April 7, 2025 • 61 mins
In this episode of Motivation Zone, I discuss how Trump is shaking up the American systems with the changes he is implementing to tackle many of the issues our country has faced for years. The LEFT will attempt to create a ruckus over each decision Trump makes, ensuring that Americans lose trust in the process. I want to emphasize that a shock to the system is inevitable when the system has been unhealthy, toxic, and out of balance for such a long time. 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 Mace. Super excited to
be with you guys, and as you can see based
on the title, we are staying on the hot topic
and important topic of politics with the title Trump and
the Shock to the System. The first thing I wanna
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start off with you guys because and I'm gonna come
in hot on this podcast, I really wanna dive into
some serious issues that I'm seeing going on here. And
the first thing is, let's tackle this abortion situation, right.
So I dug through my YouTube watch list. You know,
this is where you can go in and see your history,
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should I say? And I was looking for this video
that I recently saw within the last week of a
husband who was very grieved because he lost his wife
who was going through a miscarriage. He takes her to
the emergency room and the doctors are saying they're afraid
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to perform the necessary surgeries for a woman who is
losing her baby. That's what a miscarriage is. It says
here that through the miscarriage, that means the fetus has
not been carried any longer than twenty weeks, and that
also the fetus fails to survive, which causes the uterus
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to expel it. Okay, so during this process, the wife
is actually bleeding out, which is the reason why the
husband takes her to the emergency room. In this situation,
the doctors are saying, we can't perform any surgeries on
her because that's considered us performing an abortion. I was
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infuriated listening to this story, and I tried to find
it because I wanted to know where they were located.
This is a more recent story. I did find another
one in twenty twenty for similar situation, and this was
in the state of Texas. I really wanted to tell
you guys where this other state was, but I'm not
sure because I could not find the video in my
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watch history. So with that being said, though, I'm sitting
here listening to this report, and the situation at hand
that's going on today is when people are reporting things,
When the media is reporting something, when people want to
carry a story in a manner of which it paints
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a certain picture, in a logic to people to sell
it in a certain way, it is such a frustrating
thing when it's not the truth. Let's discuss the truth here. Right,
is a miscarriage and you guys, answer this question as
you're listening to this is a miscarriage and an abortion
the same thing. Explain to me how those two things
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are the same. Explain to me a mother who is
currently pregnant, If she's currently pregnant, she's currently a mother
going into that process, stepping into a fertility clinic or
whatever they call it, abortion clinic, whatever they call it,
to get rid of that fetus who is currently healthy, growing,
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could possibly be carried the term, but it decides to
not carry it the term. Versus a woman who has
lost the baby. The baby is not healthy, the baby
cannot be carried the term, and now the body is
rejecting the fetus that once was growing, once was forming,
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but is no longer, and now the mother's health is
in danger. Tell me how those two things are the same,
because the last I checked, women who are going into
a abortion clinics are not going in there bleeding to death.
That's the last I checked. So how are we merging
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these two things and making it a political situation. I
have no idea, but it needs to stop. And I
did comment on this news outlets video and maybe they
blocked me. I don't know, because I did comment that
very thing. I was like, how is a miscarriage and
an abortion the same thing? Last I checked the woman
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having the abortion, the fetus is still alive. The lady
and the young women who are having or women who
are having miscarriages, their fetuses are no longer alive, and
the body is struggling to deal with that and it
needs to be handled in an emergency type situation. So
I'm listening to the news and I'm listening to these
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things occurring, and the way that they are twisting things
to paint and put Trump in such a negative light.
It is disturbing on so many levels. And the simple
fact that these doctors are willing to watch this young
lady bleed to death and did watch her because she
passed away due to this situation, and they don't want
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to do anything about it. That's a problem. And they
don't want to do anything about it over politics, knowing
good and well. And I have never been in a
medical school before. I have no intentions of becoming a doctor,
but I can tell you I know the difference between
a miscarriage and an abortion, and they should know it
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better than anybody. So the fact that this is even
a conversation is very dangerous. And from the first time
this happens in any state in the United States, this
should have been a discussion and there should be things
put in place to make sure that people understand the differences.
And I do believe I heard another doctor chime in
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on this very story and have the same conclusion I had,
was like, really, we need to explain the differences between
these two things, between abortions and miscarriages. So the moral
of the story here, you guys, is make sure you
do not allow the media to twist your mind to
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merge a whole lot of things to equal the same.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And they're gonna play this game for a long time
because they want Trump to really look bad with all
of his decision making, which is the reason why we're
having these discussions. And I am praying and hoping that
these stories, especially of this young lady, this mother who
is having this miscarriage, which has been more than one
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at this point. I hope this is reaching the ears
of the White House so they can clear this foolishness up.
But unfortunately, no matter what they say, they're gonna get
criticism for it. Because that is what the left wants.
The Democrats want people to really sit here and believe
that everything Trump is doing is to no avail, It
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is to disturb this country. Which what have they been doing?
Have we not been disturbed? Have Democrats not been in office?
But oh, once again, Oh, we couldn't get everything done
we wanted to get done.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Because Trump stopped us.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Are you serious? I'm annoyed, I really am. So you guys,
make sure you're paying attention to what's really going on,
and if you can in your local states and cities,
if you can attend some of these political events, town
hall meetings and all this raise some of these issues
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in your own cities and states to those who are
politically leading that city in state, because this is getting
out of hand. I could not believe my ears when
I heard this story. It was very unfortunate, and my
heart definitely goes out to this young lady's husband and
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their family. It's just it's disturbing on so many levels.
And I hope that we get it together, and I
do hope the White House gives a response to stories
like this that's going on in our medical system seriously.
And so the next thing I want to dive into.
And remember we are discussing the shock to the system.
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I'm constantly every time Trump makes a decision, we're gonna
get it to the DEI, We're gonna get into federal
job layoffs, we're gonna get into the tariffs that he's
implementing to all these other countries. But every time Trump
makes a decision, it's a negative impact on something.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let the media tell it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But what I want to do, and if you guys
listen to my most recent podcast, I am telling you
guys that parables are needed to talk to people because
people literally want to act like they don't understand what's
going on. So you have to put it in layman's terms.
So this is me spelling out what's actually happening. Say,
for instance, and I've gone through this as a I
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don't know if I want to call.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Myself an ex fat girl or an overweight girl, or
you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, but let's just say this, in my humblest opinion,
I was overweight. Okay, So initially, when you're overweight, that
means you have habits that are not healthy for you, right.
That means you're eating the wrong things, probably eating too
much of the wrong things, you know, whatever the case
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may be. So the first thing you start to think about,
well I did in my weight lost journey, was how
do I change what I'm eating. Then the next thing
was how do I be come more active to lose weight.
So now I'm having to figure this thing out as
an overweight person. I'm gonna tell you guys, I reached
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two hundred and eighty pounds.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Didn't even know it. Okay, did not know.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And I had a few instances where that was leading
up to me deciding to lose weight, where I'm staring
at myself and I'm like, this is not me. And
I didn't know how much I weighed at the time.
It wasn't until I started my lost journey that I
stepped on the scale and was mind blown. But I
knew it was not me. And one of those instances,
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I was out shopping for some shoes and I was like, ooh,
let me, you know, go in Shoe Carnival was one
of my favorite shoe places at the time. This was
about five six years ago, and the reason I love
Shoe Carnival was because you can go in there and
buy one pair, get the other one free. They always
run these little sales. But anyway, let me stay on topic.
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So I'm shopping for these shoes and I'm sitting here
look looking at myself in the mirror, and I'm like, oh, no,
you're looking sloppy. This is what I'm saying to myself.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So walking out of that store that day, I was like,
something has to change. That was my never again, can't
do this, This is definitely not it moment. Okay. So
what I did was I started working on a plan,
and that plan starts mentally first.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Always.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Okay, So, anytime there is something that's about to change
or shift, it has to be a I call it
a nagging there where it's in your ear all the time,
it's on your shoulder all the time, it's on your
back all the time, like Okay, this is not right,
or something is off here, or something needs to shift
here or change here, or you can do better, or
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you can get up and move, whatever the case is. Right,
So I get on Amazon. I'm telling you guys my
process for a reason. I'm gonna get to my point
hanging there with me because I wanna tell you guys
how I'm feeling about this shock to the system. That
Trump is doing. So I get on Amazon, I buy
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me a lunch bag. The first thing I wanted to
do was number one, not buy anything at any restaurant period,
and so buying that lunch bag was whenever. And I
stopped eating at family's houses too, A long story, but
into you, I started to grill my own food, bake things,
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and anytime I was traveling, or anytime I would be
at someone's house for a party or whatever the case
may be, I carried my own food. That's how I
started with this weight lost thing. Then I started implementing, Okay,
how long am I gonna work out?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You know? And what does that look like? Do I walk?
Do I run? Do I do cardio? Do I do weights?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Whatever the case may be. So we're going through I'm
going through all these questions in my mind, and I'm
starting to put my plan together. But as I'm planning
and as I begin implementing these things, I start to
feel weird. Not because these things aren't good, not because
I'm not making healthy changes, but because I've been unhealthy
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for so long. Now my system, my mind have a
huge shift ahead, and I'm starting to feel all the fields.
Whether I'm a little weaker some days because I'm eating less,
whether I'm a little bit sleepier some days because the
body is like, girl, what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You're wearing me out.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Because I've done ten steps more than I've ever done
to lose some weight just painting this picture, you guys.
So now that shock to the system is happening, and
it's a temporary shock to the system, but when it
first starts, it feels like it's gonna be there forever.
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And because because I went on this weight lost journey
on my own and didn't have a weight loss coach,
I wasn't told that you could possibly feel these things,
and you could possibly feel tired, or you can possibly
start craving more or getting a little bit more frustrated
because you're a little bit hungrier because you're not eating
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the same amount of calories you once were. And the
list goes on, right, because usually, especially when we're online,
we're viewing and listening to a lot of people tell
their stories after they've cleaned it up a little bit
and presented the way they want to present it, and
they bypass a few of the details. Some do, some don't, right,
not everyone, but the shock to my system was literally happening, right,
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And so at that moment in time, thank god I
had enough in me to know that this is a
temporary thing. And even now I have not reached my
goal weight yet. I'm on my way, But even now
I keep that in mind as I continue to make
adjustments to get to that goalway, that I could possibly sometime.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Feel a little bit off because.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I'm tweaking the way I used to do things, or
maybe the way I've done things as of recently, and
I might need to dig in and do a little
bit more right to get to that goal weight loss.
