August 1, 2024 • 53 mins
In this episode of Motivation Zone, I will be sharing my thoughts on the current political climate and expressing my opinions about Kamala Harris (whom I will not be voting for) and Former President Donald Trump. Before delving into the politics of 2024, I take you back to the time when I cast my first vote after turning 18. Voting has always been a serious matter for me, and that commitment remains unchanged today. I firmly believe in making informed decisions based on a candidate's qualifications and values, rather than solely considering their race or gender. Let's Talk About It!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Motivation Zone.
It is your host here. Monica is super excited to
be with you guys. We are going to dive into
the topic of politics this one I am excited about.
I am no longer going to stay out of this conversation.
I have been trying to, but I find it harder
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to do so. And that's because so much has changed.
There's so much going on, and as a woman in America,
and based on the color of my skin, a black
woman in America, I feel like more voices have to
start speaking up. And since Kamala Harris is seemingly on
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route to becoming the Democratic nominee, she has not yet
been made the official nominee, but of course she's on
her presidential campaign in her you know, rally motions, as
you can say, I feel like I really want to
dive into this conversation because there is no way I'd
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vote for Kamala Harris. And I'll tell you guys why
we're gonna dive into my thoughts. I also want to
talk about how I feel about Trump, and we're going
to go into a little bit of what I've seen
as well as me talking about what I've experienced between
living in America amongst these two administrations. It's very interesting, right,
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And so I want to go back.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
To the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I believe I've told this story before here on this
particular podcast, but if not, and you guys are new here,
I want to tell you about my political journey and
how I took the job of voting in America so
serious when I turned eighteen. So when I turned eighteen,
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the two nominee were George W. Bush and John Carey.
At the time, now, Bush was Republican, Carrie Democrat, right,
I remember going around asking my immediate circle, why do
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you guys vote Democrat? And the majority of the answers
I received was because they're the black people's party. And
another mentality I have to really dive into this, because
I'm gonna tell you guys my thought process when I.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Voted for the first time.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Another mentality was they're gonna look out for black people.
They're not going to tax us, they're not gonna raise taxes,
they're gonna keep certain benefits, all of those things. And
in my mind, I always knew even before turning eighteen,
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that I wanted to be an entrepreneur. Now mind you,
this is something that I hate about the current climate
and where we stand as of this recording. I'm recording
this in twenty twenty four just in case someone wants
to time travel and come back to this conversation years later.
But I have always felt like, and feel like now
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in this time that being an entrepreneur is just a
word that's thrown out there. But back then, back in
the early to late nineties, early two thousands, that meant
something because the attitude then was you need to work
a normal nine to five, You need to get a
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real job. People who were entrepreneurs were kind of looked
at funny depending on what you were doing, you know,
but the whole working for yourself people saw as being
very complicated and hard to do and maybe not worth doing.
So go get you a good job, corporate job, you
know whatever. And so here in twenty twenty four, that
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term of entrepreneur is tossed around so much because we
have social media, we have influencers, we have so many
people who have taken that path of I want to
earn money while I work from home, And because that
is such a prominent thing now, it is very hard
to have this conversation and tell you what that real
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emotion was.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
From back in the day. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So I guess I can kind of paint you guys
the picture, but it was something completely different to say,
I want to be an entrepreneur, I want to own
a business, right, And so I knew this. And as
I'm listening to people to discuss their political views, I'm
understanding from what I was hearing back then was the
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Republican Party was really focused on taxes. What that was
looking like they don't want to tax those who make
over a certain amount of money, or they want to
lower those taxes for certain businesses to make sure those
businesses can continue to grow in the economy, and all
of these things.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So as I'm listening, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I would prefer to vote for where I want to
be and opposed to voting for where I am right.
And so if I saw myself as just a poor
person in America, of course I'm going to vote based
on my poverty level, right, or my class level at
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the time, if that was my only mentality. Of course,
I'm growing up in America. I don't even know if
I would consider my come up being middle class I mean,
we were surviving, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We had a roof over our head, We.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Read, and we had jobs, but we weren't making I
guess you could say one hundred thousand dollars a year,
whatever class they call that, we weren't there, right. So
I approached my mentality of voting from a standpoint of
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and a perspective of I don't want to vote where
I am. I want to vote for where I'm going,
because if a president is going to be in office
for four years, I can only imagine me not being
here four years from now, you know what I mean.
I'm going somewhere to do something. And I still have
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that same mentality today.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So as I.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Watched these two candidates, Bush and Carrie at the time,
Carrie rubbed me the wrong way in so many ways.
I remember watching the political debates. I remember Bush being
there upfront and forward in what he wanted to do
for America and what he wasn't gonna stand behind for America,
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and I felt like he was very matter of fact
about it and Carrie was not. And to me, what
really threw me off was as I watched other political
debates before I was able to vote, before I was
legal to vote. I remember hearing these same talking points
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that Carrie had. One thing about the Conservatives, and I'm
gonna speak to you guys. I'm speaking to you guys
from an independent. I'm not gonna say that I am
just a registered Republican because that's not true about me.
I am open to hearing who has the better policies,
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and I'm also open to hear what changes someone wants
to make. And I believe that can happen between either.
It just so happens, though, that the Liberals have not
for years, and since I was eighteen years old, have
not had any talking points other than the same old,
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same old Black community, LBGTQ, abortion, etc. Right, And one
thing I want to give a candidate credit for, and
I did not vote for Obama. I didn't vote for
Obama the first term, and I did not vote for
Obama the second term. And I have my reasons why,
but he is not the topic today. Okay, so we'll
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go into that maybe another time, but I will give
him credit for not pandering to the black community. I
do not remember watching Obama making speeches just you know,
promising the black community a lot of things. I feel
like he stayed away from that topic, So I'm gonna
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give him credit.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It's not that it didn't come, it just wasn't the
main thing he discussed during his political rallies. You guys
correct me if I'm wrong. Feel free to tap the
link in the description of this podcast and you can
leave me a comment if you guys had another experience
or a perspective when it came down to watching Obama.
But I still did not vote for Obama for a
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lot of different reasons, And one of the biggest was
everybody around me at the time. And I'll never forget it.
I was working at Walmart at the time, and every
single black person rolling up in Walmart has some type
of swag and just excitement because they was getting ready
to get a black president and everything was about to change.
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And I'm like, how do you know something's gonna change
because he's black. He's black, And I'm like, you guys
have to be kidding me. This can't be the only
thing we're leaning on. And then here we go. Obama
goes through two terms, and then black people started to
really get upset his second term because they was like, I.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Voted for this man. He ain't did nothing for the
black community.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
It was hilarious, it really was, and I hate to
laugh at people's pain, but it was just like, this
is what you guys expected. I could have told you
it wasn't gonna work out like this, and I'm gonna
get to that here in a moment. But back to
Bush and Carry. I watched every debate. I watched both
of these guys rallies, and I must say when I
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went to vote my first time, I voted for a Republican.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Period because I refuse.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
To do what everyone else is doing just on the
notion that I need to vote Democrat because I'm black.
And this is the reason why I can't really give
Candice Owens the credit of being that black female, you know,
conservative talking just I guess you can say new idea
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type of person because I'm like, she's not saying anything
I haven't been saying four years. Shout out to Cannons Owens.
But in any way, I just had to bring that up.
I cracked myself up, but into you. So when it
comes down to it bringing us to current dates, I
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feel that the liberals have gotten a lot worse from
when I was eighteen, even though Carrie's talking points were
still on the we're gonna help with black education and
we're gonna put more money in black schools and we're
gonna do the even though that was his talking points today,
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I don't know where the liberals are. I feel like,
and this is just my personal opinion, you guys, this
is my perspective.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Everybody else is entitled to how you see it, how
you view it. I'm not trying to undermine anybody, but
this is the way I view it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I feel like the liberals in twenty twenty four don't
care about America at all. It's the strangest thing. I
understand that a lot of people want to think that
the party they're voting for it cares about you, and
that's what they mouth, you know, they move that with
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their mouths, but they're not doing anything with their actions.
