Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
The breakthrough.
Chapter 2: What led to the federal government shutdown and its resolution?
After nearly six weeks, the federal government shutdown looks set to end. We have support from enough Democrats. Five new Senate Democrats joined three others voting to no longer block the reopening of the government in exchange for a concession that Senate Republicans had been offering for weeks to hold a vote on extending Obamacare subsidies. It is sparking a deep divide among Democrats.
Many progressive Democrats are accusing their Democratic colleagues of caving by not getting Republicans to agree to more. I think it was a terrible, terrible vote. At a time when we have a broken health care system, this is going to make our health care system even worse.
Chapter 3: How are Senate Democrats and Republicans navigating the government shutdown?
Democrats never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. And this sort of exemplifies why I am an NPA right now. No party affiliation, which is how I started my life as an 18-year-old man in Miami in 1996, voting in my first presidential election. Then was an NPA for most of my life. I was a Democrat for less time than Donald Trump was a Democrat. I'll put it to you that way.
Switch back to NPA last year because of just this kind of foolishness. I mean, just this lack of a backbone, this fecklessness, this spinelessness.
But the only pro in this situation is people getting back to work.
Yes, some people getting back to work. But what was the sacrifice for Roy? What was this about?
Chapter 4: What are the reactions from progressive Democrats regarding recent votes?
We were taking a stand here. When I say we, I don't mean Democrats because I'm not a Democrat. I'm about Americans who wanted to ensure that there was no compromise on their health care. People are going back to work, Roy, but their premiums are going to be like. I don't know, a thousand times more expensive. What's the difference if you're working or not?
People work so they can pay for their health insurance, they can pay for their rent, they can pay for their groceries. Nobody can afford any of that shit, Roy. So what was the point of this sacrifice and this shutdown and taking a stand if you're going to fold like a cheap suit the second you get what you want, which is everybody's votes in the election last week?
That's what's so cynical about it too, Roy, is that you know this shit was all...
Chapter 5: How does Angie Nixon view the current state of healthcare policies?
And this was all they were just waiting for Election Day to go by. And then the Democrats struck this deal all of a sudden out of nowhere. And what this does is it reinforces the cynicism of Democrats, independents, NPAs who say, oh, it doesn't matter who I vote for. Both sides are the same. It doesn't matter. None of them are looking out for the working people or for the farmers or for the...
And I don't think that's true, but it does reinforce that kind of attitude amongst people. And it discourages people from voting is what it does. And the Democrats were winning the messaging war. They were winning elections, as evidenced by this past week. And then they're like, no, we good. I mean, what the f***? It doesn't make any sense.
I'm not saying ride hungry people, the momentum of hungry and out of work people into the midterms next year. I'm saying stand for something. OK, nobody can afford eight thousand dollars a month for health insurance. I don't care if you're getting your job back like it doesn't make any sense. I just don't understand what they're doing.
And the second I get all these fundraising text messages from Democrats and I'm like, get out of here with that. Get out of here. This was total and utter capitulation. There is no deal. What is the deal? Representative Angie Nixon, I'm sorry. I'm just ranting and raving, and she's waiting so patiently with some pretty creepy Funko Pops behind her on the shelf. Angie Nixon represents...
Duval County, Jacksonville, where she is a native, a proud daughter of Jacksonville, who she now represents in the Florida State House. Deal or no deal? What is the and in a deal? Doesn't somebody get something in exchange? Doesn't every like what did the Democrats get here? What did the American people get out of this Senate deal?
You know, Billy, I would say in some ways you are correct. Unfortunately, what's happening right now just basically reaffirms that Republicans and Donald Trump can basically inflict harm and terrorize people and starve people without actually governing, right? It's really just a way in which they're using cruelty as a shortcut, right? to power.
And so it's very unfortunate that nearly 20 million people are potentially going to lose health care or their health care is going to rise to a point where they cannot afford it. And so it's very unfortunate. And I think we need to start looking inwards as Democrats to make sure that we are looking out for working families and low-income people and really
Trying to make sure that their quality of life is improving and they were pushing transformative change.
There was a promise. There was a promise from Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate Democrats. And we heard it time and time again from some of the eight senators who voted against. For this, which is that there will be no compromise. There will be no deal.
