10-1-25 - 6am - SHUTDOWN

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, MIKEA or Michael, listen to your liberal brothers and
sisters across hall.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
It's five to fifteen in the morning. All they can
do is talk about how nobody's gonna get paid.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Everybody in the federal government's going to work.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
And not gonna get paid. Everybody's gonna get paid. I mean,
we should hope they all just get fired. Would be
awesome because they all suck. Fire themall.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
But everybody's gonna get paid, even the ones that don't
even show to work.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Isn't that kind of how paychecks work? I mean, we
just got paid yesterday, so right now I'm not getting
paid in quotes because I won't get paid today for
today until the fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah, so that's kind of how things work.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yes, and let's say that. What let's see. I think
I don't remember for some reason, I thought government employees
it's been too long. I just don't remember. But I
thought we got paid once a month. I might I
might be wrong about that. It made it made differ
from department or you know, agency or whatever. But at

(01:10):
the federal level, I thought it was once a month.
I might be wrong about that. But regardless, to your point,
is very well taken. Uh, the and it started at
twelvel one am this morning. Honestly, I'd forgotten about it.
I had truly forgotten about it. I got up this
morning and I turned on the lights. Excel Energy still

(01:33):
wants they want their money, so you know, they sent
me a few killer watts and I got a little
bit of light.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
The the water heater, I don't have a hot water heater,
but I have a water heater. The water heater came
on and the natural gas must have been flowing because
I had hot water. The car started. So the ability
you know, to kill switch that the secret government has
that can just kill cars.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
That worked.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
But then I got on the highways. Oh oh, and
the zombies were everywhere. Zombies were I mean I barely
got out of the driveway. I must, I must used
up two full high capacity magazines just getting out of
the driveway. And then once I got to the interstate. Well,
the good thing about the interstate is it's kind of like,

(02:19):
you know, during the winter when it snowed overnight. But
you know, the eighteen wheelers and the early risers have
kind of you know, marked a.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Pass already packed it down.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, they can't well they had packed down some of
the zombies, so I was able to at least get
you know, and I drove the jeep this morning, so
I was a little high centered, so I was able
to get you know, on all the zombies that had
been kind of smashed. And then got to the quick
Trip and I had to fight my way into a
quick Trip because I waved a credit card like, look,
I really do want to pay. Everybody else was just

(02:50):
trying to get into steal stuff. Then I finally got
back out to the jeep. They were all around the jeep,
crawling all over the jeep again, and made my way here,
and of course I got to the iHeart Death Star,
and because because none of the lights work outside, I
couldn't make my way in, you know, I had to
kind of fight my way through the crowd to get here.

(03:11):
I did notice, however, that interestingly, when I come in
a little secret because I have a diet cope in
one hand and my backpack is kind of holding my
other hand, I use the handicap. I use my elbow
and do the handicap thing to get in in the door. Okay,

(03:33):
so as i'm you know, but as it starts to open,
I kind of just squeeze through it and go on in.
Someone has put a Hilton Hotel key card. Very It's
almost like it was a display like you know sometimes
people put business cards up like a display like here,
take one of my business cards.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Okay, that's what it looked like.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
So downstairs there's a Hilton key card in case you
want to go use you know whatever. Groupie here studio
see or down on the third floor. Had had a
suite somewhere at the Hilton, and you can go over
at the Hilton and party. But I did manage to
make it in and the lights are working here TV's on,
apparently ICE is still working. Republicans and Democrats here on CNN,

(04:18):
Republicans and Democrats blame each other for government shut down.
They're talking to a Republican from Illinois, Mark Alford. Don't
know who is, don't don't care who he is. See
this why you don't want to be a congressman. It's
more likely if you're a group of one hundred, it's
more likely people may know who you are. If you're
a US senator, if you're a member of four hundred,

(04:39):
if you're in a club of four hundred and thirty
five members. Not everybody's going to know everybody, and nobody's
going to care. And they're not going to recognize you
in the street. He might he might get recognized in
his in his district, but otherwise no. But Republican. Here's
the thing that here's the thing that bugged me. I'm

(05:00):
always reminded of Joe Biden. It really bugs me. I
kept hearing that one of the sticking points was one
they want Democrats want a trillion dollars in new spending.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
That's with a T, not a B. That's a trillion.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
Democrats want to reignite inflation. So that's number one. Number
two is I kept hearing, and all I could hear
was yes they are, no we're not. Yes we are, no,
we're not. And whether or not there we're going to
continue to provide health care services through Medicaid for illegal

(05:47):
aliens and Democrats deny, deny, deny, deny it until you
know what I love about Maxine Waters. I love Maxine
Waters because Maxine Waters.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Is one of those.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Who always says the quiet part out loud. So if
you're ever wondering, hey, Michael, is it true? Are they
really trying to continue or keep paying or increase pay
or whatever it is to pay for you and I,
as taxpayers, to pay for illegal aliens to have health care.