And I feel like we are running into a situation
where many of them are just enjoying the positions we're
putting them in.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They are able to hide.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Behind their security, They're able to hide behind their homes,
They're able to shelter in place with resources that we
do not have as just working class Americans. They're able
to duck and dodge the issues that we are facing
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because they can make these rules and set these make
these choices, and set these standards and not have to
live amongst what they're putting out. And one thing I
want to bring up, which is one major reason why
I will not vote for Kamala, is because we have
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not seen Kamala in three and a half years. I
am not just regurgitating something I heard. Literally, I have
been speaking to my own mom about politics lately, and
she and I had this conversation about four or five
months ago, before Biden dropped out of the race, before
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we knew what they were doing and who's going to
be the nominee of what. We were discussing this, and
I ask my mom, where the heck is Kamala, A
Kamela or whatever her name is, right, So my mom
was like, I don't know, nobody's seen her. So now
we're dealing with somebody who's been hired to play a
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role in Casper because she disappearing in Ghosting right, seriously,
and so we have not seen this woman to determine
the job that she's done for America. That's number one,
That's my number one problem. Then number two is when
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she does come out, she pretends that all the problems
that they're facing under their administration is a Trump problem.
So let's jump on Trump for a second. Trump has issues,
don't we all? Okay? Trump has as indeed, said some
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things he should not have said, and in twenty twenty
he completely divided the country. And I feel like that
is what a lot of people's issues are with Trump,
because until twenty twenty, I believe Trump would have been
reelected for president. The reason why I say this is
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because as an American and my experience, Trump was doing
great with taxes. It is true that more jobs was
coming into America.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He was really.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Putting some stipulations on businesses who were going and taking
their manufacturing out of country. He was really finding these
companies and so Trump being an all American is how
the best way I can describe Trump. I don't believe
Trump is a baut Man, and that is one of
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the reasons why they don't want him in office. You
can't pay him to turn on what he believes, and
that's very rare. As complicated as he is as a
person and as misdirected that he as he's been because
there takes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
A team to keep us in line.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You know. I feel like running the country as one
person is already complicated enough. Half of us are struggling
just running a household, you know what I mean, whether
it be with a spouse and kids or just a
spouse and bills, you know, or just single and bills,
whatever the case may be. It is tough getting up
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and making these everyday decisions as is. Can you imagine
getting up making these decisions every day for the country.
So he needs a team behind him. And you know,
I don't have any political experience as far as going
out and campaigning and all these things, but I have
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never been short of an idea, and I have always
wanted to be in law. It's a path that I
decided against for many different reasons. I'll tell you guys
about that another time because I'm on a stay on topic.
But I feel like I could really help Trump out.
I've been wanting to write his campaign for so long,
and I may still end up doing it because I
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want to tell Trump. One thing that I would like
to see him do as an American is just apologize
and take accountability. For twenty twenty, there was some things
that Trump allowed and his administration allowed that just should
not have happened. And it had gotten so disgusting with
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everything that was going on with this virus and all
of these other things that was happening in society, it
was just not the time to make certain things come
across as if you take this action, and you're a Democrat,
If you take this action, you're Republican. And it became
the mask wearers versus the non mask wearers. It became
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the shelter in place people versus those who did not
shelter in place, and it just it was a mask.
And as someone who's always voted conservative, I felt very
weird going out, even though I was wearing my mask,
because I'm like, first of all, you guys are not
gonna put me out here amongst a virus I know
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nothing about. I don't know where it came from, and
gonna sit here and go. If you wear a mask,
then that mean you're a Democrat. What if I wear
a mask, that means I don't want this nasty a virus?
Can we go there? If I don't wear a mask,
that means I want to protect the people I love,
Because here we are having high depth counts over this virus, right,
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And then people wanted to argue, oh, well, people die
from the flu every year. Yeah, but not people I know.
To my knowledge as of today's date, I don't know
anyone who's died from the flu around me. So to me,
this virus was a little bit more potent, and with
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everything that was unknown about it, I wasn't willing.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
To take that chance with the.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
People I loved, and I decided to wear my mask period.
It had nothing to do with my political stance, and
because the air was so thick with that, going out
was just weird, you know what I mean. You're in
the store shopping, people giving you weird looks because you're
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wearing a mask. It just shouldn't have never gone in
that direction. Good leadership is taking the time to break
down why people need to do certain things and take
certain steps, and why we should all come together on that,
opposed to allowing these narratives to run while in the
media and then getting up on the podium, you know,
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whenever they're making their announcements to the press through the
White House and just saying crazy stuff. So it was
a mess, and I feel like Trump has a responsibility
that he needs to take for that. Even with the
things that happen with the capital, that was enough to
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I would say, cause them to at least want to
take a step back to see what it is their
objective is. Where are we trying to take this? Where
do we want people to be? What do we want
people to feel?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And the first feeling should be security, and then the
next feeling should be We're here for you and we
want the best for everyone, no matter what you believe,
no matter where you stand. Right Because I'm gonna tell
you guys this, I have plenty of neighbors around me,
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neighbors who are single, neighbors who are married, neighbors who
have children, and if I ever saw them in harm's way,
I would say something or hope to do something about
that if it was in my power to do so.
Before asking them, well, what is your nationality? What is
your religion? None of those things are important when it
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comes down to lives in my opinion, right, And so
all of that to say, Trump needs to apologize for
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
He needs to feel something about that, some regret, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And I understand that leaders find it hard to apologize
because then everybody wants to throw blame on them for everything,
but that's kind of it's the hit we're gonna have
to take in order to correct some paths.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Right can correct some things.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And so.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I did not vote for Trump or Biden twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Twenty twenty was an election I stayed out of. I
really wanted to give Trump my vote, but I just
could not bring myself to do it. It was just
such a mess. Biden was definitely not about to get
my vote. And the only reason Biden received as many
votes as he did is because Trump had upset so
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many people that all they wanted to do was get
him out right. And I understood that, and I can't
even knock that sentiment. I really can't. But I could
never bring myself to vote for somebody just to get
somebody else out of office. I have to vote on
the policies. I have to vote on what they stand
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for and what they're willing to do for the country.
And I didn't hear Biden say Jack Diddeley squat about
what he was gonna do for this country that he
stood on as of twenty twenty four. And that leads
me back to Kamala Harris so Biden was running. He
was gonna be the Democratic nominee as current sitting president.
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And I feel like Biden, he has some things going on,
and praying for him. I hope that he's able to
live out his life with some type of normalcy and
you know that he can enjoy himself hopefully after all
of this, because there's a lot going on. There's been
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some pressure put on him, and of course his press
secretary has been standing up just telling a thousand lies.
Oh it's Ai, this is deep fake stuff that you
guys are seeing, and then you know, here we are
a couple of months later, he's dropped out of the race,
and he won't say why he dropped out, but of
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course the Democrats want him to drop out because they
say he's not performing well. He's stumbling over his words,
he's forgetting what his points are unless it's put before
him and the projector or whatever. Then you know, he's
unable to keep up, walking, slowly, losing balance, all of
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those things that come with age. So we need to
be respectful because all of us will age right and
I don't want any harm to come to Biden. But
beyond that, what has Biden done for America. The biggest
focus for the Biden administration currently has been other issues
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concerning other countries. And there's a term for that, and
I don't know why, but right now I can't even
think of it, but you guys know what I mean.
