July 13, 2025 • 18 mins
Is it too late to unify? Will we be able to cobble together some semblance of unity against what is happening to our country? Will it even matter? How do we bridge the deep divides that exist in the U.S. right now, and how will that affect our prepping plans? Listen for my take on that.
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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Is it too late to unify?
Will we be able to cobble together some
semblance of unity against what is happening in
our country?
Will it even matter?
How do we bridge the deep divides that
exist in the U.S. right now and
how will that affect our prepping plans?
Listen for my take on that.
Hi, I'm the Urban Lady Prepper.
(00:21):
I help single moms and solo women with
practical emergency preparedness.
But of course, all are welcome to be
better prepared for whatever happens next.
I've only dipped a toe into the raging
shitstorm of American politics because enough people are
handling that with more experience and a much
broader reach.
My focus has been on promoting preparedness because
(00:42):
too many people are still not doing the
bare minimum.
But the pain this is causing, and the
pain to come, as someone, in particular, as
a Black woman who saw this coming since,
well, as that one meme from 2020 said,
here is a heartfelt fuck you to everyone
who thought I was overreacting in 2016.
(01:03):
On June 27th, the president's corrupt and stacked
Supreme Court ruled that federal judges can't issue
nationwide injunctions, which had us hanging onto democracy
by our fingertips.
We fell off into the chasm of fascism
this July 4th.
America's birthday became its death day when the
president signed into law the most egregious and
unpopular piece of legislation that wasn't needed, nobody
(01:25):
asked for, and has changed the course of
my country forever.
I always push positivity, but I would be
lying if I didn't admit to feeling defeated,
frustrated, dumbfounded, and angry.
So many people fought and died for their
version of the American dream.
My ancestors who won equity and true freedom.
The naturalized citizens who joined the military to
(01:47):
show their dedication to their new country.
Those who fled another country and started a
new life of promise and dignity, opening businesses
or doing jobs Americans weren't taking.
Everyone who worked hard to obtain their place
in the land of opportunity.
And those veterans who fought World War II
to defeat Hitler, the man whose blueprint the
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current administration has been following to a T.
My heart breaks for them.
They bled for nothing.
So, needless to say, this past 4th of
July was very different from the ones before
it, and it's pretty obvious why.
Things will continue to deteriorate for many of
us.
Racism, sexism, and lawlessness as one.
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It's sad to watch everything you knew was
going to happen unfold in double time, but
here we are.
The takedown of the U.S. only took
six months.
Six months.
This country, which took 249 years to establish
as the dominant force in the world, has
been reduced to just another authoritarian police state.
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The Great American Experiment has failed.
The America we knew is no more.
If you've been in denial about it, it's
time to accept it, because you're going to
have some real hard decisions to make.
This one man has managed to divide and
destroy our nation in so many ways, and
the polarization between all of us has been
profound.
But is it permanent?
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You may ask yourself, what about unity?
If we unify, put our other differences aside,
welcome the leaving MAGA crowd, and protest together.
Well, unity has been shown in various protests,
most notably the No Kings Nationwide protest, which
drew anywhere from 5 to possibly 10 million
people.
But with brown people being targeted by masked
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may or may not be agents, black people
staying home and not protesting because we're over
being everyone's favorite human shields, and others being
mad about that and asking for bouncy houses
for the kids during protests.
Oof.
Can we bridge the divide?
Well, first off, let's not give too much
credit where it isn't due.
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The plan to turn America into an all
-white fascist empire wasn't new and brilliant.
It was when executed by cooks who knew
how to follow a proven recipe, then just
beat it to a group of people generationally
weaned on cruelty and addicted to hero worship
while feasting on the ability to punch down.
As I mentioned in a previous podcast, it
comes down to loss of trust.
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Even those who regret the choice because things
are happening that they didn't vote for, even
though they did, some people will never trust
them.
Trust is the most important thing you can
have, especially when it comes to issues of
safety, preparedness, and loyalty.
I have friends who understood what was at
stake, what the endgame was, and they promised
to stand by me and be a safe
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space if I needed one, while others who
were closer to me did not.
