October 22, 2025 • 40 mins
Todd tackles the core question of the moment: should the Senate filibuster be set aside to reopen the government? He breaks down how cloture works, why a simple majority could be enough under the so-called “nuclear option,” and why he says this is a Schumer-led shutdown. Todd also reacts to Sen. John Fetterman’s surprising openness to scrapping the filibuster for funding bills and a rare moment of clarity on The View where Bernie Sanders concedes a fair point about lawmakers’ pay during a shutdown. Plus: the left’s outrage over Trump’s White House ballroom project, and what history tells us about renovations at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Conservative, not bitter—just the facts, the mechanics, and the stakes.
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All right, my friends, should the fellabuster come to an
end here for the government shutdown purposes? Senator John Fetterman
a Democrats out there saying that it should. That could
actually change things quite a bit. I want to talk
about that today. I also want to talk a little
bit about Bernie Sanders being on the View. The View
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you actually said, the View said something that mattered and
was actually correct. My friends, It's an absolutely astonishing thing
and kind of I guess called Bernie Sanders out. I
want to play that clip time permitting. Here we got
this discussion about the or this well, I would say
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the outrage added to the list of things that the
left is outraged about Trump's White House ballroom project, which
demolition has begun. Or I guess the phase that sets
up the next phase of construction, so they're outraged about that.
We'll get to that as well, including some history of
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things that have happened at the White House. And that's
where we're headed today, my friends, talking of course about
the shutdown along the way as well. That's where we're headed.
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here we go. Let's get to the story, the news
of the day. My friends, we're on day number what
is it, twenty two October twenty second, day twenty two
of the Schumer shut down. Now, I've gone through this extensively.
I don't want to repeat it every time, but I
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have to set it up a little bit because we
may have new listeners who just need a little bit
of context. We might just need a little bit of
a refresher personally, just as we get into the frame
of thinking about this particular issue. Yes, Republicans have control
of the House of Representatives. Yes Republicans have control of
the Senate, and yes Republicans have control of the White House.
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That matters in some areas, but not in all areas.
That matters in the Senate, that matters the least because
of something called the filibuster. That might be an over
simplistic way of framing it, but for the sake of
this discussion and the sake of time, I'm the filibuster.
Just because you have a majority, a control of the
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of the of the Senate Chamber, it does not mean
that you have the ability to do whatever your party
wants just because you have the majority because of this
little rule called the filibuster rule, and the filibuster rule
requires three fifths supermajority to end debate on a topic
before bringing it to a vote on the Senate floor.
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It still only requires a majority vote to pass legislation,
but there's a three fifths supermajority that prevents something from
actually getting to the floor votes to the floor of
the Senate for a vote. And so that's what's that's
the problem here in the Senate with the shutdown. So
Republicans have fifty three senators, a majority, Democrats and Independence
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who caucus with the Democrats are in the minority at
forty seven. But because they don't have less than forty
or less, Republicans still need help from the Democrats to
get things done in the US Senate. And so one
of those folks that sometimes votes with Republicans, certainly not
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all the time, is but who does in some instances
is John Fetterman, a Democrat from the common Pennsylvania Commonwealth
Commonwealth state of Pennsylvania. And Fetterman's out there saying that
the this is according to I think a Fox News
article yesterday, Senator John Fetterman, Democrat Pennsylvania, said he would
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support Republicans using quote the nuclear option. You may have
heard this term used before. It's a little dramatic and
nuclear option. I mean, my goodness, nuclear warfare. We all
know what that does. We've all seen the nuclear test,
We've all seen and know the history a little bit
in a way about the destruction and the capability of
these weapons. But it's called the nuclear option as though
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it's some dramatic, just extreme event up in a nuke
metaphorically on Washington, DC. I guess if you get rid
of the filibuster for select reasons, that's what we're supposed
to believe. But Fetterman's out there saying that this is
something that would make sense. In fact, he added he
added this quote, he said, we ran on killing the filibusterer.
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Now talking about Democrats, we the Democrats, we now love it,
he said, we now love it. We've campaigned on getting
rid of it, and now we love it because it's
actually favoring what we're trying to do. And Fetterman says, look,
this should not be a tool that's being used by
Democrats in the Senate to keep the government shut down.
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And that, my friends, he's exactly right. First of all,
he's analyzed and assessed the problem. Right. The problem is
that it is a Schumer shutdown. It is a Democrat shutdown. Yes,
Ran Paul will not vote for these continuing resolutions, as
he hasn't in this particular case, but the other fifty
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two Republicans have. So the problem are the forty seven
Democrats and the one vote of Rand Paul. I at
least understand where Ram Paul's coming from. Rand Paul is
trying to get spending under control, and every time there's
a spending bill that he thinks spends too much money,
he's going to oppose it. I understand and appreciate a
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part of that. I do. I also understand that you know,
there are that this has to be a multiple step process.
If we're going to negotiate, now, this government's going to
stay shut down for a long time. And that's that's
not a good thing. It's not Listen, the longer this
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goes on, the more pain that people feel, the more
difficulties that arise. But I mean, we've gone what three
weeks now, and that would say by and large, the
average American hasn't really felt any difference. I remember again
when this was kind of a bigger thing that people
were more concerned about, say six, seven, eight, ten years ago.
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This really got people in a frenzy. You know, the
government's going to be shut down. This they've lost, they've
lost all of that. I mean, yes, the radical left
is still terrified because their politicians stir them into a frenzy.
By the way, that's a subject of today's Todd Talk
if you want to listen to that. That's in the
newsletter or on our website if you want to take
a listen. But most people are realizing that our governments
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still buying large operates at least for three weeks with
the government shut down underway. So now that doesn't minimize
again the pain of people who are being impacted by this,
People who are not getting paid currently, people who are
businesses who are getting paid, employees who aren't getting paid,
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or who are furloughed or whatever else. And those are
real things. I saw that there was an article at
Least Anyway headline said that was forty two million Americans
are in danger of losing at least temporary access to
food stamps. I don't know to what degree that again
is reality versus fear mongering. But those stories are at
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least starting to come out, and some of these things
are legitimately beginning to happen. As we venture into largely
uncharted territory. This becomes one of the longest shutdowns that
we've ever experienced, and Fetterman's out here saying, look, there's
a logical and simple way to fix this problem, and
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that logical and simple way is to change the rules
for the filibuster so that so that we don't have
a filibuster keeping the government shut down. So they call
this the nuclear option. I think that's super dramatic, but
that's what they call it. So what have to happen?