So billions have been sent to Ukraine, and Biden said
that the billions that was sent to Ukraine had not
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been in the form of money, but in the form
of weapons. Even that to me is scary where you're
supplying another country with that much in weapons and you
never know how they really feel about us. And then
we have an open border. And so then because they
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were underperforming with voters due to the border issue, he
comes out and tries to put something together last minute
to at least minimize the amount of people able to
come into the border on a daily weekly basis, which
is still a lot of people. And now the conversation
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and the talking points of Kamala Harris, who just so
happens to step in as the nominee because Biden stepped out,
is that Trump is the reason why the border's.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Out of control.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Where who is believing this when this man was building
a wall. And one thing I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Give Trump credit for it, because I give credit where
credits due over here, we are not gonna be talking
crazy talking points of people who want to lie and
deflect and not take accountability for their roles.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'm not gonna do that. One thing about Trump is
the man actually does what he says he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Research it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
When Trump was running around here campaigning off of building
that wall before he was elected president, the first time
people were like, yes, does need to be more secure.
He knew this, and he built the wall. He started
on it, and the moment he stepped out of office,
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the moment Biden stepped in, Biden stopped those processes. He
stopped the building of the wall. The border was not
left unsecure with Trump. We did not have a bunch
of migrants coming in here just doing whatever and going
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unchecked and getting money from the government. Because they're coming
in here and they need to be taken care of
and sheltered and fed. That is a problem. And so
now the talking points of Kamala is, well, the Republicans
didn't sign off on something that we needed them to
sign off on to create more jobs at the border.
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You have got to be kidding me, because these same Republicans.
She's talking about. It needs Republican ran cities. These conservatives
have been bussing migrants to democratic or quote unquote sanctuary cities,
meaning that they have migrants coming into their cities, and
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they're like, we're not going to tolerate this. This is
not something we asked for, this is not something we
voted for, this is not something we stand for. So
we're gonna bust them. To the people who swear we
don't mind this behavior, we don't mind this happening, and
it had gotten to the point. I don't know if
this was in Wisconsin and what state it was. I
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want to say it was a w state, but anyways,
one of the states where a government official was asking
the locals to possibly open up their homes to migrants.
That's how bad it's getting out here. And don't even
get me started on these liberal ran cities.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Who are literally.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Doing this whole defunding the police and then also decriminalizing
thieves where they're able to go into these stores and
rob these stores up to one thousand dollars or more,
some of them twelve hundred, and they're not going to
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be prosecuted or arrested. So much so to where it
hit the news where a cop was arrested for also
stealing or lost her job. I don't know if she
was arrested, probably couldn't have been arrested if that was
the rule. She's probably looking around like, oh, they able
to steal and you know, not have to be penalized.
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Why should I suffer? I get the logic. I wouldn't
do it, but I get the logic.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I get how.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Someone could come to that conclusion. Watching people run in
and out of stores all day long, stealing and not
getting arrested. That is a problem. And so another talking
point of Kamala's is where they want to put a
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little bit more regulations on landlords. I believe landlords, and
I have considered going into real estate, not as a relator,
but as someone who does real estate investments, and to
be honest with you guys, that has never been so
unattractive in this current administration. I have heard the horror
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stories of landlords who have people living with them since COVID,
where they are living in their properties and they haven't
been getting payments. Then for some odd reason, squatters have
become a huge topic twenty twenty four and hear much
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about them twenty twenty three, but twenty twenty four, the
squatter situation is just off the chain, and there have
been all types of people from all types of classes
of life taking advantage of the squatter situation. It had
gotten so crazy to the point where I'm still up here, like,
why in the heck am I pay mortgage? I don't
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know if you guys have asked yourself this, but I
literally was like, what so you mean to tell me?
I could just go pick something abandoned, get the utilities
turned on, and stay there, and as long as I
stay there X amount of days some states it's literally
thirty days. If you squat for thirty days, they cannot
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remove you off their property, unless, of course, they spend
their money to get you removed from their property. It's
just not something I agree with, especially now in twenty
twenty four. The reason why is because so much real
estate is being established. I understand the initial thoughts of
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squatter loss. I understand the reasoning for wanting to have
that in the time it was established, right, but in
twenty twenty four, there's so much real estate being built
there is no way possible as an investor in real
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estate that you're gonna invest in something and instantly move
into it. So there are so many companies and individuals
who have gone down that path of real estate and
investing to where they're losing so much money, whether it
be trying to get a squatter out their house so
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they have to go through the legal processes, or they
have people living in their homes who they aren't able
to collect rent from. And it was very bad twenty
twenty for landlords because of the virus situation and because
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of people losing their jobs and all these things, so
they weren't getting paid either. And I am just not
in support of penalizing those who helped the economy to run.
If it wasn't for these investors, if it wasn't for
these landlords, the people renting wouldn't have anything to rent.
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And so, in my opinion, the liberals are literally trying
to penalize working class Americans, business owners, and those who
were literally trying to make America work in economy, grow
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an economy. They're not supportive of those who are putting
forth an effort. That is just how I feel, and
that is not good. And here's how I feel about
migrants Okay. I feel like anyone should be able to
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go into any country based on that country's rules and regulations.
Everywhere we go as Americans outside of the US, we
need passports in all kinds of other documents in order
to live or stay in a certain country for a
long period of time. In America, no one should be
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able to come over here without those same processes, passports,
working visas, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
If it's done appropriately and properly normally, because I know
I can't go anywhere and do the same thing. And
if we could, a lot of us probably would be
escaping the US with a quickness, right, But we know
that's gonna take time.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
We have to get.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Approved for passports. There are people still waiting for passports
who apply four and five months ago. So there's a
lot still going on with us being able to leave here.
So how is it that we can just have an
open border and any and everybody could just come in
without that process.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I wouldn't do that with my own home. Are any
of you guys these days just sleeping with your doors unlocked?
And they used to do that back in the day,
but today is not it, And so that's how I
feel about that next thing. So much to cover you, guys,
I might have to do a part to you because
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there's a lot going going on. I want to get
into the LBGTQ situation. I want to get into abortion.
These are two other major talking points for the liberals.
I will say this. I was speaking to one of
my lovely neighbors and she's eighty years old, and I
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absolutely enjoy talking to her, and she was breaking down
to me history in how she was raised, and I
absolutely loved her explanation of voting liberal over the years.
She explained to me that back in her day, voting
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liberal meant that you were going to be voting for
someone who believed in women in the workplace and who
believed in minorities in the workplace. Because back then, with
her coming up, it was the European, Caucasian or white
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man who was running everything. Even the women, whether they
were Caucasian or whatever, they weren't able to go into
certain spaces. In many spaces, to be honest with you,
the men were running the world. And I understand there
needs to be a.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Balance to all of that.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And so when she was coming up, she was explaining
to me that liberal meant it was progressive back then.
The mentality was very progressive back then, because women weren't
able to work in certain spaces, and minorities were definitely
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not able to work or go to school in certain spaces,
and so voting liberal meant that you were supporting the
idea that these things can be accomplished and that we
can all work together and we can.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
All have equal rights. That's what it meant.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
And when she said this to me, I was like
mind blown, mind blown, because in that moment I realized
that the roles have changed, and now the Conservatives stand
more for the traditional household man, woman, boy, girl, right, husband, wife, children.
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They stand for you know, if you want the job,
do your best to get the job, and you will
have the job right. And also they stand for, from
what I've been able to hear and gather, stand for
security for the country, not against my porities coming in,
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but against the way minorities are currently being able to
come in here without due process. Therefore due process right.
The Conservatives are considered now the more traditional party and
not in the ways of where you know, we're going
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back in time, because I just don't feel that when
Trump was president, I did not feel threatened in this
country as a minority. That's just for real for me, right,
or as a woman. And I'm gonna say this, I
did not mind the whole Trump saying that whatever he
got called saying to another man about touching on a woman, listen,
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that was them. I don't know how that conversation started.
I don't know at what point he replied back to
this man or what was said ahead. That's one clip.
