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Monday Mini: Election Reflections · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. We're welcome to stuff
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Speaker 1: I've never told you production of I Heart Radio. All right, Hey,
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Speaker 1: welcome to another Monday Mini where we are going to
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Speaker 1: be kind of sad but try to be helpful. Trigger warning,
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Speaker 1: we're talking about elections. Trigger warning. We're in the state
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Speaker 1: of Georgia, so we have a lot of mixed feelings.
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Speaker 1: Is that the best way I could put this? Yeah? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And we're recording this the Thursday after our US Tuesday
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Speaker 1: mid term elections that took place on November eight, So
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Speaker 1: there's still a lot of stuff up in the air.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, there's been time to process. Yeah, some things.
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Speaker 1: So for those of you outside of the US that
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Speaker 1: might be watching, I saw one great aam about how
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Speaker 1: Canadians are watching the elections and it looks like it
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Speaker 1: says on the one side voting for puppies and the
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Speaker 1: other side voting for death. Essentially. It was really funny
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Speaker 1: and I was like, Yeah, that's exactly right when it
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Speaker 1: comes to how binary our system is, Our democracy is
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Speaker 1: um and there's a lot of things happening. We know
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Speaker 1: this Roe v. Wade has been overturned. There's lots of
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Speaker 1: conversation um in this in this moment, there was a
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Speaker 1: huge talk that it would be quote unquote a red
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Speaker 1: wave and if you're not familiar with the u S system,
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Speaker 1: read is conservative blue would be left leaning. So you
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Speaker 1: have this very not even spectrum according to our system individuals. Yes,
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Speaker 1: so there's a spectrum when it comes to political affiliation. UM.
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Speaker 1: And it's kind of died at this point. I feel
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Speaker 1: like you tell me if I'm wrong, because it seems
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Speaker 1: all or not. So if either if you're voting for,
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Speaker 1: especially in the state of Georgia. As our Senate race,
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Speaker 1: who are we have two representatives that go in to
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Speaker 1: our Senate Congress um and represent our voices. And we
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Speaker 1: have one Reverend Warnock, who is an incumbent UM, and
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Speaker 1: then we have herschel Walker, who was a football player. UM. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing I'm not sure being snyped that is his
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Speaker 1: claim to fame. So I guess at least we can
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Speaker 1: say he does have an education from the University of Georgia.
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Speaker 1: There has been a lot of conversation about concussions and
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Speaker 1: football players due to him. Um, and it's been a
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Speaker 1: funky race. But with that said, when you look at
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Speaker 1: where Reverend Warnock sits and where herschel Walker sits on
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Speaker 1: the spectrum of politics, they are very extremes. Essentially. I
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Speaker 1: don't actually think Warnock is that extreme leftist, but because
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Speaker 1: he is pro abortion slash pro women's health care, he
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Speaker 1: has seen that way because we have very single uh
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Speaker 1: focused issue voters here in the state, which is what
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Speaker 1: we've seen. So i'll that to say, I will give
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Speaker 1: this to the country. Uh. They spoke up very loudly
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Speaker 1: when they said, we are not against abortion. We think
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Speaker 1: abortion is a right, and we don't think this should
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Speaker 1: be taken away state by state by state, even by
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Speaker 1: the conservative states they pushed back. There was not one
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Speaker 1: single anti abortion law that was allowed or voted for.
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Speaker 1: So therefore, I think that's pretty clear and I love
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Speaker 1: to see it. We love to see it. That being said,
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Speaker 1: we have representatives who have been elected who are anti abortion,
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Speaker 1: So go with that what you will. Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think I do have a silver linings for the
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Speaker 1: end of this, I will say, but I do think
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Speaker 1: like this election, as we kind of discussed with Bridget
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Speaker 1: in our recent episode. But it's um, it's nothing that
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Speaker 1: was new or nothing that was the surprise to me.