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Let me paint the picture as I understand it. After
researching this and trying to find a simple way to
explain this, let's go through the mechanics of the filibuster,
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option as they call it in the Senate, which would
basically mean ending the filibusters selectively for appropriations bills or
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these continuing resolutions. However it can be specifically defined. Let's
just kind of walk through what that process would look like,
just to kind of explain what Fetterman means. So what
would happen is a funding bill fails to reach sixty
votes for cloture. That's under Senate Rule twenty two. Cloture
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is basically, cloture is a vote to end the filibuster,
to end the debate on a particular bill. So they
bring a bill to the floor of the Senate, which
they've done before, they just haven't taken these next steps.
So you bring this to the Senate and it fails
to reach sixty votes, they fail to invoke cloture. The
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bill is prevented from a final vote, which blocks it
from actually passing the Senate. This is where we stand
right now, is this is where they're not getting traction.
This could all change if the rule changed. Now. There's
concern about changing the rule because the filibuster is something
both sides, especially in a very tightly contested US Senate,
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where one party might lead by a couple seats in
one particular congress, and then in the next congress another
party might lead by a couple of others. It's very
close in many in many instances, and so the party
who's not in power likes the filibuster because it prevents
some new policies from being enacted by the Senate that
they don't you know that the party that's not in
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power that they opposed, that they don't want to see
implemented in our nation. Now, this is I think has
been abused. This has been abused. This was used to
stop judges from getting appointed and so forth. This was
threatened to be used. I don't know if it was ever.
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I know that there was. The nuclear option was invoked
for Supreme Court justices. So basically you can't filibuster Supreme
Court justice. So there still is a filibuster rule, but
there are exceptions for what the filibuster can be used for,
and generally speaking, it can be used for virtually everything
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except for a couple of these exceptions, including including a
Supreme Court justice vote. So in this case, what would
have to happen is the bill would have to go
to the Senate. It doesn't reach sixty votes, a senator
could raise a point of order asserting that the Appropriations
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Bill should require only a simple majority to close debate,
not be subjected to the filibuster. The presiding officer the
parliamentarian would rule that the motion was out of order.
So they're gonna because that's what it is. If this
is all procedure. This is just like triggering the process.
So the parliamentarian is gonna say, look, that's out of order.
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We're following the rules. This has to have a sixty
vote threshold. The majority then appeals the ruling of the Chair.
And then so the parliamentarian makes the ruling, which is correct.
The majority would then appeal that ruling. Then if a
excuse me, a simple majority at that point could vote
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to overturn the ruling of the chair. A new precedent
is established by removing that sixty vote requirement, that filibuster
requirement for that category of legislation. Then the Senate can
vote cloture pass the measure with a simple majority vote.
So Fetterman saying that's what needs to happen. That, by
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the way, is called the nuclear option, which again is
so dramatic, right, is so dramatic. There's nothing in the
Constitution that says that there must be a filibuster. These
are agreed upon rules, and both parties have by and
large kept the filibuster intact with certain certain limitations. And
this might be one that the that the Republicans institute.
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Here again, another example that I'm aware of right now
at the moment sitting here is the Supreme Court justices.
You can't filibuster. You can't filibuster Supreme Court justices. I
don't think you can filibuster lower court justices anymore either,
because these are tactics that are used right so the party.
So here's the here's the thing, the filibuster in philosophy. Philosophically,
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I understand the idea. The idea is. The idea is
that it is a mechanism that says we're going to
we want a tool that says we don't just want
some of these key changes to our society to be
squeaked through to just ekene through the Senate because one
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party has a one vote majority or whatever, and so
we want to have some requirement that says a little
bit larger percentage of the Senate would be required to
go along with these changes to give their stamp of approval.
We don't want big changes to come by these razor
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thin margins. That's kind of the thinking behind it, and
it requires it would it would force more, you know,
maybe more cooperation and negotiation between the parties, more bipartisanship,
whatever you think of that. I'm just telling you that
the thinking that leads to the filibuster. The filibuster is
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really designed to be something that prevents that creates sort
of I don't know, a safety net, if you will,
I don't like that term, but a safety net that says,
here are some things that the Senate. It's going to
be harder to pass through the Senate. You're going to
need more support for this. Again, not just something that
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can eke on through. You're going to want something that
the majority, more than the majority, are actually on board with,
which could require some changes, which could mean that the
legislation that's being passed through the Senate is going to
be more moderate and less say extreme, more partisan, because
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there's a mechanism by which the party who's not in
power can kind of impact what these things look like
by using the filibuster. And so if they're not clearly
something that's popular amongst the US Senate, who of course
represent the people in the states of this country, then
there's a mechanism by which the party that's not in
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power can prevent big changes from happening to our government
simply because they don't have control of that particular chamber.
Now it's being wielded in many cases as a tool
to throw the wrench in the gears. And this is
something that we see when Trump, of course is presidents.
We see this happen in other examples too. But basically,
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the philosophy of the left when Trump is president is
that they're staging a permanent sit in. They are going
to put their heels in the ground, they're going to
throw their temper tanks. They're going to oppose everything. They're
going to make everything take as long as possible. They
want it to be hard for him to get his
cabinet appointed. They want it to be hard for him
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to do anything that he wants to do, because the
harder it is, the more political capital it takes to
move the ball, the more it grinds things to a
hault that slow. I mean, Trump has big, big vision,
a big view of the things he wants to get done.
That's why you see all these fights. That's why you
see the fights regarding the National Guard and so forth.
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The Democrats just have a position, if Trump is for it,
we're against it, and we're going to use strategically. What
we're gonna do, the Democrats would say, is we're going
to use the political capital we have and spend it all,
invest it all into driving fear and paranoia about Trump.
