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Who Really Benefits From Redistricting? | Episode 05 · The Augarius Williams Show

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have a couple different things that I want to talk
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to you guys about before we get into the main topic.
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Speaker 2: Of this show today.
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Speaker 1: If you read by the title, then you know exactly
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what we're going to be diving into. Once we get there,
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I want to throw a genuine question, general, genuine question
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out to you.
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Speaker 2: Guys.
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Speaker 1: Say those two words fast five times. So here is
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the genuine general question that we're gonna be answering a
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little bit later in the show. Who does redistricting really benefit?
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Just gonna leave that question out there for you guys
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to ponder until we actually arrive at that topic a
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little bit later. Once again, who does redistricting really benefit?
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There's this big battle going on over in Texas right
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now where Republicans within the Texas State Legislature want to
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redraw the congressional maps prior to the twenty twenty six
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min terms. And if you haven't seen how the new
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congressional map will look, here's the best way I can
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possibly explain it to you. So, if the Republicans in
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Texas get stair way and a new congressional map is drawn,
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it would give Republicans an extra five seats that they
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could use to hold on to their very very very
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very slim majority in the House of Representatives. That's what
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it means. So if they get their way, five additional
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seats will be added to their congressional total that they
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can use to ride into the twenty twenty six mid
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terms with to hold on to their slim majarity. But
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what I think a lot of people aren't understanding about
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this whole redistricting process, this whole jerry mandering process, is
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that at the end of the day, it's not the
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American people that are going to benefit from And I'll
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just leave it at that because I have more commentary
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that I want to give you guys, So just want
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to leave that question out there for you. Hopefully you
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come up with your own answer as well who benefits
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from redistricting. But before we can talk about that in
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further detail, we have to talk about what's going to
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happen this upcoming Friday, August fifteenth, twenty twenty five, over
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in Alaska. So, if you haven't heard by now, the
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President of the United States, mister Donald J. Trump, will
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be over in Alaska meeting with Russian President Vladimir put
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to try to come up with a framework for a
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peace deal to end the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Now,
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if you've been watching the coverage, over on conservative news channels,
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they're hailing this upcoming summit as a chance for President
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Trump to close the last major war that remains in
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his hopes of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, as
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we know, there have been four presidents that have won
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the Nobel Peace Prize, Diodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter,
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and Barack Obama. Donald Trump is seeking to become the
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fifth American president to win the Nobel Peace Prize. And honestly,
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even though I give Donald Trump a lot of flack
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on this podcast, I will have to say that if
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he's able to get both sides to come to the
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negotiating table and agree on a settlement that appeases both
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sides to end that war, I think you would have
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no other choice but to give him the Nobel Peace Prize,
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especially when you think about all the other situations that
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he's intervened on and if God knows closed as well. Now,
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the one that I wish he would close, and the
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one that a lot of Americans wish he would close,
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is the one between Israel and Hamas. Because let's be
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frankly honest with ourselves, has Israel overstepped in certain areas.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, it is heartbreaking to see.
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Speaker 1: How many children and how many innocent Palestinians have gone hungry,
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how many of them have had their livelihoods just absolutely obliterated,
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all because Hamas wanted to use Palestine as their base
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of operations, so to speak, and so many innocent Palestinians
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are the ones that are having to fare the most
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or show that the most blame in another phrase from
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the Israel Defense Forces. Now, I don't know if you
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guys have been paying attention to this here lately, but
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there has been a massive, massive debate that started about
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whether or not the United States should continue to fund Israel.
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Speaker 2: At this point.
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Speaker 1: I know this isn't going to be very popular to say,
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but somebody has to say that. I think when you
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look at the direction of the Israel United States relationship
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at this point, we are already too far gone to
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try to scale back how much we support Israel, because
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we've made it abundantly clear from president to president that
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we will have unflinching and unwavering support for Israel. And
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of course you have people like a Ted Cruz that
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points to the Bible in Genesis where it talks about
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how those who support or those who bless Israel will
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be blessed, and those who curse Israel will be cursed. Now,
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the problem with ted Cruise and a lot of people's
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assessment of that verse in the Bible, is that I
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don't think the Bible was referring to the government of Israel.
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I think the Bible was referring to the country or
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the state of Israel. The Israel of biblical times is
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very different than the Israel we see today, and I
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don't think anybody can refute that the Israel of today
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is very different than the Israel that God was talking
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about in Genesis.
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Speaker 2: Two completely different countries.
