Project 2025: It's Giving Racism. It's Giving Fascism.

On this episode Sue, Jas, and Jen get into Project 2025, the 900-page monstrosity spawned by the Heritage Foundation, packed with authoritarian advice, and nothing nice for those of us who don’t happen to be straight, Christian, white, male, billionaire. The only thing more terrifying than the actual proposals in Project 2025 are the creepy old white guys behind it who have been plotting to “make America great (read: white) again” since the 1970s. Trust us y'all, this aint what you want!

Sip and Scroll
Elon Musk Spends Millions on Conflicting Disinformation Ads in Michigan
Trump Rallies Are Getting Real... Weird
Trump Cosplays as a McDonald's Fry Cook
Harris' Perfect Clap Back for Hecklers
Gary Chambers Cooks Byron Donalds in Debate
Trump's Disgusting Response to Amber Thurman's Family

Headline Hangover
Harris and Trump Address Al Smith Dinner
Trump calls himself the father of IVF
It's the First Amendment, Stupid
Ex-Officers in Tyre Nichols' Death Convicted
Obama DOJ Police Reform Shut Down by Trump

Straight, No Chaser
Black Men Respond to What's in Project 2025
Project 2025: A Villain Origin Story
What Project 2025 Means for Gender Justice
Trump Project 2025 Plans for DOJ
How Project 2025 Will Affect Your State
Project 2025 Training Videos

Do Something
Volunteer Opportunities
Early Voting Has Started in Many States
GOTV Bus Trips with Higher Heights
Win With Black Women “Do Something” Campaign Plan

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Transcript

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Hello, and welcome to the Political Poro Podcast. I'm Sue. I'm Jess. And we are three friends who love to talk about politics. And we usually love to do it while we have a cocktail in hand. Like I do right now. This is a lovely spicy margarita made by our amazing Afro Cuban Latina, Mixologist, Spicy Mommy, Yeah, Jazz, Oh, Spicy Margie for the Spicy Mommy. Yeah, Spicy Mommy. Yeah, Spicy Mommy Marg is what we're calling it. Yeah, cause we need something to open up them sinuses. All the way. All the way. I, I, I hint a little, uh, hint a little sniffle in your Oh, you hint a lot. Poor thing. a rough week. for myself. Unfortunately, I happen to catch a little cold in the week. It's that time. It has handed my ass to me. Oh. Um, but it's okay. Poor baby. I just sound awful. So, if it happens to sound a little, muffled, a little Fat Albert ish, a little Snuffleupagus ish. Why she sounds the same that she usually does? Oh, baby. You sound fine. It's giving hey, hey, hey. No, it is not. You sound fine. Maybe in your head. I can hear the nasal all looking through it. So, I just wanted to put that out there. Sorry. Maybe your head is, is. It's congested and it's making all of it is no, but you sound like a pseudofed. Yo, I need to, I need to run pseudofed back. Let me tell you, you got to get the real pseudofed. Don't let them give you the fake one with the acetaminophen. You got to get the one that get the pseudofedrin in there. The pseudofedrin is what really breaks it down. Is that a fever reliever? No, it breaks down my congestion for me. Oh, okay. Cause the acetaminophen is for Yeah. For pain and fever reduction. But the other one has like something else in it that's not the traditional, um, Sudafedrin because people were buying that, um, to like make meth. So now you gotta like show your home. I was gonna say something made Sudafedrin popular. I learned that on Illinois SVU. I couldn't remember what it was, but that's pretty cool. Yes. Cause they were, they were going around and looking at which, pharmacies had reported, cough medicine being stolen, so they can track down this drug trafficker that had just stolen somebody's child. Yeah. Yep. See, that's strategy. I'm telling you the way they connect the dots, I'm telling you, it's like it doesn't happen in real life. No, no, it doesn't. I'm going to tell you what, I will never forget. I was working for a nonprofit in DC, in the Shaw neighborhood and a couple of blocks away from there, like around the corner from there, There was an actual meth lab in somebody's house or apartment that blew up. I was like, did it blow up? Yes ma'am, that's how it is. Um, don't make me lie. This might have been back in that, what had to have been like maybe That's crazy. 