And that was disappointing.
We all have to decide whether people who
voted for this person were willfully ignorant, voted
under pressure, or simply didn't care what would
happen to people they supposedly loved.
It has tainted some of my relationships because
when it goes down, I'm unsure if I
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can trust them as much as I once
did.
This loss of trust has broken families and
only got worse with every chink in democracy's
armor.
Every time we screamed, damn it, we told
you so.
As more and more rights get stripped away,
of course, the folks who are real happy
about that, and I'm assuming that most of
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them are men and the vast majority white,
we told you all these things were going
to happen.
Never has being right been so fucking painful.
And never has white American racism been more
costly.
People acknowledging this now doesn't make it better,
and it certainly doesn't mean we're ready to
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fight on the same team.
So many horrific things have been happening with
the mass deportations.
The fact that we were able to throw
up a concentration camp in the middle of
a swamp in eight days, name it Alligator
Alcatraz, and sell merchandise sport like it's a
freaking sports team, but can't build housing for
veterans, find money to keep Medicaid and SNAP
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intact, is disgusting on so many levels.
And when a presidential advisor, a presidential advisor,
posts with her full chest that all Latinos
in the country, all 65 million of them
should be fed to those alligators, I mean,
these are the people running things.
As I mentioned in a previous podcast, and
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as many of us have tried to tell
folks, it was never about legality, it was
about color.
And we were blown off and said that
we were fear mongering, they would never deport
US citizens, and that they were only going
after the bad people.
I would love to see how these naysayers
are tying themselves into knots, explaining the quote
unquote criminals who work at Home Depot, in
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restaurants, and yes, in our fields, picking our
food, the loss of which has resulted in
farms and factories being shut down.
It's very painful to see children handcuffed, and
people who've been doing such hard work and
jobs we didn't want, be dragged away from
their families with zero dignity.
Oddly enough, none of the mega nuts seem
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to be interested in taking those jobs.
But again, it was never about legality, and
it wasn't because they really wanted that work,
they wanted to see the brown people get
beat on.
They crave the pain of others more than
they want a thriving nation.
No, it doesn't make sense.
And it's weird, because a favorite expression of
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the right is that liberalism is a disease.
It seems to me that if your hatred
is so irrational that you would decimate your
own existence to watch others suffer, destroy the
lives of strangers just because you think you
have some weird right to, even if it
steals your children's future, that sounds like a
mental disease.
That is a character flaw so deeply cut
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into the soul, it makes me wonder if
that's why they're so overzealous with the Christianity,
as if that'll make up for the self
-work they refuse to do and cover the
ugliness that oozes from their pores.
That is a weakness so entrenched in their
being that there's no mental capacity to handle
anything that deviates from their facade of familial
perfection, which is, in truth, rife with abuse,
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poverty, and hopelessness.
Couple that with generations of white supremacy where
being cruel without repercussion was the norm and
even celebrated, and you have a whole bunch
of people with a lot to unpack, but
refuse to because they can't risk someone they'll
never meet having the same things they do,
or worse, having something they don't.
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And that, my friends, is exactly why we
are where we are right now.
Period.
Maybe those who were hoodwinked into believing that
we would be freer and more prosperous with
this administration finally understand what we've been screaming
about and are ready to be deprogrammed.
However, many of us no longer care because
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it's too late now.
Keep your apologies, your whining, and crying because
you thought that man was going to hurt
everyone else, and you were okay with that.
Many of us are not interested in solidarity
with people who are finally feeling some of
the pain they were more than happy to
inflict on someone else.
No, we don't trust you.
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Another thing that makes trust such a problem
now is that there's too much misdirected anger.
Are the Latinos being targeted currently, the pro
-Palestinian crowd watching Gaza being bombed into oblivion,
and the white women losing their rights, calling
out the people inflicting this pain and fighting
back?
Pressing their family and community members who voted
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to have all of this happen?
Maybe.
But I know too many are mad at...
Black people!
I know.
It's dumb.
They're mad we're not marching, not doing the
thing we always do, fight for our rights,
which always benefits others.