But I have to remember the little feelings that I
have are not going to last forever. Right, So tying
this in, I have a shock to my physical system
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because I'm physically trying to change something. Trump is the
sitting president. He's currently changing a lot of things that
should have been done a long time ago, and now
our economic system it's feeling every shift. Right, So let's
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jump on these tariffs, because I read a lot into this,
guys before coming in and wanting to talk about it,
and I'm telling you, I knew what Trump was doing
when he did it. And the first thing I want
to say because I see the moment he's talking about
implementing his terrorfs. The news is spending going, oh, well,
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this country's saying they're gonna implement terrorfs right back to America.
But let me tell you something, if we are the
richest country, as we so want to promote, we shouldn't
have any problems paying tariffs and what Trump is saying.
And I'm gonna drop the link. You guys, check the
description of any platform you're listening to this podcast. I'm
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dropping the links to some of the things that I
discussed here today, and I will drop the fact sheets
from white House dot gov, where I'm telling everybody to
go get your information instead of listening directly to the news,
right go straight to the source. I'm gonna drop the
fact sheets on the tariffs, and you will read for
yourself that Trump is stating, we are not equal with
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these countries. We're paying these countries from what we're getting
from them. They're paying us nothing in the trade. So
technically speaking, you guys, if you understand what's happening, Trump
is implementing tariffs on countries who are already getting money
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from the United States for the goods that we are
receiving from them, importing exporting from them. So he wants
to balance these things out so that our economy can grow.
We cannot grow once again Layman's terms, if we're constantly
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pouring out and never receiving anything in.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Make it make sense.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And at the end of the day, right, everyone else
needs to try this, you guys. You know, if somebody
just so happens to be landing on this podcast and
you're a Democrat and you're disagreeing with every single thing
that Trump is doing, go ahead, getting your bank account it,
be it out and start giving everything away that was
in it and receive no funds back.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Do that for a while and let me know how
it goes. Let me know how.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That works out for you. But that is what's happening.
And so I'm sitting here and I'm reading this information,
and let me see if I can jump to one
of the great points that I read in the article
for the fat sheets for the teriffs, and it says here,
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I'm gonna jump to one of the bullet points. It says,
the annual cause of the US economy of counterfeit goods,
which is another problem we're experiencing. Pirated software and theft
of trade secrets is between two hundred and twenty five
billion and six hundred million. That's how much it's costing
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the US. So if we don't get a handle on
these things, if we're constantly allowing other countries to export, import,
and not have to pay anything to trade with US,
then we're losing. They're saying right now, between two hundred
and twenty five billion to six hundred billion. Now, it
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says here counterfeit products not only pose a significant risk
to US competitiveness, but also threatens the security, health and
safety of Americans, with global trade and counterfeit pharmaceuticals estimated
to four point four billion and linked to the distribution
of deadly fit and al laced drugs. This imbalance has
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fueled a large and persistent trade deficit in both industrial
and our architectural goods, led to offshoring of all manufacturing
based empowered non market economics like China and hurts American
middle class and small towns. President Biden squandered the architectural
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trade surplus inherited by President Trump's first term, turning it
into a projected all time high deficit of forty nine billion.
The current global trading order allows those using unfair trade
practices to get ahead while those playing by the rules
get left behind. Is that not always the story? I
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don't know if you guys feel how I feel personally,
but I'm just sitting up here, like, why am I
doing all of this hard work, caring about people, thinking
about things, trying to do right by people, and then
I get pushed in the dirt in the mud face.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
First, seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So it is really a thing, and I appreciate in
anyone right now currently trying to turn that around. I
really do believe the people who are and have been
focused on doing right by people and doing right by
this country should get a little bit more credit than
what they're getting. Not that we do it for that,
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but it's just a simple fact, as it says here,
that those who are doing unfair trade practices are getting
ahead and the ones who are playing by the rules
are getting left behind. And the reason why that is
is the ones who are planned by the rules are
usually the ones putting out more money. It's the same
thing with US taxpayers and US business owners who are
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doing things by the book and no one looks out
for us, so we lose more. But then you have
all these other businesses like, hmm, okay, we're gonna figure
out a way around this and that, and they're getting
ahead and getting away right.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's one of those things where I'm like, I can't
hate on them for that, But at the same time,
we do need to balance that out.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We really do.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And those of us who have been trying to do
the right thing for so long, we should get some
form of acknowledgment for that, some form of a refund
for that something.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I was just saying recently, I have been paying insurance
for so long, especially when it comes to ownly a vehicle,
and by God's good graces and God forbid, I have
not been any accidents. And I've been paying insurance now
for over twenty years on a car and have never
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received a refund for never filing acclaim.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And then you look and you go, well, where the
heck is my money? But then you realize that these
companies and individuals who own these insurance companies are billionaires.
Go figure, I wonder why, because everyone who's paying into
policies are not necessarily using them. That's medical, automotive, house,
home insurance all that, right, So there should be something
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in place where if you don't have a claim within
twelve months, you should get some form of a refine back.
Even if it's just ten percent, it's better than nothing, right,
So these little funny business things are really happening. And
as I've been watching, and this is something I'll maybe
talk about later, is that have to dive a little
bit more into it, read more on it. Where they're
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talking about these politicians who have made a lot more
money since becoming you know, governor mayor president, whatever the
case may be. And you're like, where are y'all getting
all this money from? All of these people who are
talking to us right now at certain points are billionaires
and millionaires, and we're like, where did you get the money?
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You didn't have it before you became a politician, So
what's happening. The difference between Donald Trump and a lot
of these other ones is he was building his wealth
loan before he became president, and his wealth was actually
also passed down because his father was building wealth. His
family was building wealth and passing that knowledge down to Trump.
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And you know, those of his generation for that family,
So you can't knock them for that, and then when
Trump was doing all the things he was doing just
business wise, these politicians loved him. They wanted him on
their side because his wealth spoke volumes to them. It
wasn't until he decided to run for president that now
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everybody has a problem with the man.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Crazy. You don't get towers.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Named after you put in the middle of the biggest
cities in America if you're just so disliked, trust me,
they not to stop these things. They didn't because he
wasn't a problem until he was a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Anyways.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So going back to what I am reading here, and
this is once again the fact sheet on white House
dot com speaking on the tariffs and why they were implemented.
Is very great information, you guys. I really do recommend
you going in and reading it. But it says here,
made in America, it's not just a tagline. It's an
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economic and national security priority of the administration. The President's
reciprocal trade agenda means better paying American jobs, making beautiful
American made cars, appliances, and other goods. And that was
another thing that this article really went into, was how
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so much of what America is getting is coming from
other countries. And it's not being made in house. And
to Trump's credit, he's been speaking of that even from
his first term, and he was finding a lot of companies,
American companies who was doing more in manufacturing in other countries,
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they were getting fined. And so I felt like that
was fair because if you're an American company and you're
taking more of your manufacturing outside of America than America
is losing out on jobs, which those jobs keep money
funneling in house opposed to funneling in another country's home.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And listen these.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Countries, and I had to look up a few words
in this article, guys, just because I'm like, I don't
use these on a regular basis. And reciprocal. What's speaking
of and you'll see this word a lot throughout this article.
What's speaking of things being equal, even the trade being
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the same? Trump, And this is another thing that the
news does not want to report. Trump is not telling
anybody that America's not gonna pay terrorfs. You do not
hear that rhetoric on anything that Trump is discussing, not
in any interviews, not from the White House Press secretary.
You don't hear us standing up going well countries are
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gonna start to pay us, and we're not gonna pay them. Jack,
That's not what's happening. And these are the things that
we need to put into proper perspective, because if we're
out here and the media is just painting, oh, what
Trump is implementing tarrors taror tarror, tariors terrffs, are you
discussing what we're paying these countries?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Already?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Trump is very on point with the simple fact that
we're putting out more money than these countries just to
get business done and get certain things that aren't made here.
We're putting out more money. That's the whole point. And
once again, if you want to see what that's like,
clear out your bank account, start giving away what was
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in it, and don't receive anything back in it, and
tell me how that works out. Silly, crazy, not gonna work,
Not gonna work for you.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So, I'm with Trump on these tariffs. I hope that
it all works out. One thing I'm listening out on
and for is for Trump to continue negotiations. It is
mentioned in this article that he is negotiating with several
of these countries, and if they start implementing certain things
that are going to be beneficial to America. As America
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continues to be beneficial to them, then he will lower
the tariffs or get rid of those terrafs altogether. And
in some countries, and I believe it was Canada being
one of those mentioned about the fentanyl, these countries need
to get things in order that is coming over to
America and hindering either our economy or our health, or
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whatever the case may be. And once they start implementing
certain things to make sure that they stay on track
with us, then Trump will rid those terrors. So I
understand exactly what it is he's doing. I recommend and
you guys can click the link in any platform that
you're listening to this podcast on, jump to my podcast
page and click on these articles, you guys, and actually
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read them for yourself. I only read, I would probably
say a very very very not even ten percent of
this article is a pretty big article. So it's important
to go in and read these things for yourself, get
the knowledge for yourself, so that way we can have actual,
real dialogue about it instead of just regurgitating what we're
hearing on the news. And all they're sitting there saying is, oh, well,
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you know Trump is implementing tarras, that's gonna be bad
for us.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Listen, are you.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I really want Trump to start taxing these Democrats more?
Everything they're complaining about, everything they're saying that they don't
want him to do, they need to do themselves for
at least twelve months to see how it works out.
Because I'm very annoyed with people who are complaining about
responsibilities that they have not taken on themselves. It is crazy,
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but anti Who I digress. Let's jump to the next topic,
and that is gonna be the DEI hires. So at first,
when I heard about this, I'm sitting here like, hmm,
how do I feel about DEI? I've never been a
DEI hired, Okay, because every single job I ever have
applied for, I applied because I thought I could do
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the job. I thought that I would be certified for
that job, and there were literal tests put in place
to make sure that I could do the job. For example,
one job that I was hired for I hated till
this day, but I did it, but hate it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's customer service.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
The reason why I hate customer service, you guys, is
because in this particular job, I think I was working
for a Verizon Prepaid at the time, and this was
through another company who hired out call center workers for
different companies, and Verizon Prepaid was one. And I will
never forget that ten hour shift in the full nine hours,
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because you get a one hour break. Fank the Lord.