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Speaker 1: But it is really galling and disheartening to hear all
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Speaker 1: of this rhetoric from supposedly like really Christian moral conservatives,
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Speaker 1: but they're so like, but we'll vote for herschel Walker,
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Speaker 1: even though there's all of this stuff, all of this evidence,
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Speaker 1: and again like that's not it doesn't surprise me people
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Speaker 1: do that. It's very very disporting, But it was kind
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Speaker 1: of I guess it was just such a stark reaffirmation
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Speaker 1: of something I already knew that people are going to
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Speaker 1: vote for somebody who's going to do what they want,
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Speaker 1: even if it's like the complete antithesis of everything that
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Speaker 1: they say. They say that is good and why they
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Speaker 1: feel this way, and then when it comes down to it,
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Speaker 1: I am so upset to the point that I can't
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Speaker 1: talk to my own family members because I'm scared to
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Speaker 1: find out. I really hope they voted libertarian just for
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Speaker 1: the sake of voting libertarian. Honestly, that would make me
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Speaker 1: feel better, but I have a feeling that's not the
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Speaker 1: case because the county that they lived in it was like,
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Speaker 1: I think percent supporting Harshell Walker. So there that is,
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Speaker 1: and herschel Walker, who has come out with being a womanizer,
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Speaker 1: not taking care of his children, like several of his
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Speaker 1: own children spoke up about that women filing charges against
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Speaker 1: him for domestic violence and threatening their lives, um all
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Speaker 1: of these things, and the fact that that man is
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Speaker 1: getting that far ahead and he is the opposite of
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Speaker 1: what Christianity has been portrayed to me growing up. That
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Speaker 1: them telling me this versus this man who has dedicated
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Speaker 1: his life as a pastor in leading a church and
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Speaker 1: his family, that they would rather see this other dude
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Speaker 1: just because of one single issue, which is what was
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Speaker 1: And of course there's this red there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: money that's been spent in this specific campaign, and making
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Speaker 1: sure that they let you know that they feel like
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Speaker 1: Warnock is part of the reason for inflation, which again
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Speaker 1: is a red herring to everything else, because we know
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Speaker 1: how politics works, we know how finances work, and we
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Speaker 1: know how pandemics work. Now that this is obviously just
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Speaker 1: a trick of the world, like seeing I hate the
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Speaker 1: portrayal of Trump supporters, and I'm keeping it at Trump
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Speaker 1: supporters because I don't know outside of that as being
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Speaker 1: really really ignorant to everything and believing all of the
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Speaker 1: lies because they needed to blame other people. My family
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Speaker 1: are really intelligent people and honestly compassionate people, but they're
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Speaker 1: listening to this rhetoric and believing it without any questioning,
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Speaker 1: and I'm very surprised. At one point I did say
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Speaker 1: I was very excited to know that they voted for
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Speaker 1: Kemp over David Purdue, who was at that point Trump
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Speaker 1: endorsed candidate, and they felt like Trump was too much
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Speaker 1: and stayed away from him to go to Kemp. Kemp
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Speaker 1: is seen in moderate in our state, which is absurd
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Speaker 1: because he's also the one that's putting the six week
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Speaker 1: ban for abortion, as well as bringing in the unborn
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Speaker 1: rights laws to the state, which would literally imprison and
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Speaker 1: charge women who may have to have abortions even with miscarriages,
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Speaker 1: because that's hard to define um half the time. And
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Speaker 1: then if they want to accuse that the miscarriage was
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Speaker 1: on purpose, that's again a whole different conversation of angry um,
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Speaker 1: of murder, of of actual murder and homicide. So there
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Speaker 1: are all these things that I'm like, this dude is not.
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Speaker 1: He's not he's not a moderate. He's not as extreme
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Speaker 1: astrang but that is not moderate. I am having a
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Speaker 1: hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that over
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Speaker 1: seventy something percent of white women voted for this man
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Speaker 1: in the state. I'm having a hard time with the
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Speaker 1: fact that at least fifty percent of Asian people have
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Speaker 1: voted for this man. I want to throw hands. I
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Speaker 1: am so upset and angry. Um, black women absolutely pulled
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Speaker 1: through in a hundred and twenty percent when they shouldn't
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Speaker 1: have had to, Like I'm of course they did. Of
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Speaker 1: course they did, because that's what happens. Um. Latino women.
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Speaker 1: Actually we're about the same as Asian women, or they
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Speaker 1: were pretty far back. We know that the Latino population
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Speaker 1: in Miami Dade actually pulled for the Santis, which was
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Speaker 1: kind of shocking. But also again, we're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: have this bigger conversation because Val Demming's who was one
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Speaker 1: of the Senate running in Florida who should have been
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Speaker 1: able to take it as well as Stacy Abrams Here
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Speaker 1: in Georgia. The math doesn't math because when we see
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Speaker 1: the amount of people who voted for Warnock, it was
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Speaker 1: significantly less that voted for Stacy Abrams. So I'm very confused.
