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Election Aftermath: Navigating Disillusionment and Advocating for Change
Imagine waking up to an election outcome that shakes your core beliefs and leaves your community grappling with its implications. That’s exactly the journey Phoebe and I navigate as we confront the emotional turmoil of living in a red state like Texas post-election. We unpack the complexities of the "red mirage," how expectations of a blue wave led to widespread disillusionment, and our commitment to transforming this disappointment into a force for positive change. With candid reflections and a deep dive into our own political awakening, we explore the critical need for staying informed and engaged in these unsettling times.
We also take a hard look at the evolving workplace protections and how political shifts, like Project 2025 and the influence of Trump's administration, could redefine them. Our conversation explores how these changes might exacerbate societal inequalities, especially as they intersect with the rise in the stock market that disproportionately benefits the wealthy. The episode doesn't shy away from confronting the uncomfortable—racially charged incidents, extremist rhetoric, and their unsettling ties to political action committees are all on the table. We dissect these issues, emphasizing the importance of vigilance and advocacy for justice in an increasingly divided society.
With the backdrop of strained friendships and disillusionment with public figures like Elon Musk, we challenge the notion of strategic voting versus personal values, especially with figures like RFK Jr. in the mix. Together, we highlight the power of community and active participation, urging listeners to engage with local politicians and remain informed through independent media sources.
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Hi and welcome to Lovey, miss you. Bye, I'm Christy Chanel and I'm recording this on my phone because there's something wacky going on with my internet. My plan was to go dark. I have just been in funk ever since the election happened and I'm trying to shake myself out of it. I didn't know if I was going to be able to come on and speak to you directly about it.
Speaker 1:Luckily, phoebe, my co-host, and I, on Simply Vibin, do a show together and we typically go live on that show. We've decided to cover things that are happening in the political world. This is something that I never really got just never really got much involved in, never really got fully educated on, and it's time that I do that. And as I educate myself more, I want to share it with you. I live in a red state of Texas and well, to be quite honest with you, I'm freaking out. That may isolate some people that listen to my show. I'm a little upset, and so Phoebe and I went live on Saturday and talked about it.
Speaker 1:Phoebe and I have a lot of people that are affected because of this choice that America has made, and my goal is to keep my eyes wide open and not shut them and go to sleep again. I want to become more active and make sure that we're growing as a community, standing up for what we believe in and being a part of change. That is my promise to you, myself and my family. Enjoy our Simply Vibin episode this week and I will be back next Monday for my normal content. I'm with you if you're hurting right now, scared, devastated, sending you hugs through the miles and thinking about you. Okay, on with the show. I'm your host, christy Chanel, and this is the Love you Miss you Bye. Podcast.
Speaker 2:Are we live? Yeah, oh, okay. So how are you, Christy? I'm good.
Speaker 1:What are we doing?
Speaker 2:here. How are you? I'm good. Notice any jewelry, christy, I'm good. What are we doing here?
Speaker 1:How are you? I'm good, notice any jewelry, any aesthetic, so you've been reading horror stories.
Speaker 2:today You've been reading true horror stories okay, true horror stories.
Speaker 1:Yes, I haven't read everything, I mean, I just got it Friday, really.
Speaker 2:That's a big.
Speaker 1:How many pages is that? Do you know 900. Hold on. How many pages is that? Do you know 900? Hold on, that is crazy I know and I didn't bring every. I didn't bring like the second half in here, just the first half, because I haven't really looked through the whole book. But anyway, what we're talking about is project 2025, and I think it's really really relevant to talk about Project 2025 because we just had a really fucked up election. Did you watch the election or did you not even turn it on?
Speaker 2:No, I watched it. You did watch it. I mean, I didn't stay up late, I didn't dedicate my next day to it, I kind of stayed up until my normal time and then I went to bed instead. Like well, I thought it might took a little longer. I was surprised that when I woke up we already knew. But at the same time, when I went to bed, I was like, oh, trump's coming in a little strong. Like, oh, it's OK.
Speaker 1:Well, they tell you that there's going to be a red mirage in the beginning, and everybody's like don't worry, don't worry, it's a red mirage, it's a red mirage. And then the blue wave will come in and typically that's what happens is because of the first few states closing polls at that time that you know that's typically what happens. So I kept saying to Hannah, my daughter I'm like oh, no, no, no, no, it's just the mirage, it's just the red mirage. And she was like how long does it last? Right, and like yeah, so then then we started to have these sinking feelings and and even Nevada, was it looked scary Like New Jersey for a minute freaked me out. I'm like you know, that's where I'm from, your home state, yeah, my home state. I grew up there and so I was a little freaked out by that.
Speaker 2:I knew what my home state was going to do, and we're in Texas for anybody that's passing through. Well, and then I'm from Kansas, which you know Red, it turned red. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I did stay up late because I I'm an optimist and I was like it's gonna, yeah, it's gonna change, you know. So then I went to sleep about midnight and it was already pretty much called at that point, was it? Yeah, it was it. I mean, they didn't officially call it, but it was. It was kind of obvious what was happening. And then, um, I woke up at like four in the morning and I was just wide awake and I couldn't sleep.