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Speaker 1: But yet you have so many within the halls of
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government who are saying, well, at the end of the day,
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Israel is Israel. It doesn't matter if we're talking about
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from thousands and thousands of years ago or whether we're
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talking about right now in twenty twenty five. But yes,
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there is a big difference between the two. The current
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government of Israel have afflicted atrocities upon innocent Palestinians that
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should no longer continue to go unchecked. Some of the
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things that Bibi Nan Yahoo and the Israeli Defense for
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us have done against innocent Palestinians should be labeled as
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war crimes.
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Speaker 2: I get it.
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Speaker 1: At the end of the day, when October seventh first happened,
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most people in agreement that Israel should do whatever it
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takes to defend themselves against acts of terrorism. But as
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more and more information has become available to us, the
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more and more we start to realize, you know what,
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maybe October seventh wasn't as random as an event as
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people think that it was at first. Maybe October seventh
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was coordinated between Israel and Hamas, and maybe this was
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just a way for Israel to say, Okay, we got
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our marching orders, we got what we wanted, so let's
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go ahead and commence the fighting. I don't think, and
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I do not speak for our heavenly Father, because he
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is all knowing, almighty, He sees all and knows all.
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He sits up high and he looks down low. But
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I don't think God is looking down too favorably right
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now on the government of Israel, because I don't think
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God likes what he sees. The people of Palestine are
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damn near famine, They're starving to death. And whenever you
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see these trucks of humanitarian aid enter into the Gods
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of Strip. The people of Palestine stampede each other to
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get to the aid, and they kill each other doing that.
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And yet somehow, these people in Congress, these people expect
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us to continue to have a soft spot for the
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government of Israel. Now, don't get me wrong, the people
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of Israel are not in my crossfire. I don't have
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them in my sight, in my sights, in my scope.
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But it's time for us to have a realistic conversation
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about mister bb Nen Yahoo, because if we don't, and
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we continue to turn a blind eye as to what's
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happening in Gaza, it's only going to continue to get worse.
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Speaker 2: Before it gets better.
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Speaker 1: More innocent people are going to die the longer you
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have people that sit back and say and do nothing.
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It's almost like when it comes to the humanitarian aid
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that's being sent into the Gaza Strip, people are saying, Okay,
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the aid is going in there, so shut up. We're
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giving them the aid. Shut the hell up. What are
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you still complaining about. Those people in Gaza should not
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have to suffer the way they've been suffering.
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Speaker 2: That's the end all be all with that converse sation.
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Speaker 1: But getting back to this Trump Putent thing that's gonna
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take place in alask on Friday, What do I expect
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to come out of that summit? If I'm being one
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hundred percent honest with you guys, which I always strive
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to do anyway, absolutely nothing.
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Speaker 2: I don't see.
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Speaker 1: Anything coming out of that summit because at this point,
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Vladimir Putin has made it abundantly clear that this war
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will not be over until Russia's objectives have been achieved.
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So what do you really think you're gonna be able
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to do if you're President Trump to appease someone who's
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already made it abundantly clear that this is going to
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end when I want it to end, not when you
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tell me it's over. Now, Putin's gonna fly over from Russia.
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He's gonna stroke Trump's ego, telling some things that he
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wants to hear. They'll have a press conference together, puting
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to get back on his plane, go back to Moscow,
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and the fighting will continue. Well, you're just looking at
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this from a glass half empty perspective? What other perspective
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can I look at this from? I have no choice
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but to look at this from a glass half empty perspective,
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because this has been going on for the better part
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of three years. So what more can you expect from
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someone like me who's been told routinely that when Trump
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gets back in the White House, he'll be able to
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get putting the end this thing. This is the same
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Donald Trump that when he was campaigning, talked about how
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he'll get it finished in twenty four hours.
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Speaker 2: It's been a long ass twenty four hours.
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Speaker 1: If this is Trump's version of twenty four hours, I
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wish that this wasn't entire I wish this is how
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my day felt. If seven months is the equivalent of
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twenty four hours, we would still be in twenty nineteen
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by now. I'm being facetious, but you guys get my drift.
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Twenty nineteen is just a great year, the first part
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of it, at least for me. The second half was
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not so great. But hey, I digress once again. Twenty
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nineteen was the last year where it felt like normalcy
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was in place. Now we're so far gone to it
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makes your head spind sometimes. So I say all that
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to say this, don't expect for Vladimir Putin to Donald
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Trump to walk out of their meeting venue announcing.
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Speaker 2: That the war has ended.
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Speaker 1: The more realistic thing to expect out of this summit
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is for both guys to walk out of the host
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venue site step two podiums and talk about how it
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was a productive conversation, how Putin wants to now meet
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with Zelenski so that way they can sit down to
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discuss quote unquote a framework for the war to be ended.
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I don't know, I really don't at this point. For
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those of you out there in magaworld, I know that
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you guys want this water in Hell, everybody wants this
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water in But do you really think that Vladimir Putin
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is finally gonna say, all right, you win, we're done.
