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54 - MERRY CHRISTMAS AND 5 TRILLION DOLLAR CR BILL DENIED · World Ablaze with George Fontes

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Take my eyes open to forced reality
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Why can't you just let me eat my weight and glee
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Yes, yes, yes, I am changing it up
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I am recording December 20th, 2024
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Episode 54
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And this will be the last recording before, dare I say, Christmas
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That's right, I said Christmas.
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I don't care.
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I'm not woke.
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I'm not offended in saying Christmas.
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I'm not going to stop saying Christmas, and I wish you all a Merry Christmas.
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I have to say, if you're listening to my show and you haven't figured it out by now,
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well, God bless you.
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That's all I got to say.
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God bless you.
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God bless each and every one of us, because I believe that we still need a bit of tradition.
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And if you've got a giant stick up your ass and you're offended by the words Merry Christmas, which stand for and have for so long in America as a day of spreading goodwill, peace to all, happiness, and spending time with friends and family and coming together, then there's no pleasing you.
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I don't know what to tell you.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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There's nothing I can tell you that's going to make your day.
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But the best you can do is shut your mouth and let other people enjoy themselves and come together.
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And allow America to just have a few days of just peace and quiet.
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Just give us that.
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You can go back to your whining and jumping up and down and screaming about, you know, how much you're offended later.
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But right now, Merry Christmas to all.
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Happy Friday.
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As I said, happy Friday.
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Thanks to everybody who listens to me.
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If you're a first-time listener, thanks for stopping by.
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Please like, follow, subscribe, and share the show with others.
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That's all I ask.
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And because this is kind of a pre-Christmas show, we do have presents.
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We have, as the American people, received a giant present in that crazy pork-filled omnibus
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slash CR bill that was trying to get pushed right through the door, right under our noses,
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just packed full of tremendous amounts of spending and ridiculousness.
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But before I move forward, being that this is the morning time and it's a Friday, I would
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assume that you're probably not at work today since it is the last Friday before the Christmas.
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I'm assuming you called in sick, or maybe you don't even want to be there.
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So cheers to you.
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Now, I don't have a special beverage to open, pop the top, but I am neither,
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neither am I, I mean, I will neither confirm or deny whether or not there is
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copious amounts of whiskey within my coffee.
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But regardless, cheers to you.
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Here's my big coffee gulp.
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Yeah.
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You know what?
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That's really good coffee and has nothing to do with whether or not there may or may not be whiskey in this cup of mine.
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But let's get on to it.
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Let's move on to that crazy CR bill.
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That was 1,500 plus pages.
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That was just suddenly put upon everyone's desk in an effort to make sure that it was voted on and passed so that people can go home and spend the holidays with the family.
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You see, this is a crazy, crazy tactic that Congress has continuously used throughout time
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because they know nobody wants to sit there and read through 1,500 plus pages of bullshit.
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And they know that they're able to sneak in all this little nefarious crap
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because what they do is they pull on your heartstrings.
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They go, well, look, we have funding for cancer research for kids
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and how these cancer medications affect young children.
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Oh, and look, we also have all this aid that we want to give to people
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who are in need of it because they've gone through a crazy, tragic disaster
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such as Hurricane Helene.
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Oh, and look, we care about veterans.
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Here's another few hundred, couple million,
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which, by the way, should always be way more than that for veterans.
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But regardless, we got this too.
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Oh, don't worry about the other shit that's in this bill, though.
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And if you don't pass it, that means you don't care about kids and veterans and families in need that have been displaced due to a natural disaster.
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You're an evil person.
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Well, not so fast there.
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You see, you can't make that statement and justify your argument based on the evil that was in your own heart.
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And the reality is this.
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a lot of people probably know by now, that within this bill was also about a 40% increase in salary
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for the Congress people who didn't even take enough time to even read through this 1,500-page
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bill in the first place. You know, the same people that barely go to work, the same people that
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hardly ever look out for you, the person who voted them into office to quite literally represent you.
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They couldn't be bothered with any of that.
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But as I said, we were delivered a gift.
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We were delivered a gift upon this Christmas Eve.