The nine hours, I'm just sitting on the phone repeating
the same thing over and over and over again for
nine hours. And what hurt me about this job is
they would have what you call call quality. Now, the
quality I used to get in trouble for had nothing
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to do with how I sound when I was speaking
to anyone over the phone. It was, oh, well, you
didn't say the script exactly how it was written. And
like say, for instance, someone would call in with a
Verizon prepaid phone and they would go, oh my gosh,
my minutes are not working.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
What's going on? Not even to make any calls? Blah
blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And you can look at their account and see that
they have zero minutes because you get the phone number,
you get whatever cold you need to get into their account,
and you're looking at it on the back end, and
you see that they need to actually do a refill
for their phones to work. So I used to get
in trouble with Quality because they would say, well, Monica,
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you jumped straight to simply telling them to refill their phones,
and you didn't go through the probing technical questions. And
I'm sitting here in Quality looking at these ladies who
listen to our calls because, and let me tell you,
the ladies who listened to our calls, I never seen
a guy do it when I was working. Maybe they're
worse some, but they weren't working when I was working.
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Either way, it goes as I'm sitting in there, these
ladies never have taken calls before in their lives.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I'm asking them, have you ever taken a call? Nope?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So they're just hired to be quote unquote quality managers
and they've never been on the phones themselves.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I used to hate that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I'm like, for real, you've never done this, and you're
telling me what I've done wrong, even though I solved
the customer's problem. My level of annoyance with it all.
But anyway, so I'm sitting there and I'm like, this
is how this works. So now I have to go
buy the script. Now I have to read all these
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technical questions, even though I know what the issue is.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Hated that job.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Hated it because I would always help the customer. I
could always tell what the issue is right off the bat.
But yet I have to go through a series of
questions simply because that is the rule of the company
that I'm working for. Crazy work. But either way, I
was qualified for the job. I did the job for
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nine months. I'm surprised I lasted that long, to tell
you the truth, but I needed my coins, as they say.
So anyways, my point is I have never worked a
job that I did not feel I was qualified for.
To do this call center job, we had to go
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through training, which was six weeks. Then we had to
take a series of tests and you had to pass
that test or those series of tests with a certain grade.
And one of the tests was a speaking test, another
one was a written test, another one was a typing test.
So there were several things that I had to go
through in order to ensure that I could do the
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job the way they wanted me to do the job.
So to me, when I thought about de higher, DEI higher,
I thought about, of course, systemic racism or systemic bias
or whatever. You want to call it, where someone comes
into a job and because simply because the color of
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their skin, or simply because of other nationality, you know, qualities,
or you know, whatever the case may be, then they
are even if they're handicapped, then they are prevented from
doing the job. But I feel like DEI just the
same as abortion and miscarriages are, and DEI and systemic
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racism are being merged together to mean the same thing,
and to me, they are not. And it took me
a moment to really think through this because when I
first heard that Trump was getting rid of DEI and
he wanted to overturn that in a lot of the
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federal jobs, and you know, just across the board, I
was thinking to myself, I don't know if that's a
good idea. But then I thought, and going back to myself,
what does that mean to be that exactly? And systemic
racism and DEI are not the same. They're being put
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together as the same. But what Trump's point is, and
I do have the fact sheet on this as well,
is that d is being used as an excuse to
hire people who are not qualified for the job and
simply hiring them just off of what they look like,
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or the nationality or you know, whatever positions they are
in physically, and what was trippy? Let me see if
I can find it here. So it says here in
the fact sheet, which I thought was crazy. I had
never heard of this because many of you, like me,
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when we go apply for a job, we don't think
that we're going to apply and that they're just gonna
hire us based off of you know, me being a woman,
me being a black woman. You don't like I just
don't think like this. So it was hard for me
when I read this to be like, really, I just
did not know. So AnyWho, let me read you guys
this in twenty twenty three, Biden's chief Diversity and include
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Officer for the State Department. Her name is Gina She
It says we made the change that if you wanted
to be considered for a promotion at the Department of State,
you must be able to document what you are doing
to support diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility. This is
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how you are judged for a promotion. Now, if you
reread this, okay, so two Democrats they would say, well
that sounds good. You know, they're having to prove they're
doing something for diversity, you know, support, But the situation
at hand is what does the job entail? And have
you been doing the job. Usually, if you're being evaluated
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for a promotion, right, that means you're you've been doing
the job of which you are applying for the promotion,
and they evaluate you on the job, what you've been
doing on the job, how well you've been doing the
job right, how dedicated you.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Are to it.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
So that was interesting, And then it says here Biden
State Department published a five year Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and
Accessibility d EI, a strategic plan that included a department
wide d EIA climate survey and implemented a comprehensive recruitment
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plan to aggressively target so called unrepresented groups. Foreign policy
positions should be felled by the most qualified individuals, not
by discriminatory quotas and id ideological requirements. And then it
states here President Trump is restoring the fairness and accountability
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in federal hiring and targeting DEI across federal government. In
his first week in office, President Trump signed the Executive
Order restoring merit based hiring and promotions across the federal government.
President Trump also signed an executive order ending radical and
wasteful DEI programs and prefacing President Trump, we will he's
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saying here, we will terminate every diversity, equity and inclusion
program across the entire federal government. That was a statement
he actually made. So in this situation, what was happening
is there was a lot of hiring going on for
just the equal I guess you could say diversity and
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equity and inclusion alone, and people were not certified for
those jobs. And so if they come in there with
the right look, with the right mentality, you know, and
they represent, you know, whatever the Democrats wanted them to represent,
then they were hired for the job. So then you
have a lot of people who are not qualified working
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the jobs. And I haven't run into this in a while,
it's been a little minute, but there was a time,
and I don't know if it was Underbidy, and I
don't know who it was under because it's been a while,
maybe because I really haven't been in these streets in.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
A while, but I don't know. I come across a
lot of people like, why are you here?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
It looks like you hate what you do, You don't
really want to be at work, so why are you here?
So I don't know how this is looking from state
to state with these DEI programs. I don't know if
there has been a huge problem with people being underqualified
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for the job, so a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Of things have not been getting done.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I guess the President will know what's going on when
it comes down to federal jobs. Maybe not, you know,
the regular American jobs out here, you know, non federal.
I don't know how much people can say about that,
but I guess he knows what's going on with the
federal go government, which leads me into I'm gonna continue
a little bit on this article as well, but this
(41:04):
leads me into the federal layoffs or firings, whatever the
case may be. And the biggest thing that I've come
to in a conclusion of that is, I figure if
Trump and his administration felt they needed these people, they
would keep them. What annoyed me in hearing people crying
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every time they hear about a federal layoff is have
these people never been laid off? There are so many
people outside of federal jobs, non federal, who are being
laid off every single day. Companies are going under every
single day, and yet we're making such a big deal
out of people losing federal jobs that obviously if they
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kept those jobs and are not needed, they're being paid
for what.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Nothing? Right? Is that not the answer to that?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
So I really don't understand what the problem is because personally,
I've been fired.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Laid off whatever before.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
And I had to move on with my life and
I'm still you know, here to tell you guys the story.
Thank god, you know what I mean. So people survive
being laid off and fired all the time, especially if
you've worked enough, you've probably had maybe a couple of
those in your job.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
He history.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Who knows all of us have experienced that. I figure
at one point in time. I don't know too many
people who's never been fired or laid off. So with
that being said, I feel like if Trump and his
administration really felt like these people were necessary, they would
still be working. And the Biden administration and there's a
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whole thing, and I have to look this stuff up,
you guys, So I'm not gonna dive into it. I'm
just gonna, like, you know, brains it a little bit.
Is I heard, you know, and Trump was talking about
all of these partons that Biden had a little ghost
pin signing, which means that he may or may not
have been present when these things were signed. It's very
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similar to what's going on with that. As far as
how many people have been hired under the Biden administration,
he was over hiring, that's no, it's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Over hiring in all the wrong.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Places at that. And just like with the irs you're
talking about, do they say eighty thousand agents. I was
listening to that number. I'm like, that can't be eight
zero zero zero zero. Seriously, you know, I would think, okay,
eight hundred more ages, eighty thousand, no freaking way, seriously,
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just to come through the the taxes of Americans. I
don't even wanna get myself on that cause, you guys,
that that really makes me upset as a taxpayer. I
I've paid taxes all my working life, you guys, I
have not skated around it. Wish I had, but I
have not. And it irks me just to think about
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the simple fact that the Democratic Party, and I hear
AOC and a lot of these people talking and everything
is against Americans, the people who are born here, raised here,
the people who are working here. Everything they say is
against us. They want us to pay so much. They
want us to not pay any attention. That's for sure.
(44:29):
Don't pay us any attention. Don't pay that, but make
sure you pay us your money and everything that you do.
And I was just speaking to a young lady who's
starting in business, and I'm sitting here like, oh my gosh,
we are overtaxed, underpaid, overworked.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
That's America.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Overtaxed, underpaid, overworked is an understatement for us. And we're
paying for a lot of these things that Trump is
currently trying to change.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
What is the effect that DEI on that?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
To me, it doesn't affect necessarily the American tax dollars,
but it does affect the quality of services we receive.
If there are people working on these jobs who are
not qualified for the job, then we're gonna get poor
service everywhere we go. And I don't know if that's
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been you guys experience. I don't know it's been a
while because I haven't been out here in these streets.
I just been minding my business.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
And when I.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Go, it's very strategic where I am, and you know
where I shop and all that. And if I have
a bad experience, I just don't return. You know it
used to be, you know you try to give companies
and people more than one chance. I'm at that age
in my life and time in my life. I don't
give you more than one chance. You have one time
with me, just like I'm sure I have one time
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with people. And I'm gonna come back and tell you
a few stories about that. Because I did have an
experience recently with a new client, and I was I
rendered the product and service that this client paid for,
but then I was a little bit pop offish because
this client was asking me to do revisions and I
felt like the revisions was unnecessary. And so because I
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felt like it was unnecessary, I let them know I
felt it was unnecessary. And I'm pretty sure that she
took it like, oh okay, yeah, so you got an attitude.
