November 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Forty-one days of government shutdown proved one thing: politicians protect their paychecks, not the people. While air traffic controllers, military families, and SNAP recipients struggled, leaders on both sides played partisan games and walked away with nothing but assurances for themselves. The Rant Network podcast dives into the absurdity of this shutdown, the hypocrisy of political elites, and the rare voices—like John Fetterman—who dared to cross the aisle. Chaos in Washington, chaos at the airports, chaos at the dinner table—this is the cost of broken leadership.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:05):
41 day shutdown, folks.
Holy moly, what a what a what awhat a what a what a waste of
time.
I gotta tell you, I I'm I'mbaffled once again by the I
shouldn't say I'm baffled, it'snot a surprise that governments
around the world seem to tellpolit you know Mamdani-like
(00:27):
style, I'm here for you, I'mgonna protect you, but at the
end of the day, I'm here toscrew you.
I because it's all about whatpolitical power, and that's what
the Democrats did in this lastround.
And listen, not that theRepublicans are innocent,
they've done this before, we'veseen this before, but this time
the Democrats, the people whoclaim to be for the people, got
(00:50):
away with a 41-day governmentshutdown, they got away with it,
or did they really the votersthat they claim to want to
protect?
Hmm.
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm David Solomon.
He is Stuart Brisgale.
This is the rant network, whereevery Monday, Wednesday, Friday
noon Eastern, we rant aboutpolitics, culture, society, and
so much more.
(01:11):
It's all about the absurditiesof what we're living with.
It's about the stuff that peopletalk in hushed tones that
they're afraid they get yelledat by their some of their lefty
friends that I got, by the way,I got yelled at the other night
about that.
So sit back, relax, ladies andgentlemen, as we go into yet
once again head scratcher,folks.
Because here's what happened: John Vetterman, who's been (01:28):
undefined
standing up as you know, sincethe beginning, yelling at his
party, stop the partisanpolitics, stop the stupidity.
If we're really here to help theeveryday people get back to the
negotiating table, but Trumpderangement syndrome, Stuart,
(01:49):
once again got in the way.
Trump the bad man, Trump the badman, Trump the bad man.
That's all you kept hearing.
Trump the bad man, Trump's in itfor himself.
If we shut down the government,it's the screw who Donald J.
Trump.
That's all you heard for 41freaking days.
(02:09):
But air traffic controllersdidn't get paid.
Military folks were not gonnaget paid.
Sorry, the Snap program, whichmany outside of Canada heard for
the outside of the US, sorry,heard for the first time.
What the hell is Snap?
People not being able to go getfood, but those rich bastard
Democrats who went off on thatNapa Valley, you know, retreat
(02:31):
not that long ago, got to sipbeautiful wines and scotches and
eat filamino.
And I know I'm making that stuffup, folks.
So don't don't you know factcheck me on that part.
But they went out that onceagain.
Did they take a pay cut?
Did the democrats say no?
Uh, we're standing with ourpeople.
If they don't get paid, we don'tget paid.
(02:52):
Did you hear that once?
Oh no, no, of course not.
Because even our good friendBernie Sanders said, Hey, we
have families, as if the peoplehe claimed to protect do not
have families.
Stuart, people made choicesbetween food and going to work,
their rent and going to workbecause they couldn't afford a
(03:13):
bus ticket, they couldn't affordthe gas to get to work, they
couldn't afford a lot of things.
They put people in harm's way.
And and as you're getting intoThanksgiving, folks, and in two
weeks, when you're pissed offbecause flights are canceled and
flights are delayed, it'sbecause the government was shut
down and until they geteverybody back in line and
airlines get back in line, thebusiest time of the year is
(03:35):
going to be the most chaotictime of the year.
Stuart, I applaud that eightsenators, including John
Fetterman, had the intestinalfortitude to finally walk across
the aisle and say to theRepublicans, let's let's reopen
the government.
We don't have a choice.
But Stuart, 41 days to getthere, and all they got, all
they got, Stuart.
(03:57):
I don't know if you read this,but all they got was an
assurance that no moregovernment officials were gonna
be fired.
That's what they negotiated for41 days.
SPEAKER_00 (04:07):
Oh, don't you love it when they take care and wipe
their own ass?
I gotta tell you, David, are yousurprised?
I mean, I'm not surprised atall.
Listen, these people are aswamp.
And you know what?
It needs to be drained further.
I like that analogy.
I think it's very uh, veryapropos.
(04:30):
And and you know what?