Speaker 1:I was just, I felt really heavy, I felt like a sadness yeah um, so that if you went to sleep then next morning did it affect you at all? Did you feel any type of way?
Speaker 2:Honestly, no, I mean, I was of course not happy. It's like fucking shit. You know, that's kind of how I felt is just like. But I honestly thought this was going to happen. I could see it coming a mile away. You did.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Before the election, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:I knew who was going to win.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, tell me how, because all the media was saying it's going to be a blue wave. Did you really believe that? Do you know I'm gullible? Yeah, I will say because.
Speaker 2:I mean, the last few weeks before we really got got to the election, I was seeing so many different people suddenly endorsing Trump that I'm like whoa, what is happening Like this is not like the last election, where these are not, you know, far right. You know it's not super conservative. People like these are normal kind of middle of the road people that are starting to endorse him, and it just to me I had I thought yeah, because I mean, and also the democrats didn't have a strong ticket. You know they, they have been faltering in for years and at this point, you know it's like people kind of vote against, against something, they're not really voting for anything and so I could just yeah I I wasn't shocked at all.
Speaker 2:I wasn wasn't shocked and I think, remember, I told you like the way I see it is like, well, we got to hit rock bottom as a country and we've not got there yet and until we hit rock bottom, we're not going to change stuff like we need to. We needed a complete, like radical, overhaul of the way things are done and we got to be at rock bottom before that's going to really happen and it's like, hey, that's what trump's job is going to be, you know, if that's what you know. So I didn't feel this sense, like the same sense as you did, because I felt more like, okay, you know, let everyone mourn this, and but then I think, um, it's going to motivate a lot of people to get up and get, get off the couch and do something. So I see that as the kind of light at the end of the tunnel with it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I am. I was more blindsided by it and thinking about Well, people wouldn't vote for a? You know a felon, you know somebody that's lying, somebody that's derogatory and and is talking about people like that, saying you know he's going to take down all his opponent, you know it's just. It didn't seem like America was that filled with hate and and that is my blind optimism, I think, and I recognize that Well maybe a little naive too, and a little.
Speaker 2:You know you're in your bubble and that's what you thought. You know I know a lot of people that think along those lines or think like no, this isn't a racist country, it's 100 percent a racist country still.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And and honestly, though I like I said it was heavy, the next day I was crying, I and honestly, though I like I said it was heavy, the next day I was crying, I was depressed. That probably lasted a couple of days, and then I got angry and then I started to say, ok, there's enough'll get into more of the things that we're seeing out there, but that's what they like. They like weakness. It makes them happy, and I don't want to give them that anymore, like I'm done with that.
Speaker 1:You know, I'm now it's, I'm angry and what can we do about it type scenario, it type scenario. But OK, so I know we have different backgrounds and we were raised differently and all of that. Obviously, my roots are Texas, I was born in Dallas, I was raised a city girl in New Jersey and in a blue state and with a lot of equality. Well, what's that? Of course, everybody's equal Duh, you know that was that was my training, my upbringing was everybody deserves an equal opportunity, and so learning that's not it, that's not happening, was surprising to me. You know it really was. And so, obviously, being with my ex has shown me a lot of some scenarios that I wasn't familiar with, and I've learned a little bit about some things through him, but still not enough, not even close to enough. And I'm acknowledging that and I'm open minded and I want to learn and I want to be taught what I don't know so that I can make a difference in some way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say yeah, and like the people that probably voted for Trump, you know they weren't all racist. You know there were. Of course there's a big segment that that's why they did outright racist, undercover racist, you know like, or the whole like we got to protect the white man. Oh my God, they're coming to take all our rights and you know the ones who basically like once, what is the saying? I don't even want to, I can't think of it right now. But, uh, no pressure, we've got time. Basically, now that we're treating white men like everyone else, you know you take away, make it equal for them, then they think they're being what is you know the saying?
Speaker 2:anyway, it's bothering me because I can't think of it. It's like a saying, and so they think like, oh, that's just free speech and that's just comedy and that's just. You know stuff like that where I don't think they make it a priority to cast their vote. You know, it's like they're looking at the other issues he's talking about instead of. You know that he's a bigot and a sexist. They're just like, oh, but he's I don't even know what they saw, because he's not even a good businessman. I don't know, I don't even know what they saw, because he's not even a good businessman.
Speaker 1:I don't know, I don't know. No, I mean I know because he's been bankrupt. Six times he went through bankruptcy and he says only four because he's also a liar, definitely. I can definitely see that. So a lot of what I'm hearing is this is really kind of just shown a mirror on what America truly is and instead of the illusion of what they say, they are, and that is a big eye opener for me. You know, I'm on TikTok a lot, so I see, I see what other countries are doing, I see what other countries are saying and they're all shocked.
Speaker 2:I heard people talking about oh, I'm in Canada, you can come here with us, and I'm like they actually have pretty strict rules.
