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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Tuco replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Removing the subsidies is already law. Having a majority in Congress wouldn't be enough to override a veto. (But it would be enough to force the vote and the veto.) -
One of their childhood memories will be avoiding an oppressive government. That sucks.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Tuco replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
The other fun thing is that anyone dealing with elder care issues is basically fucked. My mom is in memory care and we are trying to get the everything set up for when she runs out of savings.. That means working with the SSA and Medicare, but everything is on hold, except the hemorrhaging of the retirement funds. I've got a few months before shit gets critical, but it has to be hitting some folks at exactly the wrong time.- 1819 replies
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Finished up my travel this week with no problems. SeaTac TSA line on Tuesday was quicker than usual. I'm guessing they overscheduled staff and didn't have that many cancellations. Did overhear a couple of them talking and one of them said something like, "I'm just tired. And I'm tired of handing out IOUs." Came back yesterday, just beating out the clusterfuck escalation. I was re-reading Grapes of Wrath on the plane. I had halfway forgotten how poetic Steinbeck can be. So much stuff from 84 years ago still hits hard today. One of the sections talked about how Americans had pushed into Mexican California, and took over because they were hungrier. But then as generations passed, they got fatter and lazier. Now they feared and hated the Okies pushing in, because they were hungrier. I'm sure that's an oversimplification of American history. But, "American" exceptionalism at its best (and worst) was always migrant exceptionalism. The willingness to risk everything to not stagnate or watch your kids starve.
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Perhaps a century from now there will be holiday to celebrate our freedom with subway sandwiches, extra mustard and onions.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Tuco replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
And the airlines aren’t just going to lose just 10% of their flights. Who the fuck is going to choose to fly if there is an increasingly likelihood your flights are going to get fucked? Who wants to get stuck an extra night in Des Moines? Anyone who doesn’t have to fly won’t fly. They’re going to start seeing their bookings fall sharply tomorrow. -
Victory bump. Good job Georgia.
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Tuco started following Rest in Piss, Dick Cheney , Georgians - This is an immediate, winnable fight and Election Day 2025
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"Relatively" is doing a lot of lifting there; Cuomo's numbers look like shit. The only crosstabs he leads in are 55-65, 66+, and living in subsidized housing. That's it. Cuomo is +1 on responders over 55-65 and +3 on the over 65 crowd. I am willing to bet age strongly tracks with native-New Yorker and those born in the US. In other words, if you normalize for age, I'm guessing the correlation would for birthplace would look weaker. The same might be true for subsidized housing - 47% of the households in subsidized housing in Bronx County are 62 or older. That goes up to 68% for 51 or older. That wouldn't cover all the difference, but it likely makes up a lot of it. The biggest thing this tweet is telling me is that some folks are squinting really hard to find something bad for Mamdani in those numbers. And that older Democrats are more conservative - shocking.
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It's possible Platner is doing shit that doesn't sit right with this guy. It's also possible that Platner has enough baggage that Wertheimer is worried that it might limit his career. I'm not much for blaming the "Party", as I think it is overly simplistic to imagine the Democratic Party as a bunch of fat cats drinking cognac, smoking cigars, and deciding which candidate they will put up for what slots. But, it's worth noting that until maybe 2019, it was the policy to blackball any vendor who worked for a candidate trying to primary an incumbent Democrat. Putting financial pressures on the people that can support candidates is a way to put your thumb on the scale. If multiple staffers have bailed, it's possible that the word is out that this campaign will not look good on your resume for future campaigns, or for appointments might Dems control in the future. Or it could be that Platner is regularly doing stupid shit that is causing those around him to bail. Either is plausible.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Tuco replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
I'm flying SeaTac to a small city in Texas, connecting DEN on the way there and DFW on the way back. I'm bringing lots of snacks, a bottle to fill with water, dressing in layers, etc.. Calling it an adventure. (And I've told my wife that I plan on working until I'm 78, in case that comes up in a damages calculation...worst case scenario.)
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