They don't care about theAmerican people, they haven't
cared about the American peoplesince the very beginning.
It's true, you can't argue that.
There's no other way to describethis process.
They sat there and for 40 days,40 nights, plus one, they just
(04:54):
said no.
You know, they didn't care aboutthe people that went hungry,
they didn't care about themilitary that didn't get
paychecks, they didn't careabout the air traffic control.
You know what?
I you know how you know thatthat the current administration
isn't taking this so personallybecause I would have shut down
(05:14):
the New York airport, the LAairport, and the Chicago
airport.
I would have shut them down.
No, you can't fly in or out.
I would have made all thosepeople pay for their
government's dissent.
They can open the government upand we'll put air traffic
controllers down.
But they didn't do that, theyjust across the board, based off
(05:36):
of volume, cut air trafficcontrol, right?
But these guys didn't get notone check, but two checks.
They got two donuts.
There's a problem with that,David.
And and you know what?
They didn't stop getting theirpaychecks.
Do you know?
Oh, we can't stop paying ourcongressmen.
(05:57):
They're young congressmen thatneed to get these salaries.
Again, I would have voted stoppaying the government employees.
Now government employees,meaning senators and congressmen
and their staff.
Those are the first people thatshould stop getting paychecks,
not air traffic controllers, notthe military, not the people
(06:22):
that don't have food, but thegovernment didn't have the
fortitude to take it that far.
And that I think was a bigmistake of the current
government.
Like they already hate him.
Like they they already preachhis death, death to Trump.
I mean, they they do this allday long.
But it would have been amazingif he would have done that.
(06:44):
I would have actuallycelebrated.
You know, my son came to me andasked me, I get, I guess, you I
guess you're you're not happy.
Or what's your opinion about theuh 41 days out?
I said, let him go 42.
How about 45?
I mean, at this point, thelonger they don't go, the less
(07:04):
money that we pay.
And, you know, there is nothingwrong for me for saying that
either.
Because at some point, thepeople have to look at who they
elected.
And these people are not goodpeople.
Sorry.
Fetterman, you know, changed hisstripes.
He seemed to have been, heseemed to have found center.
(07:25):
He seems like the only leader ofthe Democratic Party, by the
way.
There is no other single leaderof that party.
He actually led, he actuallyfound a position, articulated,
and he's not easy for that guyto articulate, articulated his
position on Fox and CNN.
(07:48):
You know, again, last episode weranted, we brought up Walter
Cronkite.
You know, you can't be apolitician unless you're willing
to talk to the other side.
McCain, the late McCain, thoughhe, you know, went a little
cuckoo in his later years, youknow, he always had lunch with
(08:09):
Joe Biden.
Did you know that, David?
Historical fact.
They would sit in the house andhave lunch together.
And Nancy Pelosi once came up toJoe.
This is a story I got in 2015from Joe Biden himself.
Joe on stage said, Nancy cameover to me and said, How dare
(08:31):
you have lunch?
Joe said to Nancy, I've got toeat.
He goes, but you ate with one ofthose.
Joe said, one of whose.
He goes, You ate with the otherside.
He goes, Nancy.
And this is Nancy Pelosi.
We have to talk to the otherside.
(08:54):
Nancy walked away with ascuffled look.
That's a great story that was ona speech given in 2015 by Joe
Biden.
I would love to reflect thatstory 10 years later, a decade
later, David.
You know, that story is theissue of what is wrong in
(09:18):
politics today.
There is no dialogue, there isno conversation, there's sound
bites, sound clips, and likes onInstagram.
Class, listen, you and I havealways said that Trump is not
the classiest president that'sever stepped into the office.
(09:40):
You know, he's probably like aWashington type guy, right?
Washington was a brutal, brutal,brutal president, right?
People look at him as being, oh,the greatest, the first
president.
Now he was supposed to have beena monster, right?
Making Donald Trump look like auh a pansy.
But you know, where is acivility in the White House or
(10:04):
in the halls of Congress?
I don't know, David.
SPEAKER_01 (10:07):
Well, look, Stuart, you know, I I I you kind of went
a little again.
I know, I know.
My Biden story, but you know,the Biden story is interesting
because the Biden story isexactly what the problem is.
And but Biden ended up at theend of his career, you know,
being um Nazi Pelosi's Muppet,anyways, and created device, the
divisive rhetoric, and bothsides are excessively rhetoric
(10:30):
driven and divisive, and it'salways pointing at the other
side, and it's it's both sidesthat consistently do it.
