empire never sleeps, cmon.

i saw an indy article yesterday implying the federal employee union and general community had signaled a lack of support for re-opening the federal government “at any cost”, meaning an even broader agreement to slash government.

it basically made the case that the federal government has already been gutted by the administration policies taking a blind hatchet to everything, creating this miasma of uncertainty and difficiency before the shutdown. so like, there’s a aense that political leadership should go ahead and choke on this, with what remains of the federal workforce going on unemployment benefits, no longer putting in the effort to keep everything from grinding to a halt.

i kinda get it, honestly. the frustration and anxiety has been building since DOGE bullshit and the buyouts. my federal counterparts have all had this look on their faces when trying to create expectations and give assurances when they have none.

the shutdown is the dumpster fire at the end of the tunnel that this freight train of bullshit is colliding with.

i am curious to see if these people so eager to shutter the administrative state have the competency to keep the parts of it they don’t want to lose from stalling.

I won’t be surprised to see one of these shutdowns result in a bipartisan bill to fund arms shipments forever. None of the money is real, obviously, so the funding doesn’t ultimately matter. As long as someone eventually gets their digital dollary-doos in the form of number go up in some account then it keeps churning.

Instead of writing bills to permanently fund all existing federal programs (or whatever legal wording) until/unless that program is repealed by Congress which is how I think every other nation on earth generally operates. They’ll just continue on with the “Oh, boy! Food stamps isn’t funded! Ohhhh boy!” Every year forever.