February 13, 2026 • 47 mins
Short answer, yes. Samantha and Anney go over some of the reasons why, and ways to take care of ourselves and keep fighting.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome to Steffane. Never told
you a prodiction by hur Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
So y'all, we need a break. We needed a break,
We've been needing breaks. So we're gonna take a little
bit of a break. So with our conversation of what
is happening with immigrants, ICE and DHS, things will bleak.
Thingsville heavy, Things fell dark. So we're going to pivot
a little bit and go away from that conversation. We'll
be back, but we're going to talk about what's happening
(00:40):
in today's politics, like immigration issues and how it's affecting
women such as an anxiety and stress, and why it's
important to take breaks. Yeah, it's a been on the nose,
but again, everybody's got to take a break. Also, Happy
Gallentines if you're listening today on February thirteenth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Six, Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I know I was about to say that if you
also celebrate that happy Friday, I know you do. What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I watch a lot of horror movies on Friday the thirteenth,
and one of my best friends is coming over, and
so is the Galentine's Day and a Friday the thirteenth, So.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What a good time are you going to watch Friday
the thirteenth?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I know this is controversial in the horror world, but
that's not one of my faves.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I do either.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I do like there's a really the one with Crispin
Glover is kind of funny. And there are like when
you're talking about slasher movies and the anticipation of kills
and what will it be? What will finally kill them?
Because you know they're going to die. There's some good
moments like that the Friday the Thirteenth series, and you
know you've got like Escape to New York, which is
(01:53):
objectively a very bad movie, but it has like funny,
it's kind of funny. I'm gonna get in trouble. I
got in trouble when I was on the Daily Zeitgeist
about this too, because really they really.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Like that franchise over there.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Of course, I if you like it, I appreciate appreciate
that you do. I just gave a very big thumbs
up that none of you can see.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is this her opinion is my judgment on you.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I do like the twist at the end of the
first one, even though it is kind of problematic, but
I liked it. There are things I liked.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But generally though, no, that's not I don't. I'm not
gonna lie. I hate gory horror movies like that. In
the eighties really had a lot of like just kill
gory movies, and I'm not a fan of any of those,
the Freddy movies, Halloween. It really takes me a long
time to even care enough. And it's actually probably because
of you. No, I think I was what I was
(02:50):
wanting to watch horror movies, and I tried to watch
the Staples, and I'm just not into gore, violent horror movies.
I like the Ghosts even though they are violent, don't
get me wrong, but like not for kills sake. It's
a little more like the Haunting, the Hauntings. We've not
talking about this before, but anyway, well, I'm excited to
hear the updates of how You're gallantined Friday the thirteenth goes,
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so now we have already time stamped it. But also
content warning because we are going to talk a lot
about current affairs still and unfortunately we're going to talk
about the downside of what is happening in the current administration.
I don't know if there is an upside, but you know,
we're going to talk about the downside thus far, especially
when it comes to women. Again, we have talked a
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lot about how a lot of the current affairs, such
as the pandemic and COVID has put even more strained
than typical on women, and when it comes to especially
when it comes to jobs and career burnout and being
a mother, all those things like, the added stress has
been substantial. And it won't be a surprise to anyone
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to know that the current state of women's rights, queer rights,
and overall rights for the marginalists people have also have
impacted how our stress level, anxiety level, and depression has been. Yeah, surprise, surprise.
So let's talk about it. We the marginalized community are
tired and stressed. I think I think that blanket statement
(04:15):
is acceptable in this moment, right Annie, Why while we
have no autonomy rov Wade being overturned in twenty twenty two,
the possibility of limiting women's ability to vote, not the
possibility the likelihood lessening the value in education and workplace
for women's specifically by saying, you know, these are not
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professional degrees. I'm like, excuse me. Yeah, interesting, the inability
to get a divorce without evidence of abuse and probably
not even then. To be honest, we know women can't
get out of marriage as oftentimes even when they can
prove domestic violence. We already have talked about like divorce
in some states having the trial period. Yeah, because they're
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like you sure, you sure? I mean he beats you,
I mean he might do bad things to you, but
is a stable home. Yeah, we know that's problem. That's
the problem. And yeah, seemilarly more and more restrictions every
day as we go through. In fact, Miss magazine published
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an article recently January twenty twenty six titled one year
in fifty three ways the Second Administration is harming women
and families, written by Ariba Hater. So we're gonna use
a chunk of because they listed it nicely for us.
We're not going to talk all about it. You should
definitely go read that article if you have the stomach
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to do so. If you don't, you can listen to
our summary of some of the things that they highlighted,
and I think it's important. So they start off with
a section that is titled threats to women in the workplace,
which is vast. So decapping of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission or the EEOC, that's a big one. The EEOC
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was an independent federal agency and they write it like this.
They are the front lines of civil rights enforcement, investigating
and remedying employment discrimination charges. They have work to help
stop discrimination by compensating workers who have been wronged. And
it has been proven that they have been wronged. And
it takes a lot to be proven that they have
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been wronged. I feel like that has to be said
every time because people like to throw out they're just
doing it for the lawsuit, and they're like, you know
how hard it is to prove? Okay, So they report
that from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four they were
able to get about five point six billion dollars for
discriminated workers. That has now gone away because you know,
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we have to protect the corporations, the billionaires and millionaires.
Oh poor them. And now the EEOC is being used
to do Trump's dirty work in his petty vengeance. So
this again is from the miss magazine article. They missed
has quote worked to weaponize the office to investigate employers
that President Trump has a personal vendetta against With new
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EEOC chair Andrea Lucas and a confirmed Republican majority, the
eeoc's priorities and limited resources are clearly shifting to align
with the President's false claims of systemic discrimination against white men.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Interesting, the EEOC has also taken steps back and preventing
workplace harassment, and instead of focusing on projecting workers from
sexual or predatory harassment, they have now focused on religious
discrimination against white men.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Really important, we see all those white men being discriminated against. Yeah,
the percentage of yes, the seventy percent of white men
who are in the workforce shory short, sure, who are
getting all the jobs that wasn't made up? Number I apologize?
Moving on, So, they are looking to withdraw the Pregnant
Workers Fairness Act, which requires employees to quote offer reasonable
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accommodations to workers who have needs related to pregnancy, childbirth,
and other related medical conditions. This is the kind of
conversation we've had about how they want to keep people
barefoot and pregnant and relied on men so that they
can't leave marriages. So essentially, if you can't make your
own money, which happened, you know, not too long ago.
Then you can't leave because you're financially dependent and there's
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financial abuse in that marriage. So a lot of these
acts are really trying to force women out. We've already
talked about this before. This has been a thing for
years and has not been remedied. Kind of was getting there,
but now has been scrapped again. So it's really concerning
because it literally is about allowing for women to be
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comfortable ish ish in a workplace environment, whether it's being
able to sit to take a break if they're in
a you know, very a little more harsh environment, and
they should be able to sit without worries, being able
to take time off to go to see a doctor
instead of being retaliated against for taking time off. Now
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that's kind of going away, So that's concerning. We kind
of mentioned it previously when we talked about the disability rights,
but Trump signed Executive Order one one two four six
which rescinded regulations for prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin. All of that also has thin cups
with the Disability Acts. They also revoked the newly placed
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minimum wage, allowing for employers to make a twenty five
percent cut in people's pay, as well as stripping this
from domestic workers, which they have been trying so hard
to get rights, but obviously with the immigration policies included,
they don't care and so they've been cutting pay like that.
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We also have talked about how affirmative action as well
as a DEI have been cut completely and or prosecuted
or punished. That is something that is obviously going to
hurt women in marginalized people in the workplace. There's more
you can go and look, but we want to just
highlight those things. The next section they talk about is
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threats to women's health. So that big beautiful bill that
we've already talked about in our ICE episode. It has
also cut a funding for Medicaid, which we did talk
about requires work requirements that will most likely affect pregnant
people and those with disabilities. They cut funding for states
that support preventative and wellness care. They cut funding for
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things like internet access, which we talked about why that
is so important, especially in rural areas who don't have
access to doctors or hospitals. And they even cut assistance
for personal care assistance, so people who need help at
home that rely heavily on the system. Because they can't work,
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their funding is being cut as well. The administration has
also with health funds from the Title ten of Family Planning,
as well as a defunded Planned Parenthood. We've mentioned that
previously they made it really dangerous overall to get reproductive
help and assistance by doing the following, including undermining the
information and access to abortion pills, requiring a reporting of
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state line crossing for abortion access. They're literally doing hunts
of women who might be trying to access abortion care
across different states, making it dangerous for those who volunteer
or work at abortion clinics by limiting the enforcement of
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance Act.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, and what once was a federal crime to use force,
threats of force, or physical obstruction to people who are
trying to access clinics is no longer important. From the
Miss magazine article quote, death threats and other threats of
harm against providers have only increased in the wake of
the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Wade.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yet Trump's Department of Justice announced in its first days
that it would no longer enforce the law except under
severe and extraordinary circumstances. The lack of enforcement makes clinics
less safe for patients and providers.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah So, essentially limiting the Face Act is what's causing
all of these situations, and they really don't care. It's
almost like they're inciting violence in these areas. Yeah so,
also using pro naedialism as a weapon against pregnant people,
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essentially a system that undermines those who can get pregnant
as baby making machines, who are only valued for such
labors making babies with the dash of eugenics and racism galore.