(06:26):
She's asked that specific questions are that specific question? Are
Democrats demanding health care for illegal aliens?

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Are Democrats demanding health care for illegal aliens?

Speaker 5 (06:40):
That's right, Democrats are demanding health carera everybody.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Our democrat for everybody demanding health care for illegal aliens.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Democrats are demanding health carera everybody.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Now, that's that's all I've got in the clip. I
get an eight second clip, and that's it. I don't
know what she goes on to say, but one she
says a quiet part out loud, and she gestures, you know,
as if to include everybody. We want health care. We
demand health care for everybody. So she's a socialist, But

(07:23):
just for sake of argument, I believe what she says.
She's saying the quiet part out loud. Yes, we want
to provide continue to provide health care through medicaid or
other services, through jails, whatever whatever source may be. We
want to continue to provide health care for illegal aliens,
which is what It's a big ass, gigantic incinity for
people to try to keep coming here illegally. Although Trump

(07:46):
shut down the border, they're still trying to get here.
They'll still try to get here. There's still the lure
of free health care. Or just for argument's sake, she
does not want to use the word illegal aliens because
I mean, this old bag bless her heart. But you know,

(08:08):
I hmmm, I think, well, I can't speak for dragon. Well,
I can't speak for dragging because I have to look
at him every day. But he's not one of those.
But he's not the most handsome person in the world
either I, on the other hand, or just you know, I'm.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
Like bucket elbows. Huh, you're as pretty as a bucket
of elbows.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
A bucket, Well, that's better than the other bucket I
usually hear about, so, you know, eat a bucket. But
you know what, so that's better than usual. But some
people are just but ugly. I say, right, you're not
gonna say anything, but I'm speaking. I'm saying quite part
out loud, just like Maxine. Some people are just but ugly,

(08:52):
and Maxine is just but ugly.

Speaker 6 (08:54):
California raising Yeah, Calf, You're a despicable human being.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
And are Democrats demanding healthcare for illegal alien.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
That's she pauses for like two seconds.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
There reasons are delicious. What's your problem?

Speaker 3 (09:13):
She pauses for two seconds, like, uh, Democrats are for everyone, and.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Our democrats demanding health care for I llegal alien.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
That's right, Democrats are demanding healthcare.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
For everybody, everybody, everybody. Let's look at the Wall Street
Journal today. Let me where's today's Wall Street Journal tab?

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Where to go? Here? It is?

Speaker 3 (09:39):
So they haven't they have this big story yet. Man,
Let me just pull up the whole front page. Government
shutdown begins as funding lapses, lawmakers fail to reach a
spending deal, triggering triggering a shutdown that is expected to
halt some federal services and put hundreds of thousands of
workers on furlough. But then there's another story just below
that wat to it expect from the shutdown. And this

(10:03):
is the story that really attracted my attention primarily because, well,
just between you and me, I'm a little scared because
it's I mean, it's still dark out. People have been asleep.
They haven't woken up yet, but once they wake up,
they're going to realize that, holy crap, the federal government
has shut down. And what are we going to do

(10:25):
sky you know it may you know now now on
the East coast, planes have already taken off. Do we
have any bulletins yet about planes falling out of the sky?
Planes taking off from Newark LaGuardia, But no planes take
off from from Newark. If they do, they're two hours late.
So no planes take them off yet from Newark, but
from Kennedy and Laguardi and Teterborough plane planes are probably

(10:46):
crashing all over the place right now on the East
coast Logan International in Boston, they're probably crashing there because
there's no air traffic control. So as the sun begins,
you know, as the flights begin to take off, as
we you know, move into the morning hours a TC, well,
you know, those guys don't get so they're not going
to show up. Some people you get paid your Social