But the irony in this case waswhen the Republicans shut down
the government a number of yearsago, the vilification, you don't
care for the American people.
How many times did you hearthat?
You don't care for Americanworkers, and on and on and on
(10:52):
and on and on, and it was a30-plus day shutdown.
Even Noah, with his arc, didbetter than the Democrats going
only 40 days and you know,trying to save the the animals.
Here, who did the Democratssave?
I'm not gonna save themselves,quite frankly.
Chuck Schumer, the knives areout for him big time.
The um, you know, they the lastweek after the big wins by the
(11:15):
Democrats, and they they theyscored.
I mean, California is gonnarewrite their their electoral
map.
Mamdani is the mayor of New YorkCity, New Jersey, Virginia, all
kinds of Democrats have won.
Everybody was doing a victorylap, figuring caving in Trump.
Trump's gonna cave in again, allabout caving and knocking Trump.
(11:39):
And when it didn't happen,suddenly the egg on the face got
worse and worse.
Because once again, theDemocrats proved one thing, they
were just in it to get elected,they're not in it for anything
more than that.
And we can say I could say thisabout the Republicans too, but
in this case, the Democratsforced the shutdown.
So when you sit there and say,Yeah, but you Republicans are
(12:00):
just as bad, it's irrelevant.
Look at the situation at handright now, folks.
You got screwed by the Democratswho claim to not be like
Republicans.
So which is it?
Like you can't play both sides,and the Democrats did that.
There's a lack of leadership.
Chuck Schumer, in my mind, 2026,2028, he's out of here.
(12:21):
And you know what?
If AOC takes over, or it's oneof those other lunatics take
over, and I'm calling themlunatics because I don't believe
in social democrats.
I think that these guys arenutcases, they're gonna ruin
America even more.
That's what's gonna happen.
You're going to be led down apath, and we see this in some
cities around the world.
We see this this love affairagain for socialism that they
(12:45):
think this is the way to go isgonna is tearing the the the
Democratic Party apart.
This is good, this is gonna doit because Stuart, the irony of
it all, and by the way, ithappened here in Montreal too.
And I'll give you a parallel,okay?
And this is a crazy parallel,and to show you how the left has
no real care.
(13:05):
The amazing thing is we have atransit strike here in Montreal
that was inherited by the theold.
So we had them we had anelection last Sunday.
New mayor comes in, new mayorgoes.
This has got to end now.
The left, which is more leftthan your democrat, are very
(13:26):
very comparable to AOC andBernie said, No, we're not
ending the strike.
We don't care that people can'tget to work, we don't care that
people can't get what they need,we don't care, we are with the
union to the end.
That's the absurdity.
It wasn't about what's good forthe people, it's what's good
(13:47):
about votes.
And this was the Quebec Salida.
Look me up, people check outcheck out the quotes.
It was the same thing with theDemocrats.
We don't they didn't say it thatway, but it's exactly what
happened.
We're gonna stand with this tothe end, and we don't care who
we hurt.
(14:08):
Interesting.
The Democrats are terriblenegotiators then, because if
this is all that they got, andlater today, Stuart, we will see
the vote come down, but if thisis all that they got, and you're
in a Democrat-led state, yougotta ask your congressperson,
your senator, what the hell iswrong?
Why would you hurt us?
(14:28):
And I'm not talking about thatthe NASA channel wasn't going
wasn't broadcasting because thegovernment was shut down.
I'm talking about real peoplegetting hurt.
Did it dawn on you?
But if you still believe this isTrump's fault, then you're as
deranged as they are.
But get out of the politics forjust a second.
Forget the donkey and theelephant.
(14:49):
Who is ultimately responsible?
And think about it.
Think about it, Stuart.
Last word to you, my friend, aswe wrap up.
SPEAKER_00 (14:58):
You know, this has been a great hump day.
I feel like this was a rant thatwas like a hump.
And I think that's if we getover this hump, you know, and
and we're gonna get over thishump, yes.
Uh, you know, I just like toleave people with like this if
you look at the amount of peoplethat cast their ballots, if you
(15:22):
look at the amount of peoplethat live in that area, I want
you to do the mathematics.
Because you know, back in theday voting was important.
Today, people don't think votingis important, they think the
(15:43):
outcome is not gonna change.
I think that is where we shouldleave.
SPEAKER_01 (15:48):
Stuart, I'll give you to your point, by the way.
Here in the Montreal area, well,all of Quebec had election, all
the municipalities in thegreater Montreal area, folks.
Two were won by one vote.
One was vote won by under 30votes.
