October 28, 2025 • 14 mins
What’s happened here has transcended politics into something that’s not defensible because paying people for their work isn’t ideological.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Yeah, well Democrats,
they choose not to pay those working every day. It's
an interesting place to be, but that's where that party
happens to be these days. And we'll dive into that
with my takeaways. First, though, I've been suggesting we should
all be, you know what, just a good thing in life.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Pray.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's a good thing in life if you prayed every day.
And if you do pray every day, you're in a
better place, and you would be otherwise. But if you
don't pray every day, you'll be in a better place.
And it's likely the world as well. But in particular,
everybody should be praying for Jamaica today. I've been talking
(00:57):
about this since late last week, that what we're seen
with Melissa shaping up to be the worst for any
particular location from the hurricane since Durian in twenty nineteen.
And it's very much that. I mean just days already
of horrible weather associated with Melissa, and you do have
a landfall that is imminent. Top wins at one seventy five,
(01:20):
moving very slowly five miles an hour most recently. But
those people are in for things that we have not
experienced or seen to even those who have been through
a five and they are not many, but even they
will not have been through what the folks in Jamaica
will have been through because of how slow this storm
(01:42):
is moving and how bad the weather has been for
days leading up to it associated with this storm. And
so just in all sincerity, prayers for the people at Jamaica,
and if we all come together, maybe maybe some better
things will come out of this thing. Now as we
dive of my top takeaway, they need to say some
(02:04):
prayers to the Democrat party. Man, there are a lot
of people I need to find God in that party
or just simply I don't know, even pretend to do
the right thing. My top takeaway for you today with
them put up or shut up and go away. Put
up or shut up and go away. About the partial
government shutdown. As we are now into day twenty eight
or four full week, so the partial federal government shutdown,
fox is rain smells.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The American Federation of Government Employees is calling on Congress
to pass a stopgap measure that would reopen the government,
with the president of the union representing over eight hundred
thousand federal employees saying, quote, it's time to pass a
clean continuing resolution in and this shutdown today, no half measures,
no gamesmanship.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This Senate is expected to vote on the measure today.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Significant there, significant there that union in particular, not exactly
your MAGA union, not by lot. Actually, not only is
it the largest federal employee union, not only have they
historically only supported Democrats, they endorse Kamala Harris last year. Okay,
so this is a Kamala Harris backing union, gave money
(03:14):
to Kamala Harris's campaign. That are telling Democrats to get
behind the Republican plan. What does that tell you how
far left and how far out to lunch is the
Democrat Party when the largest federal union that gave money
to Kamala Harris just last year is saying go with
the Republicans. So yeah, my time takeaway for you put
(03:39):
up or shut up and go away. And that is
to Democrats in Washington or in the case of my
unfortunate representation, Lois Frankly, you can just stay here and
not go bo vote DC anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Just take it easy. Better not having you there anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A couple ideas then might at first seem contradictory, can
both be true. It is possible to foot for a
much smaller federal government with fewer people working within it,
while simultaneously feeling sympathetic towards impacted federal employees. So as
we are now four or full weeks into the partial
federal government shutdown, it remains true that the average American
(04:16):
living the typical life has not seen, has not felt
absolutely any impact, I mean nothing from what's happened here
Joel impact uh nana. Would you have any clue this
thing even existed for four full weeks if it weren't
in the news.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So now, yeah, that makes you the average person. Very
few people have seen absolutely any impact from this that
aren't federal employees themselves. And so for a country that
is now over thirty eight trillion dollars in debt and
that's been running nearly two trillion dollars in annual budget deficits,
(04:58):
make it safe to say that we've had ample evidence
here for the past four weeks. So we could do
without substantial portions of non essential federal government agencies permanently
you know, the woe is the federal government employee trope
brings hollow with me because it's not the job of
non federal employees to provide unnecessary federal jobs to people
employed in them permanently. And as stated aside for the
(05:21):
general belief the limited government is just better than large
and vloaded government. We can't afford to keep doing things
the same day way that we've been doing them anyway.
As I sayd at the onset, the partial government shut
down with thirty four percent of the federal government going offline,
making this not only the second longest government shut down
today but also the largest in terms of its depth
(05:43):
and breadth. Today it should be like the ultimate exercise
and how we can effectively downsize the federal government, and
it's been just that. At the same time, even for
furloughed employees. There is a right and a wrong way
to do anything. In my second takeaway today, we'll address that.
