Delta suspends airport perks for members of Congress amid government shutdown

Some of them may die, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make.

Yeah, our so-called leadership in Congress are anything but young and spry. Hell, Mitch has to reboot on the regular just to remember what group he's talking with. Another spent months in an elderly care facility while no one in congress or her constituents knew where she was. Hell, I'd feel bad about no term-limits killing these folks if they all weren't so filthy rich.

Eh, most of our politicians up there have a net value likely in at least the millions. It's "even better" they could mostly afford to pay out of pocket.

they can earn their shutdown pay by fighting in the Iran war that they are too cowardly to stop

I think you are mistaken. That was clearly Obama's fault.

Sadly the only way that amendment could come to be is if the people who would lose their power in that eventuality passed it. So yeah, never going to happen.

The premise of presidential campaigns is simple: get good. The details get complicated. Regardless, Trump got elected because he was able to get the votes and Kamala wasn’t. Unfortunately, the Democrat party has essentially abandoned any hope of implementing change. For example: they have given up on the state of Florida. Their most recent presidential candidate’s campaign was catered to corporate donors that, as a whole, the population does not like. And most critically, candidates that do advocate for real change are shunned by their peers. Republicans have been able to slowly degrade government service, sow distrust in government, and effectively hobble DNC plans decades. The DNC has met them with capitulation. Together, both parties have managed to deadlock Congress for decades. The president and executive branch in general have assumed more and more and more and more of their responsibilities, while running against constitutional limitations that outright prevent the executive branch from being a legislator: slowly degrading government service, sowing distrust in government, and hobbling DNC plans for change for decades. Repeat and loop. As a result, the population voted for change. And boy has there been a lot of change in the past year.

Just to be clear, the minority government can’t typically hold up the government. Budget reconciliation allows Congress to pass a budget with a simple majority. The reason for the partial shut down now is that the current Republican majority used reconciliation to pass the OBBB, and so can’t use it again for the same budget cycle. Regardless, having the threat of their careers over the minority party makes them so ineffective you might as well not have them. They will never be able to vote no, ever. I don’t wanna live in a world where either party is the only party that rules government.

This was in 2015. We still got coffee, but it needed to be clearly universally available and frequently had a collection jar or equivalent to pay for it.

Yeah for sure this was the norm. It's just frustrating that people do that song and dance within the bureaucracy to appear unbiased and then you have elected officials (and political appointees) more or less nakedly taking favors and no one seems to care.