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The bill was struck, voted new.
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Those 1,500 pages were then reduced and re-presented to Congress,
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and it was voted down again.
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Why?
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Because there was still over $5 trillion in spending
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that they were trying to pass through into 2025.
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And the CR in the bill stands for continuous resolution
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or continuing resolution.
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So a lot of stuff in this bill was proposed previously
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and really should end,
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but they want to extend the spending and allotment of funds,
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which surprisingly most people haven't read, by the way.
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There are also proposals for new spending
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and creation of new departments and committees and whatnot.
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But most of it is continuing resolution.
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Now, what I find funny is that they did try to rewrite some of this.
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There's a lot, a lot, I'm going to say a lot,
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that is tied to maintenance and infrastructure,
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specifically, though, of federal buildings and federal projects.
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but within the wording,
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there is also much there to be desired
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because, for example,
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I'll bring the SBA up, for example.
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Now, this isn't part of the infrastructure allotment,
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but there's continuing funds
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to be used for those who need loans
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in the case of disaster relief
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or whatever else may fall under the SB7B.
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I believe it's 7B.
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not A, but B.
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But regardless, there is also a statement in this
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that says that those funds,
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those funds can also, if need be,
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which you know they always find a need,
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can be used to pay salaries
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due to the increased needs to process these applications.
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So there's a lot of little things like that
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that were in this bill.
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There was also more money for Ukraine,
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which I can't verify because I personally will tell you right now,
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I did dig through this.
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I spent yesterday and quite a few hours in the morning going through this.
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But there's some funding for Ukraine to the tune of over $40 billion
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from what I've been told by other reporters and news outlets.
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But I did not verify that myself.
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So if that turns out not to be so, then you can't hold that against me.
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Okay, well, maybe you can.
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I shouldn't just regurgitate what I hear.
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But many people have confirmed and have said that that is exactly what is in the bill.
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Other things of note were large amounts of money appropriated to move a football stadium to D.C.
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There was immunity for the J6 committee.
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There was misappropriations, I'll say, or, well, the ability to redirect funds.
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that are used for social security.
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There were revisions to the pandemic preparedness and response
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that will allow for further masks, mandates, vaccine passports,
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more funding of biolabs, by the way, under the guise of vaccine research.
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Big air quotes there, people.
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Vaccine research.
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Oh, and here's another one.
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Now, not as big of an amount.
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It's only $3 million, but $3 million.
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allotted to molasses inspection.
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That's right, molasses.
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Yeah, that stuff that's kind of like honey,
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but it's not.
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It's different.
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Sugary substance, syrupy, thick molasses.
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Yes, molasses inspection, $3 million.
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There is also a lot of money
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that is allotted to the Bureau of Land Management a lot of money to agriculture but the way things were worded were almost as if it was a blank check It was very loosely defined as to how this money would be awarded and justified for its
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use and who would qualify and get that money.
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And here's one of my favorites that I found that I found.
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So there's going to be a committee that was proposed in this original bill put together and funded.
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literally the United States, yes, us, United States of America, would have a department
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dedicated to literally looking out for foreign entities and other nations who boycott Israel.
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Yeah, that's a head scratcher. The United States was going to literally dedicate resources and
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money to look out for good old Israel, one of our allies, we were going to go ahead and police
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everybody else in the world and make them fall in line for boycotting Israel, putting our resources
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behind a foreign nation to make sure that they feel good and people do not treat them badly.
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Now, of course, everybody is screaming at each other. My team versus your team,
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Democrats are like, oh, the Republicans, they don't care.
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They're just trying to pass tax cuts and make sure that there's more spending that will help Donald Trump.
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And of course, Republicans are going, hold on, hold on.
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You're trying to pass more funding for gender studies and supporting biolab technologies that could be used in a nefarious way in a pandemic response.
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and you're also trying to change the language of someone who breaks the law to a,
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what were they called, a justice-involved individual.
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Oh, and there was also not having to be beholden to a subpoena if you're in Congress.
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You can also turn down Obamacare and choose not to partake,
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but also at the same time enhance your own health care
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Well, the millions and millions of Americans who are in need don't have a choice.
