Gaslighting has become a science for Democrats during the current government shutdown. After years of flirting with falsehoods, they have turned into full-blown, bald-faced liars as they attempt to pin the carnage that is coming on Republicans because they “control” the House, Senate, and White House.
Don’t Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House? Asking for a friend. https://t.co/QHD2MnfrZO
— Jessica Tarlov (@JessicaTarlov) October 27, 2025
Tarlov is not alone. Senator Mazie Hirono took to X on Monday to peddle the tired Democratic narrative that Republicans are to blame for the ongoing government shutdown.
“Friendly reminder that Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House. This shutdown is entirely their fault,” Hirono posted, racking up thousands of likes from her partisan echo chamber. It’s the third iteration of this exact talking point from Democrats today alone—a lie designed to exploit the ignorance of their base and distract from their own obstructionism.
This is the third version of the same talking point. It’s a bald-faced lie, and they’re doing it because they’re dependent on the ignorance of their base.
Hirono thinks we’re stupid. She’s banking on it. And she’s not the only one. https://t.co/cYKuHTmBwb
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) October 27, 2025
They want their base to be ignorant. They NEED their base to be ignorant. And judging by anecdotal reactions from leftists on the streets, their gaslighting is working.
As the shutdown drags into its fifth week, federal workers are staring down missed paychecks, air traffic controllers are bracing for their first full payday gap on Tuesday, and even military personnel face disruptions despite temporary funding patches from President Trump.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), representing over 800,000 federal workers, has been unequivocal in their demand for an immediate end to the chaos through a clean continuing resolution.
AFGE President Everett Kelley said, “Because when the folks who serve this country are standing in line for food banks after missing a second paycheck because of this shutdown, they aren’t looking for partisan spin… The fact that they’re being cheated out of it is a national disgrace.”
But here’s the truth Hirono and her colleagues won’t admit: This isn’t a Republican shutdown. It’s the Schumer Shutdown, plain and simple. The House has passed a clean CR multiple times to keep the government funded and ensure paychecks flow uninterrupted. Yet in the Senate, where a 60-vote threshold is required to overcome a filibuster, nearly every Democrat has voted against it—12 times and counting. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has led the charge in blocking these efforts, holding the government—and American families—hostage to Democratic demands for an “ironclad deal” on extending Obamacare premium subsidies.
Open enrollment is five days away, and tens of millions of Americans will face healthcare and financial crisis because of the Republicans.
Millions will lose health insurance.
People will go bankrupt.
People will get sick.
People will die from preventable illness.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 27, 2025
Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), have made it crystal clear: They’re open to negotiating healthcare reforms, but not at the expense of shuttering essential services and punishing innocent workers.
“It’s politics… Republicans have been perfectly clear that we’re willing to have a discussion about healthcare, just not while government funding is being held hostage,” Thune stated.
Even Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen let slip the bipartisan frustration, noting that “not one of our federal employees, service members, or contractors deserves to be punished for this government shutdown.”
The finger-pointing from Hirono and others reeks of desperation. Democrats control nothing in this equation except their own willingness to grandstand and obstruct. Federal workers aren’t buying the spin either. They’re lining up at food banks, missing family obligations, and voicing their outrage—not at Republicans who keep offering olive branches, but at the partisan gamesmanship that’s left them high and dry.
Every American feeling the pinch—from delayed benefits to furloughed services—should direct their ire squarely at Democrats. This shutdown is 100% the result of their unwillingness to pass the CR and prioritize the people over power plays. As another Senate vote looms (destined to fail under Democratic blockade), it’s time for voters to remember: When the lights flicker out on federal operations, it’s Schumer’s switch they’re flipping.
What’s their play? What are they hoping to achieve? As I noted on X, their endgame is to get Republicans to suspend the filibuster so they have precedence to do so themselves in the future when they want something slipped through.
The real endgame for Democrats from the shutdown is to get Republicans to suspend the filibuster.
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) October 28, 2025
Let’s hope Republicans do not cave on their vow to never end the filibuster. Let’s hope the American people will see through the lies of Democrats and their legacy media lapdogs. And let’s definitely hope they will be forced into submission by We the People as we demand they stop paying politics with people’s paychecks.
The Democrat Party is a terrorist organization hell bent on destroying our Republic. Their actions prove this. They are violent and mean you, me and our children great harm. They need declared a terrorist organization. Their leaders need arrested and prosecuted for treason. Then, they need executed. They would have us dead in order to gain power. We can’t let this happen. God bless America and God bless President Trump!
Just a friendly reminder: Our government has been kept “running” by the good work of all of the “essential” personnel.
Gotta wonder why “non-essential” personnel are on an un-earned vacation and not on the UNEMPLOYMENT LINE…
This provides the perfect opportunity and state pressure to call for a Convention of States to open the government AND vote on term limits. The threat of term limits will get the attention of the POSs in Congress…which is 90% of them.
Not sure is the COS can reopen the government. I haven’t fully read up on that. But it can get a law going on term limits. That DEFINITELY needs to happen.
Federal workers lining up at food banks after missing a couple paychecks? Are these people living that far beyond their means? No personal accountability? I was without a job for six months during the kenyans reign. I eventually took a service job for a fraction of my pay just for the insurance benefits.
I certainly hope the repubs hold the line here. I have my doubts, but am still optimistic the repubs will finally do the right thing and help us restore this country. No free health care for illegal aliens. No transvestite “help” for children. No extensions of kenyancare subsidies.
Government shutdown exposes the fact that 59% of All Illegal Aliens are on Food Stamps
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/10/democrat-backfire-government-shutdown-has-awakened-public-about/
Here’s a clue for them: No woman, no black, no hispanic, no muslim, no queer, no liberal and no corporate scumbag will ever again get my respect, business, vote, attention, or compassion ever, EVER AGAIN!
I am sending my granddaughter (and my three great-grandbabies) money as she’s been furloughed by the IRS. Time for families to step up and help their own. If only Democrats had brains.
The hilarious part of their bald-faced lie is that so many of their supporters believe it. You can’t make up this insanity. And they vote. No wonder the country is in the shape it is in. Expect things to get much, much worse very shortly. The ONLY upside is that they have destroyed the old Democrat party. All by themselves. Replaced by the Marxocrat party. America First! ULTRAMAGA!