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Republicans: When Your Libertarian Jizz Dream Meets Reality's Brass Knuckles

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You know what really grinds my gears: These small-government fucknuggets who think civilization runs on fairy dust and bootstrap theology while they're sucking on the government teat harder than a newborn on formula.


The Bullshit Bootstrap Brigade

"Republicans want a government so small it can fit in your bedroom, your doctor's office, and your uterus simultaneously. It's like a clown car, but for fascism." - George Carlin

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The fucking audacity of these small-government evangelists makes my blood boil hotter than Texas asphalt in August. Here's the thing that these shit-for-brains ideologues don't get: their precious "small government" jizz fantasy is about as realistic as a unicorn shitting gold coins while singing the national anthem. So you want small government? Fantastic! Disconnect from the electrical grid you didn't build, stop driving on roads you didn't pave, quit flying in planes regulated by the FAA, grow your own fucking food without USDA standards, dig your own well without environmental protections, build your own shithouse, and pray to whatever deity you worship that you never need antibiotics.

Thanks Elaine, As Always

These motherfuckers wake up every day surrounded by the fruits of collective action and government infrastructure, then have the balls to pretend they're self-made pioneers living on the fucking frontier. The disconnect between their ideology and their reality is wider than the gap between Elon MicroTool's ego and his actual accomplishments.

Philosophy of Fuckwadery - When Ayn Rand's Ghost Snorts The Koch Brothers' Ashes Up Her Ass

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith

The philosophical bankruptcy of the small-government ideology is like watching someone try to build a house while denying the existence of gravity. These intellectual bottom-feeders have constructed an entire worldview based on the premise that collective action is theft, that society is optional, and that civilization can run on pure fucking willpower and market forces.

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What these motherfuckers call "freedom" is actually the philosophical equivalent of a toddler screaming "YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME" while shitting their pants. They're not talking about freedom from want, freedom from discrimination, or freedom to live authentically. No, they're masturbating to the freedom to exploit, the freedom to discriminate, and the freedom to impose their narrow worldview on everyone else. It's the freedom of the fox in the henhouse, the freedom of the cancer cell to metastasize, the freedom of the parasite to drain its host dry.

When Republicans ejaculate their small-government fantasies all over the political discourse, they're not imagining a world where communities come together in mutual aid and voluntary cooperation. They're imagining a world where the strong prey on the weak without interference, where inherited privilege goes unchallenged, where "freedom" means the freedom to die from preventable diseases if you can't afford treatment. It's social Darwinism dressed up in a flag pin and a Bible verse, a philosophy so morally bankrupt it makes loan sharks look like fucking philanthropists.

The taste of their hypocrisy is like licking a battery while chewing aluminum foil - sharp, shocking, and leaves you wondering what the fuck is wrong with these people. They worship at the altar of individualism while benefiting from every collective achievement of human civilization, from language itself to the fucking internet they use to spread their brain-dead ideology.

The Psycho-Pathology of Small Dick Energy Government

"Libertarians are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand." - Anonymous

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The psychological fuckery at play here would make Freud shit his Victorian britches. These people suffer from what I call "selective government amnesia" - a psychological condition where you forget every government service that benefits you while hyperventilating about the ones that help people you don't like. Watch these motherfuckers navigate their day:

  1. 6:00 AM: Wake up in homes that don't collapse because of building codes

  2. 6:30 AM: Flush their morning shit through public sewers they didn't dig

  3. 7:00 AM: Drive on taxpayer-funded roads they didn't pave

  4. 9:00 AM: Arrive at jobs that exist because of commerce regulations

  5. 12:00 PM: Eat lunch that won't give them botulism thanks to the FDA

  6. 5:00 PM: Bitch about "big government" on the internet - which, by the way, was fucking invented by government research

The irony is thicker than Donny ShitChompChute's makeup foundation and smellier than his dirty ass diaper. They've internalized a narrative where they're rugged individualists who built everything themselves, conveniently forgetting that they were born in hospitals regulated by the government, educated in schools funded by taxes, and live in a society held together by thousands of government services they use every fucking day. It's like watching someone standing on third base, insisting they hit a triple, while the actual batter - collective society and government infrastructure - stands there holding the bat.

The mental gymnastics required to maintain this worldview would win Olympic gold if hypocrisy was a sport. They'll scream about welfare queens while cashing their Social Security checks. They'll rage about government healthcare while rushing to the emergency room knowing they can't be turned away. They'll denounce public education while benefiting from a literate workforce. The cognitive dissonance tastes like burnt rubber mixed with bullshit - sharp enough to make your eyes water and your stomach turn.

The smell of their desperation when confronted with their dependence on government is like a dumpster fire behind a seafood restaurant in July - overwhelming, nauseating, and impossible to ignore once you catch a whiff.

How These Assholes Weaponize "Small Government" to Fuck Over Queer Folk

"The concept of 'small government' is the political equivalent of saying you're 'not racist, but...' - whatever follows is going to be a massive pile of horseshit designed to fuck over marginalized people." - Hannah Gadsby

But here's where this shit gets really fucking dark for queer/trans folks. These small-government crusaders mysteriously develop a raging hard-on for government intervention the second it involves policing queer bodies. The Republican vision of "small government" is essentially a protection racket for straight, white, cisgender privilege. Consider their fucking priority list:

  • SMALL GOVERNMENT FOR: Letting corporations poison your water, paying workers starvation wages, ignoring climate change, cutting social services

  • BIG GOVERNMENT FOR: Inspecting children's genitals before sports, regulating which bathrooms trans people can piss in, dictating library books, controlling trans healthcare, criminalizing drag shows

It's not about the size of government, you absolute doorknobs - it's about weaponizing government against anyone who doesn't fit into their Leave It to Beaver fever dream.

For queer/trans people, this philosophical wasteland becomes a fucking killing field. In the small-government utopia, here's what disappears:

  1. Protection for queer kids from conversion therapy

  2. Healthcare access for trans people

  3. Employment discrimination protections

  4. Housing discrimination safeguards

  5. Marriage equality enforcement

  6. Adoption rights for same-sex couples

  7. Anti-bullying policies in schools

Who fills this void? The magical fucking free market? The same free market that discriminated against queer people for centuries until the big, bad government stepped in? These motherfuckers want to return to a time when being queer was literally illegal, and they're using "small government" as the Trojan horse to get there.

The truth that makes these small-government fetishists shit their pants faster than gas station sushi: big government is the only thing standing between marginalized communities and the mob. Every civil rights advance, every protection for queer/trans people, every safeguard against discrimination came from government action against the "freedom" of bigots to oppress. The Civil Rights Act, marriage equality, anti-discrimination laws - all big government interventions that these fuckers despise because they protect people who don't look, love, or live like them.

The texture of their hatred is like sandpaper made from broken glass - rough, cutting, and designed to wear down anything soft or vulnerable. They want a world where queer kids have nowhere to turn, where trans people can't exist in public, where same-sex couples live in constant fear of losing everything. And they call this "freedom."

The Punchline to This Shit-Stained Joke

"Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it." - P.J. O'Rourke

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