June 20, 2024 • 41 mins
Join Patti from Patti Talks Too Much on this second episode of her new The Sassy Contrarian Podcast to hear her jaw-dropping story of political transformation . Starting with a humorous online jab where she was dubbed a "trumpette" for posting a satirical meme of Joe Biden, Patti recounts her eye-opening journey through the polarized landscape of American politics, urging listeners to embrace change and follow their own paths despite societal pressures. In other words, choose the hills we are willing to die on.
Dive deep into one of the most harrowing issues of our time: child trafficking. Patti exposes the unsettling reality of the United States as the leading consumer of child pornography and sex trafficking, spotlighting the complicity of high-profile figures and institutions. Despite his many controversies, she commends Donald Trump for his unyielding stance against these atrocities, arguing that his commitment to protecting children transcends political affiliations.
From her activist days in New York City to collecting signatures in conservative and liberal strongholds of New England, Patti's experiences offer a rich tapestry of political life and the importance of standing firm in one's values. She challenges listeners to question societal norms, drawing parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic and the steadfast faith of Christians. Stay tuned for an upcoming episode where she will address the trans movement, promising yet another provocative discussion.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
All right, hello and welcome to episode two of the
Sassy Contrarian.
That's me.
I'm Patti with Patti Talks TooMuch, and you can listen to this
podcast on the Talks Too Muchchannel, on any of your podcast
locations and also on Rumble.
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I also upload this to Rumble,one of my favorite sites.
So today is June 20th and Iwanted to jump on and do my
second episode because I've beentaking notes and there are a
lot of things to talk about.
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But recently the idea for mysecond episode came from kind of
a humorous interaction I hadjust a couple of days ago with,
for the very first time, I wascalled a trumpet on a line.
And you know and I have to saythat perhaps I brought it on
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myself because I I like to besassy and irreverent as much as
I can be on Facebook.
Now why I even still botherwith Facebook, I don't know.
Chalk it up, it's some mentalissue I must have.
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But most of the people that Iknow are on Facebook.
So we're all.
I don't know what's wrong withus, but at any rate, I don't
really like to post much ofanything on Facebook, except for
things that are quickly andsassy and really push the
envelope or, in my mind, pushthe envelope.
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Maybe they don't, but anyway,there was something I had seen
on one of the you know, one ofthe channels that I follow on
Telegram.
It was a kind of a funny imageof a postage stamp with Joe
Biden's face kind of lookinglike off into space, totally
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spaced out.
And of course, this, the stamp,was for zero cents and I just I
thought it was funny.
If it was slightly meanspirited, it was still kind of
funny and and the reason, andgenerally I do try to stay away
from mean spirited things, but Ihave to tell you, like you know
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, I have no mercy.
I know, joe, you know we can say, oh, you know, feel bad for Joe
, poor Joe, no, I don't, I don'treally, I don't really care
about Joe's feelings.
And same for Fauci.
Oh, fauci, no, I don't, I don'tcare, I don't care.
You know, at this point, theydeserve what they get.
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They have functioned fordecades and decades for their
own purpose.
That has been to the detrimentof the collective.
And so, yeah, so fuck you, joe,but at any rate, so there was
this and I posted it.
And so, yeah, so fuck you, joe,but at any rate, so there was,
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and I posted it.
And you know there are still alot of people who believe that
you know because you know I havea particular history believe
that I'm going to be leaning wayto the left and I don't.
Those days are over, so that'swhy I often say I don't.
I, when I started my Patty talkstoo much podcast, I didn't
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reach out to any of the people Iknew five years ago, because
that that woman is has changedand they they're not going to be
meeting the same woman anymore.
So, but at any rate.
So I posted this postage stampthing on my Facebook page and
said stamp collectors, you'reone and only opportunity to get
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this collector's item, you know,a stamp that is not worth the
paper that it is printed on andhas no discernible function, at
any rate one of the folks who Iguess follow my page, but from
way back, all right, so this isone of the way back.
People said I didn't know youwere a trumpet, and I just
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simply replied I don't know whatthat is.
Oh, he said and best wishes toyou.
And I just said I don't knowwhat that is.
Thanks for the best wishes andI moved on.
I'm not going to engage in anyof that, but I thought it is
really interesting that you knowyou can be critical.
You know people will make awhole lot of assumptions, and
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we're we live in such apolarized culture right now.
The assumption is is that youare a Trump worshiper.
You know they really really gointo extremes about that.
But I will say that if there isan election in November you
know people talking about howthere might not be you know a
lot of things might happenbetween now and then.
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It's a long ways between hereand there and there are a lot of
things that might happen andthere's a lot of speculation on
the back channels in terms ofwill there even be an election
in November.
But if there is an election andit's actually safe to get to
the polls, I will.
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I will cast my vote for DonaldJ Trump.
Now.
It's been a long journey fromwhere I was 20 years ago to
where I am now, and I think thatthere's some really interesting
stories embedded in it and Iwanted to share them.
I wanted to share them with you, but it was something that I
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began to think about.
As you know, the this, thisgentleman felt that he needed to
point out that he had no ideathat I was a trumpet.
Look, I'm 65 years old and mythinking and those of you who
have moved along in the decadesyou know that you're thinking in
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your 20s was different thanwhat you're thinking might have
been in your 30s and in your 40sand in your 50s.
All right, there is something tobe said, for hindsight is 2020.
And the longer you live, themore hindsight you have and the
more 2020 you have.
That's just kind of how I seeit is.
You're you're going to see anawful lot and you're going to
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see things a little bit moreclearly and, in my case, with a
lot more balance, because one ofthe things that I struggled
with my, my whole life wasfinding the balance, and I
tended to go from one extreme tothe other.
All right, and I'm going to,I'm going to um, and hopefully,
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at this point in my life, youknow, I mean I don't really
think that uh being, you know,uh being somebody who would cast
their vote for Donald Trump isextreme.
I don't particularly see itthat way.
I mean, you know what are ouroptions.
I do like RFK Jr.
There are some reasons why Iprobably wouldn't vote for him,
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though I am a big proponent ofindependent politics in the
United States and, as a matterof fact, politics in the United
States and, as a matter of fact,way back in my political
activism days, I workeddiligently for independent
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politics and independentcandidates, which I'll get to in
just a second.
So, but here's the thing Now atthis point in my life.
You know that expression choosethe hill you'll die on.
This is an expression that wehear a lot about in teaching.
You know, because there are somany things that you're dealing
with in the classroom.
You know like, oh, we've got todo this, we have to address
this, or there's this disciplinething, and then there's this
objective and there's all ofthese oh and the standards and
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the blah, blah, blah, and all ofthis shit kind of comes at you
in the classroom, comes at youin the classroom and all of
these different behaviors thatwe're dealing with, especially
now post COVID.
