- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
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
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
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
I fucking hate this van
Well, you can’t piss in the gas tank because that would be DISRUPTIVE and you’re scared about losing your shitty job that you hate- so you’re just going to sit there and take it, right?
Well like just two passengers could easily overtake the driver.
Yep. Shame the car is full of absolute cowards whining about the ride.
There is a van loose in the hospital!
Loved that skit, it was perfect and aged like wine