(November 9, 2025 at 8:38 pm)Paraselene Wrote: Apparently, the shutdown is over.

I saw that enough Democrats crossed over to make this so. I hope some sort of insurance like the ACA is still around.

(November 9, 2025 at 9:02 pm)Fireball Wrote:

(November 9, 2025 at 8:38 pm)Paraselene Wrote: Apparently, the shutdown is over.

I saw that enough Democrats crossed over to make this so. I hope some sort of insurance like the ACA is still around.

The Democrats caved (I called it wrong). There is no guarantee for an extension of the ACA subsidies, but the Republicans have ‘promised’ to schedule a vote on the matter, but the outcome for that is far from certain.

Boru

(November 9, 2025 at 8:38 pm)Paraselene Wrote: Apparently, the shutdown is over.

The House has to vote on the Senate's resolution first.

(November 9, 2025 at 2:30 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(November 9, 2025 at 11:57 am)Angrboda Wrote: Republicans don't care.  It has never been about serving the public to them.

With every passing day, qu'ils mangent de la brioche echoes louder and louder through the corridors of power.

I've always had a belief in politics as the art of the possible, but lately I've come to sidle closer to the Everclear approach:

We can live beside the ocean
Leave the fire behind
Swim out past the breakers
Watch the world die

Yeah, watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die
Yeah, watch the world die

That's what is worst about this for me -- as my country marches into disaster, I feel like I am becoming politically more and more nihilistic. For much of my life I've found purpose in either serving the nation or at least caring about it. Nowadays, I don't know ...

Completely random, but that song has been indelibly burned into my brain since the pandemic.

(November 9, 2025 at 9:33 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(November 9, 2025 at 8:38 pm)Paraselene Wrote: Apparently, the shutdown is over.

The House has to vote on the Senate's resolution first.

Motherfuckers need to clock in first.

(November 9, 2025 at 9:37 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Completely random, but that song has been indelibly burned into my brain since the pandemic.

HL Mencken Wrote:Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Man, the temptation these last few years has been strong. Y'all wanna die, great, fuck off and bark at the Moon. Just leave me the Hell out of it. Their refusal to do so, their insistence on dragging me and my family down into their Gotterdammerung, makes me want to find a place where I can sit safely and enjoy schadenfreude. I feel safe in the ocean. It only has sharks.

Götterdämmerung. Yes that's appropriate.

(November 10, 2025 at 12:13 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:

(November 9, 2025 at 9:37 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Completely random, but that song has been indelibly burned into my brain since the pandemic.

HL Mencken Wrote:Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

Man, the temptation these last few years has been strong. Y'all wanna die, great, fuck off and bark at the Moon. Just leave me the Hell out of it. Their refusal to do so, their insistence on dragging me and my family down into their Gotterdammerung, makes me want to find a place where I can sit safely and enjoy schadenfreude. I feel safe in the ocean. It only has sharks.

Not gonna lie, that feeling is 100% fueling my motivation to live far, far away from all the bullshit.

"I just want to see some palm trees
I will try to chase away this disease"

Just contacted my doctor to try to get refills of some meds before my insurance cluster becomes an even bigger fuck.

Hope she helps me out. sigh

No food for people, health insurance that sucks anyway being even more out of reach, The Orange Fuckface throwing parties and screaming, "Let them eat cake."

Now the damn new list of pardons...I am thinking that the manic signing of executive orders and the pardons handed out all willy nilly are signs that he knows his time is near the end.

FUCK!

(November 10, 2025 at 1:11 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(November 10, 2025 at 12:13 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Man, the temptation these last few years has been strong. Y'all wanna die, great, fuck off and bark at the Moon. Just leave me the Hell out of it. Their refusal to do so, their insistence on dragging me and my family down into their Gotterdammerung, makes me want to find a place where I can sit safely and enjoy schadenfreude. I feel safe in the ocean. It only has sharks.

Not gonna lie, that feeling is 100% fueling my motivation to live far, far away from all the bullshit.

"I just want to see some palm trees
I will try to chase away this disease"

Oh yeah -- that thought occurred to me when you wrote your first reply, that you're in SEA precisely because the center is not holding here.