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So, I mean, is that what the Democrats are talking about and screaming at the Republicans for?
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And then the Republicans?
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I mean, they're not perfect.
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You can't say there aren't a few people on that side didn't want their pay raise.
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Let's just be quite honest.
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But this entire CR bill, this 1,500-plus page of steaming pile of shit, was never going to pass.
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They were hoping it would.
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There are definitely people who thought nobody would read it.
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And guess who they are mad at?
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Elon Musk.
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Everyone blames Elon Musk.
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The second president, as they say, or the shadow president that nobody elected.
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That's funny.
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But really pull your head out of your ass.
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That's not what's going on here.
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All Elon Musk did was bring it to everyone's attention
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because the media wasn't going to dig into it.
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In fact, they didn't say a word about it
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until they couldn't suppress the voices of the American people on X,
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which has become the biggest megaphone
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that the American people can use to voice their opinion.
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And once the word got out,
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I mean, it was as simple as Elon Musk is showing a picture of how large the bill looked on a desk with 1,500 pages pretty much stacked.
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And that got people's attention.
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And then people started looking into it and saying, well, hold on, hold on.
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What's in this bill?
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1,500-something-plus pages?
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And people started looking at it and started posting, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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Why is Congress getting a raise?
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Why are we spending $3 billion to move a football stadium?
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Why are we funding biolabs research?
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Why are we giving the government more control in a pandemic situation?
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Hold on.
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People started raising their hand and saying no.
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And then on X, what they did is they directly contacted their representatives and voiced
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their opinions and they were like, hold the fuck on.
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You're not getting away with this.
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You're not getting away with this.
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And please explain why you would think this is okay.
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You know what that did?
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It forced Congress people to actually do their fucking job, thumb through the pages and realize,
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oh yeah, you're right, we can't pass this.
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We just can't.
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But of course, the Democrats are going to go ahead
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and they're going to start rebutting everything
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to virtue signal to their constituents
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and say, look, we tried to pass a bipartisan bill,
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but the Republicans didn't want to play nice.
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They did everything they can to make sure
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that kids with cancer were hurting
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and that people who are in need of Medicaid
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didn't get their funding and their prescriptions,
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and veterans were just pissed on.
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And people who were just displaced in a disaster,
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they can go fuck themselves.
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I mean, that's exactly how it came out.
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And it's some bullshit there because everything in this bill,
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everything in this bill can definitely be separated
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and considered separately.
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And you can even group items.
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There was a lot in here on health that could literally be its own bill.
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They could literally take all those section related to health and welfare and make that
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its own bill.
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Anything that has to do with foreign aid, its own bill.
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Anything that has to be related to military, its own bill.
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Anything that has to do with administrative expenditures, its own bill.
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There's no reason to take everything that you can under the sun because you didn't do your due diligence to look out for the American people and where our damn taxpayer dollars are going and throw it in under one giant omnibus package ladled with copious amounts of gravy and molasses and just think no one would pay attention.
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Look, those days are over.
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The American people have spoken.
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Ever since, you got to give Elon Musk credit for this.
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He lost money by an ex, but ever since he did so,
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the people's voices have been heard.
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They have not been suppressed.
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And the politicians can't ignore it.
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They're being held accountable.
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Not to the level that I personally would like,
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but they are being held accountable.
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And they're realizing they can't keep getting away with this bullshit.
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There are some good politicians, though.
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I'm going to point to a few.
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Now, Thomas Massey predicted this mess back in September.
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He knew this was coming.
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In fact, I got a video of Thomas Massey telling everybody exactly how it was going to go down.
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I also predicted this would fall right before Christmas.
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And I believe this does fall on December 20th.
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Now, why have we picked December 20th?
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because it's the same reason we always have December 20th.
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Everybody up here is human.
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There are no AIs or robots in Congress.
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And when you get to December 20th, you're five days from Christmas.
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You're four days from Christmas Eve.
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And you desperately want to be there with your family.
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So this is when the leadership here has the maximum influence.