Speaker 1:Don't extend that invite because a lot of people are going to get turned away. The LGBTQ plus community and women in general are all at risk in what's potentially to come. I did talk to a friend of mine. Companies are looking at their handbooks. You know a lot of people, a lot of companies will say don't trust HR, because HR is there to protect the company, not you. Well, the laws are there to protect you, yeah we're froze, I'm froze.
Speaker 2:Are you froze? What's happening? Hold on shit. Can you hear me? I'm back now, okay. Oh, was that me or you?
Speaker 1:I couldn't tell, I think it was me, it was me the internet my internet has been going in and out.
Speaker 1:It's been very, very spottyty, I know. So if that happens it's probably on my side, but we're back Okay. So I was saying that. I talked to a friend of mine and most of the time everybody says don't trust HR. It's there to protect the company, but you have laws that protect you. So now HR that's supposed to be inclusive and the things that they regulate are now about to change completely. Where you can't do like a harassment charge and you can't do these other things that protect you. Project 2025 is saying some of these things should be removed, and the only type of claim in this is religious claims. This is something that they have to do. They have to be ahead of it to find out what they're saying, because their job is to protect people. So what kind of protections can you offer?
Speaker 2:if the federal government isn't offering it, okay, yes, what you mean a proactive um approach to figuring out what's what's next.
Speaker 1:Super scary on that level. Can you imagine like sexual harassment is now not a big deal? I mean it makes sense with the administration that we're gonna have, but I mean grab them by the pussy. Exactly it's scary. It's scary, it is.
Speaker 2:It's disgusting and I remember I was like what is the saying? When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. That's what it is Like. That's what I was getting at. And it's a lot of people that have been privileged for a long time and now things are getting a little more equal and it's making them very uncomfortable, and so they're going to definitely that's what I think a lot of the people that voted for Trump. That's what's going on.
Speaker 1:Mm. Hmm. Well, one of the things that did rise the day after the election was stock, the stock market. So 401k went and that's great. But a lot of the middle class don't necessarily have a 401k Right, and so guess whose pockets just got a little fatter the day after that?
Speaker 3:The Elon Musk's of the world and the rich people getting richer, yeah, and, and everybody's like thinking that, it's a win Like hey no.
Speaker 1:And everybody's like thinking that it's a win Like hey no.
Speaker 2:Frozen again. What the heck? I'm here by myself.
Speaker 1:Hi this is great.
Speaker 2:Are we live? What are we live on? Because I was trying to find us on YouTube.
Speaker 1:Yeah, On Love you.
Speaker 2:Miss you Bye YouTube. Oh, I was looking at the wrong freaking thing, Okay.
Speaker 1:Whenever it does that uh freezes, which it may happen again. Um, it's still. You're still in there. Even if I'm not, you're still there. So you feel free to just educate some people. Um, I can do that, but see it will. It will record crystal clear. So when I upload it to simply vibing, it'll be fine. So you were in the middle of saying, or was I talking, or were you talking? Now I'm all screwed up, so let's, let's talk about some of the assholes you want to uh, if you want to, yes, I do.
Speaker 2:All right, who are we going to talk about, first or second or third? Who's going we're talking about just some of the people we've seen and some of the shit we've seen since the election.
Speaker 1:I've posted a lot on the Simply Vibin story. So if you, if anybody out there, wants to Lots of people across the US about.
Speaker 2:Let's see here Greetings. You've been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation. Be ready at 12 am, november 13 sharp, with your belongings. Our executive slaves will come get you on a bus. Be prepared to be searched down once you've entered the plantation. You are in plantation group B. I saw that.
Speaker 2:And this, yeah, a mass text that went out to so many people across the us and I'm I'm curious how we don't know who it's from. I don't understand that. I'm like, what, how advanced technology is? How do we not already know who the hell sent that out? Because it's like, how did they get all those numbers? Like I don't know how it even there was a kind of high tech.
Speaker 1:I feel like there was a phone app that came out and said we noticed what happened, we saw it and we've removed them. So there is a phone app, and I don't remember right now, off the top of my head, but they did identify at least some of the burner phones or numbers and remove them from the site. So, but I don't know how they got it, I don't know where they got it and I don't know if this was a planned thing that has anything to do with maga, like I don't know. Do you have, do you have thoughts?
Speaker 2:or I have no idea. I just think it's, it's disgusting and it's like sad. You know, like this is where we're gonna head. You know or not I don't think the majority, but I think it's bullshit that we, even people, even feel empowered to do that right now. You know or not I don't think the majority, but I think it's bullshit that we, even people, even feel empowered to do that right now.
Speaker 1:You know, like yeah no, well, well, honestly, I think that it's by electing him we are showing everybody that it's okay to hate people, and I know that that's a strong statement, but it's very, very true, because all the stuff they're spewing is hate, so why not? Oh, fuck, yeah, now, now we've elected somebody that they can say whatever they want, so this gives us a right to, and that's why.
Speaker 2:I say whatever we want yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's why it's scary. The good thing is is there's a lot of people out there that are not going to allow that. So, keep saying it.