So if you don't think your votematters, it does.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's itfor another hump day version of
(16:09):
the of the land on Friday.
As Stewart brings us theapplause, we love the vote to
catch it on the end of the week.
Let's hope that this 41 dayshutdown is gone.
41 day shutdown, folks.
Holy moly, what a what a what awhat a what a what a waste of
time.
I gotta tell you, I I'm I'mbaffled once again by the I
shouldn't say I'm baffled, it'snot a surprise that governments
around the world seem to tellpolit you know Mamdani-like
(00:27):
style, I'm here for you, I'mgonna protect you, but at the
end of the day, I'm here toscrew you.
I because it's all about whatpolitical power, and that's what
the Democrats did in this lastround.
And listen, not that theRepublicans are innocent,
they've done this before, we'veseen this before, but this time
the Democrats, the people whoclaim to be for the people, got
(00:50):
away with a 41-day governmentshutdown, they got away with it,
or did they really the votersthat they claim to want to
protect?
Hmm.
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm David Solomon.
He is Stuart Brisgale.
This is the rant network, whereevery Monday, Wednesday, Friday
noon Eastern, we rant aboutpolitics, culture, society, and
so much more.
(01:11):
It's all about the absurditiesof what we're living with.
It's about the stuff that peopletalk in hushed tones that
they're afraid they get yelledat by their some of their lefty
friends that I got, by the way,I got yelled at the other night
about that.
So sit back, relax, ladies andgentlemen, as we go into yet
once again head scratcher,folks.
Because here's what happened: John Vetterman, who's been (01:28):
undefined
standing up as you know, sincethe beginning, yelling at his
party, stop the partisanpolitics, stop the stupidity.
If we're really here to help theeveryday people get back to the
negotiating table, but Trumpderangement syndrome, Stuart,
(01:49):
once again got in the way.
Trump the bad man, Trump the badman, Trump the bad man.
That's all you kept hearing.
Trump the bad man, Trump's in itfor himself.
If we shut down the government,it's the screw who Donald J.
Trump.
That's all you heard for 41freaking days.
(02:09):
But air traffic controllersdidn't get paid.
Military folks were not gonnaget paid.
Sorry, the Snap program, whichmany outside of Canada heard for
the outside of the US, sorry,heard for the first time.
What the hell is Snap?
People not being able to go getfood, but those rich bastard
Democrats who went off on thatNapa Valley, you know, retreat
(02:31):
not that long ago, got to sipbeautiful wines and scotches and
eat filamino.
And I know I'm making that stuffup, folks.
So don't don't you know factcheck me on that part.
But they went out that onceagain.
Did they take a pay cut?
Did the democrats say no?
Uh, we're standing with ourpeople.
If they don't get paid, we don'tget paid.
(02:52):
Did you hear that once?
Oh no, no, of course not.
Because even our good friendBernie Sanders said, Hey, we
have families, as if the peoplehe claimed to protect do not
have families.
Stuart, people made choicesbetween food and going to work,
their rent and going to workbecause they couldn't afford a
(03:13):
bus ticket, they couldn't affordthe gas to get to work, they
couldn't afford a lot of things.
They put people in harm's way.
And and as you're getting intoThanksgiving, folks, and in two
weeks, when you're pissed offbecause flights are canceled and
flights are delayed, it'sbecause the government was shut
down and until they geteverybody back in line and
airlines get back in line, thebusiest time of the year is
(03:35):
going to be the most chaotictime of the year.
Stuart, I applaud that eightsenators, including John
Fetterman, had the intestinalfortitude to finally walk across
the aisle and say to theRepublicans, let's let's reopen
the government.
We don't have a choice.
But Stuart, 41 days to getthere, and all they got, all
they got, Stuart.
(03:57):
I don't know if you read this,but all they got was an
assurance that no moregovernment officials were gonna
be fired.
That's what they negotiated for41 days.
SPEAKER_00 (04:07):
Oh, don't you love it when they take care and wipe
their own ass?
I gotta tell you, David, are yousurprised?
I mean, I'm not surprised atall.
Listen, these people are aswamp.
And you know what?
It needs to be drained further.
I like that analogy.
I think it's very uh, veryapropos.
(04:30):
And and you know what?
They don't care about theAmerican people, they haven't
cared about the American peoplesince the very beginning.
It's true, you can't argue that.
There's no other way to describethis process.
They sat there and for 40 days,40 nights, plus one, they just
(04:54):
said no.
