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Government shutdown ongoing coverage: Day 9 (updating…)

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We’re now entering the ninth day of the government shutdown. America continues to be held hostage by extremist neanderthal Congressional asshats, who refuse to back down until their ridiculous demands are met. Here’s a recap of where we’re at now:

Day 9

Republicans are still bitching about entitlementsAnd Fox News continues its massive trolling campaign by interviewing this crazy trucker lady who believes Obama is Osama bin Laden.

http://gawker.com/where-are-we-with-the-government-shutdown-the-state-of-1443083675

This Congressman calling his colleagues less popular than dog poop is a goddamn American heroand America’s nuclear regulators are about to be furloughed.

http://gawker.com/hero-congressman-informs-colleagues-theyre-less-popula-1443054245

Day 8

Despite the Shutdown, the government managed to purchase a mechanical bull, because why notand meanwhile a massive Salmonella outbreak is making everyone shit themselves.

http://gawker.com/a-week-into-the-shutdown-government-buys-47-174-mecha-1442755598

A crazy trucker said he and his crazy trucker friends were gonna ride into Congress and arrest everyoneand Jon Stewart reminded us that the “party of personal responsibility ain’t takin none.”

http://gawker.com/trucker-threatening-to-arrest-lawmakers-now-says-it-was-1442751916

Day 7

In some positive Shutdown news federal employees were offered free vibrators …and in gross news the FDA isn’t inspecting your food.

https://jezebel.com/federal-employees-get-free-vibrators-during-government-1441818182

Day 6

Radical Republicans are still throwing poop at the federal governmentand TSA Agents claim the Shutdown allowed this 9-year old to fly to Vegas without a ticket.

http://gawker.com/day-6-shutdown-drags-on-as-country-feelsthe-effect-of-1441731876

Day 5

There seems to be no end in sight, so now bored government workers are posting “Shutdown Sex” ads on Craigslist.

http://gawker.com/government-shutdown-day-5-no-end-in-sight-1441492600

Here are 11 tech and science programs killed by the shutdown, which is also crapping all over our animal friends.

https://gizmodo.com/11-tech-and-science-programs-being-killed-by-the-govern-1441333719

Day 4

The National Weather Service has chimed in with this secret coded message for Congressand in happier news, Stephen Colbert married a couple whose wedding was ruined by the shutdown.

http://gawker.com/national-weather-service-office-has-a-secret-message-fo-1441365000

Even though the prison guards watching Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are still unpaid this GOP Rep defends keeping her salary…and more stupid people saying stupid things on TV.

http://gawker.com/prison-guards-watching-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-are-unpaid-rig-1441032866

Day 3

Michelle Bachmann claims Republicansare super happy about the shutdown…

http://gawker.com/michele-bachmann-republicans-are-the-happiest-theyv-1440725008

…in case you needed more proof that Republicans are acting like nauseating weasels.

https://gizmodo.com/shameless-republican-bullies-park-ranger-for-his-own-wr-1440651225

Kids out of pre-school, yet they are still discussing “strategy”…

https://jezebel.com/the-government-shutdown-is-keeping-kids-out-of-preschoo-1440644295

…but at least Jon Stewart is slamming those who put this country in the freezer

http://gawker.com/jon-stewart-calls-gop-self-righteous-orwellian-zebra-q-1440502934

Day 2

The Republicans are resorting to woeful tactics, while some try to help…

http://gawker.com/republican-party-drafts-elderly-veterans-in-its-losing-1440293286

…and others get shunnedand frustrated.

https://jezebel.com/kids-with-cancer-being-turned-away-from-treatment-than-1440263168

The shameful embarrassment continues with no end in sight…

http://gawker.com/three-sentences-that-put-the-entire-shutdown-in-sickeni-1440106753

…but the show must go on.

http://gawker.com/jon-stewart-to-gop-fuck-you-1439036877

Day 1

The government is frozen, as Kate Upton and Ryan Gosling explain

http://gawker.com/as-of-midnight-the-federal-government-has-shut-down-1431768798/@jesusdiaz

This is how the shutdown is affecting everyone:

From Hollywood to car manufacturers…

http://defamer.gawker.com/how-the-shutdown-will-screw-hollywood-1432631503/@maxread

…to scienceand NASA operations…

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