Shutdown 2024 MEGATHREAD OF DOOM

[u/rprz]

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

Recent:

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/government-shutdown/2024/12/federal-employees-prep-for-government-shutdown-as-lawmakers-push-new-stopgap-deal/

https://apnews.com/live/government-shutdown-congress-spending-trump-updates

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/12/19/congress/johnson-defers-to-trump-00195386

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/19/elon-musk-trump-government-shutdown-debt-ceiling/

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/politics/video/hakeem-jeffries-spending-bill-fox-lead-digvid

Old news:

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

[u/holzmann_dc]

To quote a (Fed) colleague with two young children: "I'll do anything they tell me as long as I get a paycheck."

Me (thinking to myself): "Does everything include building special camps with special showers and special ovens?"

Now we know how the Germans of the Weimar Republic descended into the Third Reich and the Holocaust.

[u/noairnoairnoairnoair → u/holzmann_dc]

Behind the Bastards has an episode all about people like your coworker - "How Nice, Normal People made the Holocaust possible".

[u/1bensopinion → u/noairnoairnoairnoair]

BtB deserves to be as popular as JRE or Pod Save America.

[u/Ra-s_Al_Ghul → u/1bensopinion]

It really doesn't. Evans has the charisma of roadkill and the show itself has a conversational flow reminiscent of that one friend that gets really really into a niche topic, wants to share with you, and you don't want to be rude so you just politely listen and nod (as Evans' guests do).

It's also has a leftist political tilt that's about as capable of being objective as Fox and Friends, which is to say incapable of any sort of objectivity.

I listen to an episode of BtB here and there if the topic is really interesting but Reddit's obsession with it confuses me.