Government Shutdown, Day V: Narrative Materialization Failure

DB Daily Update ^ | David Blackmon

[EyesOfTX]

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Government Shutdown, Day V – National Devastation Stubbornly Failing To Come To Fruition

The nation’s turkey population suffered a massive hit on Day IV, as millions of poor, lost souls suffering the pernicious effects of the Government Shutdown turned to binge-eating as a salve for the pain. Crops of sweet potatoes, green beans, and corn have been similarly devastated.

Grocery store shelves this morning are devoid of cans of gelled cranberries and packages of instant stuffing as the Evil Orange man’s reign of terror continues. Meanwhile, garbage handlers across the nation are reporting millions of 13- and 32- gallon trash bags filled with brightly-colored paper, ribbons and bows as they make their regular rounds this morning. Interesting. Unsure what this means, but it must be important, and can only be another sign of the impending Government Shutdown Apocalypse.

Also interesting are reports from cardboard recycling centers around the country that their facilities are being strained to capacity this morning with a sudden influx of broken-down boxes, about half of which have “Amazon” labels on them. Could Brazil be taking advantage of our Government Shutdown by mounting an invasion? Has the Evil Orange Man really been colluding with the Brazilians all along? Was Putin just a head fake by a guy playing 4D chess?

The madness. Oh, the madness.

Oddly, though, predictions of massive street demonstrations and violence by various CNN and MSNBC on-air personalities have failed to materialize. The predicted national panic due to the closing of a handful of national parks in the dead of winter has also somehow been avoided thus far. Same for anything predicted by Bill Kristol or Max Boot, although that’s just par for the course. In any event, it seems the Orange Man and his ever-changing staff of advisers had contingency plans in place, which no one could have predicted would be the case.

Here in North Texas, highway traffic has begun to resume its normal pace after two days of mysteriously near-deserted roadways. The traffic guy on Channel 4 is even reporting the existence of several traffic jams in Dallas County this morning. But then, there are always traffic jams in Dallas County, even when there is no traffic, so not sure what this all means.

One thing is for sure: None of this jibes with the projected Government Shutdown narrative. Must investigate further.

Meanwhile, the radio stations have suddenly changed their programming. That extremely annoying song by some guy named “Jose Feliciano” (no doubt a code name) that’s been playing every 5 minutes on every station for the last 6 weeks? Gone. Seriously, as of midnight, this song and dozens of others with strange titles like “Jingle Bell Rock”, “Chestnuts Roasting Over an Open Fire”, and “I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” have all just vanished from the airwaves.

All of this is odd, and I have no means of reporting in on the meaning of any of it. But here is the strangest thing of all: In the face of this horribly-destructive Government Shutdown that Morning Joe keeps telling us will be the end of the Evil Orange Man’s presidency and of civilization as we know it, newscasts this morning are filled with stories about Americans all over the country engaging in amazing acts of kindness, empathy, generosity and giving of themselves over the past 48 hours.

Why, it’s almost as if the Government Shutdown is having virtually no impact on anyone at all.

But we know that cannot be true. The Narrative dictates mass disaster, human suffering and destruction.

Will report back in as soon as I find some.

That is all.

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[T. P. Pole]

Nicely done.

[rktman]

Still waiting for more horrific tales of those suffering from “TGTS”.*

TGTS=The Great Trump Shutdown.

I think it’s great because I feel safer.

[sphinx]

We need to be very, very careful. A too-sudden government restart would upset many recently made vacation plans with potentially serious impacts on the economy.

[Yo-Yo]

Why, it’s almost as if the Government Shutdown is having virtually no impact on anyone at all.

Didn't we just read about a poor 71 year old grandmother who worked as janitorial staff for the State Department, who said she couldn't afford presents for her grandchild because she wasn't getting paid?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3715208/posts?page=58/

[gogeo]

Excellent.

[Howie66]

“Shutdown”? What is this “Shutdown” that the Media Maggots keep droning on about? I have seen no evidence of this at all.

[mythenjoseph]

I had to laugh , I went to NOAA to check the local radar and current forecast and in a big banner across the top of the page was a posting “Due to Government shutdown updates will not be made.” I continued to the normal localized forecast with radar and they were current and operating . The only thing not being updated was the doomsday global B.S. about how we as humans are destroying Gods creation by our mere existence and all of the record weather happenings “WE” are causing because we are so dastardly . To me , I found it to be a vast improvement to go to the source (that all weather persons use) for my information and simply find the info without any of the window dressings the liberal or should I say payrolled scientists promote . Nice ,keep it closed .

[bigbob]

Hope the movie people interview some non-essential gommint workers

[txrefugee]

Keep it shut down for the next two years. Belgium had no federal government for a year, and it survived. We could easily top that. But of course, that will never happen because it would expose the fact that we don’t need all the government we’re paying through the nose for.

[Reily]

But I think their bureaucrat’s reported to work & got paid. I think in that case their government went into caretaker mode. Now new initiatives just do what you did yesterday nothing more.

[Georgia Girl 2]

So true. Unless you get food stamps, WIC, or you kids get free school breakfast and lunch (school is not in session so those kids are starving at home this week) you don’t even realize the govt is shut down.