November 7, 2025 • 19 mins
America’s stuck in a loop — outrage, promises, amnesia, repeat.
In this episode, Ryan breaks down the 36-day government shutdown, the Left’s immigration flip-flops, and why voters keep falling for the same political performance every few years.
We cover:
• The longest shutdown in U.S. history — and who’s really holding it hostage
• Hillary, Obama & Schumer’s old border-security speeches vs their modern “open-arms” act
• Why sanctuary-city leadership keeps rejecting help while cities fall apart
• The voter mindset that fuels all of it
• How both parties attack Trump for actually taking accountability
• Why outrage is replacing memory in American politics
If you’re tired of the spin, the contradictions, and the emotional manipulation every election cycle, this episode is your reset button.
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(00:00):
America doesn't suffer from partisanship as much as it
suffers from amnesia. Every few years the same people
who created the fire walk back in, sell you a new brand of
gasoline, and call it people. Keep voting out of emotion, not
reason. Feelings first, consequences
later. Every couple years we go through
(00:21):
the same cycle. Outrage promises, amnesia,
repeat. So they roll out the fear
headlines, the emotional bait, the democracy is dying sound
bites. Because if they can keep you
scared or sentimental, they don't need you to think at all.
The only thing shutting down faster than our government is
our Welcome to Stay in the Fray podcast.
(00:51):
I'm your host, Ryan. This is where headlines get hit
hard, hypocracy gets shredded, and the absurd are laughed at.
If you want comfort, this isn't your place.
If you want blunt and unfiltered, I'm your guy.
Join me in the fray, all you. Need to do is just listen up.
All right, Hey, guys, welcome back.
(01:12):
Another show. Here we go.
Let's do this thing. The government is still shut
down. It's going to do a whole show on
that. But take you a different way.
Take you a little, twist it a little.
Some wild and honestly disturbing elections took place
last night. I should say the results were
disturbing logic, common sense, lost in a landslide.
(01:36):
But I'm not going to get into into the weeds on communist
momdani in New York City or Jay Jones down in Virginia wishing
death on his opponent and his kids.
I talk about that all the time, The insanity, the left, the the
hypocrisy with things people say.
And trust me, there'll be plentyof that.
New York City's new leadership will give us many more topics
(02:01):
and things to talk about as thatcity fades into ruins.
But for this episode, I want to focus on the voters and the
mindset of the people who keep getting played, who can't keep
up with the politicians, mainly on the left, shifting their
position to fit whatever the narrative of the day happens to
(02:23):
be. People keep voting out of
emotion, not reason. Feelings first, consequences
later. Every couple years we go through
the same cycle. Outrage promises, amnesia,
repeat. The signs are always there,
headlines screaming change, politicians pretending they just
(02:46):
discovered morality, and voters lining up to buy hope with
credit. Let's be clear, the hypocrisy
isn't limited to just one party.You've got the old guard
Republicans, the the deep state crowd who talk fiscal
responsibility and then spend like a teenager with a new
credit card. But Donald Trump changed that
(03:07):
equation on the right. He broke up the Country Club
routine. And that's why both parties,
especially the professional politicians, hate him.
He's the guy who started pointing out the con while the
magician was still performing. And now here we are, the
government shut down because Republicans won't sign off on
(03:29):
funding illegal immigrants, their healthcare, and their
housing. Democrats have have blocked 14
separate votes to reopen it, allwhile going on TV to say that
Republicans don't care about theworking Americans.
Meanwhile, TSA agents, air traffic controllers, food
inspectors, the people who actually keep the country
(03:51):
running are sitting at home without pay.
Congress still collecting that paycheck, though.
Of course they are. Washington always pays itself
first. Except for your president.
You know, the guy who still doesn't take a salary.
Let's talk about it. This is Stay in the Fray
podcast. It is November the 5th, 2025.
(04:12):
Let's roll. So every few years before the
elections, the country forgets that it just got conned by the
same salesman, different tie, same pitch, and we fall for it
again. The cycle goes like I mentioned,
like this outrage, promises, forgetting, and repeat.
(04:33):
One year we're furious about spending, corruption and border
chaos, and the next year we're too busy fighting about pronouns
to care that Congress just printed out another trillion.
And politicians, they know the the attention span shot.
