just couldn't compete. when the government shutdown crisis finally started to end today, with the president appearing in the rose garden to announce that the government will reopen under its old funding levels with no change in policy whatsoever with no freaking wall between the united states and mexico or a down payment on it or a sample portion of it or any other thing related to a wall whatsoever, when the president announced today he will accept the exact same offer he rejected over a month ago that started this catastrophe for the government and hundreds of thousands of people who work for the government and their families, when the president made that announcement he said he would never ever make, which is that the shutdown will end for him getting nothing, when that dark cave opened and swallowed all light and made it briefly early cold and breezy for a moment, what that moved off the front page of every newspaper in the