I definitely don't want to work with you again. And
here's the situation I don't mind. I had to ask myself,
I really did, would I prefer to be doing all
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this bending over backwards? And you know, I guess you
can say, working outside myself to keep every single client happy?
Or do I have to push the eject button and
maybe lose a few I'm okay with that, because not
every client acts like that either, right. But then also
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my point is I have to be willing to take
that loss. I also have to be willing to be
seen as that one time person as well. I maybe
had that one time with her to pop off, and
I didn't pop off unprofessionally. You guys, don't get me wrong,
But some people see you standing up and saying, well,
I don't really think this is necessary as you being rude,
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you know what I mean. It could be taken in
that manner, and that's okay. But I keep that same
energy with myself my point, as I do with anybody else.
So if I'm one time with people, then one people
are you know, one time with me as well, And
I'm cool with that. And I thought about it several
times after her she and I had these last discussions,
(47:43):
and I was like, do I mind that she may
view me as, you know, someone who she doesn't want
to work with. Again, I had to say to myself,
I really don't, because I told the truth.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
In that moment.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
And I'm kind of tired of folding every five minutes
just to keep a dollar.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
But you have to be.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Balanced with that because you don't want to lose all
your money. But at the same time, everyone is not
like that, so people are different, so you have to
weigh it on a case by case basis. Be smart
in your business dealings with people, you know what I mean. So, yeah,
I don't know how these streets are out here today.
I don't stick around to find out. I don't have
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too much tolerance left for people to be just adding
out of pocket.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
And I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
If people are the same with me, you give it
them saying into you, let me finish up. I gotta
jump back in this DEI just to wrap it up.
It says here that the Secretary of State is to
remove the Diversity, equity, inclusion, and Accessibility Core Precept from
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Foreign service tenure and promotion criteria. It further directs that
the US government will not base foreign service recruitment, hiring, promotion,
or tension decisions on an individual's race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin, nor in bed discriminatory equity ideology within
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any element of the foreign service. Relevant agencies shall identify
and take appropriate actions regarding any foreign service officer who
knowingly and willingly engages in illegal discrimination. So wrapping this up,
you guys with DEI is the current administration sees DEI
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as also discriminatory because the job at hand is only
based on, as they said here, race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin. And I don't even want to dive
into some of these, but it is a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
My thing is.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
And with this, I feel like what hasn't been clearly
stated and I'm gonna look for it, but I don't
see it being clearly stated even in this fact sheet
of the DEI situation is Trump needs to specify and
this administration needs to state clearly that when it comes
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down to hiring, no one who is qualified for the
job should be prevented from getting the job. I think
that needs to be stated severely with this situation because
a lot of people are taking it as DEI means
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that certain race, religion, and you know, those who may
have accessibility issues all of that, that this may be
a situation where now they're no longer going to be hired.
And that's not what it's saying. The situation is if
they're being hired for that, then it's creating a problem.
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They need to specify and make sure these jobs and
these companies understand that if an applicant, I was gonna say,
a hire, if an applicant passes the test, if an
applicant is willing to do what it takes to do
the job and has represented that they are capable of
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completing the test of that job, then they should be hired,
no matter these things, no matter the race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin. I feel like that needs to be
stated both ways, if that makes sense, So not just
hiring someone for these things, but not also not hiring
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because they are these things, but yet they can do
the job, if that makes sense. So hopefully they clearly
state this. I have really been thinking, I don't know
what I'm gonna do, but I would love to be
kind of like and on the ground everyday American voice
for the White House and just be like, listen, this
is where my ears are, and this is what I
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recommend you know, this is what the people on the
streets are saying, and here's how we want things to go.
And we feel like this needs to be stated from
the White House in order to give clarity to us,
you know, working class Americans, because I really do feel
like where the disconnect can happen with people like Trump,
jd Vance, any politician, whether they be left or right whatever.
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I feel like the disconnect is a lot of them
have not lived the basic working class American life, if
that makes sense. A lot of them have been in
their positions for so long. Trump has been so successful
in his businesses for so long that I feel like
he forgets what it is like to be on the
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ground floor, if that makes sense me personally, I don't
mind being here.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
I love it. You know, it's peaceful. You know.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
The higher up these levels go, the more drama, the
more problems, the more you know, things that needs to
be done solved. A lot is required to be where
Trump and a lot of these people are, and that's understandable.
But also at the same time, they forget what it's
like to be here, if they ever were here, because
some of them are born into their wealth and you know,
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born into their businesses and all that, and there's nothing
wrong with that. I really have never felt like there
was anything wrong with and as some people would call it, privilege.
You know, I personally would recommend that anyone starting a family,
and this is a whole nother conversation for another day,
but anyone starting a family should be considering what you're
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birthing and bringing into the world as far as what
that child is gonna have as they're growing up. There
should be something that they can have and they can
grow into that that would be beneficial to them as
they're beginning their own you know, independent life or whatever,
whether that be family businesses, whether that be homes land,
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you know, whatever the case may be. So I'm not
gonna hate on families who have gotten that together and
have considered what they're gonna pass down to their children
when you know, they grow older and sometimes it's not
always oh because they're you know, they're willing and ready
to die and leave everything. That's not what I mean.
You know, a lot of families are building wealth and
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some parents are living through to see that next generation
enjoy it for some time. And I love that thought,
you know. So I'm not gonna hate, as they say,
on Trump or anybody else being quote unquote privileged. I
feel like that is a fine thing by me if
that is their life. But at the same time, they
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do have to step down a little bit to see
and listen and talk to people who may not have
been where they've been. If that makes sense and who
are not where they are, and that means that our
needs may be a little bit more different than their needs.
And when you have the money to get everything you
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can think of and want at the time, it is
a little bit different from those of us who are
working every week just to gain a check to be
able to get that, because it's not gonna be on autopilot.
If we don't work, we don't eat, if that makes sense.
So anyways, you guys, I'm gonna leave my thoughts there.
I have so much more I want to dive into.
(55:35):
And I knew that this podcast is gonna be a
little bit longer, but that is my thoughts on all
of this and wrapping it up. There is going to
be a shock to the system with what Trump is doing.
Trump is the plan, the exercise plan, the diet change
for an overweight, out of shape, out of pocket country.
(55:59):
And because that diet plan and exercise plan is now
being implemented, people are gonna have an attitude.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
Things are gonna feel.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
Different and weird at first, but then it does balance
itself out. And I do hope that with these tariffs,
Trump holds his position and that these countries work with
him in the way that he envisions it and the
way it's written out here in his fact sheet, and
that they do work together to work with America so
we can build our wealth again. And even with and
(56:31):
I didn't want to bring this up on this podcast,
I'll touch base with it on another one. I'm surprised
I didn't put it on my list because it's been
on my mind. But maybe it's not the time. But
even with this situation with Zulenski, with Ukraine and Russia,
I really felt like too that people aren't realizing with
all of the quote unquote weapons and different things that
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Biden administration have been supplying these countries, is that not
also a way to supply them with something they can
fight us with. You know, when you're depleting your resources
and giving so much to others, you never know when
that shift is turned around and that very thing that
you supply to that person put a knife in their hand,
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is turned back to use on you. And that is
the very thing that we're not listening to and listening
for looking out for when it comes down to our
dealings with other countries. We cannot continue to supply them
with so much getting so little back.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
In return.
Speaker 1 (57:30):
And then next thing, you know, we're broke, tore down, poor,
and they're not wanted to supply anything to us, and
or if we're funding their wars, they turn right around
start a world with us, and now they have everything
to need they need to fight us with because we're
giving that to them. I cannot understand this love for
Zelensky in the sense of, oh, well, you know, we're
(57:52):
just in.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
The bed with this guy.
Speaker 1 (57:54):
He's not even a part of NATO, and that's one
of the biggest fights that he's having with what's the
Russian leader. I can't even say his name putin there.
It is with Putin right now is he's not even
a part of NATO, and Putin does not want him
to join NATO. But yet America is treating Ukraine as
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if it's a part of NATO and it isn't. And
then I also had the eerie thought that what if
these two guys are in this thing together? But I
know that be a little far fetched with everything that
they have going on and the way this war started.
But I wouldn't put anything past anybody. I really just don't.
I don't trust people, you know what I mean? So, yeah,
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I wouldn't put it past them for this to be
some shady way to gain some things from America and
then this thing. You know, they turn around, dab it up,
and you know they're back in good graces again. I
don't know, but anyways, you guys, hopefully they can work
it out. Hopefully that's not the case. I know that
Trump has had issues with Putin and Zelenskin when it
comes down to this war and when it comes down
(58:59):
to discussing and you know, just making sure that we
get to a place where we're not continuing to fund
such foolishness. So I hope it works out. There's a
lot I wanted to say about Zelensky visiting the States
recently and you know, hashing it out with Trump and
the White House.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
I respect it.
Speaker 1 (59:17):
You know, these guys don't like each other, and that's fine,
you know what I mean. I'm not gonna sit down
before you and act cute and I don't like you.
So I didn't mind it. It was just my problem
with the left literally sitting there and acting like Zaliski
was right with popping off at Trump in his house.
One thing, none of us, I don't think anybody listening
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to this podcast is gonna sit here and tell me
that you're gonna let someone that you know, don't like you,
does not like your country, come into your house and
disrespect you. Nobody's gonna do that, and then you would
probably really discontinue any relationship with anyone who cheers on
on such foolishness. So at that Zelensky was out of
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pocket stepping into another man's house with that particular attitude.
That's just my thoughts on that, you know what I mean.
Maybe I'll cover it a little bit more later, But yes,
our politics are interesting, you guys. But I hope that
this podcast has been somewhat informative to you guys, somewhat
educational to you guys, and you know, somewhat entertaining. However
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chat soon.
Hi, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of Motivation Zone.
It is your host here, Monica Mace. Super excited to
be with you guys, and as you can see based
on the title, we are staying on the hot topic
and important topic of politics with the title Trump and
the Shock to the System. The first thing I wanna
(00:20):
start off with you guys because and I'm gonna come
in hot on this podcast, I really wanna dive into
some serious issues that I'm seeing going on here. And
the first thing is, let's tackle this abortion situation, right.
