The Writing's On The Wall

On this episode, Flame speaks on the kidnapping tragedy in Mexico, Child Marriage proposal aka Bill 43 (Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee), Biden's Budget, more train derailments and more. Tune in and comment in the socials below.

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(01:39):
like Hey, hey, hey, welcome to this week's episode of
Laugh and Learning with your host me Flaming Rope, along
with my wonderful producer, mister Aaron. We are here today
y'all to give you a little light laughter love Joey,
and we're gonna talk about it. And oh, I don't
even though if I'm in a mood to talk about it,
but we have to talk about the things that are
happening right now. What you guys know before we get started.

(02:01):
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I will leave. You will leave in a much better
mood than you can't me. And how can I can

(02:44):
guarantee you that? Because my joy and my laughter is
infectious and I'm gonna I'm gonna put it on you.
I put it on somebody yesterday, but it wasn't the
laughter okay anyway, ha ha. Thank you guys for joining
us here at Laugh and Learn Um Season three, episode two.
So much is happening in the world. I planned on

(03:05):
started about talking about something else, but when I saw
this tragedy that just happened, another mass shooting that happened
in Germany. It is it's becoming so common that it's
scary that it's like, oh, wow, another one. I hate
that we even feel like that myself. I'm guilty of
the same thing, like wow, another one, because it's almost
like as people, we have become numb to all of

(03:26):
these mass shootings, which will make this like number oh god,
not a hundred and some forty seven, forty eight this year,
maybe forty nine, and you know we got that many
days in the year. Yet it's very, very scary. So
fres to Germany press, some people who are going through
all the drama down there. A subject too I want

(03:49):
to talk about, is it is umof politics. Your President
Joe Biden did a President Biden did have his a
speech yesterday talking about the state of the economy and
what we're facing. And I love what he had to
say that he was going to start charging some of
these larger corporations and some of these rich people. But

(04:11):
I hope you guys read the fan print, because technically
they will have to pay a little bit more in
Texas than they did, but they still want to be
taxed what they should be taxed. I'm not giving body
to pass on that now. Am I attack in bidement
that Biden is not following the lead, but that is
where they've become accustomed to after Donald Trump was in

(04:32):
the president in office. So please fare attention to your politics,
to your legislation, vote your colleges. That FoST was gonna
keep some money in your pocket and keep your family
feed because things are happening, real crazy everywhere. Speaking of
crazy things happening, I'm gonna go back. I come back
to politics. Politics always so heavy. I swear I don't
want to serve blaket on me right now, but I
do want to talk about the four Americans that cross

(04:54):
the border into Matamors, Mexico, just south of Brownsville, Texas.
Two of were kidnapped to murder, where the other two
will rescue the live. They were traveling in a white
minivan the Mexican The Mexican authorities believe that there was
human traffickers and they had mistaken their identity. What I
loved about the end of this story. I hate the
two people lost their life, but I love that the

(05:14):
Mexican cartel allegedly turned over the perpetrators, you know, because
it's kind of like they governed their own country. They
govern their own people. They don't want all that drama
over there, especially if they're part of the Mexican Cartel.
They don't need to heat over there. Of all that
that you are kidnapping people. So if you're traveling to
another country, whether they be visiting family members or for surgery,

(05:35):
which is believed to what they were going over there
for to have some kind of les, let's expensive surgery.
Because I know I've been to Mexican. I'm guilty of
going to Mexico to Gualahra myself and getting the breast
in plants. The Damn Show went left. I think they
put a breast in planting one cheating and a gummy
bear and the other or the Damn Show were left
on me. Please be careful, And because this was many

(05:57):
years ago, the world is on high alert, right now,
and people are desperate for money and doing any and
everything to give money. And I'm glad that those two
people did that. They did get away or get turned
back over and they didn't become part of human trafficking.
Human trafficking is very, very serious all over the world.

