Joy Ann Reid On The Shutdowns, SNAP, Epstein File, Global Pedophile Ring + More

Joy Ann Reid On The Shutdowns, SNAP, Epstein File, Global Pedophile Ring + MoreJoy Ann Reid On The Shutdowns, SNAP, Epstein File, Global Pedophile Ring + More

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up this way up at Angela Yee Joyerrie back again?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey girl?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
They love you up here?

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Girls, Well, I appreciate I love him right back.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yes, And I was telling you right before we started,
I was like, there's so much going on, I don't
even know where to start.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
But this government shut down is over delayed. What would
you say?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's over? It's over. And it ended in to me
the worst way. It felt like a complete waste of
time at the end, just because of the way the
Democrats ended it. And they didn't have to end that.

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Way, right, And so when people are questioning, like what happened,
because I saw people saying, oh, well, they're not going
to get X, Y, and Z anyway, so why not
just go ahead? I also see that the fight for
the Affordable Care Act or some type of like what's
the plan still has to go on, right, And so yes.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I mean the thing about it is that Democrats laid
down a marker. They said, we are not going to
give you all the votes in the United States Senate
to reopen the government until you agree to put back
in the healthcare subsidies, and just to roll back for
a minute, just so people understand the healthcare subsidies were
cut by the Republicans when they passed their quote unquote
big beautiful bill, which was actually a big horrible bill.

(01:08):
It slashed the subsidies. It basically let the subsidies expire.
So that bill alone was going to raise everybody's health care.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
January in Genue, what people saw were estimates of in January,
I saw one couple saw their monthly healthcare insurance go
from like six hundred to twenty six hundred.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's right, Yeah, for some people, seventy five percent increase.
Because basically what happened was when the Obamacare bill was
passed the first time in twenty ten. In order to
make the budget numbers work, the way they fix the
numbers in Washington is they say we're going to pass
this bill. It's going to cost X, but don't worry,
it's temporary, and they make things temporary to make the
numbers work. So to make the numbers work on having

(01:46):
to subsidize people's insurance, they made it temporary. But every
time it's come up for renewal, they've just renewed the
temporary subsidies. But that's the exact same thing they did
with the tax cut. That twenty seventeen tax cut were
eighty percent of it. When to the richest people, that
was also temporary. But what happened was when that came
up for renewal ten years later, which was this big,

(02:08):
beautiful bill. The purpose of that bill was to make
that tax cut permanent. Yeah, and when they did that,
that took four point one trillion dollars. That's the cost
of it. Four point one trillion. The cost of making
these little subsidies permanent is only point three trillion, So
it's a fraction of the cost. But they just don't
believe in it. They don't want to. They were fine
with making the tax cuts permanent, where we're going to

(02:30):
be paying for our grandchildren's grandchildren are gonna be paying
that bag. And the other way that they made the
cost money work is they said, we need to find
two trillion dollars to make it less expensive. Doge went
in and was like, we'll just cut two trillion out
of the government. They couldn't find two trillion dollars worth
of waist fraud and abuse. They could They only found
like one hundred billion. That was Elon Musk. His job

(02:51):
was to find two trillion to make the permanent tax
cut not cost four trillion. He failed, So then their
next shot is like, well, where else can we get
a cut trillion dollars. The only other place is to
get at least even one trillion is military, the Defense Department,
which nobody ever wants to cut. Social Security, which is
five trillion, which you can't cut because old people will

(03:12):
be in the streets. You know, they will march like
it was the nineteen sixties. They we might burn some
stuff down, So you cannot touch social Security. The only
other big pot of money is Medicaid. So they went
into Medicaid and they scooped out eight hundred billion dollars
that's almost a trillion dollars in order to make the
math work for the tax cut. So when they're having
all these fights about whether to make this permit or that,

(03:34):
just understand they already took Medicaid's money. They took eight
hundred billion out of people's medicaid, which meant rural hospitals
are going to close, people are gonna get genuinely hurt regardless.
So then when the shutdown came, Democrats said, you know what,
you took enough. You already took eight hundred billion for Medicaid.
You can't take no more. You can't take these subsidies too.
That's where they drew the line. So they should have