So essentially they want you, if they want you to
produce often, but they want it to be white and
perfectly healthy and perfectly to their standards. So it is
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a lot in this level of conversation that we see
what they're doing and who they're allowing to have actual
access to care. It's about the eugenics people. They're killing
pregnant people by creating roadblocks on emergency abortion care by
manipulating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act the EMTALA,
which required hospitals to provide any emergency care that also
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includes abortion, which we've already seen caused death, a lot
of death actually and probably under reported. Which is also
another thing they did is by limiting accesses and data
to that type of information, they allow for miss and
disinformation to help information including vaccine studies and requirements and
studies on nutrition because they want you to drink raw
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milk that have bacteria that have already been shown to
be contaminated Ballerina Farm. That was one of those moments
of like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Duh, listen, if al Capone and this is true was
involved in getting milk be safe, maybe we should pay.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We're in the upside down. Oh no, honestly, we need
to have a conversation coming back to We've talked a
lot about tradwise, but with these like money marketing schemes
and how big they've gotten. Even after being outed.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
As maga pre natalism type of propaganda, they're still so
popular that I'm like, we needed to go back and
look have what But anyway, yes, safety is important, y'all.
Going on Also, they are dismissing necessary health studies and
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data to get better information in regards to health and
disease and death, which includes research on women's health by
cutting funds, causing delays and cancelations in study panels, labs,
and researchers. Yeah, we know this is happening, including they
have cut research funding for women's breast cancer and heart
related deaths heart disease, which were like that took forever
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to even get.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
First of all, that is one of the loudest things
that everybody will champion no matter what side, is curing
women's breast cancer, and yet you cut funding for it.
And then also it took so long to get research
for women and heart disease and realizing, oh my god,
we're doing this wrong and it's killing them, and they
decided to go ahead and cut that. That's like, wow,
these are things that the right would even be like, no,
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we need that, which apparently they did here, so I
think they backtracked a little bit, but whatever. So, Yeah,
they've been busy making sure to end any type of
equality or equity with moves like cutting the Gender Policy Council,
which Biden has started to quote promote gender equity and
coordinate federal efforts to combat systemic discrimination, increase economic security,
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increased access to comprehensive health care, addressing caregiving needs, and more. Yeah.
I think I mean we're really coming back to they
are forgetting the bottom line that women have been the
force in the economic security in this country. Yeah, and
because women are more aware of this and they should
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be scared about loss of that kind of security. You
would think.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You would think a lot of things, Samantha, but.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Common sense is not applical hair.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're right, yeah, exactly, Like I can see what they're
trying to do. It's very obvious. They're not subtle. Yeah,
but it's like a lot of the ways they do
it and then reverse it and then do it again,
like they're just they're like the most frustratingly incompetent, but
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somehow still competent.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Right, I mean, honestly, it might come down to the
fact that they don't care because they are set so
the economy can die and burst into a thousand pieces,
and that will affect everybody who was not billion and millionaires.
But for them, they're good. They got what they needed.
They might not gain more, and that make them sad.
They'll just move on to the next spot. Colonization. No, no,
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in the economy.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
With all that, there's more, including the cut of SNAP benefits,
the elimination of funds for the head Start program, cutting
the social security administration and benefits and probably more to
come because they've just really been pushing forward with all
of that said, you should definitely go look at this
article because they bring a lot and again, like we
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didn't talk about the level of right taken away from
the disabled community, and it's a lot obviously because they
really are fully into their eugenics ideas and able lists propaganda.
That's just a little quieter because the trans issues have
gotten so big for them that they're doing all these
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things that are what seemingly is a little less known,
a little more niche, which is it is because we've
been talking about it for a while, but that's where
we see it, that's where it kind of stands at
this point. But they are sure going to help the
white man, as they like to say, I'm gonna take
a breath, because yes, all of that is stressful. We
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as the marginalized community are stressed out. And you know what,
here at the inn Emrie University. Yeah, here in Georgia,
they actually published a paper talking about this type of
stresscific about the elections, specifically about politics and the fact
that Georgia women This is very specific to us, but
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I think it would be applicabal everywhere. They are thoroughly
stressed out. Stephanie ake eick I hope I said your
name right, Doctor stephaniee I believe and assistant professor of
environmental health researched about the impacts during twenty twenty three
and twenty twenty four against specifically about women in Georgia,
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and here are some things she found. Yes, women are
more generally stressed, anxious, and depressed, and those who talked
about their stress, especially with the twenty twenty four elections,
were at the highest risk of poor mental health.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
YEP, makes sense when it comes to reproductive issues, it
was really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Women who believe abortions should be legal in all our
most cases also experienced more negative mental health effects. This
supports previous research that has found that restricting reproductive autonomy
is a major stressor for women of reproductive age.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Look, I have made a plan. Did not already tell
you my plan? Like if my IUD were to falter
for some reason, which we know they can happen, they
can happen. I'm applying for like asylum because I know
a few countries have been like you know what, it's
bad in the US. Will help you out because I
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am scared to death at being at risk, especially with
you know, the later term births all of that. Now,
I will say I did recently talk see a lot
of women coming out and being like, they tell you
all these things to try to get you to have
kids early. Not all of us following people have not
had any complications, So I'm like, that's nice to see.
Maybe there needs to be a conversation about that. I
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don't know. Maybe it is both those things. But at
the same time, I'm like, no, with those types of risks,
especially not knowing my health records, any of my like
biological based on my like family, none of that background.
I know, I don't know any of that. I would
be petrified of staying in the state of Georgia, even
in the US anyway, honestly because of the repercussions of
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what has happened and people's opinions, even because we know,
again this is a hot button issue and they really
think they can save a child. And when I say
to save a child, birth a baby, and they would
sacrifice everything else to birth that baby, including the baby
later on down the road by not providing for care
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after birth. So like in my mind, Like, yeah, I'm
freaking out, and you talked about women your friends not
want to date and have sex because of this specific issue.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, yeah, And I mean it's really obviously it's really upsetting,
but it is kind of interesting seeing their reactions to
it because obviously, as an ace person, I like, I'm good,
but it's interesting to see their reactions because it makes
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me very sad obviously, because sex can be great, and
relationships can be great and all the things that come
with it. It can be sex can be something that
relieves stress. It can give stress, but it can relieve stress.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Vibrators are a thing. I'll just say it.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But but we haven't had one of those sponsors in
a minute, I know.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But it's interesting how like most of them were kind
of fine with it, Like I guess I thought I
was expecting more sadness. Yeah, but it was kind of like, nah,
if this is how it's gonna be, then this is
how it's right, Like.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
As much as people, Yeah, I would miss some of that,
but like it's kind of like it's not necessary, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Again, this is kind of going back to your thing
of like it doesn't makes sense. Yeah, Like I get
what you're doing, but you're you're not.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I'm seeing all of it. I'm seeing it backfire again.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We're watching women die and we are trying our best
to prevent that. We're definitely don't want to die, so
why would we, Like, we know, part of the reason
the birth rate is declining is this issue in itself,
the stress because you are trying to take away our
rights in getting jobs to provide for children. Uh, that
you expect us to be tied to those children and
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tied to the abuse that might come in having families.
So I'm like, why, yeah, deal, bro, what's happening? Yeah,
I definitely it's a concern, And unfortunately it's to the
point that, like it feels like I'm constantly thinking, well,
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if like I have relation, you know, relations with anyone
or whatnot, that I have to be overly cautious and
I'll be thinking about the six days. I'm like, is
my body giving me signs that something bad is happening
and something I'm going to have to really plan about
and making plans for it and where to go. Like
it has come to the point that I've talked about
many a time to I don't want children. I'm not
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planning to have children obviously, like I'm almost today point,
I'm like, maybe it's over whatever whatnot. But at the
same time, there's still still a small part of me
and be like, well, if all of this thing's changed
and I were to get pregnant, I wouldn't mind, you
know what I mean, Like, it's not something that I'm
dying for. It's also something like I feel like if
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the circumstances would be were better, then maybe type of conversation.
