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"FacebookPinterest\n\nTime once more for Make It Stop, in which we count down the five things during this government shutdown that must stop.\n\n1. The fight at the WWII memorial. It's a law of cable news production that, in the midst of a national story of enormous impact, the networks must focus on the absolute least relevant subplot or person. (Hi Joe the Plumber!) And that's how we get FOX News trumping up the story of WWII veterans \"storming\" their own memorial, with CNN and MSNBC following close behind to cover FOX News' warped coverage. The entire cycle of inflating a stupid story and then gawking in horror at the inflation of a stupid story serves to drown out the ACTUAL HORRIBLE SUFFERING that has been caused by the deliberate shuttering of our nation. It's like being struck by an earthquake (not that we'd be able to predict one with national seismographers presumably onfurlough) and then focusing all your energy on a knocked-over YIELD sign.\n\nBy shouting down a park ranger that HE helped put into such an awful position, GOP Rep. Randy Neugebauer has proven, once again, that you can take something that matters and, simply by making an ass of yourself in public, distort that important thing and turn it into a shit-slinging sideshow whose eventual resolution has no impact on the original problem. That is what you get when you elect corrupt nutjob idiots\u2014you are electing deliberate saboteurs. Trolls. Speaking of which...\n\n2. The American voter. Listen, I didn't vote for any of these GOP whackjobs and most of you probably didn't either. But someone did. And to these BREATHTAKINGLY DUMB voters, I would just like to say that you have gotten precisely what you deserve. Such is your ability to be manipulated that Republicans can re-draw the Congressional map and herd you into gerrymandered districts and know without a doubt that you will vote for them no matter how fucking badly they perform. They can go right ahead, shut down the government, ruin lives, create anarchy in the fucking streets, and loyalists will STILL vote for them for reasons that escape me.\n\n Yes, I'm a liberal sheep. I usually vote for Democrats unless they're completely unbearable (and they can be), but I would reconsider my options if the standard Democratic politician became a fucking serial anarchist. We're in the middle of becoming a trash-strewn hellscape where everyone must warm themselves over burning garbage fires, and that endgame will continue to progress nicely until our dumbest citizens stop voting for our worst.\n\n3. People getting shot. Frankly, it's a tribute to American restraint that only ONE person has attempted to storm the Capitol since this happened. If that lady had been packing heat, Ted Cruz would try to redistrict a full Congressional district around her.\n\n4. Obamacare online glitches. Given the massive feuding going on around the Affordable Care Act, it behooved White House officials\u2014who have mastered the Internet better than any other political entity in history\u2014to create a flawlessly efficient healthcare.gov site, to prove the skeptics wrong, and to show Americans that the federal government can establish a new health care bureaucracy that works seamlessly and benefits everyone. Instead, the Washington Post can't even find one person who has signed up for the program successfully. Which means that the people who shut down the government over this law can now point to a 404 Error on the site and be like, \"SEE? WE TOLD YOU!\" No matter how unreasonable it may seem, your big ambitious liberal plans for a federal health care utopia need to work quickly if you're gonna win over the \"Put some tussin on it\" crowd.\n\n5. \"SMH\". If you use that phrase online without irony, I automatically know you're an idiot. I would shut down the government just to get rid of it forever."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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