Grover Norquist, who founded Americans for Tax Reform in 1985 at the urging of President Reagan, declared in 2001: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

https://theconversation.com/the-shutdown-drowning-government-in-the-bathtub-111333

They are ideologically opposed to the government doing basically anything other than police and military duties, and having the bare minimum legal system required to facilitate criminal convictions for the poor, and the contract emforcement of private business.

Basically, they want the level of government that exists in Night City from Cyberpunk 2077, but probably without mass transit or even public roads.

This is what Rush Limbaugh's ditto hesds have been told they want for about 40 years, and now they are just doing it.

You can prosecute people for thought crimes snd not being the right sexuality or religion or skin color with this, so, that's all good with them.

They're betting on Democrats getting the blame. They might be right, though I hope not.

This still serves their larger goal of portraying all of government (potentially representing the will of the people to some degree) as inefficient and unreliable. This furthers simplistic "strongman" attitudes, as well as the continued push for deregulation and privatisation.

It's a reasonable question. I don't know how many ICE agents are ok without getting the paycheck.

Along with what others have said, a user in another thread pointed out that with a new financial year, they can repeat their performance with their July bill, basically doing whatever they want, so they probably consider it a win all around.

They will not furlough workers, they will fire en masse. USA lost 32000 private sector jobs last quarter, tariff economics is working!

The goal is to cull federal workers.

Should they bet on consequences?

Yeah they've run with this forever, just... strongly implying that somehow, people who aren't citizens and don't have SSNs somehow get Medicare/Medicaid.

You can't, its fraud if you steal someone's identity to do that, and that barely ever happens compared to how often just some Byzantine morass of paperwork results in an over or underpayment for a legitimate person... and when those exceptionally rare fraud cases did get caught, off to jail for that person...

But, brown people bad, I guess.

I think this may be the first time they've actually tried to... point at something and prove that Dems are actually pushing for laws that would do that, but I have also lost track.

I would say this whole line of logic has always struck me as odd... as... I am on Medicare, and ... presumably so are millions of poor Republicans... and presumably they, you know, applied, which requires an SSN...

But then I remember I'm not a rabid racist and I can actually read, so it starts to make some sense as to how these people can be this monumentally stupid.

MikeyJ gonna get on Grindr tonight to soothe his fee-fees and his pee-pee

Based on the actions he's taken to cover up for pedophiles, he's more likely to go fuck a child.

Personally I'm more of a Daneaxe with a claymore duckedtaped to the end kinda guy.

Great, now I have a new fetish.

Didn't they get defunded recently?

There's nothing more dangerous than closeted dudes istg

So that's the reason they had to buy tiktok

it’s the only thing that will resonate with half the country

The best part about it is that it resonates with half the right and half the left. And the half of the left that doesn't care already knows the score and is more worried about more direct problems.

Doesn’t he share his masturbatory habits with his son, in a sort of watchfulness pact or something? It’s so very weird.

They’re definitely into that though.

Before turning it back on, plug in your flash drive to install Arch Government

Then unplug it and plug it back in