That's where these no Kings protests come from. They want
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to see people out in the streets. They want to
see people out there protesting just anything about Trump that
they can possibly get them to protest. They want to
see them, the average person angry at Trump. They want
to see hatred towards Trump. They want to see rage
towards Trump and towards conservatives. And they're going to put
their heels in the ground and to prevent anything from
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happen in Washington, DC. That's what they're doing. It's politically
a strategy, but it's also something that they're going to
have to be accountable for at some point. Again, I
talked about this in today's Todd Talk. There's some research done,
focus groups done where Democrats are very very critical of
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their own political party, having some bad things to say
about them, realizing some things that I just said to you.
They're beginning to realize that this is the party that's
just opposing everything that's angry, that's woke, that's disconnected. I
talk about that in the Todd Talk. But this is
all at some point they're going to have to become
politically responsible for this. But this and these are the
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decisions they're having to make. These are the decisions leadership
is having to make. What they're deciding is, look, if
we go along here, if we don't oppose everything, if
we don't put our heels in, Trump is going to
steamroll us. Trump is going to further do things that
are on his agenda that we greatly oppose that candidly
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put our party at risk. I mean, listen, whatever you
want to say about it, you at least have to
answer the question, why are the Democrats so upset about
people who aren't supposed to be here actually facing well
justice by being deported for breaking US law? What is
it that's so troubling about that? And the hard truth
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to answer to that question, the hard the truthful answer
there is that that is part of their political strategy. Listen,
They depend on illegal immigration to do a lot of things,
including impact elections, my friends, including to impact census. Right,
these folks are counted in the post. It makes no
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sense at all to me. But anyway, there's a lot
at stake for them. And I'll say a little bit
more about this after the break, But I gotta take
a time out here long in this segment, my friends,
sit tight back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends.
Just talking about John Fetterman, the Democrat senator from the
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state of Pennsylvania, talking about his call out there that
Republicans in the filibuster initiate what is called the very
dramatic nuclear option, which basically means continuing resolutions bills funding bills.
That's well, if they aren't past lead to government shutdowns,
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Republicans can say filibuster doesn't apply to this. You still
keep the filibuster for other things. But we're not going
to be held hostage here by the Democrat Party because
they will not cooperate. This is logically sound, by the way,
That's exactly what's going on. No matter what AOC and
Jasmine Crockett, at Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, Chris Murphy
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and all these other left us in the Senate in
Congress in general are out there telling us is happening
that Republicans cause the shutdown banking on their voters to
be ignorant of what I'm telling you today. They're banking
on the fact that their voters don't even know what
the filibuster is how it applies. They don't know anything
about what I shared with you in the first segment,
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and they're happy to keep their voters ignorant and in
the dark because it gives them a talking point. Because
remember what they're trying to do here, the needle they're
trying to thread is to blame Republicans for this without
bearing responsibility for throwing childish temper tantrums and simply causing
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government not to function. And to help further their cause,
they demonize the Conservatives, the Republicans, particularly Trump, try to
make him out to be the worst human being in
the history of the world, so that they can be
justified and defended by people on the left. And of
course you got these people going out there and protesting
no kings. It's so stupid to me, but it works.
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It it works for a fraction of this population. And
that's why, listen, I actually want to reach those folks.
I understand that there is a percentage of people who
have abdicated their responsibilities personally to think and make decisions
and to come to groups with reality. I understand that
they want to have a certain type of existence. They
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think that the Democrats can provide that existence, that type
of lifestyle for them, funding things for free, justifying all
behavior that they engage in, even if it's morally bankrupt,
and call it, call all behavior morally equivalent. They like
that side of the Democrat Party. They'll go along with
anything because they've sold their soul to that system of belief.
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They've rejected truth, they've rejected personal responsibility. They don't want
to have to think about things and come to conclusions
that well, that challenged their core beliefs. And so there's
a group of those folks. But there's another group of
people who have just been lied to, deceived. They've listened
to the mainstream media their entire lives. They've attended universities
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or public education schools and so forth that have taught
them a bunch of liberal propaganda and junk. This dovetails
nicely into what I call the seven pillars of propaganda.
It's why the left have taken over what I call
seven key or seven key aspects of our society, pillars
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of this society, where they have left us in control,
who are controlling the messaging of these pillars. And it
works right, It works for a lot of people. It
works for people that aren't independent thinkers. It works for
people who get some sort of peer pressure from these
pillars who determine what's hip and cool and all that
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sort of stuff. And these pillars include things like academia,
it includes the government, it includes woke business, it includes science. Right,
that's what it includes. It's it's doctor Fauci A great example, Right,
you have people singing songs about getting vaccinated. I go
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back and I see some of these these videos or
things that were done during the time of COVID, and
they were mind boggling to me at the time. But
I even with with the you know, stepping away from
just being wading through that garbage at the time, I
look at this and I think, how in the world
was it. I think it was Stephen Colbert. He had
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a whole like kind of looked like a Broadway production
of people singing about getting vaccinated on his show, like
we're watching Sesame Street and see to someone like me
and many people like you, watching Steven Cobert's show if
we ever did that felt a lot more like watching
Sesame Street as a child. It felt more like, listen,
I'm not saying Sesame Street's bad. I know the whole
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PBS angle and public funding and all that. I'm not
credit sizing Sesame Street, but they use the same pre
You know, it's one thing to use Sesame Street to
help kids learn basic facts about life. It's another thing
to use a Sesame Street like production to try to
issue propaganda, initiate propaganda on the American people to buy
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into your pathetic worldview. And that's what they do. It's silly,
it's infantile. It works for a lot of people. But
I want people to hear the truth. That's the mission
of this program. We want to help people hear and
receive truth. I say, we don't have it all figured out.
I certainly understand why you might think that we do
here on this. I'm kidding, by the way, but we
have a lot of truth that we have had revealed
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to us, that we have learned over the course of time,
and we had better proclaim that truth otherwise when we don't,
we see what happens. We see what happens. You have
people who fall for the well for the narrative of
COVID and the dancing singers with white coats on telling
them to get vaccinated and all this stuff. We see
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what happens when you have a lot of people in
this country who think it's okay for biological men to
play sports against biological females in high school, and then
they'll tell you that men can have babies. What is wrong?