They don't even try to hide it anymore.
They'll say one thing in January, the opposite in March.
(04:55):
And by summer, their PR teams already repackaged it as growth.
Now, yeah, the Republican side has had its share of
professional phonies. The Deep state crowd who play
golf with lobbyists, talk small government and then vote to fund
every pet project on on the Hill.
(05:15):
They're part of the reason Trumprattled the system so badly.
He didn't just challenge the Democrats, He blew up the fake
unity club inside his own party.And the establishment still mad
that they can't get back their cocktail hour, peace and quiet.
But what we're seeing right now,the media meltdowns, the
contradictions, the Republicans don't care narrative, It's
(05:38):
textbook election year amnesia. People forget that the same
Democrats screaming about protect democracy were the ones
pushing border walls in budget freezes A decade ago.
Now they're auditioning for sainthood while blocking every
bill that might actually reopen the government again.
That's the pattern. Every few years, the outrage
(06:01):
gets a a rebrand. The lies get a facelift.
Voters get memory hold. It's not that Americans can't
see the hypocrisy, it's that they're too exhausted to keep
track of it all. The politicians, well, they're
counting on that. They don't need you to remember,
they just need you to react. So they roll out the fear
(06:24):
headlines, the emotional bait, the democracy is dying sound
bites. Because if they can keep you
scared or sentimental, they don't need you to think at all.
So let's talk about selective memory, the kind that would make
a goldfish look like an historian.
The left loves pretending that they've always been the party of
(06:47):
compassion. Open borders.
But let's rewind a decade. Same faces, completely different
script. Take a look at this.
Look, you've broken the law. You didn't come here the way you
were supposed to. So this is not going to be a
(07:08):
free ride. What's going to happen is you
are going to learn English, you are going to you are going to go
to the back of the line so that you don't get ahead of somebody
who was in Mexico City applying legally.
I think the American people, they appreciate and believe in
immigration, but they can't havea situation where you just have
(07:30):
half a million people pouring over the border without any kind
of mechanism to control it. They should be sent back as soon
as it can be determined who responsible adults and their
families are, because there are concerns about whether all of
them can be sent back. But I think all of them who can
be should be reunited with theirfamilies.
(07:51):
Well, that was then. How about now?
So. It's rounding up and deporting
millions of desperate people. Many of them are women and
children. If that's the answer to
everything, well, why is it thatthe number of undocumented
immigrants were basically the same?
When he left office is when he took office.
He didn't. He didn't solve the problem, and
(08:13):
I'll tell you why. Because he does not have a real
plan. He has a concept of a plan, and
it's a mean and ugly plan designed to foster resentment
and divide people. Meanwhile, what's happening to
families at the border is horrific.
Nursing infants being ripped away from their mothers.
(08:37):
Parents being told their toddlers are being taken to
bathe or play only to realize hours later they aren't coming
back. Children incarcerated in
warehouses and, according to oneaccount, kept in cages.
This is a moral and humanitariancrisis.
(09:00):
There you go. 10 years ago it forced the law.
Today pretend that laws are optional.
Same people, opposite message and 0 accountability.
Why do you think that is? Because they refused to align
with big bad orange man? Even if it means sharing the
(09:20):
same goals. And let's not forget, under
Obama more illegal immigrants were deported than under any
president in modern history. So spare me the moral lecture.
They use the same process they use now.
They use the same process they now call inhumane.
Apparently it only became cruel once they realized they could
(09:41):
try and score votes by opposing it.
Fast forward to now, those same sanctuary city mayors, you know,
Johnson in Chicago, Bass in Los Angeles.
Now after last night, mom Donniein New York.
They're not asking for help. They're rejecting it like little
brats. Trump offers to send federal
(10:01):
resources, manpower and policy clean up, and they throw a fit.
They're doubling down on the same failed ideas that created
the chaos. Here's a scenario for you.
It's a basic one, and we all know the answer, but I'll still
spell it out. If Barack Obama was president
right now and offered the exact same help, the exact type of
(10:21):
federal intervention in the exact same type of situation,
you think someone like Brandon Johnson in Chicago would be
yelling back at him? You think Karen Bass would be
lecturing over in LA? Oh, of course not.
They'd be rolling out the fucking red carpet.
