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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get on up and get down.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Good money, Let's get this party started, y'all.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Baby, I'm trying to see what you got.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Come on, good god, good mind, good morning. I see it.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Welcome in, Welcome in, Welcome in, Welcome in.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Today's day, it's all no November fifth, twenty twenty five,
and we are thirty five thirty six days until the
government shut down. Thirty five days into the government shut down.
It's so much going on. And let me just start
off by saying this. I'm a little horse, by the way,
(00:50):
and I got a little cold. I'm a little sick.
You know, you probably can't tell it if you're listening
to my voice. And uh, there's so much going on
in the news today. We had the last night, we
had the Democratic elections.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I mean we had the elections last night in Virginia.
We had them in New York, we had them in Atlanta,
and we had them in it was somewhere e Democrat.
We had these lessons either way it goes.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Democrats won a landspide and Republicans baily worn anywhere last
night and the November four elections. So I'm really excited
and I'm really popped about that, and you know ever since,
you know, hopefully Trump will act Ryan and he'll go
here and get these people they they snapped benefits. But
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I got representatives, the representative Angie Nixon from Florida.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
She's joined in the show.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
She's joined there Larry in the show, and she's gonna
talk about, you know, how the she's gonna talk about
how the government shut down it's affecting people in for
or to us.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
She's gonna talk about, you know, what.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Can people do well not only people in Florida, but
people everywhere. And she's gonna talk about what can people
do to you know, stay on the top and what
can people do? What what can you who to call,
what to print and what to screenshot and how to
stay Come. So I got her come on the show
later letter on the show. She's coming up in a
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few minutes. And then I got the mistrained on today's show.
And the mistrains the all that is on today's show.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But it's so much. I'm so happy that.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
The guy in New York, I can't think of his name,
but to come to me in a second, I'm so
I'm so happy that he won the election last night
because it just says it's a new day, and it's
a new time, and it's a new it's a new
it's just a new vibe, but a new algorithm. And
the Democratic Party. And he when he won, he won't
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by a landslide. I mean, bruh had old man dude
had thirty eight percent early in the day before you,
I mean he had ninety He was winning by ninety
eight percent before they even called the election. He was
like twelve o'clock he was winning by ninety eight percent.
So you know, I can't think of his name. I
never had to come to me. I know he was
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going to get at Andrew Cuomo, and of course, of course, uh,
Donald Trump. Donald Trump endorsed Andrew CuMo, and I'm like,
what the F? What the F was going on? And
something else I wanted to talk about was I'm gonna
get to the snap benefits. And it's crazy because you know,
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like they are saying that people that that's unsnap needs
to get a job. But in order to get snapped,
you have to work. You have to work you want
to get snapped. So that's that's crazy. It's just a
crazy white man well of thinking and the way that
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they are generating these AI videos of black women crashing
out about Snap benefits when it's majority of white people
that get Snap benefits. Come on, man, come on, come on.
That whole thing was just crazy to me. That was
just weird, like that that joint was weird to me,
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that that joint was weird. And seeing that a sitting
president of the United States of America said he's reposting
these videos and he's he's you know, he's going on.
And I just I just think that they eat snap
A B, T and D. I have a new words
of nigga. You know, it's just crazy, man, It's just crazy.
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To the healthcare. There's some people who are who's healthcare.
It's going to cost more in their mortgage payments in
some cities in some states.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
So you know, it's crazy. I hear in these streets. Man,
it's crazy. It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I saw that Trump a federal to federal judges ordered
Donald Trump and the Trump administration to issue Snap benefits.
Then Trump came out and said, hey, no, we're not
going to issue nothing to the Democrats until the Democrats
getting their joint to get there whatever they want to
do together. You know, I just you know, I just
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think that it's crazy that a sitting president, a city president,
is doing.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
All of this joint.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Man, there's no if Barack Obama or any if Joe
Biden had the any of this joint, any of this stuff,
then then Donald Trump is doing.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Man.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
They're being peached. By tomorrow, we'll talk. They'll be in
peace by tomorrow. And I just don't see how people
are sitting there. There are so many Americans that are
going hungry, yet we are so focused on building a
three hundred million dollar ball There are so many Americans
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who don't know where their next meal is coming from.
