Oh Stop It...

A friend of mine posted a screenshot of a list of things that governments of other countries see about ours and how unstable we really are. 

It was about 8 things that the Republicans are currently doing and then the last one was oh and Joe Biden's old. See how both sides are so crazy?

Now, it was something from the New York Times so yeah, what do you expect? But it's still the shit that drives me crazy. 

Both sides are so bad! I mean the front runner for the Republican nomination is currently under 4 different indictments and threatened the retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff and is encouraging the Republicans to shut down the government and the current Democrat is old. See? So crazy!

The two parties are not the same. They just aren't. So stop doing the both side nonsense. They are different. If you can't see that they are different you need to (as the youth say) touch grass. 

This comes on the heels of all of the think pieces about how it's the Democrats fault that McCarthy lost the speakership. See, they should have voted to keep him in because....well reasons. It's not the fault of the extremists in the Republican party for voting him out. It's not the fault of McCarthy for being so craven that he gave them almost everything they've ever asked for. It's not the fault of the moderate (moderate? really?) Republicans for not being able to control their extreme wing. It's totally the fault of the Democrats for not jumping in and cleaning up the mess. 

Again.

As Democrats tend to do.

Republicans stomp around trashing the joint then Democrats are left holding the cleaning bill. 

Over and over again. 

McCarthy even tried to make it the Democrats fault the government shut down this time. Like it wasn't his party fucking things up. He rushed the continuing resolution out on Saturday when there wouldn't be enough time for Dems to get it read, and get in chambers to vote so that he could say...SEE?? We had a resolution that had all but one thing in it and THEY wouldn't vote for it! But the Dems did get in chambers in time and did all vote for it. So no shut down. No way to blame them. Except, of course, for the radical group that had forced a vote on a terrible plan early in the week (that they themselves did not vote for but got every single moderate Repub on record voting to cut Social Security and Medicaid) but those guys did blame them. How dare Republicans ever work with Democrats! We will punish you by....voting with the Democrats to remove you from office. 

I mean...

And then to really show that they are a functional party the first order of business they did after voting out McCarthy was to take away Pelosi's office. WHILE SHE WAS IN CALIFORNIA AT FEINSTEIN'S FUNERAL. I mean...what the actual fuck?

It's like they misread Republican Party for Republican Petty and have just decided to go with it. 

It's weird. You all know it's weird right? That we need a two party system for the checks and the balances but one of the two parties is completely unbalanced? And that we have spent so much time listening the media say that both sides have issues and are the same that we now say it when it's just not true. 

Both sides having issues that the other side doesn't like? Yep. That's true. Both sides having a spectrum of beliefs from more moderate to less moderate? Yep. That's true. Both sides doing everything in their power to fuck up the government and grind it to halt with zero concern that these are real people they are fucking over? No.

And I get it, Biden's old. But everyone around Biden is competent. If something happens to Biden during the next term we won't be looking at someone absolutely incompetent stepping in. Or someone with 4 indictments. FOUR.

I'm tired. Already. And it's not even 2024.