So it's over, friends. Our long national nightmare done and dusted. Time to get back to our long national state of denial. And what did we learn? Those wack-job weirdos from the sticks, what did they accomplish? Jack shit, my friends. Jack shit.

Complain about the evils of needless government waste, then create a ton of needless governement waste. Bravo. In the end, all they did was prove that math is real. For them though, that's a great leap forward. So we'll see. Maybe they'll be satisfied that they've proved what we all know -- these people have been around in America forever and they're not going away, but they have a place, and that place is shouting from the fringe, not leading from the center. Deep down, I think they know it too. The financial crash and the election of a black man to president may have given them a new hope, a new spin, but in the end, you are what you are. And they're a bunch of weirdos.

And Ted Cruz? He can blow it out his ass. He's a really smart guy. A really smart guy with a 15% approval rating. A really smart guy who told others to stand firm while he caved. A really smart guy who engineered a shutdown that cost his party but benefitted him. We'll see how that works down the road. We'll see how those people who call Obama arrogant deal with that monkey. Of course when he has the same ideas as them, he's articulate, not arrogant. Fine. I'm old enough to remember when people thought Rick "America's Facist" Santorum was going to be the Republican nominee for president. Ted Cruz can blow it out his ass.

So what then? Normal service restored. Gettin' down the road, handling our shit. In the end, we will look back on this and and think of it in the simplist, easiest terms. Obama held firm. The Tea Party got put in their place. John Boehner kept his job. But this article will exist to record that for most of it, shit was just really fucked. Republicans shot themselves in the foot for no reason. Obama won a political tussel with congress. And Peter King started making sense to liberals. Shit was fucked.

R.J. Burht 10/2013.

Oh they've gone and done it. Shut it down, don't'cha'know. Pulled the plug on the whole works. And what are we left to do now? What happens to us while those self-righteous, mouth-breathing meat-sacks try to make sense of this buck-toothed mess? Well I'll tell you what: We take it on the chin. Isn't that how it goes?

There's nothing that can be done. It's the way the world works. The fat cats get first class, and us poor schlubs try not to catch hepatitis-B down on Skid Row. And that's all we are to them is bums. Bums who deserve to die face down in the gutter with a rash the size of Texarkana. You and your buddy can argue over who gets your other buddy's three good teeth when he finally kicks the bucket. Cause they need those new yachts. And a better seat on the private jet. Push and shove, push-and-shove. Cause why didn't you inherent some choice mineral rights in the Gulf of Mexico? Or just billions of dollars? It's cause you're an asshole. Only the good people are given everything they've ever had in life without ever having to work. See if you knew that before, you'd be rich. But now it's too late. They can't just let these Johnny-come-lately's have a decent life. Cause if everyone had dignity, how would they feel superior? What would life be, if they had to treat everyone with respect? A tragedy that is too incomprehensible for words.

Oh yeah, they've got it all figured out. Gotta spend money to make money. Horses for courses. Bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush. And the people get the shaft. And, not only that, but they should like it! Cause if you're not rich, well then you'd better be dumb. Cause there's no such thing as an intelligent poor person. It's not possible! There's only the good ones and the uppity ones.

One time O.G. Don Henley tried to figure it all out. Tried to get down to the 'Heart of the Matter'. And in doing so, he found that it might just be about Forgiveness. So did Jesus. But try talking to any of those empty suits about Jesus. They think they invented him. And he likes them, not you. There's got to be a winner, you see? And they win at Jesus too. What else would you expect? They're the winners. And you're the loser.

So here we are friends, in the year of our lord AD 2013, and guess what: there's still a bunch of idiots. And, shocker, many of them are in politics. And they're fucking things up. What can ya say? Even if they heard you, they wouldn't be able to listen. Not much sense comes when the poors get all uppity. Remember?

R.J. Burht 10/2013.