They don't know how they're gonna feed their families for
for Thanksgiving. They don't know how they're gonna douce a
lot of things. They don't know a lot of federal
workers don't know whether the next chick is coming from.
And we are sitting here worried about the fuck afreaking
ball room. Come on, man, it's insane. That's insanity at
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its highest level. We are sitting you a word about
a ballroom.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Like I said on the show last week, that.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Eight percent of Americans are ninety ninety five percent of
Americans now are not gonna get a chance to see
because he built that ball up for him and his
big ernaifference. He built that ballroom for him and his people.
So he's building that ball room. And the fact, you know,
he said that he wasn't going to tear up the
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White tear up the White House, and he's doing that.
He tore down the East Wing. That lets you know
that he doesn't care about wather because the East Wing
is where the First Lady, that's where her office is
based out of. So I just don't know what trump man.
I just don't like to tell people get out of there.
But oh, we had elections and speaking to get out
the vote. We had elections in California and they brought
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vote on Proposition fifty where they were going to redraw
the redistrict maps and they they're going to challenge the
They're going to add more Democratic seaks to Congress. It's
going to be harder for the Democrats for the Republics
to do what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
And like I said, man, like I've been saying this,
you know, I'm I'm cheering for Gavin Newsom to run
for president in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I mean twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I hope that he runs the president, and he's just
putting for so much effort.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You know, he really cares, and.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
He you know, he is the he is the Trump
of the Democratic Party. He's the Trump, you know, the
Republican they can't stand Given, they can't stand Givens. And
I'm so glad that he's running. Well, he had well,
he said that he might run for president. He don't know,
he's been considered it. I hope that he comes out
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and he says, hey, I'm gonna run for Preston. I'm
gonna do the step of thirty and twenty twenty eight.
He ain't did that just yet. But it's just so
much going on. Federal workers have been paid, the finish, shutdown, airports,
Oh my god, this's just so much. So coming up
right after this, I sat down and I talked to
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Representative Angie Nixon out of Florida District thirty. She's the
Democratic ranking on the Education Administration Subcommittee, and she's a
member of the State Affairs Committee, Information Technology and Policy Subcommittee,
Industries and Professional Activity Subcommittee. And let's Representive Antinixon out
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of for Order I Gush is thirteen. So too, Well,
let's listen to my conversation with Representative Anginexon. But she's
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here to cut through the noise and what this shut down,
what this shutdown really means for your paycheck, snap, childcare, healthcare,
and what she can do for this week and have
a long and have a long and shut down. Last,
how you doing today, Representative.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Commis, thank you for having me, Super excited to be thank.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
You for taking time, money to be the schedule to
come on the show. I know you have so many
other things that you could be doing today.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Yeah, for sure, for sure, super excited to be here.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Okay, so let's just cut straight through the bs. What's
going on and what's going on? What's going on to
shut down?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Well, what's going on right now is that we have
a lot of political posturing that's happening up in DC
right now. And I would like to say the folks
that are in power, they just ain't looking out for
the best interest of working class families. Who they are
looking out for are billionaires and corporations that are basically
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hoarding all the wealth. They're cutting their taxes, giving them
tax breaks. Meanwhile, we are having to put the bill
forward and how are we futting the bill for it.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
We're putting the bill in ways in which.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Right now the standout on the shutdown basically is around
the Affordable Care Act, right, And so the Affordable Care Act,
there are over twenty four million people that have the
ACA and get those subsidies for the ACA. And what
it looks like is there if these subsidies are not extended,
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there are like four million or so folks that are
set to lose their insurance. And then also people's insurance
race everyone else, people's insurance race will go up right
in the tune of like over one thousand dollars a year,
in the tones of one hundred and fourteen percent. And
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let's be clear, right, if those subsidies don't go up
for folks who are on ACA, then also like private
insurance is going to go up as well, because they
got to try to make their money some kind of way.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
So if they're not getting money from the federal.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Government with with these subsidies, then they gonna put it
on the backs of working class people who have private
insurance through their companies and things like that, And so
it's just the lose lose situation.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
So how do you feel about like people like a
Charlomaine and God said, Democrats has lost this Democrats has
lost this fight.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Why don't we just give in? How do you feel
about this statement?