(03:55):
just held out to say, you can't the regular people
need something. You gave the real whi it's four trillion dollars.
You took eight hundred billion from the poor. Don't take
this point three trillion. Don't take this three hundred billion.
And they still took it anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Why would those seven Democrats then side with the Republicans.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Because they prefer order over justice. Unfortunately, we have some
people in the Democratic Party who number one, don't know
how to fight. Number two. All they want is order.
They feel like disorder is more dangerous than injustice. And
they should have held out because now what's gonna happen
is they're supposedly being promised that they get to vote
on whether to increase to give the subsidies back at

(04:33):
these Democrats. These Republicans ain't gonna vote for that right,
so they already know how they're gonna vote, so they're
gonna give them an empty vote in December. That means nothing.
Those premiums are going up in January because Republicans do
not like Obamacare.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
And then it's gonna be framed like it's the Democrats fault, correct.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
And then they're gonna say, see, Obamacare doesn't worry, and
that's it's that's just.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Thing to me that all the Republicans sided on the
wrong side and seven Democrats did, but the Democrats get blamed,
right even though all the Republicans correct, we're in on it.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Except Paul voted with the different But it's like it's
the Republicans are so good at making the Democrats look
like their at fault when the cruelty is the Republicans.
They believe the rich should get a tax cut that
we all pay for, but they don't believe that people
who are struggling small business people, uber drivers, lyft drivers,
that who uses obamacare? Your freelance makeup artists, my makeup

(05:21):
artists are all in Obamacare because they're an independence.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Small He also probably don't like that it's Obamacare, but
they haven't made up because I also know that has
to be part of it, even though it's the Affordable
Care Act.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
But we all call it Obamacare, and you know.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Who called it obamacare, Republicans. They've made up the names
and Obama was like, okay.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah, but they also don't have another idea that they've
had plenty of time to come up with one sure,
and just I guess that's how much of not a
priority it is.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's not they don't care. I mean, they genuinely do.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
But a lot of Republicans actually are on Obamacare, which
is so interesting to me. Just like when Snap benefits
were paused taken away, it was a lot of Republicans
that also were So I don't understand how their base
is okay with this or.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I think a lot of people who are Republican voters
are in denial. They think, well, I don't personally get
money from the government when they're literally on Obamacare. Yeah,
but they're like, well I earned that, but it's like,
but so did everybody else. And one of the biggest
states that needs Obamacare the most is Louisiana, where the
Speaker of the House is from. His district is one
of the poorest districts in America. His own voters are

(06:23):
going to lose more than most voters, definitely more than
people in Maryland and New York City view, his voters
are going to get hurt more. But their thing is
as long as they think blacks get hurt the most.
A lot of MAGA voters will vote for even their
own destruction because they think in their mind that it's
going to be only black people. Nope, numerically, it's mostly
white women who are on Medicaid, and Obamacare is just

(06:46):
expanded Medicaid, So when you mess with Medicaid, you're messing
with mainly white people.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Now people have to reapply for SNAP now that it's reopened.
And the way that this has been framed is that
there's a lot of people taking advantage of the system
and getting these befits because they're too lazy to work.
I want you to explain what's happening now with these
SNAP benefits, and white people have to reapply because they
think that there's people who shouldn't be getting it that are.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
And by the way, SNAP benefits had nothing to do
with the shutdown. I think they're trying to conflate these
two things like they're one thing.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
It was one of the side effects.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
It was a side effect of the shutdown. But it's
not the Congress that had that SNAP money held up.
It's the administration. Because the SNAP is funded through the
Department of Agriculture. So at any time, Trump and his
Department of Agriculture could release that money.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Right they chose not to. I think there were conversations
about it and they didn't want to. And then even
like partial benefits, they didn't.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Wait, said no, and they went all the way to
the Supreme Court. Sued because a lot of states sued
them and said, wait a minute, we're entitled to this money.
Because Medicaid is a program that's not distributed directly from
the federal government to you. Your state gives you the money.
So the money goes to the states and then the state
gives it to you. Unlike Medicare and Social Security, it
was not able to be put into the Social Security Act,
so it's a separate thing that it's a state block grant.