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Speaker 1: Who came in and said yes Warnock, no Abrams, right,
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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying Like that, that was a
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Speaker 1: big part of this conversation of like, why couldn't you
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Speaker 1: They're they're similar in their policies, they're similar in their values,
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Speaker 1: they're similar in their like education. I don't understand other
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Speaker 1: than she's a woman, a black woman, So what was
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Speaker 1: the difference? In Valdimis kind of had that similar conversation
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Speaker 1: that the statistics should not have been that big variation.
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Speaker 1: What is it about black women that you are scared of?
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Speaker 1: But the black women are the ones that continue to
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Speaker 1: save us. This is a big conversation with misogyn noir
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Speaker 1: in politics, which we have had repeatedly, which will continue
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Speaker 1: to have. I'm also very confused about the fact that
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Speaker 1: in Stacey Abrams lost by fifty thou two. She lost
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Speaker 1: by about three thousand so votes. So there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of conversations we need to be having. Jerry Mandering percent
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Speaker 1: has a lot to do with what's happened here. Brian
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Speaker 1: Kemp created this fallacy in the way he lined up
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Speaker 1: the voters when he was at Secretary of State. We
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Speaker 1: know this. We know that if it had remained the
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Speaker 1: likelihood of Stacy Abrams being elected, then was pretty high. Um,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that I am very grossed
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Speaker 1: out about. I know Stacy Abrams is a woman of
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Speaker 1: honor and conceded and moved on and will continue to
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Speaker 1: do actually did last time more work than she needs
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Speaker 1: to for a system that doesn't appreciate her. And I'm
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Speaker 1: so upset. I'm still upset with all of that. Said,
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Speaker 1: as voters, you and I who did vote for these things,
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Speaker 1: who have campaign who have paid money, who have trying
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Speaker 1: to see that this would happen, that we were trying
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Speaker 1: to spread the message and try to uh crack down
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Speaker 1: the misinformation as what we do as podcasters. Um, we've
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Speaker 1: been ridiculed all over the reviews saying we're too left leaning,
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Speaker 1: and apparently at one boy someone said we love Stacy
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Speaker 1: Abrams and too much and we're like, don't start with us.
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Speaker 1: Yes we but like even with her campaign, there's conversations
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Speaker 1: about whether or not black men did step up, and
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Speaker 1: that's not the case. This is white people. Sorry, I
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Speaker 1: love y'all, but y'all, yeah, white people did this. Um,
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Speaker 1: in that conversation, because the amount of black men who
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Speaker 1: voted for Stacey Abrams was significantly higher than again, the
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Speaker 1: Asian and the Latino population as well, So that can't
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Speaker 1: that can't be a thing which was a big rhetoric
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Speaker 1: and falsehood that was being spread all over social media
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Speaker 1: that black men were holding back women. That's not true.
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Speaker 1: Uh in the scenario. There's so much that I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to wrap my head around in this election. UM glad
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Speaker 1: to see that, uh there's still a hold and it
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Speaker 1: wasn't a big overturning of both any of the Congress
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Speaker 1: thus far. Because we've got some things that are still
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Speaker 1: up in the air. Bobert is up in the air
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Speaker 1: right now, um, crossed fingers. Unfortunately Marjorie Taylor Green is
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Speaker 1: still here. So you know, there are things that that
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Speaker 1: it is really disappointing to see. But then I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to hold onto the hope again with the abortion uh
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Speaker 1: laws coming in, all the bills that came through and
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Speaker 1: then was completely like just smashed aside. Hopefully that will
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Speaker 1: be a good platform to restore women's healthcare rights and
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Speaker 1: women's rights in general. But there's so much in this
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Speaker 1: that it's just beyond confusing. And then again we have
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Speaker 1: to remember who controls the narrative as well as controls
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Speaker 1: the money. As well as who is religning districts and
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Speaker 1: why and what this looks like. And now there's a
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Speaker 1: whole conversation about trying to up the age of voters,
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Speaker 1: uh legal age of voters to twenty one because they're
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Speaker 1: so upset that these gen z ears showed up and
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Speaker 1: really pushed, really pushed to where we are. Thank God,
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Speaker 1: thank you, because they understand what is happening. They see it.