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Speaker 2: We'll just pull.
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Speaker 1: Back our troops and we'll retreat back to Moscow and
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will like this thing never happen. Now, Zelensky has already
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made it clear that Putin doesn't want peace, he's preparing
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for more war, and he could probably be right about that.
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But it's not like Zelensky's walking into this meeting with
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clean hands either. Both sides have committed atrocities against the other.
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It's just that Russia's atrocities against Ukraine have been reported
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more favorably than Ukraine's atrocity against their own people.
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Speaker 2: So be that as it.
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Speaker 1: May, Friday is not going to be this big, big
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day that so many people in conservative media have convinced
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us that it's going to be. If anything, the meeting
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may last two hours. They'll walk out of it talking
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about how much they're wanting to work with each other
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to find amicable ways to end the conflict, and then
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Putin's gonna go back to Russia and they may launch
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an overnight drone campaign against Ukraine.
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Speaker 2: You just never know.
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Speaker 1: So I for one, am not going to be holding
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my breath in a baited fashion waiting for Vladimir Puting
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and Donald Trump to step behind microphones and say the
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war's over. That's not gonna happen, at least not Friday
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in Alaska, all right, So let's keep this thing moving.
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Yesterday Yesterday, Yesterday was a big day in Washington, d C.
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So on yesterday the President made it official that the
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Washington DC Police Department will now be under federal control
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for at least the next thirty days. Congress has the
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right to extend the link the time that the Washington
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DC Police Department will be under federal control. Some of
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you may be wondering to yourself, why now, why did
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President Trump feel this particular moment was ripe for the
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opportunity for the federal government to step in and take
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over the DC Police Department. Well, Donald Trump has been
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on this thing now for quite some time, where he's
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talked about how violent crime and Democrat ran cities have
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gotten out of control, and how he wants the nation's
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capital to be as safe as possible. And if you
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think about it, there's nothing wrong with that. But as
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we've all known now for quite some time, Washington, d C.
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Has dealt with crime for many, many decades. It's not
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like since COVID crime has just spiked in DC. Crime
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has been a part of Washington DC for a very
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long time. It's just that it has taken Donald Trump
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to become president for this to finally be addressed for
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what it is.
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Speaker 2: Is.
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Speaker 1: I for one, don't like the necessary optics of this,
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because it feels like the only reason why Donald Trump
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decided to federalize the Washington DC Police Department is because
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of the fact that last week, a former DOGE staffer
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who goes by the name of Big Balls, was viciously
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attacked while trying to help someone who's in the process
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of being carjacked in DC. I guarantee you, and I
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could be wrong about this, but I don't think that
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I am. I guarantee you that if Big Balls was
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not attacked while trying to help someone who who was
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being a victim of a carjacking, Donald Trump may not
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have federalized the DC Police Department, or he may not
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have federalized the National Guard to take over DC police.
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That's just my read on the situation. And you already
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know that after the decision was announced, Democrat mayors throughout
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the country voiced their strong, blatant opposition to what he
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had just done. You had the city's mayor or the
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district's mayor, Mirror Bowser, come out and say, in no
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uncertain term, we don't like the fact that the President
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decided this course of action because we don't have as
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bad of a crime problem as the President makes it
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out to be. You had the mayor of Baltimore saying that,
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you know, he may try to come out to Baltimore too,
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but we don't have a serious of a crime problem.
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Our crime stats have gone down. You had Karen Bass
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out in Los Angeles saying that Trump's decision to deploy
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the National Guard into DC is almost like when he
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decided to deploy the National Guard to help contain protests
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in Los Angeles during Ice rais. All I'm gonna say
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is this, If these Democrat mayors would do a better
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job of running their cities properly, I don't think you'd
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have this issue. You guys are the ones that oversee
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cities where police officers can't really do their jobs properly.
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You guys are the ones that oversee cities where DA's
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don't like to prosecute certain individuals. You guys are the
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ones that oversee cities where no cash bail has been instituted.
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And I don't think that it would be wise to
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make this a black versus white thing.
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Speaker 2: I think the best way to look at this.
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Speaker 1: Is safety versus disorder, Because everybody should have the right
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to live in a city, in a community where it's safe,
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say from crime of all types, murders, burglaries, carjackets, the
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whole nine yards. You should not have to worry about
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whether or not your community is safe. But I will
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say this, if this proves to work for Washington, you
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wonder if Mirror Bowser will thank the President for his
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swift action to get the city's crime problem under control.
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And just because you don't report your violent crime stats
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to the FBI, doesn't mean that violent crime doesn't happen.
