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So I hate to say it, but this was best case scenario. Best case scenario. I don't want to see all the staff losing their jobs. I do want him to recognize that there was a problem there and acknowledge it. And I do want to live in a world where we can forgive things that people say if there's really a question of what they meant and what their intention was, we should be able to forgive that. But…

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at is the logic of who gets blamed? Is there any way to predict that? Is it the party in charge? Do they always get blamed if they have the power? Or is there some reason that the Democrats would get blamed this time? I don't know.

But the argument is they want massively more spending for health care, but specifically I think that would include paying for trans surgeries for kids and health care for illegal aliens and more than that they would say, but I don't know how much more than that. So like I said, there's no chance that they're going to agree on a budget. They will kick the can down the road and show that they cannot do the basic work of the people. The most basic thing your government should do is allocate money. They will not do that. They should all be fired. Right? If they can't allocate money, can't even take a shot at it. I'm not even saying doing it right. If they can't even do it, if you can't do it, the main thing that you're supposed to do, you should all be fired. Every one of them should be let go. There should be some kind of law that says if you don't pass a budget, you don't get paid. At the very least, it should be if you don't pass a budget, you don't get paid. Because why do we pay them to pass a budget?

So is that fair? You don't get paid if you don't pass the budget. What if Trump did an executive order that says you don't get paid if you don't pass the budget? Would it stick? I mean, I don't see how it would because then he'd be interfering in the other branch of government. But something's got to change. I mean, we literally can't survive having a Congress that can't make a budget. That's not survivable. We have to stop acting like this is normal or that all right well okay we tried, kick the can down the street a little bit, we'll get it next time. It's not normal. Whatever we have to do to stop this it has to be done right away. Whatever it takes.

Speaking of hoaxes, Newsom was on Colbert show that's still on there for a little whi

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le. And he said that he believes Trump is trying to rig the midterms and he said, quote, "I really mean and I fear that he will not have an election in 2028. I really mean that in the core of my soul. Unless we wake up to the code red of what's happening in the country." So this is the most surprising thing that I've heard in a long time. He says, "I mean this in the core of my soul." My God, does…

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