The Political Power Play: Shutdowns, Spin, and the ACA’s Unintended Consequences | Tom Bilyeu Show

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?
0:03.0	Not much to it is there?
0:06.0	Unless of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.
0:10.0	Mmm, that is good.
0:13.0	Now that's what Asani should sound like.
0:16.0	Go all crisp in with walkers.
0:18.0	Delicious.
0:20.0	Eight Democrats cave and it looks like the government is set to reopen soon.
0:24.9	The debate continues to rage, though, over the Affordable Care Act.
0:29.8	Besant slaps a reporter around for not knowing what a currency swap is and swears we've made money off of it.
0:36.0	Cash Patel's girlfriend is way out of pocket and sues a social media personality for posting her public photo in the comments of a post.
0:44.8	Everyone seems to be selling Nvidia stock and Sam Altman is still looking for a bailout.
0:50.3	South Korea's new president has made disinformation a crime that must be punished
0:56.5	as it is now considered a threat to democracy.
0:59.7	And an AI country singer hit number one on the billboard charts, and I've got to admit,
1:04.7	the song is an absolute banger.
1:07.3	Let's talk about the shutdown because I feel like it's a whole big nothing burger.
1:10.7	We spent 41 days shut down and there was no additional bill passed. There was some language about farmers and things like that, but nothing that was what we were fighting about. The ACA subsidies didn't budge. Snap was solidified for the next year so that way they can't get held up again. But what Democrats said
1:28.5	they wanted, the subsidies that come back, all the things that they listed, this is why we're
1:32.6	standing out, none of those things have happened. And I feel like from that perspective,
1:37.3	you did 41 days to then like fumble the ball. You're going to have to look at this from the
1:42.4	perspective of does this push Schumer out of power? If he pushed, if it pushes Schumer out of power, then it was a complete loss. And I don't know what was in his head. I don't know what he was actually going for, but they won the sort of midterm midterms. I don't know what the right thing to call that is. But there was a blue wave. And if that wasn't a wake-up call for everybody
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