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The government has been shut down: Here's everything we know; Newsom’s Oil Flip; 2 Spirit Spectacle
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In the October 2nd episode of The 10 Minute Drill, we break down the latest in politics, policy, and culture — fast. -Government Shutdown Fallout: Why it happened, which Democrats broke ranks, and why new polls show Democrats already losing the...
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The government is officially shut down. Here's what's happened so far and where things are going. Gavin Newsom has painted himself into a corner. We're going to unpack why. And a top professor is out of the job after praising the death of Charlie Kirk. All of that and so much more today on 10 Minute Drill. Everybody get up. Get up. The story of America is the story of an adventure.
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I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. We are a nation under God and I believe God intended for us to be free.
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Tuesday night at midnight, the government officially shut down after Senate Democrats voted against a bill to keep the government open. Three Democrats reading the tea leaves of the politics on this situation voted with Republicans. But a war of words has ensued. First, here are a few Democrats letting the cat out of the bag about their plans. We gotta make sure Americans have the.
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Healthcare that they need. And if that means we gotta shut this government down, so be it.
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But aren't Democrats demanding healthcare for illegal aliens? Democrats are demanding healthcare for everybody. Yikes. First, that was Sri Thanadar acknowledging that they are intentionally shutting down the government. Then of course, Maxine Waters, one of our all time favorites who is always willing to say the quiet part out loud. Now some Democrats have argued that Republicans are wrong when they say Democrats want to give free health care to illegal immigrants. But what you need to understand is Democrats. One of their key demands here is to roll back some of the fixes to Medicaid from the one big beautiful bill including cuts to fraud, waste and abuse that took away states ability to reimburse funding when they gave free health care to illegal immigrants through Medicaid, even for things like emergency services. But as we talk about why Democrats are doing this, one dynamic that we've talked about driving this shutdown is Chuck Schumer's, for lack of a better word, unpopularity. Here is a look at his approval ratings. Look. Particularly among Democrats, he has a 39% unfavorable rating among Democrats and only a 35% favorable rating. His total is 50% unfavorable, 21% favorable. And one dynamic that we've been aware of from the beginning is Chuck Schumer is genuinely concerned about a Senate primary from someone like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. But suffice it to say, Democrats strategy of following Chuck Schumer off a cliff is not going well. Polls are showing that Democrats lost this shutdown before it even started. Here's a New York Times poll. 65% say that Democrats should not shut down the government. Only 27% support their strategy. Even 43% of Democrats don't support the Democrat strategy to shut down the federal government. Now, Chuck Schumer spoke about this particular poll on the Senate floor. Here's that clip.
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Now, I know the leader is going to show a poll that says that Democrats will be blamed for the shutdown. There are many more polls that show Republicans are blamed. The question in that poll is biased, biased in the New York Times, but it's biased. If you turn the.
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That laughter is pretty. I have worked in the Senate for a long time and I don't know if I ever heard the chamber erupt in laughter that vociferously before. But when a Democrat is complaining on the Senate floor about a New York Times poll being unfair, they may have already lost the argument. But just to double down on this, here is tiny Vermont Democrat Senator Peter welch.
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There are 3 million federal employees who aren't going to get paid. And meantime, the senators and the members of the House of Representatives will all be getting paid through that entire process. That seems pretty unfair. And like you don't feel the pain everyone else is going to feel.
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Well, first of all, I want to say I agree with you. I mean, I hate shutdowns, okay? And it's a tactic that I prefer not to use. It's the only one that we have.