I know that when men are talking and women are
talking amongst each other, there are some crazy things being said,
especially when we know we're comfortable around certain people and
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we can say certain things. Like me, I'm not above
dropping a F bomb or two every now and then,
but you guys won't hear it because I'm not interested
in doing all of this cussing and stuff on my podcast, right,
doesn't mean I'm above it. I'm just not gonna do
it here in this setting, right.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
But those who are close to me may have heard
me drop that a few times.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
So I just can't get behind these basic sound bites
of Trump from back four years ago. And it's very
funny how much they're trying to put on Trump now,
but don't have the sound bites of him actually saying it.
It's a lot going on, but the Conservative Party and
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the Liberals have definitely switched roles, and the Liberals are
now definitely way more progressive and just too open opposed
to setting balances and standards amongst their party and what
they believe.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
They are now.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
To me and my opinion, the everything goes party, and
it's just not a place I would prefer to be
in and I don't feel comfortable living there in that
mentality that everything goes, everything's acceptable, and technically, speaking to them,
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everything is not acceptable because they like everything except for
balance and standards.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
They don't like constructive criticism. They don't like a clean.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
How do you say it. I guess you could say
a clean house. They like mess. That's how I view
them right now, and it's scary. So we have the
abortion situation on the table. I want to say I've
covered this before, but I'll say this again. I am
for abortion to an extent, and only if there is
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a mother carrying a child and her life or that
child's life is in danger, then those things and those
matters need to be weighed on a case by case basis.
That is the only time I would ever before that.
I am never going to be for abortion for women
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who only want to use it as a form of
getting rid of unwanted pregnancies, because there are a gazillion
ways to prevent getting pregnant. Furthermore, I hear a lot
of these women go on my body, my choice, and
I'm like, make the choice to not put your body
through that. If you sleep with old boy and you
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know you don't want old boy to be your baby daddy,
don't sleep with him unprotected number one, I would prefer
you not sleep with him at all. But that's just
me right now. I'm just letting you know what I think.
But to be like, oh, I don't really want to
have his baby, but you let him hit you wrong?
Speaker 2 (43:21):
That's crazy. Why?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
And these are the issues I'm having because the conservatives
are saying this is not even a necessary thing, and
it's not.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
This shouldn't even be a.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Major talking point sex education should be because on top
of all of that, they're still STDs and new STDs
popping up around here, and now we don't want to
talk sex education. Now they're in school teaching kids how
to have sex opposed to refraining from sex until you
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find a partner that you can share with only with
that one partner. Hey, if you know some of y'all
down with multiple, that's on y'all, But I just don't
recommend it, not in twenty twenty four, and so no,
I'm never gonna be down for that. I don't agree
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with abortion being used as a form of.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
I don't even want to call it birth control, but
I guess you can say it's birth control because it
prevents the woman from giving birth. But I don't agree
with that because it's so many other ways to do this.
And just like I expressed to someone else, another woman
who was talking along this topic, is that when a
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woman has an abortion today in society, there is multiple
people included in that process, including the individuals who have
to administer that abortion. So it's not just you. It
feels that way because it's a very selfish thing to
think that I can just keep having sex, keep getting pregnant,
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and keep aborting to stop from having a baby and
just enjoying these men coming in me all kinds of ways.
It's interesting to just have that thought, but it's just
not that simple. It's more people involved in this, then
they have to find a way to get rid of
the fetuses, all of these things.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
It's just a lot.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
And so I feel like having sex education as a
bigger talking point opposed to abortion being the biggest talking point,
would really help America and would really help educate young women,
especially who are growing up in this country. And then
we have the LBGTQ Listen. I've always said I don't
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care who people are in a relationship with. It's not
my business.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Even as a heterosexual woman married to a man seventeen years, Okay,
I don't talk about my sex life with people. I
just I'm not interested. It's never been a thing for me.
So I don't really care who people are with. That's
not my problem.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
My problem is when it's becoming such a situation that
there are people who can go rob a store for
twelve hundred dollars and not be prosecuted or arrested for
that from stealing people's livelihood, in stealing valuables that actually
cause people money to replace or to restore because they're
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damaging stores and goods, versus us being prosecuted for misgendering
somebody who who actually looks like the gender that that
being called. I can not participate in such foolishness. If
it looks like a man, talks like a man was
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born a man, do not penalize me for saying, Hi, sir,
excuse me, sir.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
So there is a lot on the table with this
situation where there has to be a line drawn. It
really does you, guys, And also the women around here screaming,
Oh the liberals are for women, are they when they're
allowing men to beat on y'all in women's sports. Here's
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my proposition to the liberals when it comes down to
transgenders in particular. I don't mind a transgender woman who
was once a man but now identifies as a woman.
I don't mind them using a bathroom with me as
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long as they've had the full transition. If you put
on a dress and you still have a penis, I
don't want you in a bathroom with me. We have
a right to privacy, just like men have a right
to privacy. We've had separated bathrooms forever. And there are
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some places I go, some gas stations I go to
where there's only one bathroom, and you know it's for
the general public, and it has one door, one toilet,
one sink, one mirror, which means only one person can
go in at a time. Understandable, But when you're talking
about a woman's bathroom, multiple stalls and there are men
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walking in and out, that's just not no. That's a
note for me. And so my proposition and my thoughts is, liberals,
if you guys want to consider this being an actual thing,
have a system in place where when a transgender completes
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their surgeries and completes their transitions, they get a little
stamp on their ID or whatever, and that lets you
know that they have been approved to have all of
the rights to the accessories and accessibilities of us women.
I don't feel like men are having this problem like
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we are, because I feel like even women who are
identifying as men still feel more comfortable using the women's bathroom.
Y'all tell me if I'm tripping. But I just don't
see that being a thing for the men. Y'all let
me know if I'm tripping. That's all I'm saying. Because
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it it doesn't matter what you look like, there is
always gonna be that feeling, and it doesn't matter how
you dress. That feminine feeling never leaves us, and women
know where we can go and be comfortable. And a
lot of the times that's not just around ah a
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man's space. Sometimes it's in your own space and that
doesn't matter how you look. But maybe I'm tripping. So
that's my thoughts on that. You guys, I really don't care.
I don't care who these LBGTQ, whatever other alphabets they
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are with. I don't care what their lifestyles are. What
I care about is when the laws start affecting us
and how we live and freely go about our days.
And I am not about this man in black situation
where they're trying to tell me what I think I saw.
I did not see. It's not interested. So wrapping up
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that is the reason why I'm not gonna be voting
liberal this election. I will not be voting for Kamala Harris.
They could not pay me to vote for Kamala Harris.
And I'm hoping that you guys do your research, start
doing exactly what I'm doing. In these next however many
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days we have left. We're in what ninety something days
left from election. I hope to do all the research
I can, just to know my facts. But I'm telling you,
guys some of the things I know from the top
of my head right now. But there's more to learn,
you guys, So don't just take it from me. Don't
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just listen to the news. Don't just listen to these
politicians talking about each other. But do your research, get
the numbers for yourself. Understand the policies for yourself. Understand
who was doing what at what time for yourself. That's
what I am encouraging and motivating you guys to do
right now, So listen. I would love to hear from
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you guys. If you have a comment, check the description
of this podcast and click the link and leave me
a comment.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
I would love to hear.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Your thoughts and your political views. Remember to keep your
comments classing and professional, because that's all we do over here.
We are interested, and I am interested always in having good,
wholesome adult conversation, So let's keep it there. Also, you guys,
hit the link. If you are with me and you're
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not voted for Kamala Harris, check out my Unburdened T shirt.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
That I made just for her.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
I think you'll find it quite interesting, and that's gonna
be it for me. For now, you guys, I will
probably do a part too to this because there's a
lot going on and I want to catch you up
on some research that I've done. So yeah, look forward
to that part too, very soon. Hold me to it
until next time, you guys chat soon
Hi, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Motivation Zone.
It is your host here. Monica is super excited to
be with you guys. We are going to dive into
the topic of politics this one I am excited about.
I am no longer going to stay out of this conversation.
I have been trying to, but I find it harder
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to do so. And that's because so much has changed.
