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Now while all of that was going on, our government is heading towards a shutdown. In addition to rage posting about Jimmy Kimmel and how the government or Trump individually or both, plans to sue ABC Disney because Trump calls it the DNC because Trump doesn't like jokes about him or just doesn't like comedians or late night hosts, which is a authoritarian tactic and trait. Donald Trump canceled the meeting with Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries. They were supposed to meet on Thursday to discuss how to avoid a government shutdown. You'll recall that Donald Trump ordered MAGA Mike Johnson and the Republicans do not talk to Democrats about the funding bill. Don't even talk to them yet alone. Negotiate with them. Have no communications at all. Okay, well you need the Democrats in order to pass a funding bill. So the funding bill did not get out of the Senate. There was not a vote for cloture, meaning that we are headed towards a shutdown. Congress is basically shut down this week because of Jewish holidays. Congress was supposed to be in session the 29th and the 30th, but MAGA Mike Johnson shut down those days of work. Why would you shut down the 29th and 30th, the two days before a shutdown is going to take place. Well, MAGA Mike did shut down Congress for most of the summer to hide the Epstein files and investigations into the Epstein file. So it's not a shocker that he's going to shut down the 29th and the 30th, those days of Congress. But look, the Democrats, whether you like that they did this or they didn't, they said, look, even though you don't want to talk to us, why don't we show up at the White House and see if we could do a negotiation together? You may be like, why would you even talk to these Republicans? They're a bad pine. Sure, I mean, I'm with you, but let's just talk about the news of what happened. So then Trump and MAGA Mike Johnson and Senator Thune, the majority leader. So the leaders of the Republicans and the leaders of Democrats were supposed to meet on Thursday. Right. Like in theory, that's the way government's supposed to work. Right? Like they meet. Maybe they hammer something out. And by the way, maybe the deal they hammer out you off that Democrats would do a deal with you. I don't know. Right. But they were going to meet on Thursday. Well, Donald Trump canceled the meeting. Donald Trump said, nope, I don't want to meet with you on Thursday because Trump wants to shut down. So Trump posted some long winded, deranged post about Democrats love transgender and transgender for everybody. And the list of Democrat demands are so extreme that I don't want to meet with them. The only thing that Democrats have said, and by the way, you may want the Democrats to say more, but let's just deal with the facts. Democrats said, look, the Affordable Care act tax credits are set to expire very soon. So the disastrous budget bill already gutted Medicaid. It did. It's. And it's, we're going to see rural hospitals shut down. We're already seeing them shut down. It is a disaster for health care. But Affordable Care act plans with tax credits, you know, it's better than what existed before Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act. So Democrats said, look, just protect the ACA tax credits. And MAG is like, no. So Democrats said that they would be agreeable to funding the government, but you got to save the tax credits because if you don't, your monthly premiums will be like 1500-2000amonth, 18,000 to $25,000 a year for health insurance. I mean, you can't afford, can afford that right. So that was the Democrats position. And by the way, you may say, and I think you'd have a good argument, Democrats should have wanted more than that. But that's where Democrats drew the line. And then Trump and MAGA said, no, we don't even want to speak to you. We're canceling the meetings. We don't even want to have a meeting with you at the. Why? Because they want to shut down. While that's going on though, the United States government, your taxpayer dollars are now going to bail out Argentina. Javier Milei, remember the MAGA sweetheart, The guy with the chainsaw like Elon Musk and all of the right wing MAGA accounts like N Wokeness and Elon Musk. When this guy Javier Malay was elected, they said, holy shit, Argentina just elected Javier Milei as their next president. History has been made today. Elon Musk goes prosperity is ahead for Argentina. All the mag. I could show you tens of thousands of MAGA posts. You remember they love this Javier Milei guy. Well, now Argentina is about to go bankrupt. United States taxpayers have to bail out Argentina. Our Treasury Department will be spending billions of dollars to save Argentina because Melaye ran it into the ground, as John Jackson says. So we had to cut off medication for sick babies in Africa for overnight with the immediate USAID closure because money. But we can provide Argentina boatloads of cash a month before their midterm elections. And by the way, what about the money for American taxpayers? We've cut so many services for Americans. We've cut so many services for the American people and we're giving money to Javier Milei in Argentina. We which they all. Which. MAGA said he was doing a great job. When you dig a little bit deeper into this story though too, as Ben Norton explains, the US Government is doing this not only to prop up one of its puppets, but also in order to benefit wealthy U.S. investors who hold Argentine stocks and bonds and U.S. corporations that want Argentina's lithium. So that's part of what this is about as well. Show you what's going on in the rest of the world too. There's a new world order forming as Donald Trump makes the United States weaker. As Donald Trump attacks Brazil and Europe and Canada and Australia and elsewhere, they're forging alliances across the world and not with the United States. I've highlighted before Portugal getting weapons from Europe and not the United States. I've highlighted Denmark getting its air defense system from Europe and not the United States anymore. Um, I also want to highlight that China just signed A big submarine deal with Thailand, which is also pretty symbolic because Thailand would normally buy those submarines from the United States, but now they're announcing that they are buying it from China. Now, I don't really want to show you more clips of Donald Trump behaving like a deranged maniac at the United nations because I've done that video before. You get the point. It was incredibly embarrassing and humiliating. The quick summary of it is Trump says, your countries all suck. None of you know what you're doing. The U. S. Is better at everything, all because of me. I'm right about everything. You should listen to me and do what I say and also give me lots of awards. But I want to show you again moral clarity with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney. This was his speech in front of the United Nations. This is what leadership looks like here. Play this clip.