But it's like, oh, hell no, you know, like this
is the nail on the coffin like that, And I'm
sure I'm not the only one who would be like
they may have considered doing so, yes, but because of
the circumstances are so bad, the like never mind, I
was one of defense and thinking about it now hell no.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, And I do you know, shout out to people
who are having kids and braving it. I feel really
bad because I've had two friends recently who had kids,
and both times when they told me, there was like
it was a brief second. There's a second where it's
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like oh, yeah, congratulates.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Like how do I react?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I think.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You okay, how are you feeling on the spectrum. I'm
sure Like if I weren't to come out with like
an everybody be like you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Good, it's just such a strange place to be in
of like, oh where is it? Before I would have
been more like, oh my god, immediately now like you.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Got can you handle it? You got this? Yeah, that's
and that's sad in itself.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's really sad.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh yeah, these issues and stressors really do matter. But
also important is the reminder that while everything feels awful,
it is validating to know that there are a lot
of us who feel this way and fill this level
of pressure, like to the fact that we are having
large skill research for those who can about how this
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is affecting us. So, yeah, with all of these bad things,
what can we do to give ourselves a bit of reprieve? Well,
the first thing to know is that as bad as
things are, this isn't the first time we've been here. Unfortunately,
we've talked about this. We hate this moment, but it's
good to note that we've been here before and the
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majority of people are feeling overwhelmed, and that means that
there are a majority of people who disagree with what
is happening here, like that's the bigger picture. Like all
of these conversations, as bad as affecting everyone as a whole,
everyone as a whole are on similar lines. So that's
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kind of comforting. There are so many good people who
are fighting, fighting with everything they have to undo what
is going on. One creator that I saw in my FYP,
which was at first I was like, I'm going to
scroll away because it seems very religious, I'm not sure
or spiritual, but she was talking about the pains, how
this is the pains of undoing all the damage. The
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proverbial light at the end of the darkness apparently like
the fire cleansing to make it pear again. Yeah. I know,
it's a lot of metaphors. You're welcome, but it gives
a lot of hope because we do talk about having
to go through the struggle to get to the good,
to get to the nice, we have to have that drama.
I don't know why, but apparently we do. And that
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does give me a little hope that the more the
darkness pressures, the more the light pushes back.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Can I do it? I know a star Wars always
go for it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yes, Well, I think this is actually relevant because a
lot of people are using it in videos about dark
times we're in. But at the end of the Clone
Wars the series, Obi Wan gives this speech and it's
very sad. It's like, these are dark times, this is
real bad, like oh god, and he's.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Like going over all of it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But then at the end he's like, you know, we're
still there's still like there's still hope and all of
this stuff, what does that bring you to a new hope?
The movie and it's great, it is great, and then
you get the.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
More movies to get there. Then apparently some sequels.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I mean, this is cyclical.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But the thing is, yes, it does remind us that
it is cyclical, as we've talked about, and we are
back and we know we know little more than we
did before, and that's kind of that conversation. We understand
and we know a little more than we did before.
I mean, we were seeing kids stand up against authoritarianism,
finding real hard physically like kids calm down, but I
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understand it. We see beautiful performances that bring people together
in celebration. Hello, bad Bunny. Did you watch that?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And it was funny because I was planning on watching
it the next day. I wasn't watching the game, but
I had a friend who I don't know why, but
she was like, can you tell me what the score is?
And so I went on and it happened to be halftime,
so I got to watch it live and then I left.
But yeah, it was It was a nice, fun surprise.
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I was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, and not that sports have anything to do with it,
but the Seahawks winning made me feel a little better
as well.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh yeah, I wanted them to win.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Oh yeah, I don't most people who didn't have like
loyalties and the teams.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, no, I don't like the Patriots. I don't have
a lot of opinions about a lot of football teams.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
But then I haven't liked for a long and a.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Lot of people do, like a lot of people do.
Like I said, seeing Seahawks meen seeing a woman owner,
like getting to celebrate seeing that one woman who wasn't
the owner I thought was an own owner, but like
having a show this is impeach and they they kept
showing it. I was like, yeah, like you like, this
is wonderful, but yeah, it does bring you a lot
(30:21):
of happiness and seeing all these things. I think we've
talked about that before. How when we see all this,
we see people rise up to take on this type
of battle, and that they are the people we get
to celebrate. Maybe we are a part of those people.
Hopefully one day in noting like that we were on
the right side of history, Like that's getting that's understanding,
(30:44):
Like okay, yes, eventually, cross your fingers. There has to
be a resolution. What that resolution looks like, we don't know,
but we know people are fighting. Though the current administration
seems to be trying to burn everything to the ground,
we've also seen the rise of new place, new people
stepping up. Mamdani for example, during our New Years, we
(31:05):
watched the New Year's celebration on a streaming network because
I don't have any cable whatever what not. So we
were like, oh, let's try to look at and we'll
do our little champagne heres avoiding all of the riddle
bullets as are being strown about in our neighborhood. And
it popped into immediately into Mumdani's uh inauguration. It brought
(31:28):
me so much hope there was I cried, I don't
live in New York to do with us here in Atlanta,
But because of what he represents for the younger generations
coming in doing some amazing things like he have you
read the latest about the fact that, yes, the Trump
(31:48):
administration tried to take down the Pride flag from Stonewall,
but Mumdannie's like, screw you, I'm putting it back. This
is my city. And I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So seeing people like him stepping forward, we had a
lot of Democrats, socialists coming up on like small city
boards and some more. Love that. I love seeing changes
like that, So really excited to see that and having
that type of transformation happening where we're seeing and undoing
of a two party system kind of with better systems,
(32:23):
hopefully some worse but also better. Yeah, we are naming
the bad guys out loud. I know, as gross as
everything is going, but we're starting to see the truth
behind all these well we thought were conspiracies, but it
turns out to be it was just flipped. Yeah, some
(32:45):
of them, not all of them. Some of them are
as this, but a lot of those like oh, they
were inside their own house, like they were looking at mirrors,
pointing fingers, trying to deflect. Okay, okay, And with that
the victims unfortunately not some not by choice, which is
something that we need to come back and talk about.
(33:05):
But they're coming out, reclaiming their livelihoods, standing and gregaining
their strength to face some of those horrible people and perpetrators.
Did you get to see the ad about the Epstein
file with the survivors?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Okay, so it actually popped up for us. A lot
of people online I've seen saying like this was taken down.
No one saw this, No one saw this, but someone
bought space to allow for about like several of the
Epstein survivors to come forward and have a conversation about
how they're being ignored or how they're being docs like
all these things, or how they're being censored. I actually
(33:44):
did see the ad. I was watching on the Peacocks
streaming network from the Super Bowl, so I don't know,
not a sponsor BT dubs. I don't know if it
was just through streaming and it wasn't through live TV, because,
like I said, a lot of people said they didn't
see it. I saw also with the AI ones. But
(34:04):
but it was really interesting to see because I think
that that was such an important conversation and I was
glad to see it, and I know a lot of
people stream it, so hopefully they got to see it too.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah, and I mean shout out to whoever made that happen,
because the Super Bowl ad space, as we know, is expensive.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
And all that to say, some are being accountable. We're
seeing like a lot of musicians taking big stands. I
love that people being removed. Of course, I say accountable
money wise, but they're already established. I don't see any
arrests except for Clinton's and I'm like, yes, they need
to be arrested if they did illegal deeds, so does
(34:46):
everybody else.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
And it's also like this is one of those and
going on, we'll see what happens becau because I think
tides have really turned in that conversation. They've tried to
hide and ignore it for a long time. Of course,
we're hearing a lot of conspiracy stuff and I wish
I would stop because that just blurries the blurs the lines,
(35:12):
as well as people trying to mock it. I've seen
apparently a couple of companies or a company of like
small businesses using epstein list to talk about their food
or coffees do that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Why would you want to be associated with it.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Rage made now could be and it's working to a
certain extent. Then there's yeah, I know there's a lot
of disinformation and misinformation as we talked about, there's a
lot of truth again that is coming out too, and
we can finally see after years of just hearing conspiracies
or just playing out lies, we as a nation are
watching and realizing the truth versus what was being fed
(35:51):
to us once upon a time by controlled media. And
I say these big terms in like, please don't think
I'm talking about all the conspiracies, because there's a lot.
But we know with the access to social media, there's
a lot of this information. But there's also a lot
of things that are coming up that we got to see.
I'm getting a lot of stuff from South Korea news,
German news, I'm getting lots from the UK Australia being
(36:14):
able to tell us what they are hearing and seeing
versus what we are seeing in the US, and I
think that's really important, and that brings up a lot
of conversation about them being able to hide things as much.
