 So by now I'm sure that many of you have heard news about the looming government shutdown and Yes at the time that I record this video it does indeed appear that a government shutdown is imminent assuming that nothing changes between now and The time when funding officially runs out, which is midnight tomorrow In fact, the government is already bracing for disruptions and has notified federal workers that they'll soon be furloughed And I do want to talk about what this means and who this is going to affect But I first want to explain why the government is almost certainly going to be shut down in the first place And the short answer is Republican stupidity, but the long answer requires a little bit more context So let's go back to the beginning of the year when Kevin McCarthy finally became speaker on the 15th vote After he agreed to this condition quote Mr. McCarthy agreed to allow a single lawmaker to force a snap vote at any time to oust the speaker a Rule that he had previously refused to accept regarding it as tantamount to signing the death warrant for his speakership in advance and that Instinct that he had was absolutely correct because that is now coming back to bite him in the ass So he begrudgingly accepted that term to him becoming speaker because there was seemingly no other path to him being speaker unless he agreed to that and Now he's in the situation where he's really just a speaker in name only because the people with the actual power are the unappeasable fascists like Matt Gaetz and Lauren Boebert who he is forced to kowtow to and They're not happy with anything In fact, they're making completely unreasonable demands that they know aren't going to pass and they're kind of Narrowing what he's allowed to do which is next to nothing. They're not allowing him to negotiate with Democrats They wouldn't even support a temporary stopgap measure In fact one passed in the Senate by a two-thirds majority 77 senators supported it and all that McCarthy has to do to avoid a shutdown is bring that bill that was passed in the Senate To the house and it's gonna pass which means the government would stay open But the problem is that he can't do that because Matt Gaetz and a couple of other far-right members of the house Don't like it because it doesn't have enough cuts to social safety net programs And they don't like that it includes funding for Ukraine and what Matt Gaetz says goes But remember him and just a few others are holding McCarthy's life in their hands So McCarthy really has no choice and a Sawyer hack it puts it a bill to fund the government passed the Senate yesterday with two-thirds Support it has two-thirds support in the house But Kevin McCarthy won't put it up for a vote because it risks his job It's his shutdown and that right there is the key thing to remember because McCarthy's options here are to keep the government open and lose his job or shut the government down and Keep his job and it seems as if he has opted for the latter option now in response He stated his intent to come up with his own stopgap funding bill with the expectation that the Senate is somehow going to agree to it Even though he's putting the demands from the fascists in there and the Senate has already said no We're not gonna support that support what we wanted and why would we support your bill when you wouldn't even support our Bipartisan bill, but nonetheless, that's what McCarthy is saying Should be the path forward he doesn't believe it But he's forced to pretend because this is what Matt Gaetz wants in fact Bernie Sanders responded to this saying Six far-right extremists who support massive tax breaks for the rich are trying to shut down the government This is what they want 14.7 billion cut to public schools in high-poverty areas 70% cut to nutrition assistance for children 750 million cuts ahead start ain't gonna happen. Yeah, so McCarthy is out of options But he has to pretend as if there's still a path forward because you know He wants to instill confidence in GOP voters that this is somehow the Democrats fault and not his fault because he is forced to Couch out to the extremists and his party who are asking for insane things. So I mean This is why the government is shutting down in a nutshell It's because he has to do their bidding, but it's not just the government shutdown where they're in control And he's not he's also being controlled by the extremists in his party in a number of other ways For example yesterday, they held an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden not because there's evidence of any wrongdoing But because Matt Gaetz said jump therefore McCarthy was forced to ask how high sir And during the sham Biden impeachment inquiry congressman Maxwell Frost Concisely explained how whipped McCarthy is by Gaetz and others and what he said here was absolutely spot-on But then just 12 days later 12 precious days later Something happens. I'm not sure what but something happens because then the speaker of the house Kevin McCarthy comes out and says yes We will do an impeachment inquiry So what happened between these 12 days? It's very simple Three threats from members of his own caucus at the direction of former president Donald Trump Changed his mind number one the for the threat to force a vote on impeachment Which would lose on the house floor and be another embarrassment in the long list of embarrassments this Congress for