But because it's Trump and the modern right, they'd rather let
their cities burn than admit theother side might have a
(10:43):
solution. Party over country with these
people, I suppose. And they're proud of it, it
seems. And leading that parade is, like
I mentioned, in New York's brandnew mayor, Zoran Mamdani, a
socialist communist whose policies could bankrupt a
lemonade stand. He's talking about solidarity
(11:04):
with migrants while his city can't even afford housing for
taxpayers. Solidarity is easy when someone
else's foot in the bill. And all this feeds straight into
our government's shutdown now, by the way, the longest in U.S.
history, 36 days, I believe. Republicans said maybe we
shouldn't, I don't know, fund free health care and housing for
(11:26):
people who enter the country illegally.
Democrats said, well, that's hateful.
Then the Dems blocked 14 separate votes to reopen the
government just to protect that headline.
That's not compassion, it's theater.
They want things to look chaotic, even though we all know
whose fault it is. They're not defending people.
(11:46):
They're defending the brand. And every time this happens,
their voters line up to cheer the encore.
So here's where the rubber meetsthe road.
Federal government, like I said,has now been shut down for 36
days as of today, November the 5th, 2025.
That makes this the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
(12:08):
What? What does that mean for working
Americans? Real lives, Real disruption.
Around 900,000 federal workers have been furloughed.
Millions more working without pay and their key services too.
Air traffic control, it's a big one.
TSA, food safety inspections, national parks, visa processing
(12:31):
all compromised. The cost is billions.
The economy is bleeding now. So where's the blame going?
Well, I just told you, let's break it down.
The Republican controlled House passed reopening bills 14 times.
I can't say it enough. Democrats blocked them.
Meanwhile, it's always framed like Republicans won't budget.
(12:54):
But what we're seeing is that the Democrats are the ones
holding out. They're demanding extensions for
things like increased health care benefits for illegal
immigrants before they'll reopen.
Let me put that plainly. Working Americans are getting
caught in the crossfire of political theater.
TSA agents sleeping in their cars.
(13:14):
Air traffic controllers managinghundreds of flights but seeing
no paycheck. Inspectors missing work while
the media runs headlines about government dysfunction.
And both sides are failing us. Here is your truth.
This isn't bipartisan meltdown. It's a one side holdout dressed
(13:35):
as compromise. And yes, look, the Republicans
are flawed. I'm not sitting here saying that
that that one side is perfect and the other is not.
But in this case, I'll call themout too.
If people say, I mean, you're never, never willing to call
them out, I'll call them out. The deep state, the deep state
types, the spenders that pretendthey're savers, I'll call them
out. But right now, the lion's share
(13:55):
of leverage, the narrative framing, the moral high ground
is being held by the left. It just is.
They say they care about workingAmericans and then they block
reopening the government when given the chance.
Over and over again. They say they care about the
rule of law. Then they push for benefits for
people who broke federal law. So what does this mean for you?
(14:18):
Well, if you're federal worker, your pay is late, your budget is
tight, your voice is mum in the national chaos.
If you're a traveller, well, flights get delayed, inspections
are skipped, red tape rises. I wouldn't want to be travelling
right now. I don't need some tired unpaid
air traffic controller guiding my plane.
(14:41):
If you're a taxpayer, you're funding this mess either way.
And yet you get blamed for wanting accountability.
If you're a voter, you're being told to pick your side while
while your memory gets reset forthe next election cycle.
We're living in the election year amnesia, where the same
people who caused the shutdown are now telling you the other
(15:02):
side's the problem. If you don't remember what they
said five years ago, it all checks out in their favor.
Here's what I keep coming back to.
America doesn't suffer from partisanship as much as it
suffers from amnesia. Every few years, the same people
who created the fire walk back in, sell you a new brand of
gasoline, and call it hope. The left has mastered the art of
(15:26):
short term outrage. They build entire campaigns off
emotion, fear, guilt, virtue, whatever polls best that week.
Voters, enough of you take the bait every time you see it with
the shutdown right now. 14 Republican votes to reopen, 0
cooperation for Democrats who keep saying Republicans don't
(15:47):
care about workers. Meanwhile, it's the real workers
getting hammered while DC arguesabout who gets to look
compassionate on camera. But this cycle of fake morality
goes way beyond our borders. Let's take a quick look at the
Democrats relationship with Israel.
