Last Exit Before Babylon: Next Vote 63 Days

You’d better get out while you can,
This isn’t going anywhere,
I’ve bitten through my fingernails,
I only warn you ’cause I care…

The House of Representatives has missed another chance at derailing the express train to Fascist-town, in particular one Jared Golden (D-WTF?) whose name will live in infamy. Thomas Massie and Victoria Spartz also deserve a quick mention here, as the only two Republicans to vote to preserve the country by shutting down its government.

Which is a very strange irony, I know.

So now we turn to the Senate, where the margins are oddly both closer and wider?

It would have taken four Republicans to vote down the Funding Further Fascism Urgently (FFF U) bill in the House, or really five after whatever Jared Golden (D-Seriously, WTF?) thought he was doing.

The press is reporting that it will take seven Democrats siding with the coup to pass a spending bill to keep the government from going into hibernation mode, but that’s just by the current Senate rules where it takes 60 votes for a spending bill to pass.

But changing those rules only takes 51 votes, so it’s better to think of it that way.

Which means that really it takes four Republicans voting against the coup to actually guarantee a shutdown. And while Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski do both occasionally show flashes of sense and/or backbone, I can’t really think of any others.

So it’s likely that Congress will once again pay for the nation’s ticket to ride the Crazy Train.

And that’s a real shame, because letting the funding stop and having the government enter hibernation is frankly the only chance the United States has to preserve enough pieces of itself to be worth trying to put back together later.

Since most of the money the government is spending these days is just adding to the damage the coup is doing to the country.

So it’d be better to put the U.S. in mothballs for a while than to pay for the coup to shred the parts that remain.

Not to get all dramatic about it.

But is is kinda the time for getting dramatic: every day that this goes on, the country gets farther away from anything resembling what it was and closer to resembling a dictatorship masquerading as a lapsed democracy.

And I’ve never been the biggest fan of the country that the U.S. actually was, but the country they’re trying to replace it with is an abomination.

So, to the Senate Democrats and Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski and any potentially-sane Senate Republicans I’ve overlooked: shut it down.