So that's great to note, Like social media has really
changed how we see things in both good and bad
(36:35):
and though it can't be stressful. It's good to know
some are seeing this stuff for the first time and
having a reaction and having to unlearn some things and
finding some truths some things. So it's interesting, Like I've
seen a lot of content and I have this like
pettiness in me that really bothers me. At the same
(36:56):
time that I get I'm glad that when they come
back like I was wrong. I voted for this, but
I didn't know it was going to affect me like this,
and that selfishness makes me angry. But at the same time,
we need that turn. We need those turns, so we
can't scare them away, even though I want to yell
at them.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, I understand that it's difficult. It's difficult because it's like,
well we I think that's part of the problem too,
though it's like the news you consume.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But I was like, we've been saying it, this is
what they've been saying, this is what.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And now you're like, oh, you're right, but you don't
want to say you're right. You just said I just
didn't know. Like instead of taking a responsibility, you're like,
yeah you did, Yeah, you did. Just take responsibility, and
there are some who are doing that. We're seeing podcasters
who influenced the elections very hard come out and be
like I didn't know. I'm like, told you did, Yeah,
now you did, you did. You just hoped that they
(37:51):
were not going to be this bad and you just
didn't realize how hard it was going to affect you.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Mm hmmm, mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
But at the same time, we don't want to be
We don't want them to take it back. We want
them to keep on this.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah's tricky. S and L did a sketch on.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
This that was so perfect it was also alarming because
it was a little too on the nose again. Yeah,
oh so Yeah, there's a lot of things. So with
(38:33):
that as a reminder, self care, the real kind, not
soar bought capitalistic ideas, which we've talked about a little bit,
is resistance. So we want to take some time to
talk about some of the things that we can do,
some of the practical things that we are told, and
also just kind of like mental health practices not a lot. Again,
(38:54):
we're not doctors, we're not psychologists. I am a social worker,
so I have a small bit of information, not a lot,
and we're not trying to tell you you need to
do these things. Don't go to a doctor. Gou what
psycho like. If you can afford therapy, therapy is wonderful,
find a good one.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Find a good one, find a good one, follow through.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, but these are some things outside of that that
might be of help. And here's a bit of advice
that Anxiety and Depression Association of America says that we
can do when it comes to post election and political
related stress and anxiety. Essentially, we can practice accepting the discomfort. Now,
(39:32):
let's clarify. I'm not accepting what's happening. We're not giving up,
but we're accepting what has happened and moving forward like that.
It is here, it is, That's where we are. This
is where the laws are, this is where the lit lines.
If we can prevent it, this is where we are.
And they want to talk about these types of bills.
We need to call our senators. That's something we can do.
(39:54):
That's controlling it. But to live in anxiety and fear
of not being able to control it makes you unravel
very quickly inspiral, so we don't want that. Instead, understand, Okay,
this is where we're at. This is the reality of it,
which is for immigration issues, ICE is happening. However, they're
talking about taking some of the funds away. That's important.
(40:17):
That's something we can do. So we can call our
our senators, we can call our people representatives, tell them
to stop. The tension centers are happening. What the hell.
But we have senators and state representative who understand this
is really bad and the community doesn't want it. We
can call those people. We can go to these meetings.
That is something that we can do so we can
accept this discomfort of how everything is not great. But
(40:40):
these are steps that we can do that it's applicable,
that helps us move forward. Yes, I think it's very important.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
It is.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
It is, And here's some advice from calm dot com
about how to worry a bit less. Also, not a sponsor, Yes,
not a sponsor. Take a break from social media and
the news. Focus on what you can control, such as
positive action, meditation. You know that we love it here.
(41:10):
We've been meaning to get Eves back in for another episode. Yes,
share with others who you trust, but don't spiral, and
do fun activities like walking, reading, working.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Out, writing fan fiction. Gallantines with horror movies.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, And I have to say, said, friends,
I told you about this. I didn't tell you it
was her, but I think you can guess what is.
But anyway, she recently came over and she was spiraling
about politics, and we had to have like a I
know it's bad. I know it's bad. I can't say
(41:48):
it's not bad, but I like having that friend, like
the friendship of yeah, it's also nice. That's also something
you can lean on in times.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yes, exactly. And even though we are not parents and
we've already told you why, kind of harshly, it was
like people don't not choosing to be parents. We know
we do have parents on here and the data line
seed dot com actually wrote some things for parents. This
was in relations to COVID and being in lockdown with children.
But I feel like it's really good for this time
(42:19):
as well, especially when everybody feels like it's frantic and
you are stressing out on a different level. They say,
remember for you, specifically, if you have children who are antsy,
what makes your kids antsy and panicked, whether it's being
overstimulated or under Knowing how your child reacts will help
both you and them because if you can prevent things,
(42:42):
that is key to so many things. But I'm sure
for parenting as well. Playful parenting what they say, helping
with their mood and yours. It's okay to be playful
and fun. Sometimes it feels gross in like these times.
I talked about this in my Happy Hour episode and
being like I am going to be dancing. It feels
weird that that's what I'm gonna put my energy in
for half my for part of my week. But I
(43:05):
need this and it's okay. It's okay to need to
be relieve the stress. And same thing with playful parenting,
whether it's taking your child out enjoying things, whether it's
going to park, explaining a little money if you if
you can afford it to do activities like, that's okay
and it's great for both of y'all unless it's too
stressful and you can take them out, reunderstand, but like
(43:25):
maybe staying at home and doing fun, cooking things together
without making too much of a mess, but things that
you know that you enjoy and they enjoy as well.
They also haven't made a great point of not letting
the unknown scare you, and I feel like this was
just for everyone, not just the parents. And I feel like, yeah,
this is actually really good advice. They write, quote, it's
(43:46):
tempting to jump on the bandwagon of calling this chapter
of our lives uncertain times, which again was relevant for
pandemic and now because frankly they are, And she writes,
I detest the message that phrase suggests. However, it's as
if it's saying we know nothing instead of we're just
generally uncertain, like they're saying, Okay, it's not that we
(44:08):
don't know, so that we don't know right now, like
things are not quite clear, but we know of things,
We know things, how things are going, and we know
people are doing things. She goes on to say, take
back control of your mental health by not buying into
catchphrases or anything else that causes undoing anxiety. So just
living alone and like this is so bad. Like we
(44:30):
say uncertain times, they're like testing in uncertain times. A
lot on here, But it does feel like an impending
doom sometimes the way we hear it, and we shouldn't.
It's a better understanding and knowing that at this moment,
as bleak as some things may be, you are in
your house or your workplace or wherever you are at
(44:52):
that moment, you are doing whatever that you have to
do for us. We're right now in our space recording,
letting you know the good and the bad, and in
this moment, we are going forward with the next moments,
ready to handle what's coming up. And even if we
don't feel like we can handle it, we will. Yeah,
I mean inevitabay we have to. And when we pass that,
(45:16):
we can look back and see how well did we do,
how not well did we do, and kind of prepare
for the next steps. And I think that's so much
to that, and not allowing for all of the negativity
and negative phrases to get us, which is oftentimes used
as fear mongering. We know this, So I think that
was really good ideas in that conversation. Yeah, there's a lot,
(45:41):
but just again, remember it's not hopeless. It's not hopeless.
We just have to take some deep breaths and take
some good action and take minutes for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yes, yeah, it's it's interesting to me that when Trump
was first elected in twenty sixteen, I put a sign
on my door that says this is not normal, and
so things wouldn't be normalized, right, and then the pandemic happened,
(46:15):
so I left to sign up, and then Trump was
elected again and I left the sign up. This has
been there for years, but it is a good reminder
when I see it of like, okay, because it feels
like they're trying to normalize all of these things. I'm like, no,
this is really really not normal. Do not let it
become normal if you can, whatever you can do to
(46:38):
prevent it from becoming normal. So I think having a
reminder too like this. Hopefully, listeners, when you listen to this,
it's the reminder of, yeah, this is not normal. We
have put people before as have put so much work
into fighting what's happening now, and people right now are
doing it too.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
So yeah, it's not hopeless.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
No, no, no, but definitely take time for yourself.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Take time for yourself.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
And we would love to hear from you. What are
your thoughts about this, listeners? What are you doing uh
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
So y'all, we need a break. We needed a break,
We've been needing breaks. So we're gonna take a little
bit of a break. So with our conversation of what
is happening with immigrants, ICE and DHS, things will bleak.