Speaker 2:Keep doing it, yeah, and for the most part, they're going to say the shit behind a keyboard. You know where they can be anonymous and not get punched in the face, Because that's what would happen if they were really out there doing it on the streets. So, yeah, some good stuff we're already seeing, like the campus, the protests going on or no. Um, so yeah, some good stuff we're already seeing, like the campus, the protests going on or no. What was it where you had posted it? I think where the people were out there with signs about like women are my property, or, or they said women, cars, land and slaves, slaves, all our property now.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And I was shocked. There was another sign that says women are property yeah. And then the homosexual signs and the students came out in force with their own signs and you know walk them right off the campus.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they need to be glad they didn't get fucked up like they do that in front of the wrong people.
Speaker 1:You know it's going to get like that. Like I hope not. Like you know I hope not, but I hope not. You screw with the wrong person.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, like, for example, nick Fuentes, who came out and said my, your body, my choice, you know, like a big fucking asshole, like excuse my language, but he was bad.
Speaker 7:Control your bodies. Hey, bitch, we control your bodies. Guess what? Guys win again. Okay, men win again. And yes, we control your bodies. Hi, I'm your republican congressman. Hi, I'm your republican congressman. It's your body, my choice. And men, women again, men win again. There will never, ever, be a female president, never. There will never be a female president ever. It's over glass ceiling, dude. It's a ceiling made of fucking bricks. You will never break it. Your stupid face keeps hitting the brick ceiling. We will keep you down forever. You will never control your own bodies. You will never be the president of the global empire. Never going to happen, sweetie.
Speaker 1:He had to go to Google and blur out his house. It's bad, yeah, so that's what happens.
Speaker 2:But yeah, like, because why do you think you?
Speaker 5:can get away with stuff like that.
Speaker 5:Like you know the guy saying men control women's body, the glass ceilings made of brick. Nick Fuentes, well, he's not some outlier with the Republican Party. He's not even just someone emboldened by the Republican Party. He is tied to the Republican Party and I'll show you those ties particular to Texas. If you look up Texas Tribune Nick Fuentes, tarrant County, you can come up with this article and others showing that Nick Fuentes this time, about a year ago, 2023, he met with this leader of the Defend Texas Liberty PAC. So this political action committee, which means it's like a, basically a way to get a bunch of money raised to support Republicans, sometimes a bit more directly, sometimes just as a way to be like a strategic consulting arm on behalf of them, advertise for them, that kind of thing. So this PAC met for Nick with Nick Fuentes for seven hours in Tarrant County, texas seven hours, and that PAC is hugely funded by Tim Dunn and Ferris Wilkes. Now, if you know Texas politics, you've heard these names and if not, you can't, I know, yeah.
Speaker 1:And then, after he did the video, he posted again the same thing on Twitter and thirty three thousand likes were on it. So he's not alone in his thoughts and everybody's posting underneath Amazon actually has a shirt on sale that says your body, my choice with Trump's face on it.
Speaker 2:Oh who? Walmart, amazon? Oh, amazon, of course, fucking Amazon, mm? Hmm? Yep, that's gross, it is gross. So it's time to protest Amazon. Yep, that's gross, it is gross. So it's time to protest Amazon. No, yeah, well, yeah, I'm not even joking when I say that, because at first I'm like I'm joking. No, I'm not. No, the fuck, I'm not.
Speaker 1:I know you're not for sure. You've been saying this for a long ass time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I'm not, and that's what I'm saying. Now's the time to get activated. That's how I see it. It's time to activate it. You know, it's not time to be sad and wallow in it. It's time to fight already. It's time because they're going to start already. It's like they're going to start trying to see how far they can push us already. They're already just like a child. They're going to push to see where your boundary is, how far can they push you, and we need to kind of come out and say you can't push us. It's like, yeah, trump won, but guess what? Half the country voted against him. It's still half the country that doesn't like his ass and is not going to stand for this shit.
Speaker 1:So I want to play something. I want my people to survive.
Speaker 6:Is that what's trained? We don't control China. We don't control any place where whites are not a majority, and if we become a minority, we will not control our own destiny anymore.
Speaker 8:I grew up in this country as a minority, as the children of immigrants. I was their first child born in America and while I didn't have much possession or didn't have much control, I really enjoyed myself. You say that you wouldn't want me in this country.
Speaker 6:At some point when my ancestors built this nation, they did not build it with the intention of giving it away to Mexicans or Chinese or Haitians or to anyone else.
Speaker 8:Do you consider it? You keep saying your ancestors built this country. You consider that a fact? Who else built it? Black people, Native americans, chinese people who came and built the railroads? Do you think none of that? Could have been italian people, but they're europeans, right?
Speaker 1:oh uh, yeah, it's the economy, stupid that's one reason that this white man voted because he wants to make sure that the white race doesn't die out.
Speaker 2:Which is nowhere near going to happen, like whatever, but fuck your white fragility. That's exactly what that is.
Speaker 1:Another reason that a Trump voter voted for Trump is cheese.