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Speaker 1: They've seen these uh awful uh injustices that have happened
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Speaker 1: at as of the past five ten years, five years
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Speaker 1: more so, and realize this is a problem, and I
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Speaker 1: love to see it, and they're listening in. Social media
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Speaker 1: has given them access that we've never had before, both
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Speaker 1: the good and bad obviously, but like, it's amazing. I
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Speaker 1: love I love that. I love that that they are
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Speaker 1: going to age out some of this awful just gross narrative,
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Speaker 1: racist narratives as well as in just like narratives. I
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Speaker 1: love to see that. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah, And it's
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Speaker 1: things like that. And as we discussed in previous episodes,
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Speaker 1: I was heartened, even though it was kind of gilded
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Speaker 1: with sadness, that I saw so many people show up
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Speaker 1: for this election, like even in my own friend group, UM,
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Speaker 1: who maybe didn't used to vote in mid terms, we're like, no, absolutely,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to not vote. Like I am happy
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Speaker 1: to see that. It is disheartening that like so much
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Speaker 1: of the will of the people as being ignored because
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Speaker 1: of how our political system works. Um. So, if you know,
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Speaker 1: a majority of the US does support abortion and women's
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Speaker 1: our people with uterus is right to choose, and and
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Speaker 1: yet where people get elected even though they got less votes,
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Speaker 1: and they're the ones that are making these systems, and
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Speaker 1: they're making it impossible for us to by jerrymandering or
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Speaker 1: restricting voter rights or whatever making it impossible for us
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Speaker 1: to get them out of office. So that's it's really
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Speaker 1: really frustrating. Um. And I do think you're right that
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Speaker 1: there's a huge level of of massage noir and also
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Speaker 1: just like real sex of them. I think people are
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Speaker 1: just like weird about voting for women, to be honest,
14:56
Speaker 1: like they always have some reason like oh she doesn't
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Speaker 1: like you're I'm making a face you can't see, but
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Speaker 1: you would recognize it if if you could see it.
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Speaker 1: It's it's like there's this hesitation. Well, and and to
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Speaker 1: be honest, what was happening with When Stacy Abrams originally
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Speaker 1: ran the primary in eighteen she ran against the woman,
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Speaker 1: a white woman. White women were all about this one
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Speaker 1: white women the men is Stacy Abrams one that primary?
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Speaker 1: Instead of coming around and saying, okay, we'll vote for her,
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Speaker 1: they're like, we're not voting. And I've heard of many
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Speaker 1: and these are the boomer generations, not all boomers. I
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Speaker 1: know this, I know this, I know y'all are amazing,
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Speaker 1: and I say this that I'm right behind you all essentially, um,
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Speaker 1: But like it was, it was this group, but I
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Speaker 1: like personally knew some people that did that. The shock
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Speaker 1: in my face and like, what because your white woman
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Speaker 1: Canada did not win, You're not going to vote at
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Speaker 1: all and you would rather have Brian Kemp, who was
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Speaker 1: obviously not for the interest of women. He's interest about family.
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Speaker 1: And we'll we'll talk about that in itself of what
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Speaker 1: he means by family, those very heteronormative Christian nationalist idea
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Speaker 1: of family to prevail. And again we got we got
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Speaker 1: episodes y'all upon episodes coming up about that, but that
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Speaker 1: they would rather allow that to happen because they are
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's bitter, they're being petty in
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Speaker 1: the worst sense, and that now we're here. But all
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Speaker 1: of that to say is like, it's good to see
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Speaker 1: that that generational thinking hopefully is about to be pushed out.
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Speaker 1: Not no offense. Again, I'm gonna get called agis um,
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Speaker 1: but I'm sorry. When it comes to white women, it's
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Speaker 1: not pretty. It's not pretty when it comes to these statistics.
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Speaker 1: And I'm just talking about statistics. And and for those
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Speaker 1: of y'all any YouTube who did vote for the for
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Speaker 1: the cause for women essentially for those with the uterus
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Speaker 1: is yeah, for elis for the queer people, like all
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Speaker 1: of these things. For those disenfranchised and marginalized, then that's amazing.