There's so much going on, and as a woman in America,
and based on the color of my skin, a black
woman in America, I feel like more voices have to
start speaking up. And since Kamala Harris is seemingly on
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route to becoming the Democratic nominee, she has not yet
been made the official nominee, but of course she's on
her presidential campaign in her you know, rally motions, as
you can say, I feel like I really want to
dive into this conversation because there is no way I'd
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vote for Kamala Harris. And I'll tell you guys why
we're gonna dive into my thoughts. I also want to
talk about how I feel about Trump, and we're going
to go into a little bit of what I've seen
as well as me talking about what I've experienced between
living in America amongst these two administrations. It's very interesting, right,
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And so I want to go back.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
To the beginning.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I believe I've told this story before here on this
particular podcast, but if not, and you guys are new here,
I want to tell you about my political journey and
how I took the job of voting in America so
serious when I turned eighteen. So when I turned eighteen,
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the two nominee were George W. Bush and John Carey.
At the time, now, Bush was Republican, Carrie Democrat, right,
I remember going around asking my immediate circle, why do
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you guys vote Democrat? And the majority of the answers
I received was because they're the black people's party. And
another mentality I have to really dive into this, because
I'm gonna tell you guys my thought process when I.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Voted for the first time.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Another mentality was they're gonna look out for black people.
They're not going to tax us, they're not gonna raise taxes,
they're gonna keep certain benefits, all of those things. And
in my mind, I always knew even before turning eighteen,
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that I wanted to be an entrepreneur. Now mind you,
this is something that I hate about the current climate
and where we stand as of this recording. I'm recording
this in twenty twenty four just in case someone wants
to time travel and come back to this conversation years later.
But I have always felt like, and feel like now
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in this time that being an entrepreneur is just a
word that's thrown out there. But back then, back in
the early to late nineties, early two thousands, that meant
something because the attitude then was you need to work
a normal nine to five, You need to get a
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real job. People who were entrepreneurs were kind of looked
at funny depending on what you were doing, you know,
but the whole working for yourself people saw as being
very complicated and hard to do and maybe not worth doing.
So go get you a good job, corporate job, you
know whatever. And so here in twenty twenty four, that
(04:06):
term of entrepreneur is tossed around so much because we
have social media, we have influencers, we have so many
people who have taken that path of I want to
earn money while I work from home, And because that
is such a prominent thing now, it is very hard
to have this conversation and tell you what that real
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emotion was.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
From back in the day. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
So I guess I can kind of paint you guys
the picture, but it was something completely different to say,
I want to be an entrepreneur, I want to own
a business, right, And so I knew this. And as
I'm listening to people to discuss their political views, I'm
understanding from what I was hearing back then was the
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Republican Party was really focused on taxes. What that was
looking like they don't want to tax those who make
over a certain amount of money, or they want to
lower those taxes for certain businesses to make sure those
businesses can continue to grow in the economy, and all
of these things.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So as I'm listening, I'm like.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
I would prefer to vote for where I want to
be and opposed to voting for where I am right.
And so if I saw myself as just a poor
person in America, of course I'm going to vote based
on my poverty level, right, or my class level at
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the time, if that was my only mentality. Of course,
I'm growing up in America. I don't even know if
I would consider my come up being middle class I mean,
we were surviving, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
We had a roof over our head, We.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Read, and we had jobs, but we weren't making I
guess you could say one hundred thousand dollars a year,
whatever class they call that, we weren't there, right. So
I approached my mentality of voting from a standpoint of
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and a perspective of I don't want to vote where
I am. I want to vote for where I'm going,
because if a president is going to be in office
for four years, I can only imagine me not being
here four years from now, you know what I mean.
I'm going somewhere to do something. And I still have
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that same mentality today.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So as I.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Watched these two candidates, Bush and Carrie at the time,
Carrie rubbed me the wrong way in so many ways.
I remember watching the political debates. I remember Bush being
there upfront and forward in what he wanted to do
for America and what he wasn't gonna stand behind for America,
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and I felt like he was very matter of fact
about it and Carrie was not. And to me, what
really threw me off was as I watched other political
debates before I was able to vote, before I was
legal to vote. I remember hearing these same talking points
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that Carrie had. One thing about the Conservatives, and I'm
gonna speak to you guys. I'm speaking to you guys
from an independent. I'm not gonna say that I am
just a registered Republican because that's not true about me.
I am open to hearing who has the better policies,
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and I'm also open to hear what changes someone wants
to make. And I believe that can happen between either.
It just so happens, though, that the Liberals have not
for years, and since I was eighteen years old, have
not had any talking points other than the same old,
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same old Black community, LBGTQ, abortion, etc. Right, And one
thing I want to give a candidate credit for, and
I did not vote for Obama. I didn't vote for
Obama the first term, and I did not vote for
Obama the second term. And I have my reasons why,
but he is not the topic today. Okay, so we'll
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go into that maybe another time, but I will give
him credit for not pandering to the black community. I
do not remember watching Obama making speeches just you know,
promising the black community a lot of things. I feel
like he stayed away from that topic, So I'm gonna
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give him credit.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
It's not that it didn't come, it just wasn't the
main thing he discussed during his political rallies. You guys
correct me if I'm wrong. Feel free to tap the
link in the description of this podcast and you can
leave me a comment if you guys had another experience
or a perspective when it came down to watching Obama.
But I still did not vote for Obama for a
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lot of different reasons, And one of the biggest was
everybody around me at the time. And I'll never forget it.
I was working at Walmart at the time, and every
single black person rolling up in Walmart has some type
of swag and just excitement because they was getting ready
to get a black president and everything was about to change.
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And I'm like, how do you know something's gonna change
because he's black. He's black, And I'm like, you guys
have to be kidding me. This can't be the only
thing we're leaning on. And then here we go. Obama
goes through two terms, and then black people started to
really get upset his second term because they was like, I.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Voted for this man. He ain't did nothing for the
black community.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
It was hilarious, it really was, and I hate to
laugh at people's pain, but it was just like, this
is what you guys expected. I could have told you
it wasn't gonna work out like this, and I'm gonna
get to that here in a moment. But back to
Bush and Carry. I watched every debate. I watched both
of these guys rallies, and I must say when I
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went to vote my first time, I voted for a Republican.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
Period because I refuse.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
To do what everyone else is doing just on the
notion that I need to vote Democrat because I'm black.
And this is the reason why I can't really give
Candice Owens the credit of being that black female, you know,
conservative talking just I guess you can say new idea
(11:10):
type of person because I'm like, she's not saying anything
I haven't been saying four years. Shout out to Cannons Owens.
But in any way, I just had to bring that up.
I cracked myself up, but into you. So when it
comes down to it bringing us to current dates, I
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feel that the liberals have gotten a lot worse from
when I was eighteen, even though Carrie's talking points were
still on the we're gonna help with black education and
we're gonna put more money in black schools and we're
gonna do the even though that was his talking points today,
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I don't know where the liberals are. I feel like,
and this is just my personal opinion, you guys, this
is my perspective.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Everybody else is entitled to how you see it, how
you view it. I'm not trying to undermine anybody, but
this is the way I view it.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Here.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I feel like the liberals in twenty twenty four don't
care about America at all. It's the strangest thing. I
understand that a lot of people want to think that
the party they're voting for it cares about you, and
that's what they mouth, you know, they move that with
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their mouths, but they're not doing anything with their actions.