(06:05):
But first, well, nonsense has been playing out congressionally. The
president just keeps getting things accomplished internationally. Foxes Ashley Strommeyer.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
President Traump met with the first woman to ever lead
the nation's Naya Takaichi. The president has noted her close
political ties to the country's former Prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
He became a very close Trump friend during his first term,
something Takeiichi thanked him for. As the pair held their
first meeting in Tokyo, President Trump said he is optimistic
(06:37):
about the future of trade with Tokyo, just before signing
an agreement on rare earth minerals.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, another rare earth mineral deal done with Japan just
hours ago. You had the President addressed the troops earlier
this morning our time as well, and also the affirmation
by Japan of what they had indicated earlier this year
that they will invest five hundred and fifty billion dollars
in too the US economy and just all kinds of
good things coming out of Japan.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So that's still happening. Progress still happening with the President.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But then you take a look at DC again and
my second takeaway today as we take a look at
the partial government shutdown on what's getting ready to happen today,
It's never okay to deny people their pay. It's never
okay to deny people their pay, and it's absolutely unconscionable
(07:29):
to deny people who've been going to work every day
the pay that they're due for having done. So where
am I wrong here, Joel?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I can't find anything? But again, where is that political?
There is a Democrat somewhere that will find a way.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
How is that an ideological thing that people that have
gone to work every day should get paid for the
work that they've done as scheduled?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Controversial? No, but there will be a Democrat that will somehow.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Not one. You got a bunch just about all of
them in the Senate. Yeah, So that is exactly what
we've seen the Democrats do. First, there was the bill
to pay the military as scheduled earlier this month. All
Democrats save three John Futterman in Pennsylvania and George's two
Democrats John Ossof and Rafael or Not in the Senate refused.
(08:22):
Only three Senate Democrats agreed to pay the military. I mean,
just how could anyone in Congress, anyone vote to refuse
pay for the people that are literally predicting this country
every day?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
How could you do that?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But that's what almost every Democrat did, showing how little
they actually care about a doing the right thing independent
of political wranglings and be how little they actually care
about the human impact of what they do.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They always talking about were.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
For the little guy, and Republicans want you to die
and push granty off the cliff and children to starve and.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Hold on, who's actually trying to do this.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The average military salary is currently fifty one thousand, five
hundred and eighty four dollars entry level salaries, and the
military started twenty four thousand. By way of comparison, the
average military member earns about fifteen thousand dollars less per
year than the average person working in the private sector,
and approximately forty six thousand less a year than the
(09:25):
average other federal government employee. Now, in the end, President
Trump ordered the use of any available funds to get
it done, which happened on October fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But here's the next thing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
If this said, the next military payday is Friday, it's
the thirty first. If there is a resolution by then
military will not get paid. On principle, it's just indefensible
to vote to withhold money that's due. On a human level,
these are largely people that are far far from wealthy,
count on every paycheck to get by. Yet that's what
(09:58):
Democrats did. And then the last week Democrats were presented
with the shutdown fear in his act, this would have
paid all essential federal government workers that have been working
as usual every day during this partial shutdown, only for
that measure to be voted down too, with the exact
same political split among Democrats as before. So Democrats have
(10:22):
voted multiple times to not pay people that have been
going to work every day. Essential federal government employees not
to pay. But today, in particular is an important day.
It's an especially important day as over one point two
million essential federal government employees who have been working are
going to begin a cycle of not receiving paychecks as
(10:45):
scheduled due to the Democrats' decision to not only refuse
to reopen the federal government without changing existing laws and
policies to fit their desire socialist streams of free puppies
and and free candy and free healthcare, free Biden bucks
and free Obama phones that or anything but free for
(11:08):
legal immigrants and basically anyone bu shlubs like you and
me who actually pay taxes. Betterly, you know, there's a
difference between political disputes and operating with the intellectual honesty
and integrity. It needs to be made cleared it needs
to be widely known that there is one reason and
one reason alone that well over one point two million
who've been working will not be getting paid as promise,
(11:30):
many of them starting today, as is the case of
with air traffic controllers, because Democrats have voted against them
receiving that pay. And so here in lives just so
you have an idea, there isn't like one federal payday
where every federal employee gets paid on that particular day
(11:50):
based upon the department. People get paid on different schedules.