You know all that and and andhonestly, often the expression
in teacher's lounges is you gotto choose the hill you'll die on
, because there are so many thatyou just have to choose the
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ones that are most.
You have to prioritize.
You really have to choose theones that you'll go all in on.
And so I have always had a veryconflicted relationship to
politics and I feel, at thispoint, I mean there was a period
of my time when I didn't vote.
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I was like fuck it all, I'm noteven participating, the system
is corrupt and I my vote, youknow, says I consent to the
system and I don't, and that wasmy position for, uh, for many
years.
Um, now I think that myposition is and I don't.
I don't think that there was nomerit in that position.
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You know I don't regret havingthat position.
However, at this point in mylife, and in kind of looking
back on things you know withmore of a clear view, would say
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that the thing that's mostimportant to me in all aspects
of my life is that is kind ofencapsulated in that statement
choose the hills, you'll die,all right, and so that's true in
the classroom, that's true.
So I don't really want to eveninvest any of my energy into
things that don't have muchvalue to me.
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I really look very carefully atwhere I put my energy and the
hills that I'm willing to die on, and I'm going to tell you that
right now in my life, knowingwhat I know and having seen what
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I've seen, the hill that I'mwilling to die on is the
protection of children.
Protection of children, the endof trafficking of children and
human trafficking, the abuse ofchildren in the sex trade.
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The reality of this is so darkthat most people don't even want
to look at it, but it's real.
It is an industry that makesmore money than the drug
industry and you have theabsolute scum it supporting it,
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profiting off of it, protectingit, and some of those people
operate in very, very highplaces in our culture.
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So many of them are celebrities, politicians, in the media and
whatever.
And so when you have somethingso heinous going on in our
culture, where the United Statesis the number one consumer of
child pornography and child sextrafficking, and we all just
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turn around and want to ignoreit, I'm sorry, we've got blood
on our hands, and so I don'twant to be that guy.
So, and I've dedicated.
I haven't had children of myown, but I've dedicated my life
to children.
You know, as a teacher, assomeone who always felt very,
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very protective of children,even though I had none of my own
biological children, childrenhave always been very, very
important to me.
So, going into this politicalseason, what I have observed is
there is only one candidate whohas even broached the issue of
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this demonic industry of childtrafficking, human trafficking,
child sex trafficking, andthat's Donald Trump.
And I honestly think at thispoint and I've been thinking
about this a lot, you know Ithink that there is so much
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pressure on people not to like,pressure on the celebrities,
pressure on the politicians forpublic figures to speak out.
Why is that?
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What that tells me is that itis so insidious and it is so
promoted by some of the mostpowerful people in the world
that it is dangerous to speakout about this crime.
And so, when Donald Trump waswilling to do it, I honestly
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think that part of the reasonwhy they have gone after him
with such vehemence, such youknow, you have some scumbag like
Robert De Niro being rolled outto call Donald Trump all kinds
of names in front of thecourthouse.
Are you kidding?
You pervert, you pedophile, youscum of the earth.
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Get the fuck out of here.
Who wants to listen to you?
You scumbag?
Who wants to listen to you?
You scumbag, right?
So that's who you roll out tocome after him.
So that is an indication of thekind of person who will come
after Donald Trump.
And I'm not saying everybodywho attacks Donald Trump is a
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pedophile, but really De Niro.
So this is the hill I'm willingto die on, and what that means
is I don't give a shit how muchof an asshole trump is.
I don't, I don't care.
Oh, you know.
He said he's gonna grab awoman's pussy.
I don't care, I don't care, youknow.
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Oh, you know he's.
He's.
You know bombastic, he's blah,blah.
I don't care.
He has a big eagle.
I don't care, I don't care.
Know he's.
You know bombastic, he's blah,blah, blah, blah.
I don't care.
He has a big ego.
I don't care, I don't care.
I know he's not very nice toRosie O'Donnell.
I don't care.
Call Rosie O'Donnell a fat pig,I don't care, I don't give a
shit, because this is a hill I'mwilling to die on If he is
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going to make good on his wordto go after these evil people
and the cartels.
By the way, the drug cartelsrealize it's like hey, I can
make just as much, if not moremoney, selling kids as cocaine.
So hey, you know.
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So the cartels are in.
So If he is actually doing that, if he's going to make good on
his word to do so.
I'm all in.
That's the hill I'll die on.
So I will cast my vote for theasshole who's willing to do that
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, because you know none of theseother polished people you know
who speak correctly.
Whatever, they're not speakingabout this, so fuck you.
You know I don't need someoneto be polished, I don't need
someone to always say the rightthings.
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What I'm looking at is what areyour actions and what are you
doing about the things thatmatter most?
And to me we need to protectthe children, and if you're not
doing that, fuck you.
So that's my take on that.
And I've traveled a long wayfrom being a on that.
And I've traveled a long wayfrom being a Marxist-Leninist
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revolutionary in my 20s.
Yep, that's true, I was aMarxist-Leninist revolutionary,
full-time political activist inmy 20s.
How the hell did that happen?
Well, you might ask, how thehell did it happen that I got
from there to where I am today?
Well, you know, this gray hairkind of speaks somewhat for
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itself.
You know, I have gained somewisdom over the years and again
my life has been traveling thoseextremities, finding some
balance.
You might say.
Well, patty, there's no realbalance.
You know You're going toanother extreme by supporting
Trump in a way that might appearthat way, but again, I'm
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choosing the hill I'll die onand, quite frankly, it's all
extreme out there now.
But in my 20s I was aMarxist-Leninist revolutionary,
and so I lived in New York City.
I organized on the street, Isold leftist newspapers on the
one train and went out and Ipetitioned to get leftist
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candidates on the ballot.
I did all of those things, youknow, and I was very, very
dedicated.
How did I get there?
Well, again, you live longenough and you give yourself an
opportunity to be reflective andintrospective and honest with
yourself about these differentpoints in your life and these
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different choices that you madealong the way.
You really learn a lot.
And so here's here's my take onhow it is that I became a
Marxist, leninist revolutionaryin my 20s.
First of all, I'll say and I didmention this in the last
podcast so I was someone wholived an alternative lifestyle.
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Now, that's a, really that'swhat we used to call it right,
we were kind of discreet aboutour you know, about living, you
know, kind of an alternativesexuality.
We didn't get into all of thoselabels.
I lived an alternativelifestyle and for that had
suffered some rejection from myfamily and also was felt
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rejected by by religion and bymy family.
And so here I was in my early20s, kind of broken in some ways
and unmoored and and untethered.
It's like where do I go, whatdo I turn to?
And I was also very angry.
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I was a very angry young person.
Why, why is the world like this?
Why do people get treated likethis?
Why is it?
You know, I had an enormousamount of pain, I was carrying
around and I was angry.