For decades they stood shoulder to shoulder with America's only
(16:09):
democratic ally in the Middle East, even while the Gaza
conflict was still raging. Half of you protesting on behalf
of Palestinians Hamas don't evenrealize how long the fight over
there has been going on. Now suddenly the Dems and you
people act like supporting Israel is so controversial.
Nothing about the conflict has changed in the last few years.
(16:33):
What changed was the political market.
It became trendier to wear the Palestinian flag in your bio
than to understand the history. So the same politicians who once
praised Israel's right to defenditself are now kneeling at the
altar of public outrage? They're trading decades of
foreign policy consistency for afew retweets.
(16:53):
And I'm not saying the Israeli government doesn't have its own
part in everything. I'm I'm not.
That's the point. You can condemn both sides
without taking without praising one of them.
The conflict has been polarized.If you don't choose a side, the
mob points their pitchforks at you.
It's not about principle anymore.
(17:14):
It's about applause and virtue. This is how it always goes.
Do you state deep state? Republicans sell you stability.
Democrats sell you empathy. Neither wants accountability
because accountability ruins theshow.
And that's why they both go after Donald Trump.
He's the one guy actually takingaccountability and making things
(17:35):
happen. Whether you agree with the
policies or not. It's real action.
It's not fake rhetoric. It's not performance art.
He's proof that the system couldwork if the people in charge
weren't allergic to results. Neither side can afford that
kind of proof because it exposeswhat they've been doing all
along, pretending to lead while protecting their own comfort.
(18:00):
Every few years they reboot the same drama.
The heroes, the villains, the promises, the panic.
And by the next election, votershave forgotten who wrote the
last season. The truth?
The only thing shutting down faster than our government is
our collective memory. Maybe it's not election year
amnesia anymore. Maybe it's terminal.
(18:22):
So that's it. The frustration for the
political behavior has me fuming.
If you're with me at all on this, keep sharing and liking.
Spread this to people you know. This is something that we really
need to think about. There used to be jokes when I
was a kid about politicians. It was all, you know, you sound
like a politician. And there's a truth to that.
(18:45):
And now it's no longer somethingthat we look at.
So like, again, like and subscribe to all that and we'll
catch back up with laughing at the things that these people
say. But I really wanted to hit you
from this perspective during this government shutdown.
It it's, it's unbelievable to methat it's still going on and
it's unbelievable that we just forget hypocrisy and we forget
(19:07):
that this is just theater. So stay aware, stay sharp, stay
grounded, stay in the fray. Love you guys, all you.
Need to do is just listen up.
America doesn't suffer from partisanship as much as it
suffers from amnesia. Every few years the same people
who created the fire walk back in, sell you a new brand of
gasoline, and call it people. Keep voting out of emotion, not
reason. Feelings first, consequences
later. Every couple years we go through
(00:21):
the same cycle. Outrage promises, amnesia,
repeat. So they roll out the fear
headlines, the emotional bait, the democracy is dying sound
bites. Because if they can keep you
scared or sentimental, they don't need you to think at all.
The only thing shutting down faster than our government is
our Welcome to Stay in the Fray podcast.
(00:51):
I'm your host, Ryan. This is where headlines get hit
hard, hypocracy gets shredded, and the absurd are laughed at.
If you want comfort, this isn't your place.
If you want blunt and unfiltered, I'm your guy.
Join me in the fray, all you. Need to do is just listen up.
All right, Hey, guys, welcome back.
(01:12):
Another show. Here we go.
Let's do this thing. The government is still shut
down. It's going to do a whole show on
that. But take you a different way.
Take you a little, twist it a little.
Some wild and honestly disturbing elections took place
last night. I should say the results were
disturbing logic, common sense, lost in a landslide.
(01:36):
But I'm not going to get into into the weeds on communist
momdani in New York City or Jay Jones down in Virginia wishing
death on his opponent and his kids.
I talk about that all the time, The insanity, the left, the the
hypocrisy with things people say.
And trust me, there'll be plentyof that.
New York City's new leadership will give us many more topics
(02:01):
and things to talk about as thatcity fades into ruins.
