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With the shutdown essentially over, Republicans finally return to business

The business of screwing over the American people

This is just another day

Caving

It's not just something that sends our blood pressure soaring and sometimes even leaves us stuck in an interminable suffering state of paralysis

It's also a recreational activity

But now that a handful of Democratic senators have handed Trump and the Republicans a win on their fight to take away healthcare, it's time to hear all about that GOP plan

So, what would Trump care look like? >> Well, these are all ideas that we're still uh working on in part because until the government shutdown formally ends, we don't have all the people in the room uh who need to work on these programs. >> See, it's not their fault

They don't have a plan yet

It's a space issue

Currently, there's only a certain amount of people permitted to be nestled in the protective warmth of Trump's colon

But when the shutdown officially ends and that number expands, then they'll be able to get down to business

And when that happens, that's when the real plan starts. >> Subsidizing the insurance companies is not the answer because it just drives the cost up even further

So, we need to look at the root causes

The Republican party is the party that is working on that, has been working on it, and has more ideas going forward

We got to bring down the costs and you can do that in a responsible way that also increases access and quality of care

And we've got we got notebooks full of ideas on how to do that. >> Ah, yes

Notebooks full of ideas

the distant cousin of binders full of women and the stepchild of flight logs full of girls

Now, first off, Mike Johnson is lying

The Republicans have nothing

But also, let's say he isn't, which he totally is

But if he isn't, we're supposed to be relieved that Republicans plan to fix our $5 trillion healthcare industry is being kept in a bunch of notebooks

Thanks, Mike

Why not put us more at ease by telling us that the whole solution is mapped out on your office in post-it notes

The sad truth about the shutdown ending is that we are about to see a party built on one terrible policy after another start to actually try and operate again

And when you have incompetent folks at the helm, we're going to be in some trouble

This was a Democrat sabotage of the Trump economy that has brought record prosperity to the American people

The Democrats, as President Trump has said, are acting as kamicazi pilots, trying to hurt America and to hurt Americans solely because they cannot stand how successful this administration has been

Uh, I'm sorry, but your war analogy of a kamicazi pilot isn't exactly correct because Democrats are not flying the plane

We are the ones on the tarmac trying to wave him off

It is Trump in the cockpit flying the thing while enacting his policies

And the result of his policies is that costs are surging, housing is still unaffordable, healthcare premiums are about to skyrocket, and inflation is on the rise

Unless there's some ludicrous way to spin that it isn't, >> we're comfortable that inflation has come way down the 5% on average for Joe Biden

It's probably a little less than half of that right now

And the trajectory is really, really, really good if you look at it

and and inflation is one of those things that has a lot of momentum if you look at the charts and the momentum right now is headed really towards the Fed's target >> even though even though it's been increasing for five straight months as of September >> why the discomfort in calling Kevin Hassidon on his that's why you're there are you sure what you're saying is accurate even though all the data points to the fact that you're lying out of your disgustingly sweaty And remember how Donald Trump said he was going to bring down the cost of housing? >> Housing costs are still out of reach

And another thing that your administration is trying to tackle

Yeah

Your housing director has proposed something that has enraged your MAGA friends, which is this 50-year mortgage idea

So, a significant MAGA uh backlash calling it a giveaway to the banks and simply prolonging uh the the time it would take for Americans to own a home outright

Is that really a good idea

It's not even a big deal. >> Yeah, what's the big deal

So, Americans borrowing money would be on the hook for an additional $389,000 in interest over the life of a 50-year mortgage compared to a 30-year mortgage

And now that Americans are 40 before they even buy their first home, a bank might be just a tad shy underwriting a loan that wouldn't be paid off until someone is 90, which should coincide nicely when they're finally old enough to run for president of the United States

My god

Tell me you don't care about Americans struggling with affordability without telling me you don't care about Americans struggling with affordability. >> You can't imitate gold

Real gold

There's no paint that imitates gold. >> So these aren't like from Home Depot or something? >> No, this is not Home Depot stuff. >> No, not stuff you buy. >> This is not Home Depot. >> That's right

If you try and make something look authentic when it's not, everyone can tell

It just comes off as fake

and everyone who lays their eyes on it can tell that the person responsible is a total con artist purporting to be something he's not

I'm talking about the uh the gold that is

But if you're wondering why there is so much rank incompetence in the White House, I want to make one thing clear