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Doesn't mean that violent crime has dropped as much as
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you claim is dropped. Okay, I just wanted to throw
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that in there as well. But what this reminds me
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of is a couple of years ago. Go here in
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Mississippi when HB ten to twenty pass and it instituted
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Capitol Police to help Jackson Police and the Hinest County
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Shrifess Department in Jackson, you had people who came out
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in droves speaking about how HB ten to twenty would
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negatively impact a black community like Jackson. And when Capitol
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Police was instituted, and when the Capitol Complex Improvement District
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was drawn out, crime in that particular area of Jackson
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went down dramatically. Now you still have an overall crime
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problem in Jackson. Just this past weekend, eight people were
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shot at a club in Jackson.
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Speaker 2: Now all of them survived, thank god.
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Speaker 1: But it just goes to show you that Jackson still
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has a violent crime problem. Washington still has a violent
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crime problem. Baltimore, Maryland, still has a violent crime problem.
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Los Angeles, California, has a problem with violent crime. This
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isn't a Democrat versus Republican thing. This isn't a white
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versus Black thing. This is a safety versus disorder kind
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of a thing. Now, I've been long on the record
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saying that most of this violent crime usually happens when
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someone from the black community goes out and commits it.
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It's time for us to have a serious reality check
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in the black community, because if we don't, these problems
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are only going to continue to get worse. When a
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white police officer kills a black person, we're all out
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here marching in the streets talking about how black lives matter,
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how we need to hold these cops accountable, so on
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and so forth. But how come we can't march in
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our own communities when black on black crime happens. How
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Come we can't go out in the streets and yell
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black lives matter. When black people take other black people's lives,
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that's when we should be hollering black lives matter the most.
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Because we're negative, we're negatively disenfranchising ourselves because we seem
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to have no regard for our own lives. Black Lives
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Matter was just the drift which allow those who oversaw
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the organization to get rich off the backs of people.
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Speaker 2: Who've been victimized. But you say that.
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Speaker 1: In the black community and they're ready to counsel you.
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The truth doesn't have emotions, The truth doesn't have feelings.
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Speaker 2: The truth is the truth, whether or not you want
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to admit it or not.
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Speaker 1: And what's so hard to believe when it comes to
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certain black people who are so adversely affected by this
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messaging is that they're some of the same ones who
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profess how Christian they are.
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Speaker 2: If I remember correctly.
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Speaker 1: In the Bible, in the Book of John, the eighth chapter,
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in the thirty second verse, If I do remember correctly,
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what does that verse say?
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Speaker 2: In part? It says that the truth shall set you free.
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Speaker 1: If you are as Christian as you proclaim yourself to be.
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You should open your Bible and you should highlight that
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verse as many times as you can, and then come
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back to this podcast, rewind just a little bit, and
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allow yourself to be renewed by what I just said.
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We have issues in the black community that so many
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people don't want to talk about. Everybody talks about how
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real they are nowadays, you're not real If this message
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doesn't impact you one way or the other. We're losing
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too many young people in the black community because at
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young ages, they're choosing to go down paths that don't
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end up being right for them in the loan run.
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We have too many parents that instead of being true,
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authentic parents, they rather be their children's best friend. Never
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in a million years, especially with old school parents, would
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you ever see them being friends with their children. There
30:23
are just certain lines that you don't cross, and that's
30:26
one definite line that you shouldn't be out here crossing.
30:30
You should not be your child's best friend, because it
30:34
allows the line to become blurred between being a parent
30:37
and being a friend.
30:47
Speaker 2: You have.
30:49
Speaker 1: And this one is the one that's gonna ruffle some feathers.
30:53
You have too many young people out here that are
30:56
becoming parents that have absolutely no business, at that young
31:00
of an age being somebody's parents. If you're not mentally
31:07
mature yourself, if what the hell do you think allows
31:14
you or let me rephrase this properly, If you're not
31:18
mentally mature yourself, what do you think propels you to say? Okay,
31:23
let me be even more immature by prematurely bringing a
31:29
child into this world.
31:40
Speaker 2: Issues in the black community.
31:43
Speaker 1: We got to stop running from them, and we gotta
31:46
start talking about them if we want to preserve our community.
31:57
That's what a real battle is at Our true battle
32:04
isn't against white people. Our real battle is against ourselves.
