Blazing Saddles taking himself hostage scene

 

10/1/25:

 

Another post for your consideration and edification. (Not really, I can't back that up.) Are we just blankety-blank? Somebody is, time to fess-up!

 

9/26/25:

 Are the Dems gonna blink?  They radicalized part of the Dem base has Schumer's testicles in its vise.

9/25/26:

This video has been up for 15 years, and has 676k views. Just mentioning that before posting it here. It might get taken down. Probably out of spite. Whatever. In this scene, which is supposed to be funny, the incoming black Sheriff, takes himself hostage. The townspeople there fell for it. Who knows? They may keep the video up. It just puts "whitey" down as much as it uses the word that can no longer be spoken.

 

I'm using this scene to illustrate what is going on with these shutdown threats that the Democrats make. Especially this one. There's absolutely no way that the Dems should win this faceoff, but who knows with the GOP. The Democrats are hoping that the GOP does its usual el foldo.

 

Trump has threatened to fire a lot of Federal Employees if there's a shutdown. Indeed, he has to. There's not enough revenue to pay them, and if we cannot mint money out of nowhere, then there's no money to pay them. But the government is still funded, and can pay its bills through tax collection. Just can't spend as much. To shut down the government ends the authorization to keep spending money. The House has already passed a funding bill, but the Senate refuses to approve it.

 

It's the Democrats holding their constituents' jobs hostage, and there's probably members of the GOP who are worried about that. Why worry? Just fire them, and don't hire them back. The government will shrink. The world won't end. A lot of Dem voters in DC will lose their jobs, and they'll not be able to blame anyone but themselves. But of course, they'll try.