Maybe the Apple Store Can Fix the U.S. Government Shutdown

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Jessica Catcher
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Maybe the Apple Store Can Fix the U.S. Government Shutdown

Congress needs to visit the closest Apple Store stat. No stopping for donuts or bickering because the Genius Bar could be our country's only hop for a solution to the government shutdown.

College Humor imagines what a government reboot might look like. The video shows Obama going through the same steps many frustrated Apple users have dealt with when our beloved electronics let us down. Only instead of a busted iPhone, he has a busted government.

The aloof, so-called "Genius" doesn't help matters much as the POTUS explains that while it's an old model, it had always reliable -- until he tried loading some custom programs on it. Sure he could take them off, but he shouldn't have to. "There's a lot of European models where it works just fine!," the faux Obama argues.

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Going into the first full week of the shutdown, this video puts the problem into a perspective we can all understand. Could you imagine a week without your iPhone or Macbook?

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