Speaker 6 (12:26):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Democrats have lost their fight. Like I don't think Democrats
have lost their fight. I think Democrats are looking out
for working families and Democrats are the ones who want
to make our lives easier.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
And let's be clear, you know, I know there are
some corporate dimns.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I am not one. I believe in ensuring that we
look out for the people. But I think we showed
a lot of fights, especially last night. I think that
the policies that are come out of the Trump administration,
the policies and the hateful rhetoric and the demonization that's
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coming from the White House, and just frankly, the unprofessionalism.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
I think last night.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
We put you know him and his ilk on notice
that we no longer want to have our country be
operated as a circuit side show.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And so.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
You know, we saw Democrats all across.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
The board in southern red states having some amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Wins up and down the ballot, and all across the country.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
We see we saw that over in California Governor Gavin
Newsom's and the Proposition fifty. They are pushing back against
Donald Trump trying to basically steal congressional This streets and
people are upset and tired of it. And so Donald
Trump has been put on notice that we are not
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going to allow him and these corporations to continue to
fund division amongst working families, because that's what's happening here,
Like division is profitable because if we're fighting amongst each
other as working class people or folks who are in
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the lower income bracket, if we're fighting amongst each other,
we can't really look up top and see that we're
getting screwed.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Because at the end of the day, that's what's happening,
Like we are getting.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Screwed by these billionaires who don't even want to pay
folks a living wage, right, Like I'm talking about your
Jeff Bezos, who is actively union busting, right, who doesn't
want to pay people over twenty dollars an hour, And
they're basically, i would say, in modern day slave doing
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modern day slave labor. Right. They I have heard from
people who have stated that they are breathing down their
necks if they take more than two restroom breaks, right,
and this guy, this guy has the nerve to like
throw fifty million dollar weddings. Meanwhile, we see people all
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in our community that are living in their cars and
paying handle it. And you don't want to pay people
living wages.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
And so like the the they profit off of us
being angry and mad at each other and arguing over scraps.
Meanwhile they're hoarding all this money and not paying their tax.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
So for feminists living check, what changes if this government,
if the shutdowns keep dragging, right, what will change?
Speaker 5 (15:53):
And so if the Republicans do not.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Decide to come to the table and actually look out
for working families, what we are going to see is
the continual closure of head start facilities. And for folks
that don't know, head start facilities are childcare centers and
early childhood education centers where our children whose.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Families can't afford the cost of day care.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
And I don't know if y'all know, but like daycare
is expensive for some folks.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It's like two thousand dollars a month for brand new.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Brand new babies dot in the womb, right, And so
a lot of people can't afford that for quality day,
for quality child care facility, and so Headstart.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Allows folks who can't afford it to be.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Able to have access to these child care facilities. And
so if these clothes, then these folks who are working
right won't be able to continue to work, right or
they may have to put their child out in a
not quality a less quality of facility, and that's only
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going to push those children into the school to prison pipeline.
Let's be real, right, if we continue this government shut
down and the Republicans don't come to the table with reasonable,
you know, provisions, then we are going to witness women
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who are low income who are pregnant could potentially have
a higher mortality rates because they're not eating correctly right, right,
because we is going to be impacted by this. And
as someone who had week for my first baby fresh
eye in college, right, like, I know how important it
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was for.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Me to get you know, that peanut butter.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
And that build and those eggs so that my baby
would be a healthy birth rate, right, and also like
having access to a formula. Right even though I nursed,
I still needed to supplement my daughter a little bit.
And so there are some people who can't nurse, and
so they don't. Formula is very expensive, right, and so
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we allow for low income mothers to be able to
have access to formula and things like that.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
And another thing that we will see is.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
You know, like Snap benefits continually being stopped, which means
people will go hungry.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
And I want folks to.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Realize that you gotta work to get Snap benefits. You
gotta work to get Snap benefits unless you are elderly, right,
unless you have a disability, and unless you have a child,
like there are work requirements attached to a government assistance.