So I dug through my YouTube watch list. You know,
this is where you can go in and see your history,
(00:41):
should I say? And I was looking for this video
that I recently saw within the last week of a
husband who was very grieved because he lost his wife
who was going through a miscarriage. He takes her to
the emergency room and the doctors are saying they're afraid
(01:01):
to perform the necessary surgeries for a woman who is
losing her baby. That's what a miscarriage is. It says
here that through the miscarriage, that means the fetus has
not been carried any longer than twenty weeks, and that
also the fetus fails to survive, which causes the uterus
(01:26):
to expel it. Okay, so during this process, the wife
is actually bleeding out, which is the reason why the
husband takes her to the emergency room. In this situation,
the doctors are saying, we can't perform any surgeries on
her because that's considered us performing an abortion. I was
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infuriated listening to this story, and I tried to find
it because I wanted to know where they were located.
This is a more recent story. I did find another
one in twenty twenty for similar situation, and this was
in the state of Texas. I really wanted to tell
you guys where this other state was, but I'm not
sure because I could not find the video in my
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watch history. So with that being said, though, I'm sitting
here listening to this report, and the situation at hand
that's going on today is when people are reporting things,
When the media is reporting something, when people want to
carry a story in a manner of which it paints
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a certain picture, in a logic to people to sell
it in a certain way, it is such a frustrating
thing when it's not the truth. Let's discuss the truth here. Right,
is a miscarriage and you guys, answer this question as
you're listening to this is a miscarriage and an abortion
the same thing. Explain to me how those two things
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are the same. Explain to me a mother who is
currently pregnant, If she's currently pregnant, she's currently a mother
going into that process, stepping into a fertility clinic or
whatever they call it, abortion clinic, whatever they call it,
to get rid of that fetus who is currently healthy, growing,
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could possibly be carried the term, but it decides to
not carry it the term. Versus a woman who has
lost the baby. The baby is not healthy, the baby
cannot be carried the term, and now the body is
rejecting the fetus that once was growing, once was forming,
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but is no longer, and now the mother's health is
in danger. Tell me how those two things are the same,
because the last I checked, women who are going into
a abortion clinics are not going in there bleeding to death.
That's the last I checked. So how are we merging
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these two things and making it a political situation. I
have no idea, but it needs to stop. And I
did comment on this news outlets video and maybe they
blocked me. I don't know, because I did comment that
very thing. I was like, how is a miscarriage and
an abortion the same thing? Last I checked the woman
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having the abortion, the fetus is still alive. The lady
and the young women who are having or women who
are having miscarriages, their fetuses are no longer alive, and
the body is struggling to deal with that and it
needs to be handled in an emergency type situation. So
I'm listening to the news and I'm listening to these
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things occurring, and the way that they are twisting things
to paint and put Trump in such a negative light.
It is disturbing on so many levels. And the simple
fact that these doctors are willing to watch this young
lady bleed to death and did watch her because she
passed away due to this situation, and they don't want
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to do anything about it. That's a problem. And they
don't want to do anything about it over politics, knowing
good and well. And I have never been in a
medical school before. I have no intentions of becoming a doctor,
but I can tell you I know the difference between
a miscarriage and an abortion, and they should know it
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better than anybody. So the fact that this is even
a conversation is very dangerous. And from the first time
this happens in any state in the United States, this
should have been a discussion and there should be things
put in place to make sure that people understand the differences.
And I do believe I heard another doctor chime in
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on this very story and have the same conclusion I had,
was like, really, we need to explain the differences between
these two things, between abortions and miscarriages. So the moral
of the story here, you guys, is make sure you
do not allow the media to twist your mind to
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merge a whole lot of things to equal the same.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And they're gonna play this game for a long time
because they want Trump to really look bad with all
of his decision making, which is the reason why we're
having these discussions. And I am praying and hoping that
these stories, especially of this young lady, this mother who
is having this miscarriage, which has been more than one
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at this point. I hope this is reaching the ears
of the White House so they can clear this foolishness up.
But unfortunately, no matter what they say, they're gonna get
criticism for it. Because that is what the left wants.
The Democrats want people to really sit here and believe
that everything Trump is doing is to no avail, It
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is to disturb this country. Which what have they been doing?
Have we not been disturbed? Have Democrats not been in office?
But oh, once again, Oh, we couldn't get everything done
we wanted to get done.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Because Trump stopped us.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Are you serious? I'm annoyed, I really am. So you guys,
make sure you're paying attention to what's really going on,
and if you can in your local states and cities,
if you can attend some of these political events, town
hall meetings and all this raise some of these issues
(07:54):
in your own cities and states to those who are
politically leading that city in state, because this is getting
out of hand. I could not believe my ears when
I heard this story. It was very unfortunate, and my
heart definitely goes out to this young lady's husband and
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their family. It's just it's disturbing on so many levels.
And I hope that we get it together, and I
do hope the White House gives a response to stories
like this that's going on in our medical system seriously.
And so the next thing I want to dive into.
And remember we are discussing the shock to the system.
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I'm constantly every time Trump makes a decision, we're gonna
get it to the DEI, We're gonna get into federal
job layoffs, we're gonna get into the tariffs that he's
implementing to all these other countries. But every time Trump
makes a decision, it's a negative impact on something.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let the media tell it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
But what I want to do, and if you guys
listen to my most recent podcast, I am telling you
guys that parables are needed to talk to people because
people literally want to act like they don't understand what's
going on. So you have to put it in layman's terms.
So this is me spelling out what's actually happening. Say,
for instance, and I've gone through this as a I
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don't know if I want to call.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Myself an ex fat girl or an overweight girl, or
you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Right, but let's just say this, in my humblest opinion,
I was overweight. Okay, So initially, when you're overweight, that
means you have habits that are not healthy for you, right.
That means you're eating the wrong things, probably eating too
much of the wrong things, you know, whatever the case
(09:47):
may be. So the first thing you start to think about,
well I did in my weight lost journey, was how
do I change what I'm eating. Then the next thing
was how do I be come more active to lose weight.
So now I'm having to figure this thing out as
an overweight person. I'm gonna tell you guys, I reached
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two hundred and eighty pounds.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Didn't even know it. Okay, did not know.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
And I had a few instances where that was leading
up to me deciding to lose weight, where I'm staring
at myself and I'm like, this is not me. And
I didn't know how much I weighed at the time.
It wasn't until I started my lost journey that I
stepped on the scale and was mind blown. But I
knew it was not me. And one of those instances,
(10:35):
I was out shopping for some shoes and I was like, ooh,
let me, you know, go in Shoe Carnival was one
of my favorite shoe places at the time. This was
about five six years ago, and the reason I love
Shoe Carnival was because you can go in there and
buy one pair, get the other one free. They always
run these little sales. But anyway, let me stay on topic.
(10:56):
So I'm shopping for these shoes and I'm sitting here
look looking at myself in the mirror, and I'm like, oh, no,
you're looking sloppy. This is what I'm saying to myself.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So walking out of that store that day, I was like,
something has to change. That was my never again, can't
do this, This is definitely not it moment. Okay. So
what I did was I started working on a plan,
and that plan starts mentally first.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Always.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Okay, So, anytime there is something that's about to change
or shift, it has to be a I call it
a nagging there where it's in your ear all the time,
it's on your shoulder all the time, it's on your
back all the time, like Okay, this is not right,
or something is off here, or something needs to shift
here or change here, or you can do better, or
(11:49):
you can get up and move, whatever the case is. Right,
So I get on Amazon. I'm telling you guys my
process for a reason. I'm gonna get to my point
hanging there with me because I wanna tell you guys
how I'm feeling about this shock to the system. That
Trump is doing. So I get on Amazon, I buy
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me a lunch bag. The first thing I wanted to
do was number one, not buy anything at any restaurant period,
and so buying that lunch bag was whenever. And I
stopped eating at family's houses too, A long story, but
into you, I started to grill my own food, bake things,
(12:32):
and anytime I was traveling, or anytime I would be
at someone's house for a party or whatever the case
may be, I carried my own food. That's how I
started with this weight lost thing. Then I started implementing, Okay,
how long am I gonna work out?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
You know? And what does that look like? Do I walk?
Do I run? Do I do cardio? Do I do weights?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Whatever the case may be. So we're going through I'm
going through all these questions in my mind, and I'm
starting to put my plan together. But as I'm planning
and as I begin implementing these things, I start to
feel weird. Not because these things aren't good, not because
I'm not making healthy changes, but because I've been unhealthy
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for so long. Now my system, my mind have a
huge shift ahead, and I'm starting to feel all the fields.
Whether I'm a little weaker some days because I'm eating less,
whether I'm a little bit sleepier some days because the
body is like, girl, what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You're wearing me out.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Because I've done ten steps more than I've ever done
to lose some weight just painting this picture, you guys.
So now that shock to the system is happening, and
it's a temporary shock to the system, but when it
first starts, it feels like it's gonna be there forever.
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And because because I went on this weight lost journey
on my own and didn't have a weight loss coach,
I wasn't told that you could possibly feel these things,
and you could possibly feel tired, or you can possibly
start craving more or getting a little bit more frustrated
because you're a little bit hungrier because you're not eating
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the same amount of calories you once were. And the
list goes on, right, because usually, especially when we're online,
we're viewing and listening to a lot of people tell
their stories after they've cleaned it up a little bit
and presented the way they want to present it, and
they bypass a few of the details. Some do, some don't, right,
not everyone, but the shock to my system was literally happening, right,
(14:47):
And so at that moment in time, thank god I
had enough in me to know that this is a
temporary thing. And even now I have not reached my
goal weight yet. I'm on my way, But even now
I keep that in mind as I continue to make
adjustments to get to that goalway, that I could possibly sometime.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Feel a little bit off because.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I'm tweaking the way I used to do things, or
maybe the way I've done things as of recently, and
I might need to dig in and do a little
bit more right to get to that goal weight loss.
But I have to remember the little feelings that I
have are not going to last forever. Right, So tying
this in, I have a shock to my physical system
(15:36):
because I'm physically trying to change something. Trump is the
sitting president. He's currently changing a lot of things that
should have been done a long time ago, and now
our economic system it's feeling every shift. Right, So let's
(15:59):
jump on these tariffs, because I read a lot into this,
guys before coming in and wanting to talk about it,
and I'm telling you, I knew what Trump was doing
when he did it. And the first thing I want
to say because I see the moment he's talking about
implementing his terrorfs. The news is spending going, oh, well,
(16:19):
this country's saying they're gonna implement terrorfs right back to America.
