Republicans have made a habit out of sabotaging government from the inside. Whenever they hold power, they seem less interested in governing than in proving their own cynical point that government “doesn’t work.” And how do they do it? By breaking it themselves. By throwing tantrums, grinding everything to a halt, and leaving ordinary Americans to pay the price.
And so, here we are again. Another government shutdown. Another round of reckless brinkmanship, all because Republicans can’t get their way. They strut and posture about “fiscal responsibility” while happily holding the economy hostage for their own greed and petty vendettas.
Let’s be honest: this isn’t about saving money. It’s never about saving money. If it were, Republicans wouldn’t pass tax cuts for billionaires like candy at Halloween. This is about power, cruelty, and pure, unfiltered hate. Hate for programs that help working families. Hate for policies that protect the vulnerable. Hate for anyone who doesn’t fit their warped vision of America.
And don’t forget — Republicans have been pushing this kind of shutdown nonsense for years. The last one wasn’t decades ago, it was just in 2018–2019, when Donald Trump was president and Republicans controlled both the House and the Senate. That 35-day shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, was over Trump’s obsession with a useless border wall. Republicans owned every lever of power, and they still managed to grind the government to a halt.
The irony is almost laughable if it weren’t so damn destructive. They shut down the government, brag about how they’re fighting “wasteful spending,” and then cash their paychecks while federal employees are left scrambling to pay rent and buy groceries. National parks close. Small businesses that rely on government contracts grind to a halt. Soldiers, law enforcement officers, and border agents are expected to keep working without pay. But the Republicans? They’ll stand in front of Fox News cameras pretending to be heroes.
This is governance by tantrum. A toddler breaks his toy, cries, and then blames everyone else. The difference is that these toddlers wear suits, sit in Congress, and can tank the economy while patting themselves on the back.
The truth is simple: Republicans don’t want government to work. They want to break it, sabotage it, and then campaign on how broken it is. It’s cynical, it’s cruel, and it’s exhausting. And once again, it’s the American people who are caught in the crossfire.
So the next time Republicans whine about “big government,” remember this: they’re not trying to fix it. They’re just throwing matches into the house and blaming the smoke on everyone else.
9 comments:
In France, it's the same. We haven't had a government since September 9. There will be a big battle to vote on the 2026 budget, which must be voted on and published before December 31. To date, we don't yet know the project.
Well said Joe. Like uvdp said no government in France since 9-8 we have had one since the first of the year. Jackson locked out representatives to prevent voting The GOP have done nothing since taking the major but one messed up tax bill. That only hurts workers.
Is it that your way of governing is no more working?
From here, Canada, all those government shut downs would never be seen because the party in power is the one putting in place a fonctionning budget approved by the parlement which is done for at least one year.
The money for our federal and provincial institutions are never going away.
Also, we have a multi parties government which gives us, voters, many choices to express our needs and philosophies of how we would like to be govern.
USA having only two parties and this on ALL level of your society is one reason of the growing extremism and hate since Trump is there.
For a so called Christian values society, what your budgets are showing is that you don't care for ALL citizens and surely not the less wealthy but more to sugar the 1% of your richest ones.
BTW, after the speeches of 47 Pedo and eggseth in front of your generals, colonels, admirals yesterday is a outrage and a disgrace for your army and your population.
A sad and sinister way to turn the army against your own people and a weird macho way to turn your army into old times boys club.
USA is only showing the rest of the world how regressive it is becoming and surely no more great again.
This clownesque administration is going to push many Americans toward a revolution like in France in 1789.
You have sadly all the guns to make it happen.....
Eh JIEL, as a Maritimer , Nova Scotia, I agree with you that they are pushing for a revolt. With the crazy shootings, it looks like it has started. Never before have we seen the military being dispersed to the hot spots like it has been lately. Read up on what happened to Italy & its leader in 1945, when they pushed the people too far.
If you put a clown in the White House it becomes a circus.
We all know what he wants. It’s a cross between a dick and a tater.
What do you get when you cross a penis and a potato? A dictator.
Je n'ai pas compris : les discours de 47, « Pedo and Eggeth » .
Ce qui est ressorti de leurs lamentables discours devant TOUT l'état major des armées américaines ce sont des ramassis de propos misogynes, rétrogrades visant le rôle des femmes dans l'armée et de balivernes comme ne pas être obèses alors que le «commander in chief» l'est et aussi que les mecs coupent leurs barbes alors que le vice président en porte une etc..
Mais le pire ce sont les propos de Pedo47 de permettre les déploiement de l'armée dans des villes démocrates, bien sur, pour qu'elles se «pratiquent» à la guerre contre les ennemis des États Unis.
47 Trump est entrain d'établir de plus en plus un dictature aux USA et faire peur à tous les démocrates.
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