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Speaker 1: But what we need to do is have this conversation
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Speaker 1: of why is this percentage looking like this and what
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Speaker 1: is wrong? Because there's been the majority voted for a
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Speaker 1: single issue. And I don't know whether it was racist
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Speaker 1: issues or whether it was critical thinking, which is racist
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Speaker 1: by the way, or whether it was abortion issues. Those
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Speaker 1: are the things that I am. I don't what what
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Speaker 1: was it or maybe it was just an ideal of
17:22
Speaker 1: something or maybe again it maybe like Brian kept to them,
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Speaker 1: was centrist slash modern Republican, which is not true um,
17:32
Speaker 1: as well as maybe for when it comes to Warnock,
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Speaker 1: they're like, hey, hey, I'm not racist, I'm voting for
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Speaker 1: a black man. Yeah, I heard when I was much younger. Actually,
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Speaker 1: I think when I was first starting to vote, somebody
17:48
Speaker 1: told me something that has greatly disturbed me. But I
17:50
Speaker 1: think it's true. Um, people will just vote for the
17:56
Speaker 1: name that they recognize, and if they don't, they aren't
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Speaker 1: familiar or they're more familiar with one, Uh, that's the
18:04
Speaker 1: one they will go with. So a lot of times
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Speaker 1: like oh, well this is the incumbent, I don't know
18:08
Speaker 1: too much about this other person. I will do this um.
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Speaker 1: And that's what scares me about our whole celebrity, the
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Speaker 1: whole like celebrity culture that's coming up with policy really,
18:20
Speaker 1: which is what's being anxious, because that's what we were
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Speaker 1: talking about with even even with Abrams and Kemp, their education,
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Speaker 1: their experience, it doesn't match up again what we talked
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Speaker 1: about with the justices. It's the same line, like the
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Speaker 1: education experience are not matching up. But what you have
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Speaker 1: to prove versus what people want to see. So what
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Speaker 1: I mean is like white men white sitsman co coo. Cool.
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Speaker 1: You don't need to show me anything else. Cool. You
18:51
Speaker 1: don't even have to show me that you're not a criminal.
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Speaker 1: Just cool, which is what we've seen. But for black women,
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Speaker 1: you have to go above and beyond to prove that
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Speaker 1: you are more than qualified. And then maybe even then,
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Speaker 1: I don't like what you did, right, There's just something
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Speaker 1: about you, right, and that's and that's the Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: that's just something I don't trust. I just knew there
19:11
Speaker 1: was something off when I hear that statement. I already
19:14
Speaker 1: know you're camping about something. And I'm like, yeah, okay, yeah,
19:18
Speaker 1: you don't you're just say you're racist, just say you're sexist,
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Speaker 1: just say you're an ask just just say that please.
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Speaker 1: And what I'm going back to the fact that our
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Speaker 1: younger listeners, if we have younger listeners, I hope we do.
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Speaker 1: Are we are we that outdated off? I think younger generation.
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Speaker 1: Let me know, if you're listening to us, the powers
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Speaker 1: that be today are afraid of you. And that is
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Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to see. I love everything about that
19:44
Speaker 1: because the fact they're talking about changing the voting age
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Speaker 1: to twenty one instead of a team, which originally was
19:50
Speaker 1: changed in the seventies because people are like, Hey, if
19:53
Speaker 1: we can go to war and we can freaking vote,
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Speaker 1: which is abs up slowly, you should be able to do.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk about taxation without representation. The fact that
20:03
Speaker 1: I was taxed to fourteen and I had no rights,
20:05
Speaker 1: but I had a job. Um, that's a whole different conversation.