Thingsville heavy, Things fell dark. So we're going to pivot
a little bit and go away from that conversation. We'll
be back, but we're going to talk about what's happening
(00:40):
in today's politics, like immigration issues and how it's affecting
women such as an anxiety and stress, and why it's
important to take breaks. Yeah, it's a been on the nose,
but again, everybody's got to take a break. Also, Happy
Gallentines if you're listening today on February thirteenth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Six, Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I know I was about to say that if you
also celebrate that happy Friday, I know you do. What
are you gonna do?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I watch a lot of horror movies on Friday the thirteenth,
and one of my best friends is coming over, and
so is the Galentine's Day and a Friday the thirteenth, So.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
What a good time are you going to watch Friday
the thirteenth?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Probably not.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I know this is controversial in the horror world, but
that's not one of my faves.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
I do either.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I do like there's a really the one with Crispin
Glover is kind of funny. And there are like when
you're talking about slasher movies and the anticipation of kills
and what will it be? What will finally kill them?
Because you know they're going to die. There's some good
moments like that the Friday the Thirteenth series, and you
know you've got like Escape to New York, which is
(01:53):
objectively a very bad movie, but it has like funny,
it's kind of funny. I'm gonna get in trouble. I
got in trouble when I was on the Daily Zeitgeist
about this too, because really they really.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Like that franchise over there.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Of course, I if you like it, I appreciate appreciate
that you do. I just gave a very big thumbs
up that none of you can see.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Is this her opinion is my judgment on you.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I do like the twist at the end of the
first one, even though it is kind of problematic, but
I liked it. There are things I liked.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
But generally though, no, that's not I don't. I'm not
gonna lie. I hate gory horror movies like that. In
the eighties really had a lot of like just kill
gory movies, and I'm not a fan of any of those,
the Freddy movies, Halloween. It really takes me a long
time to even care enough. And it's actually probably because
of you. No, I think I was what I was
(02:50):
wanting to watch horror movies, and I tried to watch
the Staples, and I'm just not into gore, violent horror movies.
I like the Ghosts even though they are violent, don't
get me wrong, but like not for kills sake. It's
a little more like the Haunting, the Hauntings. We've not
talking about this before, but anyway, well, I'm excited to
hear the updates of how You're gallantined Friday the thirteenth goes,
(03:13):
so now we have already time stamped it. But also
content warning because we are going to talk a lot
about current affairs still and unfortunately we're going to talk
about the downside of what is happening in the current administration.
I don't know if there is an upside, but you know,
we're going to talk about the downside thus far, especially
when it comes to women. Again, we have talked a
(03:33):
lot about how a lot of the current affairs, such
as the pandemic and COVID has put even more strained
than typical on women, and when it comes to especially
when it comes to jobs and career burnout and being
a mother, all those things like, the added stress has
been substantial. And it won't be a surprise to anyone
(03:53):
to know that the current state of women's rights, queer rights,
and overall rights for the marginalists people have also have
impacted how our stress level, anxiety level, and depression has been. Yeah, surprise, surprise.
So let's talk about it. We the marginalized community are
tired and stressed. I think I think that blanket statement
(04:15):
is acceptable in this moment, right Annie, Why while we
have no autonomy rov Wade being overturned in twenty twenty two,
the possibility of limiting women's ability to vote, not the
possibility the likelihood lessening the value in education and workplace
for women's specifically by saying, you know, these are not
(04:36):
professional degrees. I'm like, excuse me. Yeah, interesting, the inability
to get a divorce without evidence of abuse and probably
not even then. To be honest, we know women can't
get out of marriage as oftentimes even when they can
prove domestic violence. We already have talked about like divorce
in some states having the trial period. Yeah, because they're
(04:59):
like you sure, you sure? I mean he beats you,
I mean he might do bad things to you, but
is a stable home. Yeah, we know that's problem. That's
the problem. And yeah, seemilarly more and more restrictions every
day as we go through. In fact, Miss magazine published
(05:19):
an article recently January twenty twenty six titled one year
in fifty three ways the Second Administration is harming women
and families, written by Ariba Hater. So we're gonna use
a chunk of because they listed it nicely for us.
We're not going to talk all about it. You should
definitely go read that article if you have the stomach
(05:39):
to do so. If you don't, you can listen to
our summary of some of the things that they highlighted,
and I think it's important. So they start off with
a section that is titled threats to women in the workplace,
which is vast. So decapping of the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission or the EEOC, that's a big one. The EEOC
(06:02):
was an independent federal agency and they write it like this.
They are the front lines of civil rights enforcement, investigating
and remedying employment discrimination charges. They have work to help
stop discrimination by compensating workers who have been wronged. And
it has been proven that they have been wronged. And
it takes a lot to be proven that they have
(06:23):
been wronged. I feel like that has to be said
every time because people like to throw out they're just
doing it for the lawsuit, and they're like, you know
how hard it is to prove? Okay, So they report
that from twenty fourteen to twenty twenty four they were
able to get about five point six billion dollars for
discriminated workers. That has now gone away because you know,
(06:45):
we have to protect the corporations, the billionaires and millionaires.
Oh poor them. And now the EEOC is being used
to do Trump's dirty work in his petty vengeance. So
this again is from the miss magazine article. They missed
has quote worked to weaponize the office to investigate employers
that President Trump has a personal vendetta against With new
(07:08):
EEOC chair Andrea Lucas and a confirmed Republican majority, the
eeoc's priorities and limited resources are clearly shifting to align
with the President's false claims of systemic discrimination against white men.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Interesting, the EEOC has also taken steps back and preventing
workplace harassment, and instead of focusing on projecting workers from
sexual or predatory harassment, they have now focused on religious
discrimination against white men.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Really important, we see all those white men being discriminated against. Yeah,
the percentage of yes, the seventy percent of white men
who are in the workforce shory short, sure, who are
getting all the jobs that wasn't made up? Number I apologize?
Moving on, So, they are looking to withdraw the Pregnant
Workers Fairness Act, which requires employees to quote offer reasonable
(08:03):
accommodations to workers who have needs related to pregnancy, childbirth,
and other related medical conditions. This is the kind of
conversation we've had about how they want to keep people
barefoot and pregnant and relied on men so that they
can't leave marriages. So essentially, if you can't make your
own money, which happened, you know, not too long ago.
Then you can't leave because you're financially dependent and there's
(08:25):
financial abuse in that marriage. So a lot of these
acts are really trying to force women out. We've already
talked about this before. This has been a thing for
years and has not been remedied. Kind of was getting there,
but now has been scrapped again. So it's really concerning
because it literally is about allowing for women to be
(08:47):
comfortable ish ish in a workplace environment, whether it's being
able to sit to take a break if they're in
a you know, very a little more harsh environment, and
they should be able to sit without worries, being able
to take time off to go to see a doctor
instead of being retaliated against for taking time off. Now
(09:07):
that's kind of going away, So that's concerning. We kind
of mentioned it previously when we talked about the disability rights,
but Trump signed Executive Order one one two four six
which rescinded regulations for prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin. All of that also has thin cups
with the Disability Acts. They also revoked the newly placed
(09:30):
minimum wage, allowing for employers to make a twenty five
percent cut in people's pay, as well as stripping this
from domestic workers, which they have been trying so hard
to get rights, but obviously with the immigration policies included,
they don't care and so they've been cutting pay like that.
(09:51):
We also have talked about how affirmative action as well
as a DEI have been cut completely and or prosecuted
or punished. That is something that is obviously going to
hurt women in marginalized people in the workplace. There's more
you can go and look, but we want to just
highlight those things. The next section they talk about is
(10:11):
threats to women's health. So that big beautiful bill that
we've already talked about in our ICE episode. It has
also cut a funding for Medicaid, which we did talk
about requires work requirements that will most likely affect pregnant
people and those with disabilities. They cut funding for states
that support preventative and wellness care. They cut funding for
(10:32):
things like internet access, which we talked about why that
is so important, especially in rural areas who don't have
access to doctors or hospitals. And they even cut assistance
for personal care assistance, so people who need help at
home that rely heavily on the system. Because they can't work,
(10:52):
their funding is being cut as well. The administration has
also with health funds from the Title ten of Family Planning,
as well as a defunded Planned Parenthood. We've mentioned that
previously they made it really dangerous overall to get reproductive
help and assistance by doing the following, including undermining the
information and access to abortion pills, requiring a reporting of
(11:15):
state line crossing for abortion access. They're literally doing hunts
of women who might be trying to access abortion care
across different states, making it dangerous for those who volunteer
or work at abortion clinics by limiting the enforcement of
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance Act.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, and what once was a federal crime to use force,
threats of force, or physical obstruction to people who are
trying to access clinics is no longer important. From the
Miss magazine article quote, death threats and other threats of
harm against providers have only increased in the wake of
the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Wade.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Yet Trump's Department of Justice announced in its first days
that it would no longer enforce the law except under
severe and extraordinary circumstances. The lack of enforcement makes clinics
less safe for patients and providers.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah So, essentially limiting the Face Act is what's causing
all of these situations, and they really don't care. It's
almost like they're inciting violence in these areas. Yeah so,
also using pro naedialism as a weapon against pregnant people,
(12:29):
essentially a system that undermines those who can get pregnant
as baby making machines, who are only valued for such
labors making babies with the dash of eugenics and racism galore.
