-PJ
Posted on 10/28/2025 11:50:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Imagine if you threw a party and no one came. Pretty humiliating, right?
Well, imagine if you represented the party of big government, lost the presidency and both houses of Congress, then demanded a federal shutdown to impose your welfare-state agenda on the nation — and no one seemed to care much.
In that scenario, you’ve become your own worst enemy: You’ve inadvertently made your adversaries’ case that there really isn’t a meaningful voter constituency for a big-government leviathan.
The Obamacare premium subsidies which you have made the central issue in your shutdown stand aren’t beloved the way you thought.
You are hoisted with your own petard.
This is what the Democrats have done to themselves.
The AP-NORC poll last week reported that 54% of voters either have no opinion about or outright oppose extending the subsidies, and a recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 61% of voters know little to nothing about them.
There is no organic street energy on the issue.
The markets have gone up since the shutdown started.
The average voter seems to be pretty “meh” about the whole Washington drama.
Ironically for Democrats, the shutdown actually exposes how the welfare state Ponzi scheme works — and in fact helps make the case for smaller government.
“Give us a temporary increase in health-care subsidies, including for the very wealthy, to help us get through COVID!” the Democrats cried in 2021.
But now it’s clear that was just a bait-and-switch.
The moment Republicans allowed the COVID “bonuses” to expire in 2025, as the Democrats promised they would, the Democrats called the GOP “authoritarian” for doing exactly what the Democrat-written law originally intended.
And this is how the big-government Ponzi scheme is always played: Find a crisis, fund it massively on the backs of taxpayers in...
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Personally I am glad the closure is proving how much our government STEALS our TAX DOLLARS and gives it to who don’t have any right to those things.
Those EBT cards are passed out like money and given too often to people who don’t even have USA status by birth, license, or visa. All the agencies need to be overhauled.
we have been asking for this for years and GOP always caves..glad to see it finally happening. I am a little shocked that Johnson hasn’t caved on emergency funds for EBT.
They need to pay attention to the fact that Dems are the ones that are now demanding Dems fold.
ebtof tiktok is posting videos of people bragging about stealing
https://x.com/EBTofTikTok/status/1983172289849160129
Might just be rage bait but this chick is stupid to post this
-PJ
But now it’s clear that was just a bait-and-switch.
The moment Republicans allowed the COVID “bonuses” to expire in 2025, as the Democrats promised they would, the Democrats called the GOP “authoritarian” for doing exactly what the Democrat-written law originally intended.
No, Julian. What the Democrats originally intended was to win the 2024 election, with the House and the Senate because Trump would be in jail, and then they would make everything permanent.
The Democrats didn't count on the disgust of the electorate at Democrats and the media for their lies and cover-up of Joe Biden's condition, and threw the Democrats out of federal office.
-PJ
Has the IRS shut down?
The press had no complaints or sob stories when the government shut down businesses during COVID.
And that actually WAS a shutdown, not a brown out,
Rep. Katherine Clark, how many more families do ya’ll suppose ya’ll have to hurt before you “gain leverage”, and if you DON’T gain leverage, will hurting all of those families have been worth trying, anyway?
“no one cared”
When the sh*t hits the fan in 3 days you are going to see a lot of people who care.
Deep State doesn’t care about their useful idiots.
If they run out, they can always import more.
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