Democrats vote to release the hostages (11-10-2025--Hour1)

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Right, Oh, this is not good news for Chuck Schuma. Not good news. I don't understand. Well, I've got yeah, like I've got a lot of reaction from people who know a lot more of the inside ballgame that was going on up there in DC About all of this, Bonchie, a writer at RedState dot com, notes the irony here that for the last forty days, whether there's something biblical about this anyway, the last forty days, the Democrats and the media, but I repeat myself, they have been screaming that Republicans are the ones that shut down the government and that's bad. And then as soon as these eight Democrats broke ranks with leadership or maybe they were given permission to do so by leadership, and voted with the Republicans to break the legislative filibuster. Now those same people who were saying that the government shutdown is bad, now they're mad that the shutdown is ending. Well, which is it, people, John Thune? This is according to Chris Slizza. Chris Solizza is a long time journalist frequent talking head on MSNBC, and he said, to be clear, John Thune, the Republican majority leader and Senate Republicans offered this exact deal that Democrats are now taking. He offered this weeks ago. Oh so this is not even a new deal. He gave it to them weeks ago. He says, why is it now when seven Senate Democrats decide to give in. Gosh, it's a brain buster. We may never know the reason why. Actually we do know the reason why. It's because now they are hitting air traffic controllers. You've got flight cancellations and such going on. You got the snap funds that are drawing up, and they're passed the election, right, they got past their no Kings rally. Remember, in fact, hang on one second, let me go through the stack of stuff and bring back this nugget from last week. Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, Republican. He told Fox News that Chuck Schumer held a closed door meeting with Senate Democrats and told them to wait until after the elections to reopen the government quote, because they were afraid their base would not show up today in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York City. Last week, Dick Durbin, Democrat from Illinois, wanted to break with Democrats and reopen it, but he was told not to just wait till after the election. That was last week. Mark Wayne Mullen said that I gave you that quote last week, and lo and behold, here we are after the election. First vote that comes down, and boom, you've got a whole bunch of defectors. So let me go over here to This is the Independent Journal Review IJR dot com. Progressive Democratic lawmakers. House minority Leader Hakim Jeffries excoriated a deal Sunday negotiated by fellow members of their party to reopen the government. Right because the lefties are at least feigning outrage. Now, look, I get it. The radical base of their party. They are outraged. They are super mad at Chuck Schumer. I think he's done. He might be done. I don't know if he's going to run for reelection in twenty six or is it twenty six. I think it's twenty six. Yeah, yeah, he may be done. The knives are out for this guy now. And that's why, in fact I have his his feigned outrage from the floor where he spoke yesterday about the vote. But let me be clear, however this folk turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight because of millions of millions of family will lose health care coverage. We must fight because children who are dying of cancer will not get health care coverage. We must fight because a senior citizen cannot afford to pay twenty five thousand dollars a year just for health insurance. We must fight to keep millions from financial ruin. And make no mistake about it, the American people know who is inflicting this healthcare trauma on them, Donald Trump and the Republicans. Hmmm, is that a guy you want leading you into battle? Man? He fights? He said fight like four times there, three or four times, so you know he fights because he said we have to keep fighting for health care costs to be lower. Which is weird because I remember, wait a minute, yeah I do. I remember that I was promised lower health care costs I don't know about fifteen years ago. That's why we had to take over a sixth of the economy through Obamacare. Yeah. In fact, there's a influencer guy named Mays Moore, and he put together a couple of highlights of Barack Obama telling us this very thing. It will actually reduce the deficit by four trillion dollars over the long term. Reducing the waste and inefficiency in Medicare and Medicaid will pay for most of this plan. It will slow the growth of healthcare costs for our families, our businesses, and our government. There will be a provision in this plan that requires us to come forward with more spending cuts if the savings we promised don't materialize. Lies all lies. This has been the problem. This was foreseen, it was predictable. It was predicted people like me saying at the time, this is going to drive up the cost of healthcare. And it did. And now we're supposed to pay off the insurance companies because that's what happens, that's what the subsidies are, right, We're paying off insurance companies with taxpayer dollars. It's absurd. I saw a great point. The answer to these problems is not more socialistic policy. Okay. The problem is people inject this kind of soft socialism into the free market system, and then when the free market starts sputtering because of this poison that you've injected, then people start blaming the free market, and it's not the fault of the free market, it's the fault of the socialism. And then people are like, well, we got to have more socialism then, yeah, to kill the patient. That's what this is has been about from the beginning. For people who weren't paying attention during the Obamacare fight, we all knew that this was the point. It was to break the system. I'm frankly surprised it only took fifteen years. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion, Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. Nestled within the breath taking fourteen thousand acres of the Pisga National Forest, their cabins offer a serene escape in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains. 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According to the Independent Journal Review IJR dot com, the House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that a vote to extend the Obamacare subsidies, which is not guaranteed to pass, is insufficient as part of this deal because that's one of the things that they got promised, which was we'll give you a we'll give you a vote on the subsidies as a standalone vote, and that's not going to pass. It's not going to pass, so it may get through the House, but it is unlikely to get sixty votes to pass in the Senate and overcome a filibuster, so you didn't really get anything there. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has offered Democrats a vote on extending the ACA subsidies. He's been offering them this since mid October, okay, for weeks. Washington Representative Representative Pramila Jayapal, the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, took to the Twitter machine and said, quote, caving on a deal that doesn't fix healthcare, which isn't broken. You guys already fixed it with Obamacare. What are you talking about? She says, Caving on a deal that doesn't fix healthcare is and always has been a giant betrayal of the American people. Hold the line save healthcare. I'm a no on anything that doesn't extend a subsidies. Remember, the subsidies were put in place by Democrats without Republican support, and they were the ones who made the subsidies temporary. They did this on multiple occasions. This is of their own doing. They authored the legislation. Now why would they make them temporary. Well, as we heard in the clip of lies from Barack Obama, right, they wanted to make this thing when they originally crafted Obamacare. They wanted to make this thing appear from a budgetary gimmick standpoint, as if it was funded, as if it would not be the mess that it is. And so they had all of these you know, accounting tricks that they put in there. And one of them was to phase out the subsidies and the subsidies, and then of course they kept extending them because people would complain because the healthcare calls kept going up and up and up and up, and so they kept extending them, leaving the sunset provisions in the latest round came during COVID. Charles C. W. Cook at National Review, he says, my take on why the Democrats shutdown failed is that they never admitted that they shut down the government, and so their claims to be fighting sounded weird and still do right, you shut down the government. This is why the messaging like they never would take ownership. They didn't want any ownership of the shutdown, even though they were the ones that were blocking passage of the Clean Continuing Resolution to keep the funding going. They were the ones that said, you have to put more spending into the clean CR or the CCR. You have to put what we want in there, or else we're not going to support it. And that shut the government down. So that's your fault. Because the clean CR passed the House and it had the votes, it had a majority support, bipartisan majority support in the Senate, it just didn't have enough to clear the filibuster. That was a you decision, You Democrat leadership decision. There's a fella by the name of Mike Fragoso, and he was a former counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell and the Senate Judiciary Republicans, and he lays out sort of the politics of this behind the scenes. He says, Schumer should put his head in a bag. I'm thinking like a paper bag kind of deal. You know. During the Biden years, the Senate passed many CRS mini budgets, omnibus bills supplemental funding. This was obviously bipartisan because of the filibuster. At the time, the Heritage and Steering Crew howled that the same fourteen Republicans kept giving the Democrats sixty votes to bust the deficit or whatever, in contravention of the Republican conferences. Will right, You always had these fourteen Republican traders, Mitch McConnell being one of them. Eventually, one of the more responsible members ran the numbers and found only fourteen Republicans refused to vote for any of these bills, meaning that it was the ultras, the ultra conservatives, who were the rump and a super majority of the conference was in fact willing to play ball depending on circumstances. So what does this have to do with Schumer. Well, McConnell and Thune always voted with the majority, contrary to the folks at Heritage and the Steering Committee attacks. It wasn't because they necessarily liked the bills. It was because vote no but hope yes has no place in leadership as a strategy. It would be dishonorable to go to your members ask them for a hard vote while you take a walk for ideological or political reasons. So when you need to persuade the conference to take a hard vote for your side, like Kavanaugh or the one big beautiful bill or acquitting