(08:01):
So the states were like, we want our block grant,
and some of the states even said Colorado was like,
we'll just pay the snap benefits and you can pay
us back. The Trump administration said, no, you can't do that.
Then they went to court and they sued because the
states sued them and said give us the money. They
countersuit and what all the way to Supreme Court, which
is a case that's now paused. But so the bottom
line now is because the administration themselves decided we're gonna

(08:24):
basically take hostage forty two million SNAP benefit people. We're
gonna let them go hungry until you let us make
Obamacare subsidies expire. So they were basically saying, here's your choice.
You either let us make those Obamacare subsidies expire so
we can destroy Obamacare, or we're gonna starve forty two
million people. The only other leader in the world who
is starving people that they are in charge of is

(08:45):
bbing it in Yahoo in Israel, Trump and BB starving
people for politics. So now what happens is they've now
restarted the program, but now people have to reapply because
they think in their mind that people are lying and
not working. You're required to work a certain of hours.
Out of that forty two million people, at least ten
to fifteen million are children, So no, they're not working.

(09:07):
You know, they're not into minds like I know y'all
want them into mind or in the fields. They're not.
A lot of the people are disabled, meaning they can't
work because they're literally disabled. But the majority of people
who receive SNAP, they have a job. It's just the job.
They pay them enough. They're at Walmart, they're working in
an Amazon warehouse, they're a lift driver. There's somebody who
has a job, but their job does not provide them

(09:29):
enough money to eat. A lot of the people that
are greeting you inside that Walmart they're on Snap. Walmart
is one of the biggest subsidizers of Snap. We are
subsidizing Walmart's employees because we're paying to feed the people
who are getting a check.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
From them so that they can continue to work.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Pay them no money, pay them a little bit of money.
And so these companies that want to pay low wages,
they love getting subsidized by us because we pay to
keep their people fit.

Speaker 3 (09:54):
Now, I really need you to break down as all
of this is happening.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
I know this whole Epstein files we're going to and
see if they'll be released, and I yes, I needed
to break this down because what has been one of
the funniest things is seeing Marjorie Taylor Green.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Devastated over how she's.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Being treated when she was the person that fueled so
many people to get treated the way that she's being treated.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Now, yeah, I mean, I remember, I'm only to remember
her walking behind David Hall, who was a high school
senior and harassing him in Washington, DC because he came
to advocate for gun control. I remember her banging on
AOC's door and harassing her when she before she was
a member of Congress, like a straight up troll. She
has said that elan Omar should be deported. AOC should

(10:37):
be deported. So she said a lot of stuff called
people traders. She said, Nancy Pelosi's a trader. But now
that she's getting the same, and she's getting it for
a reason, that is kind of ironic, right. She actually
has been standing up for the epstein ms, which is
wild that she's like one.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Of the honest I don't know what's going on with her,
like what happened to make her?

Speaker 2 (10:55):
But yes, even on affordability, she's out there saying, my
kids can't afford their lives, they can't afford healthcare.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's a shocking turn, like I'm like, did the ghost
of Christmas past come?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (11:08):
And haunts her at night because it's like a complete
about face. And now Donald Trump is taking away his
endorsement of her.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
What do you think is going to happen with her.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
He's turned on her, and so my suspicion is she's
making this turn for a reason. She's very much become
an anti Israel voice and anti Apec voice, But that's
kind of goes. I mean, she said Jewish people have
space lasers, so I think that might be her feelings
about Jewish people. But you know, I think the anti
Israel track is the way to go right now in

(11:38):
this country because the American people are sick and tired
of Israel doing genocide on our dime. So she's on
that side. She's on the side of the people when
it comes to costs and things costing too much and
including health care, and she's standing Tanto's down for the
Epstein victims. And I personally suspect she wants to run
for state wide office in Georgia, even though she's now

(11:59):
denying that. Trump is claiming she went to him and
asked for his endorsement to run for governor or Senate,
both of those seats are coming up, and there's a
conspiracy theory that she wants to run for those, But
I personally think she might have higher ambitions. Well, we're
not noticing in while we're living our normal lives. There's
a civil war happening inside Maga for who is going

