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Mindf*ck Monday | Sassy Politics with Christi Chanelle

And That Was Just 2025.

2025 gave us Trump.
 Book bans. Media monopolies. AI moving faster than ethics. ICE raids in U.S. cities. Women’s bodies turned into bargaining chips. Conditional citizenship. Courts rolling back rights. Authoritarian language going mainstream. Fear normalized. Silence rewarded.

And that was just the headlines.

This episode isn’t a breakdown—it’s a pause. A reflection. A one-year review that’s really the story of staying when disappearing would’ve been easier.

I didn’t plan to become a political creator. I started this journey grieving my mom, finding my voice, and learning how to tell the truth out loud. But the environment changed—and once you see it, you can’t unknow it.

Sassy Politics became a one-woman act of resistance. No team. No editor. No safety net. Just showing up anyway.

This episode is about grief, fear, courage, quitting smoking, hitting 10K on TikTok, building Glitched, and realizing that in an environment designed to silence people—still being here is the win.

If this is 2025, don’t look away.
 I didn’t. And I’m not going anywhere.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
2025 gave me Trump.
Book bans, corporate takeovers,media monopolies, AI moving
faster than ethics, redactedEpstein files, a Supreme Court
nobody truck.
Ice raids in the U.S.
cities, women's bodies turnedinto bargaining chips,
conditional U.S.
citizenship, APAC embedded inthe US government, truth social

(00:21):
posts that would have beenunthinkable 40 years ago.
Turning point popping up inTexas High School's mandatory,
Candace Owens and ConspiracySpirals, and I believe a lot of
what she's saying.
MTG gone completely rogue, fearnormalized, silence rewarded.

(00:42):
That was just 2025.
Welcome to the four-year traumaseries that nobody asked for.

SPEAKER_00 (00:51):
I'm Christy Chanel, and this is Sassy Politics.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02):
Today is gonna feel a little different.
This is a pause, a reflection.
This is my one-year review.
But honestly, it's two years ofdoing this.
I didn't do a 2024 recap becauseI didn't even know what I was
building yet.
Last year, I was just finding myvoice.
I was experimenting, testing,talking myself into being brave

(01:26):
enough to post, walking throughpersonal grief, family tension,
and inner battles while theworld was getting louder and
darker by the day.
This year, I stayed.
I stayed when the headlines gotheavier.
I stayed when courts rolled backrights.
I stayed when the election cycleturned into a trauma loop.

(01:49):
I stayed when Project 2025stopped sounding theoretical and
started sounding inevitable.
I stayed when the environmentmade silence feel safer and
speaking freely much riskier.
I didn't plan to be thispolitical creator.
I actually started this yearwith Love You Miss You Bye, a

(02:10):
podcast that was a dedication tomy mom.
That's what she used to say tome when we got off the phone.
Love you, Miss You Bye.
That show was about grief andhealing identity and discovering
who I was underneath layers ofpain.
I quickly learned thatpodcasting is therapy,
especially when you're willingto tell the truth out loud.

(02:33):
And trust me, it was not easy.
But the environment changed.
January, February, March.
Within those first three monthsof the year, everything shifted.
Authoritarian language wentmainstream.
Women's bodies became bargainingchips.
Rebranded white supremacystopped whispering and started

(02:56):
speaking plainly.
And the system cracked loudlyenough that I couldn't ignore it
anymore.
March 31st, 2025.
That's when sassy politics wasofficially born.
If the world had been calmer, ifrights hadn't been stripped so
openly, I probably wouldn't bedoing this.

(03:18):
I don't prefer this.
I'd love a calmer world.
I'd be doing book reviews, truecrime, talking about human
behavior, mental health, music.
You know, I love a good lipsync.
I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, I'man optimist at heart.
But once you see it, once youreally see it, you can't unknow

(03:42):
it.
The environment demanded aresponse.
So I showed up, week after week,by myself.
And I need to say this clearlybecause people don't always
understand what that means.
Sassy Politics is a one-womanshow.

(04:02):
I write the scripts, I researchthe cases, I build the story
arc, I edit the video, I cut theaudio, I choose the music, I
design the thumbnails, I writethe titles, I post the shorts, I
manage the platforms, I marketthe episodes.
There is no team.
There is no editor or producer.

(04:23):
There is definitely no safetynet.
When I mess up, I mess up.
It's just me.
And I'm still here.
That doesn't mean it doesn'tcost me anything.
Emotionally, this year wasdraining.
It's exhausting to live insidethis information while people
around you don't want to talkabout it or can't.

(04:47):
It's lonely to care this deeplyin a world that scrolls past
suffering.
It's isolating to hold patternsin your head that others refuse
to see.
I had to learn that not everyoneis awake.
And that this walk can belonely.
I choose it anyway.

(05:08):
This month I took a breath, notout of fear, but out of respect
for myself.
I had just come out of aweek-long immersive leadership
program for my corporate job.
My brain was full.
My body was tired.
And for the first time, I justlet myself say, I don't have to
bleed every week to prove thatthis whole thing matters.

(05:33):
I wasn't quitting, that waslistening, listening to myself.
And then there was a moment thatreally, really, truly surprised
me.
I hit 10,000 on TikTok.
You know, right?
Superficial numbers.
But I cried.
I cried because the first personI wanted to tell was my mom.

(05:54):
Because I know how proud shewould have been.
I cried because I never even setthat as a goal this year.
I just didn't think it wasrealistic.
My kids bought me balloons, andin that moment, I realized this
wasn't just going to disappearinto the void.
People are listening.

(06:16):
People are finding this.
And people are staying.
Somewhere in all of this, I alsoquit smoking.
Quietly, and it wasn't easy.
So I'm not trying to downplay itat all.
I'm kind of proud of myself.
So that was on February 6th, 10months ago.
So in two months, we will becelebrating.
It's important to celebrate yourvictories.

(06:38):
They matter.
Glitched.
My sassy politics new series onYouTube exists because I
couldn't keep pretending Iwasn't an artist.
I know, right?
An artist?
What?
Mindfuck Monday.
This Monday show is how Iprocess the world and how I

(06:58):
relate to you.
And yes, there's fear.
I'm afraid of being silenced.
Of algorithms deciding truth isinconvenient.
Of media being controlled bypower instead of people.
But that fear doesn't stop me.

(07:20):
It won't stop me.
It fuels me.
Because if this window closes, Iwant it to be known that I used
my voice while I had it.
No regrets.
So no, I'm not just gettingstarted.
I'm still here, still showingup, still learning, still

(07:44):
building, still speaking, stillrefusing to look away, even when
I want to.
And in this environment whereeverything pushes people towards
silence, being still here is thewin.
I've also learned somethingimportant this year.

(08:05):
Even when my internal worldfeels lonely, I'm not actually
alone.
The reason I keep going isbecause some of you feel this
too.
And saying it out loud helps usfind each other.
That's why this matters.
Looking ahead, my goals aren'tabout fame.
They're about independence,sustainability, building

(08:28):
something that can stand on itsown.
Hitting a thousand on YouTubeisn't validation, it's freedom.
And eventually, I don't want todo this alone.
I want a team.
I want a space to go deeper.
To do this well.
I don't have all the answersyet.
I'm still learning what mattersin real time.

But I know this (08:49):
I didn't disappear.
I didn't numb out.
And I didn't look away.
I stayed.
I'm Christy Chanel, and this hasbeen Mindfuck Monday.
And what a mind fuck of a year.
Here's to 2026.

(09:09):
And if this is 2025, don't lookaway.
I'll still be here.