The Shutdown Won't Really End
A voice of sanity in the noise?
Around the same time that tens of millions of Americans faced acute hunger, as lines stretched into parking lots at food banks, Target decided the real problem was that their employees weren’t smiling enough. Like Walmart, they’re going to make their workers smile, wave, and make small talk with customers in order to boost sales. It’s probably the most American thing I’ve ever heard, responding to a year of crisis and hardship by telling everyone to smile more.
So, the shutdown is coming to an end.
Is it, really?
In some ways, it always felt like this shutdown was doomed to succeed. I’m not the only person to point this out, but MAGA Republicans wanted it. You can’t use a government shutdown as leverage against a group of psychopaths who planned on taking advantage of it to further their own objectives. And that’s exactly what the authors of Project 2025 wanted. They wanted to starve Americans. They wanted to disrupt airports and supply chains.
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