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The two survivors were found outside of Metamorals, Mexico. The
one deceased was inside the house and the other survivors
was outside of the house. The male survivor was shot
in the leg and the female survivor is the mother
of five children who traveled from South Carolina to Mexico
for a cosmetic procedure and others joined her to help drive. Sometimes,

(06:38):
you know, they say, you give what you people. I
am not faulting the victim at all, because I told
you I am guilty of going to Mexico to have surgery.
Not that it's a bad thing. It's some great doctors
in Mexico. It's just that the world is a higher
and you get to be very hilarious. They see you
looking like a tourist or like a foreigner. To them,
you might be oh, they got money, you know, they're traveling,

(06:58):
and you might become a victim or target. So please
be careful, keep your head on swivel in the words
the TTJ who will probably be joining us next week,
and be cautious because you don't want to say I'm
just going to have surgery and come right back and
you end up not coming back or something horrible happened
to you. One of the victims sustained serious bodily injuries

(07:20):
doing the attack. The CARTIL has apologized for members who
who acted under their own decision making and a lack
of discipline. The four victims are the Tavia Tay McGee,
Eric James Williams, Shade Water, and Zendale Brown. All victims
were probed for possible CARTIL late. I think it was
a case of a stake and identity to I think

(07:41):
they thought they would over their drugs some others. The
fifth person, whose name was Sheryl Orange, who traveled with them,
said they were denied inches because she didn't have a
photo ID, so her friends took her back to the
hotel in Brownsville, Texas. Who, if ever, you needed to
forget your ID Mexican security. Mexican security analysts believe cut
your leaders offered authorities sacrificial lambs to minimize damage. And

(08:07):
that there's the only reason for the apology. That is
a scary story because we do go. You know, surgery
is expensive and it's a cheaper. You can get medicines
cheaper in Mexico, surgery cheaper, but sometimes it comes at
a different cast. So please deletery, be careful. Hopefully you
know somebody over there, and if you're not a Spanish
speaking person, you know somebody said you can understand the language,

(08:29):
because you never know who we in a who's all in?
Or it could be the cab drivers, it could be
a lift drivers, It could be so many different people
that are in on it, and that you do not
foresee where it's coming from. So please be cautious here
in America, here in our country when you talk about
medico more. Bill forty three is trying to be passed
in Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee, all considered the most religious

(08:52):
states who are weaponizing in Bill forty three. If you
are unfamiliar with Bill forty three, we touched on it
last week. But Bill forty three is a bill that
would eliminate the requirement open the door for possible child
marriages same sex marriages, interracial marriages, drag shows. It's so
many things. Transgender, it is so many things. And Tennessee

(09:17):
is guaranteeing klerks is that they can deny license to
same sex, transgender, interracial based on biblical beliefs. So this
is not even coming from the top. I can walk
up to the counter and my presentation says transgender, and
because you've been have the great day and whatever you
see me and you like, I deny you. It's not

(09:37):
even coming from government. They're making this personal. This is
getting out of control. But I'm so sorry that my
community is the lgbt QI eight plus community, we're fighting
over pronouns and bathroom rights when we have so much
more serious stuff happening with us. I hate that, But
hopefully why they we will come to a happy m

(10:00):
about that and get things done. Biden has made I
think Biden will stand with the lgbt community because he
has always seemed to be very LGBTQ friendly when it
comes to our rights and the things that we want doing.
For his budget plank, he proposed a six point eight
trillion dollars budgets that will increase the military spending and
a wide range of social program. Oh, we all go

(10:22):
need counseling and therapy when all we finally come out
this real pandemic and all this foolishness. But the budget
will contain five trillion. Proposed text increased his own high
earners and corporations over a decade, so he's not taxing
them over the year. He text them over ten years
to reduce the budget deficits bout three trillion over time
by taxing the rich and these major corporations. I know,

(10:45):
it don't seem like it's going to happen. We all
want instant gratification and sometimes we don't have to play
the long game. This is one of those tams where
we're gonna have to play a long game with the
economy because we're complaining about the prices of aids and gas.
But the country could be in so much more trouble.
We could be in so much more trouble if we
all stop and pay attention to the writings on the wall.
Because we don't see the writings on the wall. It's

(11:07):
just it's uncanny that the things that are happening right
in front of our eyes. Because everybody's complaining, and as
far as that bill forty three goes with the drag shows.
I hate that because there was the time when I
made my entire living all drag shows, but we just
didn't have the kids involved. We didn't have children involved.
But it's getting scary and scary because we keep fighting
as a as a as a community over the wrong foolishness.