32:12
Because if we if good triumphs over evil in our
32:16
own battle, then we could be more equipped to deal
32:22
with the other battles that life throws our way. But
32:30
it's like we've handed over the keys to certain parts
32:33
of our community to evil, and good is no longer
32:41
victorious in those areas. And this is the last thing
32:57
I'm gonna say about this before I move on. I
33:03
love Black people too much to continue to sit idly
33:09
by and allow us to not speak truth to power
33:15
when it comes to issues that directly affect us. And
33:21
if you feel that same way, and all that we're
33:29
asking is for you to do the same, because our
33:37
communities won't get better if we continue to allow ourselves
33:44
to not want to speak truth to power. So that's
33:56
the current state of affairs within the black community. If
34:02
you're someone in DC and you've been negatively impacted by
34:10
violent crime. Then you welcome.
34:14
Speaker 2: This change.
34:18
Speaker 1: And even if you're someone that's just tired of crime period,
34:20
you welcome this change. So Washington d C will now
34:31
be or Washington DC's police department will now be overseen
34:37
by the National Guard, and it may yield some positive
34:43
changes or things may stay the same. Just never know,
34:46
but we have to wait and see how that ultimately
34:49
plays itself out. All right, So let me shift my
34:55
attention away from Washington d C. Well, I guess our
34:59
attention will still be fixated on Washington DC because we
35:02
have to talk about someone who is a part of
35:06
Washington d C now in her role as a United
35:10
States House of Representatives member, the one and only Jasmine Crockett. Now,
35:19
for those of you who are new to this pot,
35:23
for those of you who didn't get an opportunity to
35:25
listen to my old podcast under this very same name,
35:31
I have a big, big problem with Jasmine Crockett, someone
35:39
like a Jasmine Crockett. And you may be wondering, well,
35:43
what's your problem with Jasmine Crockett?
35:46
Speaker 2: And I'll explain. My issue with Jasmine Crockett is very simple.
35:54
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett presents herself as someone that she know that
36:00
he's never been before. You see Jasmine Crockett now, she
36:04
has this whole ghetto stick about her, knowing damn well
36:08
that that's not the way she was raised. If you
36:10
go and look at how Jasmine Crockett was raised, Jasmine
36:14
Crockett has never had to deal with the ghetto side
36:21
of being black. That's just the most mild way I
36:24
can put it. Jasmine Crockett throughout her life has gone
36:29
to the most prestigious schools. She has gone to the
36:33
most prestigious colleges. And when she first got into Congress,
36:39
there's this video out there.
36:41
Speaker 2: You can go on.
36:41
Speaker 1: YouTube and pretty sure it's still there when she talked
36:45
completely different then compared to how she talks now. And
36:51
that's my issue, the fact that you feel like you
36:55
have to stoop yourself down in order to relate to people.
36:58
Speaker 2: It shouldn't be that.
36:59
Speaker 1: Way, because if people could not relate to you, then
37:05
what makes you think that they can relate to you now?
37:07
And a lot of people in her district have been
37:09
able to relate to her because they keep sending her
37:11
back to Congress. But I don't like it, because why
37:18
not just be your true self? If you're somebody that's
37:22
black and you act white, Just be yourself. Don't come
37:28
around black people and feel like, Okay, now you gotta
37:30
be black. If you're black and you act white, act
37:35
that way the whole time. If you're somebody who's white
37:39
and you try to act black, I don't know why
37:44
you do it, but I don't necessarily too much like it,
37:49
because I feel like you're playing up to be something
37:51
that you know you're not. When you get back around
37:53
white people, act who you are, is what I'm basically saying.
38:02
And that's my issue with people like Jasmine Crockett. She
38:06
portrays herself to be something that she knows she's not,
38:11
so last week, some of her former congressional aides spoke
38:16
to The New York Post, essentially calling her a boss
38:20
from hell, saying that she doesn't really come to that
38:23
office much, and when she does come to the office,
38:25
only thing she does when she gets there is great
38:27
members of her staff. She doesn't like to ride in
38:30
anything other than a Caillac Escalade, and she's not really
38:38
there to do the work of being a congresswoman. She's
38:42
there to do the work of someone who's trying to
38:45
become a TikTok influencer. Now, they're always, in my opinion,
38:52
three sides to every story, the aide side, her side,
38:57
and the truth, because somebody is bound to leave something
39:01
out that makes them not look so good. So every
39:05
time going forward, you hear somebody say, well, they're two
39:09
sides to every story, stop them politely and tell them no,
39:13
there's actually three sides to every story, your side, the
39:15
other person's side, in the truth because you're bound to
39:17
leave something out. So Jasmine Crockett came out and she
39:22
said in no uncertain terms that everything that those aids
39:25
said were not true.
39:29
Speaker 2: But here's what I have to say to that.