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And so we need to stop acting like these people
are out here pimping the system. You know who's pimping
the system. These billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
and you're the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world. Those are
the ones who are pimping the system. And so I
want folks to know that there are a I get
so tired and frustrated with people saying if you own
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these people on Snap benefits, they need to get a job.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
They working. The problem.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
The problem is Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk and Jeff
Bezos and Donald Trump and his family.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
They don't want to pay people a living wage.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And so if you got Walmart, right, Walmart that employees
hundreds of thousands of people across the country and they
are like helping people, helping their employees walk through how
to sign up for SNAP and government assistance. Just that
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tell you with this company that profits billions of dollars,
maybe they need to look out for their workers.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
And pay them more so they won't have to be.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
On government assistance, especially if they are profiting billions and
billions of dollars. And so also, I don't think folks know,
but you sound people sound really crazy. Oh you on SNAP,
go get a job. This person is serving our country
like they are in the military, right, Like there are
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military families that are on SNAP benefits. And so the
audacity for folks to be like, you need to get
a better job is serving our country? Not good enough
for some of them, right, it's just a slap in
the faith.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
So it's so much confusion, there's so much bullcrap that's
going around abound with the topic of the government shut down.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Can you tell people what isn't true about shutdowns?
Speaker 1 (21:08):
What isn't true about shutdowns? So, what isn't true about shutdowns.
I want to say right now, is that like that
what the White House is really pushing, right, like, they
are in control.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
They make up the majority.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Of uh folks in Congress, so in the House of
Representatives and the US Senate, and.
Speaker 5 (21:36):
We're in the White House and the Executive Rant.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
And so it's really important to note like that they
have the power to do the right thing and they
don't want to do it, like they're posturing and they
are making.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
All these memes and like.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Basically making a joke out of this, and this is
not funny, like if people.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
It's so it's tearing out community be up.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
And the fact that the sitting president of the United States,
that the sitting president of the United States of America
is reposting these means that's cyrible.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
That said, it is absolutely terrible, and I want folks
to know, like, let me tell you how nasty this
man is. Right, And so, even the governor of Illinois
stated that the reason he was unable to send twenty
million dollars directly to SNAP benefit SNAP recipients was because
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Donald Trump and his folks decided to cut off the
machines so.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
That they wouldn't be able to use them if he
put that money, and so he would.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
He had to send it to area nonprofits in Illinois.
And then you know, it took some federal judges to
rule that the USDA had to release emergency funds for
snap benefits even though they were sitting on that money.
The U the federal the federal judges rule that they
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got to use it, and Donald Trump later said, We're
not gonna use it until they open up the government,
until they stopped the shutdown. And it's like, what, like
the more people to do the right thing and come
back to DC because the majority of them have left
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from the Republican Party.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Not even in se and like the man was like, basically,
y'all ain't gonna be able to eat, Like what kind
of stuff is that?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Right?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
And then he's, uh, they saw that his poll numbers
were plummeting, you know, and so the White House Press
Secretary had to correct it and say, hey, no, we
are gonna release them.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
We are gonna abide by the court order.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
And it's like you have someone who is in the
White House who is never probably gone to day being hungry,
had a silver spoon in his mouth his entire life,
right has been able to run businesses into the ground
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and file bankruptcy after bankruptcy, but.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Still lean on.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
His daddy's millions and millions and millions of dollars, right
and like, and he doesn't understand what we're going through,
know what it's like to struggle.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
I remember when.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Our heat went out and my mom had to open
up the oven and we had to sleep on the
kitchen floor because we didn't have any working heat, right
and so like, he does not no struggle. And it's
really time for us to rise up as a country
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and come together and really like tone down the re
and push back against uh Donald Trump his administration and
those who again don't care about working families and only
care about profit. It's time to be people over profit,
people over party, and people over politics.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Right, So what do the Florida family stand up stand
up as today?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Right? In any partial funding updates or even time wise,
what should people suspect?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
So as it relates to snap benefits, they are going
to be able to get partial payments, but those partial
payments are delayed, and so they I don't even I believe,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Even know if some of the cards have been loaded
up yet and So what we're asking folks to do
right now is to really lean into community, right and
the community should come together and try to stand up
food giveaways as well as looking at our churches.