But for this episode, I want to focus on the voters and the
mindset of the people who keep getting played, who can't keep
up with the politicians, mainly on the left, shifting their
position to fit whatever the narrative of the day happens to
(02:23):
be. People keep voting out of
emotion, not reason. Feelings first, consequences
later. Every couple years we go through
the same cycle. Outrage promises, amnesia,
repeat. The signs are always there,
headlines screaming change, politicians pretending they just
(02:46):
discovered morality, and voters lining up to buy hope with
credit. Let's be clear, the hypocrisy
isn't limited to just one party.You've got the old guard
Republicans, the the deep state crowd who talk fiscal
responsibility and then spend like a teenager with a new
credit card. But Donald Trump changed that
(03:07):
equation on the right. He broke up the Country Club
routine. And that's why both parties,
especially the professional politicians, hate him.
He's the guy who started pointing out the con while the
magician was still performing. And now here we are, the
government shut down because Republicans won't sign off on
(03:29):
funding illegal immigrants, their healthcare, and their
housing. Democrats have have blocked 14
separate votes to reopen it, allwhile going on TV to say that
Republicans don't care about theworking Americans.
Meanwhile, TSA agents, air traffic controllers, food
inspectors, the people who actually keep the country
(03:51):
running are sitting at home without pay.
Congress still collecting that paycheck, though.
Of course they are. Washington always pays itself
first. Except for your president.
You know, the guy who still doesn't take a salary.
Let's talk about it. This is Stay in the Fray
podcast. It is November the 5th, 2025.
(04:12):
Let's roll. So every few years before the
elections, the country forgets that it just got conned by the
same salesman, different tie, same pitch, and we fall for it
again. The cycle goes like I mentioned,
like this outrage, promises, forgetting, and repeat.
(04:33):
One year we're furious about spending, corruption and border
chaos, and the next year we're too busy fighting about pronouns
to care that Congress just printed out another trillion.
And politicians, they know the the attention span shot.
They don't even try to hide it anymore.
They'll say one thing in January, the opposite in March.
(04:55):
And by summer, their PR teams already repackaged it as growth.
Now, yeah, the Republican side has had its share of
professional phonies. The Deep state crowd who play
golf with lobbyists, talk small government and then vote to fund
every pet project on on the Hill.
(05:15):
They're part of the reason Trumprattled the system so badly.
He didn't just challenge the Democrats, He blew up the fake
unity club inside his own party.And the establishment still mad
that they can't get back their cocktail hour, peace and quiet.
But what we're seeing right now,the media meltdowns, the
contradictions, the Republicans don't care narrative, It's
(05:38):
textbook election year amnesia. People forget that the same
Democrats screaming about protect democracy were the ones
pushing border walls in budget freezes A decade ago.
Now they're auditioning for sainthood while blocking every
bill that might actually reopen the government again.
That's the pattern. Every few years, the outrage
(06:01):
gets a a rebrand. The lies get a facelift.
Voters get memory hold. It's not that Americans can't
see the hypocrisy, it's that they're too exhausted to keep
track of it all. The politicians, well, they're
counting on that. They don't need you to remember,
they just need you to react. So they roll out the fear
(06:24):
headlines, the emotional bait, the democracy is dying sound
bites. Because if they can keep you
scared or sentimental, they don't need you to think at all.
So let's talk about selective memory, the kind that would make
a goldfish look like an historian.
The left loves pretending that they've always been the party of
(06:47):
compassion. Open borders.
But let's rewind a decade. Same faces, completely different
script. Take a look at this.
Look, you've broken the law. You didn't come here the way you
were supposed to. So this is not going to be a
(07:08):
free ride. What's going to happen is you
are going to learn English, you are going to you are going to go
to the back of the line so that you don't get ahead of somebody
who was in Mexico City applying legally.
I think the American people, they appreciate and believe in
immigration, but they can't havea situation where you just have
(07:30):
half a million people pouring over the border without any kind
of mechanism to control it. They should be sent back as soon
as it can be determined who responsible adults and their
families are, because there are concerns about whether all of
them can be sent back. But I think all of them who can
be should be reunited with theirfamilies.
(07:51):
Well, that was then. How about now?
So. It's rounding up and deporting
millions of desperate people. Many of them are women and
children. If that's the answer to
everything, well, why is it thatthe number of undocumented
immigrants were basically the same?
When he left office is when he took office.
