charles @ charles @lemmy.world

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I'll believe it when I see it.

The Baltimore Banner has some great investigative articles on this

To be pedantic, 0.4% of Democrats opposed.

But yeah I agree that it is relevant that it was passed with more D than R votes.

There doesn't have to be. But there is because Republicans want it. They love the media circus. They love the leverage to play hardball. They refuse to pass measures that prevent it in the future. And with our current form of government, it would take 60 senate votes to pass something like fixing shutdowns, which aren't there.

1 in every 9, but your point stands

Biggest thing is that the Senate is populated with much more experienced Congresspeople, who have much longer election cycles. They don't need to grab the headlines constantly to keep top of mind for their constituents.

I'd say there's another portion that's because things have simply gotten that much crazier in the last handful of years. Some congressman don't have any shame as to their brazen sand in the gears.

Voting to avoid shutdown is really dumb from an insider perspective too. But the party that loves to do nothing refuses to change the rules to have an automatic continuing resolution without a budget. And any change to require "automatic vote of no confidence" would have to be a constitutional amendment, and thus will never happen.

You're putting way too much good faith into the Republican party. Way more than just the insurrection party are refusing to take part in any speaker vote that receives bipartisan support. They see collaboration as a poison pill. No one is surviving with the single vote guillotine, which is why it's such a stupid ducking rule in the first place and had never been done before.

Is he a terrible speaker? Or did he launch himself headfirst into an impossible situation? Not to defend him, but I don't think anyone put in the speakership with this Congress would be thriving.

Weird hill to die on, but at least you're dead

Oh my bad. I saw the "poorlydrawnlines" in the top of the post on Sync and thought that was the username, but I guess it's the domain of the image? It was early and I hadn't had coffee yet.

Edit: yeah, that was it. I feel like the ".com" would go a long way for clarity.

That's the title of OPs linked article. What's a lemming to do?

Great work on the comic. I don't know what it is, but the bit about the keychain really gave the map part an extra punch and had me actual lol.

Got me

Dash materials have improved and don't dry and crack after 3 years in the sun

Ain't much

This is also the episode where Chilli and Bandit are hungover the whole time.

Obviously because they agree that the federal government should be taking guns and locking up anyone who uses any drug. /s

I mean I guess you could time it once like that, but if that's your plan, you could have just sold it all a year before you planned on tanking the stock when you set up the schedule and make more money. Or just not tank the stock.

Obvious troll is obvious