Speaker 6 (26:02):
Thank you to all the churches that are leaning into
this moment. You talked about Bish and McKissick.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
I know they're opening up the SNAP program with them.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
You know, I donated to that, and I've also partnered
with the City Rescue Mission of Jacksonville to help the
family's bridge to gather.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah, so like that that is happening.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
And what I'm also asking folks to do is to
sign a petition to ask Governor Ryan DeSantis.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
To declare a state of emergency.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Look, in the state of Florida, we are sitting on
roughly seventeen billion with the b B seventeen billion dollars
in reserves, and he always caught the rainy day fund
and he does not want He's publicly talked trash about
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us calling for him to release some funds for folks
to be able to eat, for babies to be able
to eat. And my thing is this, like it ain't
even raining anymore. It's an all out like torrential thunderstorm.
And buy me hurricane like everything you know, and so like,
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we have the opportunity to help people here in the
state of Florida, and Ryan the Saints is choosing to
do otherwise. But like, let's be clear, he sure did
use basically over a quarter of a billion of our
taxpayer dollars to stand up a raggedy city down south,
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a modern day concentration camp for undocumented immigrants as well
as some documented immigrants and some Americans because they've been
you know, picking up people without due process.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
But he spent that money and Greece, which reached the palms.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Of his campaign donors and his friends uh in in
ways of offering no big contracts to throw up a
raggedy tent to house those people. And so if he
was able to do that, then he's definitely able to
feed our neighbors.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Right, So do Section eight landlords and tenants and do
vall face disruptions?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
So I would say Section eight tenants, and.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I have not heard that they have, and so I
would have to get back with you on that information.
But I have not heard that there's any any issues
in regards to that.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Right now, Okay, let.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Me ask you this, So how did you feel about
how do you feel about these ice raids. They're just
going in on people. It's just it's Chicago. They're just
at this point, they just they just bullying people at
this point.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
So it reminds me, It looks to me it's reminiscent
of what I read in history books, like modern.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Day like slave catching.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Almost I'm gonna be real with you, to allow masks,
men and maybe women to come in and to be
able to kidnap our neighbors, and they're kidnapping our neighbors
without due process and due process meaning.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
Those folks have.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
The opportunity to ask questions and to get an attorney and.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
To talk and to kind of like.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Figure out why they're why they've been arrested in the
first place.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Right, they're not knowing that to happen.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
And so we have seen where ice has accidentally picked
up like fourteen year olds and taking.
Speaker 5 (29:55):
Them down south. Right, we have seen where ice has accidentally.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Picked up American citizens and we don't find out until
it's too late, because again, there is no due process,
in no due process involved. I have literally spoken with
attorneys who have stated that they have never seen anything
like this, particularly down like in the Everglades concentration camp,
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where they didn't know who to talk to, they didn't
know which judge had the jurisdiction over that facility.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
And then you have my colleagues.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
That are the Republicans that are making light of the
situation and telling and joking and saying things like, well,
hopefully they don't get eaten up by alligators. What These
are real people, and many of which, like I said,
they're on paperwork. A lot of them have been on
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a sylum here on asylum, meaning like there's something very
wrong happening in the place that they came from. Oftentimes
it's a war torn country, and they're coming over here
because there they would risk death if they stayed in
their country. And so it is just absolutely ridiculous. We
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saw what happened in Chicago when they tied they zip
tied kids that were black, kids that were black American
like Americans, US citizens right handcuffing US citizens going into
these homes, into these apartment complexes and just terrorizing people
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and and turn and.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
Pointing guns at them.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
And it's just it is it is one of the
most Unamerican, unpatriotic things that anyone can do, and that
is exactly what this administration is doing, and we should
be speaking out against it.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
And I just feel like, whoever our next, whether the
next democratic president is, if we ever have a democratic
president again, whoever that president is, they better not never
say what they can and can't do, because this administration.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Right here, he's doing whatever you want to do. He's
defying the courts and another thing like he is actively
trying to rig an election. He was so mad last
night democrats like one all across the country that he's, oh,
we need election reform.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
No more mail in ballots and no more this, no
more that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
And it's like, wait a minute, it was okay when
you all were benefiting from it. Now that Democrats are
benefiting from using the mail in ballot system legally, right,
Like now.
