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Shut down the government indefinitely and he's shut down Congress for 10 days. That's right. MAGA Republicans have said everybody gets to go home. Congress is in recess again for at least 10 days and isn't it just so obvious that the reason they're doing this as well as the walls close in on Donald Trump regarding the COVID up of the Epstein files child sex trafficking ring therein that Trump and the DOJ do not want to come out and people are learning the dark past of Donald Trump and all the others in this Epstein class. 10 days at least Congress has been sent home for this is utterly despicable by MAGA Mike Johnson, Republican speaker and John Thune, the MAGA Majority Leader in the Senate. There was a weird thing that went down before members of Congress went home. You had J.D. vance, vice president, break a tie regarding the SAVE Act. Uh, and it was just a procedural vote regarding the SAVE Act. This is where MAGA Republicans are trying to focus on disenfranchising American citizens under the pretext that they're trying to stop illegal immigrants, illegal Aliens, as they say. I hate that term. That's what they say from voting, which there's no evidence of anyway. And they want to make it so difficult. We're like, you have to get a passport if you want to vote or where you have to go through all these hoops and hurdles. And they're trying to chill actual people from voting because they also don't want to talk about the economy right now, which is terrible under Donald Trump and his regime, with inflation surging and being in a job recession right now. So the weird thing that happened was you had J.D. vance, like, he didn't want to have to show up. He thought he was going to be on a vacation. He shows up to the Senate and you'll see him right here, like, huffing and puffing, and he's out of breath and he looks sloppy. In order to break a tie on a procedural vote regarding the SAVE act, it's still going to be subject to a filibuster because it's in the Senate. And based on this tiebreaker, you'll see that there's only about 49 votes, or 50 votes, if you will, in favor of the SAVE act in the Senate, and it needs 60 in order for it to get a cloture vote and avoid a filibuster. But just watch what J.D. vance does. He's tired, he's exhausted. And then Congress shuts down right after this. Here, play this clip. 50. The nays are 50. The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes. Affirmative, and the point of order is sustained. Gotta make sure. Now, we had maga. Mike, you know, the biggest tell. If you're like, Ben, you're getting conspiratorial and saying they're shutting down Congress for 10 days because they don't want to talk about the Epstein files. I mean, how. By the way, you have Republican Congress member Thomas Massie, who's one of the people who are responsible for the discharge petition. I mean, he's making posts right now like this. I'm not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm, and I'm a pretty good swimmer. In other words, he's saying that he believes that somebody's going to kill him. And if it's suggested that he dies by suicide, that is not what actually happened. You know, and then we see some statements by Donald Trump's communication director, Stephen Chung, saying, Ro Khanna this is from Trump's communications director. This guy's in charge of comms communications at the White House. I hate to use the R word. I'm reading what the communications director said. Let me just preface it with that. He goes, this is Trump's communication director. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie are some of the dumbest ever to be in Congress. They knowingly and willfully ruin the lives of innocent people who had nothing to do with Epstein. The hell are you talking about, Chung? I mean, one thing he's referencing is that there were people who were in the Epstein files who were being redacted by the doj. The DOJ didn't have a privilege log, which they're required to do by law. And in naming lots of people, apparently there are four people who said we were misidentified originally by the DOJ 10 years ago. How would Masi and Khanna even know that? But setting that aside, we have like Sultan bin Salim talking about torture videos who was forced to resign from the main logistical company in the United Arab Emirates. I mean, you've got that guy. You've got, you got the former ambassador to the United States, you got the national security advisor in Slovakia, you've got the former prime minister of Norway. I mean, you have all these world leaders who are being toppled, business leaders who are being toppled. Transparency is being brought. The Trump regime is now attacking lawmakers such that they feel that they're going to be killed and this. And they're saying, I didn't die by suicide. And then you have Maga Mike Johnson. Let's take a look at what Maga Mike Johnson's even talking about here. He did a. He did an interview with state regime media, which calls itself Fox. And he said that the Bondi hearing, that Bondi was great. He said the issue was the Democrats turned it into a circus. I kid you not. Before Maga Mike sent Congress home, he said that Bondi did great. He said Bondi did great and the Democrats turned the hearing into a circus. I mean, again, Maga Mike, if you thought he couldn't be clown himself anymore, let me show you the height of be clowning. Play this clip.