(11:33):
I am. I was thinking about telling you guys that
this is me, This is me talking. This is not
the views of some of y'all. But I think that
with all of the unfold that's happening right now with
the vaccine and doctor Faulci, and it's supposed to we
leaked from a Wuhan clang or over in China, I
think that it's really unfold. I talked about this during

(11:54):
the pandemic, during coffee time of my non trusts for
doctor Faulci, because I feel like he was in a
cruiseial position to where he could have told us, you know,
if he didn't agree with some things that the president
at the time was saying when it came down to Corona.
If you guys did not know that COVID has killed
seven million people globally, it hasn't went away. It's just

(12:16):
they don't talk about it as much, but it has
killed seven million people globally. I don't know what they
were looking for, what happened. Why would they release something
so deadly, Why would they even create something so deadly?
But chemical warfare is very real. And if we're going
to war, y'all worried about nukes, they can have powertism
and they can put stuff in the water. I personally

(12:38):
believe that I have infrastructure is something attack right now,
which is why we're having so many planes almost crashing
and then the boards just disappearing. Why the planes are
in mid air? You know how scary that he is
because they can't track the plane. They can't tell you,
but plane is right next to you. The scar stall
seemed so friendly, and they seem to be getting a
lot more crowded. But if we have outside influences and

(13:00):
other forces in our infrastructure, we a lot of us
could could lose our situations outside of our lambs. You
know that they get in our water system. It's looking
like their infrastructure is in the Department of Transportation. And
I'm not blaming a Buddha Jest for this, because Buddha
Jest is the Secretary of transportation. But all these trail

(13:21):
to ravens, back to back to back to back seemed
so suspicious to me that I don't know. I don't know,
because it's a rarity. Some things that are rare. Rarity
is a train derailments, airplanes crash, And it's not to
say that they don't happen, but now consistently like the

(13:41):
way they are happening. In January nineteenth of this year
in the town of East Palace, that am in Ohio,
ninety seven cards although no cargo and no one was injured, derailed.
February to third this year, one hundred and fifty freight
line is carrying toxic chemicals. In the instance, environmental contamination
did happen? You know? And here's my thing. When President

(14:05):
Obama was the president, he signed the bill to have
a certain break put on. I'm gonna tell you what
the name of the break is, the name of the
break because I wrote it down, I won't try to
make sure I wouldn't know what I'm talking about. President
Obama passed legislation making the mandatory for trains carrying hazardous
biamable materials to have ECP breaks. But the order was

(14:26):
rescinded by President Trump see Brocco. President Obama knew what
was things that could happen impossibly and the writings on
the wall. He foresayd some things. But then you put
somebody in office that didn't know the job. You know,
that was a little incompetent to the job that they
were elected for. And this is the situation that we have.
That's why y'all keep saying Biden is too old, too

(14:47):
old for whom he's still in the job. The other
was younger, but he didn't do the job. You're gonna
have to make a choice and make up your man.
March fourth this year. Second the realm involved the same
company in Norfolk Southern in Clark County Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ohio.
At the time, no hazardous chemicals weren't on board, but
residents was asked to shelter in place. All of these

(15:07):
train derailments look like that they are in our infrastructure
and that train because here's the thing. I don't even
understand why you will put certain kind of chemicals on
the same train. I know some of these cars be
one hundred and forty cars, two hundred cards, but if
you're gonna put gas in three cars behind and then
separate them back two but then put another toxic chemicals

(15:30):
that don't go with gas, and you know if they meet,
it's going to be massively explosive. Why would you do
dumb shit like that? That's just some dumb shit to me.
I don't work for the railway system. I'm just saying.
And in addition, this year, South Carolina has had three
derailments Lake City, Las Laws and Enori, two in rural California,

(15:51):
one each in metropolitan Detroit, Philadelphia, Alabama, Alaska, Louisiana, and
Texas and Nebraska. Was happening is I think that the
infrastructure is old. I think they need to go in
and revap it. But where's the money for that? That
is part of the Secretary of Transportation and it's coming
from the top. We need money to procee train systems

(16:12):
that we got to commute and we all rely on
the train. You made our kiss the train, but the
train is a commute for a lot of products that
we use on a daily basis, so we definitely need
the trains to go across country. I think a lot
of these railway systems are older and a lot of
these tracks need to be updated, which will mean more
jobs and more work for the American people. Let's do it.