Speaker 5 (32:55):
You want to get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Now you want to get rid of the Voting Rights Act.
It is just it is a threat to democracy. It
is a threat to our country, and we have to
be loud and push back about it.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
So federal workers around Jacksonville and all around the country, really,
how should they plan for miss checks?
Speaker 1 (33:23):
So I would say they should plan for miss checks. Unfortunately,
again leaning into community, but also.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Like calling votes, calling their utility companies, calling their landlords,
their mortgage companies, and their banks and seeing.
Speaker 5 (33:40):
If they have any release or deferments.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
And so I was able to reach out to j
e A, our Jacksonville Electrical Authority of our system and
ask them to weigh late thies. I am working on
them delaying they they offered up some payment extensions I
think throughout the entire time of the shutdown, but we
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are trying to also I'm trying to work with them
to ask them to not uh turn off any utilities
for folks that may have been impacted because these extensions
don't go into effect until tomorrow, and so some people
may be behind and may be facing their utilities being
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shut off, and so working on that right now.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Well, we're they the.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Child.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
It is awful, man.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Why why do you feel like, I know this is
off topic. Why do you feel like Kamala Harris lost it?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
So did you? Seven days?
Speaker 5 (34:52):
I haven't read it yet, but.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
You know.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
He did not.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
He did not have enough time to get everything together.
I also feel she was not allowed to be her
full self during that campaign, and I think that racism
(35:20):
played a major role. But now, I think that.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Folks are seeing that.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
It is not profitable to be racist. It is actually
very expensive to be living in a racist country, especially
if you're a working class individual. And so you know,
when you elect people that are racists and classes h
(35:53):
you get things like government shutdowns happening.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Twenty eight on the Democratic ticket.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Who do I think should run in twenty eight on
the Democratic ticket for president?
Speaker 5 (36:09):
I don't know, you know, we're I don't know.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Right now.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
I think yeah, I think Gavin Newsom is definitely going
to try to run. I also believe AOC maybe thinking
about putting her had in the ring. I wouldn't doubt
if Vice President Harris takes another shot at it. And so,
you know, I think we'll have some good options. Anything
(36:37):
is better than what we got right now.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Line you head line, So what's the fastest bout partisan
path to reopen the government without sacrifices the programs that
our listeners will low.
Speaker 5 (36:49):
Say that again, I'm sorry, what.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
What's the fastest by partisan path to reopen the government
without sacrifices the programs?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Our busteness, wily telling these dang on republic is to
get it together to extend ACA subsidies and do the
right thing for working class families, right, and so we
should be calling on the folks like here in the
state of Florida. We need to be calling on Ashley Moody,
Senator Ashley Moody and Senator Rick S. Guy and telling
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them that they need to come back to DC and
they need to extend extend the ACA credits and make
sure that people have health care so that they won't die,
right and reopen the government.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Right.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
So, now, votership hold all of these elected officials accountableship.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Have always held elected officials.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
But yes, we need to whold always hold us accountable
from federal, state local levels, up and down, up and down,
up and down.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
So give me a checklist for who to call, what
to print with the screen shot, and how to doing this.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Government such act.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
So yeah, So, folks should make sure that they are
calling their United States senators right now, particularly those who
are in red states like Florida. So Senator Rick Scott,
Senator actually moved here in the state of Florida, demanding
that they extend the ACA credits. Folks should also be
(38:29):
emailing and calling Governor Rick Scott's office and letting him
know that we need him to declare a state of
emergency so that he can release some funds in the
meantime while this government shut down is happening, right, And
then we just we need to make sure that we
are registered to vote because next year there isn't an election.
(38:50):
There is a primary in August and then there is
a general election in November. So there is a primary
in August, and there is a general in November. There
is a primary and in a general in November. Because
people often think that there's just an election in November
or they just think it's over in August, and so
like there are two and they should know about it, right,
(39:12):
And so folks also just need to like really lean
into community and start having.
