It's because Republicans define "coming together" as "uniting behind OUR people and doing what WE say".
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If that was the worst part, not so bad. There's rumbles about the people at Bluesky being another bunch of rightwing deplorables, and I can see the thing going the same way.
Why? High rolls are better for both attacks and saves. In 2E the stats decrease as you improve, but that's because the stat generally represents the number you need to roll to do the thing in some specific scenario.
Like THAC0 is the number you need to roll to hit a target with AC 0. You then subtract AC from THAC0 and if you rolled that or higher you hit. For example, if you have a THAC0 of 17 and an opponent with an AC of 7 you need to roll a 17-7=10 or higher to hit.
Same with saves - if your save vs death was 16 and you needed to roll a save vs death, a roll of 16 or higher was a success.
I swear every time I did a skill check when I was playing 2nd Ed, every time I rolled remotely high it was a failure. And fuck THAC0, just give me a straight DC to pass.
It never was for a long time. Even before Musk bought Twitter, I was not exactly a fan. The previous owners enabling Trump and his supporters did not help especially back between 2016-2020.Blue Sky Gang.
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In all seriousness, yeah, maybe X isn't the best.
Money, fool, latter soon parted from former, etc.
Yep. And then they tried to pass a slimmer down version that cut out everything actually useful, like kids cancer research and such, but not cuts on, like, defense...
...and the republicans couldn't pass their own bill by a simple majority, let alone the 2/3rds they actually needed
So we're looking at a government shutdown over Xmas due entirely to this fuckknuckle and GOP incompetence
...and the republicans couldn't pass their own bill by a simple majority, let alone the 2/3rds they actually needed
So we're looking at a government shutdown over Xmas due entirely to this fuckknuckle and GOP incompetence
Even better, one of the provisions of the "Cut everything! Fiscal responsibility!" bill was a two year suspension of the debt ceiling. Spend with no limits for 2 years.
The GOP got called out on their own bs, and rightfully so. I’d chalk that up as a good thing seeing as all the bs that was buried in the original bill would’ve been passed.
About the pediatric cancer research funding -
But the Senate on Friday night passed the measure as a standalone bill, which authorizes $12.5 million per year for five years. The legislation, which was approved by the House in March and now goes to Biden for his signature, will fund the program into 2028.
Here’s what’s in and out of the government funding agreement | CNN Politics
The Senate approved a slimmed-down, temporary government spending plan early Saturday morning, averting a shutdown of the federal government. The legislation now goes to President Joe Biden for his signature.
amp.cnn.com
In any case, the fact that this months-overdue bill was presented with literally less than a day to review its 1,547 pages and using it as leverage to avoid a shutdown is asinine. The 40% pay raise on top of the already-generous six-figure/92 percentile base pay they would’ve voted themselves to receive, among a plethora of other pork measures at taxpayer expense had it passed in its original form just shows what a clusterfuck Washington leadership is.
Misunderstanding of the debt ceiling.
1. Technically the power to issue bonds and take on debts belongs to Congress and they may exercise that power however they wish.
2. The budget is set by Congress, and the President only does spending insofar as the budget allows him to in a given department.
3. Taxes are also determined by Congress.
4. To absolve themselves of some responsibility for taking on debt to the public, Congress gave the President the power to raise bonds and take on debt up to a set limit in order to fill in shortfalls where spending passed by Congress cannot be covered by revenues also passed by Congress. That limit is the debt ceiling.
Hitting the debt ceiling is a problem that Congress creates that only Congress can solve but is blamed on the President. From the perspective of Congress it is precisely the best kind of problem.
A two year suspension of the debt ceiling is meaningless unless the budget also calls for massive spending increases, otherwise regardless of the ceiling it's just business as usual, except maybe without the pending threats of government shutdowns.