2017 Wasn't that when y'all were roommates? Yeah. Maybe like around that time or just after. I think we were silver based at that time. We were. If you are working, for the non profit that I'm thinking of, then yes. I was like, I would have never thought, but little did you know. Yeah. Well, it is fall. Fall is falling over here in the DMV. It's finally like cold. Like, we were recording one time and it was like 80 degrees outside on Saturday. And then the next week it was like in the fifties, fifties. Yesterday I think it was like 40 something. I think it's supposed to be like 80s this week. Yeah. That's why I sound like that. Exactly. That's why people get sick. It's back and forth and back and forth. It's crazy. So. I don't even be outside. Fall is, fall is also it's homecoming season. was this past weekend, right? Yes. This is Clark's Homecoming weekend. And it looks so lit. It did. It did. I was looking online. I was watching. My friends are there. I know. It was, it looks, it looks like they had a grand old time. Homecoming is a very Exciting and personal and rejuvenating experience for a lot of us when we return to like the place like we're not like we're in DC and Howard's homecoming is that was this weekend and You know, it's great to go and like, you know people who went to Howard, but it's not like going to your own home, even with going to Jasmine went to Clark Atlanta University, Jen and I attended Spelman those schools are in the Atlanta University Center. So it's a little different. They are different campuses and everything, but they're kind of like, I mean, it's a little different than going to family. It's different than going to Howard. And it's weird because sometimes there are years where Clark and Spelman and Morehouse. Homecoming are all on the same weekend, which I really enjoy because then we can just go. And it feels like the experience we have when we went to school, when they do that. Exactly. Which is why I wish they would just do that. Like all of France. I don't think they're going to do it anymore because I just think that probably with both things happening. And all the events leading up I just think that they're probably like, Listen, between our public safety and the city of Atlanta, We don't have all these natural resources. So we send it over there. Cause do they still do tailgate on the, on the field at Clark? Yeah, they did that. And then they, this year they actually had, um, I like it when the songs together. They had an event, it was like a tailgate after dark or something. Oh, that was like another, think I saw that where I saw another homecoming that did like a outdoor night concert. I think it might have have either been Hampton or No, it was, they did, because they did it in the stadium. This was last year. I think it might have been a Virginia school, either Hampton or Virginia State, I think. Do something like that. Now they have. I don't know if that has replaced Olive Ranch or what, but it was something that I like a festival. That was super lit. Like a music festival. Yeah. I was like, hold on. When they start doing this? I mean, maybe that's now what Olive Ranch is. Maybe that's what Olive Ranch used, like, is to them. And Clark actually got a brand, uh, a new field this year. Okay. And so their field is now, because the Clarks colors are black, red, uh, red, black and white. The field is red. Like it is red red Okay, well you bring it up that they got a new film reminded me of I don't know if anybody watches married to real estate You know, I'd be liking the HGTV show. So It's about Aaron. I'm sorry. What is her name? It's escaping me. But anyway, Egypt Shiraz. Egypt Shiraz and her husband See I know who that is Yeah, but you know she started on the radio On the radio, it's New York And then she was doing the Burger King commercials Wow, I didn't know that. You didn't know that one. I think that's correct. You are just so full of knowledge. That's what I'm saying. Every day you learn something with this one. Yeah, I think she was telling us everything. Who knows that? But no, they had an episode when they came and redid the locker room for Clark's, I think it was their basketball team. It was actually super dope because he wanted to put like a barber shop in and all of that. All this stuff. It was really dope. It was a whole episode. So cool. Checking out. I'm gonna have to check that out. Check that out. It's really cool. I've seen the, um, I've seen the advertisements for it, but I don't think I've gotten a chance to check it. But I used to be really into my HGTV days. If it wasn't Food Network, it was HGTV for me. Oh, I know. And then of course, you know, I like to binge on like a little bit of trash tv Oh. All, all the time. But right now, literally I'm like, oh. What's on Discovery? But now I'll be watching stuff like the ID channel. Do you? I like the history channel. I like the ID channel because I'd be like, oh, why'd they try to kill them? What was wrong with them? What was going on over there? It'd be like murder in the