(11:08):
Security benefits based upon when your birthday is. So there
may be some people today that we're expecting you to
a Social Security check and so they're going to oh
never mind, they're still going to be get sent out.
So Social Security, Medicare, and MEDICAI will continue sending out payments.
Though if you want a benefit verification or you need

(11:29):
a new card. You may have to wait for that.
Oh the inhumanity. Your old Social Security card is? Do
you Dragon? Do you know where your old Social Security
card is? I think I think I know where mine is.
I think mine might be in a lock box in
a safe in the house. But I'm not really sure
where it is. But if I needed a new Social

(11:49):
Security card, I might have to wait a while. Then
there's this paragraph, I'm a federal worker. Will I still
get paid? And the answer is, to Dragon's point, yes,
but not right away. Wall three Journal says that while
most federal employees, regardless of their essential status, won't be
paid during a shutdown, a twenty nineteen law guarantees automatic

(12:12):
back pay once the shutdown concludes. Private contractors who work
with federal agencies. By the way, somebody confirmed last night
on the text line that it is about fifty to fifty.
It's still about fifty to fifty. You walk into any
government agency, you'll see two badges, a contractor badge and
a full time government employee badge. It's about fifty to fifty.

(12:33):
That's how much we depend on contractors to do our
government work. Wall three Journal says private contractors who work
with federal agencies and are furlough during a shutdown, aren't
guaranteed back pay. The Congressional Budget Office estimated at about three
quarters of a million federal employees could be furloughed in
a shutdown. Are some federal workers being fired?

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (12:56):
The White House Budget Office ask agencies to draw up
plans much several weeks ago before the shutdown to plan
for layoffs during the shutdown, and Trump, of course you
have heard, has said his voice support for further staffing
cuts and spending reductions, but nobody released any details. As
of last night, TSA still working. Passport services should continue,

(13:22):
but there might be a little bit of a delay,
which is why, I mean, why you just do it, always,
always do expedited services for your passport, pay the extra
and just have somebody walk it through for you. But
then here's where I don't know how we will manage
to continue. National parks will close as of late last night.

(13:44):
The National Park Service aimed they aimed with what AR
fifteen aim to keep roads, trails, and memorials generally open.
Parks that collect visitor fees at entrance gates will use
those balances to help provide visitor services. Like collecting trash
and maintaining restrooms. Maintating restrooms in a national park. You

(14:06):
ever been to a restroom in a national park in DC?
The Smithsonian and the National Zoo.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
We'll use prior year funds to remain open at least
through October sixth, according to website. Notice, well, seems to
me that we're all in a dither over pretty much nothing,
pretty much nothing at all. Now, I've got to get
gas today. Now, given that the nation's news media are
focused about twenty three out of every twenty four hours

(14:36):
every day on breathless reports about this shutdown of some
small percentage of the federal government, because there's really not
that much, some of you might be wondering, well, am
I going to be able to get gas today? Now? Interestingly,
but I think about the quick trip that I stopped
at this morning, because sometimes I have to I can
just I can pull through the pumps and park right

(14:58):
in front. But oftentimes there are so many cars filling
up with gas at five o'clock in the morning that
I have to go around the sides. This morning, nobody
filling up with gas. So I'm just going to assume
from that because that would be a logical thing to do,
right that, because nobody was getting gas at the quick
trip there's no gas. You know, maybe this would be

(15:18):
like you know, orson wells. We can start a panic
everybody this morning, go to the gas station and fill
your car up because we're gonna run out of gasoline.
Will the federal government shut down or affect the federal
government shut down? Will it affect the oil and gas industry? No,
not much. Upstream operating companies, well, they're going to continue

(15:41):
to drill and fry and produce oil and natural gas
from their wells, just as if nothing happened in the Capitol.
They don't care. All their people are going to have
to keep showing up for work on each and every
business day, and that's going to disappoint some of them,
but I think most of them are going to be
pretty happy about continuing to receive their paychecks. They get
paid pretty damn Well. You want a job that is

(16:03):
full time, but you're not. You're gone for you know,
maybe a couple of months and then you're home a
couple of months. Go work it an offshore oil and
gas rig. Oh, it's hard work, but you want to
make you know, more than six figures go do that.
Pipeline companies, they're going to continue receiving and moving all
the oil and gas that fuels the other preponderance of

(16:24):
our economy, most of our economy, just as they do
if one hundred percent of the government shut down. Look
with natural gas exports, well, they're going to continue liquifying
some of that natural gas and putting it in ships.
They'll continue to export that to international markets. The remainder
of that natural gas will will continue to be delivered
local distribution companies for home heating, power plants, for the

