Wait working with who? I think everyone went home, lol

Yeah the Senate adjourned until noon tomorrow

motion for the sergeant at arms to call the senators back, do I have a second everyone is gone

meanwhile

claude welcome to the resistance

Fuck, there's an active shooter at the mall where my fiancee works

God damn this country

@TimStone Do you know if she's okay?

She text me and said she was, the police aren't currently reporting any injuries and it's possible it was fight-related

@TimStone weird my head canon thought you were married

@TimStone so your fiancée won, I take it?

@TimStone Okay good

@GodEmperorDune Yeah that's a long story

@TimStone At this time they have not identified any victims and do not currently have a suspect. Police seem to believe no shots were fired, some reports indicated the initial message was that there was a fight in which a gun was drawn, so we'll see if that happened and if it may have snowballed from there

@Unionhawk get him tbh

@TimStone LOL

It's now illegal for me to work or something, idk, the government doesn't pay for my hours directly so I still don't get how that works

That's bad but also hilarious

@TimStone fwiw Trump gave non-exempt workers Monday off and Tuesday is a holiday so hopefully this will impact the minimal number of people, though likely still those who it hurts the most :/

@TimStone dat pic

It's so good

i dub this bird rekt.jpg

@TimStone uhhhhh has any president had 3 fed chiefs?

chieves?

@TimStone almost like hiring him was a mistake after he ruined things during the bush admin

He theoretically cannot just arbitrarily fire him, but 🤷‍♂️

@TimStone there is a relevant onion for this but i am lazy to find it

something about the "whose gonna stop me" loophole

Indeed, though you could argue Powell could just...keep showing up to work, I guess. It's also not completely clear that everyone would be on board with him tanking the markets to make himself feel better

Everything else that's happened sure because they're all evil, but this is about money so

Ahhh that's what the inset reminded me of

Meeeeeeeeeeeh don't even humour him, obviously he can't do that but it would be bad either way

I think he's saying it half-jokingly but Trump is dumb so like

yeah, you can have your monument to racism under no circumstances actually

like Adam is working with an impossible condition here, however

I mean it's already kind of insane that they were willing to give him the same budget for the Federal Department of Racists

But that wasn't enough for him 🙄

@TimStone Mr President, if you said Mexico will pay for THE WALL, then why do the GOP or the Dems have to pass funding that include funds for THE WALL

^ you have to yell THE WALL

@TimStone ummmm, that's not how you do economy

like just because it's not raining for farmers you don't fire the head of the Meteorology department

> The president has a villa there, though he has been trying to sell it and you can now stay there through Airbnb for around $11,000 a night.

A steal, obviously

@GodEmperorDune take the offer quickly before Trump realises that those secret russian documents label Trumperation Trump: How to destroy American with Trump is still under the bed with the porn

I can't believe the government has shut down over this stupid wall

@Wipqozn I can't believe Trump threw a tantrum to make it happen.

The guy's such a big baby.

coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool

@Unionhawk wtf

@Unionhawk wtf

@TimStone after all the wild shit this admin has done, withdrawing from syria is the red line that trump crossed... wow

Well in this case McGurk replaced Allen under Obama and, given his pivotal role in keeping everything together, was likely focused specifically on not making that situation worse

I think it's the having no plan and leaving everyone to fend for themselves #yolo approach that is the ultimate issue here, since people will die

Which like, if you're the person responsible, you might feel guilty about. Unless you lead DHS or something, in which case you just don't bother keeping track of the people you've killed >_>

@TimStone or purdue clamping down on food stamps to both waste govt money enforcing it and starve poor people who don't have a job

Indeed

But yeah, Mattis is one thing, especially given Yemen, but in McGurk's case I don't fault him for doing what he could until what he was made to do was unconscionable

@TimStone i stand corrected on mcgurk then

this gif is quite nice

Okay, but! Hear me out. What if, we, tech folks, disrupt global warming by putting huge heat sinks on the arctic ice?

@TimStone we already put datacenters in cold climates for that reason lol

Ugh, I am sick, this should be illegal

@TimStone same, i bet @Wipqozn got us sick

Canadians going for the biological warfare. I guess we had it coming

I mean but also absolish TSA

@TimStone dammit

Honestly at this point I'm just not entirely sure how "Oh yeah we definitely did something bad you just don't know what" is necessarily better than the alternative

oh shit

Yeah, the Senate won't take it up at least so meh

Build the Great Steel Barrier, apparentely

@Ash Hmm link is broke now Slate wyd

Good now, thanks!

@TimStone Oh he's still going

I'm not even sure offhand that any of his sycophants even said that, specifically

Oh my god that is the most awful collection of tweets @GodEmperorDune

nukes twitter from orbit

@TimStone ikr

@TimStone seems like a win win for the dems there

@GodEmperorDune and probably America as a whole

and therefore, the world

Ah, very normal and cool and necessary

@TimStone is Jeff sessions on that Supreme Court?

lol

Gonna have to upgrade the bodycams with smell-o-vision, because that's some bullshit

lol he's going to be mad again about missing his party

@TimStone maybe he should’ve thought about that before ruining the holidays of federal workers over a goddamn great steel barrier

Can you imagine how angry he's going to be when he no longer has the House to churn out this crap for him?

We saw it with the pelosi meeting

Eergh

lol @ the 4% who believe it's already been built

I mean we technically already have a wall, we’ve had one for decades

Yeah, I suspect the answer isn't based on that concession though

@Frank @Wipqozn how are you both surprised by this? doesn't he try to pull this every time a government shutdown, only difference now is that the GOP can also blame the Dems because they control the lower house

@TimStone hue

@Memor-X they don't control the lower house until early january

trump is throwing this specific fit about wall funding now because once the dems take over the house in january it is definitely not happening

@GodEmperorDune ahhhh, i thought they were in now

@Memor-X they've done some orientation type stuff but nope, not yet

The US should just borrow the great Wall of China

@Wipqozn another wall that did not work as intended

lol under no circumstances do I believe that Trump told him "nor do I believe I have the right to do so"

@GodEmperorDune So this comment made me do some googling, and turns out the wall actually was very effective: reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3ph1a9/…

But not at keeping people out... But turns out that wasn't actually the point of it.

@Wipqozn ah so it was the gondor to rohan signal thing

@TimStone no, he actually said "nor do I believe I have the right to do so but who cares because i'm president and i can use an executive order like i always do"

@GodEmperorDune Yeah seems like it. Pretty cool.

@Wipqozn well TIL