~*US Federal Government Shutdown Watch - Fiscal Year 2024 Edition*~

[Jason]

[SuperSpreader]

It's a cult?

[stepee]

So you monitor each others porn history to make sure it’s proper porn or that it’s not too much porn or what? 

[Jason]

2 minutes ago, stepee said:

So you monitor each others porn history to make sure it’s proper porn or that it’s not too much porn or what?

 

They're jesus freaks so presumably no porn at all. 

[stepee]

OMG I see, it’s an APP they install on all their devices that monitors all their activity and then sends a report to their “accountability partner”..which in this case is his son. 

 

Fucking wild that these people who are otherwise paranoid everyone is spying on them are willing to give this insane kind of data to who knows who.

 

Also, he better not conduct ANY business on any devices with that app installed.

[CastletonSnob]

No really, why isn't Johnson under investigation?

[thewhyteboar]

[TUFKAK]

7 hours ago, Jason said:

Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.

 

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

[TUFKAK]

6 hours ago, stepee said:

So you monitor each others porn history to make sure it’s proper porn or that it’s not too much porn or what? 

Only the right kinds of porn, when women are coerced into it and left disappointed and unsatisfied after as Jesus intended.

[MarSolo]

That’s an Italian thing.

 

My dad would be like “you’re not watching fat chicks are you??” And I’d be like “you’re not watching porn because you love mom right?”

 

Very normal. You’re a bunch of judgmental freaks.

[stepee]

21 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

That’s an Italian thing.

 

My dad would be like “you’re not watching fat chicks are you??” And I’d be like “you’re not watching porn because you love mom right?”

 

Very normal. You’re a bunch of judgmental freaks.

 

My dad caught me watching porn late at night on the computer and he stood there silent for a minute staring at disgust at what he saw on the screen. Then he walked to his room, grabbed my mom, and threw her down on the kitchen table and exclaimed “Turn that garbage off and watch a real man do the job!”

 

But he’s Irish.

[Jason]

15 minutes ago, stepee said:

 

My dad caught me watching porn late at night on the computer and he stood there silent for a minute staring at disgust at what he saw on the screen. Then he walked to his room, grabbed my mom, and threw her down on the kitchen table and exclaimed “Turn that garbage off and watch a real man do the job!”

 

But he’s Irish.

 

This is almost surely the setup to an actual porn video on some mainstream porn site, although everything would be step-whatever. 

[LazyPiranha]

On 11/5/2023 at 7:54 PM, thewhyteboar said:

Somehow less shitty than the actual movie.

[Firewithin]

21 hours ago, Jason said:

 

This is almost surely the setup to an actual porn video on some mainstream porn site, although everything would be step-whatever. 

this was basically an always sunny episode a couple years ago where frank made dennis i think watch him have sex with a proustite 

[MarSolo]

1 hour ago, Firewithin said:

this was basically an always sunny episode a couple years ago where frank made dennis i think watch him have sex with a proustite 

That episode is great. What makes that whole thing funny is that Dennis asks Frank to let him see what does, meaning work, and not having sex with hookers.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

From Politico:

 

Confusion reigns as House GOP inches toward shutdown deadline - Live Updates - POLITICO

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Speaker Mike Johnson floated different options to keep the government funded in a closed-door meeting Tuesday, but the conference remains sharply divided.

 

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House Republicans entered a closed-door conference meeting Tuesday morning hoping to find some consensus on a spending plan. Instead, they came out more confused — with only 10 days left until a potential shutdown.

 

Speaker Mike Johnson laid out two possible approaches he'd recently started floating to members: a "clean" continuing resolution, which would keep the government funded through mid-January, or a so-called laddered CR, which would set different deadlines on different tranches of government funding. If Republicans couldn't agree on either of those options, Johnson said, the Democratic-controlled Senate could jam the House GOP with its own mammoth spending bill.

 

That warning didn't move the needle, as Republicans left the meeting starkly divided on which path to take.