So today really starts that schedule where paychecks will be
missed if something doesn't happenly air traffic controllers today.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
As I mentioned by Friday, you get to the military, and.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
If Democrats will withhold compensation for people who are willing
to go to work every day and do their job
in the federal government, what do you think they think
or would be willing to have happen with you. I
see your eyes got big, Chell, I'm thinking they're for you,
they care about you. No, yeah, So today is a
(12:31):
character defining day. My third takeaway today is a character
defining day. Send a Majority Leader John Thune on the
Democration d against.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
They are playing a game, and that these demands that
they have a one and a half trillion dollars in
new spending, the free healthcare for non citizens, the list
of things goes on. It's just not serious, it's not realistic,
and they know it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, so a character defining day, and it's clear the
lack of character by the left that is on display.
People are just pawns play politically, ultimately enact the rules
for radicals driven ideology. What's happening here is transcended politics
into something that's not defensible, because paying people for the
work is not an ideological thing. And this is why
(13:14):
again the largest union of federal employees, which endorsed Kamal
Harris last year, has called for an end to the
shutdown with a clean resolution, endorsing the Republican's approach to
end the partial shutdown. But this whole exercise has been instructive. Again,
I always take a look at what can be accomplished
in these things. When you take a look at what's
(13:34):
happened in the economy this month. The US dollar has strengthened,
has appreciated by one point two percent this month. That
is a massive move in less than a month by
a major currency. The US dollar has grown stronger by
one point two percent this month since the onset of
the partial government shutdown. Gold has retreated eight percent from
(13:56):
its recent record highs stocks closed that record hize yet again.
Yesterd s and P five hundred is ever two percent
higher since the onset of the shutdown. So what exactly
is it that the financial markets are saying about all this?
I mean seemingly that I don't know less. Federal government
is a good thing. So we can at least thank
Democrats for demonstrating for everyone to be able to see that, yes,
(14:18):
we don't need effectively thirty four percent the federal government.
And a week from today, well that'll be interesting too,
because we're going to see what voters think about the
party in Virginia, New Jersey, and whatever may be left
in New York City
Welcome to the Brian Mud Show. Thanks for listening. Passion
plus talent is unstoppable.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's time for today's top three takeaways. Yeah, well Democrats,
they choose not to pay those working every day. It's
an interesting place to be, but that's where that party
happens to be these days. And we'll dive into that
with my takeaways. First, though, I've been suggesting we should
all be, you know what, just a good thing in life.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Pray.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's a good thing in life if you prayed every day.
And if you do pray every day, you're in a
better place, and you would be otherwise. But if you
don't pray every day, you'll be in a better place.
And it's likely the world as well. But in particular,
everybody should be praying for Jamaica today. I've been talking
(00:57):
about this since late last week, that what we're seen
with Melissa shaping up to be the worst for any
particular location from the hurricane since Durian in twenty nineteen.
And it's very much that. I mean just days already
of horrible weather associated with Melissa, and you do have
a landfall that is imminent. Top wins at one seventy five,
(01:20):
moving very slowly five miles an hour most recently. But
those people are in for things that we have not
experienced or seen to even those who have been through
a five and they are not many, but even they
will not have been through what the folks in Jamaica
will have been through because of how slow this storm
(01:42):
is moving and how bad the weather has been for
days leading up to it associated with this storm. And
so just in all sincerity, prayers for the people at Jamaica,
and if we all come together, maybe maybe some better
things will come out of this thing. Now as we
dive of my top takeaway, they need to say some
(02:04):
prayers to the Democrat party. Man, there are a lot
of people I need to find God in that party
or just simply I don't know, even pretend to do
the right thing. My top takeaway for you today with
them put up or shut up and go away. Put
up or shut up and go away. About the partial
government shutdown. As we are now into day twenty eight
or four full week, so the partial federal government shutdown,
fox is rain smells.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The American Federation of Government Employees is calling on Congress
to pass a stopgap measure that would reopen the government,
with the president of the union representing over eight hundred
thousand federal employees saying, quote, it's time to pass a
clean continuing resolution in and this shutdown today, no half measures,
no gamesmanship.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
This Senate is expected to vote on the measure today.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Significant there, significant there that union in particular, not exactly
your MAGA union, not by lot. Actually, not only is