But let me tell you something, if we are the
richest country, as we so want to promote, we shouldn't
have any problems paying tariffs and what Trump is saying.
And I'm gonna drop the link. You guys, check the
description of any platform you're listening to this podcast. I'm
(16:42):
dropping the links to some of the things that I
discussed here today, and I will drop the fact sheets
from white House dot gov, where I'm telling everybody to
go get your information instead of listening directly to the news,
right go straight to the source. I'm gonna drop the
fact sheets on the tariffs, and you will read for
yourself that Trump is stating, we are not equal with
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these countries. We're paying these countries from what we're getting
from them. They're paying us nothing in the trade. So
technically speaking, you guys, if you understand what's happening, Trump
is implementing tariffs on countries who are already getting money
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from the United States for the goods that we are
receiving from them, importing exporting from them. So he wants
to balance these things out so that our economy can grow.
We cannot grow once again Layman's terms, if we're constantly
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pouring out and never receiving anything in.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Make it make sense.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
And at the end of the day, right, everyone else
needs to try this, you guys. You know, if somebody
just so happens to be landing on this podcast and
you're a Democrat and you're disagreeing with every single thing
that Trump is doing, go ahead, getting your bank account it,
be it out and start giving everything away that was
in it and receive no funds back.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Do that for a while and let me know how
it goes. Let me know how.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That works out for you. But that is what's happening.
And so I'm sitting here and I'm reading this information,
and let me see if I can jump to one
of the great points that I read in the article
for the fat sheets for the teriffs, and it says here,
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I'm gonna jump to one of the bullet points. It says,
the annual cause of the US economy of counterfeit goods,
which is another problem we're experiencing. Pirated software and theft
of trade secrets is between two hundred and twenty five
billion and six hundred million. That's how much it's costing
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the US. So if we don't get a handle on
these things, if we're constantly allowing other countries to export, import,
and not have to pay anything to trade with US,
then we're losing. They're saying right now, between two hundred
and twenty five billion to six hundred billion. Now, it
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says here counterfeit products not only pose a significant risk
to US competitiveness, but also threatens the security, health and
safety of Americans, with global trade and counterfeit pharmaceuticals estimated
to four point four billion and linked to the distribution
of deadly fit and al laced drugs. This imbalance has
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fueled a large and persistent trade deficit in both industrial
and our architectural goods, led to offshoring of all manufacturing
based empowered non market economics like China and hurts American
middle class and small towns. President Biden squandered the architectural
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trade surplus inherited by President Trump's first term, turning it
into a projected all time high deficit of forty nine billion.
The current global trading order allows those using unfair trade
practices to get ahead while those playing by the rules
get left behind. Is that not always the story? I
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don't know if you guys feel how I feel personally,
but I'm just sitting up here, like, why am I
doing all of this hard work, caring about people, thinking
about things, trying to do right by people, and then
I get pushed in the dirt in the mud face.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
First, seriously.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
So it is really a thing, and I appreciate in
anyone right now currently trying to turn that around. I
really do believe the people who are and have been
focused on doing right by people and doing right by
this country should get a little bit more credit than
what they're getting. Not that we do it for that,
(21:19):
but it's just a simple fact, as it says here,
that those who are doing unfair trade practices are getting
ahead and the ones who are playing by the rules
are getting left behind. And the reason why that is
is the ones who are planned by the rules are
usually the ones putting out more money. It's the same
thing with US taxpayers and US business owners who are
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doing things by the book and no one looks out
for us, so we lose more. But then you have
all these other businesses like, hmm, okay, we're gonna figure
out a way around this and that, and they're getting
ahead and getting away right.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
It's one of those things where I'm like, I can't
hate on them for that, But at the same time,
we do need to balance that out.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
We really do.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
And those of us who have been trying to do
the right thing for so long, we should get some
form of acknowledgment for that, some form of a refund
for that something.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
I was just saying recently, I have been paying insurance
for so long, especially when it comes to ownly a vehicle,
and by God's good graces and God forbid, I have
not been any accidents. And I've been paying insurance now
for over twenty years on a car and have never
(22:36):
received a refund for never filing acclaim.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And then you look and you go, well, where the
heck is my money? But then you realize that these
companies and individuals who own these insurance companies are billionaires.
Go figure, I wonder why, because everyone who's paying into
policies are not necessarily using them. That's medical, automotive, house,
home insurance all that, right, So there should be something
(23:02):
in place where if you don't have a claim within
twelve months, you should get some form of a refine back.
Even if it's just ten percent, it's better than nothing, right,
So these little funny business things are really happening. And
as I've been watching, and this is something I'll maybe
talk about later, is that have to dive a little
bit more into it, read more on it. Where they're
(23:25):
talking about these politicians who have made a lot more
money since becoming you know, governor mayor president, whatever the
case may be. And you're like, where are y'all getting
all this money from? All of these people who are
talking to us right now at certain points are billionaires
and millionaires, and we're like, where did you get the money?
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You didn't have it before you became a politician, So
what's happening. The difference between Donald Trump and a lot
of these other ones is he was building his wealth
loan before he became president, and his wealth was actually
also passed down because his father was building wealth. His
family was building wealth and passing that knowledge down to Trump.
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And you know, those of his generation for that family,
So you can't knock them for that, and then when
Trump was doing all the things he was doing just
business wise, these politicians loved him. They wanted him on
their side because his wealth spoke volumes to them. It
wasn't until he decided to run for president that now
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everybody has a problem with the man.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Crazy. You don't get towers.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Named after you put in the middle of the biggest
cities in America if you're just so disliked, trust me,
they not to stop these things. They didn't because he
wasn't a problem until he was a problem.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Anyways.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
So going back to what I am reading here, and
this is once again the fact sheet on white House
dot com speaking on the tariffs and why they were implemented.
Is very great information, you guys. I really do recommend
you going in and reading it. But it says here,
made in America, it's not just a tagline. It's an
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economic and national security priority of the administration. The President's
reciprocal trade agenda means better paying American jobs, making beautiful
American made cars, appliances, and other goods. And that was
another thing that this article really went into, was how
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so much of what America is getting is coming from
other countries. And it's not being made in house. And
to Trump's credit, he's been speaking of that even from
his first term, and he was finding a lot of companies,
American companies who was doing more in manufacturing in other countries,
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they were getting fined. And so I felt like that
was fair because if you're an American company and you're
taking more of your manufacturing outside of America than America
is losing out on jobs, which those jobs keep money
funneling in house opposed to funneling in another country's home.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
And listen these.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Countries, and I had to look up a few words
in this article, guys, just because I'm like, I don't
use these on a regular basis. And reciprocal. What's speaking
of and you'll see this word a lot throughout this article.
What's speaking of things being equal, even the trade being
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the same? Trump, And this is another thing that the
news does not want to report. Trump is not telling
anybody that America's not gonna pay terrorfs. You do not
hear that rhetoric on anything that Trump is discussing, not
in any interviews, not from the White House Press secretary.
You don't hear us standing up going well countries are
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gonna start to pay us, and we're not gonna pay them. Jack,
That's not what's happening. And these are the things that
we need to put into proper perspective, because if we're
out here and the media is just painting, oh, what
Trump is implementing tarrors taror tarror, tariors terrffs, are you
discussing what we're paying these countries?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Already?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Trump is very on point with the simple fact that
we're putting out more money than these countries just to
get business done and get certain things that aren't made here.
We're putting out more money. That's the whole point. And
once again, if you want to see what that's like,
clear out your bank account, start giving away what was
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in it, and don't receive anything back in it, and
tell me how that works out. Silly, crazy, not gonna work,
Not gonna work for you.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
So, I'm with Trump on these tariffs. I hope that
it all works out. One thing I'm listening out on
and for is for Trump to continue negotiations. It is
mentioned in this article that he is negotiating with several
of these countries, and if they start implementing certain things
that are going to be beneficial to America. As America
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continues to be beneficial to them, then he will lower
the tariffs or get rid of those terrafs altogether. And
in some countries, and I believe it was Canada being
one of those mentioned about the fentanyl, these countries need
to get things in order that is coming over to
America and hindering either our economy or our health, or
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whatever the case may be. And once they start implementing
certain things to make sure that they stay on track
with us, then Trump will rid those terrors. So I
understand exactly what it is he's doing. I recommend and
you guys can click the link in any platform that
you're listening to this podcast on, jump to my podcast
page and click on these articles, you guys, and actually
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read them for yourself. I only read, I would probably
say a very very very not even ten percent of
this article is a pretty big article. So it's important
to go in and read these things for yourself, get
the knowledge for yourself, so that way we can have actual,
real dialogue about it instead of just regurgitating what we're
hearing on the news. And all they're sitting there saying is, oh, well,
(29:18):
you know Trump is implementing tarras, that's gonna be bad
for us.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Listen, are you.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I really want Trump to start taxing these Democrats more?
Everything they're complaining about, everything they're saying that they don't
want him to do, they need to do themselves for
at least twelve months to see how it works out.
Because I'm very annoyed with people who are complaining about
responsibilities that they have not taken on themselves. It is crazy,
(29:50):
but anti Who I digress. Let's jump to the next topic,
and that is gonna be the DEI hires. So at first,
when I heard about this, I'm sitting here like, hmm,
how do I feel about DEI? I've never been a
DEI hired, Okay, because every single job I ever have
applied for, I applied because I thought I could do
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the job. I thought that I would be certified for
that job, and there were literal tests put in place
to make sure that I could do the job. For example,
one job that I was hired for I hated till
this day, but I did it, but hate it.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's customer service.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
The reason why I hate customer service, you guys, is
because in this particular job, I think I was working
for a Verizon Prepaid at the time, and this was
through another company who hired out call center workers for
different companies, and Verizon Prepaid was one. And I will
never forget that ten hour shift in the full nine hours,
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because you get a one hour break. Fank the Lord.