heartland. I know. Then it's like a siblings one. And you know, it's all true crime. I saw something that was posted, it was like, if you could watch stuff like that before you fall asleep. No, I saw that. No, really. You know, why you're so comfortable dealing with trauma. Yeah. And I was like, what? Yeah. Yeah. I give it this way I can, I, I have some of my best sleep. It's as go stick to law and order who, I don't know what it is because lemme tell you why Law and Order puts me to sleep. It's, it's never brightly lit. It's never above a certain tone. It's a lot of talking. It's a lot of talking. The tone isn't monotonous. It doesn't go above a certain thing. It's very soothing. And it's nothing too shocking and usually not a lot of extra sounds. I'd put monotone on, I'd be going right to sleep. It'll dump on me right to sleep. Either that or. Any, any sitcom, they don't play as many old sitcoms as they used to. Like, they used to, like, Nick at night me. Nick at night plays friends all night. That's annoying. Um, but, Living Single used to come on some. It doesn't really come on that long anymore. I think she falls asleep to a lot of that. Sometimes if I watch it, it's a Martin Train. But Martin, he don't even be coming on all the late night. Like, I fall asleep at like 9am. It's on Netflix now. Mm hmm. So, yeah. Turn to politics. So, homecoming. Jen and I are going to homecoming. Sponehouse homecoming. Oh nine. It's our 15 year reunion. Have some fun for me. I know. Jazz is not coming with us. Greatest homecoming on earth. The original. Yeah. There's no comparison. But. So, um, we're going to go. Jazz, we will sorely miss you. We will. I thought about it and I was like, let me just get this underwraps, get my sniffles. You wanna hide in my suitcase? I thought about it. Yeah. But you know what, the way my back pain is still there. That I know. Speed join. That's the problem. They don't need joint. That's lean in y'all. She the arthritis. Um, no. See y'all better hope. Don't crack this, uh, po I hope you'll hear pop. It's a little more geriatric. I love it. Well. In addition to fall, homecoming, and naturally after many of the homecoming, uh, celebrations come and go. Just like that. It's election day, which literally by the time we go live with this podcast, it will be two weeks out from election days, November 5th. Hope everybody from, uh, homecoming, Can Soba up at time to make sure you make some already vote. It's a lot of joy. I make sure you get it out. Starts earlier this week. So I was like, you won't vote. I can't even vote yet. These things we chill out. I'm about that. Like chill out. I'm going on election day morning. I love to go. For the last, for the last year or two, I've been the only person in the entire voting precinct. They're like, Oh, we got a voter over here. I'm like, yes, I'm here. It's me. They're like, uh, yeah. Just sign your name and just. They're like record votes cast. I promise you. I usually, I mean, that's the thing I do enjoy though. I usually go with my mom. Yeah. Or my mom or my brother. That's what I do. We'll go out together. Yeah. Yeah. I'll probably ask my dad, but I know he's going. Like, it's so funny. He going in person? Well, hey, well, North Carolina got early voting. That can't go everywhere else in person. I gotta ask him if he's going to do early voting or, uh, voting on election day. Mm hmm. But, you know, my daddy likes voting on election day. My dad likes, he likes to watch his news. I like an early vote in person. I'm just not, I don't want to fill out the paper ballot. My dad, my dad's a, No, me either. I don't think he cared to be around a whole bunch of people. But for, for him, like he get up in the morning, he have his, his coffee, turns on the news, watches his things, has his Pepsi. And then later on he watches other stuff. Like maybe like King of Queens or like, or like Mike and Molly or something like that. Or like, or like a cheaters or something. He might mix it in throughout the day. You know what I mean? Oh my gosh. But in the morning, in the morning, that man is going to catch his noose, okay? He's going to see what's up. He looks like me in the morning with his glasses on. I make my coffee, turn on my MSNBC in the morning. And that shit just went on all day. And if I can get way too early. I know. I haven't been up way too early. I actually like way too early. You know what's funny? The last couple of times I've called way too early is because I've been up way too late. No, that's usually how it goes. It's like you did not go to sleep, did you? Anybody watching Love is Born? The DC No, I can't. I watched it. Don't talk about it because told since the first