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And again, I'm talking to the Democrats and the Republicans,
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because you've seen it on the Democrat side of the aisle.
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They love to pick the week before Christmas for this showdown
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because you can smell the jet fuel fumes over at DCA.
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It smells like Christmas that you're going to get to go home and open presents.
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I've been in HC5 when literally the Speaker of the House, not the Speaker we have now,
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walks in and says, if you vote for this, you can go home and unwrap presents with your kids.
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and if you don't vote for this, you're going to spend Christmas here with Nancy Pelosi.
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And then the chant starts, vote, vote, vote, vote. Literally, people get enthusiastic to vote for
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something that they haven't read. So let me predict what we're not going to do on December 20th
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before I take a guess at what we're going to do. What we're not going to do, we're not going to do
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12 separate bills. We are not going to spend this time. We've got a few months between now and
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December 20th. We could go back to working on appropriations bills. We are not going to do this.
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This sucker, whatever happens on December 20th, whether it's another CR to punt, to kick the can
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down the road for three more months, or whether it's an omnibus that funds all of government with
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one bill, it's going to be written behind closed doors, and every lobbyist in this town is going
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to try to attach their little thing to this bill. This train is leaving the station on December 20th.
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It's the only one that we know is going to pass. They call it up here a must-pass legislation.
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So everybody's going to try and get their little thing on this bill, whatever it is on December 20th,
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whether it's another continuing resolution or another omnibus. It's not even really a prediction
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that I making I just telling you what has happened for 12 years regardless of whether Democrats are in charge or Republicans are in charge There may be a little twist We may do half of a CR
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It'll be a whole CR and half of it will end in February and half of it will end in April and they'll convince you they got something more clever this year than they had last year.
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But it's going to be the same old thing warmed over, written behind closed doors, rolled out here.
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We're not going to have time to read this thing.
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That's also predictable.
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And we're going to be told, vote for this and you can go home and open presents with
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your kids.
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Don't vote for it and you're going to be stuck here.
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And Thomas Massey is exactly right.
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He's exactly right.
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That's what is going on right now.
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That's exactly what happened.
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The bill was revised because it got shot down and it became a 150 page CR bill.
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And guess what happened with that one?
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And it got shot down because they found out it was still full of frivolous spending.
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Nothing was revised to the benefit of the American people.
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Now, there's this whole Democrat versus Republican stance on this, but it really has nothing to do, in my eyes, about whether or not you're a Republican or a Democrat.
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I think that some people in Congress literally still believe in America regardless of what side they're on.
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And they looked at this and said, this isn't right.
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And Thomas Massey is, again, correct.
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They always do this.
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They slap this giant slab of pork on the table, and they don't have time to even assess what
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it is.
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They don't even have time to go through this thing and realize what's really in it.
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They're just hoping that due to the pressures of getting their Christmas vacation, their
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Christmas break, that they're just going to blindly sign this thing and push it through.
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Here's another congressperson.
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Chip Roy, Republican from Texas, tears other Republicans a new asshole, as they say.
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And this guy gets it.
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He cares.
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He cares about what's going on.
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And listen, I'm playing this video right now.
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And I think I'm very positive as a listener of this show, you're going to really appreciate
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what he has to say.
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I was just texting with my son back home in Austin, who I haven't seen in quite a long
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time because I'm here trying to fight for him. When I got through cancer about 12 years ago,
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I made my promise to my kids that I would do everything I can to save this country.
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And what we're doing right now is to continue to double down on the things that are destroying
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the republic. We are going to increase the debt ceiling, not just $4 trillion. That's false.
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We have spent $4.7 trillion in additional debt in the last 19 months. We're going to increase the
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debt by $5 trillion. That's what's going to happen right here by Republicans, increasing the debt
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$5 trillion. And what are you doing in the same bill? $110 billion unpaid for. Because you never
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have any ounce of self-respect to go out and campaign saying you're going to balance the
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budget. And then you come in here and pass $110 billion unpaid for.