The nine hours, I'm just sitting on the phone repeating
the same thing over and over and over again for
nine hours. And what hurt me about this job is
they would have what you call call quality. Now, the
quality I used to get in trouble for had nothing
(31:24):
to do with how I sound when I was speaking
to anyone over the phone. It was, oh, well, you
didn't say the script exactly how it was written. And
like say, for instance, someone would call in with a
Verizon prepaid phone and they would go, oh my gosh,
my minutes are not working.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
What's going on? Not even to make any calls? Blah
blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And you can look at their account and see that
they have zero minutes because you get the phone number,
you get whatever cold you need to get into their account,
and you're looking at it on the back end, and
you see that they need to actually do a refill
for their phones to work. So I used to get
in trouble with Quality because they would say, well, Monica,
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you jumped straight to simply telling them to refill their phones,
and you didn't go through the probing technical questions. And
I'm sitting here in Quality looking at these ladies who
listen to our calls because, and let me tell you,
the ladies who listened to our calls, I never seen
a guy do it when I was working. Maybe they're
worse some, but they weren't working when I was working.
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Either way, it goes as I'm sitting in there, these
ladies never have taken calls before in their lives.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
I'm asking them, have you ever taken a call? Nope?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
So they're just hired to be quote unquote quality managers
and they've never been on the phones themselves.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I used to hate that.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
I'm like, for real, you've never done this, and you're
telling me what I've done wrong, even though I solved
the customer's problem. My level of annoyance with it all.
But anyway, so I'm sitting there and I'm like, this
is how this works. So now I have to go
buy the script. Now I have to read all these
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technical questions, even though I know what the issue is.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Hated that job.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Hated it because I would always help the customer. I
could always tell what the issue is right off the bat.
But yet I have to go through a series of
questions simply because that is the rule of the company
that I'm working for. Crazy work. But either way, I
was qualified for the job. I did the job for
(33:34):
nine months. I'm surprised I lasted that long, to tell
you the truth, but I needed my coins, as they say.
So anyways, my point is I have never worked a
job that I did not feel I was qualified for.
To do this call center job, we had to go
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through training, which was six weeks. Then we had to
take a series of tests and you had to pass
that test or those series of tests with a certain grade.
And one of the tests was a speaking test, another
one was a written test, another one was a typing test.
So there were several things that I had to go
through in order to ensure that I could do the
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job the way they wanted me to do the job.
So to me, when I thought about de higher, DEI higher,
I thought about, of course, systemic racism or systemic bias
or whatever. You want to call it, where someone comes
into a job and because simply because the color of
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their skin, or simply because of other nationality, you know, qualities,
or you know, whatever the case may be, then they
are even if they're handicapped, then they are prevented from
doing the job. But I feel like DEI just the
same as abortion and miscarriages are, and DEI and systemic
(35:06):
racism are being merged together to mean the same thing,
and to me, they are not. And it took me
a moment to really think through this because when I
first heard that Trump was getting rid of DEI and
he wanted to overturn that in a lot of the
(35:27):
federal jobs, and you know, just across the board, I
was thinking to myself, I don't know if that's a
good idea. But then I thought, and going back to myself,
what does that mean to be that exactly? And systemic
racism and DEI are not the same. They're being put
(35:49):
together as the same. But what Trump's point is, and
I do have the fact sheet on this as well,
is that d is being used as an excuse to
hire people who are not qualified for the job and
simply hiring them just off of what they look like,
(36:13):
or the nationality or you know, whatever positions they are
in physically, and what was trippy? Let me see if
I can find it here. So it says here in
the fact sheet, which I thought was crazy. I had
never heard of this because many of you, like me,
(36:34):
when we go apply for a job, we don't think
that we're going to apply and that they're just gonna
hire us based off of you know, me being a woman,
me being a black woman. You don't like I just
don't think like this. So it was hard for me
when I read this to be like, really, I just
did not know. So AnyWho, let me read you guys
this in twenty twenty three, Biden's chief Diversity and include
(37:00):
Officer for the State Department. Her name is Gina She
It says we made the change that if you wanted
to be considered for a promotion at the Department of State,
you must be able to document what you are doing
to support diversity, equity, and inclusion and accessibility. This is
(37:22):
how you are judged for a promotion. Now, if you
reread this, okay, so two Democrats they would say, well
that sounds good. You know, they're having to prove they're
doing something for diversity, you know, support, But the situation
at hand is what does the job entail? And have
you been doing the job. Usually, if you're being evaluated
(37:45):
for a promotion, right, that means you're you've been doing
the job of which you are applying for the promotion,
and they evaluate you on the job, what you've been
doing on the job, how well you've been doing the
job right, how dedicated you.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Are to it.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
So that was interesting, And then it says here Biden
State Department published a five year Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and
Accessibility d EI, a strategic plan that included a department
wide d EIA climate survey and implemented a comprehensive recruitment
(38:25):
plan to aggressively target so called unrepresented groups. Foreign policy
positions should be felled by the most qualified individuals, not
by discriminatory quotas and id ideological requirements. And then it
states here President Trump is restoring the fairness and accountability
(38:48):
in federal hiring and targeting DEI across federal government. In
his first week in office, President Trump signed the Executive
Order restoring merit based hiring and promotions across the federal government.
President Trump also signed an executive order ending radical and
wasteful DEI programs and prefacing President Trump, we will he's
(39:13):
saying here, we will terminate every diversity, equity and inclusion
program across the entire federal government. That was a statement
he actually made. So in this situation, what was happening
is there was a lot of hiring going on for
just the equal I guess you could say diversity and
(39:37):
equity and inclusion alone, and people were not certified for
those jobs. And so if they come in there with
the right look, with the right mentality, you know, and
they represent, you know, whatever the Democrats wanted them to represent,
then they were hired for the job. So then you
have a lot of people who are not qualified working
(39:57):
the jobs. And I haven't run into this in a while,
it's been a little minute, but there was a time,
and I don't know if it was Underbidy, and I
don't know who it was under because it's been a while,
maybe because I really haven't been in these streets in.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
A while, but I don't know. I come across a
lot of people like, why are you here?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
It looks like you hate what you do, You don't
really want to be at work, so why are you here?
So I don't know how this is looking from state
to state with these DEI programs. I don't know if
there has been a huge problem with people being underqualified
(40:40):
for the job, so a lot.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Of things have not been getting done.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
I guess the President will know what's going on when
it comes down to federal jobs. Maybe not, you know,
the regular American jobs out here, you know, non federal.
I don't know how much people can say about that,
but I guess he knows what's going on with the
federal go government, which leads me into I'm gonna continue
a little bit on this article as well, but this
(41:04):
leads me into the federal layoffs or firings, whatever the
case may be. And the biggest thing that I've come
to in a conclusion of that is, I figure if
Trump and his administration felt they needed these people, they
would keep them. What annoyed me in hearing people crying
(41:27):
every time they hear about a federal layoff is have
these people never been laid off? There are so many
people outside of federal jobs, non federal, who are being
laid off every single day. Companies are going under every
single day, and yet we're making such a big deal
out of people losing federal jobs that obviously if they
(41:49):
kept those jobs and are not needed, they're being paid
for what.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
Nothing? Right? Is that not the answer to that?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
So I really don't understand what the problem is because personally,
I've been fired.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Laid off whatever before.
Speaker 1 (42:07):
And I had to move on with my life and
I'm still you know, here to tell you guys the story.
Thank god, you know what I mean. So people survive
being laid off and fired all the time, especially if
you've worked enough, you've probably had maybe a couple of
those in your job.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
He history.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Who knows all of us have experienced that. I figure
at one point in time. I don't know too many
people who's never been fired or laid off. So with
that being said, I feel like if Trump and his
administration really felt like these people were necessary, they would
still be working. And the Biden administration and there's a
(42:48):
whole thing, and I have to look this stuff up,
you guys, So I'm not gonna dive into it. I'm
just gonna, like, you know, brains it a little bit.
Is I heard, you know, and Trump was talking about
all of these partons that Biden had a little ghost
pin signing, which means that he may or may not
have been present when these things were signed. It's very
(43:10):
similar to what's going on with that. As far as
how many people have been hired under the Biden administration,
he was over hiring, that's no, it's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
Over hiring in all the wrong.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
Places at that. And just like with the irs you're
talking about, do they say eighty thousand agents. I was
listening to that number. I'm like, that can't be eight
zero zero zero zero. Seriously, you know, I would think, okay,
eight hundred more ages, eighty thousand, no freaking way, seriously,
(43:46):
just to come through the the taxes of Americans. I
don't even wanna get myself on that cause, you guys,
that that really makes me upset as a taxpayer. I
I've paid taxes all my working life, you guys, I
have not skated around it. Wish I had, but I
have not. And it irks me just to think about
(44:06):
the simple fact that the Democratic Party, and I hear
AOC and a lot of these people talking and everything
is against Americans, the people who are born here, raised here,
the people who are working here. Everything they say is
against us. They want us to pay so much. They
want us to not pay any attention. That's for sure.
(44:29):
Don't pay us any attention. Don't pay that, but make
sure you pay us your money and everything that you do.
And I was just speaking to a young lady who's
starting in business, and I'm sitting here like, oh my gosh,
we are overtaxed, underpaid, overworked.
Speaker 2 (44:50):
That's America.
Speaker 1 (44:52):
Overtaxed, underpaid, overworked is an understatement for us. And we're
paying for a lot of these things that Trump is
currently trying to change.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
What is the effect that DEI on that?
Speaker 1 (45:06):
To me, it doesn't affect necessarily the American tax dollars,
but it does affect the quality of services we receive.
If there are people working on these jobs who are
not qualified for the job, then we're gonna get poor
service everywhere we go. And I don't know if that's
(45:26):
been you guys experience. I don't know it's been a
while because I haven't been out here in these streets.
I just been minding my business.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
And when I.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Go, it's very strategic where I am, and you know
where I shop and all that. And if I have
a bad experience, I just don't return. You know it
used to be, you know you try to give companies
and people more than one chance. I'm at that age
in my life and time in my life. I don't
give you more than one chance. You have one time
with me, just like I'm sure I have one time
(45:54):
with people. And I'm gonna come back and tell you
a few stories about that. Because I did have an
experience recently with a new client, and I was I
rendered the product and service that this client paid for,
but then I was a little bit pop offish because
this client was asking me to do revisions and I
felt like the revisions was unnecessary. And so because I
(46:16):
felt like it was unnecessary, I let them know I
felt it was unnecessary. And I'm pretty sure that she
took it like, oh okay, yeah, so you got an attitude.
I definitely don't want to work with you again. And
here's the situation I don't mind. I had to ask myself,
I really did, would I prefer to be doing all
(46:37):
this bending over backwards? And you know, I guess you
can say, working outside myself to keep every single client happy?