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Speaker 1: But all of that is not that I wanted a
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Speaker 1: fourteen year old voting. I don't want that. I don't
20:13
Speaker 1: want that. But I'm just saying we need to have
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Speaker 1: this bigger conversation about what equality truly looks like. An
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Speaker 1: equity should be in an age could be a thing.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that the eighteen year olds, eighteen to
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Speaker 1: twenty seven year old honestly has gotten this much power
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Speaker 1: and this much voice is beautiful to see. I love
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Speaker 1: that that's something that we can celebrate. I love that
20:37
Speaker 1: we can come and celebrate that, Yeah, abortion should be
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Speaker 1: in a fundamental right, and that we should have a
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Speaker 1: conversation about women's healthcare in general, point blank, about what
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Speaker 1: is needed, what is happening, what is happening with sexuality
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Speaker 1: in general? Um, and again I need to come back
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Speaker 1: and say not just women, but people with uterus is
20:54
Speaker 1: um having a right to access and being able to
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Speaker 1: have free conversations about what access looks like and what
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Speaker 1: sexual health looks like beyond just what we should can't do. Again,
21:08
Speaker 1: so there are some things that I am really excited
21:09
Speaker 1: about again. Being in Georgia right now feels really gloam
21:15
Speaker 1: uh as uh I would say it like I definitely
21:18
Speaker 1: cried because what I hear when I see people vote
21:21
Speaker 1: for Kemp and vote for Walker is how little they
21:28
Speaker 1: care about half of their population and how little they
21:32
Speaker 1: give a damn about whether or not we can be
21:36
Speaker 1: healthy and happy and free. In that just shows that
21:41
Speaker 1: they are more willing to trust a man who has
21:43
Speaker 1: obvious head trauma, which like people are using as an excuse. Again,
21:49
Speaker 1: there's things that we need to con have a conversation about,
21:51
Speaker 1: but his talking about his mental health but without any
21:54
Speaker 1: actual help behind it like this is not helpful. Talking
21:56
Speaker 1: about mental health is not necessarily a fixed, especially when
21:59
Speaker 1: you're say I go to I go to church. That's
22:02
Speaker 1: not a fix, and we need to have and if
22:04
Speaker 1: your mental health is causing you to threaten your baby
22:07
Speaker 1: mama with a gun, we need to have that conversation
22:11
Speaker 1: about why this is not a good place for him
22:13
Speaker 1: to be in leadership and excusing himself and giving excuses
22:17
Speaker 1: instead of apologizing and taking responsibility. Man, there's just layers
22:22
Speaker 1: to that. And that's how little you care about those
22:26
Speaker 1: with us is in your state? Wow, Yeah, it's really
22:31
Speaker 1: it's it sucks. And um, I've talked about that before
22:36
Speaker 1: with when Donald Trump was elected. That was like a
22:41
Speaker 1: it was a very dark time for me because of
22:43
Speaker 1: that very same thought, like, oh god, what are you
22:45
Speaker 1: telling me? Then we are going to run off it
23:01
Speaker 1: looks like, so we're going to be dealing with the
23:04
Speaker 1: very horrible political ads, especially around trans people by the way,
23:09
Speaker 1: extremely offensive coming out of the Walker campaign. So we
23:14
Speaker 1: have that to look forward to. I will say, and
23:17
Speaker 1: this is like a very small silver lining, but it
23:20
Speaker 1: is a silver lining to me. There was no red wave.
23:23
Speaker 1: Really I thought there would be. Um. I was expecting
23:26
Speaker 1: to wake up and be like, oh my god, and
23:30
Speaker 1: I did it. And like you know, people never thought
23:34
Speaker 1: Bobert would be in danger whether she wins or not,
23:36
Speaker 1: Like they never thought she would be in danger of
23:38
Speaker 1: losing her seat. But she is. Um, I hope she does.
23:43
Speaker 1: But and also like and I hate this, but it's true.
23:47
Speaker 1: Growing up in Georgia, I never thought we would be
23:51
Speaker 1: in this. I never thought it would be this close
23:54
Speaker 1: at all. Um And I again, I hate that. And
23:58
Speaker 1: there are people who have been working in organizing and
24:00
Speaker 1: making this happen, and they've been there forever and we
24:03
Speaker 1: should definitely recognize them, but I just didn't. This is
24:08
Speaker 1: something I'm surprised and very happy to see, even though
24:13
Speaker 1: it does suck. UM. I will say we did see
24:17
Speaker 1: our first lesbian governor. Love that first chosen woman governor
24:23
Speaker 1: from New York. I love to see that first trance house.
24:25
Speaker 1: I believe I forgot where they're from, but it was
24:27
Speaker 1: a beautiful thing to see um in their area. I
24:31
Speaker 1: love to see our first gen z or downtown Florida.
24:34
Speaker 1: Love that. So there's a lot to celebrate, really try
24:38
Speaker 1: and again we're in Georgia. It's really hard for us
24:41
Speaker 1: to focus in Georgia here in Atlanta, and yes Atlanta
24:44
Speaker 1: is very different from outside of but again, yeah, things
24:47
Speaker 1: are changing and Jerry Mannering has caused a lot of problems,
24:51
Speaker 1: and we need to have that conversation about how do
24:54
Speaker 1: we make it a true democracy because it feels like
24:55
Speaker 1: it's no longer true democracy and that's it's hard to see.