You know, they didn't care aboutthe people that went hungry,
they didn't care about themilitary that didn't get
paychecks, they didn't careabout the air traffic control.
You know what?
I you know how you know thatthat the current administration
isn't taking this so personallybecause I would have shut down
(05:14):
the New York airport, the LAairport, and the Chicago
airport.
I would have shut them down.
No, you can't fly in or out.
I would have made all thosepeople pay for their
government's dissent.
They can open the government upand we'll put air traffic
controllers down.
But they didn't do that, theyjust across the board, based off
(05:36):
of volume, cut air trafficcontrol, right?
But these guys didn't get notone check, but two checks.
They got two donuts.
There's a problem with that,David.
And and you know what?
They didn't stop getting theirpaychecks.
Do you know?
Oh, we can't stop paying ourcongressmen.
(05:57):
They're young congressmen thatneed to get these salaries.
Again, I would have voted stoppaying the government employees.
Now government employees,meaning senators and congressmen
and their staff.
Those are the first people thatshould stop getting paychecks,
not air traffic controllers, notthe military, not the people
(06:22):
that don't have food, but thegovernment didn't have the
fortitude to take it that far.
And that I think was a bigmistake of the current
government.
Like they already hate him.
Like they they already preachhis death, death to Trump.
I mean, they they do this allday long.
But it would have been amazingif he would have done that.
(06:44):
I would have actuallycelebrated.
You know, my son came to me andasked me, I get, I guess, you I
guess you're you're not happy.
Or what's your opinion about theuh 41 days out?
I said, let him go 42.
How about 45?
I mean, at this point, thelonger they don't go, the less
(07:04):
money that we pay.
And, you know, there is nothingwrong for me for saying that
either.
Because at some point, thepeople have to look at who they
elected.
And these people are not goodpeople.
Sorry.
Fetterman, you know, changed hisstripes.
He seemed to have been, heseemed to have found center.
(07:25):
He seems like the only leader ofthe Democratic Party, by the
way.
There is no other single leaderof that party.
He actually led, he actuallyfound a position, articulated,
and he's not easy for that guyto articulate, articulated his
position on Fox and CNN.
(07:48):
You know, again, last episode weranted, we brought up Walter
Cronkite.
You know, you can't be apolitician unless you're willing
to talk to the other side.
McCain, the late McCain, thoughhe, you know, went a little
cuckoo in his later years, youknow, he always had lunch with
(08:09):
Joe Biden.
Did you know that, David?
Historical fact.
They would sit in the house andhave lunch together.
And Nancy Pelosi once came up toJoe.
This is a story I got in 2015from Joe Biden himself.
Joe on stage said, Nancy cameover to me and said, How dare
(08:31):
you have lunch?
Joe said to Nancy, I've got toeat.
He goes, but you ate with one ofthose.
Joe said, one of whose.
He goes, You ate with the otherside.
He goes, Nancy.
And this is Nancy Pelosi.
We have to talk to the otherside.
(08:54):
Nancy walked away with ascuffled look.
That's a great story that was ona speech given in 2015 by Joe
Biden.
I would love to reflect thatstory 10 years later, a decade
later, David.
You know, that story is theissue of what is wrong in
(09:18):
politics today.
There is no dialogue, there isno conversation, there's sound
bites, sound clips, and likes onInstagram.
Class, listen, you and I havealways said that Trump is not
the classiest president that'sever stepped into the office.
(09:40):
You know, he's probably like aWashington type guy, right?
Washington was a brutal, brutal,brutal president, right?
People look at him as being, oh,the greatest, the first
president.
Now he was supposed to have beena monster, right?
Making Donald Trump look like auh a pansy.
But you know, where is acivility in the White House or
(10:04):
in the halls of Congress?
I don't know, David.
SPEAKER_01 (10:07):
Well, look, Stuart, you know, I I I you kind of went
a little again.
I know, I know.
My Biden story, but you know,the Biden story is interesting
because the Biden story isexactly what the problem is.
And but Biden ended up at theend of his career, you know,
being um Nazi Pelosi's Muppet,anyways, and created device, the
divisive rhetoric, and bothsides are excessively rhetoric
(10:30):
driven and divisive, and it'salways pointing at the other
side, and it's it's both sidesthat consistently do it.
But the irony in this case waswhen the Republicans shut down
the government a number of yearsago, the vilification, you don't
care for the American people.
How many times did you hearthat?
You don't care for Americanworkers, and on and on and on
(10:52):
and on and on, and it was a30-plus day shutdown.
