I’ll tip my hat to the new Constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I’ll get on my knees and pray
We don’t get fooled again
Yeah
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
If these Republican idiots actually believed in small government, they’d be Libertarians.
They’d still be idiots, but they’d be Libertarians.
If Libertarians were libertarians, they’d oppose the Taft-Hartley Act.
If libertarians were libertarians, they’d know what the Taft-Hartley Act is… and maybe, who Taft and… Hartley are to begin with, but only if we’re being really optimistic.
Both love big gov, just slight differences in which wars they want to support and which industries will get government funding.
There are people who, disturbed by “big government” today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand “less govern- ment.” Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.
—Isaac Asimov, Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!
It’s never “small government” when it comes to funding pig.
Except the “Small government” is even bigger. The only difference is that all the money gets handed to oligarchs. The Republicans have never reduced spending while in power.
This kind of shit is why the right keeps winning. Even the people that oppose them buy into their framing and repeat their lies and propaganda.
Yeah, the fifth panel is the billionaires stuffing their private jets with the cash over the corpse of the big government.
The right is REALLY good at messaging it’s insane. The culture wars they start to create a bogeyman is insane.
I really hate it and how it sticks to the zeitgeist. It just makes me sad.
It’s because the right gets what they want by tearing things down and destroying, and instilling fear. It’s inherently much easier to destroy and scare people than to build and inspire people
Is that not what this comic is saying?
Showing the blatant hypocrisy?
The comic shows a smaller govt and says that’s bad for the poor.
The person to whom you’re responding is saying Republicans actually create a bigger government that’s worse for the poor.
They’re spending less on social services and frittering it away on government bibles that only Trump sells.
See I saw it as an irony type thing where the artist is showing the blatant hypocrisy of the idea of govt so small it fits into every household.
Maybe I’m just overthinking it.
No the comic is showing the government is litterally small, implying welfare cuts. Reality is, any “cuts” are just going to be moved somewhere else. Not given back to the tax payers.
That’s fair I just thought it was done to showcase the hypocrisy of a govt small enough to fit in your pants.
Fucking TSA, 2 decade long wars… Republicans have NEVER reduced spending or increased liberties. It’s all bullshit, but their propaganda machine is simply miles ahead because they have almost zero infighting.
Democrats are constantly bickering, and not about just important stuff. I fully believe there are bad actors purposefully starting arguments about BS they know Democrats will latch on and distract us. And as a bonus make us look like lunatics to anyone not already fully aligned with our ideas.
Building giant walls, deporting people en masse, surveillance society, making sure women’s rights are held at bay, placing and enforcing restrictions on clean energy - all things that sound “small government”? As dumb as they are, I don’t think I’ve even heard the Republicans using this phrase lately - it’s so ridiculous.
They increase spending on really stupid shit that have no legs but will absolutely gut useful services. People aren’t wrong to be mad when they see their stuff get defunded and that’s the important stuff many are going to focus on. So you’re right but it’s not as simple as that.
Small gov’t is usually a lie anyway. It’s a smokescreen for “actually we’re still going to tell you what to do.”
They strip away everything that actually helps people, so in that way it’s really small.
So small it’ll fit in your vagina.
It’s small because they have zero oversight and they only need to worry about one party. Hurray!
Republicans want tyranny, not small government.
The smallest government is a dictatorship.
Small dick tater
“small government”
As long as you’re a Cis white Christian male that didn’t go to college
Government so small it fits not only within your bedroom, but within your uterus!
Me when “small government” supporters don’t start by defunding the police
FTP
And now I shall imagine that’s what all ftp:// URLs are saying.
Fuck the poor, fuck the old, fuck the environment, fuck soldiers and veterans, fuck the sick, fuck food safety…
Pick up my guitar and play
Surely small Government means repealing all that red tape enforcing individual property rights too?
Updoots for use of “go on, get!”.
There’s a new improved version being pushed now which introduces itself by saying “fuck everyone except the incredibly wealthy”.
