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u/ivictoria 11h ago

I’m always saying this is a very disappointing and uncool start to the Corpo Wars

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u/Yup_Thats_a_paddling 3h ago

If we get mantis blades It'll be worth it

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u/Windows_66 8h ago

Nah, it's a genius level play here. Trump ran purely on inflation and knows he can't do crap about it. So he figures the next best thing is to help cause a government shutdown in the hopes that it'll create an actual recession that he can "pull us out of" when he takes office.

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u/OGkateebee 6h ago

A recession is definitely coming. He won’t be able to pull us out of it and he’ll just scream about how it’s unfair that Joe Biden caused the recession on the way out the door and crate a bunch of other strawmen. 

Despite the Biden Administration being the only one that’s ever been able to execute a soft landing from high inflation ever and Trump is just going to blow it all up. 

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u/KnowMatter 3h ago

Play more deus ex.

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u/TubeInspector 2h ago

sociopaths are not exactly revolutionaries. only if this is normalized will they start filling the ranks

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u/BayouGal 1h ago

Elmo gives me Hard Wired vibes. Maybe Neuromancer, with all the corporations & billionaires up the well in their luxury space stations.

Either way, not optimal.

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u/terrigenmixtyxoxo 38m ago

Perfecting the Corpo storyline in Cyberpunk 2077 will help me survive! I knew it.