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Speaker 2: Boston six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty

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Speaker 2: eight is the number, am I the only one. I

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Speaker 2: really would like to take the temperature of Cooner Country

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Speaker 2: and and get a sense of what many of you

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Speaker 2: are thinking. I don't mind this shutdown. I mean I

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Speaker 2: think it's disgusting. Please don't get me wrong. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: I can't stand the fact that you know you're going

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Speaker 2: to have people aren't going to get paid. I mean

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Speaker 2: just that you know, some basic services now are not

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Speaker 2: going to be rendered at least for a while. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think it's horrible. I don't think it's a good

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Speaker 2: look for our country. But part of me is like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: if the Democrats want to commit political suicide, if you're

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Speaker 2: that determined, you know, it's like, don't jump. Well, if

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Speaker 2: you really want to insist on jumping off the ledge, okay,

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Speaker 2: I don't want to standing your way jump Like that's

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Speaker 2: part of this. I look at this and I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 2: you asked for it, you wanted it, you got it.

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Speaker 2: Listen now to President Trump talking to reporters and saying, look,

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Speaker 2: number one, we're not going to give free health care

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Speaker 2: to illegal aliens. They're on drugs. So and you're going

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Speaker 2: to shut the government down over that issue and you

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Speaker 2: think you're gonna win. And number two, we're now going

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Speaker 2: to go on offense. A lot of bureaucrats are going

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Speaker 2: to be permanently laid off. We are going to fire

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Speaker 2: them in agency after agency. These are these unnecessary parasites,

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Speaker 2: as I call them. These are these unnecessary deep state

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Speaker 2: Democrat bureaucrats and operatives. You want to talk about rooting

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Speaker 2: out waste, fraud, and abuse, That's exactly what we're gonna

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Speaker 2: do in agency after agency, program after program. In fact,

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Speaker 2: as I speak to you, now, listen to this. That's

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Speaker 2: why part of this I'm like, keep it going. Really,

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Speaker 2: part of it is like, yeah, this is good. Really,

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Speaker 2: this is good. A. The Democrats already are underwater in

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Speaker 2: the polls, that's number one. So politically they're already paying

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Speaker 2: a price. But apparently now one hundred thousand federal bureaucrats,

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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand now plan to resign today en masse

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Speaker 2: in protest of Trump, in protest of him not wanting

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Speaker 2: to support this massive healthcare package, this one point five

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Speaker 2: trillion dollars in extra spending that the Democrats are pushing,

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Speaker 2: and angry that Trump now wants even more permit layoffs

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Speaker 2: if there is a government shutdown. So already one hundred

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Speaker 2: thousand are saying we're gonna leave. That's one hundred thousand. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you you can hold me to this. The

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Speaker 2: one hundred thousand that tender their resignations today, nobody will

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Speaker 2: feel it at all. That is to me what the

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Speaker 2: most incredible part of all of this. It's like what

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Speaker 2: Doge exposed. They're laying people off, firing people left, right

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Speaker 2: and center, and like, we don't feel it at all.

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about absolute dead weight. You want

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Speaker 2: to talk about eating up our money and wasting our money,

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Speaker 2: and just very quickly before I pay that play the

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Speaker 2: Trump cut. Look, I remember I had a friend in Washington, DC.

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Speaker 2: I mean he was open about it. He was one

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Speaker 2: of these federal you know, basically permanent civil servants. He

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Speaker 2: had a six figure salary, by the way, gold play

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Speaker 2: healthcare plan. And this guy bragged every time I met him,

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Speaker 2: he bragged. He goes, Look, I'm telling you, I don't

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Speaker 2: do anything all day. I'm like, well, you gotta do something.

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Speaker 2: He's like, really, I watch movies, I read novels, I

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Speaker 2: go on sports websites. He goes, I don't do anything.

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Speaker 2: I'm paid to do nothing. And he says, a lot

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Speaker 2: of my colleagues are the same. And what was I

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Speaker 2: think it was a GS eleven. I think that's the term.

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Speaker 2: In other words, they rank you in terms of your

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Speaker 2: seniority in the federal government. He retired, retired with an

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Speaker 2: eighty thousand dollars a year, an eighty K pension a year,

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Speaker 2: And I remember thinking, how are we going to afford

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Speaker 2: this as a country, Like it's theft. This guy does nothing,

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Speaker 2: and we're not just paying for his salary and his benefits,

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Speaker 2: but then we're paying for this outrageous pension for the

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Speaker 2: rest of his life. We're gonna go bankrupt. Man. That's

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Speaker 2: where my money is going. That's where our money is going.

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Speaker 2: So that's why I was always a huge supporter of Doge,

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Speaker 2: and I'm a big supporter of Trump. When he says, oh, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna lace these people. They're not coming back like

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Speaker 2: in the past. No, no, this is not gonna be

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Speaker 2: a long vacation. No, no, this time, many of them

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Speaker 2: are never coming back. Listen now to Trump telling Democrats

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Speaker 2: you want to shut down, We're gonna give you one roll,

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Speaker 2: cut one Mike.

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Speaker 3: Stay of the Democrat Party, when they have a thirty

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Speaker 3: three percent favorability rating on average in.

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Speaker 2: Recent months and they're willing to shut down the government

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Speaker 2: over our health care A shutting it down.

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Speaker 3: We're not shutting it down. We don't want it to

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Speaker 3: shut down because we have the greatest period of time ever.

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Speaker 3: I tell you, we have said seventeen trillion dollars being invested.

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Speaker 3: So the last person that once they shut down is us. Now,

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Speaker 3: with that being said, we can do things during the

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Speaker 3: shutdown that are irreversible, that are bad for them and

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Speaker 3: irreversible by them, like cutting vast numbers of people out,

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Speaker 3: cutting things that they like, cutting programs that they like.

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Speaker 2: I'm amen, brother, That's why part of me is like, no,

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Speaker 2: keep it going. No. No. The longer disc goes on,

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Speaker 2: the more people they can let go, the more waste, fraud,

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Speaker 2: and abuse they they can they can root out. You

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Speaker 2: can fire more of these dead beats and parasites. Listen

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Speaker 2: to Trump saying they think I'm going to give free

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Speaker 2: health care to illegals. Right, they're on drugs up there

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Speaker 2: in the Democratic Party. Roll cut one a Mike.

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Speaker 3: They're taking a risk by having a shutdown because because

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Speaker 3: of the shutdown, we can do things medically and other ways,

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Speaker 3: including a bet. If it's we can cut large numbers

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Speaker 3: of people. We don't want to do that, but we

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Speaker 3: don't want fraud, waste, and abuse. And you know we're

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Speaker 3: cutting that good.

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Speaker 2: I'm honestly, I'm happy. I mean, I'm sorry. It's you know,

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Speaker 2: the country should never have a shutdown, but you know what,

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Speaker 2: this could be a very very good thing for the

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Speaker 2: whole country and more importantly, for Trump and his presidency.

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