So one of the sob stories Democrats are putting out to make us feel bad about their shutdown of the government was this lady – I think in New Mexico – who was whining about how she needs SNAP…and has been on it for thirty years. Thirty! Since 1995!
Have you ever felt like a sucker?
I’m soon to turn 61 – and tomorrow I will get up and go to work. Put in my eight hours. Maybe slightly longer if its busy. I do this so that I can buy my food, my house, my car, my gas, my clothes, my cable service, my phone service…and those small, individually wrapped Reeces cups because I’m trying to keep my weight under control (successfully) and the craving for something sweet after dinner gets its fix with just one of those. You know: all my stuff. My wife works, too. That lady has been sitting on her ass since I was 30! Collecting benefits. And you know it isn’t just SNAP…I’m sure she’s raking it in with a lot of other programs and, of course, is isn’t like anyone checks when you show up at the local food bank for a bit of free grocery shopping.
Yes, we do have an absolute moral obligation to feed the hungry. The clothe the naked. To house the homeless. But it isn’t a one way street:
For you know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you. Not that we do not have the right. Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us. In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat. – 2 Thessalonians 3: 7-10
The poor have a moral obligation to work – and even it is make-work. Some contribution to society…to the people who are getting up each morning, going to work and providing the food, clothes and shelter. No human being physically capable of work and under the age of retirement has a right to receive without giving something back. Enough of this welfare scam. I don’t care what we have them do, as long as they are putting in a solid forty hours every week. Have them sweep the streets if there’s nothing else…but that EBT card only reloads when it is recorded that you did forty hours that week. Period.
And, in the end, this is what will get them off welfare…make them be responsible. There are people who are willing to live on the margins of life as long as it doesn’t require any effort on their part. But these days we’re lavishing so much money on welfare that the so-called “poor” are living as well as people who work for a living…and that’s just wrong. Welfare is to keep you this side of starvation and nakedness…not so you’re at home eating EBT cheetos while others are out working. If we make them do drudge work, they’ll for the most part find some other way to earn their daily bread. And, hey, if some don’t – then at least we’re getting clean streets and they’re getting the knowledge (and pride) that they aren’t just a burden…they’re doing something useful day in and day out. That is basic human dignity, folks.
But aside from that, this has exposed the lack of real morality in our society. It isn’t merciful to let people be on welfare for decades (and in many cases, generations). It is just wrong. It should horrify people that someone is on it more than six months. A year, tops. I related after my Dad died in 2009 that I found his food stamps ID card from 1970 in his wallet…I never knew but he kept that souvenir of the bad times…probably as a reminder. There is no shame in getting help. Dad was out of work and had kids to feed. You do what you gotta do. But you don’t make dependency a life style…or if you are to be dependent for your whole life, then you sure in heck shouldn’t have a say in how society works. That is, if you’re on welfare, no voting.
It is time for us to really get back to knowing what is right and what is wrong. Being on welfare except as a temporary expedient is wrong. Being massively overweight on welfare even more so (and we’ve all seen the overweight people on mobility scooters whipping out the EBT card at Wal Mart). But it is also wrong to be a bum on the streets. To be drunk or high in public. To father children with multiple women you never married. To engage in irresponsible sex in general. To be illiterate. To be innumerate. To be poorly dressed in public. To be loud and boorish in public spaces. To brawl over nothing in a fast food joint.
We have to start punishing this sort of thing. Loss of voting rights is just the start. There also has to be labor sentences for having that brawl at the fast food joint. For being high. For generally being a disreputable person who is making life hard for everyone else. And if a person doesn’t take the lesson the first couple times they are sent to labor to make up for their poor behavior, then the punishments must get progressively worse until they are permanently at work or finally get the message and stop acting like turnip-brained barbarians. We’re all human beings. On average, none of us are smarter than anyone else. I am not some specially gifted person that I have a house, cars, clothes and food. I just work and pay my bills and do my small part to keep things going as best I can. It isn’t a special burden: it is just life. And it isn’t really all that hard…sure, I get up some mornings and wish I could be doing just about anything else but going to work…but I go all the same. It is called being a man. Being civilized. Being truly human.