And I feel like we are running into a situation
where many of them are just enjoying the positions we're
putting them in.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
They are able to hide.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Behind their security, They're able to hide behind their homes,
They're able to shelter in place with resources that we
do not have as just working class Americans. They're able
to duck and dodge the issues that we are facing
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because they can make these rules and set these make
these choices, and set these standards and not have to
live amongst what they're putting out. And one thing I
want to bring up, which is one major reason why
I will not vote for Kamala, is because we have
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not seen Kamala in three and a half years. I
am not just regurgitating something I heard. Literally, I have
been speaking to my own mom about politics lately, and
she and I had this conversation about four or five
months ago, before Biden dropped out of the race, before
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we knew what they were doing and who's going to
be the nominee of what. We were discussing this, and
I ask my mom, where the heck is Kamala, A
Kamela or whatever her name is, right, So my mom
was like, I don't know, nobody's seen her. So now
we're dealing with somebody who's been hired to play a
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role in Casper because she disappearing in Ghosting right, seriously,
and so we have not seen this woman to determine
the job that she's done for America. That's number one,
That's my number one problem. Then number two is when
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she does come out, she pretends that all the problems
that they're facing under their administration is a Trump problem.
So let's jump on Trump for a second. Trump has issues,
don't we all? Okay? Trump has as indeed, said some
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things he should not have said, and in twenty twenty
he completely divided the country. And I feel like that
is what a lot of people's issues are with Trump,
because until twenty twenty, I believe Trump would have been
reelected for president. The reason why I say this is
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because as an American and my experience, Trump was doing
great with taxes. It is true that more jobs was
coming into America.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
He was really.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Putting some stipulations on businesses who were going and taking
their manufacturing out of country. He was really finding these
companies and so Trump being an all American is how
the best way I can describe Trump. I don't believe
Trump is a baut Man, and that is one of
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the reasons why they don't want him in office. You
can't pay him to turn on what he believes, and
that's very rare. As complicated as he is as a
person and as misdirected that he as he's been because
there takes.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
A team to keep us in line.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
You know. I feel like running the country as one
person is already complicated enough. Half of us are struggling
just running a household, you know what I mean, whether
it be with a spouse and kids or just a
spouse and bills, you know, or just single and bills,
whatever the case may be. It is tough getting up
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and making these everyday decisions as is. Can you imagine
getting up making these decisions every day for the country.
So he needs a team behind him. And you know,
I don't have any political experience as far as going
out and campaigning and all these things, but I have
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never been short of an idea, and I have always
wanted to be in law. It's a path that I
decided against for many different reasons. I'll tell you guys
about that another time because I'm on a stay on topic.
But I feel like I could really help Trump out.
I've been wanting to write his campaign for so long,
and I may still end up doing it because I
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want to tell Trump. One thing that I would like
to see him do as an American is just apologize
and take accountability. For twenty twenty, there was some things
that Trump allowed and his administration allowed that just should
not have happened. And it had gotten so disgusting with
(17:47):
everything that was going on with this virus and all
of these other things that was happening in society, it
was just not the time to make certain things come
across as if you take this action, and you're a Democrat,
If you take this action, you're Republican. And it became
the mask wearers versus the non mask wearers. It became
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the shelter in place people versus those who did not
shelter in place, and it just it was a mask.
And as someone who's always voted conservative, I felt very
weird going out, even though I was wearing my mask,
because I'm like, first of all, you guys are not
gonna put me out here amongst a virus I know
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nothing about. I don't know where it came from, and
gonna sit here and go. If you wear a mask,
then that mean you're a Democrat. What if I wear
a mask, that means I don't want this nasty a virus?
Can we go there? If I don't wear a mask,
that means I want to protect the people I love,
Because here we are having high depth counts over this virus, right,
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And then people wanted to argue, oh, well, people die
from the flu every year. Yeah, but not people I know.
To my knowledge as of today's date, I don't know
anyone who's died from the flu around me. So to me,
this virus was a little bit more potent, and with
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everything that was unknown about it, I wasn't willing.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
To take that chance with the.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
People I loved, and I decided to wear my mask period.
It had nothing to do with my political stance, and
because the air was so thick with that, going out
was just weird, you know what I mean. You're in
the store shopping, people giving you weird looks because you're
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wearing a mask. It just shouldn't have never gone in
that direction. Good leadership is taking the time to break
down why people need to do certain things and take
certain steps, and why we should all come together on that,
opposed to allowing these narratives to run while in the
media and then getting up on the podium, you know,
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whenever they're making their announcements to the press through the
White House and just saying crazy stuff. So it was
a mess, and I feel like Trump has a responsibility
that he needs to take for that. Even with the
things that happen with the capital, that was enough to
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I would say, cause them to at least want to
take a step back to see what it is their
objective is. Where are we trying to take this? Where
do we want people to be? What do we want
people to feel?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
And the first feeling should be security, and then the
next feeling should be We're here for you and we
want the best for everyone, no matter what you believe,
no matter where you stand. Right Because I'm gonna tell
you guys this, I have plenty of neighbors around me,
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neighbors who are single, neighbors who are married, neighbors who
have children, and if I ever saw them in harm's way,
I would say something or hope to do something about
that if it was in my power to do so.
Before asking them, well, what is your nationality? What is
your religion? None of those things are important when it
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comes down to lives in my opinion, right, And so
all of that to say, Trump needs to apologize for
twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
He needs to feel something about that, some regret, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
And I understand that leaders find it hard to apologize
because then everybody wants to throw blame on them for everything,
but that's kind of it's the hit we're gonna have
to take in order to correct some paths.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Right can correct some things.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
And so.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I did not vote for Trump or Biden twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Twenty twenty was an election I stayed out of. I
really wanted to give Trump my vote, but I just
could not bring myself to do it. It was just
such a mess. Biden was definitely not about to get
my vote. And the only reason Biden received as many
votes as he did is because Trump had upset so
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many people that all they wanted to do was get
him out right. And I understood that, and I can't
even knock that sentiment. I really can't. But I could
never bring myself to vote for somebody just to get
somebody else out of office. I have to vote on
the policies. I have to vote on what they stand
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for and what they're willing to do for the country.
And I didn't hear Biden say Jack Diddeley squat about
what he was gonna do for this country that he
stood on as of twenty twenty four. And that leads
me back to Kamala Harris so Biden was running. He
was gonna be the Democratic nominee as current sitting president.
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And I feel like Biden, he has some things going on,
and praying for him. I hope that he's able to
live out his life with some type of normalcy and
you know that he can enjoy himself hopefully after all
of this, because there's a lot going on. There's been
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some pressure put on him, and of course his press
secretary has been standing up just telling a thousand lies.
Oh it's Ai, this is deep fake stuff that you
guys are seeing, and then you know, here we are
a couple of months later, he's dropped out of the race,
and he won't say why he dropped out, but of
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course the Democrats want him to drop out because they
say he's not performing well. He's stumbling over his words,
he's forgetting what his points are unless it's put before
him and the projector or whatever. Then you know, he's
unable to keep up, walking, slowly, losing balance, all of
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those things that come with age. So we need to
be respectful because all of us will age right and
I don't want any harm to come to Biden. But
beyond that, what has Biden done for America. The biggest
focus for the Biden administration currently has been other issues
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concerning other countries. And there's a term for that, and
I don't know why, but right now I can't even
think of it, but you guys know what I mean.
So billions have been sent to Ukraine, and Biden said
that the billions that was sent to Ukraine had not
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been in the form of money, but in the form
of weapons. Even that to me is scary where you're
supplying another country with that much in weapons and you
never know how they really feel about us. And then
we have an open border. And so then because they
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were underperforming with voters due to the border issue, he
comes out and tries to put something together last minute
to at least minimize the amount of people able to
come into the border on a daily weekly basis, which
is still a lot of people. And now the conversation
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and the talking points of Kamala Harris, who just so
happens to step in as the nominee because Biden stepped out,
is that Trump is the reason why the border's.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Out of control.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
Where who is believing this when this man was building
a wall. And one thing I'm gonna.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Give Trump credit for it, because I give credit where
credits due over here, we are not gonna be talking
crazy talking points of people who want to lie and
deflect and not take accountability for their roles.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'm not gonna do that. One thing about Trump is
the man actually does what he says he's going to do.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Research it.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
When Trump was running around here campaigning off of building
that wall before he was elected president, the first time
people were like, yes, does need to be more secure.