Then there appears thepolitical leftists and they
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started talking and some oftheir words kind of made sense
and what I found was that theyoffered answers to the things
that pained me most and theyoffered an outlet for my anger.
And so I was all in and becamea full-time organizer as a
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Marxist-Leninist in New YorkCity.
But that was kind of thehistory of it.
Now, part of the story I wantedto share with you today was how
my first encounter with liberalsNow I was considered a way
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progressive leftist.
Okay, so you would think, well,you know, liberal, progressive,
it's just a matter of degree,not so?
I want to share with you thisstory about when I went to New
Hampshire to put a candidate onon the ballot as an independent
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candidate.
Now, like I said, a lot of mywork as a Marxist-Leninist
political activist was, you know, these campaigns and these
petitions and this stuff,protests and all of this stuff.
You know we would be inprotests and we would see the
FBI guys with their littlecameras you know cameras and
stuff like that.
I, I'm sure I had an FBI file,probably still do whatever but
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we were fielding a candidate forpresident and we wanted to get
her on the ballot in all 50states.
Now this was a black woman whowas a Marxist socialist, all
right, and they asked me to goto New Hampshire.
Now, new Hampshire isconsidered very conservative,
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right?
So a lot of my comrades that'swhat we called each other,
comrades, you know said well,the strategy for New Hampshire
is you go in, you get thesignatures and you get the hell
out.
The thing with independentcandidates is you do need an
unfair number of signatures toget a candidate on the ballot in
most states if they areindependent, and that's just how
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the system is set up.
So we knew that we had anenormous amount of work to do,
but anyway, I would.
I went up to New Hampshire andstarted collecting signatures
out in front of Kmart's.
Kmart's were open, you know,they were still.
This was in the eighties, sothey were still, they still
existed.
So there were Kmart's in thesedifferent places around around
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New Hampshire.
I could go in these differentareas and collect signatures.
And I let me tell you somethingI was nervous, I was actually,
I was scared in these differentareas and collect signatures.
And I let me tell you somethingI was nervous, I was actually,
I was scared.
You know, there was just littleold me with my clipboard out in
front of a Kmart in acompletely strange area.
Right, no backup, nothing, justme with my clipboard.
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And this is the response.
Now, new Hampshire interesting.
What is their motto?
Live free or die.
So you talk about a state thatkind of puts that hill, that
they're willing to die on rightout in front.
Live free or die.
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Now, here's the interestingthing live free or die.
Now, here's the interestingthing, these guys really mean it
.
So I went to New Hampshire.
I stood in front of Kmart's allover New Hampshire, southern
New Hampshire, northern NewHampshire, up in the mountains,
east, west Portsmouth, you know,just, you know, in some
beautiful, beautiful areas.
And there I was, out in frontof Kmart's collecting signatures
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and here was the response thatI got, overwhelmingly, was there
would be these guys and theyyou know a lot of them would be.
You know, they'd have a littlething of tobacco in their cheek
and they'd have their flannelshirt on and their suspenders
and their jeans and and I wouldjust, you know, I was just this
little thing, right, and I'vegot my clipboard and I've got my
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little brochure there with thiswoman's picture on it so they
could see, you know, she waslike this, this black woman,
right.
And I would tell them it's likehi, you know my name is, you
know I'm, I'm out collectingsignatures to get an independent
candidate on the ballot forpresident, for the presidential
race.
You know we need such and suchnumber of signatures to to get
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her on the ballot.
And these guys would look at meand then they'd look at my
clipboard, they'd look at thepicture and they would say,
overwhelmingly, this was theresponse well, sweetie, I'll be
honest, I'm not going to votefor her, but she sure as hell
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has a right to be on that ballot.
And they signed, and I gotsignatures in record time in New
Hampshire and it blew mycomrades away Because they
thought I was going into a warzone.
Way, because they thought I wasgoing into a war zone, they
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thought no, you know, very fewpeople would want to sign my
petition because this womanrepresented just about every
position they were against.
You know, she was a progressive.
They knew it.
I was this little socialist outin front of Kmart collecting
signatures.
They knew, they knew the drill.
They knew that this woman wouldnot represent any of their
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political views.
It didn't matter.
What mattered to them was thedemocratic process, which is
that you have a right to be onthe ballot, no matter what I
think of you.
Live free or die.
So you are free to speak, youare free to run, you are free to
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gather, you are free.
All of the Bill of Rights, theylive it and they mean it Live
free or die.
That was my first encounter inconservative country.
I was like.
You know, these conservativesare all right.
I kind of I kind of like them.
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You know they were decent, theywere not mean to me.
They didn't call me names.
They didn't.
You know, even though theymight've thought to themselves
well, she's kind of naive, youknow, they might've thought of
all kinds of things.
They never said it to me.
They supported the spirit ofwhat I was.
I was standing out therebecause I believed in what I was
doing, I believed in mycandidate and I was following a
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process, the democratic processof collecting signatures to get
this woman on the ballot, andthey supported it.
That I really learned a lotfrom.
That was an eye opener for meand and I never forgot it
Obviously I never forgot itbecause it was a long time ago,
but I still remember a lot ofthese, you know gentlemen and
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women who would come up to meand sign my petition, quite, you
know, quite willingly Now, incontrast.
So then, when the New Hampshirework was done, there was the
work to be done in Massachusetts, right?
So we had to get all thesesignatures for this independent,
progressive candidate on theballot in Massachusetts.
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And you would think, when I wasasked, okay, we need you to go
to Boston because we've got tocollect all of these signatures,
and I was like, oh, cool, cool,I like Boston, cambridge,
somerville, these areas, I likeBoston.
I went to Boston and obviouslythe demographics in Boston very,
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very different, so it's, it'soverwhelmingly liberal, all
right, and I went to Boston andI, here I am same clipboard,
same picture, and this womancan't.
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This candidate represented allissues that these people support
right, abortion rights,affirmative, you know all of the
, all the lefty, all the leftytalking points were her talking
points.
Obviously she was progressiveand person after person after
person would say well, I don't,I'm not sure I want to sign that
petition to put her on theballot because I don't know all
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of her positions and I wouldhave to remind them.
Well, this isn't a commitmentfor your vote, it just gives her
the right to run.
Yeah, I know, but I don't knowif I want to give her the right
to run.
I need to see her positions andI need to see if I agree with
her positions.
Democratic process If there wasany chance at all that this
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candidate who was running mighthave a different position than
theirs, I got it.
You know, I was young and naive.
I was gobsmacked.
I couldn't believe it.
I was like give me NewHampshire, you know, give me
those conservatives up in NewHampshire, I'd rather hang out
with them than these.
You know, arrogant fucks.
You know they're just entitledlike oh, I don't know if I want
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her to be on the ballot?
I'm not.
