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

Eight Democrats cave and it looks like the government is set to reopen soon. The debate continues to rage though over the Affordable Care Act. Bessant slaps a reporter around for not knowing what a currency swap is and swears we made money off of it. Kash 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. Everyone seems to be selling Nvidia stock and Sam Altman is still looking for a bailout. South Korea's new president has made disinformation a crime that must be punished as it is now considered a threat to democracy. And an AI country singer hit number one on the Billboard charts, and I've got to admit, the song is an absolute banger. Let's talk about the shutdown because I feel like it's a whole big nothing burger. We spent 41 days shutdown, 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. Mhmm. 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 they wanted, the subsidies had come back, all the things that they listed, this is why we're standing out, none of those things have happened. And I feel like from that perspective, you did forty one days to then, like, fumble the ball. You're going to have to look at this from the perspective of, does this push Schumer out of power? If you push 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 knowing that we're gonna start campaigning in the summer, and so you better get your shit together because we are a year out from midterms. And if they happened right now, the Republicans would get their ass handed to them. So Trump is doing a god awful job of either delivering the actual goods, although, like, if you listen to Besson, it's like things might be better than they seem, or he's just spinning. So we'll find out. All politicians do a spin. So if Trump is doing a bad job at communicating it or it just isn't happening and Schumer was like, I just need the government to be shut down right now so people see, like, we're fighting for the every person, which, of course, they're not. But if we can create that image, then we're gonna win. And they did win. So if he is, like, some next level political genius who's like, no. No. No. That needed to be the story. …