25:01
Speaker 1: But yes, good things are happening. I'm sure we'll be
25:05
Speaker 1: talking a lot about this in December as the runolfs
25:07
Speaker 1: are happening as well for many people, not just us. UM.
25:11
Speaker 1: And yeah, for those who are in states like we are,
25:15
Speaker 1: we see you. You know you're you're you're heartbroken as well.
25:19
Speaker 1: For those who are able to celebrate, we celebrate with you.
25:21
Speaker 1: Thank god. UM. Just a reminder for those of you
25:26
Speaker 1: who are celebrating and we want to celebrate with you
25:28
Speaker 1: putting down people that are in situations that they cannot
25:33
Speaker 1: help and wish we could. I think we had a
25:35
Speaker 1: conversation when I first met Bridget who was talking about
25:38
Speaker 1: the fight she had in d c in doing some
25:41
Speaker 1: amazing work and how it would be difficult to come
25:44
Speaker 1: to a different place to restart the fights. We were
25:47
Speaker 1: talking about, hey, you should come to Atlanta, and she's like,
25:49
Speaker 1: oh god, they all going through through some things. And
25:51
Speaker 1: I think this was before election if I remember, or
25:54
Speaker 1: maybe right right as it was happening and things were changing,
25:57
Speaker 1: and A, yeah, it's hard, it's hard trying to go
26:00
Speaker 1: rom complete dark red to purple to trying to push
26:03
Speaker 1: blue because we're still that purple area. The fact that
26:06
Speaker 1: we are a swing state is so new and phenomenal
26:09
Speaker 1: to us that we love to see it. Um. And
26:12
Speaker 1: yes it is because of our black community who's really
26:14
Speaker 1: pushed that. That's and we are very grateful, um and
26:17
Speaker 1: you know, the people of color. But yeah, black women
26:19
Speaker 1: have been here that it is. It's a fight, and
26:22
Speaker 1: remember that. It's like for those who are fighting and
26:25
Speaker 1: we are fighting, it feels hopeless. To be beat down
26:28
Speaker 1: on doesn't help. Yeah, yeah, it really really doesn't. And
26:35
Speaker 1: I honestly like not to place blanket. There's like a million,
26:40
Speaker 1: a million things happening here. But it is kind of
26:44
Speaker 1: going back to something we talked about in a recent
26:46
Speaker 1: episode that was much sillier and not as serious, but
26:49
Speaker 1: it is kind of similar. I think where if you are,
26:53
Speaker 1: if the like media messages, oh this place is backwards,
26:57
Speaker 1: they'll never do this. And I think people internalize that
27:00
Speaker 1: message and some people will be like, oh, yeah, okay,
27:02
Speaker 1: so I shouldn't like yeah exactly like and again that
27:06
Speaker 1: there's so many others. I'm not placing blames. I'm just
27:08
Speaker 1: saying that is I think i've heard that from people before,
27:13
Speaker 1: where they're like, well, it doesn't matter, so why should I,
27:16
Speaker 1: And clearly it does. Like again, I never thought i'd
27:18
Speaker 1: see that. I never thought we would be in Georgia
27:22
Speaker 1: in a position where maybe we could. And and again,
27:27
Speaker 1: as you said that, that's thanks to the work of
27:29
Speaker 1: like mostly black women people who have been organizing and
27:32
Speaker 1: pushing and doing this. But yeah, it doesn't help if
27:35
Speaker 1: the whole being there and if it's like everyone there,
27:39
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't. We're like we there are people
27:43
Speaker 1: and I don't. I also kind of don't want to
27:45
Speaker 1: necessarily excuse them. But it does that you can internalize that,
27:49
Speaker 1: especially when you're young, like, Okay, it doesn't matter, so
27:53
Speaker 1: I won't vote, right, Um, And it does, it does matter.
27:57
Speaker 1: So yeah, those young people, they are the ones who
28:01
Speaker 1: go out there working too. Yes, So again, young and
28:06
Speaker 1: love you, we do love Oh my gosh. Yeah, we'd
28:13
Speaker 1: love to hear from you. I I know we're going
28:17
Speaker 1: to come back and revisit this in the future. Um.
28:21
Speaker 1: But for any listeners, if you have any um, any
28:26
Speaker 1: exciting happy news to share it from elections in your
28:28
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28:30
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28:33
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28:37
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