(12:21):
to succeed Donald Trump. Donald Trump may seem like he
is invincible, but he is not immortal. And everyone is
positioning themselves for who's going to inherit Maga and they're
all trying in different ways to position themselves. She might
be thinking higher like President Wow.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
That would be a wild situation. Now, what do you
think is going to happen with these Epstein files? Earlier
we were talking off air about the PSA that just
was put out from some of the survivors of Epstein.
These girls showing their pictures of their youngest selves fourteen
years old, sixteen years old.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
They're just shown to Magan Kelly, sorry because she thinks
she thinks barely big.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, she thinks it is fifteen years old.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
It's different, you know, yeah, which is yeah, So let's
see how long she has her job. Because I know
people are calling for some type of repercussions from making
a disgusting statement like that, But when it comes to
what could be the fallout from this, because I feel
like people are acting like it's not a big deal.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
They're saying, well, how come Biden didn't, you know, release
those and why is this issue not But it's an
issue that the Republicans made.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
And it's interesting that the piece.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
And Donuk ran on, by the way, ran on it
saying that he was going to release these Epstein Van
said it.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I'm old enough to remember when Cash Patel went on
Glenn Beck's radio show his podcast and said, who has
the Epstein files and can release them? The FBI director. Well,
now you're the FBI director, bro, look at where you are,
go ahead and release them. He said it. You know,
Damn Bongino his podcast every week Dan Mongino was on

(13:53):
these Epstein files. JD. Van said, we need to release
the Epstein file. They all said it when they believed
it was just Clinton and some Democrat in there. They
weren't thinking ahead that Trump might be in there. This
was his best friend. Trump and Epstein were besties for
fifteen years, okay, besties, and so they thought, well, this
is just gonna hurt Democrats, so we shouldn't put it out.

(14:14):
I too question why Merrick Garland didn't do something about
this when he was attorney general. But remember Merrick Garland
was utterly absolutely useless in every way. What did he do?
He didn't go after Trump Trump tried to overthrow the government.
He was like, oh, maybe we need a special counsel.
He took home classified documents, put him in the toilet
with a you know, threw him in the shower. He said, well,

(14:35):
you know, it took him three years to even go
and get the files. The man had the files at
his house like a year and a half.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah, it was too late.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
So Merrick Garland was useless. So the question answers itself.
The reason Democrats didn't do anything is that Merrick freaking
Garland was the attorney general and he was useless. I
don't know what he did do while he was there.
I think he might have just like slept through his
entire term. I don't know what he did.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
What do you think about cash ptil now?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Listen, I feel like we don't have FBI anymore. It's
a joke. He's flying his girlfriend around to concerts. He's
using the public plane that we own to go on
like dates with his girl. I don't know what he
does all day, but he's definitely not an FBI director.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
And seeing him under pressures.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
Indict is some sports betting. It's like, hold on sports
betting not our priority right now.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Sorry, bruh, that's not what they get some headlines.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
They're very good at distracting exactly when it comes to like,
now we're paying attention to sports betting and the mafia,
but they're showing the athletes the black men instead of
showing the mafia members that are the leaders and that
are ones that are like the heads of all.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
This exactly exactly. We're like thinking now that the mafia
is black people, and the reality is is the reason
that the Epstein files matter is this was not just
the largest pedophile ring probably in world history. It was
a global pedophile ring. The QAnon people had that right,
there was a global pedophile ring. Jeffrey Epstein ran it.
Donald Trump was his best friend. They were all friends

(15:55):
with all these models. There's a guy named Jean Luke Brunell.
I've been reading these emails like for the last three days.
There's a guy named Jean Luke Brunell who was another
pedophile who ran a modeling agency, as did Donald Trump,
as did John Casablancas, his other friend that was apparently
preying on his own models. Jean Luke Brunell, who was
accused by his models of praying on them, including underage models.

(16:16):
You know how he died. He died in France in
jail by a supposed hanging himself, exactly the way Epstein died.
So I'm like, you know what, this is a bigger
story because it's not just the pedophilia, which is horrible
and these victims deserve justice. There was a financial aspect
to this ring. This reached into some of the highest

(16:36):
echelons of power and money, and we need to know
who was a part of that ring because if some
of those people are now running our country and are
now running this country and running our finances and maybe
surveilling us, I think the American people want to know.