it the largest federal employee union, not only have they
historically only supported Democrats, they endorse Kamala Harris last year. Okay,
so this is a Kamala Harris backing union, gave money
(03:14):
to Kamala Harris's campaign. That are telling Democrats to get
behind the Republican plan. What does that tell you how
far left and how far out to lunch is the
Democrat Party when the largest federal union that gave money
to Kamala Harris just last year is saying go with
the Republicans. So yeah, my time takeaway for you put
(03:39):
up or shut up and go away. And that is
to Democrats in Washington or in the case of my
unfortunate representation, Lois Frankly, you can just stay here and
not go bo vote DC anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Just take it easy. Better not having you there anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
A couple ideas then might at first seem contradictory, can
both be true. It is possible to foot for a
much smaller federal government with fewer people working within it,
while simultaneously feeling sympathetic towards impacted federal employees. So as
we are now four or full weeks into the partial
federal government shutdown, it remains true that the average American
(04:16):
living the typical life has not seen, has not felt
absolutely any impact, I mean nothing from what's happened here
Joel impact uh nana. Would you have any clue this
thing even existed for four full weeks if it weren't
in the news.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
I don't believe.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
So now, yeah, that makes you the average person. Very
few people have seen absolutely any impact from this that
aren't federal employees themselves. And so for a country that
is now over thirty eight trillion dollars in debt and
that's been running nearly two trillion dollars in annual budget deficits,
(04:58):
make it safe to say that we've had ample evidence
here for the past four weeks. So we could do
without substantial portions of non essential federal government agencies permanently
you know, the woe is the federal government employee trope
brings hollow with me because it's not the job of
non federal employees to provide unnecessary federal jobs to people
employed in them permanently. And as stated aside for the
(05:21):
general belief the limited government is just better than large
and vloaded government. We can't afford to keep doing things
the same day way that we've been doing them anyway.
As I sayd at the onset, the partial government shut
down with thirty four percent of the federal government going offline,
making this not only the second longest government shut down
today but also the largest in terms of its depth
(05:43):
and breadth. Today it should be like the ultimate exercise
and how we can effectively downsize the federal government, and
it's been just that. At the same time, even for
furloughed employees. There is a right and a wrong way
to do anything. In my second takeaway today, we'll address that.
(06:05):
But first, well, nonsense has been playing out congressionally. The
president just keeps getting things accomplished internationally. Foxes Ashley Strommeyer.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
President Traump met with the first woman to ever lead
the nation's Naya Takaichi. The president has noted her close
political ties to the country's former Prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
He became a very close Trump friend during his first term,
something Takeiichi thanked him for. As the pair held their
first meeting in Tokyo, President Trump said he is optimistic
(06:37):
about the future of trade with Tokyo, just before signing
an agreement on rare earth minerals.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, another rare earth mineral deal done with Japan just
hours ago. You had the President addressed the troops earlier
this morning our time as well, and also the affirmation
by Japan of what they had indicated earlier this year
that they will invest five hundred and fifty billion dollars
in too the US economy and just all kinds of
good things coming out of Japan.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So that's still happening. Progress still happening with the President.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
But then you take a look at DC again and
my second takeaway today as we take a look at
the partial government shutdown on what's getting ready to happen today,
It's never okay to deny people their pay. It's never
okay to deny people their pay, and it's absolutely unconscionable
(07:29):
to deny people who've been going to work every day
the pay that they're due for having done. So where
am I wrong here, Joel?
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I can't find anything? But again, where is that political?
There is a Democrat somewhere that will find a way.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
How is that an ideological thing that people that have
gone to work every day should get paid for the
work that they've done as scheduled?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Controversial? No, but there will be a Democrat that will somehow.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Not one. You got a bunch just about all of
them in the Senate. Yeah, So that is exactly what
we've seen the Democrats do. First, there was the bill
to pay the military as scheduled earlier this month. All
Democrats save three John Futterman in Pennsylvania and George's two
Democrats John Ossof and Rafael or Not in the Senate refused.
(08:22):
Only three Senate Democrats agreed to pay the military. I mean,
just how could anyone in Congress, anyone vote to refuse
pay for the people that are literally predicting this country
every day?
Speaker 1 (08:38):
How could you do that?
