DAMN you are onto something anon!
I think I read in an article about the shutdown that congress was going on leave for two weeks starting friday
I think the pocket veto is the only thing that fits the "10 days of darkness." It takes 10 days for the pocket veto to happen, and when it does the government will shut down, which fits when Q said the ten days would happen.
However the democrats would likely do everything they could to fight the pocket veto.
In 1938, the Supreme Court reversed itself in part in Wright v. U.S., ruling that Congress could designate agents on its behalf to receive veto messages when it was not in session
George Bush pocket vetoed something in 2007, even though the House of Representatives had designated agents to receive presidential messages before adjourning. In the end, the House of Representatives did not attempt to override the veto. This was not the first time that a president has attempted to pocket veto a bill despite the presence of agents to receive his veto message. Both George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton made similar attempts, and Abraham Lincoln used it against the Wade-Davis Bill in 1864.