 

“There's too many ideas right now, which is fine — the speaker wants us to have an open forum to debate it,” said Rep. Richard McCormick (R-Ga.). “But now there's so many ideas, we have to figure out how to whittle it down.”

 

Other lawmakers were more direct. One GOP member, granted anonymity to speak frankly, called the meeting a “train wreck,” while Rep. Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) described the path forward as “clear as mud.”

 

 

The more things change, etc. etc.

[Subzwari1987]

Can we fund the government for more than 90 days? Yearly or bi-yearly budgets?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

3 minutes ago, Subzwari1987 said:

Can we fund the government for more than 90 days? Yearly or bi-yearly budgets?

 

Yes, the government is supposed to be funded by annual appropriations that cover either a single fiscal year or multiple fiscal years depending on the type of expenses that the money will be used to pay for.

 

These short-term "continuing resolutions" are supposed to be the exception, not the rule!

[Jason]

9 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Yes, the government is supposed to be funded by annual appropriations that cover either a single fiscal year or multiple fiscal years depending on the type of expenses that the money will be used to pay for.

 

These short-term "continuing resolutions" are supposed to be the exception, not the rule!

 

The government also didn't shut down when Congress failed to pass appropriations until some stupid 1970s DOJ opinion.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Per Jake Sherman:

 

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THE HOUSE GOP LEADERSHIP has abruptly pulled the financial services spending bill. 

 

They didn’t have the votes. Second spending bill this week that’s been pulled bc of lack of GOP support.

 

 

 

Per Juliegrace Brufke:

 

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Per a leadership source, the “bill had opposition from both HFC and mods. HFC was getting spun up this morning because they were upset that some of their amendments didn’t pass.”

 

[Spork3245]

The GOP is absolutely not the dog who caught the car. Dogs are way smarter than this.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

House GOP pulls second funding bill in a week (The Hill)

 

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House Republicans on Thursday pulled their annual financial services and general government funding bill amid divisions on abortion-related provisions and FBI funding. 

 

It was the second time in a week GOP leaders opted to punt a vote on a funding bill over divisions within the party.

 

GOP leadership hoped to pass the conference’s partisan plan laying out fiscal 2024 funding for the White House, the Treasury Department and other offices this week. But a planned vote was pulled at the last minute on Thursday as the conference struggled to unify behind the measure. 

 

Some moderate Republicans came out in opposition against language seeking to prohibit Washington, D.C., from carrying out a law that aims to protect people from employer discrimination based on their reproductive health decisions. 

 

“I think that we need to be much more respectful of the difficult decision that women have to make,” Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-N.Y.) said of the thorny policy rider on Wednesday. “I think we need to respect the city’s determination, and I think it’s a provision that is unnecessary in the bill.” 

 

The bill has also faced opposition from the right flank amid scrutiny around the FBI as some conservatives have accused the agency of political weaponization.  

 

An amendment pushed by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) earlier this week sought to bar funding from being used “for the acquisition of property” for a new FBI headquarters. 

 

“I don’t believe that the FBI deserves a massive new headquarters or Washington field office,” he said, while accusing the agency of working to “censor factual information harmful to their preferred political candidates.” 

 

 

[GeneticBlueprint]

Matt Gaetz defunding the police what a world

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

McCarthy: House GOP won't "ever heal" unless there are "consequences" for 8 Republicans who booted him from speakership

 

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Kevin McCarthy said House Republicans will never be able to "heal" without "consequences" for the "crazy eight" GOP members who voted with Democrats to boot him from the speakership.

 

McCarthy, in excerpts of an interview with CNN, said Republicans would benefit "tremendously" by no longer having Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as a member of their ranks, even as he said that decision is "up to the conference." He also said Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), another member who voted to oust him, didn't deserve to be reelected.

 

"If you’ve watched her — just her philosophy, and the flip-flopping — I don’t believe she wins reelection," he said, adding members like Mace and Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) — who also voted to toss him — "care about press, not about policy."

 

Gaetz shot back on his podcast: "Mr. former Speaker, thoughts and prayers as you go through your stages of grief here," suggesting there remains no love lost between the two.