We've explained that the goal is to get
Black people in the street so it could
be over-policed, called a riot, and martial
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law can be declared.
Plus, we're not interested in being bullet bumpers
for groups of people who regularly display anti
-Blackness and voted against us after we elevated
their causes and voted in their best interest
as well as our own.
But even with that explanation, which is entirely
logical, they still want to come after us
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instead of the people responsible for what's happening.
The whole, after they're done with the brown
people, they're coming for you, nonsense.
Child, please.
We've always been first.
We know what's going to happen.
We know what's coming.
You're not telling us anything we haven't experienced
and don't know.
We know Latinos are the warm-up.
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They're not building those camps just for you,
and they ultimately are not for you.
The one thing in the Constitution this administration
will abide by and thoroughly abuse is that
once you're a prisoner, you're no longer free
and can, by law, do, wait for it,
slave labor.
It's already happening.
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As I've said before, if the goal is
to get rid of the brown people and
then have the Black people take over those
positions, that's going to be a fail, and
they're going to have a fight.
That's what we're getting organized and saving our
energy for.
We're not celebrating the deportations, but it's ridiculous
to be blamed for not protesting when we
did our protesting in the voting booth.
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Too many people decided to vote against their
own safety and interests, and most Black folks,
myself included, are not going to be gaslit
into trying to rectify the poor decision made
by nearly half or more of those demographics.
Everyone had one job on November 5th, and
y'all decided that you wanted the white
guy despite all the things.
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So you got it, and you're getting what
you voted for.
It's hard to fathom why you think the
group of people you display such nastiness to
don't want to endanger themselves by marching with
you.
When those exit polls showed who was winning,
that let Black folks know exactly where everyone
else stood.
A creator, and I'm sorry that I don't
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know her handle, said that one of the
worst things a Black person can say to
you after you've done them dirty is, I
bet.
Which is code for, duly noted.
We said that as a collective.
We don't owe anyone our free labor anymore,
especially when, I'll say it again, we don't
trust you.
We can't trust you.
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The marching you guys have been doing is
great and inspiring, but what has it done?
It's changed nothing.
It's not stopping the Project 2025 train.
But that was the plan all along, wasn't
it?
Divide and conquer and putting us in a
position where it's all about self-preservation.
It's sad that's where we're at, but that's
what it comes down to.
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Unity can only work if there's going to
be a complete and total uprising.
And honestly, I don't think most Americans have
the balls.
The energy that was expended on a certain
January day a few years ago is the
only type of energy that's going to work
at this point.
And if folks aren't willing to do that,
then they may as well be ready to
capitulate to the king and be, as I
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said a couple of weeks ago, no better
than some of the shithole countries a certain
person said he didn't want people from.
There'll be nothing to separate us from them
as areas of our country are decimated by
disease, by hunger, and by natural disaster, just
like we saw with Texas.
And if you thought that your life is
going to be better because you didn't look
like me, you're going to be so very
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sad.
But we've been here before.
One group of people was given an extra
buck and told they were better because of
their skin.
And that mindset has never left.
President Lyndon B.
Johnson once said, if you can convince the
lowest white man that he's better than the
best black man, then you could pick his
pocket every time.
I'm paraphrasing a little there.
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But he was right then.
And all these years later, it hasn't changed.
At some point, folks are going to have
to realize that in order for the country
to succeed, everyone must be fairly given the
chance.
But since so many find that unacceptable, we
find ourselves where we are today.
Usually, I try to be positive and deliver
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something optimistic.
But at this point, there's really nothing to
be excited about.
I've been prepping in earnest because I know
where the fight is coming next.
And the one thing about this past November
is that I can be relatively sure who
has my back and who doesn't, which is
good to know, because when the shit really
hits the fan, I need to know who
I can count on, as we all do.
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And if this past election made that crystal
clear for people, then good.
Because as you create new tribes to get
through whatever comes next together, you need to
be able to unequivocally trust them.
Because right now, trust between so many people
that used to be very close has been
broken.
