Last night, my wife was really beside herself. A refresher; she's a fed and she has to report for work whenever there is a shutdown---she can't sit at home, pick up a new hobby, whatever---her job requires her to show up for work whenever she is scheduled. For no pay, until the shutdown is resolved, then she will receive the backpay.
It's not the first shutdown she's ever experienced in her 20 years as a fed, nor will it be the last. What is really grating to her, however, is this was totally created by a non-elected person with a dubious immigration history of his own with a platform that decided to bully the GOP into it. Hell, even Trump was fine with the CR up until the moment he was bullied by Musk.
Imagine that. Musk bullied Trump. A man that receives billions from the federal government (oh, and as a contractor, his various companies will receive no money from the feds during a shutdown) has decided that the government needed shutting down, and turned his followers to elected officials who decided that by God, we have to do this because Elon and his congregration have told us to.
That's where we are as a country.
It's bad enough that hoping for Trump's death was one possibility into getting things back to a semi-normal place; now we have to hope for Musk's, too.