He didn't. He didn't solve the problem, and
(08:13):
I'll tell you why. Because he does not have a real
plan. He has a concept of a plan, and
it's a mean and ugly plan designed to foster resentment
and divide people. Meanwhile, what's happening to
families at the border is horrific.
Nursing infants being ripped away from their mothers.
(08:37):
Parents being told their toddlers are being taken to
bathe or play only to realize hours later they aren't coming
back. Children incarcerated in
warehouses and, according to oneaccount, kept in cages.
This is a moral and humanitariancrisis.
(09:00):
There you go. 10 years ago it forced the law.
Today pretend that laws are optional.
Same people, opposite message and 0 accountability.
Why do you think that is? Because they refused to align
with big bad orange man? Even if it means sharing the
(09:20):
same goals. And let's not forget, under
Obama more illegal immigrants were deported than under any
president in modern history. So spare me the moral lecture.
They use the same process they use now.
They use the same process they now call inhumane.
Apparently it only became cruel once they realized they could
(09:41):
try and score votes by opposing it.
Fast forward to now, those same sanctuary city mayors, you know,
Johnson in Chicago, Bass in Los Angeles.
Now after last night, mom Donniein New York.
They're not asking for help. They're rejecting it like little
brats. Trump offers to send federal
(10:01):
resources, manpower and policy clean up, and they throw a fit.
They're doubling down on the same failed ideas that created
the chaos. Here's a scenario for you.
It's a basic one, and we all know the answer, but I'll still
spell it out. If Barack Obama was president
right now and offered the exact same help, the exact type of
(10:21):
federal intervention in the exact same type of situation,
you think someone like Brandon Johnson in Chicago would be
yelling back at him? You think Karen Bass would be
lecturing over in LA? Oh, of course not.
They'd be rolling out the fucking red carpet.
But because it's Trump and the modern right, they'd rather let
their cities burn than admit theother side might have a
(10:43):
solution. Party over country with these
people, I suppose. And they're proud of it, it
seems. And leading that parade is, like
I mentioned, in New York's brandnew mayor, Zoran Mamdani, a
socialist communist whose policies could bankrupt a
lemonade stand. He's talking about solidarity
(11:04):
with migrants while his city can't even afford housing for
taxpayers. Solidarity is easy when someone
else's foot in the bill. And all this feeds straight into
our government's shutdown now, by the way, the longest in U.S.
history, 36 days, I believe. Republicans said maybe we
shouldn't, I don't know, fund free health care and housing for
(11:26):
people who enter the country illegally.
Democrats said, well, that's hateful.
Then the Dems blocked 14 separate votes to reopen the
government just to protect that headline.
That's not compassion, it's theater.
They want things to look chaotic, even though we all know
whose fault it is. They're not defending people.
(11:46):
They're defending the brand. And every time this happens,
their voters line up to cheer the encore.
So here's where the rubber meetsthe road.
Federal government, like I said,has now been shut down for 36
days as of today, November the 5th, 2025.
That makes this the longest shutdown in U.S. history.
(12:08):
What? What does that mean for working
Americans? Real lives, Real disruption.
Around 900,000 federal workers have been furloughed.
Millions more working without pay and their key services too.
Air traffic control, it's a big one.
TSA, food safety inspections, national parks, visa processing
(12:31):
all compromised. The cost is billions.
The economy is bleeding now. So where's the blame going?
Well, I just told you, let's break it down.
The Republican controlled House passed reopening bills 14 times.
I can't say it enough. Democrats blocked them.
Meanwhile, it's always framed like Republicans won't budget.
(12:54):
But what we're seeing is that the Democrats are the ones
holding out. They're demanding extensions for
things like increased health care benefits for illegal
immigrants before they'll reopen.
Let me put that plainly. Working Americans are getting
caught in the crossfire of political theater.
TSA agents sleeping in their cars.
(13:14):
Air traffic controllers managinghundreds of flights but seeing
no paycheck. Inspectors missing work while
the media runs headlines about government dysfunction.
And both sides are failing us. Here is your truth.
This isn't bipartisan meltdown. It's a one side holdout dressed
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as compromise. And yes, look, the Republicans
are flawed. I'm not sitting here saying that
that that one side is perfect and the other is not.
But in this case, I'll call themout too.