And once that happens, it's tough to get
back, especially since there's been so much suffering
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as a result.
And there will be more suffering to come.
A lot of people who failed to help
now and who are expecting pity later are
going to have a hard time finding it
from the people who were ringing alarm bells
months ago.
And I'm one of them.
Maybe that makes me unevolved or less of
a person or all those kinds of things.
But remember that expression, ask whole?
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That person who always asks for your advice
and always does the opposite thing?
You only allow that person to do that
to you so many times before you say,
you know what?
You're on your own.
And that's where a lot of folks are.
So hopefully this July 4th was fun for
you.
It used to be a great time to
spend with family and friends, watch fireworks, and
just have good times.
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But are the diamond days gone for America?
I think yes.
As the increasingly hot summer goes on and
we have less and less we can depend
on, all I can say is prepare accordingly.
Get armed, get in shape, get your money
right, and begin ready to make all kinds
of hard choices and make commitments that if
certain things happen, the stand and actions you're
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going to take.
There's the expression, I'd rather die on my
feet than live on my knees.
And realistically, that's a choice a lot of
us are going to have to make.
Before you start thinking that, oh, that's just
an exaggeration.
That's never going to happen.
There are a whole lot of people who
said that on November 4th and a whole
lot of things that weren't supposed to happen.
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Have happened or are happening.
At this point, they're just about halfway through
the goals of Project 2025.
So how is that working out for all
of us so far?
Are we still exaggerating now?
Those of us who knew what was coming
are not surprised, but we are furious at
you.
So do we need unity to push forward
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and resist?
Yes, but it's not that simple.
Expecting unity is a tough ask.
Stay mad at us if you want, but
again, you'll be mad at the wrong people.
So no, I wasn't feeling festive at all
this July 4th, especially since America decided to
give itself fascism for its 249th birthday present.
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Regardless of whether you're celebrating or mourning, things
are going to get uglier and more desperate.
Make a decision, choose your alliances, and prepare
accordingly.
It'll be more critical than ever.
Thanks for listening.
Until next time, this is the Urban Lady
Prepper signing off.
(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Is it too late to unify?
Will we be able to cobble together some
semblance of unity against what is happening in
our country?
Will it even matter?
How do we bridge the deep divides that
exist in the U.S. right now and
how will that affect our prepping plans?
Listen for my take on that.
Hi, I'm the Urban Lady Prepper.
(00:21):
I help single moms and solo women with
practical emergency preparedness.
But of course, all are welcome to be
better prepared for whatever happens next.
I've only dipped a toe into the raging
shitstorm of American politics because enough people are
handling that with more experience and a much
broader reach.
My focus has been on promoting preparedness because
(00:42):
too many people are still not doing the
bare minimum.
But the pain this is causing, and the
pain to come, as someone, in particular, as
a Black woman who saw this coming since,
well, as that one meme from 2020 said,
here is a heartfelt fuck you to everyone
who thought I was overreacting in 2016.
(01:03):
On June 27th, the president's corrupt and stacked
Supreme Court ruled that federal judges can't issue
nationwide injunctions, which had us hanging onto democracy
by our fingertips.
We fell off into the chasm of fascism
this July 4th.
America's birthday became its death day when the
president signed into law the most egregious and
unpopular piece of legislation that wasn't needed, nobody
(01:25):
asked for, and has changed the course of
my country forever.
I always push positivity, but I would be
lying if I didn't admit to feeling defeated,
frustrated, dumbfounded, and angry.
So many people fought and died for their
version of the American dream.
My ancestors who won equity and true freedom.
The naturalized citizens who joined the military to
(01:47):
show their dedication to their new country.
Those who fled another country and started a
new life of promise and dignity, opening businesses
or doing jobs Americans weren't taking.
Everyone who worked hard to obtain their place
in the land of opportunity.
And those veterans who fought World War II
to defeat Hitler, the man whose blueprint the
(02:08):
current administration has been following to a T.
My heart breaks for them.
They bled for nothing.
So, needless to say, this past 4th of
July was very different from the ones before
it, and it's pretty obvious why.
