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Matt.

Today is Thursday.

Let's see.

October the 9th, Cecil.

And so far we still are saying we have a democracy.

So that's good. Yeah, I mean, out loud we have one. You can say whatever you want, though, Tom.

We can even have alternative facts on whether or not we have a democracy. I mean, that's a thing.

We haven't had a coronation formally, I guess, is the victory that I've got now. That's, that's all we've got. We are in a shutdown, though, Cecil. We are in a shutdown. I think we were in a shutdown last time we reported. We are still in a shutdown. It doesn't look like this is one of those ones like when Trump was in office before the government was closed for like five weeks. This feels very similar where there just doesn't feel like there's any push on either side

to really do anything about it.

No, I've read and listened to a whole bunch of stuff about this.

And like what everybody keeps saying is that there's not a good off ramp for this.

There's a really, this is one of those instances where, you know, trying to find an off-ramp

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