He knew this, and he built the wall. He started
on it, and the moment he stepped out of office,
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the moment Biden stepped in, Biden stopped those processes. He
stopped the building of the wall. The border was not
left unsecure with Trump. We did not have a bunch
of migrants coming in here just doing whatever and going
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unchecked and getting money from the government. Because they're coming
in here and they need to be taken care of
and sheltered and fed. That is a problem. And so
now the talking points of Kamala is, well, the Republicans
didn't sign off on something that we needed them to
sign off on to create more jobs at the border.
(27:54):
You have got to be kidding me, because these same Republicans.
She's talking about. It needs Republican ran cities. These conservatives
have been bussing migrants to democratic or quote unquote sanctuary cities,
meaning that they have migrants coming into their cities, and
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they're like, we're not going to tolerate this. This is
not something we asked for, this is not something we
voted for, this is not something we stand for. So
we're gonna bust them. To the people who swear we
don't mind this behavior, we don't mind this happening, and
it had gotten to the point. I don't know if
this was in Wisconsin and what state it was. I
(28:38):
want to say it was a w state, but anyways,
one of the states where a government official was asking
the locals to possibly open up their homes to migrants.
That's how bad it's getting out here. And don't even
get me started on these liberal ran cities.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Who are literally.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Doing this whole defunding the police and then also decriminalizing
thieves where they're able to go into these stores and
rob these stores up to one thousand dollars or more,
some of them twelve hundred, and they're not going to
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be prosecuted or arrested. So much so to where it
hit the news where a cop was arrested for also
stealing or lost her job. I don't know if she
was arrested, probably couldn't have been arrested if that was
the rule. She's probably looking around like, oh, they able
to steal and you know, not have to be penalized.
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Why should I suffer? I get the logic. I wouldn't
do it, but I get the logic.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I get how.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Someone could come to that conclusion. Watching people run in
and out of stores all day long, stealing and not
getting arrested. That is a problem. And so another talking
point of Kamala's is where they want to put a
(30:14):
little bit more regulations on landlords. I believe landlords, and
I have considered going into real estate, not as a relator,
but as someone who does real estate investments, and to
be honest with you guys, that has never been so
unattractive in this current administration. I have heard the horror
(30:39):
stories of landlords who have people living with them since COVID,
where they are living in their properties and they haven't
been getting payments. Then for some odd reason, squatters have
become a huge topic twenty twenty four and hear much
(31:00):
about them twenty twenty three, but twenty twenty four, the
squatter situation is just off the chain, and there have
been all types of people from all types of classes
of life taking advantage of the squatter situation. It had
gotten so crazy to the point where I'm still up here, like,
why in the heck am I pay mortgage? I don't
(31:24):
know if you guys have asked yourself this, but I
literally was like, what so you mean to tell me?
I could just go pick something abandoned, get the utilities
turned on, and stay there, and as long as I
stay there X amount of days some states it's literally
thirty days. If you squat for thirty days, they cannot
(31:45):
remove you off their property, unless, of course, they spend
their money to get you removed from their property. It's
just not something I agree with, especially now in twenty
twenty four. The reason why is because so much real
estate is being established. I understand the initial thoughts of
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squatter loss. I understand the reasoning for wanting to have
that in the time it was established, right, but in
twenty twenty four, there's so much real estate being built
there is no way possible as an investor in real
(32:27):
estate that you're gonna invest in something and instantly move
into it. So there are so many companies and individuals
who have gone down that path of real estate and
investing to where they're losing so much money, whether it
be trying to get a squatter out their house so
(32:50):
they have to go through the legal processes, or they
have people living in their homes who they aren't able
to collect rent from. And it was very bad twenty
twenty for landlords because of the virus situation and because
(33:14):
of people losing their jobs and all these things, so
they weren't getting paid either. And I am just not
in support of penalizing those who helped the economy to run.
If it wasn't for these investors, if it wasn't for
these landlords, the people renting wouldn't have anything to rent.
(33:38):
And so, in my opinion, the liberals are literally trying
to penalize working class Americans, business owners, and those who
were literally trying to make America work in economy, grow
(34:01):
an economy. They're not supportive of those who are putting
forth an effort. That is just how I feel, and
that is not good. And here's how I feel about
migrants Okay. I feel like anyone should be able to
(34:23):
go into any country based on that country's rules and regulations.
Everywhere we go as Americans outside of the US, we
need passports in all kinds of other documents in order
to live or stay in a certain country for a
long period of time. In America, no one should be
(34:46):
able to come over here without those same processes, passports,
working visas, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I don't mind it.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
If it's done appropriately and properly normally, because I know
I can't go anywhere and do the same thing. And
if we could, a lot of us probably would be
escaping the US with a quickness, right, But we know
that's gonna take time.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
We have to get.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Approved for passports. There are people still waiting for passports
who apply four and five months ago. So there's a
lot still going on with us being able to leave here.
So how is it that we can just have an
open border and any and everybody could just come in
without that process.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
I wouldn't do that with my own home. Are any
of you guys these days just sleeping with your doors unlocked?
And they used to do that back in the day,
but today is not it, And so that's how I
feel about that next thing. So much to cover you, guys,
I might have to do a part to you because
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there's a lot going going on. I want to get
into the LBGTQ situation. I want to get into abortion.
These are two other major talking points for the liberals.
I will say this. I was speaking to one of
my lovely neighbors and she's eighty years old, and I
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absolutely enjoy talking to her, and she was breaking down
to me history in how she was raised, and I
absolutely loved her explanation of voting liberal over the years.
She explained to me that back in her day, voting
(36:44):
liberal meant that you were going to be voting for
someone who believed in women in the workplace and who
believed in minorities in the workplace. Because back then, with
her coming up, it was the European, Caucasian or white
(37:04):
man who was running everything. Even the women, whether they
were Caucasian or whatever, they weren't able to go into
certain spaces. In many spaces, to be honest with you,
the men were running the world. And I understand there
needs to be a.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Balance to all of that.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
And so when she was coming up, she was explaining
to me that liberal meant it was progressive back then.
The mentality was very progressive back then, because women weren't
able to work in certain spaces, and minorities were definitely
(37:48):
not able to work or go to school in certain spaces,
and so voting liberal meant that you were supporting the
idea that these things can be accomplished and that we
can all work together and we can.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
All have equal rights. That's what it meant.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
And when she said this to me, I was like
mind blown, mind blown, because in that moment I realized
that the roles have changed, and now the Conservatives stand
more for the traditional household man, woman, boy, girl, right, husband, wife, children.
(38:37):
They stand for you know, if you want the job,
do your best to get the job, and you will
have the job right. And also they stand for, from
what I've been able to hear and gather, stand for
security for the country, not against my porities coming in,
(39:00):
but against the way minorities are currently being able to
come in here without due process. Therefore due process right.
The Conservatives are considered now the more traditional party and
not in the ways of where you know, we're going
(39:21):
back in time, because I just don't feel that when
Trump was president, I did not feel threatened in this
country as a minority. That's just for real for me, right,
or as a woman. And I'm gonna say this, I
did not mind the whole Trump saying that whatever he
got called saying to another man about touching on a woman, listen,
(39:44):
that was them. I don't know how that conversation started.
I don't know at what point he replied back to
this man or what was said ahead. That's one clip.
I know that when men are talking and women are
talking amongst each other, there are some crazy things being said,
especially when we know we're comfortable around certain people and
(40:06):
we can say certain things. Like me, I'm not above
dropping a F bomb or two every now and then,
but you guys won't hear it because I'm not interested
in doing all of this cussing and stuff on my podcast, right,
doesn't mean I'm above it. I'm just not gonna do
it here in this setting, right.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
But those who are close to me may have heard
me drop that a few times.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
So I just can't get behind these basic sound bites
of Trump from back four years ago. And it's very
funny how much they're trying to put on Trump now,
but don't have the sound bites of him actually saying it.