39:31
Speaker 1: If her whole persona is fake, then why should we
39:35
believe anything that comes out of her mouth when she
39:38
tries to defend herself from onslaughts, of attacks from people
39:43
that used to work for If you can't trust who
39:47
she is in her day to day life, why should
39:50
you trust anything that comes out of her mouth. This
39:53
whole thing about when she gets up there saying that
39:56
she's fighting for her constituent, when she's fighting for Texas,
40:00
when she's fighting for democracy. We're gonna circle back to
40:04
that in a minute. It's a lot. Jasmine Crockett is
40:10
fighting for Jasmine Crockett. Jasmine Crockett is fighting for the
40:14
future of her political career because we know that she
40:17
has aspirations for higher office. Jasmine Crockett does not want
40:21
to remain a congresswoman from Texas. Jasmine Crockett wants to
40:24
either knock out John Cornyn or Ted Cruz in the Senate.
40:29
Speaker 2: That's what she wants, and who knows.
40:34
Speaker 1: You may have some Democrats that get behind her and
40:37
support her to be the nominee in twenty twenty eight.
40:43
Speaker 2: She wouldn't get my vote, but.
40:46
Speaker 1: It's a different conversation for a different day.
40:52
Speaker 2: The problem with so many people like Jasmine Crockett.
40:57
Speaker 1: Is that they realize that when they're playing to a
41:00
specific audience, they change who they are instead of just
41:06
being completely and one hundred percent authentically yourself. You feel
41:11
like you have to play up to a persona that
41:13
you know damn well.
41:14
Speaker 2: When you get behind closed doors, you're not.
41:20
Speaker 1: And people in her district will continue to vote for
41:23
her because they feel like she can relate to them.
41:29
Jasmine Crockett doesn't relate to anybody who votes for her.
41:34
Speaker 2: I know that may be a hard truth. But it's
41:37
the truth.
41:38
Speaker 1: Jasmine Crockett cannot relate to any of her constituents, and
41:45
that same thing could be said about a lot of
41:47
people in Congress. The same thing could be said about
41:51
the President of the United States, if you want to
41:53
take it a step further, Oh, Donald Trump is so relatable.
41:57
How in the hell is a billion? They're relatable to
42:01
somebody who works a nine to five.
42:06
Speaker 2: Just answer me that question.
42:08
Speaker 1: How is Donald Trump relatable to any of us out
42:11
here who have to get up every day, do the
42:14
hard work, come home and support our families. And that
42:20
makes sense? Oh, Donald Trump doesn't act like a Biggins.
42:25
And that's something else I don't like when people say, oh,
42:28
so and so don act like they got money. Yeah
42:34
they do, they just do it in a more humble
42:37
kind of way, for lack of a better phrase. So
42:47
am I surprised with these revelations from Jasmine Crockett. No,
42:52
do I think there's some truth behind what her former
42:54
age had to say. Yes, because she seems very disingenuous
43:00
as a person. And one thing's for certain. When you
43:05
feel that somebody's disingenuous, nine times out of ten, they
43:09
most likely are. So let's go ahead and wrap this
43:14
thing up by going back to the original question that
43:18
I posed to you guys at the very beginning of
43:20
this episode. Who benefits from redistricting. So there's this battle
43:29
going on over in Texas right now where Republicans in
43:35
the state legislature are trying to redraw the congressional map
43:43
prior to the twenty twenty six mid terms. If this
43:47
map is redrawn successfully, it would allow for Republicans to
43:52
net five additional seats in the House of Representatives, essentially
43:57
eliminating some of the Democratic seats that the state has. Now,
44:02
we've seen this play out before in the past. It's
44:04
something called Jerry manner, and it's usually done every ten
44:10
years after the census has taken place. The last census
44:14
we have is in twenty twenty. The next one that
44:16
we're going to have is in twenty thirty. Even though
44:20
you have the president up there saying that we may
44:23
want to redo the census because there were a lot
44:25
of illegal immigrants counted the last time, I don't think
44:29
these censors will be redone anytime soon until twenty thirty.
44:35
So the Republicans want to do this in Texas, and
44:39
boy oh, boy, the Democrats, they are in one hell
44:43
of a fever pitch against what they want to do
44:45
in Texas. You have Gavin Newsom out in California saying
44:49
that they're looking to redraw their districts.
44:51
Speaker 2: You have.
44:54
Speaker 1: The fattest governor in the country, JB. Pritsker, saying that
44:57
they want to do it in Illinois. I'm not fat
45:01
shaming anybody else, but I just have a massive problem
45:06
no pun intended with JB.
45:08
Speaker 2: Pritsker. You know, JB. Prisker is like one of those.
45:14
Speaker 1: Type of people where he's fat and he's not trying
45:17
to do anything about it, like he likes his cheeseburgers.
45:25
Speaker 2: I just I don't have a liking for JB. Prisker.
45:29
Speaker 1: And then you have Kathy Hulker in New York saying that, hey,
45:34
if it gets down to it, we'll redraw our map too.
