Masturbator Johnson already said, even before this “deal” went through, that he’ll refuse to allow any vote on the Obamacare subsidies.

I mean, it’s not like he’s facing any consequences for it, so what does he care?

CREDO is the least worst, I think. Yeah, they’re still paying Verizon to use their infrastructure, but they also make a point of providing both funding and direct activism for progressive causes.

Did King really believe this, or were there other reasons why he caved? His son, Angus King III, is running for governor of Maine, and Senator King’s decision may have been a misguided attempt to help him. King is also not up for reelection until 2030, so perhaps he thought he could escape electoral consequences.

Isn’t the election already over? How does caving now help? And if the gubernatorial election hasn’t happened yet, well, vote for the other Democratic candidate, I guess?

Oh, it gets worse. The whole thing was his idea, even if he was too chickenshit to vote for it.

Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to reopen the government, in exchange for vague assurances of a vote on Affordable Care Act subsidies that amount to nothing. But my reporting finds that at the Thursday meeting of the Senate Democratic caucus, two days after the election, Democrats very nearly capitulated once again.

Here’s what occurred. It has been widely assumed that the group of eight mostly centrist Senate Democrats, who have been looking to broker a hollow deal on Republican terms, were freelancing. In fact, they were acting with the express approval of Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and were reporting to him daily.

Because AmericaOS is still running v0.2 and has no provisions for federal level elections outside the normal election cycle.

I was going to go for ZX3, but an Elf Wars game is an even better suggestion, which is why Capcom will never do it.

No, the shutdown is because Congress didn’t pass a budget to allocate new federal funding. Which means that government agencies don’t have any money to pay employees. For most, this means they’re furloughed (essentially mandatory unpaid leave), because being forced to work without pay is also called slavery. Some positions, though (like ATC), are considered too vital to shut down so they do it anyway, and in the past provisions would be included in the budgets to give backpay as appropriate. There’s some worry that El Taco isn’t going to do that this time around, though.

What is this? Establishment Dems exercising basic pattern recognition for once?

The rubes have already served their purpose. Now is the time to dismantle the mechanisms that would remove them from power, so they can just stay on and laugh at our impotence to do anything about it.

The rates are a lie…

Neat. Always happy to see more stuff on GOG, even if it ends up just being a game that I still won’t buy on yet another platform.

Draft dodger say what?

Also, that flag would only have been valid for a week in 1889.

Judges should just start summarily dismissing anything El Taco’s regime files with prejudice, on account of them demonstrating a pattern of malicious incompetence. They want to actually get heard? They need to prove in the pre-hearing that they’re not full of shit this time, and until they do whatever they’re trying to push is gets stayed and vice versa.

Contextually, “late” doesn’t really work as “not on time”, though? But yeah, the article confirms that Itagaki is dead.

Unfortunately, as a b2b company it’s difficult to directly punish Salesforce for this.

El Taco should have thought of that before he spent a lifetime as a rapist piece of shit. But maybe he can convert to Catholicism and buy off the Pope*!

*this is not how indulgences actually work and would not actually help

med beds totes real guiz

no you poors can’t have any

I see absolutely no way for this to turn out badly.

Why use a two-horned white rhino when the Indian rhino (ie Rhinoceros unicornis) exists?

Can confirm, was kid in the 90s. Sadly the reality of working in the industry did not measure up. Same as being a paleontologist, strangely enough.