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jon-nyc

Don't forget George Washington. If he hadn't bankrupted the French monarchy there wouldn't have been a revolution, and we'd all be ~~happily sipping tea in Boston~~ speaking German or Russian.

jon-nyc

I fly Wednesday, Thursday, Friday of this week and Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday next week.

Six flights in 11 days. I’m dreading it.

89th

Yikes man. I'm flying (with the kids) in late November during the week of thanksgiving. We're going for a week and I picked Monday-to-Monday flights to try and minimize the thanksgiving traffic jam at the airport.

Mik

I like the approach - clean resolution, no blackmail. Say what you wish, Trump's got balls.

Horace

My wife is coming back from overseas on Friday, to that very airport. I assume arrivals will be less affected.

It's surprising to me that anybody is not showing up, considering they will get back pay after the shutdown ends. But not anymore. Oh, and now they're presumably fired. I wonder how real this is. Those TSA jobs are choice and competitive.

Mik

If I had to be a TSA worker I'd just go back to crime for a living.

Horace

According to ChatGPT, I may have overestimated how much those jobs pay and how competitive they are.

kluurs

Word is the house won't be back next week - which means 1) we've set a record and 2) someone's got to blink - and it's probably going to be the Dems.

Mik

In my view Trump's got the stronger hand. Whatever legislation one wants to pass, it needs to be done on its own merits, not by blackmail.

Mik

89th

Hahaha made me chuckle

jon-nyc

Im sure the shutdown is hard on all the government employees but it’s especially hard for men. They’re foregoing $1 for every 83c the women are foregoing.

Mik

Yes. So unfair.

jon-nyc

According to Trump the shutdown has already been a victory for the Dems.

jon-nyc

Odd though that he thinks he wasn’t on the ballot.

jon-nyc

Schumer just did a thing. On the senate floor he offered a compromise. Reopen the government with a temporary extension of the ACA subsidies (which he describes as extending current law). Then create a bipartisan subgroup to negotiate something long term to address health care costs.

Mik

Stay the course. The additional subsidies should die. Of course the Trump tax cuts should have too.

LuFins Dad

The shutdown will be over by next Friday…

It’s affecting the NFL. Fans that bought tickets for the away games can’t get there, and it’s causing massive disruptions for the media and broadcast crews.

Horace

Seems obvious that widespread air travel disruptions are a hard line that politics can not cross.

Horace

It also seems likely, if not quite obvious, that Trump is such an outsized figure in all political happenings, that he’ll mostly get blamed for it. regardless of what a more nuanced take might be.

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