Things will continue to deteriorate for many of
us.
Racism, sexism, and lawlessness as one.
(02:29):
It's sad to watch everything you knew was
going to happen unfold in double time, but
here we are.
The takedown of the U.S. only took
six months.
Six months.
This country, which took 249 years to establish
as the dominant force in the world, has
been reduced to just another authoritarian police state.
(02:51):
The Great American Experiment has failed.
The America we knew is no more.
If you've been in denial about it, it's
time to accept it, because you're going to
have some real hard decisions to make.
This one man has managed to divide and
destroy our nation in so many ways, and
the polarization between all of us has been
profound.
But is it permanent?
(03:12):
You may ask yourself, what about unity?
If we unify, put our other differences aside,
welcome the leaving MAGA crowd, and protest together.
Well, unity has been shown in various protests,
most notably the No Kings Nationwide protest, which
drew anywhere from 5 to possibly 10 million
people.
But with brown people being targeted by masked
(03:35):
may or may not be agents, black people
staying home and not protesting because we're over
being everyone's favorite human shields, and others being
mad about that and asking for bouncy houses
for the kids during protests.
Oof.
Can we bridge the divide?
Well, first off, let's not give too much
credit where it isn't due.
(03:56):
The plan to turn America into an all
-white fascist empire wasn't new and brilliant.
It was when executed by cooks who knew
how to follow a proven recipe, then just
beat it to a group of people generationally
weaned on cruelty and addicted to hero worship
while feasting on the ability to punch down.
As I mentioned in a previous podcast, it
comes down to loss of trust.
(04:17):
Even those who regret the choice because things
are happening that they didn't vote for, even
though they did, some people will never trust
them.
Trust is the most important thing you can
have, especially when it comes to issues of
safety, preparedness, and loyalty.
I have friends who understood what was at
stake, what the endgame was, and they promised
to stand by me and be a safe
(04:37):
space if I needed one, while others who
were closer to me did not.
And that was disappointing.
We all have to decide whether people who
voted for this person were willfully ignorant, voted
under pressure, or simply didn't care what would
happen to people they supposedly loved.
It has tainted some of my relationships because
when it goes down, I'm unsure if I
(04:58):
can trust them as much as I once
did.
This loss of trust has broken families and
only got worse with every chink in democracy's
armor.
Every time we screamed, damn it, we told
you so.
As more and more rights get stripped away,
of course, the folks who are real happy
about that, and I'm assuming that most of
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them are men and the vast majority white,
we told you all these things were going
to happen.
Never has being right been so fucking painful.
And never has white American racism been more
costly.
People acknowledging this now doesn't make it better,
and it certainly doesn't mean we're ready to
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fight on the same team.
So many horrific things have been happening with
the mass deportations.
The fact that we were able to throw
up a concentration camp in the middle of
a swamp in eight days, name it Alligator
Alcatraz, and sell merchandise sport like it's a
freaking sports team, but can't build housing for
veterans, find money to keep Medicaid and SNAP
(06:01):
intact, is disgusting on so many levels.
And when a presidential advisor, a presidential advisor,
posts with her full chest that all Latinos
in the country, all 65 million of them
should be fed to those alligators, I mean,
these are the people running things.
As I mentioned in a previous podcast, and
(06:23):
as many of us have tried to tell
folks, it was never about legality, it was
about color.
And we were blown off and said that
we were fear mongering, they would never deport
US citizens, and that they were only going
after the bad people.
I would love to see how these naysayers
are tying themselves into knots, explaining the quote
unquote criminals who work at Home Depot, in
(06:45):
restaurants, and yes, in our fields, picking our
food, the loss of which has resulted in
farms and factories being shut down.
It's very painful to see children handcuffed, and
people who've been doing such hard work and
jobs we didn't want, be dragged away from
their families with zero dignity.
Oddly enough, none of the mega nuts seem
(07:06):
to be interested in taking those jobs.
But again, it was never about legality, and
it wasn't because they really wanted that work,
they wanted to see the brown people get
beat on.
They crave the pain of others more than
they want a thriving nation.
