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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't know. Do I, do I have to watch the Ken Burns documentary about the American Revolution? |
| 0:05.4 | Can't I just tell people I did? This is the mop-up. Whether you like it or not, the 2026 midterms have begun. |
| 0:13.4 | The Epstein files, not about the victims, only about the midterms. The shutdown, not about Obamacare subsidies expiring at the end of the year. It was only about the midterms. The shutdown, not about Obamacare subsidies expiring at the end of the year, |
| 0:23.9 | it was only about the midterms. The big debate in December to renew those Obamacare subsidies, |
| 0:31.5 | that will not be about helping Americans whose health care costs are about to double, possibly triple. |
| 0:37.4 | It's about helping members of the House and Senate running for re-election. |
| 0:41.2 | It's about carving out a winning position that plays well with voters. |
| 0:47.3 | 2025 is over. |
| 0:50.4 | Trump was sworn in, and from that point until Election Day, November 4th, the battle in Washington |
| 0:57.1 | was between each party trying to pass or block legislation that pleased the donor class. |
| 1:05.9 | There are seasons to all this. |
| 1:08.1 | 2025 was about the donors. |
| 1:16.6 | 2026 is about the voters. Every two years we hold national elections. The year after an election, like 2025, that's when both parties only, and I do mean only, please their donors. |
| 1:26.6 | The year of an election, like 2026, that's when both parties |
| 1:32.2 | pivot to please their voters. That is the playing field Citizens United created. And until we get |
| 1:39.9 | money out of politics, that's how it's going to stay. One year for the donor class, one year for the |
| 1:45.8 | voters. Everything we saw this year, one big beautiful bill, the air strikes in Iran, the air strikes |
| 1:53.2 | in the Caribbean, the rounding up of immigrants, Democrats fighting one big beautiful bill, challenging |
| 1:59.4 | the air strikes, challenging the treatment of immigrants. |
| 2:03.4 | All of that was financial, not political. It was financial posturing. Both parties were catering |
| 2:11.6 | and cratering to their donors fully aware they would have to answer to their voters in 2026. |
| 2:20.1 | After Election Day, November 4th of this year, both parties pivoted. |
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