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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Thu Mar 30, 2017, 12:41 AM Mar 2017

Anybody up for a wager?

A can or bottle of the finest domestic lager on the following proposition:

The government will be shut down on May 1st.

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Anybody up for a wager? (Original Post) Recursion Mar 2017 OP

Yeah. I've been thinking that too. dchill Mar 2017 #1

You didn't choose May 1 randomly, did you? True Dough Mar 2017 #2

I hadn't thought of that, but no: it was not random Recursion Mar 2017 #4

The Government is already shut down Heather MC Mar 2017 #3

If the Government shuts down on May 1 solara Mar 2017 #5

the last time they did this Heather MC Mar 2017 #8

Ivanka needs her government paycheck. Hoyt Mar 2017 #6

I got a crate of Dippin Dots I could heave into the pot Achilleaze Mar 2017 #7

dchill

(38,532 posts)

1. Yeah. I've been thinking that too.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 12:43 AM

Mar 2017

Whatever it takes to shut down those damned investigations.

True Dough

(17,320 posts)

2. You didn't choose May 1 randomly, did you?

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 12:48 AM

Mar 2017

Recursion

(56,582 posts)

4. I hadn't thought of that, but no: it was not random

Reply to True Dough (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 12:51 AM

Mar 2017

The current Continuing Resolution expires on April 28th, and Ryan has lost all credibility to extend it.

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)

3. The Government is already shut down

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 12:51 AM

Mar 2017

Thanks to the hiring Freeze and an idiot in charge who has no clue what he is doing. A republican party that is at war with it's self.

The government is a bus that has run out of gas and is drifting on fumes

solara

(3,836 posts)

5. If the Government shuts down on May 1

Reply to Heather MC (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 01:32 AM

Mar 2017

What exactly would that mean? What would happen? What would not happen?

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Heather MC

(8,084 posts)

8. the last time they did this

Reply to solara (Reply #5)

Fri Mar 31, 2017, 01:05 AM

Mar 2017

whole gov. agencies were just closed. lots of gov contractors lost their jobs
I personally was out of work until it restarted.

the gov, employees still got paid which was one of the reasons they restarted again

it cost tax payers 24 billion

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

6. Ivanka needs her government paycheck.

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:58 AM

Mar 2017

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

7. I got a crate of Dippin Dots I could heave into the pot

Reply to Recursion (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:08 AM

Mar 2017

but I'm gonna sit this wager out. There's some weird shit going down, russian-republican stye.

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