Even Noah, with his arc, didbetter than the Democrats going
only 40 days and you know,trying to save the the animals.
Here, who did the Democratssave?
I'm not gonna save themselves,quite frankly.
Chuck Schumer, the knives areout for him big time.
The um, you know, they the lastweek after the big wins by the
(11:15):
Democrats, and they they theyscored.
I mean, California is gonnarewrite their their electoral
map.
Mamdani is the mayor of New YorkCity, New Jersey, Virginia, all
kinds of Democrats have won.
Everybody was doing a victorylap, figuring caving in Trump.
Trump's gonna cave in again, allabout caving and knocking Trump.
(11:39):
And when it didn't happen,suddenly the egg on the face got
worse and worse.
Because once again, theDemocrats proved one thing, they
were just in it to get elected,they're not in it for anything
more than that.
And we can say I could say thisabout the Republicans too, but
in this case, the Democratsforced the shutdown.
So when you sit there and say,Yeah, but you Republicans are
(12:00):
just as bad, it's irrelevant.
Look at the situation at handright now, folks.
You got screwed by the Democratswho claim to not be like
Republicans.
So which is it?
Like you can't play both sides,and the Democrats did that.
There's a lack of leadership.
Chuck Schumer, in my mind, 2026,2028, he's out of here.
(12:21):
And you know what?
If AOC takes over, or it's oneof those other lunatics take
over, and I'm calling themlunatics because I don't believe
in social democrats.
I think that these guys arenutcases, they're gonna ruin
America even more.
That's what's gonna happen.
You're going to be led down apath, and we see this in some
cities around the world.
We see this this love affairagain for socialism that they
(12:45):
think this is the way to go isgonna is tearing the the the
Democratic Party apart.
This is good, this is gonna doit because Stuart, the irony of
it all, and by the way, ithappened here in Montreal too.
And I'll give you a parallel,okay?
And this is a crazy parallel,and to show you how the left has
no real care.
(13:05):
The amazing thing is we have atransit strike here in Montreal
that was inherited by the theold.
So we had them we had anelection last Sunday.
New mayor comes in, new mayorgoes.
This has got to end now.
The left, which is more leftthan your democrat, are very
(13:26):
very comparable to AOC andBernie said, No, we're not
ending the strike.
We don't care that people can'tget to work, we don't care that
people can't get what they need,we don't care, we are with the
union to the end.
That's the absurdity.
It wasn't about what's good forthe people, it's what's good
(13:47):
about votes.
And this was the Quebec Salida.
Look me up, people check outcheck out the quotes.
It was the same thing with theDemocrats.
We don't they didn't say it thatway, but it's exactly what
happened.
We're gonna stand with this tothe end, and we don't care who
we hurt.
(14:08):
Interesting.
The Democrats are terriblenegotiators then, because if
this is all that they got, andlater today, Stuart, we will see
the vote come down, but if thisis all that they got, and you're
in a Democrat-led state, yougotta ask your congressperson,
your senator, what the hell iswrong?
Why would you hurt us?
(14:28):
And I'm not talking about thatthe NASA channel wasn't going
wasn't broadcasting because thegovernment was shut down.
I'm talking about real peoplegetting hurt.
Did it dawn on you?
But if you still believe this isTrump's fault, then you're as
deranged as they are.
But get out of the politics forjust a second.
Forget the donkey and theelephant.
(14:49):
Who is ultimately responsible?
And think about it.
Think about it, Stuart.
Last word to you, my friend, aswe wrap up.
SPEAKER_00 (14:58):
You know, this has been a great hump day.
I feel like this was a rant thatwas like a hump.
And I think that's if we getover this hump, you know, and
and we're gonna get over thishump, yes.
Uh, you know, I just like toleave people with like this if
you look at the amount of peoplethat cast their ballots, if you
(15:22):
look at the amount of peoplethat live in that area, I want
you to do the mathematics.
Because you know, back in theday voting was important.
Today, people don't think votingis important, they think the
(15:43):
outcome is not gonna change.
I think that is where we shouldleave.
SPEAKER_01 (15:48):
Stuart, I'll give you to your point, by the way.
Here in the Montreal area, well,all of Quebec had election, all
the municipalities in thegreater Montreal area, folks.
Two were won by one vote.
One was vote won by under 30votes.
So if you don't think your votematters, it does.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's itfor another hump day version of
(16:09):
the of the land on Friday.
As Stewart brings us theapplause, we love the vote to
catch it on the end of the week.
Let's hope that this 41 dayshutdown is gone.
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