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on top of the 200 billion dollars you did for wep you guys won't agree with that but the fact
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of the matter is 330 billion dollars congratulations you've added to the debt since you were given the
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majority again on november 5th it's embarrassing it's shameful yes i think this bill is better
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than it was yesterday on certain respects but to take this bill to take this bill yesterday and
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congratulate yourself because it's shorter in pages, but increases the debt by $5 trillion
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is asinine. And that's it precisely what Republicans are doing.
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There you go. See, Chip Roy gets it. Chip Roy gets it. Just because you reduce the amount of
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pages in that 1,500 page bundle of pork and reduce it to around 150 pages doesn't make it better.
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you didn't reduce any of the spending.
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And I'm going to address something here.
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We see, listen, we need more Chip Roy's.
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We need more Thomas Massey's.
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Definitely.
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These are people that regardless of whether or not they're Republican or Democrat, get it.
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And they're speaking the truth here.
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But let me address the debt ceiling because this comes up a lot.
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And the U.S. government is somehow able to get away with this.
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But there's no way you in hell could ever, ever, ever do what they do.
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And let me explain what's happening here.
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They are literally moving the goalposts, as they say.
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And if you don't understand what that means, it's as if you're getting closer.
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You're getting closer to that line to where it's achievable or to where you're going to
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be crossing it.
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And you're literally just striking that, saying, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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I don't believe this is where it's at.
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I think we should just move it out there further.
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and they do so without taking responsibility for their actions and where they're at currently.
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You see, the U.S. literally at this point outspends, their debt is outpacing their income.
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Okay.
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And any business by now would be out of business.
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But let me explain this much more simply.
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Okay.
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Imagine yourself here.
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Here, this is you.
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This is you.
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This is you.
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Imagine yourself.
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Not saying this is exactly you, but just bear with me here.
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Let's do a little acting, a little pretend.
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Let's use the old imagination.
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You are $100,000 in debt, specifically credit card debt,
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with high interest rates, as they always are.
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And you decide that because you make, I don't know,
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let's say you make $100,000 a year, but you're in $100,000 in debt,
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and the interest on that debt is adding to your debt ratio.
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And your spend to income ratio is just all out of whack.
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None of it makes sense.
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But here you are.
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Here you are.
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You want to buy a house, a $500,000 house, maybe $700,000 house,
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whatever the price is.
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You are in the meeting.
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They're going over your finances.
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And you're sitting across from the lender.
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That lender is looking at all this debt.
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and he's saying, I don't know, you got $100,000 in credit card debt.
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You only make $100,000 a year.
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Technically, if you took everything you made, you could absolutely pay this off.
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But we know there's always other expenses in life that you have to pay for.
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So right away, we know that's not going to happen.
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And they're looking at us and they're telling you, I just don't see it.
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Your debt to income ratio is too high.
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We can't approve this loan.
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And this is the government now.
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So this is you.
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So this is what happens.
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you reach out, you grab that report, you look at it, and it's a graph.
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You're looking at the graph and the table, and you're like, yeah, yeah, okay.
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So according to this line here, my debt-to-income ratio is no good,
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so you're not going to give me this loan.
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And they go, yeah, yeah, we just can't approve it.
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I'm sorry.
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And you grab a pin off the table right in front of them, right in front of this person,
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and you take it to this paper
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and you go all the way to the top of the page
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and you draw another line
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and you just write debt ceiling.
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And then you look at the lender in the eye
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and you say, well,
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according to my summation here,
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my analysis looks like
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my debt to income ratio is good.
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Like I'm not even near the threshold
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in which you would deny me a loan.
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now that is what the government does and that's exactly what they've always done when they talk
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about debt ceiling it makes zero sense right it doesn't make sense to me and and even you
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playing pretend can't play pretend enough to buy into the fact that moving the debt ceiling makes
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no sense you're still spending and then when they move that debt ceiling up they just spend more
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until they hit that limit and then they move it up again they have no control they are going out
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of their way to abuse your hard-earned money, the tax dollars that they take out of your
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check, they just spend so willy-nilly, as they say, and on anything they want that they
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think will work, including proposing a fucking raise for them, for themselves.
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Make it make sense.
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Tell me how it is that this is Elon Musk's fault.