45:39
Speaker 2: Now think about this.
45:43
Speaker 1: What do California, Illinois, and New York all have in common.
45:50
There are three strongly held Democratic states. What do we
45:56
know about Texas? Texas is a pretty red state, a
46:01
state that has gone red. The last time I think
46:07
Texas went blue it may have been seventy six when
46:14
Jimmy Carter ran against Gerald Ford, and since that point
46:17
has been a red state ever since. Father Bush came
46:22
from Texas. Son Bush came from Texas. So I don't
46:26
think Texas voted blue and eight or in twenty twelve
46:29
with Barack Obama. I think it went red in twenty
46:32
sixteen with Donald Trump, went read again in twenty twenty,
46:35
and I know for sure it went red in twenty
46:36
twenty four. I just find it very, very funny that
46:46
you have all of these politicians from both sides of
46:49
the spectrum bitching about redistricting, talking about how what the
46:55
Republicans in Texas are trying to do is a threat
46:58
to democracy. I told you guys, we were gonna circle
47:01
back to threat of the threat to democracy. I find
47:06
it very very rich that politicians are always the ones
47:11
yelling from the rooftops about how the other side is
47:16
a threat to democracy. All politicians are a true existential
47:20
threat to democracy because they don't really care about freedom.
47:26
They don't care about those God given freedoms that you
47:30
and I hold dear. They don't care in earnest about
47:35
protecting the First Amendment. They don't care about protecting the
47:39
Second Amendment. They don't care about any of these freedoms
47:42
that you and I have every single day that we
47:45
wake up. They're looking to erode our freedoms. But in
47:52
order to do it, they got to make you believe
47:54
that the other side is trying to come for yours
47:57
before they are. And yet they wonder why so many
48:03
people just choose not to vote because.
48:06
Speaker 2: It's a shit show.
48:07
Speaker 1: Regardless as to how you want to phrase it, these
48:14
politicians are only interested in their own power, which in
48:22
turns answer the question that I just pose to you, guys,
48:26
who does redistricting really benefit the politicians? And they're always
48:33
quick to talk about how well we're fighting.
48:37
Speaker 2: That's what the Democrats are saying in Texas right now.
48:39
Speaker 1: We're fighting against this redistricting effort by the Republicans because
48:43
they're trying to disenfranchise brown and black voters.
48:49
Speaker 2: They love, they.
48:52
Speaker 1: Love it, they love trying to keep you and I
48:55
voting for them.
48:57
Speaker 2: Those of you a color who I'm referring to.
49:01
Speaker 1: They know that they can't survive the political mailstrom if
49:05
they don't have you and I back in them. Listen,
49:16
I when you when you really boil it down in
49:23
a in a pretty substantial way. The main problem that
49:31
the Democrats have in this whole Texas redistricting battle is
49:36
that it will get done sooner rather than later. The
49:39
only question that you would have, simply put is what
49:43
kind of of an adverse effect will this have on
49:46
the remaining forty nine states? Will they try to redraw
49:49
their congressional lines? But my issue with this from the
49:56
republican's perspective, if you guys felt so confident about the
50:00
Democrats being in a state of disarray, why do you
50:03
feel the need to redraw your congressional maps to try
50:06
to get an advantage heading into the midterms. I think
50:12
that's a pretty fair question, if I do say so myself.
50:17
If you weren't concerned about the Democrats heading into twenty
50:20
twenty six, you wouldn't be trying to redraw your congressional lines.
50:28
But this whole redistricting thing doesn't benefit you or me.
50:32
It benefits those who are already in power. They just
50:37
have to sell it to you and I by saying
50:39
we're fighting for you. I love it how politicians are
50:46
always talking about how they're fighting for the little guy,
50:49
how they're fighting for the guy who takes his lunch
50:51
pail of the work, the woman who has to drop
50:55
her kids off at school and then go to a
50:57
job that she doesn't necessarily like. How they're fighting for
51:01
the college student who is miles and miles deep in
51:05
debt from student loans. They fight for us on the
51:10
one hand, allegedly, and they fuck us over on the
51:14
other hand. They're the ones who will benefit from redistricting,
51:22
whether it goes their way or not. You and I
51:27
will be left out the drive because they don't care
51:29
about us. Michael Jackson famously said it in a song,
51:34
they don't really care about us.
51:35
Speaker 2: Who's the day now?