Or do I have to push the eject button and
maybe lose a few I'm okay with that, because not
every client acts like that either, right. But then also
(46:58):
my point is I have to be willing to take
that loss. I also have to be willing to be
seen as that one time person as well. I maybe
had that one time with her to pop off, and
I didn't pop off unprofessionally. You guys, don't get me wrong,
But some people see you standing up and saying, well,
I don't really think this is necessary as you being rude,
(47:20):
you know what I mean. It could be taken in
that manner, and that's okay. But I keep that same
energy with myself my point, as I do with anybody else.
So if I'm one time with people, then one people
are you know, one time with me as well, And
I'm cool with that. And I thought about it several
times after her she and I had these last discussions,
(47:43):
and I was like, do I mind that she may
view me as, you know, someone who she doesn't want
to work with. Again, I had to say to myself,
I really don't, because I told the truth.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
In that moment.
Speaker 1 (47:54):
And I'm kind of tired of folding every five minutes
just to keep a dollar.
Speaker 2 (48:00):
But you have to be.
Speaker 1 (48:01):
Balanced with that because you don't want to lose all
your money. But at the same time, everyone is not
like that, so people are different, so you have to
weigh it on a case by case basis. Be smart
in your business dealings with people, you know what I mean. So, yeah,
I don't know how these streets are out here today.
I don't stick around to find out. I don't have
(48:22):
too much tolerance left for people to be just adding
out of pocket.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
And I'm okay.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
If people are the same with me, you give it
them saying into you, let me finish up. I gotta
jump back in this DEI just to wrap it up.
It says here that the Secretary of State is to
remove the Diversity, equity, inclusion, and Accessibility Core Precept from
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Foreign service tenure and promotion criteria. It further directs that
the US government will not base foreign service recruitment, hiring, promotion,
or tension decisions on an individual's race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin, nor in bed discriminatory equity ideology within
(49:13):
any element of the foreign service. Relevant agencies shall identify
and take appropriate actions regarding any foreign service officer who
knowingly and willingly engages in illegal discrimination. So wrapping this up,
you guys with DEI is the current administration sees DEI
(49:36):
as also discriminatory because the job at hand is only
based on, as they said here, race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin. And I don't even want to dive
into some of these, but it is a hot mess.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
My thing is.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
And with this, I feel like what hasn't been clearly
stated and I'm gonna look for it, but I don't
see it being clearly stated even in this fact sheet
of the DEI situation is Trump needs to specify and
this administration needs to state clearly that when it comes
(50:20):
down to hiring, no one who is qualified for the
job should be prevented from getting the job. I think
that needs to be stated severely with this situation because
a lot of people are taking it as DEI means
(50:41):
that certain race, religion, and you know, those who may
have accessibility issues all of that, that this may be
a situation where now they're no longer going to be hired.
And that's not what it's saying. The situation is if
they're being hired for that, then it's creating a problem.
(51:03):
They need to specify and make sure these jobs and
these companies understand that if an applicant, I was gonna say,
a hire, if an applicant passes the test, if an
applicant is willing to do what it takes to do
the job and has represented that they are capable of
(51:24):
completing the test of that job, then they should be hired,
no matter these things, no matter the race, color, religion, sex,
or national origin. I feel like that needs to be
stated both ways, if that makes sense, So not just
hiring someone for these things, but not also not hiring
(51:48):
because they are these things, but yet they can do
the job, if that makes sense. So hopefully they clearly
state this. I have really been thinking, I don't know
what I'm gonna do, but I would love to be
kind of like and on the ground everyday American voice
for the White House and just be like, listen, this
is where my ears are, and this is what I
(52:09):
recommend you know, this is what the people on the
streets are saying, and here's how we want things to go.
And we feel like this needs to be stated from
the White House in order to give clarity to us,
you know, working class Americans, because I really do feel
like where the disconnect can happen with people like Trump,
jd Vance, any politician, whether they be left or right whatever.
(52:33):
I feel like the disconnect is a lot of them
have not lived the basic working class American life, if
that makes sense. A lot of them have been in
their positions for so long. Trump has been so successful
in his businesses for so long that I feel like
he forgets what it is like to be on the
(52:54):
ground floor, if that makes sense me personally, I don't
mind being here.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
I love it. You know, it's peaceful. You know.
Speaker 1 (53:02):
The higher up these levels go, the more drama, the
more problems, the more you know, things that needs to
be done solved. A lot is required to be where
Trump and a lot of these people are, and that's understandable.
But also at the same time, they forget what it's
like to be here, if they ever were here, because
some of them are born into their wealth and you know,
(53:25):
born into their businesses and all that, and there's nothing
wrong with that. I really have never felt like there
was anything wrong with and as some people would call it, privilege.
You know, I personally would recommend that anyone starting a family,
and this is a whole nother conversation for another day,
but anyone starting a family should be considering what you're
(53:48):
birthing and bringing into the world as far as what
that child is gonna have as they're growing up. There
should be something that they can have and they can
grow into that that would be beneficial to them as
they're beginning their own you know, independent life or whatever,
whether that be family businesses, whether that be homes land,
(54:10):
you know, whatever the case may be. So I'm not
gonna hate on families who have gotten that together and
have considered what they're gonna pass down to their children
when you know, they grow older and sometimes it's not
always oh because they're you know, they're willing and ready
to die and leave everything. That's not what I mean.
You know, a lot of families are building wealth and
(54:33):
some parents are living through to see that next generation
enjoy it for some time. And I love that thought,
you know. So I'm not gonna hate, as they say,
on Trump or anybody else being quote unquote privileged. I
feel like that is a fine thing by me if
that is their life. But at the same time, they
(54:54):
do have to step down a little bit to see
and listen and talk to people who may not have
been where they've been. If that makes sense and who
are not where they are, and that means that our
needs may be a little bit more different than their needs.
And when you have the money to get everything you
(55:14):
can think of and want at the time, it is
a little bit different from those of us who are
working every week just to gain a check to be
able to get that, because it's not gonna be on autopilot.
If we don't work, we don't eat, if that makes sense.
So anyways, you guys, I'm gonna leave my thoughts there.
I have so much more I want to dive into.
(55:35):
And I knew that this podcast is gonna be a
little bit longer, but that is my thoughts on all
of this and wrapping it up. There is going to
be a shock to the system with what Trump is doing.
Trump is the plan, the exercise plan, the diet change
for an overweight, out of shape, out of pocket country.
(55:59):
And because that diet plan and exercise plan is now
being implemented, people are gonna have an attitude.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
Things are gonna feel.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
Different and weird at first, but then it does balance
itself out. And I do hope that with these tariffs,
Trump holds his position and that these countries work with
him in the way that he envisions it and the
way it's written out here in his fact sheet, and
that they do work together to work with America so
we can build our wealth again. And even with and
(56:31):
I didn't want to bring this up on this podcast,
I'll touch base with it on another one. I'm surprised
I didn't put it on my list because it's been
on my mind. But maybe it's not the time. But
even with this situation with Zulenski, with Ukraine and Russia,
I really felt like too that people aren't realizing with
all of the quote unquote weapons and different things that
(56:52):
Biden administration have been supplying these countries, is that not
also a way to supply them with something they can
fight us with. You know, when you're depleting your resources
and giving so much to others, you never know when
that shift is turned around and that very thing that
you supply to that person put a knife in their hand,
(57:14):
is turned back to use on you. And that is
the very thing that we're not listening to and listening
for looking out for when it comes down to our
dealings with other countries. We cannot continue to supply them
with so much getting so little back.
Speaker 2 (57:29):
In return.
Speaker 1 (57:30):
And then next thing, you know, we're broke, tore down, poor,
and they're not wanted to supply anything to us, and
or if we're funding their wars, they turn right around
start a world with us, and now they have everything
to need they need to fight us with because we're
giving that to them. I cannot understand this love for
Zelensky in the sense of, oh, well, you know, we're
(57:52):
just in.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
The bed with this guy.
Speaker 1 (57:54):
He's not even a part of NATO, and that's one
of the biggest fights that he's having with what's the
Russian leader. I can't even say his name putin there.
It is with Putin right now is he's not even
a part of NATO, and Putin does not want him
to join NATO. But yet America is treating Ukraine as
(58:14):
if it's a part of NATO and it isn't. And
then I also had the eerie thought that what if
these two guys are in this thing together? But I
know that be a little far fetched with everything that
they have going on and the way this war started.
But I wouldn't put anything past anybody. I really just don't.
I don't trust people, you know what I mean? So, yeah,
(58:36):
I wouldn't put it past them for this to be
some shady way to gain some things from America and
then this thing. You know, they turn around, dab it up,
and you know they're back in good graces again. I
don't know, but anyways, you guys, hopefully they can work
it out. Hopefully that's not the case. I know that
Trump has had issues with Putin and Zelenskin when it
comes down to this war and when it comes down
(58:59):
to discussing and you know, just making sure that we
get to a place where we're not continuing to fund
such foolishness. So I hope it works out. There's a
lot I wanted to say about Zelensky visiting the States
recently and you know, hashing it out with Trump and
the White House.
Speaker 2 (59:17):
I respect it.
Speaker 1 (59:17):
You know, these guys don't like each other, and that's fine,
you know what I mean. I'm not gonna sit down
before you and act cute and I don't like you.
So I didn't mind it. It was just my problem
with the left literally sitting there and acting like Zaliski
was right with popping off at Trump in his house.
One thing, none of us, I don't think anybody listening
(59:42):
to this podcast is gonna sit here and tell me
that you're gonna let someone that you know, don't like you,
does not like your country, come into your house and
disrespect you. Nobody's gonna do that, and then you would
probably really discontinue any relationship with anyone who cheers on
on such foolishness. So at that Zelensky was out of
(01:00:04):
pocket stepping into another man's house with that particular attitude.
That's just my thoughts on that, you know what I mean.
Maybe I'll cover it a little bit more later, But yes,
our politics are interesting, you guys. But I hope that
this podcast has been somewhat informative to you guys, somewhat
educational to you guys, and you know, somewhat entertaining. However
(01:00:27):
you look at it, hopefully, if you had a good time,
if you stuck it out with me this far, you guys,
If you want to leave a comment, because I would
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(01:00:50):
you guys, to bring more podcasts to you, and we're
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