Men cannot have babies. When I was growing up, when
I was growing up in this country, the idea that
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I would have to tell adults on a radio program
podcast and I know I'm not telling you, but I'm
telling anyone out there who believes this garbage who happens
to be turning it tuning in, the idea that I
would have to proclaim make a statement as obvious as
this was mind boggling, that men cannot have babies. That
would be something that had to be said in twenty
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twenty five. Five year old Todd would have been truly
confounded by that that situation, and I'm guessing many of
you would be as well. This is what happens. These
are the sorts of things that happen when truth is rejected,
truth is not spoken, and the lies are perpetrated because
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my friends. So this is what the left depends upon.
They depend upon the pillars of society to lie to
their base, to keep them in the dark, to keep
them misled and deceived, to keep them from understanding, to
program them through public education on how to think. Not well,
I shouldn't say it. It's really what the thing, not
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actually how to think independently. They want to program you.
This is what you do. You go in, you take tests,
you mark in your little scantron or whatever they've got
today out there. That's what they had when I was
a kid. You mark the right answer, You don't ask
any questions, You move on. We're going to program you
to do what it is we want you to do.
And listen. I'm not saying especially in certain fields there
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are things that are black and white, but a lot
of fields, I would say every field to some degree.
There is in some fields completely there's the need to
question and to debate and to find the best idea,
especially if you're in something like a liberal arts and
sciences program. If you're in politics, or philosophy, social sciences.
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If you're in some of those fields, I mean, you've
got to argue for certain truths to be known and
for those truths to be defended. And we have one
side that's pushed almost exclusively on students across the country.
That's where Turning Point USA, that's where they were trying
to get in there and provide an alternative viewpoint, one
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that's rooted in truth, one that's designed to help people
come to grips with reality, not live in a fantasy world.
The Left depends upon voters living in a fantasy world
to enable them to do what they're doing. Fetterman here says,
let's put an end to the shutdown by eliminating the
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filibuster rule for this type of continuing resolution. This is silly.
Democrats bear the responsibility here. They're the ones that are
blocking the clean resolutions from passing the Senate, which would
put an end to this shutdown immediately. Kudos to Senator
Fetterman for saying something that makes sense and for standing
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up and opposing the radical leadership of his party. I
have to take a break, though. My friends sit tight
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All right, I'm gonna get to talking about the shutdown here.
Bernie Sanders, he was on the View. Bernie Sanders was
on the View. We play soundbites from the View from
time to time. Normally, when I play a SoundBite from
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the View, I have to say how ridiculous it is
coming out of the mouths of the ladies on the View.
Here's an example. I don't know the last time I've
said this, but I'm gonna say this. Sarah Hayneses Sarah
Haynes on the View, who says ridiculous things from time
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to time. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not telling you that
she's got these things figured out, but she's got She's
stumbled onto something here that's good and accurate and true.
And she said it on the View to none other
than the nutty professor Bernie Sanders himself. Listen, there's a
lot of things I don't It's not personal with Bernie.
I Bernie. Bernie's an interesting guy to me. I but
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he's insane. His ideas are atrocious and dare I say
dangerous for this great nation. But Bernie's on the view
and he's actually he's talking about the shutdown, and Sarah
Haynes raises this question, which is a very sound way
of thinking, and Bernie has to basically agree with her
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and saying that she's right. And I guess you could
say the Democrat Party is wrong. In a rare moment
of clarity for the women of you, here we go
Bernie Sanders and Sarah Haynes here talking about this government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Powerful though, is if Congress want to make their money
while they were waiting, because right now it's hard to
imagine it's incentivized. It's easier for the politicians in DC
to go away from each other and say we will
win this way while people are losing their paychecks. If
Congress just said we're not going to take our paychecks
till we figure this out, that would be a noble
step in the right direction. I think not everybody kind
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of forth through the You got some young people there
with kids there either, the people that aren't getting paid
though filled out.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Bernie says that I think it's a fair point. Sarah
Haynes says, Listen, people aren't getting paychecks who are working
for the government. You know, there are other people who
might have contracts, but this might cause a lot of
problems for people who are getting some check, legitimate check.
I'm not I'm not saying government handout, but a check
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for service is rendered from the government. You're not getting
paid if your employees, there might be problems if you're
a contractor or whatever, all sorts of issues like this.
She says, instead of going home, instead of going home
and you know, just arguing about it there, going out
and stomping in your districts and so forth, why don't
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you stay there, Why don't you say you're not going
to get paid. See to me, she's hit the nail
on the head here, she's hit the nail on the
head in one respect. I mean, she still wants to
say both parties have to come together. The obvious. As
I've gone through countless times, and I am candily tired
of it. It's one hundred percent the Democrats fault. It
is this is this one is one hundred percent the
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Democrats fault. They have that they could have continued September
thirtieth funding on October first without any changes, and they refused,
They refused to do it, and so they shut the
government down over it because of the bilibuster. And so
Sarah Hayneses is saying, look, why should Congress get paid?
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I mean, think about it, they're the last these are
the last jokers. But at both parties, I don't care
even at this point who you signed up for this.
If you're a member of Congress, you shouldn't get paid.
Why are we paying anybody? Or why is no one
else getting paid? In some circumstances, other people aren't getting paid.
But you are see to me, when you're the one
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that controls this, you're the one absolutely who should not
get paid. First. You're the one that this should hit
I would say first and most dramatically. You're the one
who actually can solve this problem. And Bernie says, you know, look,
we have some members of Congress who can't endure not
getting a pay check. And Sarah haynes says, hello, what
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about the people who are working in the federal government
who aren't getting paid? The same can be said for them.
Bernie says, that's a fair point. Well, no, Kidden, it's
a fair point. You guys caused it. Bernie Sanders, you
are part of the problem. You are in this case,
you are quite literally the reason people aren't getting paid,
and you're trying to get political points off of this,
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all while telling us you're part you're out there fighting
for the working class. This is pathetic, it's sad. It's
just pure sophistry. They are lying straight through their teeth.
You know, I used to think Bernie was a principal
little socialist. I listen, this is a lie. There's no
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way around this. They are responsible. They're the ones that
are keeping people from getting paid while still collecting their checks.