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, a lot of rich, powerful white men.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yes, And you know, I saw people talking about Obama
and I from my understanding, he wasn't mentioned in any
I don't know why his name keeps coming up like
he was in those files.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
He's not from what I've seen. What's interesting though, the
only way he comes up tangentially is that Jeffrey Epstein
at some point turns on Trump. You can actually see
it as you read in the files when you read
Jeffrey Epstein in twenty eleven, he's still looking for a
way to profit from his relationship with Trump. Then Trump

(17:25):
is gonna get elected, and he's starting to have doubts
about Trump. This is after they fell out in two
thousand and eight. He actually explains not why they fell out.
Epstein had a good friend who was going broke, and
he had a home that he thought he could just
get some money by selling the house. Epstein agreed to
buy the house for thirty six million dollars, but Trump
swooped in and bought the house first and bought it

(17:45):
for lower than it was worth, and then sold it
to a Russian who is a sort of creepy Russian
figure who then figures again. By the time we get
to Russia Gate, Epstein is implying there was something dirty
about that deal. So Epstein knows stuff Trump. By the
time Trump is running getting close to running again in
twenty twenty, he hates Donald Trump and seems to be

(18:08):
trying to cooperate to bring him down. And he's got
dirt on him and seems to be telling people I
have dirt on him. So there's this all this weird
entry the only way I can see Obama being a
part of it, because Obama doesn't come up as anyone
who even knew Jeffrey Epstein. But there is a woman.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
If he did, they would for sure have been put
that lissin that would be out like yes to the
headlines for them.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
But he had a person that was in the Obama administration,
this woman who ends up getting recommended for a position
in the Trump administration, and she came from the Obama administration.
That's the only tangential link is that there was an
Obama world person who seemed to be friends with Epstein.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
And people are also very adamant just because someone was
on the plane doesn't mean they did anything wrong. No,
so everybody that did go Maybe we're not engaging in
these you know, disgusting illegal activities, but it's.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's kind of like one of those things like I
have zero friends who've been accused of being a pedophile.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
But you got like Deepak Chopra is his homie. The
guy who's a president of Harvard is his homie. I'm like,
it's weird to be friends with somebody accused of being
a pedophile. It's just odd.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
What do you think can happen from this though, because
we talk about like you know, are I see people
saying why doesn't matter and it's disgusting, it's illegal. These
women also need some type of accountability. Their lives have
been forever affected by this, changed by this. But other
than that, is there anything that can happen when it

(19:32):
comes to these Epstein files and who's in them?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I mean, I think there'll be more revelations, more embarrassments.
They're suing banks, So these women have been really smart
about their attorneys in them have been smart about saying
this isn't just about the pedophiles, it's about the money.
So they've gone after banks. Because right up until the
end we're talking about after Epstein was convicted in Florida,
he was still recommending private clients to JP Morgan. And

(19:56):
he's still somebody that's to go to where people from
four or in countries or seeking his advice on how
to deal with Trump in Russia and in Europe. Like,
he's still a powerful billionaire and so he's involved with
a lot of financial institutions that I think are going
to get exposed by this. And these are some of
the same financial institutions that are threatening to bring down

(20:17):
our economy again, just like they did in two thousand
and eight. You have to remember it was the bank's
Wall Street that brought our economy down. This time it
could be tech bros And banks that bring our economy down.
We are really looking into the jaws of an economic
crash because of Trump and because of some of these
wealthy men who are extracting so much out of our
economy without putting much back. And so I think you're