the President, they're going to be more likely to follow you if they know that you always lead from the front. The Republican Conference vests comparatively little power in its leader. He has to persuade more than command. Democrat Caucus rules empower their leader. Though he governs with fear, He's a comfortable pollaburo general with conscripts afraid of the guns behind them. Perhaps this past weekend the troops stopped being afraid and defied him on a consequential vote. Handing progressives a staggering defeat, or perhaps he authorized the defection. Either way, it's bad for him. In other words, Schumer either lost control of it this caucus or sent out his veterans on a suicide mission, not to protect the caucus but to protect him. Either way, he should be mortified. His members should remember, as should Republicans. You know. 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They are your life told through the eyes of everyone around you and all who came before you, and they will tell others to come who you are. Visit creative video dot Com. Let me jump over to the WBT text line driven by Liberty Buick GMC message from Jason. They also passed Obamacare to see what was in the bill. Remember, this was the worst thing that could happen to healthcare. This just made healthcare from bad to worse. Yeah, we had to pass the bill to find out what's in there. Tell me it was that John Conyers, right, wasn't that who that was? They tell me, you gotta read the bill. You gotta read the bill. No one reads the bills. And then I think it was Pelosi who said we have to pass it to know what's in it. That was yeah, because they just offloaded the responsibility to write all the rules to Kathleen Sibelius. The Health and Human Services Secretary. John appreciated the CCR joke. You're welcome. Jeanie in Gastonia says, thank you, Pete for the hard work and dedication and time that you put in bringing us the latest informative information. Our family appreciates it. Just hope others do as well. They don't, Geenie, they don't. Hi kid, I appreciate it. Thank you very much for the kind words. And random seven O four number says good show. And Tony sent me a picture of snow along the road. Don't know where that is? Oh, just north of Ashville. There you go, it's snowing north of Ashville. Where where should I go? Well, but oh, okay, let me go over here. Do you know who Peter Welch is. Of course you don't. He's a US senator from Vermont, Okay, and uh, I think he is of the Uh I think he is of the the jam Fame. I actually don't. It's just his last name is Welch. So anyway, Senator Peter Welch in comments Listen, he actually acknowledges here. He admits that Obamacare has failed. That's at the heart of the Democrats position is that when we were in charge, we implemented this massive government takeover on promises that it would bend the cost curve. That was what was told to us, that it was going to, you know, stabilize the prices, drive them down. Heck, we even called it the Affordable Care Act. How damn care not become affordable now? But they failed. My belief was always that that was intentional. I expected it to collapse way earlier than fifteen years. But here we are. But for the subsidies. It probably would have collapsed much earlier because it had to, because it is an unworkable model. It always was. It was designed to fail. Like I've literally been saying this since Obamacare was passed. This would have been what two thousand and nine, twenty ten or something, and the Tea Party years took over based in part on this kind of this kind of legislation. But you can you can only ration a limited good or service in one of two ways, either by cost or by access. That's it, because it's it's a limited good or service, So you cannot provide it for free for everyone. It is impossible to do. And you may try to trick the invisible hand of the free market, but you will not succeed because the free market is just us. I've been saying this for years. You are the free market, I am the free market. Capitalism. But they call it, you know, Marx called it capitalism to make it a slur, but it's just freedom. It's the freedom to choose, and it's sending individual signals to producers, retailers, right, consumers. When you make a purchase at a store and the item you're buying is on sale, right, you're sending a signal that you will buy that item when it is on sale, but maybe you won't buy it when it's not on sale, which sends the message to the producer, to the retailer, hey, you know what, our prices are too high if they're not moving their merchandise. Prices are too high. If they cut the prices to try to move the merch and people still don't buy it, well, that's sending signals that people don't want it. Now if people do want it, and you end up with this like like a like I don't say black market, but on the resale market, and people are buying like your shoes, like your new, latest, hottest sneakers, and you sell them for one hundred dollars and they sell out immediately, then it's like, oh, maybe we should raise those prices a little bit higher so they don't sell out immediately. So you raise them to five hundred dollars, and they still sell out immediately. That sends another signal that you can raise the price even more. I mean, that's it. That's all the free market is. It's just every individual making a choice at any given moment. You're talking an infinite number of data points. This is why a command control economy or command control industry. This idea that, oh, if we just put people that are technocrats that know what they're doing, we