They think that they can't handle not getting paid, but
the rest of the world doesn't have to get a check,
even though it's their fault. I've got to go out
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All right, my friends, should the fellabuster come to an
end here for the government shutdown purposes? Senator John Fetterman
a Democrats out there saying that it should. That could
actually change things quite a bit. I want to talk
about that today. I also want to talk a little
bit about Bernie Sanders being on the View. The View
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you actually said, the View said something that mattered and
was actually correct. My friends, It's an absolutely astonishing thing
and kind of I guess called Bernie Sanders out. I
want to play that clip time permitting. Here we got
this discussion about the or this well, I would say
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the outrage added to the list of things that the
left is outraged about Trump's White House ballroom project, which
demolition has begun. Or I guess the phase that sets
up the next phase of construction, so they're outraged about that.
We'll get to that as well, including some history of
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where we're headed today, my friends, talking of course about
the shutdown along the way as well. That's where we're headed.
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here we go. Let's get to the story, the news
of the day. My friends, we're on day number what
is it, twenty two October twenty second, day twenty two
of the Schumer shut down. Now, I've gone through this extensively.
I don't want to repeat it every time, but I
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have to set it up a little bit because we
may have new listeners who just need a little bit
of context. We might just need a little bit of
a refresher personally, just as we get into the frame
of thinking about this particular issue. Yes, Republicans have control
of the House of Representatives. Yes Republicans have control of
the Senate, and yes Republicans have control of the White House.
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That matters in some areas, but not in all areas.
That matters in the Senate, that matters the least because
of something called the filibuster. That might be an over
simplistic way of framing it, but for the sake of
this discussion and the sake of time, I'm the filibuster.
Just because you have a majority, a control of the
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of the of the Senate Chamber, it does not mean
that you have the ability to do whatever your party
wants just because you have the majority because of this
little rule called the filibuster rule, and the filibuster rule
requires three fifths supermajority to end debate on a topic
before bringing it to a vote on the Senate floor.
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It still only requires a majority vote to pass legislation,
but there's a three fifths supermajority that prevents something from
actually getting to the floor votes to the floor of
the Senate for a vote. And so that's what's that's
the problem here in the Senate with the shutdown. So
Republicans have fifty three senators, a majority, Democrats and Independence
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who caucus with the Democrats are in the minority at
forty seven. But because they don't have less than forty
or less, Republicans still need help from the Democrats to
get things done in the US Senate. And so one
of those folks that sometimes votes with Republicans, certainly not
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all the time, is but who does in some instances
is John Fetterman, a Democrat from the common Pennsylvania Commonwealth
Commonwealth state of Pennsylvania. And Fetterman's out there saying that
the this is according to I think a Fox News
article yesterday, Senator John Fetterman, Democrat Pennsylvania, said he would
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support Republicans using quote the nuclear option. You may have
heard this term used before. It's a little dramatic and
nuclear option. I mean, my goodness, nuclear warfare. We all
know what that does. We've all seen the nuclear test,
We've all seen and know the history a little bit
in a way about the destruction and the capability of
these weapons. But it's called the nuclear option as though
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it's some dramatic, just extreme event up in a nuke
metaphorically on Washington, DC. I guess if you get rid
of the filibuster for select reasons, that's what we're supposed
to believe. But Fetterman's out there saying that this is
something that would make sense. In fact, he added he
added this quote, he said, we ran on killing the filibusterer.
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Now talking about Democrats, we the Democrats, we now love it,
he said, we now love it. We've campaigned on getting
rid of it, and now we love it because it's
actually favoring what we're trying to do. And Fetterman says, look,
this should not be a tool that's being used by
Democrats in the Senate to keep the government shut down.
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And that, my friends, he's exactly right. First of all,
he's analyzed and assessed the problem. Right. The problem is
that it is a Schumer shutdown. It is a Democrat shutdown. Yes,
Ran Paul will not vote for these continuing resolutions, as
he hasn't in this particular case, but the other fifty
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two Republicans have. So the problem are the forty seven
Democrats and the one vote of Rand Paul. I at
least understand where Ram Paul's coming from. Rand Paul is
trying to get spending under control, and every time there's
a spending bill that he thinks spends too much money,
he's going to oppose it. I understand and appreciate a
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part of that. I do. I also understand that you know,
there are that this has to be a multiple step process.
If we're going to negotiate, now, this government's going to
stay shut down for a long time. And that's that's
not a good thing. It's not Listen, the longer this
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goes on, the more pain that people feel, the more
difficulties that arise. But I mean, we've gone what three
weeks now, and that would say by and large, the
average American hasn't really felt any difference. I remember again
when this was kind of a bigger thing that people
were more concerned about, say six, seven, eight, ten years ago.
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This really got people in a frenzy. You know, the
government's going to be shut down. This they've lost, they've
lost all of that. I mean, yes, the radical left
is still terrified because their politicians stir them into a frenzy.
By the way, that's a subject of today's Todd Talk
if you want to listen to that. That's in the
newsletter or on our website if you want to take
a listen. But most people are realizing that our governments
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still buying large operates at least for three weeks with
the government shut down underway. So now that doesn't minimize
again the pain of people who are being impacted by this,
People who are not getting paid currently, people who are
businesses who are getting paid, employees who aren't getting paid,
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or who are furloughed or whatever else. And those are
real things. I saw that there was an article at
Least Anyway headline said that was forty two million Americans
are in danger of losing at least temporary access to
food stamps. I don't know to what degree that again
is reality versus fear mongering. But those stories are at
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least starting to come out, and some of these things
are legitimately beginning to happen. As we venture into largely
uncharted territory. This becomes one of the longest shutdowns that
we've ever experienced, and Fetterman's out here saying, look, there's
a logical and simple way to fix this problem, and
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that logical and simple way is to change the rules
for the filibuster so that so that we don't have
a filibuster keeping the government shut down. So they call
this the nuclear option. I think that's super dramatic, but
that's what they call it. So what have to happen?