So essentially they want you, if they want you to
produce often, but they want it to be white and
perfectly healthy and perfectly to their standards. So it is
(12:51):
a lot in this level of conversation that we see
what they're doing and who they're allowing to have actual
access to care. It's about the eugenics people. They're killing
pregnant people by creating roadblocks on emergency abortion care by
manipulating the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act the EMTALA,
which required hospitals to provide any emergency care that also
(13:14):
includes abortion, which we've already seen caused death, a lot
of death actually and probably under reported. Which is also
another thing they did is by limiting accesses and data
to that type of information, they allow for miss and
disinformation to help information including vaccine studies and requirements and
studies on nutrition because they want you to drink raw
(13:36):
milk that have bacteria that have already been shown to
be contaminated Ballerina Farm. That was one of those moments
of like, yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Duh, listen, if al Capone and this is true was
involved in getting milk be safe, maybe we should pay.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
We're in the upside down. Oh no, honestly, we need
to have a conversation coming back to We've talked a
lot about tradwise, but with these like money marketing schemes
and how big they've gotten. Even after being outed.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
As maga pre natalism type of propaganda, they're still so
popular that I'm like, we needed to go back and
look have what But anyway, yes, safety is important, y'all.
Going on Also, they are dismissing necessary health studies and
(14:45):
data to get better information in regards to health and
disease and death, which includes research on women's health by
cutting funds, causing delays and cancelations in study panels, labs,
and researchers. Yeah, we know this is happening, including they
have cut research funding for women's breast cancer and heart
related deaths heart disease, which were like that took forever
(15:06):
to even get.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
First of all, that is one of the loudest things
that everybody will champion no matter what side, is curing
women's breast cancer, and yet you cut funding for it.
And then also it took so long to get research
for women and heart disease and realizing, oh my god,
we're doing this wrong and it's killing them, and they
decided to go ahead and cut that. That's like, wow,
these are things that the right would even be like, no,
(15:29):
we need that, which apparently they did here, so I
think they backtracked a little bit, but whatever. So, Yeah,
they've been busy making sure to end any type of
equality or equity with moves like cutting the Gender Policy Council,
which Biden has started to quote promote gender equity and
coordinate federal efforts to combat systemic discrimination, increase economic security,
(15:54):
increased access to comprehensive health care, addressing caregiving needs, and more. Yeah.
I think I mean we're really coming back to they
are forgetting the bottom line that women have been the
force in the economic security in this country. Yeah, and
because women are more aware of this and they should
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be scared about loss of that kind of security. You
would think.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
You would think a lot of things, Samantha, but.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Common sense is not applical hair.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
You're right, yeah, exactly, Like I can see what they're
trying to do. It's very obvious. They're not subtle. Yeah,
but it's like a lot of the ways they do
it and then reverse it and then do it again,
like they're just they're like the most frustratingly incompetent, but
(16:53):
somehow still competent.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Right, I mean, honestly, it might come down to the
fact that they don't care because they are set so
the economy can die and burst into a thousand pieces,
and that will affect everybody who was not billion and millionaires.
But for them, they're good. They got what they needed.
They might not gain more, and that make them sad.
They'll just move on to the next spot. Colonization. No, no,
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in the economy.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
Oh no.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
With all that, there's more, including the cut of SNAP benefits,
the elimination of funds for the head Start program, cutting
the social security administration and benefits and probably more to
come because they've just really been pushing forward with all
of that said, you should definitely go look at this
article because they bring a lot and again, like we
(17:56):
didn't talk about the level of right taken away from
the disabled community, and it's a lot obviously because they
really are fully into their eugenics ideas and able lists propaganda.
That's just a little quieter because the trans issues have
gotten so big for them that they're doing all these
(18:18):
things that are what seemingly is a little less known,
a little more niche, which is it is because we've
been talking about it for a while, but that's where
we see it, that's where it kind of stands at
this point. But they are sure going to help the
white man, as they like to say, I'm gonna take
a breath, because yes, all of that is stressful. We
(18:44):
as the marginalized community are stressed out. And you know what,
here at the inn Emrie University. Yeah, here in Georgia,
they actually published a paper talking about this type of
stresscific about the elections, specifically about politics and the fact
that Georgia women This is very specific to us, but
(19:07):
I think it would be applicabal everywhere. They are thoroughly
stressed out. Stephanie ake eick I hope I said your
name right, Doctor stephaniee I believe and assistant professor of
environmental health researched about the impacts during twenty twenty three
and twenty twenty four against specifically about women in Georgia,
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and here are some things she found. Yes, women are
more generally stressed, anxious, and depressed, and those who talked
about their stress, especially with the twenty twenty four elections,
were at the highest risk of poor mental health.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
YEP, makes sense when it comes to reproductive issues, it
was really bad.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Women who believe abortions should be legal in all our
most cases also experienced more negative mental health effects. This
supports previous research that has found that restricting reproductive autonomy
is a major stressor for women of reproductive age.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Look, I have made a plan. Did not already tell
you my plan? Like if my IUD were to falter
for some reason, which we know they can happen, they
can happen. I'm applying for like asylum because I know
a few countries have been like you know what, it's
bad in the US. Will help you out because I
(20:30):
am scared to death at being at risk, especially with
you know, the later term births all of that. Now,
I will say I did recently talk see a lot
of women coming out and being like, they tell you
all these things to try to get you to have
kids early. Not all of us following people have not
had any complications, So I'm like, that's nice to see.
Maybe there needs to be a conversation about that. I
(20:51):
don't know. Maybe it is both those things. But at
the same time, I'm like, no, with those types of risks,
especially not knowing my health records, any of my like
biological based on my like family, none of that background.
I know, I don't know any of that. I would
be petrified of staying in the state of Georgia, even
in the US anyway, honestly because of the repercussions of
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what has happened and people's opinions, even because we know,
again this is a hot button issue and they really
think they can save a child. And when I say
to save a child, birth a baby, and they would
sacrifice everything else to birth that baby, including the baby
later on down the road by not providing for care
(21:37):
after birth. So like in my mind, Like, yeah, I'm
freaking out, and you talked about women your friends not
want to date and have sex because of this specific issue.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, yeah, And I mean it's really obviously it's really upsetting,
but it is kind of interesting seeing their reactions to
it because obviously, as an ace person, I like, I'm good,
but it's interesting to see their reactions because it makes
(22:12):
me very sad obviously, because sex can be great, and
relationships can be great and all the things that come
with it. It can be sex can be something that
relieves stress. It can give stress, but it can relieve stress.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
Vibrators are a thing. I'll just say it.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
But but we haven't had one of those sponsors in
a minute, I know.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
But it's interesting how like most of them were kind
of fine with it, Like I guess I thought I
was expecting more sadness. Yeah, but it was kind of like, nah,
if this is how it's gonna be, then this is
how it's right, Like.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
As much as people, Yeah, I would miss some of that,
but like it's kind of like it's not necessary, that's fine.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Again, this is kind of going back to your thing
of like it doesn't makes sense. Yeah, Like I get
what you're doing, but you're you're not.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
I'm seeing all of it. I'm seeing it backfire again.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
We're watching women die and we are trying our best
to prevent that. We're definitely don't want to die, so
why would we, Like, we know, part of the reason
the birth rate is declining is this issue in itself,
the stress because you are trying to take away our
rights in getting jobs to provide for children. Uh, that
you expect us to be tied to those children and
(23:37):
tied to the abuse that might come in having families.
So I'm like, why, yeah, deal, bro, what's happening? Yeah,
I definitely it's a concern, And unfortunately it's to the
point that, like it feels like I'm constantly thinking, well,
(23:58):
if like I have relation, you know, relations with anyone
or whatnot, that I have to be overly cautious and
I'll be thinking about the six days. I'm like, is
my body giving me signs that something bad is happening
and something I'm going to have to really plan about
and making plans for it and where to go. Like
it has come to the point that I've talked about
many a time to I don't want children. I'm not
(24:20):
planning to have children obviously, like I'm almost today point,
I'm like, maybe it's over whatever whatnot. But at the
same time, there's still still a small part of me
and be like, well, if all of this thing's changed
and I were to get pregnant, I wouldn't mind, you
know what I mean, Like, it's not something that I'm
dying for. It's also something like I feel like if
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the circumstances would be were better, then maybe type of conversation.
