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The House and the Democratic-controlled Senate are due to be in session for about 12 days before funding expires on Sept. 30, leaving little time to agree on a package of 12 appropriations bills that can pass each chamber and win Democratic President Joe Biden's signature.

The main bone of contention among House Republicans is a demand by roughly three-dozen members of the hardline House Freedom Caucus to cut spending for fiscal 2024 to $1.47 trillion -- about $120 billion less than Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed in May.

The White House and Senate leaders -- including top Republican Mitch McConnell -- have rejected that demand.

That dispute and other hardline demands, including opposition to Ukraine aid and calls for an impeachment inquiry against Biden, could imperil efforts to pass a short-term stopgap, known as a continuing resolution or "CR," which would keep federal agencies afloat while lawmakers debate full-scale appropriations.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm so tired of Conservatives shutting down the government.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m so tired of conservatives.

That’s my version.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

They don't even want to conserve anything good. Their whole "family values" trope is just an engine for violent abusive men to have a green light to be violent and abusive to their families without repercussion.

Every single thing they want to "conserve" are all the things holding humanity back.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They want to conserve the power of white male supremacy and the outsized power of wealth on society.

That's the entire platform. They want select white men to have all the wealth and power, with descending social hierarchies that are fixed in stone.

So yes, everything that was wrong with the past, everything that is still holding us back. Literally so.

This thread talks about how 15-20% of the economic growth of the last 60 years was driven by being slightly less shitty to women and black people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Businesses already know that diversity and acceptance mean more profits. They don't even care about the value of human life.

They just figured out that:


  • Not discriminating means they have a wider group of people to sell their products to, thus most profit
  • Not discriminating means they have a wider group of people to hire, thus better, more competent hires
  • Not discriminating means fewer people have a negative outlook of their company and are less likely to boycott their products

None of that has anything to do with accepting/understanding that all human life has intrinsic value. It's just about profits.

Yet they would dump those profits down the drain just so they could discriminate a little longer, fucking idiots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. Just like how the U.S. military is spending a huge amount of money investing on doing what they can to protect themselves from climate change. It's not because they're woke liberals, it's because they see the writing on the wall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

15-20% of the economic growth of the last 60 years was driven by being sightly less shitty to women and black people

But what's even the point in having money if I can still get cancelled for calling my wife the n-word in a restaurant full of obviously-criminal Mexicans?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Republicans aren't even the conservative party any more, they're regressives. The current conservatives are the establishment Democrats, like Joe "nothing will fundamentally change" Biden. (And yes, before someone jumps on it saying he was talking to rich people, I know. If anything, that's worse.)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Every conservative woman I know is a single mother with a deadbeat baby daddy.

Funny how these white people became what they criticized blacks of for so long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is entirely avoidable. They could fund the government for the next century if they wanted to.