Kevin McCarthy loses 6th vote for Speaker

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You do realize that the existing nukes are already paid for, right? Both houses of Congress could melt down into a greasy smear and it would have no effect on the US launching nuclear weapons.

And it doesn’t make a bit of difference if Biden (or any other President) goes teetotal fucknuts crazy - he’s still the only person in government able to authorize a nuclear attack.

Boru

Yes, the weapons are paid for, but, the crews that deploy and manage them need to be paid.  If the government shut down and service personnel went without their paychecks for long enough, many of them could start abandoning their posts, which could lead to chaos.

You’ve had government shutdowns before. I don’t recall and headlines about military personnel abandoning their posts.

It’s important to remember that the US government isn’t shut down, nor is it in imminent danger of doing so.

Boru