At midnight last night, the federal government
shut down because Congress couldn’t get its s&&t together. Explaining that to people from other countries, or Americans who don’t pay attention to the daily grinding and wailing from Washington, DC, is very difficult—when you talk about the shutdown, it’s hard to avoid sounding like a small child trying to communicate the rules of a game that you and your friends invented as you went along.
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However, it's hilarious how they explain it. It's like you've entered a brave, new world of stupid.
The US Government Shut Down Because Everything Is Stupid | VICE United States