51:39
Speaker 1: In his song it was a completely different day that
51:41
he was talking about. You can read in between the
51:44
lines and figure out who I'm talking about when I
51:46
say that. But the day that I'm talking about in
51:52
this particular matter is the politicians. And the thing is
52:00
and here's the big thing. And then I'm going to
52:01
end with this. Why aren't you guys trying to fight
52:09
to get grocery prices lower? Why are you guys not
52:12
trying to fight to get energy costs low? Why are
52:15
you guys not trying to fight to get gas prices? Lord,
52:18
that's the fighting that you should be doing instead of
52:22
fighting this redistricting battle, trying to teach financial literacy to
52:28
high school students so that way they can get a
52:31
foot into you know, whether it be cryptocurrency, stock trading,
52:38
whatever the case may be. Why are you guys not
52:44
trying to figure out solutions to help people who go
52:46
to college.
52:47
Speaker 2: And occur all this debt.
52:51
Speaker 1: I mean, there are people who are swimming in fifty
52:53
sixty seventy eighty ninety one hundred thousand dollars student loan debt.
52:58
They don't give a damn about redistricting. They don't give
53:02
a damn about Jerry Manner. They don't give a damn
53:06
that the Texas A handful of Texas Democratic legislatures left
53:10
the state to go to Illinois or Massachusetts.
53:13
Speaker 2: They don't care.
53:16
Speaker 1: Help me with my debt so that way I can
53:18
get on to live the life that I dreamt about
53:20
when I was in high school. This whole thing about
53:31
the American dream, all you gotta do is believe in
53:34
it and it'll come to you. The American dream is
53:39
slowly but surely turned it into the American nightmare because
53:43
so many people realize that, hey, this dream doesn't seem
53:47
to becoming true anytime soon.
53:48
Speaker 2: So why did they.
53:49
Speaker 1: Tell me at an early age to believe that it's
53:52
possible to achieve the American dream? Get you a great job,
53:57
then that way you can buy a house, you can
54:00
take care of your family and everything. I'll be fine
54:04
as long as you believe in this one core concept
54:07
called the American dream. And it's hard to achieve any
54:10
of that when it feels like those in control want
54:14
it to be this way.
54:22
Speaker 2: They fuck you and I over.
54:25
Speaker 1: Pretending that they care about our needs while only continuing
54:30
to enrich themselves. So I could care less about what's
54:39
going on in Texas because we already know who it benefits.
54:44
And while they continue to lie and claim that they
54:48
don't want black and brown voters to be disenfranchised, all
54:51
they care about is continuing to hold on to the
54:53
power that's allowed them to become multi millionaires. So many people,
55:06
and I guarantee this is the last point. I'm gonna
55:08
make a promise. So many people have woken up when
55:14
it comes to politics, and I love it. I myself
55:21
woke up a few years ago because anybody who knows
55:24
me will tell you that there was a point in
55:27
my life when I was younger, where I wanted to
55:31
be the president of this country. When you get older
55:35
and you start realizing that it's not the dream that
55:40
you want to fulfill, where there is so much shady
55:44
behind the door stuff that you have to have in
55:47
order to be the president, you say to yourself, it's
55:49
not as great looking of a job as I thought
55:52
it was. Did it hurt at the time, absolutely, But
56:01
what would have hurted me more is if I continue
56:03
to allow myself to live in this deluted reality. Now
56:09
you live in actual reality, and and you've woken up
56:13
to the fact that.
56:19
Speaker 2: They don't care. They will do whatever it.
56:22
Speaker 1: Tasts to continue to make it harder on us, to
56:25
keep us so distracted that they can go out and
56:31
do whatever they want to, good, bad, or indifferent. They
56:35
keep me and you fighting each other so that way
56:38
they can go behind our backs and do all this
56:41
crap that they know if we were paying attention to it,
56:44
we would call bs home. They keep me and you
56:49
fighting because I'm black and you're white. They keep me
56:52
fighting because they keep me and you fighting because you
56:55
may be a Republican and I may be whatever. They
56:59
keep me and you fighting because I'm straight and you're gay,
57:03
or you're transgender or whatever. But if you really get
57:10
away from this whole echo chamber that happens to be
57:14
the political landscape in America today, you'd realize that there
57:18
is so much more that unites us than divide us.
57:22
And if we collectively put our hats together and we're
57:24
fought back against this tyrannical government that we have, we
57:30
could get so much done that would actually benefit all
57:34
of us and not just some of us. And with
57:37
that being said, ladies and gentlemen, that'll wrap up today's
57:40
edition of the Igarius Williams Show. Want to thank you
57:43
guys once again as always for listening. However and wherever
57:45
you choose to listen, we'll be right back here again
57:48
next week to break down the latest from the world
57:50
of politics in our own unique, unapologetic, and sometimes controversial way.
57:55
So until then, you guys, continue to enjoy your day,
57:58
continue to enjoy your week, stay safe, to care, God
58:00
bless raph peace,