Trump says that most federal employees want the shut down.

“Many of those workers have said to me, communicated, stay out until you get the funding for the wall,” Trump told reporters on Christmas day. “These federal workers want the wall.”

Maybe federal workers in another country, but not this one.

About 71 percent of federal workers oppose the shutdown …

And …

About 30 percent of federal workers support a wall, though 35 percent of those individuals say the means of a shutdown do not justify the ends.

What this means is that you’ve got Jim Bob and Lester working for the Department of Agriculture in Vance, Alabama (yeah well, they never heard of you either) enjoying the time off while Ethel and Brenda take a second job to pay for the beer. Trump talked to them because they speak Trump. In fact, they’ve been researching the back of hunting magazines for ads where you can get yourself one of them foreign wives who knows to shuddup and do what a man says because Brenda whining all the damn time about that second job is getting real old.

So now you’ve got government by Trump, Jim Bob, and Lester. Oh yeah, and Mitch McConnell.

Thanks to Chloe Bear for the heads up.