This has nothing to do with the guy at the top because Trump is laser focused on the issues that matter

Laser focused on the minutia of the important stuff

Nay, not shall draw his gaze from such weighty matters. >> It was a a little bit of a blowout game in all fairness with the commanders as opposed to the Redskins

What happened to the Redskins, by the way? >> Why does Donald Trump, the president of the United States, feel the need to relitigate the name change of Washington DC's football team

I mean, somehow 64,000 fans every Sunday have been able to move on

But like Lauren Boowbert's hands during a performance of Beetlejuice the musical, Donald Trump just can't let it go

But the reason here is telling and it's a microcosm of his entire philosophy in government

Donald Trump needs an enemy because his skill is not governance

It is division and vilification

And without opposition, he actually has to do the stuff that he campaigned on

You know, like lowering the cost of housing, making health care more affordable, and lowering the cost of groceries. >> It's such an oldfashioned term, but a beautiful term, groceries

It sort of says a bag with different things in it. >> Exactly

A bag with different things in it

You know, like how kids are always hunting through their groceries to find a pencil

Your mom always digging through her groceries to find her phone

And who hasn't shown up at the gym only to realize that you forgot your groceries at home

Donald Trump was reelected to the presidency

He has been able to shake down one institution after another and he's enriched himself and his family by the billions

Yet every chance he gets, he miraculously views himself as the victim and feels the need to go on the attack. >> This Crockett, this is a low very low IQ person

AOC's low IQ. >> Gavin Nuskum, he's the governor of California. >> Newsome. >> He signed Nuskum

I call him >> We have mom Donnie who was ahead in the polls here

What's your reaction? >> It's amazing. >> He's up by 20

I call him my little communist

He's my little communist mayor. >> Well, that little communist just won a little election

So, I can guarantee you that Trump is a little worried about the midterms

Donald Trump and the Republicans campaigned on the promise of a brighter future on this idea that there was a great America barely out of reach

And if only those evil Democrats would get out of the way and let them have full control of government, every citizen across this nation would be living in a golden groceryfilled palace

But the only American living that brighter future is him

This Republican experiment of tax cuts for the rich being the solution to all that ails us is actually nothing new

Way back in 2012, while many of us were grieving the end of Twilight by drawing the shades and teaching ourselves the Gangham style dance, just me

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback pushed a plan through his state's legislature that drastically cut income taxes, saying, >> "Eliminating income taxes on small businesses is like a shot of adrenaline straight into the heart

It'll jolt our state and give us a dynamic growth." >> Right

Eliminating tons of taxes, the money that pays for government services, but canons wouldn't be deprived of those services because of the shot that would provide adrenaline and dynamic growth

Well, to quote other proponents of shots leading to adrenaline's dynamic growth, what could go wrong? >> Immediately when the tax cuts were put in place, our revenue dropped like a rock. >> Because your muscles got too big from that shot of adrenaline. >> Dwayne Goen is a former Republican state legislator who served 12 years as budget director for three Kansas governors, Republican and Democrat

income tax revenue, which was the main source of income for our state general fund, dropped about $700 million or about 25%

We immediately went into a budget crisis, >> huh

So, you're telling me that taking money away from something doesn't add more

I guess it's my fault for not enrolling in that math class at Trump University

Well, I'm sure they found a way to scrape together those extra funds >> to cover the gap

Lawmakers first siphoned money from the state's rainy day fund, then went after transportation funding, but it still wasn't enough. >> Kansas school district scrambling to find ways to make up funding. >> The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has descertified Oswadami State Hospital. >> State lawmakers are now questioning how 70 foster kids can go missing. >> That was the local news soundtrack in Kansas from 2014 on

While lawmakers went through budget cut after budget cut, >> Exactly

They cut services

Thanks to these massive tax cuts, state revenues plummeted by almost $700 million

So they started cutting money from public schools, from Medicaid, and from higher education

Sound familiar

The idea that tax cuts, which provide people in power with exponentially more wealth, will somehow jolt our economy and everybody in it into economic prosperity is a total myth

And we've seen it fail over and over and over again

And the most insidious part of this Republican idea is that guys like Trump just don't care because by the time the wreckage has occurred and the public has wised up to that reality, they'll be long gone

Or to put that another way, >> it's not even a big deal. >> Exactly

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