they told me to watch it. Me either. Well no, now it's in dc. My coworker was like, you gotta watch it'cause it's funny'cause it's in DC I watched it too mean. So wouldn't it be wrong of me to say that when I seen the lineup for Love is Blind DC and I look at the pictures you said no and the names and I said. This doesn't look interesting. Something about this may not be reading authentic DC to me. I don't know. They may not live here, but they not from here. Yeah, and you know what I thought would have been a very entertaining show? 11th by New York with some people that's actually from D. C. 11th by New York? I mean, 11th by D. C. but some people that's actually from D. C. Oh yes. Blame Nicole, don't blame me. That would be funny. Well, it's the Sip and Scroll. Well, let's just get into the Sip and Scroll because Jasmine has some things to talk about. Because we sippin And you be scrollin it's been a long week and social media is exhausting. Gosh. It's been a long ass week. I had to take a break. I had to take a break this week a little bit. I had to take a nap. Two days at max. I had to take a nap. A couple times and just calm down. What's going on? So, I just saw it. I want to say like today, but they have like a new targeted ad that's airing in our area and it is produced by someone who is Promoting Trump if it's not A PAC or something I don't remember exactly the name of the PAC He's trying to get all of us to PAC He PAC ing all over the place Yeah, well I mean he wants to get all the The high, the high T alpha bros is what he called the people that he's trying to get. Oh God. But for a man who's literally taking testosterone, I guess he wants all the high T so, but anywho, the targeted ad that I saw today had, clips talking about, Kamala, like giving. what was that? They said like giving, sex changes. Oh, yeah. To I knew it. Immigrant to my in jail. Yeah. Detainees. Yeah. And, and they like have like weird piece clips from stuff where you can, well if you, when they were joking about, or they were like, they had picture of the Breakfast Club of Charlemagne and DJ Envy in their ad. Talking about it saying like, oh, yeah, she's just giving everybody there. Yeah, everybody get your section when you can When I really know they were joking about it It's great, they can touch it and stick Exactly And put it in an ad and chopped it up along with just different stuff from either Kamala or other people talking about These ads are going crazy And has a black woman going This is the worst times I've ever been in. I can't afford anything. Yes, I saw that same ad. I saw that same ad. I saw that same ad. It's all looped in. She's giving money for sex changes in jail, but I can't afford groceries or whatever. And it's a black woman. And it's a black woman. An older black woman. And that. And then again, like, um, again with those targeted ads, I saw that same ad. Yeah, I saw some about what they're doing in Michigan where they're running one ad. Can you imagine if we were in the swing state? Oh, this is what I'm about to tell you. Michigan. Yeah, Michigan because they're running one group of ads telling Muslim Arab or Muslim Americans or people who may be and she's pro. She's just pro Israel is real She's so pro Israel And Doug is like, has the most influence over him Doug is her puppet master. She follows everything He says he's gonna be second in line blah blah blah, which is Very anti semitic. I don't know if Elon Musk knows that in his apartheid South African mind. But, it is. And so he puts that out, which targets He doesn't care. That's the thing. He's just so aloof that he really just has no idea. He tried to make a lot of symbols. Okay. We're not even going to go there. Yeah. So let's not cause they, so, and then there's a second ad also airing in the same, in the same state targeted toward Jewish Americans saying that she's, she's extremely pro she's so pro Palestine, she's got to be your new palestinian. I think they called her fake in that too. They called her fake in everything they could. The biggest thing I think I've also seen on social media is this fool Trump showing up to at check fake fries some fries have them close the entire restaurant so he can And try to make a joke talk about oh, I hear I hear it's her birthday Maybe I'll get her a burger or some fries, sir. Don't you know that you get a happy meal on your birthday? Don't you know, I know you should be worried about me so Less the world and I'm so bothered by her in the fact that she's a cosplay Right. That's her actual job. He's just glad that he's never had a Most rich people who are not like, they don't try to make themselves look awkwardly relatable. Like