(16:46):
generation of electricity. I think manufacturing plants, they use natural
gas is their feed stock. Well, they'll probably continue to
produce whatever products they can continue to produce, and then
they'll get loaded onto eighteen wheelers, and those eighteen wheels
stop somewhere at a quick trip where the buckets or someplace,
and they'll fill up with diesel and they'll keep on moving.
In other words, even though the oil and gas industry

(17:08):
is heavily regulated by the federal government, is still a
private enterprise. So it's operators. Yeah, they're not gonna pay
any attention. They're going to keep doing what they keep
doing now if the shut get if the shutdown really
did go on for a really long period of time,
well permitting might get delayed a little bit, but in
the short term that's not going to do anything. The

(17:30):
longest period of any government shutdown thirty two days December five,
nineteen ninety five through January sixth, nineteen ninety six. Not
a single of a shutdown has lasted longer than eighteen days,
and the vast majority of the previous of the eighteen
previous shutdowns lasted less than a week. So I think

(17:52):
everybody ought to just take a deep breath. Yeah, take
a deep breath. And if you're a federal employee, well,
sucks to be you. But if you're an lieheard employee,
s likes to be us. I'm not gonna get paid
for two more weeks. I better check, you know how,
gonch if that check actually carried the bank? Did you
check yours? Dragon?

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Yes, my dad, Okay, we're well.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
If yours didn't it, surely mind nig of course, mind's
about half what years in?

Speaker 7 (18:19):
Oh, Mike, I filled up with the Maverick because you
know it might be shut down. But what I couldn't
get I needed to buy two bags of ice, and
there wasn't any and I had to go to a
second store.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
I had to go to a loaf and.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Jug to get ice.

Speaker 7 (18:36):
And I think the ice industry is being affected by
the government's shutdown.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
So everybody go buy ice too. Yeah, well, I prefer
come and go. That's that's what I prefer. I mean,
if you want a loaf of jog, that's fine, but
I prefer to come and go. So just saying, but yeah,
you need to get ice, you need to fill up
with gas, and you know we're missing obvious two.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
What is it? Dry toilet paper?

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Thank you, very very good you, but you don't have
I was gonna say, you never disappoint. You often disappoint,
but when you don't disappoint, it's really good.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Broken clock right at least once a day.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
And of course, because I only had eight seconds of
maxine waters, you're desperate to find more than eight seconds
of maxine waters. But you did.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
I found ninety seconds in oh good, so.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
So fortunately, Uh. I mean, we could be doing Kamala,
we could be doing AOC, we could be doing any
number of people, but we're going to do maxine waters today.

Speaker 8 (19:34):
If Democrats want to prioritize the healthcare of illegal aliens
over a government shutdown, because if the government does shut
down America, excuse.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Me, stop it right there, we're not prioritizing. What we're
doing is saying simply, we want to keep the government open,
and we want to work with the Republicans and have
a bipartisan agreement to keep this government open, and healthcare
is at the type of.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Agenda our democrats to me, health care for illegal aliens.

Speaker 5 (20:01):
That's right, Democrats are demanding health care for everybody. We
want to save lives. We want to make sure that
health care is available to those who would die but
having the help of their government.

Speaker 8 (20:20):
So you're good with the government shutdown, even if it
means giving health care to people who aren't Americans in it.

Speaker 5 (20:26):
Well, you keep that's what you're pushing on. What you're
trying to do is you're standing here and you're trying
to make me say that somehow we're going to put
non citizens over Americans.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Quit it, stop it.

Speaker 5 (20:40):
This is the kind of journalism. We don't need you
have advisid.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
No, you're not.

Speaker 5 (20:45):
You're being device said no, please, you don't need to
ask that question. You're just trying to get controversy here.
You're not going to get it from me. We want
to save health care for all people.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Thank you, Thank you, Congresswoman.

Speaker 8 (20:57):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant,
in a department, stuff at a gasoline station, you get
out and you pray a God and you on them
and you tell them they're welcome.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
Being divisive would fakes.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
I'm just saying, you know you your deep fakes always
back there.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
You got a whole crew back there, and we need
a Maxine. Everybody back. They're gonna do it Maxine imitation.
You got some idea and then they record something for you,
then you play it. You're such a such a turn,
It's just amazing. What's interesting about the full ninety second
uh huh? What does she not do.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Answer the question?