The world works. It really does. But it only works when we do. When all of us suck it up and get the job done. We can’t sustain ourselves if half of us are living off the other half. Everyone who is at all physically capable must contribute (and none of this “but my back hurts” nonsense – I live with constant pain in my right knee and I still get to work…because you offer up your pain to God and get on with it…when I’m saying “disabled” I mean you have to be disabled. Just not capable of doing any physical labor at all). And everyone who tries to slack or acts like a barbarian has to feel it – they can’t skate on that. It is the little things that matter the most…and for a well-ordered society, the bigger threat is the welfare bum, not the bank robber. A bank robber bets his life that he can steal and not be killed…a welfare bum bets your life that you’ll feed him no matter what. Time for that to end.
Not one person in America should be hungry, naked or homeless. But not one person in America should be taking without giving.
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So one of the sob stories Democrats are putting out to make us feel bad about their shutdown of the government was this lady…
Sorry, Republicans control the House, the Senate and the presidency. This isn’t the Democrats’ shutdown.
The stopgap bill, which would restore government funding until Nov. 21, was defeated after a 54-45 vote. It needed 60 votes to pass.
Math really isn’t that hard. These figures have been out there and discussed at length for days now, so it’s not as if this information is not available. That is, available to anyone interested in facts, anyway.
1. Why some Democrats call the shutdown a deliberate bargaining chip — and how they frame it as necessary
Senators such as Cory Booker and Tammy Baldwin publicly defended the shutdown as a necessary tool to force attention to expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies that they say would cause sharp premium increases, framing the standoff as a tactical response to a time they describe as “ridiculously abnormal.” This argument treats a shutdown not as an accident but as a negotiating mechanism intended to extract concessions or legislative action on health-care costs, signaling willingness to accept short-term disruption for what they present as longer-term consumer relief [1]. These statements aim to reframe political risk as purposeful leverage to avert a projected spike in insurance costs.
2. Admissions from leaders: ‘It’s about leverage,’ and what that implies politically
Top Democratic leaders and operatives have openly described the shutdown as a political weapon to gain leverage, with quotes attributed to senior figures acknowledging the tactic’s intent rather than portraying it as an unfortunate impasse. This candid language changes the public framing from accidental gridlock to deliberate strategy, which opponents leverage to portray Democrats as putting politics over governing. Those admissions make transparent the calculus: forcing a crisis point to compel a vote or concessions, even while accepting that the tactic can generate political and practical fallout for everyday Americans [2].
It does look like a lot of it was about boosting Dem turnout in NJ and VA today – that is, if the far Left base didn’t get their “fight” over a shutdown they might not have shown up for today.
Sure, it looks like the Dems will win all three major races today – after all, they are in deep Blue areas – but there is a genuine risk of a flop in NJ for them…which should be D+10 here in the year after the GOP won a trifecta…right now, it looks like they’ll win it D+1 or 2…and there is a 20% chance they won’t win NJ governor. The bottom line is that the Dems are politically toxic…some polls showing them more unpopular than they’ve ever been but the real thing to look at is, once again, voter registration trends…they gone a little better for Dems in the run up to today’s vote but the overall pattern all around the country continues to be people abandoning the Dems…people don’t like fighting for illegals and boys in girls sports.
The shutdown strategy seemed to work for the Dems, as their “leverage” probably prompted the turnout they needed to win those seats. Dems are so blind to the way they are manipulated by their leaders, but we have to give credit to the Complicit Agenda Media for helping them.
We sat back and watched the Dems callously shut down the government and then whine that this was a dastardly Republican tactic, sucking a few million lemmings into the slipstream of their lies. Now they will no doubt be ready to vote to reopen, probably finding a way to claim that this is a Dem success based on their winning in states where they were pretty much guaranteed to win.
I am wondering how New Yorkers who voted for the Commie Muslim feel, now that he has already admitted he has no way to honor his promises of all that free stuff. Every intelligent person knew from the get-go that he couldn’t, for reasons ranging from no funding to not even having authority over the agencies in charge, but the hive mind of New York sucked up his promises and slavered over all the goodies he was going to start handing out.
In the meantime, NY Muslims are openly celebrating, stating that this is now THEIR time. Well, not every New Yorker is a Muslim. I wonder how the Irish and Italians feel about this. I wonder how the Puerto Ricans and other Hispanics feel about the attitude that they just turned their city over to Islam.