(20:38):
going to start to see a reckoning for these companies,
these banks, and these individuals who were Epstein adjacent. Steve
Bannon is involved. So I think what we could see
is exposing this global financial sexual power relationship that goes globally,
and hopefully we can chip away at that because we
cannot have a democracy if those people remain in charge.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Comes to light to light.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
So I want to talk about these recent elections and
seeing some of the things that happened, Mom, Donnie.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yes, come on New York. It makes me want to
move back.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
To New York City because allegedly there's saying people are leaving,
but I don't know that that's gonna come true, right,
And so Mam Donnie sitting down with Trump.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Yes, I want to see what.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
So what are your thoughts, because you know, Trump has
said that he is gonna really kind of cut us
off in New York if Mom Donnie became mayor, he's mayor,
well he will be yeah, And so I want to
see what you think about that, because some people will say, well,
you do have to engage, you do have to blase blah.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
He does have to deal with Trump. It's unavoidable, the mayor.
You have to remember that New York is a city state, right.
The New York metro area has a larger GDP than Canada.
So New York has to engage with the president. And
I my prediction is Trump will do absolutely nothing to
New York City, right because the financial capital of the
United States is Wall Street. It's New York. His own
funders are the donors there, properties, his properties are there.

(22:03):
He's not going to do a damn thing to New York.
New York will be fine. And I think what they're
going to probably have to work out is Mam Donnie
attempting to keep him from trying to invade New York
City with the military and trying because New York is
still a sanctuary city, so legally he cannot try to
force the NYPD to be an immigration agent. And they're
already raiding courthouses and they're causing mayhem. And so if

(22:24):
he can even get that to stop, that'll be a
victory in and of itself. And if he can deal
with some of these real estate gouging companies, Trump's he
owns one of them, you know.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
Good luck.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
But when you think about all the things that Mam
Donnie wants to do, right, and that's what's angering a
lot of rich people. Sure, and he's talking about free buses,
you know, there's just so many different things. He's talking
about taxing people that make more money to help fund
some of the programs that it is that he wants
to do. And then we're seen Kathy Hoko push back
on certain things that he has proposed doing, Like she's like,

(22:59):
this not going to be free buses, We're not going
to raise taxes for the rich people. I just want
to get your thoughts on his plans. But what can
actually happen?

Speaker 2 (23:07):
So I think, you know, it's not up to Kathy
Hochl if this, you know, New York City council raises
city taxes, right, so they can at least they can
affect it at the local level. And you know who
would really love free buses the businesses in New York
because if you have more productivity because people can get
to work on time, and that seventy five or dollars
seventy five bus fare doesn't keep people from getting to work.

(23:27):
That actually isn't a way subsidizing businesses. It's actually helpful
to businesses. If people can afford their rent, they can
live closer to work, if they could walk to work,
if people could actually live closer to where they have
to go to work every day, that's actually great for business.
And so I think a lot of the things he's doing,
by the way, they're not brand new. Massachusetts has done
some of the same things that he's proposing to do,
including on groceries. If grocery prices come down, more people

(23:49):
will be in the stores. That's great for the stores.
So the things he's doing, people are calling it just
horrible communism and socialism. It's not communism. It's worked in
other countries, it's worked in other cities. I hope that
he can get it through and he's going to have
to use that bully pulpit and the huge support. More
people voted for him than had voted for anyone since Lindsay,
who was you know, mayor before either of us were

(24:11):
even thought of, let alone born. So the reality is
this guy has a generational mandate, and he has a
mandate bigger than Eric Adams ever did. He has more
voters than anyone in a generation. He needs to push
and push and get his people. Don't do what y'all
do with Obama. Like not y'all, but those of us
who voted for Obama, we watched people then stand down
and figure all, Obama's got this, he can do it.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
And he did not, and he couldn't wanted to.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
People have to keep the pressure up for the things
that they want.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
And lastly, you bought up Eric Adams. So you see
he's in Israel, what the hell?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
And said that he was mayor for them. What did
you think when you saw Eric Adams in Israel?

Speaker 2 (24:51):
I was perplexed because I thought he was the mayor
of New York. You're not the mayor of New York.
You're saying you were mayor for a foreign country Like
I am still trying to work out how this little
foreign country that's supposed to be our client state has
so much control over American politicians that they feel they
need to get on a plane, fly to Tel Aviv