(16:34):
Let's get it done. Y'all found money for everything else.
You found money for anything you want to found money
for strong believer that whatever it is important to you,
you make what is important to you. You make it
happen when it's important to you. Don't seem like it's
that important to me. What is it going to take?
And then I hate to asset because I don't want
a real answer, because I would hate to see people,
innocent people lose their lives because somebody else dropped the

(16:55):
ball and doing their job. The East Palestine incidents have
been have bombarded criticism toward the railway sector and Transportation
Secretary Booty Jais. They are always looking for skategoat, skategoat
scape goat who I couldn't get that out. He just
happens to be the man in charge of the secretary
right now of Transportation, i e. Against Norfolk Southern and

(17:17):
the federal government for the lack of clean up. The
incident that occurred on February third, twenty twenty three, in
the East Palestine involved thirty eight Norfolk Southern carriages. Close
to five thousand residents had to be evacuated because of
the chemical spill. Five tankers were carrying vinyl coreide material
to make plastic pipings, wires, cable coding, car parts, and packaging.

(17:42):
Residents have been allowed to return home per the EPA
and Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Real experts contribute crashings
to compromise safety measures and reduce workforces part of an
effort to boost rail company profits. It's always a dollar behind, somebody,
always trying to make money, and the sacrifice, the sacrificial lands,

(18:04):
unfortunately be the American people. Oh. I don't like that. Oh,
I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't
like that. And if Trump would have just kept that
ECP break in place, it possibly couldn't help because it
could have stopped the trains. Now, you do have to
understand that no train will stop instantaneously. Nothing happens instantaneously.
The train takes about a mile and a half to stop,

(18:25):
depending on the weight and how much baggage is carrying.
But they estimated about a mile to a mile and
a half when it's anything more than twenty five cards.
I read that I don't know that for a fact,
because I'm not a conductor. Plus that y'all don't hire
us to be conducted in no way. Remember, we couldn't.
We weren't good enough to do the job. So who
crashed these day of training? I'm asking for a friend,

(18:48):
LEBYO saw my ship on hill. The reason was happening
with America and all this instantaneous everybody wants to turnaround,
to turn around the turnaround, including my trans sistance, because
they got a big debate right now on social media
about pronouns and all this foolishness. Here's the thing, you
know who I blame for this? I want to start
off by saying that I blamed the eSPI Awards. Not

(19:09):
that I have anything against the eSPI Awards, but I
think that when they allowed Kayla Jenner to be become
Woman of the Year, Kayla Jenner went into the into
a closet and came out fifteen minutes later as a woman.
So that discredits all the women around the world, professional athletes,
anybody else that couldn't have been Woman of the Year
for its microwave. Woman of the Year, y'all made it

(19:32):
look like it was okay. But I went back and
I just looked at that award show when they scanned
the audience with the camera. If you can see the
look on some of those athletes and some of those
women's faces when they crowned Kayla Jenner Woman of the Year,
it was it was in such distaste the looks on
their faces, and with resentment and and and very well deserved.

(19:54):
Let me just say that, because if you're gonna give
a bitch woman of a Year, you should have gave
it to be at least I would have worked cute
dress glads. But it sent the message and every sense thing.
It looks like my community have taken that message and
ran with it, and it has backfired on us. Nothing
is instant. Nothing happens in five minutes and ten minutes.