Speaker 3 (21:46):
She doesn't answer the question. Her answer remains the same.
We want healthcare for everyone. You're just trying to be devisive.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
What I'm confused about is that she says something along
the lines of, you know, life saving care. So if
even in the legal alien goes to the emergency room,
they will be taken care of.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Yes, yep.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
So what is this, What does any of that have
to do with any of this?

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Because she needed a sound bite, she needed an answer,
and there if dragon if it saves one life, if
it saves one life. So the surprising thing is not
that the federal governments shut down. I mean, if you
waken up this morning shocked that the federal government has
shut down, and listen, you know, maybe let's be more precise.

(22:40):
The surprising thing is not that the federal government has
partially shut down. I would have been surprised if I
if I had woken up this morning and checked the
Wall Street Journal and the government had not shut down.
Every both sides, Republicans and Democratic both think they've got
the cards and they and they both think they put
the other in a bad position. Well, the result is

(23:01):
that the federal few could last for oh, you know,
eighteen days, you know, or whatever it did, and there
will be a temporary armistice that's not going to satisfy anybody.
So we're eventually going to get to where we're going
to get anyway. And remember, there is little incentive for
either side to say shut down the shutdown. Paul came

(23:23):
over the Washington Post notes that most senators. By the way,
Fetterman and two others, I now I've now lost that post.
But Fetterman and two others actually joined Republicans to keep
to keep the government open. Fetterman is proving to be

(23:46):
and I mean this sincerely, whatever that stroke did to him, really,
once he recovered, turned out to be a really reasonable,
logical individual. Not that I want to have a stroke
to see if I can become more reasonablecause I do
really won't care about becoming more reasonable, but obviously it
really did something for him. But anyway, back to the

(24:08):
Washington Post. So Paul Kane, who writes a columnist for
the Washington Post, says that most Senators have little reason
to compromise. Very few senators feel the political pressure that
usually comes with collabitous events like a federal agency shut down,
calamitous events. I was kidding when I talked about having to,

(24:30):
you know, drive through the ruts of the zombies had
already been run over by the eighteen wheelers. And I
was kidding about, you know, no gas and you need
to go buy gas and ice and toilet paper today
because the government shut down. I was kidding, But Washington
Post is not. It's a calamitous event. Anyway. He goes

(24:52):
on to say that most of these senators sit in
safe seats, many with re election campaigns a distant concern Democrats.
Democrats are apparently reckoning that the suspension of health tax
credits starting in December will somehow get Republicans tocal tal

(25:13):
intocapitulating over the first shutdown since twenty nineteen. Steve Rattner
of Wall Street Financier points out that in the New
York Times, the Republicans have effectively subverted Obamacare by repeating
the expensive tax breaks that prompted millions to enroll. Were good.
I was and still remain opposed to Obamacare. At some point,

(25:40):
the system, the healthcare system, particularly the insurance system, needs
to collapse. I think it's the only way it's ever
going to get fixed. It's just a total utter collapse
of it. Or that it gets so expensive and so
many claims get then there's so little reimbursement that there's

(26:04):
a revolt and Congress will actually do something serious about healthcare. Now.
I don't mean I don't want doctor. I don't want
the government interfering in with my patient doctor relationship. I
don't want them, you know, telling doctors how to practice medicine.
I'm talking about the health care insurance industry. I'm all

(26:26):
for the private sector, but the healthcare insurance industry, because
of government regulations, is completely out of control. Rather went
on to say again in the New York Times, even
upper income Americans who buy insurance on the Affordable Care
Act exchanges will be hurt by the repeal of this

(26:47):
tax break. That's because as coverage gets more expensive, ask
yourself why healthier people drop their insurance first, forcing companies
to raise premiums on their remaining customers to maintain profit ability.
Democrats are wagering that enough Republican moderates will crack to
ensure that they can reach a compromise to their liking.