put them in charge of the system, and they'll be able to manage all of this stuff. The hubris, the conceit of that. There's no way that you will be able to replace a system that allows billions of people to make infinite numbers of choices at any given moment in time. You can't do it. This was always the fatal flaw in Obamacare. There were many, I mean, and I've talked about them for years. You've got the woodwork effect right where people quote come out of the woodwork. They always underestimate the number of people that want the free stuff, like, yeah, you made it free, which of course it's not free. And so Peter welch Suh admits Obamacare was a failure. I owe you an answer on why it is I'm standing here today asking to extend something that was temporary. And here here's the reason we did fail to bring down the cost of healthcare. We know, we know, So no, you don't get an extra four hundred billion dollars to now quote fix it, which is an It's not a fix, it's subsidizing failure. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app and it's a website and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. 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Chuck Schumer's speech had seven fights, a cancer, a trauma, and a Trump. I mean, I will take your word from that. I lost count. I did not count all of them. And the next thing, Oh, Kevin, Obamacare does lower cost both for those that are sick through no fault of their own and those that stuff their face at Golden Corral are one hundred and fifty pounds overweight Communist Socialist permission structure. I'm going to pay the same for my healthcare, so why take care of my health It ticks me off that I have to pay for it. Through higher premiums other people's poor life choices. Right, Well, that's all insurance. That's the problem with all insurance and risk pools, the whole model. And when Obamacare was being debated, like there's so many different directions, I can go with this because there because this fight was raging for like a year. So the better way to have gone about reforming or I should just say driving down the price of healthcare, The thing to do is to remove the third parties that are between you and your doctor. That includes the insurance companies and it includes GOV. Go right, get both of them out of this mix as much as possible. You then have the catastrophic policies that you that you can go out to the marketplace and get a catastrophic policy for you know, for things that are not h not known right in the event of a catastrophe. But make everything point of purchase. Like you don't use your car insurance to pay for oil changes, and if you did, your oil changes would be super expensive. Right. Why is health insurance treated differently than car insurance, right, or any other form of insurance for that matter. It's just it's a broken model. And this was made very clear to me the first time I got an HSA and I went into the doctor's office and they asked me if I wanted a technis shot and I said, well, I don't know. I said, I'm paying for it with an HSA, so like what's the price? And he was like, I don't know. That's a problem, right, don't you think you're offering services and you don't even know what the price is. So and I don't fault him because everything just runs through an insurance company, and there are cheaper rates, by the way, if you pay cash, if you offer to pay cash, you'll get lower costs at the doctor's office. And so when he asked his you know, he asked the nurse to go check out what the price was before I would agree to get it. And she came back and it was like seventy dollars for a tetnis shot. And I was like, mm, yeah no, and he's like, yeah, just come back if you step on a nail. So you make a different decision when you know what the price is, right, you can. It is a way for you then to assess is this good or service worth the price that they're charging. But when you get when you're masked to that cost when it's hidden through an insurance company. And then the government did subsidizing the insurance companies, so then they have an incentive to raise the prices because you don't see it. They're going to build the government. Oh and then the subsidy goes away, and oh no, now you have to come out of pocket for it. Now, Oh my gosh, it's way too expensive. They also broke it with the plans Gold, Silver, Bronze. I was on Obamacare for a year after I got let go up in Ashville, and then when I got hired and started got a health insurance, had to pay a penalty because of the previous year. So at a time when I was on their plan and they were giving it to me for like eight dollars or something, it was ridiculous, and I was making income, but I launched the podcast, so they couldn't rate the income, so they didn't know how much I was making as a self employed person, so they just said, well, we'll give it to you for free. And then I get hired here and then I have to pay a massive penalty for the previous year when I wasn't making that money. Like it's just absurd. The whole thing. The whole program was absurd, but I believe it's absurd and it was built of and I believe that from the beginning because Ted Kennedy told Obama the biggest regret he had was not doing the deal with Nixon for the Medicare for All. Had he gone ahead and done little that component of the socialized medicine that Kennedy wanted, then they'd have been further down the road to a fully government controlled system. And then you will have your care rationed by access. That's the deal, all right. 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