Good morning world
No shutdown here. It'd sure be nice if we could all afford to shut down and still get paid, like our duly elected representatives, who continue to receive at least $174,000 per year even when they shut down the government and cause upwards of 800,000 other people to stop receiving their own paychecks.
Nice work if you can get it. They get to say "fuck you" to the people they were elected to represent while the same people have to pay them over $250,000 per day in combined salaries during this shutdown (just like we the people do every other day, when they're also not working on our behalf either).
Unfortunately, no matter how badly they fuck up, they never fuck up quite badly enough to cause the people to rise up and toss them all out on their asses. Citizens really need to take back the running of the country. We've let these hand puppets of the lobbyists butt fuck us for way too long. We need to kick all of them out of their cushy jobs that they view as a career, then have their positions filled like jury duty.
Anyone could get a card in the mail, telling you when you have to show up to be a congressman and you only have to do the job for some reasonable short period of time, a year or even less. You'd get reasonable compensation for your time, perhaps equal to what we're paying now, but when your time is up you're done and you go home. We need to stop allowing career politicians* to hold those positions.
I read something that Relentless posted at the zoo that really does describes these cock holsters very well:
"It's like watching a pack of retards using sparklers battling against a pack of idiots using airhorns....Noise, flash, no substance and all kinds of stupidity."
And I forget who said this a while ago, but choosing to be a democrat versus being a republican is like choosing which color glove you want on the fist shoved up your ass.
Okay... time to get back to work.
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* I don't feel the same about career diplomats, which does need to be a more qualified pool of talent. Requirements like more education, language skills, cultural studies, time living abroad, etc.