Posted On: Thursday - October 2nd 2025 6:56PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Trump US Feral Government Bread and Circuses
Strangely, things don't feel any different today. Though Peak Stupidity mentioned this latest Feral Gov't shutdown in yesterday's post as the impetus for Trump's latest trolling of the ctrl-left, it's not like I thought about it until reading some news this afternoon. I mean, I didn't have to mail any letters, so, what's the problem. What, me worry?
Do they reckon I'm hanging on the edge of my phone? OMG! We NEED updates on... well, what will these updates show, government people STILL doing nothing? I might as well get on my PDW (Paint Dry Watch) app, part of the shared economy or something ...
I realized that I covered the stupidity of these frequent Feral Shutdown standoff circus acts before. There was our long rant in January of '18 - Wheww, Feral Gov't shutdown narrowly averted. In our point (3) of that post we noted that the piddly-in-the-scheme-of-things, but visible, small stuff is lamented in the sob stories:
All the real government functions, Constitutional and mostly not, aside, the big show in all of these shutdowns involves the small but fun stuff. There'll be big news about complaints that the National Parks are closed, one can't get into the National Air and Space museum, the Post Office* is out of stamps, blah blah. Hey, this stuff IS inconvenient, but most of the people, whether put-out or not, do not understand that all of this kind of stuff put together is a negligible < 1 % part of the $4,000,000,000,000 yearly budget of the Fed-gov.Then, at the very end of '18 we posted Feral Gov't Shutdown ... is that a threat, or a promise?
In that post, we were hopeful about that data center in Utah never getting another $. We also noted that most of the money flowing through the Government was transfer payments and that sending checks in the mail or electronic transfers don't really take the resources of, say, a warmongering $1Trillion military. Another point was that everyone would be better off even if we DID pay these people, but instead of leaving them working to screw us, we also support them with quarters to spend their days at the pool halls and arcades.
We need to develop a program to take these 800,000 people out of the offices and into the pool halls. Can you tell that I thought of this pretty long ago? OK, it could be Mario Cart now for you youngsters ... OK, OK, Minecraft, but just something to keep these people busy for 8 hours a day. Sure, we'd have to spend extra on rolls of quarters, or power cards for Dave & Buster's, but the tremendous savings from being able to live freer lives would pay off immediately, just in reductions in pharmaceutical needs alone!I guess it's pretty much all been said. I will add this time, nearly 7 years later, with a much bigger divide between us, that it is great seeing the ctrl-left Socialists squirm.
As we discussed yesterday, President Trump and Co. picked a very good hill from which to nuke the enemy, that healthcare for-aliens AND bogus refugees spending. "There's no end in sight.", they tell us. "OK, so what's the problem?", say us non-Government normal working people.
President Trump is using Alinsky tactics to never let a phony crisis (or a real one, for that matter) go to waste. He's trying to get the
Now, since we amazingly missed an opportunity in that 2nd shutdown post linked to, to make some use of the sarcastic title, let's bring out this acoustic Dead song about "a tragedy narrowly averted". From 1981 and Reckoning this is a song about The Monkey and the Engineer, another in their long list of tragedy songs, but, instead of being about tragedy impending, this one's about tragedy narrowly averted (featured before here). It goes like this:
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Next, as one might expect from the title of this post, one particular song is necessary here. We've featured it before, but here's that REM song from their 1987 album Document.
That's great, it starts with a shutdown, Trump and snakes and airplanes, Tammy Bruce is not afraid...
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Interestingly, here's what Michael Stipe was spewing back in 1987:
Left of west, was a coming in a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck.How'd he know about the Furries? Interesting...
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped.
It's the end of the Government as we know it, it's the
(Can I have some time alone?)
end of the Government as we know it, it's the
(Can I have some time along?)
end of the Government as we know it,
(Can I have some time alone?)
and I feel fine.
* Yes, they're still using that term. That's at least a century outdated, maybe more.
Comments:
The Alarmist
Friday - October 3rd 2025 11:21AM MST
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This “Shut Down” kabuki is essentially terrorism. We’re supposed to think the world will end if thousands of gubmint clerks get sent home for a few days.
Frankly, if it wasn’t being trumpeted constantly in the US media, most of us wouldn’t know the government is shut down, unless we wanted to do something silly like visit a national park, which as we all know are wickedly unsafe to set foot in if there isn’t anyone in the gatehouse to check if you paid admission.
The Repubes need to cut to the chase and publicly denounce the Demonrats as a terrorist organization and then, taking a page from our democratic friends in the EU, declare them to be outlawed and removed from government positions.
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This “Shut Down” kabuki is essentially terrorism. We’re supposed to think the world will end if thousands of gubmint clerks get sent home for a few days.
Frankly, if it wasn’t being trumpeted constantly in the US media, most of us wouldn’t know the government is shut down, unless we wanted to do something silly like visit a national park, which as we all know are wickedly unsafe to set foot in if there isn’t anyone in the gatehouse to check if you paid admission.
The Repubes need to cut to the chase and publicly denounce the Demonrats as a terrorist organization and then, taking a page from our democratic friends in the EU, declare them to be outlawed and removed from government positions.
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Moderator
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 8:02PM MST
PS: " Get the heck away from the news cycle on this subject."
The farther from the Feral Government, the less anxiety too?
The farther from the Feral Government, the less anxiety too?
SafeNow
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 7:55PM MST
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Ah, but then there’s the anxiety factor, resulting from uncertainty. Psychology Today naturally hits that non-monetary impact heavily. And, mental-health experts argue (of course) that “vulnerable populations” have much greater anxiety because they depend upon food banks and other means of support, and so they worry the hardest. Useful advice from the above: Get the heck away from the news cycle on this subject.
Ah, but then there’s the anxiety factor, resulting from uncertainty. Psychology Today naturally hits that non-monetary impact heavily. And, mental-health experts argue (of course) that “vulnerable populations” have much greater anxiety because they depend upon food banks and other means of support, and so they worry the hardest. Useful advice from the above: Get the heck away from the news cycle on this subject.
I couldn't agree more, Alarmist. You last paragraph is my wishful thinking too - I'd be glad to see Soros, Mayorkas, and Garland all stepping into cop cars ("Watch your head.") for various and sundry different forms of treason.