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Troops Will Miss Paychecks Next Week Without Action on the Government Shutdown (www.military.com)

submitted 5 days ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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The nation’s third shutdown in 12 years is once again raising anxiety levels among service members and their families because those in uniform are working without pay. While they would receive back pay once the impasse ends, many military families live paycheck to paycheck.

During previous shutdowns, Congress passed legislation to ensure that troops kept earning their salaries, but time is running out before they miss their first paycheck in less than a week.

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Except their well-indoctrinated morons are only about 30% of the population, and every poll I've seen shows more people blaming the Republicans for the current situation (tbf, a few of them show over 50% blaming Dems as well, but even in those the numbers of people blaming Republicans is even higher).

Also, even with that 30%, I think they're going to start struggling soon. Like, even if you accept that this is all the fault of dastardly Dems, what's the Republicans' plan to stop them here? They don't actually have the totalitarian powers to beat all of their political opponents into submission as much as they try to convince us otherwise with a few spectacles (e.g. James Comey, Letitia James, every anti-ICE protester who gets brutalized on camera, etc.). They can keep hollering their lies and blaming everyone else, but then the government is just going to stay shutdown, and then what? The only realistic path out of this if the Dems hold their line is for the GOP to take a big ol' L on this, which is going to make that 30% lose their minds and will just seal the deal with independents that Republicans caused this to begin with.

e; I'm bad at spelking

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Also, even with that 30%, I think they’re going to start struggling soon

Let's hope this is true. But realistically speaking 30% before gerrymandering, election interference and a voting system really bad at creating proportional results can easily create a comfortable majority, too.