the speaker of the house number two the four they would Threat to shut down the government something that will happen in just two days and Number three and this is the one that really got to him They said you you about to lose your job and they said we will remove you as speaker from the house and that scared him so much That Kevin McCarthy the speaker of the house of the United States of Representatives They're in the line of the presidency completely caved due to the threats of people within his own caucus Ding ding ding that is exactly correct. Trump has called for a government shutdown as Frost explained in hopes that Maybe Matt gates can either force the defunding of investigations into him into some sort of a stopgap funding measure But I mean that's that's not gonna happen because even if the government shuts down those investigations will still be funded but the Republican power structure currently is a sort of human centipede with Trump in front gates in the middle and McCarthy at the end gobbling up Trump shit that was digested by gates and Side note frost was on fire during this hearing and he basically blew up the entire GOP game Which led to a hilarious reaction by one of the witnesses. So let's watch We have one witness who has a lot of questions. So Connor Dubinsky one witness who knows something about accounting But has no real involvement. What's going on and mr. Turley stopping here on his way to his next Fox News hit this this is not a Serious inquiry that was incredible and I had to include it But this is not a serious inquiry But this is what happens when the tail wags the dog This is what happens when people like Kevin McCarthy let the animals run the zoo, right? You open the doors to extremists and then sooner or later They're the ones with all the power and you're kind of left just doing their bidding Otherwise, they can oust you like that. So it's a terrible predicament to be in if you're McCarthy But the problem is that McCarthy is stuck and he can't do shit if he wants to remain speaker But in his reign of terror as due to facto house speaker Matt Gaetz has decided to channel his inner Joffrey Which is a game of Thrones reference for anyone who doesn't know and he's basically now pouring salt in McCarthy's wounds and I say this because there's reportedly been a really huge blow-up between the two of them behind closed doors and The allegations that Gaetz is making against McCarthy is wild So Politico reports the speaker and his most vocal GOP foe got into a heated exchange behind closed doors Thursday morning as Gaetz accused McCarthy of hiring a proxy to attack him online Via conservative social media influencers McCarthy's council had sent a cease and desist letter to the individual in question And the original post doesn't mention the Californian But Gaetz continues to claim the speaker is involved quote I asked him whether or not he was paying those influencers to post negative things about me online Gaetz at Thursday When asked about his clash with McCarthy during the private meeting McCarthy responded according to Gaetz that he wouldn't waste his time Or resources on that Floridian Gaetz downplayed the confrontation adding my blood pressure is like 120 over 80 So I'm feeling great. Whatever dude other House Republicans recall the Thursday meeting differently though when Gaetz nodded to conspiratorial claims by suggesting that the speaker was fundraising for House Republicans via a bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange One McCarthy ally got irritated enough to curse fuck off Representative French Hill remarked loudly and with an eye roll in Gaetz's direction according to a Republican in the room who spoke on the condition of anonymity So to be clear, it's not just McCarthy who's being terrorized by the GOP's far-right fascists It's all other Republicans who aren't part of that small group, right? They're irritated because their shenanigans are holding the entire party back and making them look like a clown show Which they are a clown show But I mean it makes them look even more unserious than they usually do not that they need that much help But we've got a pause for a second because there was so much going on in that article and they don't do a good enough job of Parsing out those details. So I'm gonna give you the details so this conspiracy that Matt Gaetz is referring to started on Twitter where this Influencer claims that they received a text from a McCarthy proxy, which reads howdy got a Love that it starts that way got an advocacy campaign with budget Do you do paid posts? If so, how do you work? By the way, the issue is against Gaetz and government shutdown Let me know ASAP and then this person responded saying I'm a strong supporter of what Gaetz is doing The more the federal government we shut down the happier will all be not so sure about that bud But Matt Gaetz saw this post he then decided to boost it And he thanked the person for not taking up the offer and he called McCarthy pathetic So that right there is what Gaetz was referring to When they had this reported blow-up behind closed doors and look, I don't know who's behind this I don't know if McCarthy is tied to this or if it's just some random shitster It could be anyone really But what I do know is that McCarthy was scared shitless at the thought that Gaetz would think that this was him Or that he was tied to this in any way so