But it's like, oh, hell no, you know, like this
is the nail on the coffin like that, And I'm
sure I'm not the only one who would be like
they may have considered doing so, yes, but because of
the circumstances are so bad, the like never mind, I
was one of defense and thinking about it now hell no.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, And I do you know, shout out to people
who are having kids and braving it. I feel really
bad because I've had two friends recently who had kids,
and both times when they told me, there was like
it was a brief second. There's a second where it's
(25:22):
like oh, yeah, congratulates.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Like how do I react?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
I think.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
You okay, how are you feeling on the spectrum. I'm
sure Like if I weren't to come out with like
an everybody be like you.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Good, it's just such a strange place to be in
of like, oh where is it? Before I would have
been more like, oh my god, immediately now like you.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Got can you handle it? You got this? Yeah, that's
and that's sad in itself.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
It's really sad.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh yeah, these issues and stressors really do matter. But
also important is the reminder that while everything feels awful,
it is validating to know that there are a lot
of us who feel this way and fill this level
of pressure, like to the fact that we are having
large skill research for those who can about how this
(26:22):
is affecting us. So, yeah, with all of these bad things,
what can we do to give ourselves a bit of reprieve? Well,
the first thing to know is that as bad as
things are, this isn't the first time we've been here. Unfortunately,
we've talked about this. We hate this moment, but it's
good to note that we've been here before and the
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majority of people are feeling overwhelmed, and that means that
there are a majority of people who disagree with what
is happening here, like that's the bigger picture. Like all
of these conversations, as bad as affecting everyone as a whole,
everyone as a whole are on similar lines. So that's
(27:04):
kind of comforting. There are so many good people who
are fighting, fighting with everything they have to undo what
is going on. One creator that I saw in my FYP,
which was at first I was like, I'm going to
scroll away because it seems very religious, I'm not sure
or spiritual, but she was talking about the pains, how
this is the pains of undoing all the damage. The
(27:29):
proverbial light at the end of the darkness apparently like
the fire cleansing to make it pear again. Yeah. I know,
it's a lot of metaphors. You're welcome, but it gives
a lot of hope because we do talk about having
to go through the struggle to get to the good,
to get to the nice, we have to have that drama.
I don't know why, but apparently we do. And that
(27:52):
does give me a little hope that the more the
darkness pressures, the more the light pushes back.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Can I do it? I know a star Wars always
go for it.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yes, Well, I think this is actually relevant because a
lot of people are using it in videos about dark
times we're in. But at the end of the Clone
Wars the series, Obi Wan gives this speech and it's
very sad. It's like, these are dark times, this is
real bad, like oh god, and he's.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Like going over all of it.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
But then at the end he's like, you know, we're
still there's still like there's still hope and all of
this stuff, what does that bring you to a new hope?
The movie and it's great, it is great, and then
you get the.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
More movies to get there. Then apparently some sequels.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I mean, this is cyclical.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But the thing is, yes, it does remind us that
it is cyclical, as we've talked about, and we are
back and we know we know little more than we
did before, and that's kind of that conversation. We understand
and we know a little more than we did before.
I mean, we were seeing kids stand up against authoritarianism,
finding real hard physically like kids calm down, but I
(29:08):
understand it. We see beautiful performances that bring people together
in celebration. Hello, bad Bunny. Did you watch that?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (29:17):
And it was funny because I was planning on watching
it the next day. I wasn't watching the game, but
I had a friend who I don't know why, but
she was like, can you tell me what the score is?
And so I went on and it happened to be halftime,
so I got to watch it live and then I left.
But yeah, it was It was a nice, fun surprise.
(29:38):
I was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, and not that sports have anything to do with it,
but the Seahawks winning made me feel a little better
as well.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Oh yeah, I wanted them to win.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Oh yeah, I don't most people who didn't have like
loyalties and the teams.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Yeah, no, I don't like the Patriots. I don't have
a lot of opinions about a lot of football teams.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
But then I haven't liked for a long and a.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Lot of people do, like a lot of people do.
Like I said, seeing Seahawks meen seeing a woman owner,
like getting to celebrate seeing that one woman who wasn't
the owner I thought was an own owner, but like
having a show this is impeach and they they kept
showing it. I was like, yeah, like you like, this
is wonderful, but yeah, it does bring you a lot
(30:21):
of happiness and seeing all these things. I think we've
talked about that before. How when we see all this,
we see people rise up to take on this type
of battle, and that they are the people we get
to celebrate. Maybe we are a part of those people.
Hopefully one day in noting like that we were on
the right side of history, Like that's getting that's understanding,
(30:44):
Like okay, yes, eventually, cross your fingers. There has to
be a resolution. What that resolution looks like, we don't know,
but we know people are fighting. Though the current administration
seems to be trying to burn everything to the ground,
we've also seen the rise of new place, new people
stepping up. Mamdani for example, during our New Years, we
(31:05):
watched the New Year's celebration on a streaming network because
I don't have any cable whatever what not. So we
were like, oh, let's try to look at and we'll
do our little champagne heres avoiding all of the riddle
bullets as are being strown about in our neighborhood. And
it popped into immediately into Mumdani's uh inauguration. It brought
(31:28):
me so much hope there was I cried, I don't
live in New York to do with us here in Atlanta,
But because of what he represents for the younger generations
coming in doing some amazing things like he have you
read the latest about the fact that, yes, the Trump
(31:48):
administration tried to take down the Pride flag from Stonewall,
but Mumdannie's like, screw you, I'm putting it back. This
is my city. And I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So seeing people like him stepping forward, we had a
lot of Democrats, socialists coming up on like small city
boards and some more. Love that. I love seeing changes
like that, So really excited to see that and having
that type of transformation happening where we're seeing and undoing
of a two party system kind of with better systems,
(32:23):
hopefully some worse but also better. Yeah, we are naming
the bad guys out loud. I know, as gross as
everything is going, but we're starting to see the truth
behind all these well we thought were conspiracies, but it
turns out to be it was just flipped. Yeah, some
(32:45):
of them, not all of them. Some of them are
as this, but a lot of those like oh, they
were inside their own house, like they were looking at mirrors,
pointing fingers, trying to deflect. Okay, okay, And with that
the victims unfortunately not some not by choice, which is
something that we need to come back and talk about.
(33:05):
But they're coming out, reclaiming their livelihoods, standing and gregaining
their strength to face some of those horrible people and perpetrators.
Did you get to see the ad about the Epstein
file with the survivors?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
No?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Okay, so it actually popped up for us. A lot
of people online I've seen saying like this was taken down.
No one saw this, No one saw this, but someone
bought space to allow for about like several of the
Epstein survivors to come forward and have a conversation about
how they're being ignored or how they're being docs like
all these things, or how they're being censored. I actually
(33:44):
did see the ad. I was watching on the Peacocks
streaming network from the Super Bowl, so I don't know,
not a sponsor BT dubs. I don't know if it
was just through streaming and it wasn't through live TV, because,
like I said, a lot of people said they didn't
see it. I saw also with the AI ones. But
(34:04):
but it was really interesting to see because I think
that that was such an important conversation and I was
glad to see it, and I know a lot of
people stream it, so hopefully they got to see it too.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Yeah, and I mean shout out to whoever made that happen,
because the Super Bowl ad space, as we know, is expensive.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
And all that to say, some are being accountable. We're
seeing like a lot of musicians taking big stands. I
love that people being removed. Of course, I say accountable
money wise, but they're already established. I don't see any
arrests except for Clinton's and I'm like, yes, they need
to be arrested if they did illegal deeds, so does
(34:46):
everybody else.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
And it's also like this is one of those and
going on, we'll see what happens becau because I think
tides have really turned in that conversation. They've tried to
hide and ignore it for a long time. Of course,
we're hearing a lot of conspiracy stuff and I wish
I would stop because that just blurries the blurs the lines,
(35:12):
as well as people trying to mock it. I've seen
apparently a couple of companies or a company of like
small businesses using epstein list to talk about their food
or coffees do that.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Why would you want to be associated with it.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Rage made now could be and it's working to a
certain extent. Then there's yeah, I know there's a lot
of disinformation and misinformation as we talked about, there's a
lot of truth again that is coming out too, and
we can finally see after years of just hearing conspiracies
or just playing out lies, we as a nation are
watching and realizing the truth versus what was being fed
(35:51):
to us once upon a time by controlled media. And
I say these big terms in like, please don't think
I'm talking about all the conspiracies, because there's a lot.
But we know with the access to social media, there's
a lot of this information. But there's also a lot
of things that are coming up that we got to see.
