Red vs. Blue? No—It’s Chaos vs. Common Sense

“If this is what passes for leadership in 2026, no wonder Americans feel held hostage by their own government.” In today’s rant we tear into the never‑ending budget chaos, the blame games, and the political theatre that make Washington look more like a circus than a functioning democracy. From spend‑happy lawmakers pushing ideological wish lists to the constant last‑minute “crisis budgeting,” this episode exposes why the system feels broken—and why voters on both sides are fed up. Tune in and decide for yourself whether this is incompetence, strategy, or something far more dangerous for America’s future.

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Transcript

Democrats Accused Of Holding Policy Hostage

SPEAKER_01 0:04

Stuart Monday after Super Bowl. I don't know about this. Everybody awake this evening. Congratulations to Seahawks, but it was awful. Um speaking of awful, you know what's awful, Stuart? It's just the same crap over and over and over and over and over and over again. Um, complaining that the US has got no money, complaining about inflation, complaining about spending, complaining. It's just you hear the same noise over and over again. And if the Democrats are running the two houses, then spend, spend, spend, like a drunken sailor, or worse, a teenager with a credit card. Um, I've said that before, say it again. And the Republicans come in and they're trying to be, you know, what they claim budgetally and fiscally conscious. But at the end of the day, still running these crazy deficits, they're still running crazy numbers, and something's got to snap. Accept nothing but the same rhetoric over and over again by the Democrats, Republicans too, but we're gonna focus today on the Dems people because I'm sick and tired of the Democrats deciding that they need to hold you, the American people, hostage. We saw that with respect to ICE, that they decided, you know what, we're gonna, we're gonna teach the president a lesson. We're the ones who are in control. And it's fascinating because you voted for a president. Yeah, and you voted for House and you voted for the Senate, but you as a majority voted for a president. Last time it was Biden, this time it was Trump, and you have a president who wants to run the country in a certain way. And you've got about a couple of hundred Democrats in the House and almost 50 in the in the in the Senate going, uh-uh. We're gonna control you. We're gonna do it our way. And our way is spend, spend, spend. And where does the money go? Let me remind you, one year ago when Doge emerged, and all the spending in the most catastrophic of ideologies and businesses and sending money to foreign governments to support LGBTQ ideologies and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's what the Democrats wanted to spend. And they changed the rules to suit them. So when it's nice and convenient, we make one big, beautiful bill. Oh, wait, that was Trump's big beautiful bill. But they want to make their own big beautiful bill that's got so many different programs in there that you can't even read through that myriad of pages, Stuart, in that document, right? Like they put out this book and you're gonna read it. Hell no. But the media is gonna focus on the two, three, four, five things that you know it's gonna really rattle you. Okay, and oh, you know, the Republicans want to get rid of abortion. And so, as we're and that will be the focal point, although there are 199 other of these dumbass shit, stupid programs that they want to invest in and spend as if it's you know, again, a teenager with a credit card. Stuart, the Democrats, the Democrats have once again shown that they don't want to evolve into 2026, that they're still stuck in a time warp, that they still believe to spend ad nauseum turning the United States into a socialist country a la Venezuela, a la Cuba, makes more sense than fiscal responsibility.