Culturally, if now somewhat secular, these ethnicities are traditionally Catholic yet they now have a mayor whose election has sent the message to Muslims that this is now THEIR city.
Yep – and now that the election is over, Schumer and Jeffries are negotiating their surrender. They knew what they were doing all along – firing up the most insane parts of their base to vote in Blue areas to make it look like something is going on. They grew a rose in a hothouse and will now get some positive media coverage but the bottom line is that they can’t afford to have their base out of work forever. So, shutdown is about to be over. This is also why the Dems didn’t disavow the AG candidate in VA – they couldn’t. They absolutely needed the bloodthirsty insane part of their coalition to show up. If they had disavowed Jones, they would have stayed home.
Here’s my take – the Governors of NJ and VA are now to be complete non-entities nobody will remember next week. Mamdani is the face of the Democrat party. They endorsed him. They rode his wave of hyper-left partisanship to victories not just in NYC but in VA and NJ. What Mamdani does in NYC will be broadcast far and wide…first by the MSM, then by Trump and the GOP as it all comes a cropper.
People forget that the GOP – Trump included – has more than a billion already in the bank for 2026. I’ve already started seeing ads attacking House Democrats here in Nevada (hitting them on their support for illegals, refusal to back no tax on tips, being soft on crime). Trump is going to deliberately nationalize the 2026 midterms. He’s going to place himself on the ballot, as it were. He has to. He knows the first order of business for a Democrat House will be to impeach him…it won’t get him out of office but it would clog his last two years politically. Trump wants that last two years to really press his agenda. That means holding the House and Senate.
I’m reading that he is already telling Hochul he will need state money to honor his promises. The rest of the state is already tired of carrying NYC and this will only make it worse, so this may lead to a shift in the state government if she caves in and sticks the rest of the state for the bill.
One interesting aspect of the vote is that of all the demographics identifying as people of faith Mandami got an average of about 35% of the vote, but of those identifying as secular he got about 75%. About 35% of Jews who voted, voted for him, which is amazing. But it was women who pushed him over the top. Women and younger men.
You have to wonder if turnout would have been better if there had been a real choice. Mandami was sure to get the radical vote, but I can see why conservatives stayed home—there was no one there to vote for.
Pretty much – IMO, the GOP should find a nice, working class Populist to run. Can’t be “conservative” in the traditional sense because that just won’t work…but law and order, clean streets, a program to build…with a candidate who can connect to the people, that could do it.
“Can’t be “conservative” in the traditional sense because that just won’t work…” Well, not if we remain stuck in Identity Politics and catch-phrases. So drop the Identity part. First, identify actual basic conservative principles, such as limited government, more representation, rejection of consolidation of power, rejection of Central Authority government run by elites,—and run on those.
We have allowed the Left to slap all sorts of artifacts onto the term “conservative” until to most people it has nothing to do with the way their government is run.
A conservative government provides an umbrella of protection for the people so they have the freedom to pursue their own lives. That’s really the core—conservatives keep government in its own lane, doing what it is supposed to do, not micromanaging the lives of the people. So that does mean reasonable laws properly legislated that are then fairly enforced. It means building a functional infrastructure. It means either staying out of education or ensuring that education is the transfer of knowledge, not political indoctrination. It means a national identity with borders, a functional military and national security.
Just keep the “C” word out of it, because the propaganda mill of the Left has tainted that word.
aren’t you at least a little bit embarrassed to make such vacuous and completely assinine remarks? We now and you know why what you said is complete junk so why did you say it?
He has a history of trying to goad us into replying to him. It’s an element of narcissism, the desperate need for attention even when it is negative, and part of a pathology. It’s the main reason the admin staff has agreed that there is no reason to let his posts remain, though every now and then one will slip through. Sometimes one will offer such a great opportunity to make a point it is worth giving it a little space but usually it is like seeing that the dog made a mess—–there is no reason to just let it sit there stinking up the place and no longer how long it sits there it will still be s**t.
since I largely wasn’t here then a guarantee you you didn’t hear that or anything else from me, actually, BUT.. manifestly it is impossible to make any argument but that democrats are voting against opening up government. Full stop. No other valid argument exists,
The last shut down was in 2019 when Democrats objected to Trump’s $5 billion request to secure the border. The Democrats said we didn’t have the money for it. Democrats are a cancer
No Rocks, I don’t obsess about stupid shit like you. I’m an adult. But don’t you think it was wrong of Democrats to shut down the government in 2019 because they refused to protect American children? Seems wrong doesn’t it?