No, it doesn't make sense.
And it's weird, because a favorite expression of
(07:26):
the right is that liberalism is a disease.
It seems to me that if your hatred
is so irrational that you would decimate your
own existence to watch others suffer, destroy the
lives of strangers just because you think you
have some weird right to, even if it
steals your children's future, that sounds like a
mental disease.
That is a character flaw so deeply cut
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into the soul, it makes me wonder if
that's why they're so overzealous with the Christianity,
as if that'll make up for the self
-work they refuse to do and cover the
ugliness that oozes from their pores.
That is a weakness so entrenched in their
being that there's no mental capacity to handle
anything that deviates from their facade of familial
perfection, which is, in truth, rife with abuse,
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poverty, and hopelessness.
Couple that with generations of white supremacy where
being cruel without repercussion was the norm and
even celebrated, and you have a whole bunch
of people with a lot to unpack, but
refuse to because they can't risk someone they'll
never meet having the same things they do,
or worse, having something they don't.
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And that, my friends, is exactly why we
are where we are right now.
Period.
Maybe those who were hoodwinked into believing that
we would be freer and more prosperous with
this administration finally understand what we've been screaming
about and are ready to be deprogrammed.
However, many of us no longer care because
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it's too late now.
Keep your apologies, your whining, and crying because
you thought that man was going to hurt
everyone else, and you were okay with that.
Many of us are not interested in solidarity
with people who are finally feeling some of
the pain they were more than happy to
inflict on someone else.
No, we don't trust you.
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Another thing that makes trust such a problem
now is that there's too much misdirected anger.
Are the Latinos being targeted currently, the pro
-Palestinian crowd watching Gaza being bombed into oblivion,
and the white women losing their rights, calling
out the people inflicting this pain and fighting
back?
Pressing their family and community members who voted
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to have all of this happen?
Maybe.
But I know too many are mad at...
Black people!
I know.
It's dumb.
They're mad we're not marching, not doing the
thing we always do, fight for our rights,
which always benefits others.
We've explained that the goal is to get
Black people in the street so it could
be over-policed, called a riot, and martial
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law can be declared.
Plus, we're not interested in being bullet bumpers
for groups of people who regularly display anti
-Blackness and voted against us after we elevated
their causes and voted in their best interest
as well as our own.
But even with that explanation, which is entirely
logical, they still want to come after us
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instead of the people responsible for what's happening.
The whole, after they're done with the brown
people, they're coming for you, nonsense.
Child, please.
We've always been first.
We know what's going to happen.
We know what's coming.
You're not telling us anything we haven't experienced
and don't know.
We know Latinos are the warm-up.
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They're not building those camps just for you,
and they ultimately are not for you.
The one thing in the Constitution this administration
will abide by and thoroughly abuse is that
once you're a prisoner, you're no longer free
and can, by law, do, wait for it,
slave labor.
It's already happening.
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As I've said before, if the goal is
to get rid of the brown people and
then have the Black people take over those
positions, that's going to be a fail, and
they're going to have a fight.
That's what we're getting organized and saving our
energy for.
We're not celebrating the deportations, but it's ridiculous
to be blamed for not protesting when we
did our protesting in the voting booth.
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Too many people decided to vote against their
own safety and interests, and most Black folks,
myself included, are not going to be gaslit
into trying to rectify the poor decision made
by nearly half or more of those demographics.
Everyone had one job on November 5th, and
y'all decided that you wanted the white
guy despite all the things.
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So you got it, and you're getting what
you voted for.
It's hard to fathom why you think the
group of people you display such nastiness to
don't want to endanger themselves by marching with
you.
When those exit polls showed who was winning,
that let Black folks know exactly where everyone
else stood.
A creator, and I'm sorry that I don't
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know her handle, said that one of the
worst things a Black person can say to
you after you've done them dirty is, I
bet.
Which is code for, duly noted.
We said that as a collective.
We don't owe anyone our free labor anymore,
especially when, I'll say it again, we don't
trust you.
We can't trust you.