If people say, I mean, you're never, never willing to call
them out, I'll call them out. The deep state, the deep state
types, the spenders that pretendthey're savers, I'll call them
out. But right now, the lion's share
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of leverage, the narrative framing, the moral high ground
is being held by the left. It just is.
They say they care about workingAmericans and then they block
reopening the government when given the chance.
Over and over again. They say they care about the
rule of law. Then they push for benefits for
people who broke federal law. So what does this mean for you?
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Well, if you're federal worker, your pay is late, your budget is
tight, your voice is mum in the national chaos.
If you're a traveller, well, flights get delayed, inspections
are skipped, red tape rises. I wouldn't want to be travelling
right now. I don't need some tired unpaid
air traffic controller guiding my plane.
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If you're a taxpayer, you're funding this mess either way.
And yet you get blamed for wanting accountability.
If you're a voter, you're being told to pick your side while
while your memory gets reset forthe next election cycle.
We're living in the election year amnesia, where the same
people who caused the shutdown are now telling you the other
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side's the problem. If you don't remember what they
said five years ago, it all checks out in their favor.
Here's what I keep coming back to.
America doesn't suffer from partisanship as much as it
suffers from amnesia. Every few years, the same people
who created the fire walk back in, sell you a new brand of
gasoline, and call it hope. The left has mastered the art of
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short term outrage. They build entire campaigns off
emotion, fear, guilt, virtue, whatever polls best that week.
Voters, enough of you take the bait every time you see it with
the shutdown right now. 14 Republican votes to reopen, 0
cooperation for Democrats who keep saying Republicans don't
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care about workers. Meanwhile, it's the real workers
getting hammered while DC arguesabout who gets to look
compassionate on camera. But this cycle of fake morality
goes way beyond our borders. Let's take a quick look at the
Democrats relationship with Israel.
For decades they stood shoulder to shoulder with America's only
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democratic ally in the Middle East, even while the Gaza
conflict was still raging. Half of you protesting on behalf
of Palestinians Hamas don't evenrealize how long the fight over
there has been going on. Now suddenly the Dems and you
people act like supporting Israel is so controversial.
Nothing about the conflict has changed in the last few years.
(16:33):
What changed was the political market.
It became trendier to wear the Palestinian flag in your bio
than to understand the history. So the same politicians who once
praised Israel's right to defenditself are now kneeling at the
altar of public outrage? They're trading decades of
foreign policy consistency for afew retweets.
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And I'm not saying the Israeli government doesn't have its own
part in everything. I'm I'm not.
That's the point. You can condemn both sides
without taking without praising one of them.
The conflict has been polarized.If you don't choose a side, the
mob points their pitchforks at you.
It's not about principle anymore.
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It's about applause and virtue. This is how it always goes.
Do you state deep state? Republicans sell you stability.
Democrats sell you empathy. Neither wants accountability
because accountability ruins theshow.
And that's why they both go after Donald Trump.
He's the one guy actually takingaccountability and making things
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happen. Whether you agree with the
policies or not. It's real action.
It's not fake rhetoric. It's not performance art.
He's proof that the system couldwork if the people in charge
weren't allergic to results. Neither side can afford that
kind of proof because it exposeswhat they've been doing all
along, pretending to lead while protecting their own comfort.
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Every few years they reboot the same drama.
The heroes, the villains, the promises, the panic.
And by the next election, votershave forgotten who wrote the
last season. The truth?
The only thing shutting down faster than our government is
our collective memory. Maybe it's not election year
amnesia anymore. Maybe it's terminal.
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So that's it. The frustration for the
political behavior has me fuming.
If you're with me at all on this, keep sharing and liking.
Spread this to people you know. This is something that we really
need to think about. There used to be jokes when I
was a kid about politicians. It was all, you know, you sound
like a politician. And there's a truth to that.
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And now it's no longer somethingthat we look at.
So like, again, like and subscribe to all that and we'll
catch back up with laughing at the things that these people
say. But I really wanted to hit you
from this perspective during this government shutdown.
It it's, it's unbelievable to methat it's still going on and
it's unbelievable that we just forget hypocrisy and we forget
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that this is just theater. So stay aware, stay sharp, stay
grounded, stay in the fray. Love you guys, all you.
Need to do is just listen up.
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