Government Shutdown is Officially Underway

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The government has shut down. Congratulations of America. We have
made it to another shutdown. This is the official twenty
first funding gap since funding gaps became a thing in
nineteen seventy six. Nice seventy five. Sorry, yeah, they like

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the first we were doing the math. Like the first
six of those funding gaps were actual government shutdowns. They
were just funding gaps of the government, and those were
in like the first three years of this of the
rule of the deadlines that take place. The last legitimate
government shutdown was a thirty five day shutdown under the

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first administration of Donald Trump late twenty eighteen into twenty nineteen.
So I would love to say that we're not going
to get there. There are a lot of people are
going to say that this is being utilized as some
sort of you know, kind of weapon by either side
to get what they want. And that's what the whole

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point would be, wouldn't it. You're sitting there, you see
the government is shut down, You'll be like, Okay, who's
it going to be. Jd Vance continues to say, well,
I hope everybody understands who's actually responsible for this. We
are not going to allow the Democrats to fund healthcare
for illegal aliens. The Democrats say, well, we're not doing that,

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we aren't doing anything like that. Well JD Vance has
the receipts. Then, of course Donald Trump speaking about how
we're going to maybe see some jobs go away permanently,
specifically because of the shutdown, this is an opportunity to
take a look at things and kind of reset on

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some things. I don't know if that's going to go
over super well. If there are some people in certain
agencies that are being basically told not to go to work,
save like the National Park Service, and then when the
job is supposed to come back, when the government gets
itself figured out, then maybe be told and you're never
going to come back to work. Think about this. Remember

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earlier this year we had all these airplane problems that
were getting very publicized. Well, one of the things was
air traffic controllers. Well, with the government shut down, air
traffic controllers make no money. So you know what an
air traffic controller is going to do. Well, I'm not
going to come to work for free. And if you

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worked today as an air traffic controller, whenever the government
reopens back up, you will have the opportunity to make
your money back. But let's just say, for instance, you
get to a paycheck and they still haven't figured their
stuff out. You have made zero dollars over that amount
of time while working your normal hours. Yeah, sure, they'll

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pay you back for the hours that you've actually worked,
but you're not gonna get that money until later on
down the line. So some people who know this is coming,
I'm not feeling so good. I don't think you want
me to come to the airport today. So you're basically

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having these sickouts. Where are there people that don't want
to don't want to come to work and make their
zero dollars an hour for however many days that's gonna be.
Hopefully you don't have any big trips scheduled, Peyton, who
might be running into Americ traffic control problems one of
these airports. You got other things, you know, like our military.

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Military sitting in there and they're working their jobs. Can't
exactly calling sick to the military. They're not making their
money either, They're just kind of sitting there waiting for
the government or elected officials to figure this stuff out.
They could jeer with dollars again, They'll get paid for
whatever they've worked later that I'm making money right now

(04:06):
for whatever it's worth. The government shutdown. Don't feel bad
for the people in Congress because they do make some
money while the government is shut down. So who's really
to blame here? Now? Both sides are gonna blame each other.
Democrats are gonna blame Republicans saying, well, they're not giving
us what we want. Republicans gonna blame Democrats saying they

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want stuff that's absolutely absurd and we are not going
to give into that. And if a few of them
wanted to jump on board and help us out and
we would make things work out, then we'd be just peachy,
we would be fine. Well, that has not happened, ladies
and gentlemen. So who do we blame? I think it's
a I think it's pretty clearly we blame the system.

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What system allows for this type of thing to occur? Now, again,
I like that in the Saale it generally you need
sixty votes to pass anything. There most of the time
makes a lot of sense because you want the two
sides to have to agree on things. You want to
be able to have both sides debate and not just

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one side get to just steamroll its way to passing
everything that it wants for however long it wants. So
as much as I would just love for everything to
be really easy to understand, on that front, it is
basically in its design set up to make this type

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of thing happen. You know, you see the filibuster in
the Senate. You have people like Corey Booker going up
there to the front of the how like the Senate
in the chamber, and just basically talk for twenty four
hours straight for no reason other than to say that
this administration is full of malarkey and that's not a

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real positive use of our tax paying, is it. A
lot of these people they just want to be in
front of cameras. A lot of these people they just
want to be able to go on television and yell
at the other side. They'll still get their TV hits,
their names in the papers. They can go on social
media and point fingers and talk about, you know how

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their side has got no issue at all, and this
is all a fabrication of the other side. And then
a bunch of people, thousands of people will like that
video maybe help them position themselves for higher office one day.
You know, while in the back rooms they're all kind
of elbowing each other, saying, hey, by the way, guess what,

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we can just sit around and do nothing. It's like
free day at school, Like we're in school, but there's
no teacher here. We can't actually do anything. Guys. Sorry,
the government shut down while they're you know, popping bottles
in the back rooms, just hanging out. You think they're
actually talking about how to fix this. You think they're

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any closer today than they were yesterday and fixing this. No,
But again, this is the system that we have, and
especially with the two parties as far apart as they
typically are. You know, this is the other thing too.
Democrats act like, oh yeah, we're going to totally win.
We're in great position because you know, nobody can stand
what this president and what this you know Congress does. Well,

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that's just always the case. It's always the case. And
they said this going into the twenty twenty four election also,
and you know, I know that we're still a year
away from the midterms. And an interesting point was made
to me today. When is the midterm election? You know,