you showed up to a McDonald's and tried french fries. And so they're like, Oh, you know, that he's questions from reporters at the drive thru and still would not commit to raising the federal minimum wage. me. Well, they yeah. Gary, yeah. I thought it was a debate or just like a conversation. They're not running against each other. Gary Chambers is from Louisiana. Um, he ran for, Senate, a year or two ago. I went for my first time seeing him. He showed up to like a school board meeting and went off and told them about it. Oh yeah, I remember that. He brings his mother every time. He brings his mother in the past. He always, and then he's always been like, Very outspoken against like the, the Democratic establishment in Louisiana, which has some, has some flaws in a lot of the ways that they, I mean, they just, the former Democratic governor was like the only pro life Democrat, uh, that was in like a statewide office Louisiana's an interesting place, but Gary Chambers and Byron Donalds were on this panel, and, I think one of his closing statements, Gary Chambers, to Brad Douglas was like, you know, this guy, he's a representative from Florida. He represents apparently all, uh, mostly mostly white, white district and he wants to tell black people what to do. And he called him out on it, and he was like, Is your, but is your district mostly white? And he was like, well yeah, but, that's not what we, that's not, like, That's a talking point that doesn't make sense. Like, Valentine's is such a fuck you. They tried to escape the White House. You know, he said something about it that I was still thinking about, cause he tried to say like, What was his term for like, cause he wouldn't also agree to raising the minimum wage. Yeah, he was like, he was like, would you break the minimum wage? Wait, what did he call it? He was like, basically saying like, most people are making above that. I was like, bullshit. Yeah, he said most shits are playing people above it. But that's bullshit. And then he was like, I, he was like, nobody is making 7. 25 and he was like, I live in South Louisiana. I personally, I know a bunch of people. That's why you, that's why. I know a bunch of people. I know a bunch of people who are making under the minimum wage. Thank you. And a lot of them, especially in a more rural area, over there at the stadium, and whatever them people work at, it's a minimum wage. Well, but the thing is that minimum wage in Maryland is higher. It's about, it's either 12, it's 15, in DC it's 17, but I know one thing, when I worked in Maryland, and I worked at, I mean, but yeah, at McDonald's had a minimum wage, He, he said, he was like, Oh, well, yes. If my 16 year old and my, you know, 15 year old want to get a job. No, I don't think that they should get paid like to, you know, be able to afford a mortgage and stuff. It's like, okay. I'm going to move away. That's what he was saying. It's like, it was created as like a threshold for entry level. And it's like, okay, but there are still. People like when you allow, when you allow actual adults living off of their wage. Exactly. Because when you don't have any like incentive or like if you don't force people to pay people more, they're not going to. They're not going to. I literally was thinking about so many jobs that I know of here. Luckily here, it's higher. They just pay the CEOs more. Oh, that part. Well, no, I mean the bigger issue would be like. That was some bullshit. Well, and if we're talking about traditionally how people have been paid, if you're talking about how those jobs were designed, when McDonald's came up, the minimum wage at that time was actually enough for people to be able to afford like groceries and an apartment, so that wasn't, the minimum wage wasn't designed to give kids lunch money, which is pretty much essentially what he was saying. Exactly. It's not designed for that. It's actually designed to give the minimum living wage, which would mean being able to. Afford a roof over your head, afford clothes over your back, afford transportation, and afford some kind of safety, whether it be health care or whatever. You know what I mean? Which technically at that point, with minimum wage was probably put forth, there wasn't really an issue with health care because it wasn't privatized and Profitable in the way in which it was after Reagan. Yeah, and it's a whole different the federal minimum wage has not used to be a lot cheaper because it was included for a lot of people in their states until a lot of people of color start going to college. And then it was like, No, wait a minute. We can't have that. Right. Wait a minute. It's paid by people. Wait a minute. But no. That's why they started to have a private school as soon as they started having desegregation. All the Christian academies and stuff like that popped up after that so they wouldn't have to give money to public schools and their kids wouldn't have to go there with them. So, yeah, the federal minimum wage has not, risen since, I think it's 2009? Over a decade. It's been over a decade it was like 5 something, 6, Now it's 7. 