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Chapter 6: What updates are there on Ghislaine Maxwell's treatment in prison?
And cruelty is the point, again. They are using cruelty in a way so that they can have a shortcut to power. And this is really harming people. And so again, I think we need to get money, this big time money out of politics, and things would definitely change.
If you had Democrats and Republicans who could only get campaign donations from regular working people, I think that they would only listen to regular working people as it relates to policies that they would put
I want to clarify, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, is a United States representative.
Chapter 7: What is the significance of the Epstein Files saga in today’s political climate?
She's in the House. She's in the House. So she is not gunning yet for Senator Schumer's job. She would have to run for Senate in New York first. But that doesn't mean she's not out for Hakeem Jeffrey's job, which could also be up for grabs. I mean, he represents a new generation of Democrats. But
He really seems to strike a lot of people as being, I guess, what Representative Nixon might not call him, but in general, like these corporate Democrat type of characters.
And I have to wonder, Representative Nixon, are you insinuating that maybe these some of these eight Democrats were not necessarily acting in the best interest of their constituents, but rather on behalf of some special interest insurance company, something with this vote? What are you insinuating there?
You know, I would say that a lot of folks right now are just caving to being bullied, particularly by Donald Trump and those Republicans in D.C. right now. And a lot of our constituents like like what do we get in return? Right. Like we. The Republicans have never acted in good faith, especially recently. Right.
And so now what what do we have to show for folks going promise to vote maybe in December or right, whatever the hell this nebulous, amorphous deal is?
Exactly. And so they have not acted in good faith. And at the end of the day, a lot of these people are really working to destroy our communities. And so working class people are seeing that, right? Like folks who are negatively impacted, the people who had the hundreds of thousands of people who were without pay for over a month, they're pissed, right? Some of them may have
going into like the foreclosure process or possibly face eviction, definitely had issues paying for childcare, which is super expensive. And so now like they have nothing in return. And so people are pissed. And again, like it is definitely time
for us to potentially look at new leadership to come in that's really going to be representative of people and what we care about and the needs that we have and not just those corporations.
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Chapter 8: How are the victims of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes being treated in the media?
Don't have, I think, any kind of runoffs coming up in December in Jacksonville. But we have them down here in the city of Miami. I know they have them in Orlando. And these are nonpartisan elections. But as we've talked about on this show many times, the political parties get very involved in these local supposedly nonpartisan elections.
nonpartisan elections, but you are traveling the state right now. I know you were in South Florida or you were in South Florida very recently. What is the response on the ground from people who really thought that the Democrats were fighting for something here and the sacrifice was to some end, to some sort of goal here? I mean, I think the Democrats should be concerned.
Everybody's concerned about turnout in a runoff. You know that nobody shows up. Barely anybody shows up in November of 2025. I don't know. We didn't have... 30 percent turnout in the city of Miami. And we'll get half that, if not less than half of that in a December runoff. What I'm asking is that our Democrats now a little there was a blue wave last week.
Are Democrats a little less motivated, a little less excited about turning out because of this attitude that seems to be pervasive when shit like this goes down, which is that, well, what's the difference? We come out and vote and we get screwed irregardless.
Yeah, so I definitely think that this may have an impact on turnout. However, it's going to be incumbent upon us elected leaders to let folks know that the Republicans are really to blame for the majority of the pain and suffering that we are facing right now. And so now we have a unique opportunity to really start meeting people where they are, right?
having these going and taking part in these mutual aid efforts and really letting folks know, right, like the reason that they need this mutual aid in the first place is because Donald Trump and the Republicans in Congress just really, again, want to harm people and they want to basically diminish the working class and allow their friends and family to get richer, right?
Again, cruelty is the point here and folks have to realize their power. And so I would hope I am hoping and also gonna definitely put in the work to make sure that people wake up and realize that they need to get their power back and we have to work together, right?
Like at the end of the day, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, we're all getting screwed by the folks that are in DC in power right now. and some of the folks that are in power here in the state. And so if we wanna see a change, we gotta start electing people who care about us, who come from us, who are us, right? And really wanna see transformative change. And I think even though
There was a little caving that happened a few days ago. I think that we can still fight back to ensure that everyone will have the opportunity to get their needs met if we elect the right people and we push for that.
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