(20:16):
Everything takes time. If you are making a soup, it
takes time to put those ingredients in a little by little.
You can't put it all in the party at one
time because it's not gonna come out to what you
wanted it to be. Everything is done with a gradual pace,
with patience and love and care, understanding. Hope. But we
want it right now, right now, and right now. Nothing

(20:38):
happens right now but death and bills, shit, tragedy, drama.
So take your time, see who you are, Understand who
you are. I stop looking for acceptance from everybody else.
If you ain't accepted who the hell you are? That
is on My only message to that to my trans sisters, says,
don't put you on to put me on blast and
say I'm not a trans woman. You can keep telling

(20:59):
me what I am not because what I ain't, because
I'm gonna keep reminding what you ain't gonna never be. Okay,
did you cass that? Did you kiss that? Okay? I
just want to make sure you heard what I was
saying because we are in a place of crucial time
and scary tragedy and bs. I need to tell you

(21:20):
guys that on April the twenty second, next month, they're
having a Black Effect Festival in Atlanta, Georgia at the
Poolman Yards and it's gonna be hosted by Charlomagne, The Guy,
My Boss, My Boy, and Miss Jest Hilarious, We see
what the fucking man do. Horrible Decisions will be there.
Eighty five South will be part of that show. Michelle Willis,

(21:42):
We're part of that show. And I forgot the other
two girls named from a Housewives of Potomac. But it's
gonna be major. You guys, come on out, hobnob and
celebrate with us that we've been doing black effect for
three years, having a great time while doing it, teaching,
pushing the culture. They're still looking for people to come
on as guest hosts on the Breakfast Club. So you
never know who you might be, who you may have

(22:04):
now with, and which you may leave, which you may
leave will where you will leave on farm than you can.
But you may leave with a job, which is always
most important. I like jobs. I damn sure like anybody
messing with my jobs either. With the infrastructure infrastructure bill
that President Biden is trying to pass as far as finances,

(22:25):
he Umbaire to propose outline in Philadelphia. His budget is
investing in America and all of America. His first two years,
he signed laws to reveal infrastructures would supported all Americans.
The president believes that the way to grow the economy
is to invest in the middle class and working families.
His budget is to deliver affordable child care for parents,

(22:46):
home care for older Americans, and disable people to get
permanent expanded healthcare assistance. Through the Affordable Care Act. He
included guaranteed pay lead for workers, free community college, and
free kindergarten for students. Lastly, additional assistance for lower housing
calls for homeowners and wrenters. I'll take the last the rent,

(23:08):
and I'll take the childcare because as a parent of
three kids and I was a single parent, that was
one of the most expensive things to do was to
get childcare. Even if you got it through welfare or
through through government assistance, it was such it was so
challenging to find places that you felt like your kid
would feel would be safe, and that you could just

(23:30):
walk in. I personally never liked home day cares and
or friends to watch my children because I wanted them
to not be too comfortable, and I wanted a place
that I could walk in at any given time to
see what the hell is happening with my kids. We
have to lock doors now because people are so crazy,
But back when my kids were kids, which was shit

(23:50):
seventeen eighteen years ago, I like places, whether the facility
you could just walk in because they'll never know when
you were coming, and you could always see what was
happening with your kid. Lots of tragedy, and it's happened
in daycare and babysitting services now because people don't pay
attention to the kids. And sometimes these children are too
young to tell you exactly what somebody has done to them.
But then when you when they come up with a

(24:11):
bite or a broken bone or an ailment, you know,
you like you question it, but then there's no cameras.
You know, if you like me, I'm one of them
parents like I'm ready to fight with everybody about my key.
I'm ready to fight with everyone about my kid. But
that's not the way the world works. This is Oscar weekend.
I just want to wish Angela Bassett and kay Blanche
had two of my personal favorites, good luck with the Oscars.

(24:34):
I'm not sure if I'm going to actually watch the
Oscars because I'm I feel very slighted that they snubbed
The Woman King and everybody involved with The Woman King,
because I thought that movie was great. But I want
you guys to watch it and enjoy it. And I
want to thank you for joining me here and left
a line. I pulled this one off by myself. Please
remember that you could see me at Tommy Tease and Pleasanton, California,

(24:54):
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(25:15):
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(25:57):
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It's becoming like a needle in a haystack. Don't look
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