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It’s amazing to me that this isn’t being covered more on the mainstream media.

• bpodgursky 6y ago
  There's no point in covering any US government shutdown more than a week or two before it happens. We've turned political gamesmanship into a refined art-form. Everyone knows the USPS isn't going to stop running. Republicans will try to gut the union as a precondition for emergency funding. Democrats will try to beef up the retirement funds. Of course the head of the Postal Workers Union will want to prevent the former from getting pushed through the negotiations, so they'll talk up the potential shutdown now. But that doesn't mean it's a realistic outcome. We'll inevitably get a shitty, 18 month funding deal out of it, and kick the can down the road to the next congress. It will suck, we'll live with it, whatever. Everyone knows this is the outcome though, and there's no point talking about THAT stupid game when we have the stupid game of the week to cover -- in this case, re-funding the Paycheck Protection Program.