Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. Okay, beautiful people, today is Thursday, October the 2nd, 2025, and we got a lot to

break down today. I would like to consider the umbrella for this conversation, something along

the lines of shutdown shittery and other stupidity, because why not? Alliterations are fun. So now that

the shutdown is on, we can really explore the reality of the utter foolishness of Republican leadership.

I'm just going to say it straight.

Republicans can't govern.

They are bad at governing.

They currently run every branch of government now, and they even stole the Supreme Court.

And they still cannot lead without the complete breakdown of the government.

Thankfully, the Dems seem to be growing spines and are still putting up a fight and that's a good thing.

But if I could just slip into my lawyer's space for just a little bit, may it please the court.

I would like to lay out the evidence as to why we now know that this shutdown is complete and totally preventable bullshit, if not just

complete and total bullshit altogether.

The one reason that we know, in fact, there are several reasons that we know that this

shutdown is BS is because they are still, despite the fact that the government is shut down

and only essential services are supposed to be happening,

the Republicans are still bailing out Treasury Secretary Scott Besson's bestie, Rob Citrone, by giving Argentina $20 billion of your shutdown government's budget. And so this means that

basically American troops are not going to be getting paid on time and they will eventually

assuming the government ever comes back. But Argentina, yeah, Argentina, they're going to be good to on time, and they will eventually, assuming the government

ever comes back. But Argentina, yeah, Argentina, they're going to be good to go. And according to a

number of commenters, this is essentially one of the key pieces of evidence that lets us know that this is a

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