Budget Gridlock And Omnibus Tactics

Deficits, Hypocrisy, And Progressive Priorities

The Playbook: Last-Minute Crises

SPEAKER_00 3:30

My friend, up to you. All right, the federal budget process, or should I say the Democrat-led circus catastrophe? Like, I I hope you have a coffee, you know, or or a shot of vodka because this is gonna make your blood boil. So here we are, February 2026. Right? We're right towards the first third of the month. And what are we dealing with? The same tired song, the same dance that we've seen for the Democrats since Bill Clinton. They can't pass a budget, they won't pass a budget. Instead, they're holding the American people hostage, continuing with last-minute spending package and enough political theater to fill Broadway. If you don't know where Broadway is, well, that's where Mandami is. And let me tell you something, he wants to get free tickets. Let me paint a picture of what's happening right now. We've got Senate majority leader, Chucky Schumer, you know, aka Little Chucky, and his team of minions who somehow can't figure out how to do the most basic function, allocating our taxpayer dollars responsibly. Yep. That's not paying Big Bird to teach Lebanese gay people how to do the mumbo. Okay, but it's the kicker. They're not even trying to be responsible. You know what drives me crazy: the hypocrisy. Rules for me, not for thee. Blame the other side. They're the ones who are responsible. These are the same people like White House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries, who spent years screaming about how Republicans were holding the budget hostage. Do you remember? Playing games with our government shutdown. But now, by the way, that's before Doge. Then we cleaned up what billions of dollars of fat. But now they're fighting to help for their priorities, as if they were elected president of the United States and controlled the House and the Senate. Suddenly it's all about protecting critical programs and American values. I'm confused. Democrats, American values, I don't think this exists. I think it's an oxymoron. Let's talk about numbers. I love numbers. You know, guys, I'm a financial advisor. Just for a second, because the numbers don't lie. Even if politicians do, maybe they do, maybe they don't, but they can and can't be held accountable. The federal government is running a deficit that would make your head spin. We're talking about trillions with a T. And what the Democrat solution for some people, like Bernie Sanders and the Progressive Caucus, is spend more, spend more. And here's what really gets under my skin. They act like it's all our fault for wanting accountability. Senator Elizabeth Warren loves to come on TV, little Pocahontas, and talk about we need to spend more on socialized program and debt spirals out of control. Like remember, she wants to put controls on banks because she wants to take that money and spend it on what? AOC, Alexander Ocasis-Cortez, aka the anti-Semite in Brooklyn. Or sorry, the Bronx. And her squad members like Elon Omar, Rashida Talib, and Ayana Presley or Priestley, treat the federal government like a blank check, like the Green New Deal fantasies. Again, who's paying these people? Guitar? I know David likes that one. Let's break down the Democrat playbook because it's the same play over and over again. How about Rosa Delora, who chairs the House Appropriation Committee when Democrats are in power? Loves the game. Wait until the last possible minute. Don't start a budget negotiation in good faith ahead of time. Create a crisis. Create a crisis. Maybe we win a vote. It makes it very urgent and scary. And again, why do they have to make things urgent and scary? We had a lot of time to work on this. Now let's continue. Patty Murray from the Washington state, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee loading up massive omnibus bills with thousands of pages of spending. It's literally like a phone book. Remember what was her name, Nancy Pelosi? You've got to vote for it to read what's inside. And the pork goes oink, oink, oink. We saw the infrastructure bill that Nancy Pelosi pushed through when she was speaker. Buried in it were earmarks for projects in districts like Ed, Markley, Brian, Schatz, and Debbie SaveNow, funding a progressive nonprofit organization. Money for programs that sound nice but accomplish nothing, and actually pump money back into the Democratic advertising machine. Pay to play with your money. When the Republicans object, like Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin run into the microphone guy, shut the government down. We're not paying our bills. Or Peter Budajek over the transportation loves to claim the Republicans cut budgets to hurt infrastructure. Never mind, the department can't account for billions of dollars that were spent. Listen, the real agenda. Let's talk about this. The budget isn't finished. It's only about numbers on a spreadsheet. David, how many numbers do you put on a spreadsheet every week for clients? No, God. Okay. Look at Elizabeth Warren has been pushing her wealth tax proposal. Look at Bernie Sanders wanting Medicare for all, all meaning anyone in the United States. They aren't just pushing policy proposals, they're pushing a transformation of American government. And they know it. And they know they can't pass these outrageous things. But again, the more they import, the more society is dependent on government programs, the more they're going to be able to get closer. How about Corey Booker talking about baby bonds, universe and basic income pilots? Senators like Sharon Brown and Ralph Warnock push to expand child tax credits that never expire. It's all about dependency. Biden's budget director, Sholanda Young, has been pushing budgets that would make even Obama turn red. And Obama-era holdovers, you've got people like John Pedeska, White House pushing climate spending. It makes my head spin. La Squad, AOC, social media, Jamal A Bowman. They're lost. And before he lost his primary, by the way, he was pushing for trillions of dollars of canceling debt, that debt, uh student debt, that Corey Bush wants to defend police and increase federal accounting spendability. Spending. Okay, David. I've gone on and on and on. Oh, I've been listening to you, but I got to tell you something. Richard Blumenthal pushed through funding for gun violence. Christine Gibbard, who paid family leave program. I mean, Jerry Nadler is pushing federal funding for local prosecuted offers uh for criminal justice. I mean, like, I can't make this up. No, how about Maxine Waters from her perch? I mean, I again I I can keep going on and on and on about these people. But what is the solution?

SPEAKER_01 11:47

But I'll tell you something. Here's the crazy thing is that when you have a reasonable individual, and I'm I just you know, even on CNN, some of the commentators have said this isn't working. It's interesting to see that uh uh Farid, uh, forgot his last, I'm sorry, I just now his name's forget forgive me his name. He commented is that the worst run states right now in the United States are the blue states.

unknown 12:15

Yep.