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for what?
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Bringing this to the attention
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of the American people
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through the app he owns
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they call X?
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Are you upset that the American people
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took notice
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and literally called you out on your shit?
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But here's the other problem
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that we have with this bill.
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It wasn't just all the pork
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that they rolled into this,
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all the bullshit that they tried to make
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pass through that door.
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I mean, they had to grease
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this damn thing up really good to get it to slide in there and get through that opening
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and push it out the door to next year.
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But it got stopped because the American people found out and they made sure that they weren't
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happy about it.
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Now, here's another congressperson who let the cat out of the bag and didn't vote for
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the second version.
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And of course, let me make something very clear to everybody.
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I sure most people who listen to this have an X account If you not following me I am at Fonsablaze F You can find me there And I may say something that pretty unpopular to the
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whole MAGA folk out there. And you're not going to like this because everybody's kicking and
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screaming about, wow, look, there was 38, 39 Republicans who voted against this bill that
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was backed by Trump and Elon Musk. Listen, first off, it wasn't publicly backed by Trump or Elon
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Musk, let's just be honest. And Elon Musk being part of Doge, who's supposed to look out for
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the government efficiency and spending, right? Department of Government Efficiency is what
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Doge stands for. He went out of his way to make sure that we knew that there was a bunch of
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nefarious spending packed into this CR bill. Now, a lot of people are saying, well, he bought his
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way into the president's favor. It was because of his spending that the president was elected,
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and he's just abusing his position of power. Now, before I move on and play this video of Nancy
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Mace, which, by the way, kudos to her because she said what needed to be said. But before I do that,
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let me make something very clear about Donald Trump. And this is no way a dig at anybody who
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supports him or who is a hardcore MAGA person, I voted for Trump.
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Okay.
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I have my reasons.
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I think, I think, I think he is the answer we needed at the time.
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And I don't believe that he is looking out to destroy America as many of these Democrats
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claim, but Trump's a smart guy.
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Do you really, really think that he's going to let someone else take advantage of him?
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Like he already did that.
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He learned his lesson the first time around.
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when he became president and was voted in 2016 and 2017 he's you know he's trying to get his
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feel get his sea legs as he say he trusted people he trusted people that were supposed to be on his
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side they took advantage of him he learned he's not going to repeat the same mistakes
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you think he's not cautious of Elon Musk they're both billionaires Elon Musk is the richest man in
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the world, but Trump isn't stupid. He didn't get where he is or got elected president because he
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is easily taken advantage of. He's going to keep Elon close and he's going to value his opinion as
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a business person because Elon's not successful because he's an idiot either. He's one of the
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smartest people on the planet. His IQ is far beyond most anybody listening to this show. And believe
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me, that includes me big time. Like I'm not on his level. I'm not. Most of us aren't. We don't
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see things the way he does. And so he is definitely an asset to Trump. Another thing I want to point
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out about Elon Musk and Doge is Elon Musk is not even receiving a salary for what he's doing.
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Now, we can say that whatever he's doing, he's trading for favors, for certain powers. But in
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the end, regardless of what Elon does, whatever he does to bring to Trump's attention in the end
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will still be Trump's decision. You see, Elon does not have that power. He doesn't make the decisions
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and the choices for Trump.
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Trump still is his own man.
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And as smart as Elon is,
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even Elon realizes this.
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So let's get off the whole anti-Elon train.
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He's smarter than you and me, period.
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But don't discount Trump either.
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He's no dummy either.
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Okay?
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With that being said,
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let's move on to this Nancy Mace video
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because she says the quiet part out loud.
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And I think, again, we need more people like this.
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Nancy Mace joins us tonight.
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So, Congresswoman, what the heck is happening in Washington?
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I sure wish I knew, Jesse, but you're right.
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I agree with you in your monologue.
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We've had plenty of time to hash this out.
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This should have never been left to the last minute.
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The last short-term CR we did was on September 26th.
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26th. We've had 84, 85 days to figure it out. We've known since November 5th that Donald Trump
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is going to be the 47th president of the United States. And so we've had time to figure this out.