Speaker 4:So I just wanted to come on here and say that if you're wondering why people voted for Trump, it's because of things like this. My daughter likes to take cheese and pepperoni and crackers for her lunch. I counted how many pieces of cheese were left in this before I ate any to make sure that I had enough for her to take every day for lunch. This week I counted the pieces of cheese because I didn't want to have to go buy more. That's why I voted for Trump.
Speaker 2:I don't understand that, didn't even make sense.
Speaker 1:She has cheese a block of cheese and she sliced it into many, many different slices and she's counting how many to give her daughter at lunch. And because she has to count her cheese and she can't use it all at once, so she basically doesn't want to have to go get more because it costs too much money. She's counting her cheese and that's why she voted for Trump.
Speaker 2:No, because Trump is going to fix that.
Speaker 1:Because he's going to give her more cheese. I guess they think that Trump controls the store prices. What they don't realize is the store prices are owned by the elite and we're just lining their pockets. They're going to raise prices. They have control. It's not that hard of a concept.
Speaker 2:Sorry, but the millionaire, billionaire, whatever Trump is, he's not worried about your cheese, honey, no, he's not. The gas prices, honey, no he's not the gas prices.
Speaker 1:there is a good opportunity for that to lower. Everything else is going to go up because of tariffs and said I'm sorry there's not going to be Christmas bonuses this year because we have to buy all of our materials now so that we don't have to pay these tariffs later, and so we need to use this money for materials. So this is going to happen across the board with people. Do you know who?
Speaker 2:Perez Hilton is Sure do A blogger. Did you hear what he was talking about, his experience and his truth? No, tell me, because he's from Cuba. His parents are from Cuba. He grew up in Miami and you know it's got a huge community of Cubans. It's like you know the very prevalent population there, and he said that his own family, like he, knows lots and lots of Cubans who immigrated here. They want to stop immigration too. They don't want any illegals coming and they don't even want legal coming. I mean, it's like the, you know a lot of people. They want to use the bridge and then they want to burn it as soon as they crossed, you know, as soon as they, yeah, took advantage of, you know, to be able to come in this country and get here legally, they want to take it away. So nobody else can. So that I guess their scarcity mentality. That's, you know, that's all I could think it is so.
Speaker 1:So I have a question for you. One of the things that I've been struggling with is looking around the room and grocery store gas station and wondering to myself did you vote for trump? Did you, did you? It's something that enters my mind now and and honestly, I've never been, I've never really cared before.
Speaker 2:Um so did his last, the last election. You didn't feel like this the last time he ran, when he ran against Hillary.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was upset. Yeah, I didn't vote for him. I can tell you that right now.
Speaker 2:You know, it came out the whole grab him by the pussy thing. He's always been hateful. I mean he, yeah, he's always not rented to black people. I mean he's always been a hateful person. So yeah, it was all that stuff came out. Then too, I mean he, I would. I don't remember I don't remember his campaign that well now because it was so long ago, but I'm yeah, there was definitely the same type of things that happened this time around.
Speaker 1:Yeah for sure so you felt like that after that election as well yes, yes, I was unfriending people.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry, I do, I don't care. Like I know that everyone. Right now, the thing is to say like, oh, I can be your friend even though you vote like, no, I can't, I don't want to, I don't have to be your friend because you're voting against. You know my rights, my son's rights. You know voting against everything I stand for, mm. Hmm. So, and I had to do that the last time. You know it's like it is. It just gets sad and I'm not now going to, just like you know, unfriend everybody because I'd have to unfriend half the people I know, apparently. No, actually I wouldn't say that, because most of the people I know wouldn't have voted for him. I'm just thinking co-workers, really, yeah, my actual community of people, none of my people vote for him.
Speaker 1:There's a lot of people that surround me that that voted for him, and Facebook is a cesspool of it and it's really, really. I'm trying not because a part of me wants to see it, so that I can identify it and use it and talk about it. It's connected. I'm in social media, I'm connected. Uh, just, this podcast and and all that it it encompasses yeah, you have to put it out there. The other part is like I want to, I want to take, I don't want to be a part of x and elon musk like I don't want to support that man at all.
Speaker 2:He's freaking yeah, I used to like him too. I can't believe I used to like him too. I can't believe I used to like him.
Speaker 1:I did too.
Speaker 2:Now I feel like embarrassed that I used to like him. This was a long time ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, because he's a genius, he's kind of gone wackadoodle lately. He's still a genius. And that's even scarier that he's a genius because he can do whatever he wants.
Speaker 2:Yeah now, because I definitely saw that, I saw an article about that like he, he can't run himself because he's not born here. You know he was an immigrant. Yes, uh, he basically bought his way to, you know, the presidency, so he could, in essence, buy the right to still kind of be a trump seer, I guess, and run things if he loses man what?
Speaker 9:you're fucked, dude, I'm fucked. If he loses I'm fucked it does seem that way you can't just be like.
Speaker 5:You can't just be like yo I yeah, I'm like how long do you think my prison sentence is gonna be do?
Speaker 7:you think well, I see my children.
Speaker 1:I don't know well, joe rogan today on his podcast. He was today or yesterday I'm so disappointed in joe I am too.
