and chickens. i wish republicans hadn't blinked, we shouldn't have done that. >> so, mark, other than a new nihilism which taken at face value means he is, would have been cheering for a triggered recession, what is going on there? >> oh he's just playing the politics of the moment, brian, it's so hypocritical of gingras, not only do the republicans vote to increase the debt limit during the trump presidency. but what we are voting on now is to pay off the trump debt. so this is republican debt that the democrats are responsibly voting to pay off. and ted cruz is simply playing to the cameras for the critical moment. but the reality is, at the end of the day, if we did children to an economic crisis, it would be on a republican -- if it's gonna be the republicans that are gonna get run over by the truck unless