Omnibus Pork And Accountability Gaps

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Okay, and when you think about it, when you make a comment like that, first of all, I'm surprised he still has a job. Second of all, it's just a reality. We've got to look at what's going on right now and ask ourselves, you know, look, it democracy is a mess. We know that it's not perfect. And after what we watched, and what we watched, and you know, I'm I started off by talking about the Super Bowl and how we can't even get together on what's a good Super Bowl halftime show, which is just absolutely insane. You can't get together on how to create a budget for the United States. One wants to spend, one wants to cut, one wants to spend money on programs that are fitting or befitting the socialist agenda for many on the left, a more very fringe to keep those votes in place. And others also, I mean, the also have their own kind of of stuff. You know, you have here you got the pro-lifers, and here you got the the hardcore abortionists, and and they all and the fight it makes sense. And Stuart, listen, I was in a policy meeting like that in Calgary. I I heard when a party's divided. But here's the thing. But the what the part what doesn't make sense to me is if you have a dollar, how do you spend a dollar fifty? It doesn't make any sense to me. You can anybody understands borrowing money at a certain point, you'll go bankrupt. And the United States is teetering on bankruptcy. You see the way the world is trying to come after the United States, even before Trump. Don't give me this that it's Trump has caused all this disarray. Go back to Obama days and what he's done in his fiscal policies, and look how China and Russia and others have pivoted to try to disrupt the United States economy. Guys, sensible is funny because if you sit down and you think about it, in your home, right? If you said, okay, listen, I have a budget, I make X, I can only spend X minus so I can save a little bit of money. No, but what the United States government does is it makes X and it spends 3x. It doesn't make a lot of sense. At a certain point, you break and you snap. And if you look at the tallies of what the now the current debt is, it's it's it's it's insane. Pierre Poliev here in in Canada, Stuart, announced as part of his election campaign that for every dollar program you have want to create, you got to find a dollar of savings. And everybody said, What a phenomenal idea. Wow, sensible idea. And the left said, Are you crazy? We don't do that. We need to spend to get out of this rut. Now, I understand in an inflationary time, I get what you want to do with a fiscal policy. Spending more than you have has never worked. Now, if you want to invest because there's a long-term gain, I got it. You borrow, you pay back, you gain. There's an ROI. That's what investment is all about. But instead, what we find here in your country, my country, by those by these left-leaning governments, is spend, spend, and we'll just continue to tax the rich, and we'll continue to come up with crazier policies, and we'll continue to because it'll convince the electorate that we'll get elected. Stuart, I gotta tell you, there's a movement going on right now, and you see it more and more, especially with younger people. And I know that the left likes to say, look at us on all these college campuses, we're dominating college campuses, and you do dominate in the classroom, your professors are dominating, the deans are dominating, but there's a pushback. There's a pushback because these kids today are saying, wait a minute, housing prices are through the roof. I can't afford a home, I don't have a job. And you can blame Trump because it's easy. But this isn't Trump, folks. This is not Trump's policies. Your economics of today are from the previous administration. Biden took a victory lap in his term, and he says it was all me, it was all me. And Trump went, no, no, those are my economic policies that are there that you're reaping the benefit from. And we're reaping the benefits today, and I put that in quotations from the Biden administration. Guys, the reality is that whatever budget we're passing today is for the future. It's not for today. And the impact of borrowing all that money is gonna hurt us down the road. Us, meaning you and me, and so many other countries that continue to borrow, thinking it's unlimited. You can't print more money, people. You print more money, you devalue your the value of your money. I'm not a financial advisor. This is simple economics 101. But your Democrats want to convince you that spend, spend, spend. Because if you spend, you get more. Really? Look at the blue states and the blue cities that have that philosophy and tell me how you're doing right now. You can't pick up the garbage in in or clean up the snow in New York. Spend, spend, spend. Come on, listen.

SPEAKER_00 17:11

That's what Bernie Sanders called Republicans oligarchy, oligarchy, oligarchy. Well, he spends half of half uh how many how much money?$500,000 on flying private. Okay. House minority leader Hakeem Jeb criticized for abandon the Bart Bartisan deal. Democrats accuse the Republicans for walking away from agreements after Elon Musk eviscerated their spending. Okay. David, the fact of the matter is the Democrats criticize Republicans for lack of extending the affordable tax, affordable Care Act. Yeah. Um they they about for cutting Medicaid, Medicare. David, my prescriptions have gone down in price.

Ideological Projects And Dependency Concerns

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Yeah, but I'll tell you, I know people who were so bad. In all fairness, I know people on the ACA who are pained right now. And this is what I told them. I said, hold on a second. Remember, the government, the government told the insurance companies, make it better. You sent it to the private sector. The government didn't help you. The government didn't help you. In Canada, the government subsidizes it from our tax dollars, all of the health care. You want what we have, people? No problem. You'll wait six months for an MRI. You'll wait 12 months to see a specialist. Just be careful what you ask and wish for. Just be careful what you ask and wish for. Stuart, wrap it up, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

There you go. It's wrapped.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

All right, ladies and be it. We will see you guys on Wednesday. Watch what goes on, folks, in the in the House and the Senate when it comes up to this budget. It is a circus and a half. Take care, everyone. Catch on Wednesday.