Speaker 2:I am too, oh, my god I like, probably my biggest disappointment of this yeah I, just what are we missing?
Speaker 1:what are they seeing that we're missing, like that's? That's the part I'm like make it make sense.
Speaker 9:Beginning of the night, no one knew what was going to happen. So you're watching the first results roll in and it's like this weird thing. And then Trump gets way ahead. But you're like you don't want to get too hopeful Like how far ahead is he? He's ahead by 100 points. That seems like a lot, yeah. And you're like what is it? And some channels are like, and then every channel is kind of different. Yeah, they had different numbers. I was getting a different number off my Apple News update than I was getting off of CNN, and then I was texting people like Tulsi and JD Vance. I was getting a different. Apparently, elon created an app and he knew who won four hours before the results. So, as the results were coming in before four hours before they called it, dana White told me Elon was like I'm leaving. It's over. Donald won he? Just he just fucking somehow or another. I'm going to go back to my pod and evaporate.
Speaker 1:I am. I feel like I'm more of an independent than anything. One of the things I did was I wasn't a Biden fan, and so I went out and tried to find somebody else that I could kind of support, and that was RFK.
Speaker 3:Jr.
Speaker 1:Because I can get behind his big pharma crusade. Right after equality comes big pharma for me, okay okay, those are my biggest things yeah, so I followed him.
Speaker 1:I could get behind some of the things he was saying and I I was grappling with the fact that voting independent would surely get trump in. That was what I was going back and forth in my head. Now I also was grappling with the fact that if you don't vote independent and everybody thinks like that you're never going to get them in. So I was having that debate in my head, but I didn't even have time to decide, because he endorsed Trump and then I was completely out. He did remain on some of the ballots, but I was completely out. And now he's going to be part of Trump's administration. He actually was with him during the election while it was happening, and he's going to be involved with women's health. Just makes sense, right? Women's health why not, maybe? Maybe the light is that they will go after. A big pharma Problem is they're also greedy and money hungry, and I just don't see it happening.
Speaker 2:I would say the problem is they're controlled by money still, so why are we to think that something different is going to happen?
Speaker 1:Yeah, democrats had some issues and I voted Democrat because I thought it was the only way to not get Trump in office. And that that did not work. I don't know how many of the independent people running got. I didn't see that.
Speaker 2:I believe it wasn't, because I know some people say like, oh, if you didn't have that, then Kamala could have won. But it wasn't so many that it would have made a difference if they didn't vote independent, I believe Mm. Hmm, ok, so they didn't have very strong independent candidates this time around, like, sometimes we do have pretty strong ones. I don't, we didn't. And Cornel West who I thought was running, he was a write in, I didn't realize that he was just a writer, one of the other things, or is it?
Speaker 1:and I just started, I only touched it Project 2025. Yeah, I started to do a little research to find out, because one of my biggest things was is he you know, trump's separated himself? Is he really going to separate himself or is this really going to pass? You know, what are they going to do? And I and it was hard for me to figure out if I should read this if they're not even going to touch it or not the Republicans have come out. Some of the extremists have come out and said, ha ha, we were going to do it all along. I'm hearing an echo. Do you have? Is there anything playing? Do you have the live playing anywhere? No, no, ma'am, okay, all right, good, so, anyway. So I'm. Do you still hear it? Hello, do you hear it? Yep, it's in my ears. I don't know why.
Speaker 2:Let me make sure I'm going to mute myself and then tell me if you hear it still.
Speaker 1:Okay, hello, hello. No, I don't, I don't hear it.
Speaker 2:So what could it be over here? I don't have anything planned.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me see, I think we'll be all right.
Speaker 1:Oh, the Project 2025. So I started to do a little research. I talked to a couple of friends. They feel like it's true, it's really going to happen.
Speaker 1:I went online and I saw that he's distanced himself from the Heritage Foundation because it got a little hot in the kitchen. Yeah, and behind the scenes, very, very secretly, secretly, he's been talking with the America First Policy Institute. This is otherwise known as AFPI, and there is a policy that he does get behind and it's called the America First Agenda. This is who he's been working with. This company is. So the difference between the two is they're pretty much identical.
Speaker 1:Um, the difference is the project 2025 was made for whoever steps in it does not specifically say donald trump, gotcha. The amer America First Policy Institute is centering it around Donald Trump and the way he wants to do it, but very similar things from one to the other, but it's secret, so nobody knows about it and nobody has seen it. I know that part of that is for him to go out and just completely gut the executive branch and, and you know, lifetime politicians are going to be gone and they're not there. It's going to be treated like a corporation where you can fire somebody at will? I don't see.
Speaker 2:I can't be mad at the getting rid of career politicians thing. I'm not mad, but it's also it can't be mad at the getting rid of career politicians thing I'm not mad, but it's also it can't be firing people at will, like he doesn't get to fire people. This isn't the apprentice. So I would be in favor of term limits though which I think he also wants to set.