I'm getting a lot of stuff from South Korea news,
German news, I'm getting lots from the UK Australia being
(36:14):
able to tell us what they are hearing and seeing
versus what we are seeing in the US, and I
think that's really important, and that brings up a lot
of conversation about them being able to hide things as much.
So that's great to note, Like social media has really
changed how we see things in both good and bad
(36:35):
and though it can't be stressful. It's good to know
some are seeing this stuff for the first time and
having a reaction and having to unlearn some things and
finding some truths some things. So it's interesting, Like I've
seen a lot of content and I have this like
pettiness in me that really bothers me. At the same
(36:56):
time that I get I'm glad that when they come
back like I was wrong. I voted for this, but
I didn't know it was going to affect me like this,
and that selfishness makes me angry. But at the same time,
we need that turn. We need those turns, so we
can't scare them away, even though I want to yell
at them.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
No, I understand that it's difficult. It's difficult because it's like,
well we I think that's part of the problem too,
though it's like the news you consume.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But I was like, we've been saying it, this is
what they've been saying, this is what.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
And now you're like, oh, you're right, but you don't
want to say you're right. You just said I just
didn't know. Like instead of taking a responsibility, you're like,
yeah you did, Yeah, you did. Just take responsibility, and
there are some who are doing that. We're seeing podcasters
who influenced the elections very hard come out and be
like I didn't know. I'm like, told you did, Yeah,
now you did, you did. You just hoped that they
(37:51):
were not going to be this bad and you just
didn't realize how hard it was going to affect you.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
Mm hmmm, mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
But at the same time, we don't want to be
We don't want them to take it back. We want
them to keep on this.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah's tricky. S and L did a sketch on.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
This that was so perfect it was also alarming because
it was a little too on the nose again. Yeah,
oh so Yeah, there's a lot of things. So with
(38:33):
that as a reminder, self care, the real kind, not
soar bought capitalistic ideas, which we've talked about a little bit,
is resistance. So we want to take some time to
talk about some of the things that we can do,
some of the practical things that we are told, and
also just kind of like mental health practices not a lot. Again,
(38:54):
we're not doctors, we're not psychologists. I am a social worker,
so I have a small bit of information, not a lot,
and we're not trying to tell you you need to
do these things. Don't go to a doctor. Gou what
psycho like. If you can afford therapy, therapy is wonderful,
find a good one.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Find a good one, find a good one, follow through.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah, but these are some things outside of that that
might be of help. And here's a bit of advice
that Anxiety and Depression Association of America says that we
can do when it comes to post election and political
related stress and anxiety. Essentially, we can practice accepting the discomfort. Now,
(39:32):
let's clarify. I'm not accepting what's happening. We're not giving up,
but we're accepting what has happened and moving forward like that.
It is here, it is, That's where we are. This
is where the laws are, this is where the lit lines.
If we can prevent it, this is where we are.
And they want to talk about these types of bills.
We need to call our senators. That's something we can do.
(39:54):
That's controlling it. But to live in anxiety and fear
of not being able to control it makes you unravel
very quickly inspiral, so we don't want that. Instead, understand, Okay,
this is where we're at. This is the reality of it,
which is for immigration issues, ICE is happening. However, they're
talking about taking some of the funds away. That's important.
(40:17):
That's something we can do. So we can call our
our senators, we can call our people representatives, tell them
to stop. The tension centers are happening. What the hell.
But we have senators and state representative who understand this
is really bad and the community doesn't want it. We
can call those people. We can go to these meetings.
That is something that we can do so we can
accept this discomfort of how everything is not great. But
(40:40):
these are steps that we can do that it's applicable,
that helps us move forward. Yes, I think it's very important.
Speaker 3 (40:49):
It is.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
It is, And here's some advice from calm dot com
about how to worry a bit less. Also, not a sponsor, Yes,
not a sponsor. Take a break from social media and
the news. Focus on what you can control, such as
positive action, meditation. You know that we love it here.
(41:10):
We've been meaning to get Eves back in for another episode. Yes,
share with others who you trust, but don't spiral, and
do fun activities like walking, reading, working.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
Out, writing fan fiction. Gallantines with horror movies.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, And I have to say, said, friends,
I told you about this. I didn't tell you it
was her, but I think you can guess what is.
But anyway, she recently came over and she was spiraling
about politics, and we had to have like a I
know it's bad. I know it's bad. I can't say
(41:48):
it's not bad, but I like having that friend, like
the friendship of yeah, it's also nice. That's also something
you can lean on in times.
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yes, exactly. And even though we are not parents and
we've already told you why, kind of harshly, it was
like people don't not choosing to be parents. We know
we do have parents on here and the data line
seed dot com actually wrote some things for parents. This
was in relations to COVID and being in lockdown with children.
But I feel like it's really good for this time
(42:19):
as well, especially when everybody feels like it's frantic and
you are stressing out on a different level. They say,
remember for you, specifically, if you have children who are antsy,
what makes your kids antsy and panicked, whether it's being
overstimulated or under Knowing how your child reacts will help
both you and them because if you can prevent things,
(42:42):
that is key to so many things. But I'm sure
for parenting as well. Playful parenting what they say, helping
with their mood and yours. It's okay to be playful
and fun. Sometimes it feels gross in like these times.
I talked about this in my Happy Hour episode and
being like I am going to be dancing. It feels
weird that that's what I'm gonna put my energy in
for half my for part of my week. But I
(43:05):
need this and it's okay. It's okay to need to
be relieve the stress. And same thing with playful parenting,
whether it's taking your child out enjoying things, whether it's
going to park, explaining a little money if you if
you can afford it to do activities like, that's okay
and it's great for both of y'all unless it's too
stressful and you can take them out, reunderstand, but like
(43:25):
maybe staying at home and doing fun, cooking things together
without making too much of a mess, but things that
you know that you enjoy and they enjoy as well.
They also haven't made a great point of not letting
the unknown scare you, and I feel like this was
just for everyone, not just the parents. And I feel like, yeah,
this is actually really good advice. They write, quote, it's
(43:46):
tempting to jump on the bandwagon of calling this chapter
of our lives uncertain times, which again was relevant for
pandemic and now because frankly they are, And she writes,
I detest the message that phrase suggests. However, it's as
if it's saying we know nothing instead of we're just
generally uncertain, like they're saying, Okay, it's not that we
(44:08):
don't know, so that we don't know right now, like
things are not quite clear, but we know of things,
We know things, how things are going, and we know
people are doing things. She goes on to say, take
back control of your mental health by not buying into
catchphrases or anything else that causes undoing anxiety. So just
living alone and like this is so bad. Like we
(44:30):
say uncertain times, they're like testing in uncertain times. A
lot on here, But it does feel like an impending
doom sometimes the way we hear it, and we shouldn't.
It's a better understanding and knowing that at this moment,
as bleak as some things may be, you are in
your house or your workplace or wherever you are at
(44:52):
that moment, you are doing whatever that you have to
do for us. We're right now in our space recording,
letting you know the good and the bad, and in
this moment, we are going forward with the next moments,
ready to handle what's coming up. And even if we
don't feel like we can handle it, we will. Yeah,
I mean inevitabay we have to. And when we pass that,
(45:16):
we can look back and see how well did we do,
how not well did we do, and kind of prepare
for the next steps. And I think that's so much
to that, and not allowing for all of the negativity
and negative phrases to get us, which is oftentimes used
as fear mongering. We know this, So I think that
was really good ideas in that conversation. Yeah, there's a lot,
(45:41):
but just again, remember it's not hopeless. It's not hopeless.
We just have to take some deep breaths and take
some good action and take minutes for ourselves.
Speaker 1 (45:54):
Yes, yeah, it's it's interesting to me that when Trump
was first elected in twenty sixteen, I put a sign
on my door that says this is not normal, and
so things wouldn't be normalized, right, and then the pandemic happened,
(46:15):
so I left to sign up, and then Trump was
elected again and I left the sign up. This has
been there for years, but it is a good reminder
when I see it of like, okay, because it feels
like they're trying to normalize all of these things. I'm like, no,
this is really really not normal. Do not let it
become normal if you can, whatever you can do to
(46:38):
prevent it from becoming normal. So I think having a
reminder too like this. Hopefully, listeners, when you listen to this,
it's the reminder of, yeah, this is not normal. We
have put people before as have put so much work
into fighting what's happening now, and people right now are
doing it too.
Speaker 3 (46:57):
So yeah, it's not hopeless.
Speaker 1 (47:00):
No, no, no, but definitely take time for yourself.
Speaker 3 (47:05):
Take time for yourself.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
And we would love to hear from you. What are
your thoughts about this, listeners? What are you doing uh
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