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November next year? Yeah, November of next year. I'll give
you a date though. Let me see here, it's November
third of next year. Okay, it's roughly thirteen months from now.
When you go to vote, you're gonna be thinking about
the government shut down of October twenty twenty five when
you go vote in November of twenty twenty six. I

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would imagine it would be on my mind to some degree.
You think it would be. But how much do you
think is going to happen between now and then? How
much has happened in this administration in the first nine
months that they've been in office. Can we remember the
big crisis of April of this year. I mean it
was all tariffs, right. How much of a factor of

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tariff's going to be when we get to November of
next year, you know what I mean? So you know
what's going to be the talk of the town when
we really get into the crux of the midterm elections.
What happened in June of next year, What happened in
July of next year. There's not going to be urgency
from these people. And for Republicans, we'll see if they
if Donald Trump and his administration use this as some

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sort of, you know, ploy to trim up the government
a little bit more. Even though the spending bills that
he's been pushing, including the Big Beautiful Bill, really don't
kind of fit in with what the doge idea was
the beginning of his term. And then we'll see what
the Democrats are able to do to try to, you know,
keep pointing the finger and playing the blame game with Republicans,

(09:10):
who they say are trying to destroy healthcare for everyday Americans.
When Republicans basically say this is all about illegal aliens,
they both think we're really dumb guys. Just keep that
in mind every time we talk about politics. These people
are living in their own little universe in Washington, DC.
And that's not to say they're bad people. It's just

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to say the system gives them this as a tool.
They are playing chess with our taxpayer dollars every single day,
and this government shutdown is just the latest example. So anyway,
I just wanted to mention. I mentioned JD. Vance had
these receipts, if you will, of the Democrats actually going

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ahead with trying to get taxpayer money to illegal aliens
for their healthcare. And he said there are two different
programs that they actually when they took office, made sure
that they shut down the first program, which was signed
in the Biden era, provided illegal immigrants emergency healthcare at hospitals.

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He said, we turned off that funding because we want
American citizens to benefit from those hospital services, not to
be taxed, and then to have these hospital services go
to illegal aliens. That makes sense. Also, the Big Beautiful
Bill kind of made an adjustment to who was going
to receive federal payments for emergency treatment and reduced a
federal match for emergency only coverage, which is a point

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of contention for people on the political left. Meanwhile, a
second program gave mass parole to millions of illegal aliens
and made parolees eligible for taxpayer funded healthcare, and that
was again addressed in the Big Beautiful Bill, and it

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removed paroles from eligibility for taxpayer subsidized credits that were
provided before under the Affordable Care Act. So they redefined
essentially what an eligible alien is. So those were deeper
cut parts of the healthcare aspect of the Big Beautiful Bill. Now, again,

(11:24):
it isn't a case of he said, she said, on this,
this is a case of Well, of course, people on
the political left have been historically trying, at least over
the last decade trying to utilize and weaponize immigration in
this country to where they're not only wanting people who

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are from different places to come into the United States
and live in their sanctuary cities, which it doesn't take
a conspiracy theorist to figure out. These are cities that
are very blue in nature, they are blue in the
way they vote usually, and most of them are in
very blue states. So you're basically going into these locations
and you are able to, you know, understand that the politics.

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You're basically feeding this person as they get to the
sanctuary city or they get refuge and they're not getting
tracked down by ice officials or anything like that. Not
only are they going to you know, have the ability
to be there and be counted as a head if
you will, Like every single person is counted as a
head for the census, which affects how the districting goes.

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Every time that we do a new census every ten years,
we do a redistricting in all of these states and
try to outline exactly what it looks like. And this
could be beneficial to Democrats. Not only do you have that,
but you're also being told, yeah, go ahead and try
to participate in our elections. We don't need voter identification.

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We'll get you a fake ID. There's all sorts of
people like that promote and stuff like that. Look at
the former superintendent of the de Woyne Public School Districts,
a registered voter in the Democrat Party in Maryland. This
guy is an illegal alien. We have this at our fingertips.
I was assured that this was not happening by the
people of the political left. Yet there it is. How

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often is that happening? I am sure tens of thousands
of people, easy in a lot of blue states. Easy. Now,
as far as what the Democrats are proposing, this is,
you know, kind of the battle here is the ideological
battle of trying to figure out who to blame for

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the government shutdown again. You have all this stuff that
you're trying to give healthcare to people. The people on
the political left that aren't trying to be nefarious about it,
they're making this a humanitarian issue. They just do not
understand what the governmental implications are when you give taxpayer
dollarsally to emergency healthcare for people who are illegally in

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this country. They are not paying into the tax fund.
They are not paying into the situation. Yet we, as
the taxpayers, are actually allowing them with our dollars to
get care while they're here in the United States of America.
That's not how this is supposed to work, not in
our country. If you want to try to abuse some
other countries healthcare system for whatever reason, go right ahead.

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They have their rules, we have ours. But people who
are tax paying dollars, who are spending taxpayer dollars in
this country, they are not going to be down with that,
and rightly so, that is not something that this healthcare
system was designed to do. We can all agree our
healthcare system could be better in the United States. But
the one thing I think we all can agree on,

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if you're level headed and want to share some common sense,
is that we don't want people who are not paying
into the pot, who are here illegally to benefit the
same way as the people who are putting their taxpayer
dollars into these programs. Now, whether or not the Democrats
are going to say, Okay, you got us, and then
maybe they'll come up with a better plan something along

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those lines, there's a chance that this healthcare aspect is
going to continue to be the biggest hang up in
trying to get both sides to the table and actually
make something happen. We will find out