Speaker 1:The problem is he's wanting to get rid of people that don't think like him. Yeah, he wants to get rid of. That's our protection, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's. That's the concern. He wants to get rid of journalists that speak out against him. You know he wants to get rid of, yeah, any opponent that's going to put up a fuss and fight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so the media is obviously the next stop, like, a dictatorship fascists. He was a Democrat, he used to be a Democrat and now and he's he's quoted as saying let me actually read the quote If I were to run, I'd run as a Republican. They're the dumbest group of voters in the country. They believe anything on Fox News. I could lie and they'd still eat it up. I bet my numbers would be terrific. Did he really say that? He really said that.
Speaker 2:When did he say that? What year was that? That's hilarious.
Speaker 1:He said it to People magazine in 1998.
Speaker 2:Okay, because I'm looking here at his history and it says in 87 he registered as a Republican and then in 99 he was the Reform Party, a Democrat in 2001, a Republican in 2009, an Affiliated in 2011, and Republican in 2012. So he's kind of all over the place. He doesn't know what he believes or wants.
Speaker 1:It's whoever's going to back him, because he doesn't have any. I mean, he probably has views and he's just like whatever, whatever they want.
Speaker 2:His views are green. You know that's all he wants. So what's going to get him? More money, more power? Yeah, and I mean the comparisons to Nazi Germany? I don't. I guess my concerns are more Just him trying to become a dictator, not even necessarily, like you know the atrocities that happened in Nazi Germany. I don't know that it could go that far, but I think it could go as far as suddenly becoming like Putin or you know, China, where we just suddenly have this authoritarian dictator that we can't get rid of.
Speaker 2:You know, it's like Christian fundamentalism taken over. I think more than you know what in white, pure purity, it's more Christian fundamentalism I'm worried about, I think.
Speaker 1:Another thing that I've been seeing is the prepping for the women's health. They've reported two Texas women have died because they had to wait to the last minute to get approval. So there was like a four hour timeframe for one. One of them was 18 years old, I saw something with an OBGYN Hi.
Speaker 3:I don't want to scare you, but I want to give you some advice. Get your birth control in order. Get an IUD if you want one. If you don't know, if you want kids now, please know there's a 1 in 250 to 1 in 1,000 chance of pregnancy with an IUD, not zero. If you know you absolutely don't want kids, make an appointment for sterilization. If you know you absolutely don't want kids, make an appointment for sterilization. I'm seeing from my OBGYN colleagues. Just today a colleague had five requests for sterilization. If you know you want it, get it done. Do something about it before January.
Speaker 3:Right now it's not clear if he will have all three branches of government, but if he does expect a national abortion ban, expect dismantling of the ACA and free contraception. Expect the possibility that he will limit access to birth control. Expect cuts to Medicaid, an insurance program where 50% of women get their health care, the health safety net that all those voters relied upon yesterday as they cast their ballot. That's going to disappear for many women in many places all across America. And please understand, obgyns can only do so much. I have heard from doctors who practice in Texas that there are more women who have died that haven't been reported on and that doctors were told by their hospitals that they could not intervene. This is what 55% of white women voted for. This is what 45% of Latina women voted for and 38% of Asian women voted for. If you do not want to be pregnant, make an appointment. Do it now.
Speaker 1:That's what we're looking at. Plan B is something that you can stock up on and it's about $40 a box, so it's pretty expensive, but you can stock up on it and save it and it's good for up to four years. So that's an election cycle. So keep that in mind and even if you're not worried that it can happen to you, it could happen to your child, it could happen to your friends or your coworkers and we got to look out for each other. So I'm past. I can't have children anymore, but my daughter can. They're telling you to not use the period tracking apps so that you're not trackable. They are saying to stock up on tampons if you use them, because a lot of the Christian nationalists believe that that can break a hymen and do not want you using them. Yeah, I'm telling you, it's really, really twisted.
Speaker 1:There's a lot that we have to consider when we're trying to protect people, knowing what's going on have them wanting all women to take a either an ultrasound or a pregnancy test before you travel outside the state of Texas. I saw somebody say, ok, so we don't have gambling in Texas, so we can go gamble in Vegas and place bets and smoke weed because it's legal there and nobody says when we come back, what you, you do, show us. You're not allowed to do that because you live here, but you have to do that when you leave the state because they're afraid you're going to get an abortion. That's really scary. Yeah, it is, and he vocalizes that there are Republicans in Texas that say that women should get the death penalty for it.
Speaker 2:I mean in Texas votes for him. Every time I was. I think I was more devastated over Ted Cruz, like I mean, I was really hopeful this time that Colin Arnott read my, so was I Like that one I was really sad about also. I voted for him to want Ted Cruz gone. Oh my God, Did you see what? Did you see? The video? When ted cruz won and he did his little speech and he had mentioned trump and his daughter that was so great.
Speaker 1:That was so great clap, don't clap for that she's a legend. Now, just so you're clear my daughter showed me and, uh, she's like is she awesome? I'm like she's freaking great yeah, he goes. He goes. She's like I'm sure that they made him wear red. I'm like I don't know, probably yeah um you know, she's, she's. I don't know how old she is, so she's probably not, but I was like she's so grounded she's so in trouble you know he's gonna be a little testy a little
Speaker 2:intense. He's such a.
