The people who would be upset this already stopped watching the NFL after some people kneeled to protest racial inequalities. If a game was on at the bar I remember hearing people telling them to turn it off because it said “end racism” behind the end zone. And somehow they can’t realize that them claiming that “the NFL shouldn’t be political” insinuates one of the parties openly supports racism, but they are upset if you were to call them racist.

I agree with you in the realm of reality. But I think thats why they tried to bring the idea that “some people just want to watch the world burn” to the forefront with Joker. If he wanted to redistribute the wealth to have a better society he wouldn’t burn it all, or he’d use it to counter anti social program rhetoric or something. Try to make some kind of change, but he doesn’t want change, he wants the wealth gap. The bigger the gap, the more desperate the people who he can manipulate into causing more crime and chaos.

We moved here because her family was here and she wanted to help her grandparents out before they passed. They both passed a couple weeks/months after we got here and I really haven’t had money to move since (3 years now…). She grew up here and near once a week I hear her say, I just don’t want to hear about anything with Tennessee in the news because it’s always bad. Haha

Honestly it’s nice to see anything like this coming from Tennessee. It isn’t often that we hear about good endeavors from here

The whining is for show. As of October 1st they can start the reconciliation process for the spending bill/budget. Thus meaning they could pass all the spending to all of the departments to keep them open with a 51 vote count after allowing for 20 hours of consideration. That 20 hours would be up by now and the government re-opened IF A, the Republicans voted for their bill, and B they wanted the government running normally.

So one has to ask… Why don’t they want to government running normally

Would be nice, but unfortunately we can’t expect much more when this practice was set up during the Nixon administration, and executed first by Reagan.

Imagine, we made it near 200 years without such a thing as government shutdowns. Then poof, now we have only passed a budget on time 4 times in like 50 years. That would mean that Congress gets their job done about 8-10% of the time.

Is TAM a name or an abbreviation?

A bot farm changed their spoofing to show Windows 7 by accident. /s. But it would be funny if that’s what happened

Because they had to wait till October 1st, and they thought they could use it as another way to complain about anyone left of them and cause more rift/hate. Saying, we’ll send it through reconciliation tomorrow doesn’t sound as good as the “radical left extremists are terrorizing our government” to them. So they will get everything they wanted, with only 51 votes, and the ability to weaponize it. And the Democrats and what not who never got to the negotiating tables will be blamed for not magically stopping something nor doing “enough.”

Have you heard about Kamala not in government anymore’s latest pizza topping? It’s like she’s out of touch!

Edit: They’ve only really passed budgets on time 4 times since 1974. (When they implemented the ability to reconcile budgets to bypass filibusters) https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/01/congress-has-long-struggled-to-pass-spending-bills-on-time/

8+7

11+1+1+1+1

Standard school zone I guess

Dude makes millions to do comedy, why would he go home? Some people would say he lost his mind to not keep doing what he’s doing.

So what your saying is that the government shutdown is do to the Republicans inaction.

Shit the entire concept of government shutdowns started in the U.S. during Ronald Regans presidency when he vetoed a spending bill. They basically invented government shutdowns to weaponize the ability to hold basic needs from the people and call it legal to get what they want.

Except when they used reconciliation to pass 2 budget bills in 2021 when Biden became president, and 2 in 2017 when Trump became president. They use reconciliation to bypass the filibuster after 20 hours thereby allowing just 51 votes to pass budgetary measures… so long as no extraneous non budgetary items are added to it, those individually would need 60 and be filed separately at that point.