25. I remember working for 5. I don't know, so. I remember working here for 5 something an hour. For minimum wage. I mean, I did too, but that was, and that was more recently. And because I was a bartender, like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm saying, yeah, not a tipped wage. I know what you mean, but I'm saying, it's lower when you earn tips. It is lower. They are allowed to, and there are, one fair wage, um, initiatives across the states to. DC now is higher for the tip wage. DC is higher but when I was in college, I think I was working at one tip job. And I had to deduct my tips. So there were times when my check said, well, most of the time my check said 0. Yeah. A lot of time because you, then have to take out your tips. And that's if you claim Well, on top of the 2 that I got paid at 2. 13. 213. I got paid. Wow. 213. It depends. Yeah. So, I mean, yeah, did y'all see? What the, what is, going on at these Trump town halls? Like, I mean. Swaying. I mean. 39 minutes macho man. Of course, I'm like a little biased because I'm like, Why are people there? But. Also, what is going on? Sundowning. I said it before and I'll say it again. This man stood on stage and just listened to music. He literally said, I'm going to stop taking questions. I don't want to have this conversation anymore. And just looked out at the crowd. It's been 30 minutes. No, 39. Play my playlist. Play my playlist and start off with Pavarotti To the village people, right Gentleman who came oh, I can't even say my name who came on MSNBC was like, I really don't agree with him singing my song I would rather he did that Gosh, he was just on the interspeak. One of the village persons? No, he sang another song, um, it's like Uh, didn't he play James Brown? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It say white gentlemen. No, he didn't, he better not. No, he play This is a Man's World. Uh, This is a Man's World. I don't know if the estate of James Brown permits that, but if you're not and you're listening, you should probably cease and desist immediately. He should sue them. If you try and get that checked, then I don't think you're wet. But it was, I mean, again, oh, speaking of checks, this is a conversation I did have this week. Which, where we were talking about like different ads we had been seeing. I do like the fact that they have put out a union. I think they did put out a union ad in there, but she did her, rally this week, I believe in Pennsylvania somewhere, it might've been Michigan. Cause I think they were talking to the United Auto Workers Union, um, at that rally. But she actually did talk about a lot of the stuff with unions, which I thought was very important. Yeah. But my union member fiancé. Was saying, you know what they need to do? They need to put the fact up there of all the union members that he stiffed during 2017 that he owed, like, and then this company ended up having to I can't remember the name of the company but he used to work for the company years ago but they ended up having to do all this work and it was a rush job and they did all of it the company paid for the work up front because, you know, they intend to get the money from the contract and They got stiffed. They never got paid. The company then had to like lay off like 50 or more employees Because of the money that they pay up that they did not recoup And I think that they are suing so I do think that they need to talk about more of that Also, I told him I said listen I knew when he didn't pay the little white girls, the little six or seven year old little white girls in their American little outfits that it was on the stage before he's the, he's, if you want, you want stiff, some children period. You gon stiff some little girls. Period. That's out here in tap shoes and an American flag ballet outfit. Just out here cause you asked them to come to your rally. And don't pay no five. How much is enough? Of this guy? Like, like, every time we don't think he can go lower. We don't pay enough is now. He take us to the curb. We'll see you finally on over your perspective. I mean, well, are you referring to the, Father of IBS or are you referring to the bizarre things that he said? He was just not at this point. I mean this week