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[Doctor Phibes]

Ah, the rose tented mirrored sunglasses of historical after-knowledge.

[Renauda]

Indeed, if only France had done something in 1938. Together with the USSR Hitler would have been preempted from attacking Czechoslovakia and Josef Stalin would have obtained the Czech armaments industry (a prize Hitler desperately needed for his war plans) and established Soviet power in the middle of Europe without so much as firing a shot at anyone other than the Poles whose territory he would have had to cross to get to Czechoslovakia.

[Doctor Phibes]

If only they hadn't fucked everything up in 1919 and helped Germany recover along with the rest of Europe....Hitler could have spent his latter years painting people's bedrooms.

[Renauda]

@Doctor-Phibes

Yes I think we should have a good dunk on David Lloyd George, George Clemenceau and above all, Woodrow Wilson. While at it we can also dunk on Joseph P. Kennedy because we can.

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[jon-nyc]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Shutdown Length:

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.