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The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months (prospect.org)
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The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

by David Dayen, Whitney Curry Wimbish

September 30, 2025

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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 36 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Like, Imagine you had a van. The van has passengers, and you're one of them, but you're way in the back. The driver can't hear you and doesn't care what you want or where you want to go. Then a new driver comes in and takes the van offroad. They drive in the wrong direction, and they keep hitting potholes and pedestrians and shit. Some of the people in the back are hootin and hollerin like it's some awesome roller coaster, and also they hate the pedestrians and like when they are killed. And you're like, please, just stop.

And then the driver threatens to turn the car off.

I mean, yeah, you need the aircon, and it would be nice to be going somewhere, but the driver is definitely not going in the right direction, and the longer he drives, the more damage he does to the van.

Right now the government is worse than shut down. It's actively doing bad things. I'd rather the government start doing good things, but that's not currently an option available to me.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 1 hour ago

I don't think the "bad things" part would actually be shut down. At least not most of it. The entire federal govt doesn't actually just stop.

[–] BossDj@piefed.social 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The analogy is brilliant.

But they key players aren't in it for the ride. The bumps, pedestrians, etc. is all just to get the people in the back to get loud. While the van is stopped, the driver and navigators will be yelling in their megaphone how the van stopped because of you, but also the past driver broke it. They'll continue mapping their off-road course and devising how to replace the locks so the driver can't be replaced, and promising to pay people outside the van later to go shoot the pedestrians for now instead.

Meanwhile, it's just getting hotter and the handful of people who were tossing water bottles out the window and other aid to help the pedestrians have also come to a standstill.

MAYBE some of the idiots in the van actually start demanding it move again, but more likely they'll be yelling at you for some reason

[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 42 minutes ago

you are way underestimating the number of things that the government does that aren’t ICE, etc.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 8 minutes ago

I've already been living without true rule of law for years. The police don't come when needed and when they do eventually come hours later they make things worse. Might as well try out this anarchy thing.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Are republicans even upset at a government shutdown? Isn’t that what their platform is?

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 points 4 minutes ago

If they can say it's the Lib's fault, and half the country agrees, then they will feign anger.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 5 points 1 hour ago

They’re upset only as much as that “upset” is beneficial to their screaming about the librulz