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Do we have any stats showing what percentage of eligible voters turned out this year? If the US population keeps increasing, we’d expect “record turnout” every election.

For real. I use Boost and I set it to block “trump” and “musk”, which instantly made Lemmy 100x better. Probably time to add “bluesky” to that list.

WE’RE not doing well, THE ECONOMY is doing well. WE are just cogs in the great economy machine. Keep up the good work!

Amazon exec doesn’t give a shit. Their whole model with tech workers is to recruit them based on the “prestige” of working for Amazon, dunno increasingly more talking on them, burn them out before they start asking for real raises, rinse and repeat.

Yes, but the Biden administration is also forcing federal workers back into the office sooooo…

“Guys, getting this whole speaker debacle figured out is SUPER important for us to get done… after we take a break for the weekend.”

A CR that’s six months long is just a budget by another name.

There is zero reason for Democrats to throw any votes behind a Republican speaker. If the majority party can’t find a leader they agree on, that’s on them. Dems only need 5 Reps to back Jefferies.

Spend your remaining 18 days playing Lies of P instead. Or TMNT Shredders Revenge. Or Arcade Paradise. Or Exoprimal if you wanna get wild.

Nope. It’s money. Republicans are just a symptom.

Get rid of Citizens United and watch how things change.

What a pussy.

How many Mooches was that?

I get that on the surface, but we all know McCarthy cannot be trusted to keep his word on any deal.

Why would any Dem vote for a Rep?

Honest question, as I truly have no clue.

“Clean”. The quotes are crucial because it’s actually, y’know, not clean.

An idea without a plan. Reps have no replacement in mind to take up the Speaker position, making this threat even dumber than forcing a shutdown in the first place.

Having ads in fucking movies makes a service feel cheap / lower value. But the price is staying the same, so where’s that button to cancel?

File this under “the somewhat hidden costs of brinkmanship” along with the debt ceiling b.s. from a few months back.

OMB and a basically every agency they cover will spend tons of time (and thus money) doing prep work for an event that should never even be a real threat, were Congress able to govern even somewhat effectively. All that prep work happens instead of real mission work, not in addition. Just another waste that we can thank the GOP for.

Ehh… this probably wouldn’t do anything but waste more time and money. Must people are satisfied with their Congressional representation and they feel like everyone else elected idiots, so they would just vote the same people back in.

Truth is, any automatic measure would be weaponized immediately, meaning we need to pick the least-damaging weapon. I’d nominate the idea that last year’s budget is automatically reenacted on 1 Oct, with inflation-level increases across the board. Basically, “keep doing what we’re doing unless Congress can agree on something else.”

Isn’t this title just the title from the article?

Now I definitely feel like OP should have cleaned up the title before posting, but Reddit requires that users keep the source title, right?