Speaker 1:You've been out there and been an advocate before. What are some ways that you would recommend we help and get?
Speaker 2:educated. I mean, see what groups are out there that are kind of like-minded and that you could join in on. And honestly, I was having a conversation with Caleb today about politics and and why did he ask me about the Senate? That's what it was. He suddenly asked me about who are the senators here in Texas, and I told him who. And we were just talking about different things related to politics and I told him like I sometimes wish I would have you know, went into politics. Because I told him like, caleb, is that something you'd want to do one day? And I said Mommy wishes she would have went into that and he was like, well, why don't you? You know it gave me a minute of like, why don't I? But I mean that's, I would say I hope people use this as motivation to like figure out how to do it themselves. I mean like, don't wait on somebody else to set it up for you. You know what I mean. The conversation with me and Caleb today made me like huh, so are you telling?
Speaker 1:me. Are you telling me you're running? Is that what you're telling me?
Speaker 2:I mean I've always wanted to, but I just have I don't know that I'd win, not yet the world wouldn't be ready for me. I'm a little too radical for them. But yeah, I mean, educate yourself on your local, local politicians, your local representatives. I mean, educate yourself on your local local politicians, your local representatives. I would say, start there and then just kind of grow from there. Definitely find, try to find, some news that's truthful and accurate, you know, so you can keep up with what's going on. But it's hard to do that right now.
Speaker 2:But it's out there Find independent media. The Young Turks I love the Young Turks, I like them a lot. Jimmy Dore he's someone I like a lot. Jimmy Dore, he's someone I like a lot.
Speaker 1:Let me write this down. Young Turks Is this a podcast or is this a news?
Speaker 2:network. They have a podcast. It's an independent news network. They're independent. Young Turks the Young Turks. You haven't heard of the Young Turks, no.
Speaker 1:I have not. Oh, ok, I've never really followed politics. You know, I just haven't and I'm, like I said, I'm in the education mode right now, so I want to, right now, consume it.
Speaker 2:Keep your ear to the street and get out there. When they're out there, you know like if there's a protest or something you're interested in going to go. You know that's part of what me and Caleb was talking about is like you're going to be out there with me. Buddy're gonna be protesting. I told him. I said grandma used to protest, grandpa fred used to. He was like.
Speaker 1:They seem like they would no I thought it was cute, so things like, so we need to look and see what's what's out there so that we can be a part of it.
Speaker 1:I'm down and also, building communities is is a really big deal because they, they want to divide us you know, because we're we're more powerful, united, and so we need to make sure that we're getting into our communities and um building up the nucleus. To take this further, I I think it's important to have our voices heard and I think this is a good step for us you to to be able to have topics and discuss politics and what we're feeling, and I think that it should be a part of every episode, even if it's just the first 15, 20 minutes of what's happening and where we're feeling and that type of thing or something we want to share. And I think that we should. We should always incorporate it into what we're doing, if not make it the whole episode. It just depends where we are. Definitely.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would like to talk about it everyone, because I guess that's the biggest thing about what can you do. What you can do is don't go to back to sleep, like don't let it subside, you know, don't let that fire and passion you felt after, you know, the day after the election, you know, don't let that fire and passion you felt after you know, the day after the election, you know, don't let that energy, you know, die in you or and then you just kind of go back to normal and well, it's not affecting me yet, like don't let it, don't let it go, you know, keep that. It's jojo interested, huh it's jojo.
Speaker 1:Hi, jojo, I didn't know who it was when it was on my thing Talking with Jojo. She's got a, she does true crime and she's got I don't know, is it 10,000 followers on TikTok. I mean, she's, she's, she's pretty good and I follow her and I'm wanting to do a collab with her. So, hi, jojo, we're talking politics today. So you were, you were, you were saying something.
Speaker 2:Oh, was I still? Oh, I didn't know, jojo wasn't gonna talk like oh no, she's on the chat.
Speaker 1:Glad to see you live I know okay, um, yes, so I do think it's a uh. It's important to get out there with your communities and and keep us connected yeah, oh you were. You were saying. You were saying you want to make it sure that the politics is in oh, just, it stays, stays present.
Speaker 2:You know, that's, that's one of the good things about I don't want to say it's a good thing about Trump winning, but I, I, I saw it like this the last time when he did win is just like, because, if, if Kamala would have won, a lot of people would have went back to sleep and thought like, oh, the work is done, you know, and it's like right now, our government is just in shambles.
Speaker 2:Either way it goes, both parties are corrupt, both parties are controlled by money, you know. And so I almost hate when a Democrat, a corporate Democrat, wins, because I know, you know, a lot of people are going to kind of just go back to daily life. Nothing's going on, everything's great, and it's like that's what I was talking about. You got to kind of hit rock bottom before you can rebuild, and this is the shit that's going to get us drunk bottom, cause, you know, I think the biggest, you got to get money out of politics. That's what I'm going to say every time of like, how do you fix it? Get, how do you fix it, get money out of politics.
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