The risk of a partial government shutdown at the end of January grew more likely Saturday after Senate Democrats vowed to block a funding package over a fatal Minneapolis shooting involving federal law enforcement authorities.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) on Saturday evening said that Democrats will block a major government funding package if it includes money for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), calling the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis “appalling.”
“What’s happening in Minnesota is appalling — and unacceptable in any American city,” Schumer said in a statement.
All our government is doing is ripping us off, hassling working people, threatening our allies, and murdering people in the streets. What is the fucking point of keeping it operational?
Because the only thing worse than a broken government is none at all. Do you want to be Germany 1945 or do you want to be Somalia?
Edit, because some people need it explained: see Mogadishu’s last 70 years vs Germany’s. One went from a cosmopolitan tourist destination with bustling cities and ports through civil war and through warlordism to where it’s trying to rebuild, bit by bit, and the other went from an abhorrent life lesson on brutal fascism to the leader of the free world (but I’d debate its status this decade). The potential to improve is the key, and I think it had a lot to do with the nature of the conflict each underwent, and the causes behind their collapse.
We now return you to your knee-jerk down-voting.
Seems like the choice is more like Germany 1939 or Somalia, and at least one of those doesn’t end with 40 million people dead.
That’s only because there weren’t 40 million Isaaq people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaaq_genocide
Somalia is committing fewer Holocausts than 1945 Germany, so yeah.
But not fewer genocides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaaq_genocide