It's a lot going on, but the Conservative Party and
(40:55):
the Liberals have definitely switched roles, and the Liberals are
now definitely way more progressive and just too open opposed
to setting balances and standards amongst their party and what
they believe.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
They are now.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
To me and my opinion, the everything goes party, and
it's just not a place I would prefer to be
in and I don't feel comfortable living there in that
mentality that everything goes, everything's acceptable, and technically, speaking to them,
(41:35):
everything is not acceptable because they like everything except for
balance and standards.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
They don't like constructive criticism. They don't like a clean.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
How do you say it. I guess you could say
a clean house. They like mess. That's how I view
them right now, and it's scary. So we have the
abortion situation on the table. I want to say I've
covered this before, but I'll say this again. I am
for abortion to an extent, and only if there is
(42:17):
a mother carrying a child and her life or that
child's life is in danger, then those things and those
matters need to be weighed on a case by case basis.
That is the only time I would ever before that.
I am never going to be for abortion for women
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who only want to use it as a form of
getting rid of unwanted pregnancies, because there are a gazillion
ways to prevent getting pregnant. Furthermore, I hear a lot
of these women go on my body, my choice, and
I'm like, make the choice to not put your body
through that. If you sleep with old boy and you
(43:02):
know you don't want old boy to be your baby daddy,
don't sleep with him unprotected number one, I would prefer
you not sleep with him at all. But that's just
me right now. I'm just letting you know what I think.
But to be like, oh, I don't really want to
have his baby, but you let him hit you wrong?
Speaker 2 (43:21):
That's crazy. Why?
Speaker 1 (43:26):
And these are the issues I'm having because the conservatives
are saying this is not even a necessary thing, and
it's not.
Speaker 2 (43:36):
This shouldn't even be a.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Major talking point sex education should be because on top
of all of that, they're still STDs and new STDs
popping up around here, and now we don't want to
talk sex education. Now they're in school teaching kids how
to have sex opposed to refraining from sex until you
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find a partner that you can share with only with
that one partner. Hey, if you know some of y'all
down with multiple, that's on y'all, But I just don't
recommend it, not in twenty twenty four, and so no,
I'm never gonna be down for that. I don't agree
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with abortion being used as a form of.
Speaker 2 (44:28):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
I don't even want to call it birth control, but
I guess you can say it's birth control because it
prevents the woman from giving birth. But I don't agree
with that because it's so many other ways to do this.
And just like I expressed to someone else, another woman
who was talking along this topic, is that when a
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woman has an abortion today in society, there is multiple
people included in that process, including the individuals who have
to administer that abortion. So it's not just you. It
feels that way because it's a very selfish thing to
think that I can just keep having sex, keep getting pregnant,
(45:13):
and keep aborting to stop from having a baby and
just enjoying these men coming in me all kinds of ways.
It's interesting to just have that thought, but it's just
not that simple. It's more people involved in this, then
they have to find a way to get rid of
the fetuses, all of these things.
Speaker 2 (45:36):
It's just a lot.
Speaker 1 (45:39):
And so I feel like having sex education as a
bigger talking point opposed to abortion being the biggest talking point,
would really help America and would really help educate young women,
especially who are growing up in this country. And then
we have the LBGTQ Listen. I've always said I don't
(46:03):
care who people are in a relationship with. It's not
my business.
Speaker 2 (46:07):
Even as a heterosexual woman married to a man seventeen years, Okay,
I don't talk about my sex life with people. I
just I'm not interested. It's never been a thing for me.
So I don't really care who people are with. That's
not my problem.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
My problem is when it's becoming such a situation that
there are people who can go rob a store for
twelve hundred dollars and not be prosecuted or arrested for
that from stealing people's livelihood, in stealing valuables that actually
cause people money to replace or to restore because they're
(46:50):
damaging stores and goods, versus us being prosecuted for misgendering
somebody who who actually looks like the gender that that
being called. I can not participate in such foolishness. If
it looks like a man, talks like a man was
(47:13):
born a man, do not penalize me for saying, Hi, sir,
excuse me, sir.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (47:24):
So there is a lot on the table with this
situation where there has to be a line drawn. It
really does you, guys, And also the women around here screaming,
Oh the liberals are for women, are they when they're
allowing men to beat on y'all in women's sports. Here's
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my proposition to the liberals when it comes down to
transgenders in particular. I don't mind a transgender woman who
was once a man but now identifies as a woman.
I don't mind them using a bathroom with me as
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long as they've had the full transition. If you put
on a dress and you still have a penis, I
don't want you in a bathroom with me. We have
a right to privacy, just like men have a right
to privacy. We've had separated bathrooms forever. And there are
(48:32):
some places I go, some gas stations I go to
where there's only one bathroom, and you know it's for
the general public, and it has one door, one toilet,
one sink, one mirror, which means only one person can
go in at a time. Understandable, But when you're talking
about a woman's bathroom, multiple stalls and there are men
(48:55):
walking in and out, that's just not no. That's a
note for me. And so my proposition and my thoughts is, liberals,
if you guys want to consider this being an actual thing,
have a system in place where when a transgender completes
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their surgeries and completes their transitions, they get a little
stamp on their ID or whatever, and that lets you
know that they have been approved to have all of
the rights to the accessories and accessibilities of us women.
I don't feel like men are having this problem like
(49:37):
we are, because I feel like even women who are
identifying as men still feel more comfortable using the women's bathroom.
Y'all tell me if I'm tripping. But I just don't
see that being a thing for the men. Y'all let
me know if I'm tripping. That's all I'm saying. Because
(49:59):
it it doesn't matter what you look like, there is
always gonna be that feeling, and it doesn't matter how
you dress. That feminine feeling never leaves us, and women
know where we can go and be comfortable. And a
lot of the times that's not just around ah a
(50:21):
man's space. Sometimes it's in your own space and that
doesn't matter how you look. But maybe I'm tripping. So
that's my thoughts on that. You guys, I really don't care.
I don't care who these LBGTQ, whatever other alphabets they
(50:41):
are with. I don't care what their lifestyles are. What
I care about is when the laws start affecting us
and how we live and freely go about our days.
And I am not about this man in black situation
where they're trying to tell me what I think I saw.
I did not see. It's not interested. So wrapping up
(51:04):
that is the reason why I'm not gonna be voting
liberal this election. I will not be voting for Kamala Harris.
They could not pay me to vote for Kamala Harris.
And I'm hoping that you guys do your research, start
doing exactly what I'm doing. In these next however many
(51:26):
days we have left. We're in what ninety something days
left from election. I hope to do all the research
I can, just to know my facts. But I'm telling you,
guys some of the things I know from the top
of my head right now. But there's more to learn,
you guys, So don't just take it from me. Don't
(51:50):
just listen to the news. Don't just listen to these
politicians talking about each other. But do your research, get
the numbers for yourself. Understand the policies for yourself. Understand
who was doing what at what time for yourself. That's
what I am encouraging and motivating you guys to do
right now, So listen. I would love to hear from
(52:12):
you guys. If you have a comment, check the description
of this podcast and click the link and leave me
a comment.
Speaker 2 (52:19):
I would love to hear.
Speaker 1 (52:20):
Your thoughts and your political views. Remember to keep your
comments classing and professional, because that's all we do over here.
We are interested, and I am interested always in having good,
wholesome adult conversation, So let's keep it there. Also, you guys,
hit the link. If you are with me and you're
(52:40):
not voted for Kamala Harris, check out my Unburdened T shirt.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
That I made just for her.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
I think you'll find it quite interesting, and that's gonna
be it for me. For now, you guys, I will
probably do a part too to this because there's a
lot going on and I want to catch you up
on some research that I've done. So yeah, look forward
to that part too, very soon. Hold me to it
until next time, you guys chat soon
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