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But that's what almost every Democrat did, showing how little
they actually care about a doing the right thing independent
of political wranglings and be how little they actually care
about the human impact of what they do.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They always talking about were.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
For the little guy, and Republicans want you to die
and push granty off the cliff and children to starve and.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Hold on, who's actually trying to do this.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
The average military salary is currently fifty one thousand, five
hundred and eighty four dollars entry level salaries, and the
military started twenty four thousand. By way of comparison, the
average military member earns about fifteen thousand dollars less per
year than the average person working in the private sector,
and approximately forty six thousand less a year than the
(09:25):
average other federal government employee. Now, in the end, President
Trump ordered the use of any available funds to get
it done, which happened on October fourteenth.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But here's the next thing.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
If this said, the next military payday is Friday, it's
the thirty first. If there is a resolution by then
military will not get paid. On principle, it's just indefensible
to vote to withhold money that's due. On a human level,
these are largely people that are far far from wealthy,
count on every paycheck to get by. Yet that's what
(09:58):
Democrats did. And then the last week Democrats were presented
with the shutdown fear in his act, this would have
paid all essential federal government workers that have been working
as usual every day during this partial shutdown, only for
that measure to be voted down too, with the exact
same political split among Democrats as before. So Democrats have
(10:22):
voted multiple times to not pay people that have been
going to work every day. Essential federal government employees not
to pay. But today, in particular is an important day.
It's an especially important day as over one point two
million essential federal government employees who have been working are
going to begin a cycle of not receiving paychecks as
(10:45):
scheduled due to the Democrats' decision to not only refuse
to reopen the federal government without changing existing laws and
policies to fit their desire socialist streams of free puppies
and and free candy and free healthcare, free Biden bucks
and free Obama phones that or anything but free for
(11:08):
legal immigrants and basically anyone bu shlubs like you and
me who actually pay taxes. Betterly, you know, there's a
difference between political disputes and operating with the intellectual honesty
and integrity. It needs to be made cleared it needs
to be widely known that there is one reason and
one reason alone that well over one point two million
who've been working will not be getting paid as promise,
(11:30):
many of them starting today, as is the case of
with air traffic controllers, because Democrats have voted against them
receiving that pay. And so here in lives just so
you have an idea, there isn't like one federal payday
where every federal employee gets paid on that particular day
(11:50):
based upon the department. People get paid on different schedules.
So today really starts that schedule where paychecks will be
missed if something doesn't happenly air traffic controllers today.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
As I mentioned by Friday, you get to the military, and.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
If Democrats will withhold compensation for people who are willing
to go to work every day and do their job
in the federal government, what do you think they think
or would be willing to have happen with you. I
see your eyes got big, Chell, I'm thinking they're for you,
they care about you. No, yeah, So today is a
(12:31):
character defining day. My third takeaway today is a character
defining day. Send a Majority Leader John Thune on the
Democration d against.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
They are playing a game, and that these demands that
they have a one and a half trillion dollars in
new spending, the free healthcare for non citizens, the list
of things goes on. It's just not serious, it's not realistic,
and they know it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, so a character defining day, and it's clear the
lack of character by the left that is on display.
People are just pawns play politically, ultimately enact the rules
for radicals driven ideology. What's happening here is transcended politics
into something that's not defensible, because paying people for the
work is not an ideological thing. And this is why
(13:14):
again the largest union of federal employees, which endorsed Kamal
Harris last year, has called for an end to the
shutdown with a clean resolution, endorsing the Republican's approach to
end the partial shutdown. But this whole exercise has been instructive. Again,
I always take a look at what can be accomplished
in these things. When you take a look at what's
(13:34):
happened in the economy this month. The US dollar has strengthened,
has appreciated by one point two percent this month. That
is a massive move in less than a month by
a major currency. The US dollar has grown stronger by
one point two percent this month since the onset of
the partial government shutdown. Gold has retreated eight percent from
(13:56):
its recent record highs stocks closed that record hize yet again.
Yesterd s and P five hundred is ever two percent
higher since the onset of the shutdown. So what exactly
is it that the financial markets are saying about all this?
I mean seemingly that I don't know less. Federal government
is a good thing. So we can at least thank
Democrats for demonstrating for everyone to be able to see that, yes,
(14:18):
we don't need effectively thirty four percent the federal government.
And a week from today, well that'll be interesting too,
because we're going to see what voters think about the
party in Virginia, New Jersey, and whatever may be left
in New York City
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