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and tell a foreign country's leadership and citizens that he
works for them. It does say a lot about Eric Adams,
and not in a good way. Maybe he's looking for
contracts and opportunities.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Essential because I see he's been getting real spicy with
these interviews since he knows he's not about to be mayor.
And I see the way that he's snapping back at
people and clapping back, and like, look, now I could
go to Saint Barsa and not have anybody question what
it is that I'm doing and what I have going on.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
I think he's trying to get so I have heard
just through the grapevine that he won't be getting a
position in the Trump administration because he right, because he
can't get confirmed. He's unconfirmable because of his you know, criminal,
criminal adjacent behavior, and so he's.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
A foreign by the way, okay.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
By the way, you can be president with thirty five felonies.
You can you can be what, you can do whatever
you want when you're why they let you do it,
according to Trump. But and apparently you know, you can
sexually assault or sexually abuse someone in a burg door
of Goodman and people.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Will go and then still harass her after.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
And harasser later. And apparently people are like, you know,
things happen. But with Eric Adams, he's a black man,
he's not Donald Trump, so he has to figure out
an income. So maybe he feels that he can be
a contractor. I mean, Rudy Giuliani, you know, took being
mayor of New York City and monetize the hell out
of it. After nine to eleven he suddenly became a
security contractor and got international contracts. So I suspect Eric

(26:31):
Adams is performing for contract. It's sad and pathetic.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Though, that's what it is feeling like it is.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, it's sad, but I mean he's got to make
a living. It's just isn't there like a you can
university president somewhere? Is there something more dignified you could do?
But this whole a pack is real thing. It perplexes me.
I do not understand it at all. I'm sorry. I
think Americans need to be America first is the one
place where I will agree with the people who say
America first, we need to stop putting foreign countries before

(26:55):
our own.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, Joyanne Reid, before we end this, how are you doing?

Speaker 1 (26:59):
I just got to ask you that the holidays are
coming up, and I always love when you come up here,
and I'm always digging for information from you, but I
do always want to make sure that I'm always like,
and how you doing?

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (27:08):
How's the family? How's everybody's good?

Speaker 2 (27:11):
My daughter is just back from her great adventure in Japan,
and she came back and actually kind of made me
sad talking about how great their infrastructure is. They're fancy,
it's clean. I know we need to take some notes
from other countries, but yeah, no, everybody's good. Family's healthy,
Thank God, very blessed. You're happy and I'm happy. And
look I'm doing my little entrepreneurial things.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
Jor Recho is going great. We hit three hundred fifty
thousand subscribers on YouTube. We've had one hundred and eighty
thousand on substacks, so we're like moving and grooving and.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Growing listen, and that's what I always want to let
people know. And I will not say this message enough
but we need to make sure that we're listening to
those voices that are telling the truth, that are established,
as far as journalists that are honest, that are giving
us like real information. That's my love when you come
up here, and it's always a blessing whenever something's going
on for you to be able to explain it to me,

(27:58):
to be able to explain it to our listen nerves
in a way that I know is factual.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Thank you, And how are you doing?

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Oh? I'm good.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
I'm looking forward to being off from work next. Look, listen,
I needed a couple of days.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, So I have this question for you. Do you
prefer to go or host on Thanksgiving?

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Well, I'm hosting this year, me too.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah yeah, and I did it last year too.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
But it is a lot, but sometimes it's nice to
be home.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
I like to go. I like to host. I mean
a lot of people think it's too much work. I
much prefer because then I can get a little tipsy,
I can drink. I have to worry by.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Getting home, okay, and then look, I'll be trying to
get rid of close. I put everything together. The family
gets to you know, to go through it. My aunt
was like, I think you need to put a sign
up that says two items only for.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
It, and I was like, I'm not doing that. I'm like, no,
you take what you want my house.

Speaker 2 (28:46):
What we have updated this year is we're trying to
be good to the environment, so we didn't we have
no styrophone takeaway because you know, the family come and
take all your little you know, your look containers away.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
So they bring it. They all bring their own containers.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Oh do they bring their own?

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
How do they suggest that? Because I brought home to
tumperware and so everybody can take away. So I don't
have any food. I don't want to load my.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Fridge into either. I don't want to be eating that
food for days after.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Nope, take it all with you take.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
But have a great holiday, and thank you so much
for making time for me.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
I always appreciate you, always appreciate you thinking y'all

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Sign up for that substack Joyanne Reid, I told you
this is this is my girl right here.