Yeah I watched it last week as well and had to force myself not to think about the actual people in these jobs. It'd become a satire too quickly (at best)

You're right, hadn't realized this, thought the existing CR was still in play bsky.app/profile/andy...

Neither of them are senators

There are problems with it plot-wise but it excels at portraying the urgency and chaos of that 20 minutes.

Next time I feel that urge, I'm going to check my training for bias

The small amount of stuff I've read from there has been good, and I've shared some articles with conservative/moderate people who would be more skeptical of it coming from traditional sources. I'd say what you described is a good use for it.

really illustrates just how stupid and unnecessary this whole shutdown is that we're almost 40 days in and Dems repeating what they've been asking for the entire time has people howling for blood because it's so unbelievably little that it must be them caving and surrendering

He wanted to but keeps forgetting to bring ID