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Ah, yes, #Brazil, that beacon of democratic #enlightenment 🌟, schooling the US on governance while juggling its own political circus 🎪. Because nothing says "democratic maturity" like pretending the pot isn't calling the kettle black. 🍵🔥
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/08/28/brazil-offers-america-a-lesson-in-democratic-maturity #Politics #DemocraticGovernance #PoliticalCircus #Hypocrisy #HackerNews #ngated

So apparently the budget impasse means that Matt Gaetz and MTG just voted with AOC and Cori Bush. And I agree with all of them - month-by-month funding is unsustainable and the cuts to social programs included in the short term budget unconscionable. Strange bedfellows, indeed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2023/house-vote-government-shutdown/

#passthebudget #federalbudget #governmentshutdown #politicalcircus #politicaltheater #governmentcrisis #rulebychaos #Congress