I don't want to sign for thatBecause I don't know.
Do you have any literature?
Do you have any literature?
Can I take your brochure?
You know, and of course we werelike you know, we were like a
poor campaign.
You know, we didn't have liketons and tons of brochures to
hand out.
But I tell you what, in thoseliberal communities, man, we
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handed out all of our literaturein the liberal communities and
you know what?
It didn't.
It wasn't even worth it becauseit didn't mean that they would
sign our petition anyway.
You know, they might read theliterature and go meh, you know,
no.
So that was my first experiencein my 20s dealing with
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conservatives and dealing withliberals and, to be honest with
you, even though I was still atthis time, at this point in time
, a Marxist-Leninistrevolutionary you know activist,
I kind of liked theconservatives better than the
liberals.
The liberals were pain in theasses, they were arrogant fucks.
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And so you know, I wanted totell that story because I have
come a long way since then and Ihave seen that it's important
for us to determine what hillswe are willing to die on and so,
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and to really, really considerthat I also.
I think that it's important atthis point to think about you
know, how committed are thepeople that we support?
How much of themselves are theywilling to give or willing to
sacrifice for you know, forwhatever causes they say, or are
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they just self-serving?
And I think, if we really takea hard look, most politicians
are really just self-servingthat when the shit hits the fan,
you know they don't they'lldrop us like a hot potato, and
that we've seen over and overagain.
So I just wanted to share thatstory with you, because I have
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come a long way.
I have chosen the hills that Iam willing to die on and I
honestly think that at thispoint in our I don't know, in
our evolution, I think that it'sreally time for us in the West
to grow the hell up and figureout the hills that we're willing
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to die on and it really thecauses that we're willing to die
for.
What in your life are youwilling to die for?
Are you willing to die foranything?
Most people might say I'mwilling to die for my children.
Good, how far will you go?
You know, to protect, you knowto protect your children?
Um, there are, unfortunately,people and I'm going to get into
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this in another episode becauseI have so much to say about the
trans movement, but thatdeserves its own episode.
And, yep, I'm going to let thatshit rip Because you would
think, right, I'm a woman who'slived an alternative lifestyle,
so would be trans forward.
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No, not one single bit.
And you know what I'm gonnatell you.
I'm gonna leave on this, youknow, just to give you a hint,
because you know I am going toget into it in the next episode,
but not this one.
Um, it's really heartbreaking tosee.
You know, I've been around fora long time and there are some
people.
You know I talked aboutfacebook, right, so you go on.
You know I've been around for along time and there are some
people.
You know I talked aboutFacebook, right, so you go on,
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you know, and people will havetheir little flags, right, the
little causes.
You know, for a while there wasthe Ukrainian flag or the, you
know, the Israeli flag orwhatever, the flag of the month,
whatever on your as yourbacksplash or whatever on your
Facebook page.
You, you know, I think thatshit is so anyway, but, um, it's
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been heartbreaking to see somany of the people that I knew
and cared about years and yearsago, who I thought were
reasonable people like I thoughtthey were independent thinkers,
they were reasonable people andthey've got the trans flag on
their page.
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And when I see that I go, oh,another one bites the dust, and
that's kind of how I feel aboutit.
So I'm going to yeah, I'm goingto leave it there on that topic
because I have so much to sayabout that, but I'm going to
dedicate an episode to the wholetrans thing, things I've
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learned, things that I'vediscovered and the reason why I
feel the way I do with that.
And again, another area whereI'm completely contrarian.
So you know, honestly, I don'tthink I have a single friend
left from the gay community.
So you know, when you're acontrarian, you kind of have to
be willing to walk alone.
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Sometimes you have to bewilling to hold on to your
values, to your perspective andyour inner guidance, which I
trust, and follow my innerguidance.
If something does not feel right, seem right and I'm feeling
into, you know, to my heart andto my spirit and it smells funky
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, then I walk away, andsometimes funky, then I walk
away and sometimes, you know, weknow, there's an awful lot of
pressure.
You know we saw that duringCOVID, right, nobody wanted to
be called an anti-vaxxer, youknow all those names.
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Or if you support a certainmovement, like I supported the
truckers in Canada, well, youknow, if you did that, then you
were, let's see, a racist, amisogynist, you were a bunch of
things a Nazi.
I think all kinds of you haveto.
You have to be willing to, um,to walk alone, and you have to
be willing to be called names ifyou're going to do that.
And that's why I say I think weneed to think long and hard
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about the things that we'rewilling to sacrifice for.
So, are we so caught up in whatother people think of us that
we're going to just go with theflow and be manipulated into
following movements or followingideologies that are
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fundamentally anti-human?
Or are we going to think forourselves and take a stand, even
if it means that we lose peoplein our lives, because sometimes
that's what it means.
And then people, during COVID,people lost their jobs, people
lost their livelihoods, peoplelost relationships with family
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and friends.
It was a really big deal.
And then it turns out well,they were kind of right.
After all, one day, your heartand determining what it is
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you're willing to sacrifice for.
What in your life are youwilling to die for?
What hills are you willing todie on?
And I think those are the kindsof things that we need to be
clear about as we move forward,because there's just growing
pressure for us to followsomebody else's agenda.
So and we will if we reallydon't know the hills that we're
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willing to die on, and whateverthat takes, whatever names
you're going to call me, youknow you don't want to be my
friend anymore.
You're going to call mewhatever.
You know.
This is the hill I'm willing todie on, so it really doesn't
matter.
You know in this, you know, andI will say one thing even though
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I don't consider myself aChristian, I actually have a lot
of respect for Christians,because one thing I mean for
many reasons, and honestly, Iwould be a Christian if
Christianity was based on justthe New Testament and the
teachings of Jesus, because Iadore Jesus.
The shit in the Old Testament,that's.
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That's pretty effed up.
So I don't, you know.
So I have an issue, and that'sreally the only reason why I'm
not a Christian is because it'slike, yeah, I'll put that shit
together and I'm all about Jesus, but not about that.
Yeah, that one stuff.
I'll talk about that in anotherepisode.
But at any rate, I have atremendous amount of respect for
Christians, because that is onething that I've seen over and
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over and over again is you cancall them names, you can do
whatever, but they're not goingto cave because you know they
believe in their Lord and Saviorand that's it, and you're not
going to.
You know, I mean in throughouthistory they're.
You know, throw them in thefire, you know feed them to the
lions and they're not going tobudge.
And I think that is why theyare gone after so hard, because
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they're dangerous.
Christians are dangerous.
You cannot bend them to yourways.
If your way is satanic, demonic, all of that, yeah, they're not
going to walk that road withyou and they'll pay whatever
price they need to pay, becausethey're only going to answer to
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their Lord.
They're not going to answer toyou.
And so, tremendous amount ofrespect for Christians.