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For those of you watching at home, yes, that is actually a US Senator. That is tiny Vermont Democrat Senator Peter Welsh, not the toy maker from Toy Story. And as he says, the only tactic they have here is a shutdown. It's because Democrats have not tried to legislate or use the legislative tool in their tool chest for quite some time. And so, as they say, hostage taking is their only solution. It's no wonder Democrats are currently again facing their lowest approval rating in history. But just to put a finer point on it, here is the Washington Post editorial board. As shutdown begins, progressive Democrats imitate the Freedom Caucus. The left might have just forced Democratic leaders to walk into a trap laid by President Trump. Left wing Democrats like the Freedom Caucus before them enter this shutdown in a position of weakness. President Trump and his budget director, Russell Vaught have extraordinary authority to choose which agencies to close, what spending to prioritize and even what government workers to lay off. As Trump warned on Tuesday, we can do things during the shutdown that are irreversible. Two points there from the Washington Post editorial that I think are worth highlighting. First, we have talked before here about Democrats putting out polling to justify their shutdown weeks ago saying their far left base wanted them to shut down the government to show a fight against President Trump. So this has always been about the base, the left base that has driven Democrats to their most unpopular position in history, driving the full party off a cliff with this. The second part of this that is really important is what we talked about on Tuesday. By shutting down the government, Democrats give President Trump and his OMB director Russ Vogt the ability to decide what parts of the government are essential to to keep running and what parts are not. And it's very difficult for Democrats to argue large swaths of it are essential when they're willing to shut it down so that they can make this political point in this political fight that actually has again, no point at all. So the question is, what happens now that the government is shut down? We have seen Democrats already express outrage that government services are not going to be served. Yet they are the ones that shut down the federal government. Well, well, well, if it is not the consequences of their own actions. The Trump administration has already announced some changes. First, Politico reports Trump to withhold billions of dollars from Gateway Tunnel and Second Avenue subway projects. These are infrastructure projects in New York. Now, if the federal government shuts down, the federal government is not going to continue giving out funds to certain things and carrying out certain operations. But you already see Democrats showing a lot of frustration and outrage at this, perhaps five to six Senate Democrats who voted to shut down the government. We'll see these things and start to realize it's time to come to the table and reopen the federal government, Bloomberg reported this week. Newsom courts big oil as gas prices threaten political ambitions. Now, we've talked before about Gavin Newsom's anti energy policies chasing out energy suppliers. In particular, two major refineries shut down in California, specifically citing the crazy regulations that California has in place that make it more difficult for them to do business. But also California's numerous lawsuits and against oil and gas companies. So two refineries have left the state and well, well, well, consequences of Gavin's own actions. Reports followed this from the New York Times. California's high gas prices could climb further as refineries close. The New York Times reports the supply deficit could drive gas prices up to $8.43 per gallon by late 2026. So as media reports on this flip flop, it is so critical to to remember that Gavin Newsom created the most hostile environment for energy in the country. So naturally businesses left. Now Californians are suffering the consequences as they see $8.50 gas prices. I spent a lot of time in California. A lot of my family is there. Last time I filled up gas in California, it was $6.50, which was already insane. They're looking at nearly a two dollar increase based on Gavin Newsom's policies. And now in order to save face and save his political future, he's trying to do what? To try and curry favor with fossil fuel companies to try and bring those gas prices down. But people should remember how fickle he is on this issue. Consumer protection organization Consumers Research is out with a new campaign yesterday focused on insurance giant Chubb. Chubb Insurance is totally woke CEO Evan Greenberg called President Trump's America first movement harmful on multiple levels. Fox News reports. Top insurance company in hot seat as blistering new ad campaign exposes radical WOKE ideology. Consumers Research alleges Chubb violates federal anti discrimination laws with WOKE ideology. Consumers Research and Executive Director Will Hild have taken particular exception with Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg's fight against President Trump's America first policies and the conservative positions on things like keeping men out of women's bathrooms and things like that. In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, one dynamic that we talked about here on 10 Minute Drill was how jarring it was to see so many, particularly in academia, seemingly celebrate a political assassination, an act of domestic terrorism. One person that we talked about was University of Pennsylvania's Michael Mann. Well, Michael Mann just announced on Tuesday that he was stepping down from his administrative role at the University of Pennsylvania. Upenn Provost resigns after boosting social media post likening Charlie Kirk to Hitler Youth. Mann, who will remain a professor at the Ivy League university, has courted controversy