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Let me paint the picture as I understand it. After
researching this and trying to find a simple way to
explain this, let's go through the mechanics of the filibuster,
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your values. All right, now, let's look at the nuclear
option as they call it in the Senate, which would
basically mean ending the filibusters selectively for appropriations bills or
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these continuing resolutions. However it can be specifically defined. Let's
just kind of walk through what that process would look like,
just to kind of explain what Fetterman means. So what
would happen is a funding bill fails to reach sixty
votes for cloture. That's under Senate Rule twenty two. Cloture
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is basically, cloture is a vote to end the filibuster,
to end the debate on a particular bill. So they
bring a bill to the floor of the Senate, which
they've done before, they just haven't taken these next steps.
So you bring this to the Senate and it fails
to reach sixty votes, they fail to invoke cloture. The
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bill is prevented from a final vote, which blocks it
from actually passing the Senate. This is where we stand
right now, is this is where they're not getting traction.
This could all change if the rule changed. Now. There's
concern about changing the rule because the filibuster is something
both sides, especially in a very tightly contested US Senate,
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where one party might lead by a couple seats in
one particular congress, and then in the next congress another
party might lead by a couple of others. It's very
close in many in many instances, and so the party
who's not in power likes the filibuster because it prevents
some new policies from being enacted by the Senate that
they don't you know that the party that's not in
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power that they opposed, that they don't want to see
implemented in our nation. Now, this is I think has
been abused. This has been abused. This was used to
stop judges from getting appointed and so forth. This was
threatened to be used. I don't know if it was ever.
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I know that there was. The nuclear option was invoked
for Supreme Court justices. So basically you can't filibuster Supreme
Court justice. So there still is a filibuster rule, but
there are exceptions for what the filibuster can be used for,
and generally speaking, it can be used for virtually everything
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except for a couple of these exceptions, including including a
Supreme Court justice vote. So in this case, what would
have to happen is the bill would have to go
to the Senate. It doesn't reach sixty votes, a senator
could raise a point of order asserting that the Appropriations
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Bill should require only a simple majority to close debate,
not be subjected to the filibuster. The presiding officer the
parliamentarian would rule that the motion was out of order.
So they're gonna because that's what it is. If this
is all procedure. This is just like triggering the process.
So the parliamentarian is gonna say, look, that's out of order.
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We're following the rules. This has to have a sixty
vote threshold. The majority then appeals the ruling of the Chair.
And then so the parliamentarian makes the ruling, which is correct.
The majority would then appeal that ruling. Then if a
excuse me, a simple majority at that point could vote
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to overturn the ruling of the chair. A new precedent
is established by removing that sixty vote requirement, that filibuster
requirement for that category of legislation. Then the Senate can
vote cloture pass the measure with a simple majority vote.
So Fetterman saying that's what needs to happen. That, by
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the way, is called the nuclear option, which again is
so dramatic, right, is so dramatic. There's nothing in the
Constitution that says that there must be a filibuster. These
are agreed upon rules, and both parties have by and
large kept the filibuster intact with certain certain limitations. And
this might be one that the that the Republicans institute.
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Here again, another example that I'm aware of right now
at the moment sitting here is the Supreme Court justices.
You can't filibuster. You can't filibuster Supreme Court justices. I
don't think you can filibuster lower court justices anymore either,
because these are tactics that are used right so the party.
So here's the here's the thing, the filibuster in philosophy. Philosophically,
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I understand the idea. The idea is. The idea is
that it is a mechanism that says we're going to
we want a tool that says we don't just want
some of these key changes to our society to be
squeaked through to just ekene through the Senate because one
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party has a one vote majority or whatever, and so
we want to have some requirement that says a little
bit larger percentage of the Senate would be required to
go along with these changes to give their stamp of approval.
We don't want big changes to come by these razor
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thin margins. That's kind of the thinking behind it, and
it requires it would it would force more, you know,
maybe more cooperation and negotiation between the parties, more bipartisanship,
whatever you think of that. I'm just telling you that
the thinking that leads to the filibuster. The filibuster is
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really designed to be something that prevents that creates sort
of I don't know, a safety net, if you will,
I don't like that term, but a safety net that says,
here are some things that the Senate. It's going to
be harder to pass through the Senate. You're going to
need more support for this. Again, not just something that
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can eke on through. You're going to want something that
the majority, more than the majority, are actually on board with,
which could require some changes, which could mean that the
legislation that's being passed through the Senate is going to
be more moderate and less say extreme, more partisan, because
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there's a mechanism by which the party who's not in
power can kind of impact what these things look like
by using the filibuster. And so if they're not clearly
something that's popular amongst the US Senate, who of course
represent the people in the states of this country, then
there's a mechanism by which the party that's not in
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power can prevent big changes from happening to our government
simply because they don't have control of that particular chamber.
Now it's being wielded in many cases as a tool
to throw the wrench in the gears. And this is
something that we see when Trump, of course is presidents.
We see this happen in other examples too. But basically,
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the philosophy of the left when Trump is president is
that they're staging a permanent sit in. They are going
to put their heels in the ground, they're going to
throw their temper tanks. They're going to oppose everything. They're
going to make everything take as long as possible. They
want it to be hard for him to get his
cabinet appointed. They want it to be hard for him
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to do anything that he wants to do, because the
harder it is, the more political capital it takes to
move the ball, the more it grinds things to a
hault that slow. I mean, Trump has big, big vision,
a big view of the things he wants to get done.
That's why you see all these fights. That's why you
see the fights regarding the National Guard and so forth.
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The Democrats just have a position, if Trump is for it,
we're against it, and we're going to use strategically. What
we're gonna do, the Democrats would say, is we're going
to use the political capital we have and spend it all,
invest it all into driving fear and paranoia about Trump.
That's where these no Kings protests come from. They want
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to see people out in the streets. They want to
see people out there protesting just anything about Trump that
they can possibly get them to protest. They want to
see them, the average person angry at Trump. They want
to see hatred towards Trump. They want to see rage
towards Trump and towards conservatives. And they're going to put
their heels in the ground and to prevent anything from
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happen in Washington, DC. That's what they're doing. It's politically
a strategy, but it's also something that they're going to
have to be accountable for at some point. Again, I
talked about this in today's Todd Talk. There's some research done,
focus groups done where Democrats are very very critical of
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their own political party, having some bad things to say
about them, realizing some things that I just said to you.