Even though I don't considermyself one officially, I have a
tremendous amount of respect forthem and I will defend.
I will defend my Christianfriends and family, because when
you have these powers that betargeting you as being dangerous
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.
You know you're doing somethingvery, very right.
So that's it for me with thesassy contrarian.
Thank you so much for hangingout with me today.
I'm going to try to do thisweekly.
I mean, I'm just starting off.
I got a lot of stories, I got alot of things to talk about and
of course, there are so muchhappening in the world that you
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All right, hello and welcome to episode two of the
Sassy Contrarian.
That's me.
I'm Patti with Patti Talks TooMuch, and you can listen to this
podcast on the Talks Too Muchchannel, on any of your podcast
locations and also on Rumble.
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I also upload this to Rumble,one of my favorite sites.
So today is June 20th and Iwanted to jump on and do my
second episode because I've beentaking notes and there are a
lot of things to talk about.
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But recently the idea for mysecond episode came from kind of
a humorous interaction I hadjust a couple of days ago with,
for the very first time, I wascalled a trumpet on a line.
And you know and I have to saythat perhaps I brought it on
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myself because I I like to besassy and irreverent as much as
I can be on Facebook.
Now why I even still botherwith Facebook, I don't know.
Chalk it up, it's some mentalissue I must have.
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But most of the people that Iknow are on Facebook.
So we're all.
I don't know what's wrong withus, but at any rate, I don't
really like to post much ofanything on Facebook, except for
things that are quickly andsassy and really push the
envelope or, in my mind, pushthe envelope.
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Maybe they don't, but anyway,there was something I had seen
on one of the you know, one ofthe channels that I follow on
Telegram.
It was a kind of a funny imageof a postage stamp with Joe
Biden's face kind of lookinglike off into space, totally
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spaced out.
And of course, this, the stamp,was for zero cents and I just I
thought it was funny.
If it was slightly meanspirited, it was still kind of
funny and and the reason, andgenerally I do try to stay away
from mean spirited things, but Ihave to tell you, like you know
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, I have no mercy.
I know, joe, you know we can say, oh, you know, feel bad for Joe
, poor Joe, no, I don't, I don'treally, I don't really care
about Joe's feelings.
And same for Fauci.
Oh, fauci, no, I don't, I don'tcare, I don't care.
You know, at this point, theydeserve what they get.
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They have functioned fordecades and decades for their
own purpose.
That has been to the detrimentof the collective.
And so, yeah, so fuck you, joe,but at any rate, so there was
this and I posted it.
And so, yeah, so fuck you, joe,but at any rate, so there was,
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and I posted it.
And you know there are still alot of people who believe that
you know because you know I havea particular history believe
that I'm going to be leaning wayto the left and I don't.
Those days are over, so that'swhy I often say I don't.
I, when I started my Patty talkstoo much podcast, I didn't
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reach out to any of the people Iknew five years ago, because
that that woman is has changedand they they're not going to be
meeting the same woman anymore.
So, but at any rate.
So I posted this postage stampthing on my Facebook page and
said stamp collectors, you'reone and only opportunity to get
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this collector's item, you know,a stamp that is not worth the
paper that it is printed on andhas no discernible function, at
any rate one of the folks who Iguess follow my page, but from
way back, all right, so this isone of the way back.
People said I didn't know youwere a trumpet, and I just
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simply replied I don't know whatthat is.
Oh, he said and best wishes toyou.
And I just said I don't knowwhat that is.
Thanks for the best wishes andI moved on.
I'm not going to engage in anyof that, but I thought it is
really interesting that you knowyou can be critical.
You know people will make awhole lot of assumptions, and
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we're we live in such apolarized culture right now.
The assumption is is that youare a Trump worshiper.
You know they really really gointo extremes about that.
But I will say that if there isan election in November you
know people talking about howthere might not be you know a
lot of things might happenbetween now and then.
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It's a long ways between hereand there and there are a lot of
things that might happen andthere's a lot of speculation on
the back channels in terms ofwill there even be an election
in November.
But if there is an election andit's actually safe to get to
the polls, I will.
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I will cast my vote for DonaldJ Trump.
Now.
It's been a long journey fromwhere I was 20 years ago to
where I am now, and I think thatthere's some really interesting
stories embedded in it and Iwanted to share them.
I wanted to share them with you, but it was something that I
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began to think about.
As you know, the this, thisgentleman felt that he needed to
point out that he had no ideathat I was a trumpet.
Look, I'm 65 years old and mythinking and those of you who
have moved along in the decadesyou know that you're thinking in
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your 20s was different thanwhat you're thinking might have
been in your 30s and in your 40sand in your 50s.
All right, there is something tobe said, for hindsight is 2020.
And the longer you live, themore hindsight you have and the
more 2020 you have.
That's just kind of how I seeit is.
You're you're going to see anawful lot and you're going to
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see things a little bit moreclearly and, in my case, with a
lot more balance, because one ofthe things that I struggled
with my, my whole life wasfinding the balance, and I
tended to go from one extreme tothe other.
All right, and I'm going to,I'm going to um, and hopefully,
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at this point in my life, youknow, I mean I don't really
think that uh being, you know,uh being somebody who would cast
their vote for Donald Trump isextreme.
I don't particularly see itthat way.
I mean, you know what are ouroptions.
I do like RFK Jr.
There are some reasons why Iprobably wouldn't vote for him,
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though I am a big proponent ofindependent politics in the
United States and, as a matterof fact, politics in the United
States and, as a matter of fact,way back in my political
activism days, I workeddiligently for independent
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politics and independentcandidates, which I'll get to in
just a second.
So, but here's the thing Now atthis point in my life.
You know that expression choosethe hill you'll die on.
This is an expression that wehear a lot about in teaching.
You know, because there are somany things that you're dealing
with in the classroom.
You know like, oh, we've got todo this, we have to address
this, or there's this disciplinething, and then there's this
objective and there's all ofthese oh and the standards and
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the blah, blah, blah, and all ofthis shit kind of comes at you
in the classroom, comes at youin the classroom and all of
these different behaviors thatwe're dealing with, especially
now post COVID.
You know all that and and andhonestly, often the expression
in teacher's lounges is you gotto choose the hill you'll die on
, because there are so many thatyou just have to choose the
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ones that are most.
You have to prioritize.
You really have to choose theones that you'll go all in on.
And so I have always had a veryconflicted relationship to
politics and I feel, at thispoint, I mean there was a period
of my time when I didn't vote.
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I was like fuck it all, I'm noteven participating, the system
is corrupt and I my vote, youknow, says I consent to the
system and I don't, and that wasmy position for, uh, for many
years.
Um, now I think that myposition is and I don't.
I don't think that there was nomerit in that position.
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You know I don't regret havingthat position.
