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Shutdown Circus: Bayonets, Sombreros, and Pink Slips

Trump and Mike Johnson turn a constitutional crisis into bad improv while Leavitt and Vance gleefully script mass firings.

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Mary Geddry
Oct 02, 2025
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Good morning! Donald Trump shuffled into Quantico this week, flanked by his self-anointed “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth, and delivered a spectacle that made even the most seasoned generals tighten their jaws. Hegseth opened the matinee with a tirade against “the Department of Woke,” dismissing the Geneva Conventions as “stupid” and mocking shaving pro…

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