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Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicted Monday the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history, saying he “won’t negotiate” with Democrats until they hit pause on their health care demands and reopen.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 57 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I honestly don't understand how

  1. Americans are this god damn stupid to realize Republicans are literally saying "fuck you, we won't back down from you dying in the streets."

  2. How bad the Democrats are that they're failing to capitalize on that message.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

because republicans and establishment-dems are still on the same side, that of Big Business (and AIPAC).

these establishment politicians still believe things can "return to normal" (read, unsustainable ratfucking) after trump croaks, which...won't happen, but as long as they still think it's possibility they'll why get in the way of the money printer?

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The survey results that I'm seeing show that Americans do understand what's happening and that Republicans are shooting themselves in the face. But there's not an election happening tomorrow so it takes time.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whos-blame-shutdown-all-above-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-10-09/

63%/67% blame Trump/Republicans respectively.

63% also blamed Democrats for the shutdown.

63% also blamed Democrats... That's just a failure of America and a indictment of Democratic leadership ineptitude in my opinion.

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And they have short attention spans so it won't even matter when it gets to an election

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes the short attention spans conundrum. They'd almost need the administration in power to do/say absolutely crazy shit every single day…

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

That's where the fish gallop comes in. There's such a firehose of fucked up fuckery that no well-adjusted mind can keep track of it all!

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Republicans are shooting themselves in the face

Literally? At least that'd be doing something worthwhile for the American people.

[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Where's Dick Cheney when you actually need him?

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, you see, Republicans are such a terrible party that they make Democrats look like they're worth voting for.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 17 hours ago

The Democrats love giving the Republicans rope to hang themselves, but this time they might have given them so much the rope is touching the floor.