Hey, it's Mark Simone here. Welcome to the bonus segment for all of you podcast listeners out there.

So the shutdown is over. It was the longest one in history. What was accomplished by all of this?

I don't know. I have no idea. Nobody does. Now, a lot of people think it was the Democrats just trying

to sabotage the Trump economy, but it caused, you know, it was supposed to screw up the Republicans.

It actually screwed up the Democrats. They did themselves more damage because they end this

shutdown with just total division and civil war going on within the party.

They've actually ended up.

The shutdown is over.

Now they've got like a circular firing squad going on in the Democratic Party there.

And Schumer and the old guard getting attacked by the new crazy, woke left and everywhere.

Schumer and all these people

are getting attacked like crazy by,

you know, the high IQ shows,

the, you know, PBS news,

the MSNBC crowd.

But even the low IQ shows,

like the view going after them like crazy.

And sometimes it's those low IQ shows that are the better barometer because if even they figured it out, it means it's pretty bad.

But Democrats, you know, the party's just been just slipping over the last 20, 30 years.

Remember, they were liberals.

And then after a few defeats, they became

progressives. They're not liberals anymore. They were now progressives. Like, that's better. But

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