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The marching you guys have been doing is
great and inspiring, but what has it done?
It's changed nothing.
It's not stopping the Project 2025 train.
But that was the plan all along, wasn't
it?
Divide and conquer and putting us in a
position where it's all about self-preservation.
It's sad that's where we're at, but that's
what it comes down to.
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Unity can only work if there's going to
be a complete and total uprising.
And honestly, I don't think most Americans have
the balls.
The energy that was expended on a certain
January day a few years ago is the
only type of energy that's going to work
at this point.
And if folks aren't willing to do that,
then they may as well be ready to
capitulate to the king and be, as I
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said a couple of weeks ago, no better
than some of the shithole countries a certain
person said he didn't want people from.
There'll be nothing to separate us from them
as areas of our country are decimated by
disease, by hunger, and by natural disaster, just
like we saw with Texas.
And if you thought that your life is
going to be better because you didn't look
like me, you're going to be so very
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sad.
But we've been here before.
One group of people was given an extra
buck and told they were better because of
their skin.
And that mindset has never left.
President Lyndon B.
Johnson once said, if you can convince the
lowest white man that he's better than the
best black man, then you could pick his
pocket every time.
I'm paraphrasing a little there.
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But he was right then.
And all these years later, it hasn't changed.
At some point, folks are going to have
to realize that in order for the country
to succeed, everyone must be fairly given the
chance.
But since so many find that unacceptable, we
find ourselves where we are today.
Usually, I try to be positive and deliver
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something optimistic.
But at this point, there's really nothing to
be excited about.
I've been prepping in earnest because I know
where the fight is coming next.
And the one thing about this past November
is that I can be relatively sure who
has my back and who doesn't, which is
good to know, because when the shit really
hits the fan, I need to know who
I can count on, as we all do.
(14:30):
And if this past election made that crystal
clear for people, then good.
Because as you create new tribes to get
through whatever comes next together, you need to
be able to unequivocally trust them.
Because right now, trust between so many people
that used to be very close has been
broken.
And once that happens, it's tough to get
back, especially since there's been so much suffering
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as a result.
And there will be more suffering to come.
A lot of people who failed to help
now and who are expecting pity later are
going to have a hard time finding it
from the people who were ringing alarm bells
months ago.
And I'm one of them.
Maybe that makes me unevolved or less of
a person or all those kinds of things.
But remember that expression, ask whole?
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That person who always asks for your advice
and always does the opposite thing?
You only allow that person to do that
to you so many times before you say,
you know what?
You're on your own.
And that's where a lot of folks are.
So hopefully this July 4th was fun for
you.
It used to be a great time to
spend with family and friends, watch fireworks, and
just have good times.
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But are the diamond days gone for America?
I think yes.
As the increasingly hot summer goes on and
we have less and less we can depend
on, all I can say is prepare accordingly.
Get armed, get in shape, get your money
right, and begin ready to make all kinds
of hard choices and make commitments that if
certain things happen, the stand and actions you're
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going to take.
There's the expression, I'd rather die on my
feet than live on my knees.
And realistically, that's a choice a lot of
us are going to have to make.
Before you start thinking that, oh, that's just
an exaggeration.
That's never going to happen.
There are a whole lot of people who
said that on November 4th and a whole
lot of things that weren't supposed to happen.
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Have happened or are happening.
At this point, they're just about halfway through
the goals of Project 2025.
So how is that working out for all
of us so far?
Are we still exaggerating now?
Those of us who knew what was coming
are not surprised, but we are furious at
you.
So do we need unity to push forward
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and resist?
Yes, but it's not that simple.
Expecting unity is a tough ask.
Stay mad at us if you want, but
again, you'll be mad at the wrong people.
So no, I wasn't feeling festive at all
this July 4th, especially since America decided to
give itself fascism for its 249th birthday present.
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Regardless of whether you're celebrating or mourning, things
are going to get uglier and more desperate.
Make a decision, choose your alliances, and prepare
accordingly.
It'll be more critical than ever.
Thanks for listening.
Until next time, this is the Urban Lady
Prepper signing off.
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