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Are you ready for chaos when fed shutdown turns your gravity off?

By David McElroy · December 21, 2018

Are you ready for the government shutdown? Have you heard how dangerous it will be?

The mainstream media is warning us in ominous tones about the federal government shutting down Friday night after funding authorization ends. Everybody agrees it’s a terrible thing. But do you have any idea just how bad things are going to get without government to control everything?

You’ve probably heard that roughly a fourth of the federal government will shut down. That’s nine federal departments and smaller agencies. About 380,000 “non-essential” federal employees will be sent home and about 420,000 employees (“essential,” apparently) will work and not be paid.

But have you made plans for what to do when the feds turn gravity off? And what about when the solar power bill isn’t paid? How many days of darkness are you prepared for?

Are you scared yet?

Since governments own the roads, you won’t be able to drive your car. In fact, there are credible rumors that highway builders will begin repossessing streets and highways early Saturday morning. If you hear activity in your street and see the pavement being carted off, that’s the repo men turning your street into a dirt road?

Are you scared yet?

When the government shuts down, criminals will all break out of their cells and roam the streets. Without wise politicians and bureaucrats to save us, they will break into your home and steal your stuff. There will be chaos and widespread looting, all because nobody in Washington will be there to give orders.

Are you scared yet?

I’ll bet you didn’t even know that gravity wouldn’t work without government. There’s a switch somewhere in the Department of the Interior that will be turned off at midnight. That will block off national parks and museums and any other place tourists might want to go, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. When the big switch is flipped, gravity will be turned off. Planes will fall from the sky and trains will float in the air. Chaos, I tell you.

Be prepared by having yourself firmly anchored to the ground. Stay inside and tie yourself to the floor. And don’t let yourself be caught outside, because you would drift right into outer space. Do you see the terrible consequences of closing the government?

Are you scared yet?

And do you have plenty of flashlight batteries to get you through the long days and nights without the sun? Without the wise and magnificent government agencies in place to keep the sun shining over North America, the sunlight will go to other countries instead — countries where the politicians are paying the solar power bill.

Are you scared yet?

The mainstream media speak of the shutdown in dark tones. They know how bad it will be, but they can’t tell you the full truth. That would cause panic. Nobody wants to tell you how bad things are going to get without politicians to control the world and bureaucrats to make up rules and carry them out.

So are you scared yet?

Keep the pressure on your congresscritters to keep the government running. There’s nothing worse than a world where politicians and bureaucrats aren’t in place to rule us. Nobody could want such a thing.

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It turns out that the radical far left has been training “Antifa cats” to sabotage anything important to Donald Trump. Everything he did was perfect. Honest. It was all the cats’ fault. Arrest all the cats! This is the latest of my ridiculous satirical shorts. Please go watch it. Then “like” it and subscribe. Please. I’m begging you. (Too much?) Although a couple of the previous videos have had views in the hundreds, most have still been seen by fewer than 20 people. So I seem to be having trouble letting people know that page exists.

Here’s the latest of my ridiculous parody shorts. It crossed my mind Tuesday to wonder what a slick and fast-talking car dealer might do right now to try to turn the high price of gasoline to his advantage. So I conceived of a fat and lovable character who tried to sell cars that don’t use any fuel — and then I started wondering if it would be funnier if all the characters were felines. Designing the King Cashpaw character took about four hours, but the rest took only another four hours, so this was a relatively quick piece that virtually wrote itself. I know it’s almost impossible for these parody videos to find a larger audience, but at least they amuse me — and there are 19 of them on my YouTube page now. The first few were very limited, but they’re getting more complex.

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We are ruled by the dumbest and most incompetent people among us — and we have a system which allows stupid and irresponsible people to force the costs of their idiocy onto smarter and wiser people. Can we get away with that? Yes, for quite some time. But we eventually reach a point at which the dumbest of the dumb — who are habitual liars and mentally ill fools — lead us to the disasters and destruction that some of us have seen coming for years. We are approaching that point. And yet most of the idiots around us still wave their rhetorical banners of support for the evil people who are leading us to ruin — and all of them point their fingers at someone else, never noticing that their own enthusiastic support of evil is to blame. When things finally fall apart, blame yourself for your blindness to the evil, not whoever happens to be in power when it happens.

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