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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
December 23, 2018
Despite the media claiming that the shutdown is some kind of apocalypse, the government itself is largely not even attempting to uphold that position.
They are just chilling.
The media is more than a little bit incensed.
Call it the tranquil shutdown.
As the government careened toward a partial closure Friday night, lawmakers in both parties did a peculiar thing: they started heading home.
The absence of urgency — and the utter disregard for the bad optics of conceding failure before the clock ran out — strikes a sharp contrast with spending impasses of the past.
Previous debates were marked by a fierce scramble to find agreement right up to the deadline — complete with marathon midnight meetings and wee-hour floor votes — followed by hours or days of frantic negotiations to reopen the government, if only as a public demonstration of congressional competence.
Not this time.
As roughly a quarter of the federal government went dark at midnight Friday, there were few signs of life in the Capitol. The halls echoed with emptiness as leaders in both parties had departed hours before and many rank-and-file lawmakers were already on planes back home for the December holidays.
Saturday was little different. A handful of reporters roamed the halls of the cavernous Capitol, but few lawmakers were to be seen.
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Less than 24 hours after the shutdown began, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) adjourned the upper chamber until next week, assuring the impasse will extend at least until Christmas Eve.
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), who headed to the airport after meeting with Vice President Pence, said there’s “no deal.” He appeared unconcerned that when the Senate reconvened the partial shutdown will have lasted for almost a week. The Senate’s next session, he asked, “will be here, what? Thursday?”
“Merry Christmas,” he added.
Yes, good. We are saying “Merry Christmas” again.
That is one war Trump won.
It’s a very funny situation, this Hill article. They are genuinely upset that the government is not upset about the shutdown, but do not seem to want to say the reason: none of the government services that have been shut down matter, and the government will function normally without them. Even most unnecessary services have already been secured from being affected by government shutdowns since they’ve become a regular occurrence, so it is really just a symbolic thing.
Obviously, the media isn’t going to admit that, because they want everyone to be outraged at Donald Trump all the time, and they want to use this situation for that never-ending purpose.
The thing that would be bad optics is if Trump refused to sign a bill and the Congress overrode him. That would genuinely be bad for Trump. But the lack of urgency shows that this isn’t going to happen, and Trump is probably going to walk away from this with his $5 billion and looking like a hero.
Or, conversely, the Democrats could wait until the new Congress is sworn in in January, in which case they will presumably be able to force a continuing resolution, which will kick the can down the road.
