Tag: government
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Nation Holds Breath as Government Shutdown Threatens to Finally Prove Middle Management is Non-Essential
Washington, D.C. – As federal agencies brace for the midnight deadline that could shut down nonessential operations, economists and management consultants nationwide are nervously monitoring what they call “the greatest natural experiment in American middle management since the invention of PowerPoint.” Several White House senior staffers reportedly spent the morning tabulating which agencies’ custodial, front-line,…
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Nation Celebrates as Nepotism Finally Achieves Meritocratic Status with Synchronised Bureaucrat Batch Assignments
Washington, D.C. – In a landmark announcement this morning from the steps of the renamed Department of Equal Outcomes, President Madison P. Maxwell applauded the National Office of Appointments for elevating nepotism to official meritocratic status. The move comes after a five-year bipartisan study determined that synchronized bureaucrat batch assignments, when distributed among interrelated applicants,…
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Politicians Discover New Dimension Where Political Accountability Is Just a Theory
Washington, D.C. – In what observers are calling a watershed moment for governance, a bipartisan group of lawmakers announced today the accidental discovery of a previously unknown dimension where the idea of political accountability holds no material weight. During a routine review of legislative procedures, congressional aides reported encountering a “philosophical slipstream” in the House…
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White House Leaders Achieve New Milestone in Stalemate Diplomacy: Agree to Disagree on What Day It Is
Washington, D.C. – In a milestone hailed by administration officials as “a testament to the power of democratic gridlock,” senior White House leaders today successfully reached consensus on a new policy of formal disagreement regarding the current calendar date. The achievement caps 19 months of closed-door negotiations characterized by what insiders call “unparalleled commitment to…
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Prediction Markets Now Offering Exciting Bets on Which Government Agency Will Be First to Run Out of Coffee During Shutdown
Washington, D.C. – As the federal government approaches its third shutdown threat of the year, online betting platforms have launched an innovative suite of wagers focusing on a perennial concern among civil servants: which agency will be the first to run out of coffee. Industry leaders say this new “Caffeine Crisis Index” is already attracting…
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Rising Political Star Unveils Revolutionary Plan to Solve National Issues by Simply Ignoring Them Until They Go Away
Washington, D.C. – In a move political observers are already calling “boldly inert,” Representative Carson Llewellyn (I-VA) introduced what he describes as a “revolutionary, hands-off policy platform,” promising to address the nation’s most pressing concerns by categorically ignoring them until, as predicted in his eighty-page proposal, “they resolve themselves through the natural passage of time…
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Stuff happens
Albany, NY – An official report released Tuesday confirmed that, despite months of cautious optimism and robust preventative measures, stuff continues to happen nationwide. The bipartisan Congressional Subcommittee on Unexpected Developments cited 2023’s annual Stuff Assessment as “alarming, but not surprising,” noting a persistent rise in unplanned occurrences across fifteen sectors. Analysts at the National…
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Shit happened
Albany, NY – In a development that officials are calling both “inevitable” and “impossible to fully quantify,” sources have confirmed that shit happened early Tuesday morning in various locations across the region. The incident, initially reported by a series of confused and mildly discomfited residents, has since been acknowledged by municipal agencies and the Governor’s…
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Your Headline Here
Your Headline Here Springfield, IL – Local authorities have begun distributing the long-awaited “Ambiguous Object Permits” to residents this week, following new state guidelines aimed at regulating the possession, storage, and open display of items whose purpose is unclear. Officials claim the policy will “streamline confusion management” and ensure that the city’s enigmatic artifacts remain…
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World Leaders Convene for Historic Summit on Strategic Ignorance, Promise to Reschedule After Every Leak
Geneva, Switzerland – An unprecedented gathering of world leaders commenced—or nearly did—on Monday, as presidents, prime ministers, and sovereign holograms assembled for the inaugural Summit on Strategic Ignorance. Convened at the behest of the International Council for Willful Forgetfulness (ICWF), the summit was designed to foster the deliberate cultivation of administrative unknowingness in global affairs.…
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