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Speaker 1: Day twenty two, Casey day twenty two, and we're all

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Speaker 1: still fine. I mean, at least you and me.

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Speaker 2: We're good.

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Speaker 1: Caba Piers upright as well.

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Speaker 2: We don't work for the federal government.

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Speaker 1: Unless it's some sort of weekend at Bernie situation. So

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Speaker 1: are but we're we're doing great.

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Speaker 2: Senate Republicans they had lunch yesterday with the President. Okay,

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Speaker 2: they were showing a united front in support of extending

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Speaker 2: government funding. Trump said that Republicans will not be extorted

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Speaker 2: by Democrats and that kind of signaled there's no end

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Speaker 2: to this shutdown. The Democrats, on their part, they called

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Speaker 2: the lunch a pep rally. Isn't everything with Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: a rally of some sort?

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Speaker 1: Well, you know, look, good government, good anything. I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about this yesterday. Good anything is defined on clear

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Speaker 1: vision and action plan. And in the case of our government,

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Speaker 1: and this is true whether Republicans or Democrats are running

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Speaker 1: the show, there is zero clear action plan, like what

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Speaker 1: And they don't do that in government because they don't

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Speaker 1: want you judging them, because they fail at everything. And

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Speaker 1: so in like just bring it down to the state level.

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Speaker 1: What is the goal of our state government? What are

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Speaker 2: Right now it feels like the goal of our state

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Speaker 1: In power like them more like, what is if you

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Speaker 1: General Assembly? There is nothing, Like there's no clear defined thing.

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Speaker 1: It's not, hey, we're going to get your taxes as

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Speaker 1: as much as pos you know, like, there's no and

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Speaker 1: so you then you take it to Washington, DC, and

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Speaker 1: it's even worse. And so this whole thing is very

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Speaker 1: depressing because you realize under the Republicans, it's not going

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Speaker 1: of the things they're talking about doing now, this is fascinating,

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Speaker 1: you'll love this. This is the most Republican thing ever.

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Speaker 1: So we're still running like trillion dollar annual deficits. We're

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Speaker 1: thirty or almost thirty eight trillion in debt, Inflation is

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Speaker 1: still very high, prices of stuff still totally out of control.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that they're talking about doing now

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Speaker 1: This current continuing resolution that they passed runs to November twenty. First,

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Speaker 1: they're simply they're acknowledging, now, hey, based on the fact

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Speaker 1: do these appropriations. When we come back, et cetera, we're

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Speaker 1: And this is an actual idea that I think The

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Speaker 1: it's not just in some pocket of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 1: There are more and more voices saying, well, if we

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Speaker 1: have to come back, let's just do this. Because they

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Speaker 2: So the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson and the

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Speaker 2: So at this point they're picking and choosing who they're

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Speaker 1: But let's come back to why this is being caused,

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter anymore who's in charge. The system itself,

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Speaker 1: Look at the disaster we're seeing Washington. They spent how

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Speaker 2: Well, you had asked what is the goal of the

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Speaker 2: he say during his inaugural address that he he was

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Speaker 1: That's correct, that was the priority for him. That's right.

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 2: It failed, all right?

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Speaker 1: Because he's not a fighter and people know that. Look,

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Speaker 1: people sense weakness, people sense strength. Why do these politicians

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Speaker 1: but they also sense weakness. That's why they crafted that

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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the filibuster, because you've got

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Speaker 3: Are you surprised that vote after vote it's just been

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Speaker 2: And does that surprise you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's groundhog Day, you know. And I'm just saying,

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Speaker 3: And it's embarrassing to our to our allies and to

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Speaker 1: But if you're the Democrats, why wouldn't you do this?

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Speaker 1: They ran on it, you know. The Republicans they always cave.

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Speaker 1: Look what happened in twenty nineteen, the last time we

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Speaker 1: That's ourgi. Republicans always give in. It's not as cool

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Speaker 2: That you're making stuff up.

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Speaker 1: And so if you don't actually give a damn about

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Speaker 1: These people are all just in there to serve different masters.

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Speaker 1: Like that's what people got to get through their heads.

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Speaker 1: The Republicans aren't helping you either. They're just trying to

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Speaker 1: They're not It's not like the Republicans have taken some

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Speaker 2: No, we will finally continue Biden spending.

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Speaker 1: That's what they did that. There are no there's nobody.

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