However, at this point in mylife, and in kind of looking
back on things you know withmore of a clear view, would say
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that the thing that's mostimportant to me in all aspects
of my life is that is kind ofencapsulated in that statement
choose the hills, you'll die,all right, and so that's true in
the classroom, that's true.
So I don't really want to eveninvest any of my energy into
things that don't have muchvalue to me.
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I really look very carefully atwhere I put my energy and the
hills that I'm willing to die on, and I'm going to tell you that
right now in my life, knowingwhat I know and having seen what
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I've seen, the hill that I'mwilling to die on is the
protection of children.
Protection of children, the endof trafficking of children and
human trafficking, the abuse ofchildren in the sex trade.
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The reality of this is so darkthat most people don't even want
to look at it, but it's real.
It is an industry that makesmore money than the drug
industry and you have theabsolute scum it supporting it,
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profiting off of it, protectingit, and some of those people
operate in very, very highplaces in our culture.
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So many of them are celebrities, politicians, in the media and
whatever.
And so when you have somethingso heinous going on in our
culture, where the United Statesis the number one consumer of
child pornography and child sextrafficking, and we all just
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turn around and want to ignoreit, I'm sorry, we've got blood
on our hands, and so I don'twant to be that guy.
So, and I've dedicated.
I haven't had children of myown, but I've dedicated my life
to children.
You know, as a teacher, assomeone who always felt very,
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very protective of children,even though I had none of my own
biological children, childrenhave always been very, very
important to me.
So, going into this politicalseason, what I have observed is
there is only one candidate whohas even broached the issue of
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this demonic industry of childtrafficking, human trafficking,
child sex trafficking, andthat's Donald Trump.
And I honestly think at thispoint and I've been thinking
about this a lot, you know Ithink that there is so much
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pressure on people not to like,pressure on the celebrities,
pressure on the politicians forpublic figures to speak out.
Why is that?
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What that tells me is that itis so insidious and it is so
promoted by some of the mostpowerful people in the world
that it is dangerous to speakout about this crime.
And so, when Donald Trump waswilling to do it, I honestly
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think that part of the reasonwhy they have gone after him
with such vehemence, such youknow, you have some scumbag like
Robert De Niro being rolled outto call Donald Trump all kinds
of names in front of thecourthouse.
Are you kidding?
You pervert, you pedophile, youscum of the earth.
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Get the fuck out of here.
Who wants to listen to you?
You scumbag?
Who wants to listen to you?
You scumbag, right?
So that's who you roll out tocome after him.
So that is an indication of thekind of person who will come
after Donald Trump.
And I'm not saying everybodywho attacks Donald Trump is a
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pedophile, but really De Niro.
So this is the hill I'm willingto die on, and what that means
is I don't give a shit how muchof an asshole trump is.
I don't, I don't care.
Oh, you know.
He said he's gonna grab awoman's pussy.
I don't care, I don't care, youknow.
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Oh, you know he's.
He's.
You know bombastic, he's blah,blah.
I don't care.
He has a big eagle.
I don't care, I don't care.
Know he's.
You know bombastic, he's blah,blah, blah, blah.
I don't care.
He has a big ego.
I don't care, I don't care.
I know he's not very nice toRosie O'Donnell.
I don't care.
Call Rosie O'Donnell a fat pig,I don't care, I don't give a
shit, because this is a hill I'mwilling to die on If he is
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going to make good on his wordto go after these evil people
and the cartels.
By the way, the drug cartelsrealize it's like hey, I can
make just as much, if not moremoney, selling kids as cocaine.
So hey, you know.
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So the cartels are in.
So If he is actually doing that, if he's going to make good on
his word to do so.
I'm all in.
That's the hill I'll die on.
So I will cast my vote for theasshole who's willing to do that
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, because you know none of theseother polished people you know
who speak correctly.
Whatever, they're not speakingabout this, so fuck you.
You know I don't need someoneto be polished, I don't need
someone to always say the rightthings.
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What I'm looking at is what areyour actions and what are you
doing about the things thatmatter most?
And to me we need to protectthe children, and if you're not
doing that, fuck you.
So that's my take on that.
And I've traveled a long wayfrom being a on that.
And I've traveled a long wayfrom being a Marxist-Leninist
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revolutionary in my 20s.
Yep, that's true, I was aMarxist-Leninist revolutionary,
full-time political activist inmy 20s.
How the hell did that happen?
Well, you might ask, how thehell did it happen that I got
from there to where I am today?
Well, you know, this gray hairkind of speaks somewhat for
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itself.
You know, I have gained somewisdom over the years and again
my life has been traveling thoseextremities, finding some
balance.
You might say.
Well, patty, there's no realbalance.
You know You're going toanother extreme by supporting
Trump in a way that might appearthat way, but again, I'm
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choosing the hill I'll die onand, quite frankly, it's all
extreme out there now.
But in my 20s I was aMarxist-Leninist revolutionary,
and so I lived in New York City.
I organized on the street, Isold leftist newspapers on the
one train and went out and Ipetitioned to get leftist
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candidates on the ballot.
I did all of those things, youknow, and I was very, very
dedicated.
How did I get there?
Well, again, you live longenough and you give yourself an
opportunity to be reflective andintrospective and honest with
yourself about these differentpoints in your life and these
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different choices that you madealong the way.
You really learn a lot.
And so here's here's my take onhow it is that I became a
Marxist, leninist revolutionaryin my 20s.
First of all, I'll say and I didmention this in the last
podcast so I was someone wholived an alternative lifestyle.
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Now, that's a, really that'swhat we used to call it right,
we were kind of discreet aboutour you know, about living, you
know, kind of an alternativesexuality.
We didn't get into all of thoselabels.
I lived an alternativelifestyle and for that had
suffered some rejection from myfamily and also was felt
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rejected by by religion and bymy family.
And so here I was in my early20s, kind of broken in some ways
and unmoored and and untethered.
It's like where do I go, whatdo I turn to?
And I was also very angry.
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I was a very angry young person.
Why, why is the world like this?
Why do people get treated likethis?
Why is it?
You know, I had an enormousamount of pain, I was carrying
around and I was angry.
Then there appears thepolitical leftists and they
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started talking and some oftheir words kind of made sense
and what I found was that theyoffered answers to the things
that pained me most and theyoffered an outlet for my anger.
And so I was all in and becamea full-time organizer as a
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Marxist-Leninist in New YorkCity.
But that was kind of thehistory of it.
Now, part of the story I wantedto share with you today was how
my first encounter with liberalsNow I was considered a way
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progressive leftist.
Okay, so you would think, well,you know, liberal, progressive,
it's just a matter of degree,not so?
I want to share with you thisstory about when I went to New
Hampshire to put a candidate onon the ballot as an independent
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candidate.