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Conversations with their neighbors.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
We cannot hold people accountable for voting the wrong way
or for thinking the wrong way if we don't believe,
if we don't have.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
A relationship with them. If you have a relationship with
me and you trying to hold me accountable, I'm gonna
look at you like you crazy, because how.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
You gonna check me and you don't even know me.
But when we get to know people and like really
turned down, tone down, the rhetoric and build relationships with them.
You can really start explaining to them, like why things
are happening the way they're happening, right, And so that
is how we win by coming together and really putting
(39:57):
down our differences and learning that like, we all want
the same things. We all want to be safe and
prosperates and healthy, and so it is simply those folks
that are ultra wealthy billionaires that don't want us to be.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Right.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
I thank you so much for taking time to come
on the show today and really just break down everything
that's going on. And one thing that I want to
the best say they put on the sheet, one thing
that I really want to.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
This is a.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
So social security payments medicare, so Medicare's men.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Stop right, not just yet, okay.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Cool, So so Medicare socialecurity hyments are not stop those
continue evening the government to shut down folk.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
Who need new cases they don't have. They can't if
you're about to if you're trying to get your social
security now like for the first time, you're not able
to get it right now.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Basically okay, okay, cool, cool.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Because I read somewhere where it was like the social
security would stop. I'm like, they can't do that, they can't.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Stop eventually run out though, if this doesn't, if this
keeps prolonging, yes, oh.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Really, I thought those things would sit to the size.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
It's it's it's weird.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
It's it's a matter of like who can like release
the payment because people are furloughed and just all this stuff.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
So, yeah, it gets a little messy.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
I got you.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
I'm not I ran over time, but I thank you
so much. Interpres Okay, yeah, okay, y'all. Oh my god,
(42:06):
I feel terrible. My voice is going my throat, my
throat is itching, and my voice is going in and out.
I'm so voiced right now. So I have the mess
Trained Columns segment for today and the mess Train. Like,
like I said, if you need advice on anything, you
(42:26):
need advice on life, you need advice on dating, you
need advice on anything, just email me and mess train
at wold rate dot com. This mess train at wold
rate dot com. And I'm gonna give you the advice.
And if i can't get the advice right away, I'm
gonna you.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Know, we'll figure this shit.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
We'll figure this st So mess trained letter, the subject
is my man, his mama and that secret savings d Jay.
I'm a thirty five year old engaged I'm a thirty
four year old engage. I'm a thirty four year old
woman engaged to a thirty six year old man. We've
(43:06):
been together four years and living for two and living
together for two. When we first moved in, we agreed
to go fifty to fifty on everything so we could
quote unquote bill together. Well, fast forward to now. I've
been paying my half of the rent, utilities, groceries, and
even covering a few months entirely.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
When he was quote unquote between jobs.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
I didn't complain because I believed in him and in us.
Last week, his phone started at the the He asked
me to transfer some polos from his old phone to
his new one. While I was doing that, a text
came through from Miss Mama that said, I just transferred
twenty five thousand dollars into the same savings account. Don't
(43:52):
tell her nothing, y'all almost let your house go. Love you, Jay.
My heart dropped. Turns out I and his mama have
a secret saving account they've been building for years, planning
to buy him a house with just his.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Name on the bead, and I knew nothing about it.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Meanwhile, I'm over here scraping door dashing and running up
my credit cards to keep us afloat. Some months when
I confronted him, he said, I didn't tell you because
you're bad with money, and my mama wanted to make
sure I was straight if we.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Ever broke up.
Speaker 3 (44:26):
Then his mama dump but down and told me you
should be glad my son is thinking about his future.
A ring don't mean forever. Now I'm sitting here with
an engaging ring on my finger, feeling like a temporary
feeling like the temporary option who's been helping build a
safety net. I'm not even included in. Jay Am I overreacting?
(44:47):
Do I stay or try to rebuild trust? Or take
this ring off? Pack my stuff and let him and
his MoMA and joined the house, I unknowingly help funded,
signing the finance, sing my own exit well being, find next,
see my own excit see let me tell yourself and
(45:09):
let me just tell you so. And this is coming
from a person who's been married twice. I've been married twice.
In Laws become outlaws very fast.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
Pick that up what I said. In laws become outlaws
very fast.
