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