Now, like I said, a lot of mywork as a Marxist-Leninist
political activist was, you know, these campaigns and these
petitions and this stuff,protests and all of this stuff.
You know we would be inprotests and we would see the
FBI guys with their littlecameras you know cameras and
stuff like that.
I, I'm sure I had an FBI file,probably still do whatever but
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we were fielding a candidate forpresident and we wanted to get
her on the ballot in all 50states.
Now this was a black woman whowas a Marxist socialist, all
right, and they asked me to goto New Hampshire.
Now, new Hampshire isconsidered very conservative,
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right?
So a lot of my comrades that'swhat we called each other,
comrades, you know said well,the strategy for New Hampshire
is you go in, you get thesignatures and you get the hell
out.
The thing with independentcandidates is you do need an
unfair number of signatures toget a candidate on the ballot in
most states if they areindependent, and that's just how
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the system is set up.
So we knew that we had anenormous amount of work to do,
but anyway, I would.
I went up to New Hampshire andstarted collecting signatures
out in front of Kmart's.
Kmart's were open, you know,they were still.
This was in the eighties, sothey were still, they still
existed.
So there were Kmart's in thesedifferent places around around
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New Hampshire.
I could go in these differentareas and collect signatures.
And I let me tell you somethingI was nervous, I was actually,
I was scared in these differentareas and collect signatures.
And I let me tell you somethingI was nervous, I was actually,
I was scared.
You know, there was just littleold me with my clipboard out in
front of a Kmart in acompletely strange area.
Right, no backup, nothing, justme with my clipboard.
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And this is the response.
Now, new Hampshire interesting.
What is their motto?
Live free or die.
So you talk about a state thatkind of puts that hill, that
they're willing to die on rightout in front.
Live free or die.
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Now, here's the interestingthing live free or die.
Now, here's the interestingthing, these guys really mean it
.
So I went to New Hampshire.
I stood in front of Kmart's allover New Hampshire, southern
New Hampshire, northern NewHampshire, up in the mountains,
east, west Portsmouth, you know,just, you know, in some
beautiful, beautiful areas.
And there I was, out in frontof Kmart's collecting signatures
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and here was the response thatI got, overwhelmingly, was there
would be these guys and theyyou know a lot of them would be.
You know, they'd have a littlething of tobacco in their cheek
and they'd have their flannelshirt on and their suspenders
and their jeans and and I wouldjust, you know, I was just this
little thing, right, and I'vegot my clipboard and I've got my
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little brochure there with thiswoman's picture on it so they
could see, you know, she waslike this, this black woman,
right.
And I would tell them it's likehi, you know my name is, you
know I'm, I'm out collectingsignatures to get an independent
candidate on the ballot forpresident, for the presidential
race.
You know we need such and suchnumber of signatures to to get
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her on the ballot.
And these guys would look at meand then they'd look at my
clipboard, they'd look at thepicture and they would say,
overwhelmingly, this was theresponse well, sweetie, I'll be
honest, I'm not going to votefor her, but she sure as hell
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has a right to be on that ballot.
And they signed, and I gotsignatures in record time in New
Hampshire and it blew mycomrades away Because they
thought I was going into a warzone.
Way, because they thought I wasgoing into a war zone, they
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thought no, you know, very fewpeople would want to sign my
petition because this womanrepresented just about every
position they were against.
You know, she was a progressive.
They knew it.
I was this little socialist outin front of Kmart collecting
signatures.
They knew, they knew the drill.
They knew that this woman wouldnot represent any of their
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political views.
It didn't matter.
What mattered to them was thedemocratic process, which is
that you have a right to be onthe ballot, no matter what I
think of you.
Live free or die.
So you are free to speak, youare free to run, you are free to
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gather, you are free.
All of the Bill of Rights, theylive it and they mean it Live
free or die.
That was my first encounter inconservative country.
I was like.
You know, these conservativesare all right.
I kind of I kind of like them.
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You know they were decent, theywere not mean to me.
They didn't call me names.
They didn't.
You know, even though theymight've thought to themselves
well, she's kind of naive, youknow, they might've thought of
all kinds of things.
They never said it to me.
They supported the spirit ofwhat I was.
I was standing out therebecause I believed in what I was
doing, I believed in mycandidate and I was following a
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process, the democratic processof collecting signatures to get
this woman on the ballot, andthey supported it.
That I really learned a lotfrom.
That was an eye opener for meand and I never forgot it
Obviously I never forgot itbecause it was a long time ago,
but I still remember a lot ofthese, you know gentlemen and
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women who would come up to meand sign my petition, quite, you
know, quite willingly Now, incontrast.
So then, when the New Hampshirework was done, there was the
work to be done in Massachusetts, right?
So we had to get all thesesignatures for this independent,
progressive candidate on theballot in Massachusetts.
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And you would think, when I wasasked, okay, we need you to go
to Boston because we've got tocollect all of these signatures,
and I was like, oh, cool, cool,I like Boston, cambridge,
somerville, these areas, I likeBoston.
I went to Boston and obviouslythe demographics in Boston very,
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very different, so it's, it'soverwhelmingly liberal, all
right, and I went to Boston andI, here I am same clipboard,
same picture, and this womancan't.
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This candidate represented allissues that these people support
right, abortion rights,affirmative, you know all of the
, all the lefty, all the leftytalking points were her talking
points.
Obviously she was progressiveand person after person after
person would say well, I don't,I'm not sure I want to sign that
petition to put her on theballot because I don't know all
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of her positions and I wouldhave to remind them.
Well, this isn't a commitmentfor your vote, it just gives her
the right to run.
Yeah, I know, but I don't knowif I want to give her the right
to run.
I need to see her positions andI need to see if I agree with
her positions.
Democratic process If there wasany chance at all that this
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candidate who was running mighthave a different position than
theirs, I got it.
You know, I was young and naive.
I was gobsmacked.
I couldn't believe it.
I was like give me NewHampshire, you know, give me
those conservatives up in NewHampshire, I'd rather hang out
with them than these.
You know, arrogant fucks.
You know they're just entitledlike oh, I don't know if I want
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her to be on the ballot?
I'm not.
I don't want to sign for thatBecause I don't know.
Do you have any literature?
Do you have any literature?
Can I take your brochure?
You know, and of course we werelike you know, we were like a
poor campaign.
You know, we didn't have liketons and tons of brochures to
hand out.
But I tell you what, in thoseliberal communities, man, we
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handed out all of our literaturein the liberal communities and
you know what?
It didn't.
It wasn't even worth it becauseit didn't mean that they would
sign our petition anyway.
You know, they might read theliterature and go meh, you know,
no.
So that was my first experiencein my 20s dealing with
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conservatives and dealing withliberals and, to be honest with
you, even though I was still atthis time, at this point in time
, a Marxist-Leninistrevolutionary you know activist,
I kind of liked theconservatives better than the
liberals.
