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[hector13]

Well it's exactly what America needs, I imagine Trump will spin. Sort out those markets, or something.

[Frumple]

Oh, he's already said a shut down would be a good thing. Pretty sure both recently and in the past. Doubt the markets would be involved in talking about it, though, heh.

[RedKing]

#WinningBigly
#TiredOfAllTheWinning

EDIT:
Rand Paul is currently speaking, next to a placard labeled "Cocaine and Risky Sex Habits of Quail". Fucking 2018, man.

[Frumple]

Had to take a second to check if dan quayle was still alive after noticing that. Makes if you wonder if ol' randy is trying to say something.

[RedKing]

Glancing through the alt-right-o-sphere, they're all creaming their camos at the prospect of a shutdown. They think this is gonna play out like The Purge, and a government shutdown will mean they can go around blasting their libtard neighbors to Kingdom Come.

...that's not gonna work out well for them.

[Frumple]

Eh, some of them do, but statistically the trend of that subset actually doing something is pretty disconnected from most political events, oddly enough. Conservatives are our primary source of domestic terrorism, but apparently they either don't pay attention to the news or are on fairly inconsistent time delays.

[bloop_bleep]

I wonder if he has ever concocted a conspiracy theory that involved him in some way, heh.

Someone should place a letter in his desk signed by "Muslim International Socialist Confederation of Illuminati" thanking him for his essential role in the gay-frog poisoning operation.

[Dorsidwarf]

Sometimes I wish the various crazy conspiracy factions would just go at each other hammer and tongs, in one huge orgy of no evidence and bluster and rage

[JoshuaFH]

Sometimes I wish the various crazy conspiracy factions would just go at each other hammer and tongs, in one huge orgy of no evidence and bluster and rage

Ummmm I'm not sure if your parents ever told you this, but that's how new conspiracy theories are born.

[Teneb]

Sometimes I wish the various crazy conspiracy factions would just go at each other hammer and tongs, in one huge orgy of no evidence and bluster and rage

Ummmm I'm not sure if your parents ever told you this, but that's how new conspiracy theories are born.

We shall have the best conspiracy theories. The greatest conspiracy theories. The biggest conspiracy theories. Not like Mexico, they have small conspiracy theories. Sad!

[Frumple]

Welp, we're officially shut down until at least tomorrow thanks to ol' randy. Dawn of the first day, folks. Or dusk, I guess. Moon... rise? Whatever. This might just be the most pathetic shutdown cause I've lived through, though, which is probably something resembling impressive considering the bullshit the GOP's dredged up for the rest I've been alive for.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Apparently back in the day Clinton would pass single-day continuing resolutions over and over in order to disrupt politicians seeking election. We're not quite there yet, but the shadow is looming on the horizon.

[Frumple]

I'unno MSH, I think outright shutdown tops that. Which this is, if possibly due to be a short one.

Maybe it's about even, but this stuff (most of the full on shutdown stuff that I've lived through, really) has been less "disrupt election" tier and more "we've stuck our head to a rotorooter and jammed it up our own ass" level junk.

... though I'd totally agree if we functionally reach that point with persistent micro-shutdowns caused by republican goddamn incompetence and/or malfeasance, it'll be a plain one-up.

[wierd]

Continued escalation of "oneupmanship" like this is the defacto manifestation of the "Downward Spiral."

That it continues is indicative that both players are not acting in the nation's interest.  (Granted, the republicans are acting in blatantly bad faith, where the democrats are acting in disgust rather than malfeasance.)

What we need is another "The buck stops here" type assertion in government, with somebody with the balls to back it up. That said-- Trump?  I think all that artificial tan has made him impotent as well as incompetent, which is why he acts larger than life all the time. (Typical small penis syndrome type thing, which is why he uses "Yuuuge" so much.) As such, he is not a realistic candidate for this behavior, and instead more likely to engage in the downward spiral.

[Max™]

Eh, that one was nowhere near as good as the uk release of Further Down the Spiral (halo 10 v2) and really the most familiar single off of halo 8 couldn't compare to it's own remixes like Precursor or Further Away.