They're beginning to realize that this is the party that's
just opposing everything that's angry, that's woke, that's disconnected. I
talk about that in the Todd Talk. But this is
all at some point they're going to have to become
politically responsible for this. But this and these are the
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decisions they're having to make. These are the decisions leadership
is having to make. What they're deciding is, look, if
we go along here, if we don't oppose everything, if
we don't put our heels in, Trump is going to
steamroll us. Trump is going to further do things that
are on his agenda that we greatly oppose that candidly
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put our party at risk. I mean, listen, whatever you
want to say about it, you at least have to
answer the question, why are the Democrats so upset about
people who aren't supposed to be here actually facing well
justice by being deported for breaking US law? What is
it that's so troubling about that? And the hard truth
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to answer to that question, the hard the truthful answer
there is that that is part of their political strategy. Listen,
They depend on illegal immigration to do a lot of things,
including impact elections, my friends, including to impact census. Right,
these folks are counted in the post. It makes no
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sense at all to me. But anyway, there's a lot
at stake for them. And I'll say a little bit
more about this after the break, But I gotta take
a time out here long in this segment, my friends,
sit tight back in just a minute. Welcome back, my friends.
Just talking about John Fetterman, the Democrat senator from the
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state of Pennsylvania, talking about his call out there that
Republicans in the filibuster initiate what is called the very
dramatic nuclear option, which basically means continuing resolutions bills funding bills.
That's well, if they aren't past lead to government shutdowns,
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Republicans can say filibuster doesn't apply to this. You still
keep the filibuster for other things. But we're not going
to be held hostage here by the Democrat Party because
they will not cooperate. This is logically sound, by the way,
That's exactly what's going on. No matter what AOC and
Jasmine Crockett, at Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer, Chris Murphy
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and all these other left us in the Senate in
Congress in general are out there telling us is happening
that Republicans cause the shutdown banking on their voters to
be ignorant of what I'm telling you today. They're banking
on the fact that their voters don't even know what
the filibuster is how it applies. They don't know anything
about what I shared with you in the first segment,
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and they're happy to keep their voters ignorant and in
the dark because it gives them a talking point. Because
remember what they're trying to do here, the needle they're
trying to thread is to blame Republicans for this without
bearing responsibility for throwing childish temper tantrums and simply causing
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government not to function. And to help further their cause,
they demonize the Conservatives, the Republicans, particularly Trump, try to
make him out to be the worst human being in
the history of the world, so that they can be
justified and defended by people on the left. And of
course you got these people going out there and protesting
no kings. It's so stupid to me, but it works.
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It it works for a fraction of this population. And
that's why, listen, I actually want to reach those folks.
I understand that there is a percentage of people who
have abdicated their responsibilities personally to think and make decisions
and to come to groups with reality. I understand that
they want to have a certain type of existence. They
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think that the Democrats can provide that existence, that type
of lifestyle for them, funding things for free, justifying all
behavior that they engage in, even if it's morally bankrupt,
and call it, call all behavior morally equivalent. They like
that side of the Democrat Party. They'll go along with
anything because they've sold their soul to that system of belief.
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They've rejected truth, they've rejected personal responsibility. They don't want
to have to think about things and come to conclusions
that well, that challenged their core beliefs. And so there's
a group of those folks. But there's another group of
people who have just been lied to, deceived. They've listened
to the mainstream media their entire lives. They've attended universities
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or public education schools and so forth that have taught
them a bunch of liberal propaganda and junk. This dovetails
nicely into what I call the seven pillars of propaganda.
It's why the left have taken over what I call
seven key or seven key aspects of our society, pillars
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of this society, where they have left us in control,
who are controlling the messaging of these pillars. And it
works right, It works for a lot of people. It
works for people that aren't independent thinkers. It works for
people who get some sort of peer pressure from these
pillars who determine what's hip and cool and all that
(26:50):
sort of stuff. And these pillars include things like academia,
it includes the government, it includes woke business, it includes science. Right,
that's what it includes. It's it's doctor Fauci A great example, Right,
you have people singing songs about getting vaccinated. I go
(27:12):
back and I see some of these these videos or
things that were done during the time of COVID, and
they were mind boggling to me at the time. But
I even with with the you know, stepping away from
just being wading through that garbage at the time, I
look at this and I think, how in the world
was it. I think it was Stephen Colbert. He had
(27:35):
a whole like kind of looked like a Broadway production
of people singing about getting vaccinated on his show, like
we're watching Sesame Street and see to someone like me
and many people like you, watching Steven Cobert's show if
we ever did that felt a lot more like watching
Sesame Street as a child. It felt more like, listen,
I'm not saying Sesame Street's bad. I know the whole
(27:56):
PBS angle and public funding and all that. I'm not
credit sizing Sesame Street, but they use the same pre
You know, it's one thing to use Sesame Street to
help kids learn basic facts about life. It's another thing
to use a Sesame Street like production to try to
issue propaganda, initiate propaganda on the American people to buy
(28:20):
into your pathetic worldview. And that's what they do. It's silly,
it's infantile. It works for a lot of people. But
I want people to hear the truth. That's the mission
of this program. We want to help people hear and
receive truth. I say, we don't have it all figured out.
I certainly understand why you might think that we do
here on this. I'm kidding, by the way, but we
have a lot of truth that we have had revealed
(28:43):
to us, that we have learned over the course of time,
and we had better proclaim that truth otherwise when we don't,
we see what happens. We see what happens. You have
people who fall for the well for the narrative of
COVID and the dancing singers with white coats on telling
them to get vaccinated and all this stuff. We see
(29:03):
what happens when you have a lot of people in
this country who think it's okay for biological men to
play sports against biological females in high school, and then
they'll tell you that men can have babies. What is wrong?
Men cannot have babies. When I was growing up, when
I was growing up in this country, the idea that
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I would have to tell adults on a radio program
podcast and I know I'm not telling you, but I'm
telling anyone out there who believes this garbage who happens
to be turning it tuning in, the idea that I
would have to proclaim make a statement as obvious as
this was mind boggling, that men cannot have babies. That
would be something that had to be said in twenty
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twenty five. Five year old Todd would have been truly
confounded by that that situation, and I'm guessing many of
you would be as well. This is what happens. These
are the sorts of things that happen when truth is rejected,
truth is not spoken, and the lies are perpetrated because
the lies will of course fill the void. Friends, let
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my friends. So this is what the left depends upon.
