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🧊 OFF DECK | ICE CAPADES: The Great Government Shutdown

Satire meets survival skating.

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TJ Baden
Oct 07, 2025
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The Great Shutdown


When power freezes, the performers fall — but the rink stays open.

America’s longest-running tragicomedy is back for another season — The Government Shutdown Chronicles.
Except this time, it’s not just about budgets. It’s about leverage, power, and the quiet normalization of chaos as performance art.

They call it gridlock.
We call it choreography.

Political figures skating on a cracking rink labeled “U.S. Government.
When the ice breaks, the show goes on.

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