#131 - Raise the Debt Ceiling and SHUT UP
Lewis Black's Rantcast
Lewis Black
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🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This could all go horribly wrong at any minute. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to the 131st edition of Lewis Black's Rantcast entitled |
| 0:15.0 | Raise the Debt Sealing and Shut Up, okay? I would have added a few more words of spice, but then |
| 0:23.6 | all of a sudden they'd knock me off platforms and go, oh, you said a bad word and children |
| 0:28.2 | will lose their minds, even though they're going to, the kids are not going to be, you're |
| 0:33.5 | not going to be able to pay for it to get a, you know, to shrink to help your kid find their mind because if they don't raise the debt ceiling, that's not going to be able to pay for it to get a, you know, to shrink to help your kid find |
| 0:37.6 | their mind because if they don't raise the debt ceiling, that's not going to be possible. |
| 0:42.3 | You don't want to have the, you won't have the cash for it. |
| 0:44.5 | Nope. |
| 0:45.3 | And possibly your shrink will have to leave town because they won't have the cash to pay. |
| 0:50.6 | It's beyond belief. |
| 0:52.8 | It is beyond belief that they are rattling us to this point. |
| 0:57.2 | Right up 10 days. We're 10 days out. No reason on earth we should be doing this. Okay. |
| 1:02.3 | The peacocks have to stop preening. Okay? And they got to get to work and just do it. |
| 1:08.3 | Just sign off on it. That's what's got to be done. It's happened under 78 presidents |
| 1:14.2 | or something like that. I just read 49. We're Republican, 29 Democrats. So it's done. All the time, |
| 1:22.5 | it is done. Okay? And it's got to be done this time because we've just come out of a hellhole of a pandemic economically and otherwise. |
| 1:33.0 | And we don't have time to fuck with our economy, not in the least. |
| 1:37.4 | And whoever these people are who think that we do, then let them suffer what it, |
| 1:45.1 | let them suffer the consequences of it, okay? |
| 1:48.3 | Let all of them get a good, hard, solid taste of it |
| 1:53.4 | so that this shit won't happen again. |
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