They depend upon the pillars of society to lie to
their base, to keep them in the dark, to keep
them misled and deceived, to keep them from understanding, to
program them through public education on how to think. Not well,
I shouldn't say it. It's really what the thing, not
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actually how to think independently. They want to program you.
This is what you do. You go in, you take tests,
you mark in your little scantron or whatever they've got
today out there. That's what they had when I was
a kid. You mark the right answer, You don't ask
any questions, You move on. We're going to program you
to do what it is we want you to do.
And listen. I'm not saying especially in certain fields there
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are things that are black and white, but a lot
of fields, I would say every field to some degree.
There is in some fields completely there's the need to
question and to debate and to find the best idea,
especially if you're in something like a liberal arts and
sciences program. If you're in politics, or philosophy, social sciences.
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If you're in some of those fields, I mean, you've
got to argue for certain truths to be known and
for those truths to be defended. And we have one
side that's pushed almost exclusively on students across the country.
That's where Turning Point USA, that's where they were trying
to get in there and provide an alternative viewpoint, one
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that's rooted in truth, one that's designed to help people
come to grips with reality, not live in a fantasy world.
The Left depends upon voters living in a fantasy world
to enable them to do what they're doing. Fetterman here says,
let's put an end to the shutdown by eliminating the
(33:29):
filibuster rule for this type of continuing resolution. This is silly.
Democrats bear the responsibility here. They're the ones that are
blocking the clean resolutions from passing the Senate, which would
put an end to this shutdown immediately. Kudos to Senator
Fetterman for saying something that makes sense and for standing
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up and opposing the radical leadership of his party. I
have to take a break, though. My friends sit tight
listening here to conservative not better talk. I'm your host,
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All right, I'm gonna get to talking about the shutdown here.
Bernie Sanders, he was on the View. Bernie Sanders was
on the View. We play soundbites from the View from
time to time. Normally, when I play a SoundBite from
(35:46):
the View, I have to say how ridiculous it is
coming out of the mouths of the ladies on the View.
Here's an example. I don't know the last time I've
said this, but I'm gonna say this. Sarah Hayneses Sarah
Haynes on the View, who says ridiculous things from time
(36:07):
to time. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not telling you that
she's got these things figured out, but she's got She's
stumbled onto something here that's good and accurate and true.
And she said it on the View to none other
than the nutty professor Bernie Sanders himself. Listen, there's a
lot of things I don't It's not personal with Bernie.
I Bernie. Bernie's an interesting guy to me. I but
(36:32):
he's insane. His ideas are atrocious and dare I say
dangerous for this great nation. But Bernie's on the view
and he's actually he's talking about the shutdown, and Sarah
Haynes raises this question, which is a very sound way
of thinking, and Bernie has to basically agree with her
(36:56):
and saying that she's right. And I guess you could
say the Democrat Party is wrong. In a rare moment
of clarity for the women of you, here we go
Bernie Sanders and Sarah Haynes here talking about this government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Powerful though, is if Congress want to make their money
while they were waiting, because right now it's hard to
imagine it's incentivized. It's easier for the politicians in DC
to go away from each other and say we will
win this way while people are losing their paychecks. If
Congress just said we're not going to take our paychecks
till we figure this out, that would be a noble
step in the right direction. I think not everybody kind
(37:34):
of forth through the You got some young people there
with kids there either, the people that aren't getting paid
though filled out.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Bernie says that I think it's a fair point. Sarah
Haynes says, Listen, people aren't getting paychecks who are working
for the government. You know, there are other people who
might have contracts, but this might cause a lot of
problems for people who are getting some check, legitimate check.
I'm not I'm not saying government handout, but a check
(38:02):
for service is rendered from the government. You're not getting
paid if your employees, there might be problems if you're
a contractor or whatever, all sorts of issues like this.
She says, instead of going home, instead of going home
and you know, just arguing about it there, going out
and stomping in your districts and so forth, why don't
(38:24):
you stay there, Why don't you say you're not going
to get paid. See to me, she's hit the nail
on the head here, she's hit the nail on the
head in one respect. I mean, she still wants to
say both parties have to come together. The obvious. As
I've gone through countless times, and I am candily tired
of it. It's one hundred percent the Democrats fault. It
is this is this one is one hundred percent the
(38:45):
Democrats fault. They have that they could have continued September
thirtieth funding on October first without any changes, and they refused,
They refused to do it, and so they shut the
government down over it because of the bilibuster. And so
Sarah Hayneses is saying, look, why should Congress get paid?
(39:07):
I mean, think about it, they're the last these are
the last jokers. But at both parties, I don't care
even at this point who you signed up for this.
If you're a member of Congress, you shouldn't get paid.
Why are we paying anybody? Or why is no one
else getting paid? In some circumstances, other people aren't getting paid.
But you are see to me, when you're the one
(39:27):
that controls this, you're the one absolutely who should not
get paid. First. You're the one that this should hit
I would say first and most dramatically. You're the one
who actually can solve this problem. And Bernie says, you know, look,
we have some members of Congress who can't endure not
getting a pay check. And Sarah haynes says, hello, what
(39:49):
about the people who are working in the federal government
who aren't getting paid? The same can be said for them.
Bernie says, that's a fair point. Well, no, Kidden, it's
a fair point. You guys caused it. Bernie Sanders, you
are part of the problem. You are in this case,
you are quite literally the reason people aren't getting paid,
and you're trying to get political points off of this,
(40:12):
all while telling us you're part you're out there fighting
for the working class. This is pathetic, it's sad. It's
just pure sophistry. They are lying straight through their teeth.
You know, I used to think Bernie was a principal
little socialist. I listen, this is a lie. There's no
(40:34):
way around this. They are responsible. They're the ones that
are keeping people from getting paid while still collecting their checks.
They think that they can't handle not getting paid, but
the rest of the world doesn't have to get a check,
even though it's their fault. I've got to go out
of time, SDG
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