Just curious. Are you aware of the 60 vote threshold? Have they taught that to you yet?
Harry Reid ended the judicial filibuster. Look that up Rocks. Elections have consequences sweetie and you’re finding that out. You just don’t matter anymore.
And the reason why MAGA controls the government is because Obama and Biden were such colossal failures. So thanks for that.
there is no deal to be made. Democrats aren’t asking for legitimate things.
self exolainatory Rocks. Undoing the entire last budget bill and adding tons of spending just isn’t going to happen and everyone knows it,
Could you be any more disingenuous?
I love the fact that Trump has completely destroyed the Democrat Party.
Now is the time to make Mamdani the face of the Democrat Party. He is who they are … incompetent, inexperienced, angry, communists. It will be fun to watch the decline of NY.
I’d like to see a coordinated campaign linking the Democrat Party to all of its ugliest aspects. Such as a major media campaign showing who they support and defend. Showing the votes for a man who openly wished for the murder of a family, for children dying in their mother’s arms. Showing support for the murder of Charlie Kirk. Basically a THIS IS THE FACE OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY with mug shots of everyone they support and vote into office.
That, and a campaign ridiculing Identity Politics. It’s time to show this aberration of rationality for what it is.
Our wish will be a reality
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2025/11/05/politically-toxic-democrats-already-in-panic-mode-as-mamdani-set-to-become-face-of-their-party-n2195872
Mamdani’s and Jay Jones election is the best thing that could have ever happened to MAGA. Democrats actually elected a guy who advocates killing his political opponents, and elected a Muslim to govern a city that was attacked by Muslims just 24 years ago. Democrats are no longer interested in the American experiment and they will pay the price
As I said, wait a little to see how the ethnicities usually somewhat hostile to Islam react to the gloating of Muslims that NYC is now THEIR town. Add that to the realization that no, the mayor has no control over the Transportation Authority and he promised what he knew he could not deliver (free subway rides) and that he has already admitted he doesn’t have access to the money he has promised, and the shortfall from cutting federal funding to the city. The penthouse Liberals are far outnumbered by the people who really run the city—the bus drivers, garbage collectors, police and fire departments, etc. and so are the now-gleeful Muslims.
30 years ago, Rush Limbaugh began speaking about the feminization of America. The election of Mamdani indicates that the transition is complete, and it all started in our schools. Conservatives are to blame for this … we allowed our institutions to be infected … time for the cleanse.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/10/31/why-male-teachers-left-elementary-schools-and-wont-go-back/
Amazona shows up and my comments disappear. Probably a coincidence.
No one gives a fuck what you say
And it was such an interesting “conversation” too. So sad.
I’m sure it was just more of his snarling at PEOPLE and avoidance of actual political thought. A problem with sites like this is that they can become dumping grounds for mental illness, as we have seen with Rocks and his many alter egos. I’m sure his is a miserable existence, seething with impotent hostility, rage and fury and the need to express it, and his frustration at being denied this as a venue is clearly quite distressing to him.
As Senator Kennedy would say, his cornbread’s still soft in the middle—but it is not our job to provide an outlet for his spewing. I haven’t been to BlueSky but I understand it is basically full of fellow travelers where he would fit right in.
So you are back to your ceaseless whine about me being The Boss Of Everything. Surely your inside contact told you there are several moderators on this site. I may or may not be one of them. I know that others delete your posts. I see deleted posts I did not remove. You seem to cling to the fantasy that I am the only one who thinks you are a waste of time and energy and bandwidth—-but everyone does.
It’s fun to watch you flame out, convinced that I am the only one with authority and/or dislike for you. I don’t own the blog and I don’t control it but your pathology seems to demand a strong woman to make you feel diminished. I think you do that on your own, but hey, if you need a scapegoat keep whimpering like a sissyboi and trying to get sympathy for your impotence. I know everyone is very impressed by it.
Not everyone.
Sarcasm, I know. I just couldn’t resist.