this is actually an applerankings.com fan site

time is a flat circle. we’re doomed to have observant people point obviously and painfully ironic flaws in society, as society just sort of carries on anyway, repeating past stupidities and adding new ones.

AGGGHH. I feel like Mugatu taking crazy pills over here. $120 million in start up funding and a New York Times profile for a company that’s literally just a regular private car / limo service. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/business/alto-uber-drivers-alternative.html

“Disrupting” the ride sharing industry by having a staff of drivers that drive people places for a fee. It’s totally a tech company too, right???

Capitalism is so egregiously stupid.

That Marx guy… he was really on to something.

the only way to deal with these people is to out-crazy them. I do “yes and”, like it’s improv.

“yeah, you make a good point Phil. honestly, that gets me thinking, we really gotta protect the sovereignty of our state. you know, this country was founded on important states rights principles, and now we have all this interstate craziness. people from south carolina just coming freely over the border into north carolina. we need to close the border. shoot them on sight. no question about it. I don’t pay my north carolina taxes so that some south carolina freeloader can wear down my roads, clog up my beaches, litter, commit crimes…”

“Come on Quimby, you really don’t think that if we’d let Putin take Ukraine, China would then take Taiwan?” --an important political figure, to me, sanctimoniously

I’m sitting on the toilet uncontrollably laughing out loud at this comment. I’m sure my significant other is wondering what the hell is going on.

I hate this person so much.

Beyond the possibility of Republicans ultimately caving, there are other efforts lawmakers are working on to try to find a resolution to the shutdown. One is a discharge petition, which can be used to force a vote on a bill without the speaker’s permission. A majority of the House would need to back the petition for that to happen, however, and it takes time to move through the House.

Using a motion to the previous question is another possibility that’s been floated. This motion, if it passes, also allows the minority to force a vote, circumventing the speaker. It requires a simple majority in order to be enacted as well, creating the same concerns as a discharge petition for moderate Republicans contemplating working with Democrats to invoke it.

It’s all just Calvinball. this entire country is such a stupid shitshow, in every way.

The media is blaming Republicans for the impending government shutdown, which yes, is mostly true. But the democrats being willing to shut down the government rather than stop sending money to Ukraine is absolutely nuts.