(27:09):
Now Trump believes, I think rightfully, so that they can
traumatize the Democrats. As Trump said, you heard him taught
if you paid any attentions, probably I'm sure that somebody
on this station and somebody on the other stations played
Trump talking about, you know, we can get rid of
a lot of things that we don't want, and they

(27:30):
would be Democrat things that we can make them irreversible. Well,
Russ's vote has been preparing for that this could be
russ Vote's finest hour, or I guess if you're a
bit a fan of big government, this is the day
of the jackal. They're all manners of authorities to be
able to keep this administration's policy agenda moving forward, and

(27:54):
that includes reducing the size and scope of the federal government,
and we will be looking looking for opportunities to do that.
Isn't that what we voted for, isn't it? Hmm, Let's
talk more about russ Vote, because what he's really up
to here is what I thought we wanted. And I

(28:19):
think this is a momentous occasion for people to really
ask themselves. Do I really want smaller federal government? I do,
But I think there are a lot of people who
like to talk big about downsizing the federal government, but
then if it pinches their butt just a little, like,
oh no, stop it, stop it. I went to my

(28:39):
local Kmark store to buy some things. He wasn't there.
The government tore it down.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
Good morning from South Dakota. As long as I keep
getting my federal benefit payment that I've paid in all
my life for everyone, have a great day.

Speaker 7 (28:56):
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
It's selfish masters like that. The thing that just because
he paid his FICA, Social Security and all of that,
somehow he's entitled to get paid back. That's what's wrong
with this country. Selfish basters like that.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Damn entitlements.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
I know, always looking for something. So I misspoke. The
longest shutdown was thirty five days, not eighteen days. In fact,
I was off. I don't know where I got that
eighteen days. Here's the list, and then I'm gonna go
back to rust vote. I tried to go back before
prior to nineteen eighty. I tried to go back, well,

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I first went back forty years, and then that took
me to nineteen eighty. So then I went anything prior
to nineteen eighty. And the best I can hear is
our best I can find is that prior to nineteen
eighty there were some funding gaps, but not really shutdowns
and not really furloughs. So these kinds of these kinds
of shutdowns where you literally shut down some departments and

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agencies and you actually furlough some federal employees started under
Jimmy Carter, under a Democrat. Nineteen eighty lasted one day.
Reagan had won lasted one day in nineteen eighty one.
Reagan had another one in nineteen eighty four that lasted
less than a day, and then he had another one
in nineteen eighty six that lasted less than a day.

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The federal government shut down for twenty two minutes and
sixteen seconds. The earth came to a halt in nineteen
ninety Let's see hw Bush had three days November ninety five,
Clinton had five days. Ninety five to ninety six, Clinton
had twenty one days twenty thirteen, Obama had sixteen days.

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January of eighteen, Trump had three days. Eighteen to nineteen,
Trump had thirty five days. And of course now we're
in the midst of an ongoing shutdown. I made it
to work, but as soon as I finished here, I
didn't think about the toilet paper in the ice. As
soon as I finish here, I'm going to Sam's and

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I'm I'm I'm in Thank goodness, you'll. God is directing
me today. God God is showing me the path that
I brought the jeep and off the BMW, because I
can put so much more toilet paper and ice in
the jeep than I could the BMW. I wonder if people,
if I if I walked into Walmart. And you know,
you can pull two carts at the same time, pull

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them from the front, and fill both carts up with
toilet paper. If I could get other people to look
and go, maybe we should get smershed the toilet paper,
because that's what happens. People just panic, absolutely panic. But
to us vote rest. Note's kind of my hero. He he,

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he resembles someone who was crafted in a lab, say
by the Claremont it's two to get rid of the
new deal. He has actually drafted plans to terminate wide
swaths of the so called deep state, the administrative state.
So darting with a lot of the federal employees who
are currently on administrative lead because of the shutdown. So

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I'm on this mailing list, and so I get these
emails all the time. One such emailed Tuesday evening to
report that they are hearing that the Office of Personnel
and Management o PM has ordered to start jettison or
the last existences at midnight. Now, why did I That

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was hilarious to me. There's a German word for it
that they have in the email ballistics exhibit. It's a
German word. It's that that's a real sardonic reference to
the to the Nazi propaganda term for those deaned, unfed,
undesirable and necessary. Yeah, you have to some of some

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of the some of the email groups, the list that
I'm on, are simply amazing. The problems with the calculations
of the Democrats are probably going to turn out to
be twofold. The first is that Trump and his whole
group have little desire to keep the federal government humming.
They just don't care because they know that the essential

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services that are necessary to the safety and security of
this country and to the entitlements that our friends of
the Dakotas are so worried about, which we all are,
actually are going to keep humming. But if there are
fewer federal employees around to obstruct Trump's plans, isn't that
the better for him,