Speaker 3 (45:30):
See, well this boy right here, guy, he got a
problem because at the end of the day, nothing comes
between you and your fiancee or you and your wife,
because ultimately you marry at your fiance say you say, hey,
(45:51):
I'm married this lady. So having her out of the
loop and you and your day of Mama over here
putting up money twenty five thousand dollars and your girl
that been door.
Speaker 2 (46:09):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Come on, man, that's a low ball. That's a very
low ball. That's that's a low ball. That that's a lowball.
So that's lodole on every level. Name that, that's lodole.
That just straight up low down. Because your girl over
here is scrapping while you in between jobs.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
She believe in you. See you don't recognize what you've
got because she seeing your potential because it's rare. It's rare.
It's rare.
Speaker 3 (46:42):
That a woman gonna let you go without work and
she's sitting there taking care of you, and she's sitting
there doing with you.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
It's rare.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
And you got that, and you feel the news that
because your ass being ignorant, your answer is being ignant.
You're being stupid, you know, and what what what? What
do you? Your mama? Your mother ain't got no business
(47:07):
being in y'all relationship or ring tell your mama gets
someone set. I asked that she ain't got no business
being in your relationship. It ain't no your mama business.
What they get what y'all got going on?
Speaker 2 (47:24):
She said, Jay.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
Meanwhile, I'm over here scrapping, door dashing and running up
my credit card to keep us afloat. So muscle, you
know what I'm saying. That's now down, brother, that's that's
that's that's real.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
No, Now, that's learning. Man.
Speaker 3 (47:38):
You shouldn't do your woman with that. You shouldn't And
I'm not I'm not the perfect woman, but you shouldn't
do your mother that. You shouldn't do You shouldn't do
your woman like that. Your woman out here door dashing
and stuff and trying to you know, you should you
shouldn't be a woman like that.
Speaker 2 (47:57):
You shouldn't do that. You you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 3 (48:00):
So my advice to you, my advice to you, pack
up your stuff and leave because let his ask go
over there with his mama what he wants to be at,
because that man don't want to be with you if
that man really wanted to be married to you, If
that man really wanted to see a future with you,
(48:22):
that man really wanted to build something bigger with you,
it wouldn't be no secret about twenty five thousand dollars.
If you don't, you can't. I mean, you know, one,
you're not, she said, jam My, overreacting. Do I stay
(48:45):
and try to rebuild trust? Or do I take this
ring off, pack my stuff and lay him in his
mother and Jorge the house and I know let him
fund No, no, one, you are not overreacting. One, You're
actually hunger reacting because his mama ask me, because what?
Speaker 2 (48:59):
Let me take that back. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
Why why? You know?
Speaker 3 (49:06):
I'm pretty sure if he would have went to this
girl and said, hey, mama, we put this money to
the side, We're gonna help us build a house. Nobody
gets married and plans to get divorcee. Nobody gets married
and plans to break up. That's just a God's on
this true. Nobody gets married and plans to break up.
Nobody I know nobody that gets married and plans to
(49:29):
break up.
Speaker 2 (49:29):
Some baby.
Speaker 3 (49:31):
My advice to you would be pack your stuff up
and let him in. His mama and join the house
that you help the fun real talk. I hope y'all
enjoyed that. In of you, we're representative Angie Nixon. It
was great to have her on the show, and it
(49:52):
was so informative. I don't know if I mentioned this
at the top of the show off the knot. I
don't know if I mentioned this at the top of
the show. Orkno, but I partner with the City Rescue
Mission of Jacksonville and all of my people in Jacksonville.
I need you to go and dominate to the City
Rescue Mission Mission of Jacksonville. And then Bishop Rudolph McKenzie,
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who's a really great friend of the show. He's a
real great friend of mine. He is opening up the
Snap store for people who lost their Snap benefits in Jacksonville.
So get all that, y'all, Get all that. Get all that, y'all.
It's a boy, jay Walker. I'm up out of here
until next time, be in peace, talk to God. And
he was walking here.
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or Tame Offico, the.
Speaker 3 (51:06):
Tame the.
Speaker 2 (51:10):
Tames. You are listening to The jay Walker Show.