Posted on 11/09/2025 4:01:57 PM PST by TBP
Believing they’re “winning” the government shutdown, Democrats are playing a dangerous game of chicken, aiming to keep on exploiting the public’s misdirected ire — without it being turned on them.
Yet what’s already a record-long federal closure could blow up in their faces if their scheming means millions of Americans can’t see grandma at Thanksgiving.
Even though it’s the Dems refusing to let the government reopen, Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries & Co. bet that voters would finger Republicans for gumming up the works.
The gamble seemingly paid off Tuesday, as Democrats outperformed expectations in Virginia and New Jersey; at least some polls also show the public blaming the GOP more.
Most Americans don’t look past who’s in charge of the House, Senate and White House to grasp how the filibuster lets the minority party block the bill to fund federal operations, and of course much of the media is happy to frame Republicans as villains who don’t care if SNAP recipients can’t eat or furloughed federal workers can’t pay their bills.
Apparently, Dems are willing to let the suffering continue as long as they can dodge responsibility; Republicans, meanwhile, feel they can’t OK the $1.5 trillion ransom that Democrats demand.
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Personally, I really don't mind a shutdown. If it goes on long enough, it will show that we can live perfectly fine without so much government. That's what the Democrats are afraid of.
If this is what it takes to start reducing the Federal government, then this is what it takes.
“You’ll never go broke underestimating the intelligence of the American voter.”
-Lee Rodgers.
I was about to post the HL Mencken version myself.
Great minds once again.
Hey democrats are you still afraid of Nancy ?
They don’t know who’s causing it because the media won’t talk about it.
A safe bet.
It’s a smart bet. Americans are stupid.
Once again the spectre of the “stupidity of voters” rears its ugly head.
Their voters are incapable of wising up. They are dumb people.
Democrats spend a lot of coin hiring the best psyops in the country to trick and manipulated the American people and the so called ‘press’. They wouldn’t have to do that if we were really as stupid as people think we are...
I’ll bet they don’t either.
Great minds?
Nah.
we’ve been on FR for so long we can complete each others sentences!
Even if media did, they still be discussing today’s Berlin ‘football’ game over the water cooler tomorrow.
True. Every time the USA has expanded the groups allowed to vote, we’ve gone down-hill.
Spoilsport.
Can’t we have a little pride?
THAT goes before a fall, and THEN we have to push the button ‘cause we can’t get up.
Democrats betting that Americans won’t wise up to their shutdown gamesOf course they won't especially since idiot Republicans, Fox and Newsmax included, thinking they're cute and clever continue to call it "the Schumer shutdown".
Almost no one knows who the hell Schumer is...EVERBODY KNOWS WHAT A DEMOCRAT IS!
In a Trump era of people understanding how the plays work, they don’t listen to the MSM.
Funny.
Pride.
But I’ve had a lifelong problem of low self-esteem and low self worth. Caused me to be an underachiever and it hurt my late wife.
My dead mother, an alcoholic, narcissistic, psychologically abusive man-hater, used to brag to people “when he was a little boy I broke his spirit. It took me some time and a lot of work but I finally broke his spirit.”
So any “pride” I have is an acting job that takes a lot of energy.
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