ShaggySnacks

The fact that after two paychecks, government employees are looking for new work says a lot about how fucking underpaid government employees are paid, how many are living paycheck to paycheck, and how there is a best a threadbare social net.

Ah yes, this is how it could play out.

MId term elections - Democracts take the house.
Republicans "We had to shut down the government because the Democrats won't give us what we want."
January 2027 rolls around.
Democracts "So when are going to get the new congress sworn in?"
Republicans "We never formally closed the previous session and since the government is shut down. We can't do that. So, we're just going to stay in power."
Democracts "You can't do that."
Republicans "We are and we already showed you that will do it with Adelita Grijalva."

Cornell's endowment is approximately $10 billion.

Capitalism demands that Walmart goes out and gets that $2 billion back even if it is chump change.

$56 million is a lot to us to plebs. However, to billionaries that's pocket change.

According to https://www.news18.com/world/billionaires-who-spent-a-fortune-to-keep-zohran-mamdani-from-becoming-nyc-mayor-ws-dkl-9685336.html. The total spent by billionaires was $8.6 million. That's couch cushion money to a billionaire. A billionaire wouldn't even notice the money gone.

If anything it shows how cheap it is for billionaires to buy politicans. Billionaries are throwing pocket change at politcians going "Dance for us".

Please, keep your car in their car bedroom at all times.

Yes Inquistor. This one right here. This believes that we shouldn't die for the Emperior.

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Are we talking about Musky's brain being cooked by ketamine?

Republicans “And that’s why we to do everything we can to fuck with voting.”

Can we not indulge into the fantasy of a wanna be super villain?

Fellow people of Lemmy, the first women President of America. I do hope this comment ages like milk.