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We're doing what Washington always does, which is leave it to the last minute, scare the American
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people with a government shutdown, which really isn't a government shutdown. But there are lots
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of guardrails in place. If there is, and even Newt Gingrich said today, we shouldn't be afraid of one.
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I voted against the bill tonight.
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I was one of 38 Republicans that did so because the CR tonight spent the same exact amount of money today as it did in the one yesterday.
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Oh.
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And while they got rid of all the electric buses and all the migrant money, didn't they get rid of it?
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The thousand plus pages that were deleted, it's not the number of pages that matters.
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It's what's actually in those pages.
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So the thousand plus pages that were removed really had to do with authorizations and not appropriations or spending outlays.
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The actual CR in the bill yesterday and today is only about nine pages.
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We all agree that we need aid for hurricane victims.
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But my proposal is if that we were to do this as a very short term CR until President Trump is elected, get us through till January 20th.
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I don't want to continue Joe Biden levels of spending months into Trump's presidency.
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Or let's do single subject bills.
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Let's vote on the foreign aid.
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Let's vote on farm and agriculture.
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Let's vote on spending in the CR.
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Let's do it separately.
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This would have been a lot easier.
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Right.
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I mean, but what have you guys been doing then for the last 85 days?
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That's a great question.
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I've been filing a lot of bills legislatively.
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But who's in control?
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Republicans have the House, right?
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So what has the Republican Party been doing for the last 85 days if they leave this to the last second and they can't even agree on it?
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Well, this is what Washington always does.
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We've seen this movie before.
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It's kind of like Groundhog Day.
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And there you go.
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Another congressperson speaking the truth.
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but what's concerning is what Nancy May said there at the end of the clip that I played.
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It's like Groundhog Day, and it shouldn't be, and it shouldn't be. There was plenty of time
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for everyone to go to work, look at this proposed bill, and really dissect it and put something
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together that made sense. You see, if you're an elected official working in Congress, if you're a
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congressperson, senator, whatever you are, House, whatever, just Congress, there is no excuse for
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you not to do your job, especially when it comes to the spending of our money. There just isn't.
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I mean, that's what you're there for. I mean, of course, there's various other duties and
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responsibilities that involve the safety and security of the United States, but spending our
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taxpayer dollars uncontrollably to a point where, honestly, the United States should be
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in default by now? Now, that is an extremely important thing that we can't overlook.
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And furthermore, what we spend the money on is even more important to me because I don't want
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to keep sending aid to 200 countries. I don't want to create another organization that just
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specifically looks out for whether or not someone's boycotting Israel.
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Like, let's get our shit together here.
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But listen, let's stay jolly and happy because this is a Christmas present.
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This is our pre-Christmas present.
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There was enough people with enough intelligence to put an end to passing
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another $5 trillion in frivolous spending.
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And that's a good thing.
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and just because they got to sit there and work through the holidays,
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well, guess what?
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I don't feel bad for you.
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You had plenty of time to do your job.
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You had plenty of time to do your job.
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There's many of Americans who unfortunately don't get a holiday either.
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Plenty of people work in the service industry.
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I remember I used to be a waiter.
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I worked as a waiter at a restaurant that didn't close on the holidays.
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And you see plenty of people go out to have a dinner on the holiday,
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even Christmas.
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And guess what?
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Not everyone gets their time.
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So no, I don't feel for you.
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I don't feel for anyone in Congress because you're there working through the holiday
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because of the decisions you made.
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This is your fault.
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All right, everybody, that's the show.
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I'm going to take another big gulp of my unconfirmed, extremely whiskey-laced coffee.
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And as I do so, I'm going to take us out with a little Frank Sinatra.
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And I'm going to wish everybody a Merry Christmas.
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Merry Christmas to you.
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That's right.
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And don't forget to like, follow, subscribe, share the show.
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Have yourself an amazing holiday.
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
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Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
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Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh, dashing through the snow, in a one-horse open sleigh, or the fields we go, laughing all the way.
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Today bells on pop-tail ring, making our spirits bright.
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What fun it is to ride and sing a sleighing song tonight.