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[GiorgioG]

Congress is still supposed to do its job.

[dfxm12]

House Republicans have been refusing to show up for work for over a month, while still collecting a paycheck. They expect air traffic controllers, et al. to work for free.

[drooby]

By impeaching and removing him, yes

[georgemcbay]

Half of Congress clearly believes its job is to do whatever the gangster says.

[lotsofpulp]

Is it called a hijacking if the majority of passengers support the hijackers?

[gpm]

Yes? If I bought a plane ticket to Costa Rica and it turned out half my fellow passengers were actually part of the xyz gang and hijacked it and flew it to... I don't know... El Salvador I would be entirely correct in calling them criminal hijackers and I'd be justifiably pissed off (and scared).

[chowchowchow]

49.5% of 65% of eligible voters voted for him.. hardly a majority any way you slice it, either of voters or of the broad population.

[op00to]

The majority of American citizens do not support the policies of the current administration.

[Barrin92]

yes, going straight into the mountain isn't any more pleasant even if 90% of the passengers sit in the cockpit. Which I hope stays a metaphor given the amount of air traffic controllers they just laid off.

Although if that metaphor is too rough I suppose we can also go with the inmates running the asylum

[whyenot]

This whole topic is about politics and I am leery of steering even more in that direction, but based on recent polls, I’m not sure that the passengers currently do support the hijackers.

[esseph]

They don't though, and current polling across the board looks horrible for them. Results yesterday were also quite telling.

[petersellers]

The majority of passengers didn't even care enough to vote.

[tekno45]

isnt that the minority leader?

[unethical_ban]

Both parties are responsible for the shutdown at this point.

The debate is which one is more righteous: the one keeping it shut to prevent millions from having healthcare in sacrifice to the rich, or the side keeping it shut to fight for healthcare affordability for 15.million people and keeping rural hospitals open?

[WillPostForFood]

The "gangster" wants the government open, republicans in Congress have all voted ~10 times to reopen. How can you not blame the only people voting to keep it closed?

[prh8]

Republicans want it open with the conditions, conditions that are unacceptable for the health of society

[Erem]

Did any of these 10 votes meaningfully address concerns of the objecting representatives?

[mayneack]

The republicans have a clear majority in all three houses. They can reopen if they want to.

[cdelsolar]

they're taking away people's healthcare