The liberals were pain in theasses, they were arrogant fucks.
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And so you know, I wanted totell that story because I have
come a long way since then and Ihave seen that it's important
for us to determine what hillswe are willing to die on and so,
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and to really, really considerthat I also.
I think that it's important atthis point to think about you
know, how committed are thepeople that we support?
How much of themselves are theywilling to give or willing to
sacrifice for you know, forwhatever causes they say, or are
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they just self-serving?
And I think, if we really takea hard look, most politicians
are really just self-servingthat when the shit hits the fan,
you know they don't they'lldrop us like a hot potato, and
that we've seen over and overagain.
So I just wanted to share thatstory with you, because I have
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come a long way.
I have chosen the hills that Iam willing to die on and I
honestly think that at thispoint in our I don't know, in
our evolution, I think that it'sreally time for us in the West
to grow the hell up and figureout the hills that we're willing
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to die on and it really thecauses that we're willing to die
for.
What in your life are youwilling to die for?
Are you willing to die foranything?
Most people might say I'mwilling to die for my children.
Good, how far will you go?
You know, to protect, you knowto protect your children?
Um, there are, unfortunately,people and I'm going to get into
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this in another episode becauseI have so much to say about the
trans movement, but thatdeserves its own episode.
And, yep, I'm going to let thatshit rip Because you would
think, right, I'm a woman who'slived an alternative lifestyle,
so would be trans forward.
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No, not one single bit.
And you know what I'm gonnatell you.
I'm gonna leave on this, youknow, just to give you a hint,
because you know I am going toget into it in the next episode,
but not this one.
Um, it's really heartbreaking tosee.
You know, I've been around fora long time and there are some
people.
You know I talked aboutfacebook, right, so you go on.
You know I've been around for along time and there are some
people.
You know I talked aboutFacebook, right, so you go on,
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you know, and people will havetheir little flags, right, the
little causes.
You know, for a while there wasthe Ukrainian flag or the, you
know, the Israeli flag orwhatever, the flag of the month,
whatever on your as yourbacksplash or whatever on your
Facebook page.
You, you know, I think thatshit is so anyway, but, um, it's
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been heartbreaking to see somany of the people that I knew
and cared about years and yearsago, who I thought were
reasonable people like I thoughtthey were independent thinkers,
they were reasonable people andthey've got the trans flag on
their page.
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And when I see that I go, oh,another one bites the dust, and
that's kind of how I feel aboutit.
So I'm going to yeah, I'm goingto leave it there on that topic
because I have so much to sayabout that, but I'm going to
dedicate an episode to the wholetrans thing, things I've
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learned, things that I'vediscovered and the reason why I
feel the way I do with that.
And again, another area whereI'm completely contrarian.
So you know, honestly, I don'tthink I have a single friend
left from the gay community.
So you know, when you're acontrarian, you kind of have to
be willing to walk alone.
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Sometimes you have to bewilling to hold on to your
values, to your perspective andyour inner guidance, which I
trust, and follow my innerguidance.
If something does not feel right, seem right and I'm feeling
into, you know, to my heart andto my spirit and it smells funky
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, then I walk away, andsometimes funky, then I walk
away and sometimes, you know, weknow, there's an awful lot of
pressure.
You know we saw that duringCOVID, right, nobody wanted to
be called an anti-vaxxer, youknow all those names.
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Or if you support a certainmovement, like I supported the
truckers in Canada, well, youknow, if you did that, then you
were, let's see, a racist, amisogynist, you were a bunch of
things a Nazi.
I think all kinds of you haveto.
You have to be willing to, um,to walk alone, and you have to
be willing to be called names ifyou're going to do that.
And that's why I say I think weneed to think long and hard
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about the things that we'rewilling to sacrifice for.
So, are we so caught up in whatother people think of us that
we're going to just go with theflow and be manipulated into
following movements or followingideologies that are
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fundamentally anti-human?
Or are we going to think forourselves and take a stand, even
if it means that we lose peoplein our lives, because sometimes
that's what it means.
And then people, during COVID,people lost their jobs, people
lost their livelihoods, peoplelost relationships with family
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and friends.
It was a really big deal.
And then it turns out well,they were kind of right.
After all, one day, your heartand determining what it is
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you're willing to sacrifice for.
What in your life are youwilling to die for?
What hills are you willing todie on?
And I think those are the kindsof things that we need to be
clear about as we move forward,because there's just growing
pressure for us to followsomebody else's agenda.
So and we will if we reallydon't know the hills that we're
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willing to die on, and whateverthat takes, whatever names
you're going to call me, youknow you don't want to be my
friend anymore.
You're going to call mewhatever.
You know.
This is the hill I'm willing todie on, so it really doesn't
matter.
You know in this, you know, andI will say one thing even though
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I don't consider myself aChristian, I actually have a lot
of respect for Christians,because one thing I mean for
many reasons, and honestly, Iwould be a Christian if
Christianity was based on justthe New Testament and the
teachings of Jesus, because Iadore Jesus.
The shit in the Old Testament,that's.
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That's pretty effed up.
So I don't, you know.
So I have an issue, and that'sreally the only reason why I'm
not a Christian is because it'slike, yeah, I'll put that shit
together and I'm all about Jesus, but not about that.
Yeah, that one stuff.
I'll talk about that in anotherepisode.
But at any rate, I have atremendous amount of respect for
Christians, because that is onething that I've seen over and
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over and over again is you cancall them names, you can do
whatever, but they're not goingto cave because you know they
believe in their Lord and Saviorand that's it, and you're not
going to.
You know, I mean in throughouthistory they're.
You know, throw them in thefire, you know feed them to the
lions and they're not going tobudge.
And I think that is why theyare gone after so hard, because
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they're dangerous.
Christians are dangerous.
You cannot bend them to yourways.
If your way is satanic, demonic, all of that, yeah, they're not
going to walk that road withyou and they'll pay whatever
price they need to pay, becausethey're only going to answer to
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their Lord.
They're not going to answer toyou.
And so, tremendous amount ofrespect for Christians.
Even though I don't considermyself one officially, I have a
tremendous amount of respect forthem and I will defend.
I will defend my Christianfriends and family, because when
you have these powers that betargeting you as being dangerous
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.
You know you're doing somethingvery, very right.
So that's it for me with thesassy contrarian.
Thank you so much for hangingout with me today.
I'm going to try to do thisweekly.
I mean, I'm just starting off.
I got a lot of stories, I got alot of things to talk about and
of course, there are so muchhappening in the world that you
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know I can rant and rave abouttoo.
So I don't know if you findvalue in this.
Great, you can, you know, hitthe like button or the follow or
or just you know, look for menext time.
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