with a series of public outbursts in recent months. One way that man attempted to defend himself was to say that it was an accident that he reposted what he did about Charlie and Hitler Youth. But a review of his social media history shows that he has called Republicans Hitler Nazis and fascists for several years. Additionally, he is also a disgraced discredited climate scientists. So we will watch and see as Upenn continues to juggle keeping him on their staff as a professor. Last week the AP reported travelers bothered by their flight's pollution can pay to reduce it elsewhere. Do offsets work? So you're booking your flight and just when you're about to check out, the airline asks if you'd like to pay a little something to offset your share of the flight's pollution. Or maybe you're an environmentally minded person and you've heard you can Buy these things called carbon offsets or are they worth it? Let's explore. So carbon offsets are something that the climate alarmism movement created so that as they guilt people into feeling bad about any pollution that they might cause in the world, they also can cash in on that by working with groups to sell carbon offsets or carbon credits to allow people to then buy a little way to get out of their guilt with those carbon credits. It is one of the worst scams in the world. But over the last two decades, as if you you've heard companies announce the they were going fully carbon neutral, it was largely based on things like these carbon credits, we are going completely carbon neutral. There have been numerous examples over the last two decades of carbon credit scams where for example, a company that was planting trees to offset carbon sold a credit for one tree to several different companies. So they raked in a ton of money. Companies announced that they were contributing to becoming carbon neutral while they all were actually overlapping in the impact. We've also seen examples of, for example, Chinese companies creating giant carbon carbon offset scams where they rake in billions without ever actually doing anything to affect the environment. The problem here is the climate alarmism movement has no oversight because the goal here is just to make people feel a little bit better. The reality is it's all a giant con in the wake of the high profile murder of a Ukrainian refugee in North Carolina. Also rising crime in big cities that President Trump has addressed with policies like sending the national guard into Washington, D.C. memphis and other cities. There's been a lot of conversation about soft on crime policies. This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing specifically to address what President Biden had done on public safety and what President Trump was doing to respond to it. One particular exchange in this hearing that got a lot of attention was between Missouri Senator Josh Hawley and President Biden's former Deputy Director of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
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We need to invest in programs that acknowledge the need for safe space initiatives.
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Yes.
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Led by lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non conforming people. What's two spirit? Well, look, I don't know exactly. You guys are pulling some interesting quotes. This is from your report.
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So it is notable that a former deputy director of a department in the Biden administration focused on gun violence prevention had no idea what was in his own report. There was a ton of references to reducing police funding, but there was also references to things like this. But the.
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What is a two spirit? What is two spirit? You say don't fund the police, but do fund programs that create safe spaces for two spirit people.
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What is?
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I just want to know. I don't know what that is. I have no idea what that is.
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So the dynamic here is critical. What Josh Hawley's pointing out is first, the Biden administration was spending much more time talking about defunding the police. They weren't talking about how to make our cities safer. So as we've seen our cities degrade, it's important to know what they were focused on, which is where this line about two spirit people comes in. Now you may be wondering, just like Senator Josh Hawley, what is a two spirit person? Two spirit is a modern Pan Indigenous umbrella term for Native American, Alaska Native and First nations individuals who embody both masculine and feminine spirits fulfilling distinct gender and spiritual roles within their communities that existed long before European colonization. It is not a specific gender identity, but a unifying term for a variety of identities and expressions representing a reclamation of these ancestral roles and identities that were lost and suppressed by colonization. That is who Joe Biden was more focused on than the people in our cities who have been preyed upon by violent crime. Joe Biden put so much more effort into appeasing crazy people like those who need a particular identification for two spirit. What two spirit actually is is basically a specialized term for non binary people that only applies to Native Americans and that is who Joe Biden was focused on instead of American people who are scared to go outside in their neighborhoods. Over 80% of Americans report feeling that big cities are unsafe and that crime is a big problem. A big part of that is because Joe Biden was focused on all sorts of other Alphabet lobby nonsense. That is all the time we have for today. Thank you so much for joining us here on 10 Minute Drill. Please like subscribe, tell a friend, leave a review, have a good day.