much So that McCarthy literally sent a cease and desist to this person at the behest of Matt Gaetz Even though there's no evidence that this was a McCarthy proxy The reason why Matt Gaetz thinks this is a McCarthy proxy is because the influencer who this offer was made to Said that it was a McCarthy proxy, but they don't name anyone. They just say hey We want to attack Matt Gaetz. Do you want to get paid for attacking Matt Gaetz? And I mean that could be anyone it could be A democratic or organization. It could be a number of republican organizations that hate Matt Gaetz I mean, there's many of them. So that is why McCarthy is extra flustered It's because these insane allegations are being lobbed against him by Matt Gaetz And he's learning the hard way that you just cannot appease this person because this person is absolutely fucking insane But on top of that buried within this political article is some key insight about Matt Gaetz Quote immediately after the thursday meeting Gaetz brushed off questions on whether he was ready to force a vote to boot McCarthy from the Speakership the Floridian has warned that McCarthy is very likely to face an ejection vote If he works with Democrats to fund the government now That is a key detail because if McCarthy isn't allowed to work with Democrats because Matt Gaetz says so Then the government cannot be funded because the senate is controlled by Democrats So you have no choice when you have a divided congress where one party controls the house and the other party controls the senate You have to work with the other party And if you only include things that the far right flank of your party wants you're just not going to get that Right, so we're in this situation where a couple of far-right dipshits are holding the entire government hostage And they're asking for things that they know aren't going to pass But regardless McCarthy has to pretend as if they're making reasonable suggestions And he has to go along with it Because if he doesn't then he loses his job In addition to the demands though that bernie talked about there's so much more that they want per the washington post Other demands include cutting housing subsidies for the poor by 33 as soaring wrench drive a national affordability crisis Forcing more than one million women and children onto the waitlist of a nutritional assistance program for poor mothers and young children Reducing federal spending on home heating assistance for low-income families by more than 70 percent with energy prices high Heading into the winter months So in other words if McCarthy isn't able to convince the entire democratic party to make poor people suffer The government is going to shut down and since democrats aren't going to agree to all of these demands The government is going to shut down since matt gates is prohibiting McCarthy from working with democrats on anything It's work with us or no work at all and That's effectively no work at all. You're not going to make progress if you only work with the fascists in your party But unfortunately if inflicting pain and suffering on poor people is your position Then you can see how a shutdown is a win for you because here's what happens when the government shuts down The washington post reports a government shutdown could have an immediate impact on wick a program that provides grocery assistance The seven million pregnant people mothers and children including more than half of all newborns in the united states Some recipients of the snap program for women infants and children may be turned away from stores as early as next week Oh, but there's more on tuesday the usda announced It will give an estimated 3 000 more school districts in high need areas the option to serve free breakfast and lunch to all students But implementing these new guidelines could be stymied if the food and nutrition service staff that administers the national school lunch program Is furloughed which they would likely be if the government shut down But on top of that as pbs news reports the paychecks of millions of federal workers will be delayed Businesses with federal contracts could see disruptions people applying for passports and firearm permits could see delays And so on and so forth basically everything comes to a standstill when the government shuts down But here's what won't be affected The salaries of the members of congress here Yeah, oh and on top of that We're still gonna have to pay our student loan debt Because next week They're set to resume and even if the government is shut down those payments are still do baby Love the american system. It's great So this is why these far-right republicans want the government to shut down Because if they can't get the deep spending cuts that they know that they won't get then this is really the next best thing This is how you inflict pain and suffering on poor people And again, all of this could have been avoided if mccarthy defied just a small handful of cranks running the show But doing so as we've shown would cost him his job. So That's how we got here So at the time that I record this a government shutdown is almost certain But even if they somehow managed to avoid a shutdown, which I don't expect that Still, even if it can be avoided this entire kerfuffle has been humiliating for kevin mccarthy to say the least Because he looks like the biggest cuck in american politics and that's because he is vagina