 

[Spork3245]

20 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

McCarthy: House GOP won't "ever heal" unless there are "consequences" for 8 Republicans who booted him from speakership

 

[Air_Delivery]

On 11/5/2023 at 3:26 PM, stepee said:

Gaetz shot back on his podcast: "Mr. former Speaker, thoughts and prayers as you go through your stages of grief here," suggesting there remains no love lost between the two.

 

Say what you want about Gaetz but he is a world class troll. 

[Chairslinger]

7 minutes ago, Air_Delivery said:

 

Say what you want about Gaetz but he is a world class troll. 

 

 

And he's equal parts so stupid and petty he gloats even when he's the loser.

 

Like, If Gaetz were Ghollum he'd be flipping the double birds and trash talking Frodo on his way down to the lava....

[SuperSpreader]

4 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

McCarthy: House GOP won't "ever heal" unless there are "consequences" for 8 Republicans who booted him from speakership

 

 

oh yes bb

 

[Jason]

Did Mike Johnson Send House Home Early So He Could Speak to Paris Elitists?

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Days away from a government shutdown, Speaker Mike Johnson has sent the House of Representatives home early for the weekend.

 

[brucoe]

On 11/5/2023 at 5:35 PM, stepee said:

OMG I see, it’s an APP they install on all their devices that monitors all their activity and then sends a report to their “accountability partner”..which in this case is his son. 

 

Fucking wild that these people who are otherwise paranoid everyone is spying on them are willing to give this insane kind of data to who knows who.

 

Also, he better not conduct ANY business on any devices with that app installed.

What amazes me is that they need to have an app installed just to avoid porn. Why aren't they already making sure it's not a desire at all, if they're the Jesus freaks they claim to be? When I went to the Academy, we vowed never to lie, cheat or steal nor to tolerate anyone that did. NOT ONCE did we have to install an app to make sure we were following the creed. It's like their religious affirmations are just posturing, but that's kind of how I felt about it from the start.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The GOP is supposed to release the proposed Continuing Resolution tomorrow.

[Jason]

2 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

The GOP is supposed to release the proposed Continuing Resolution tomorrow.

 

I'm sure it's a great sign that they didn't release it while everyone was still in DC. 

[Jason]

19 hours ago, Jason said:

I'm sure it's a great sign that they didn't release it while everyone was still in DC. 

 

yup

 

House GOP proposes two-step plan to fund government, raising shutdown risk - The Washington Post

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The federal government will close down at the end of the week if Congress doesn’t extend spending laws.

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With less than a week before federal spending laws expire, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Saturday unveiled a novel and uncertain plan to temporarily extend funding — but it’s already been rejected by the Senate and White House, increasing the odds of a government shutdown.

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

From Politico:

 

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Johnson has told members he plans to bring the plan up for a floor vote on Tuesday, but its chances already seem bleak. The speaker told members on the call Saturday that he expected some Republicans to vote against it and that they would need some Democratic backing, but the minority party has already signaled that they would only support a so-called “clean” stopgap bill, not the two-tiered system conservatives had favored.

Johnson told the House GOP that if this package fails to pass the chamber, he plans to bring a full-year stopgap spending bill to the floor. That package would include blanket cuts to non-defense spending, he said, according to two Republicans on the call.

 

The proposed spending bill would also officially extend the farm bill through September 2024, as well as extend other less controversial health programs.

 

It doesn’t include any additional money for Israel, Ukraine or the border, with Johnson saying in a statement that those spending measures needed separate consideration.

 

 

And right on cue...

 

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Even conservatives don’t seem to be fully on board. House Freedom Caucus member Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) immediately announced on X he would oppose the legislation, saying it amounted to a “clean CR.”

 

“My opposition to the clean CR just announced by the Speaker ... cannot be overstated. Funding Pelosi level spending & policies for 75 days — for future ‘promises,’” he wrote.

 

 

[Jason]

lol this guy is a moron paid by Bloomberg