outside of swaying for 39 minutes, having nothing to say, rambling. He had a busy week this week. He did, but he was so busy that he became exhausted. He turned down an interview with the shame room because of exhaustion. He was probably more exhausted at the fact that they were another black media outlet. He turned down several people and then went on Fox and friends immediately after they said he was exhausted. And when they mentioned him being exhausted, he said, who's exhausted? I'm not exhausted. He literally said it cause I watched it. Scared. Was it the one where he was talking about, uh, Rupert Bird Love Do the shade Room. Oh, he said that's when he said he was going to eliminate the Department of Education. Oh God. Oh, he saying if he would, that's in project 2025. He said, at most I leave one person there and a secretary. Mm-Hmm. and not like a secretary, secretary. A note taker secretary there and I would give it back to the states. And I was like, I don't think he understands how the education of the states work that they do rely on federal funds. So that's not really how that's going to work. Well, no, he said he would defund. He said he would get rid of the Department of Education and give it back to the states and because the states could do a much better job like they do in Norway. The states could, and I'm like, the states rely on federal funds in order to subsidize the students, so that's not really how that's going to work. Um, but that was that, and then he joked about if one of the hosts Wanted to come. Yes, I saw, saw that he could, he could be there, he could be right. He could be the head of something or the head of whatever this, this, and I'll submit his resume on project 2020 five.com. He put, uh, Betsy DeVos in charge the first time. But we knew she was trying to get rid of everything and break out. Sure did. And, and she would've gotten away with it. Yes. If it wasn't for those damn career federal employees. Damn Ling kids like, um, Scooby-Doo. Right. That's, that was the vibe I was going for it. I got, I picked it up as we were putting it down. Oh yeah. No, okay. And then, uh, what is this about Arnold Palmer's, penis? There was so much that happened. It's the lemonade mixed with, uh, sweet tea guy, right? He's so fucking weird. There was so much that happened this week. No, it was too much. Like, and then, and then the Arnold Palmer thing, which I'm like, Sir, we know this man from golf. And a half and halves, let us just live in a half and half golf world. We don't need, we don't need visuals. Here's the thing about it. That got so weird. One of them, one of them unprovoked. Then he goes, Oh, you know, like, you know, I knew him or we were, we were good friends or whatever he said. And then goes on to say, you know, I've never said anything about this. I wasn't going to mention it, but you know, I'm going to mention it. You know, there's some women here, but you know, they'll be okay. Or whatever. Well, you know, he's Mr. I'm your protector slash your molester slash your. But let's talk about this old dead guy's penis. I mean, I mean, and it's such a weird way to, it's like, let me tell you, he would take showers when other, when other guys would be in the shower. That's what it is. Well, I guess if you have the hands, the size of a freaking flower bud, one can only, just maybe. Maybe. He's gross. he has, He has his strong hands. Because that's it. Shut up! That's my strong hand. Here. No, but you know what? Stop. That was the funniest shit in that movie. I don't care. We all have known since we had the misfortune of realizing him as a politician that he has this um, L. D. E. Yes. This, this like, LDE, like he, like that is why he has this like thing about Big Crown, like dementia are the things that come out without, if you're never good at anything, I guess you wanna be good at everything. Yeah. So, in, in terms of crowd size. If this was your grandpa, you would be concerned. Yes, because that's exactly what Dementia does. If my grandpa was talking about people in the way of like trying to persecute violence in front of people that don't agree with him, I might need to see if we might need to get grandpa some extra help. So he can be at a safe place. Um, in terms of Proud Ties, I thought this was a good, point to bring up, Kamala's clapback when she had hecklers at, I think it was her Wisconsin rally, and she was like, you're at the wrong rally. You're at the wrong rally. I think you're looking for the smaller one. You want the smaller one. I thought that was, because like, literally his obsession with Proud Ties has always been indicative of his, Insecurity about whatever flaws in manhood he thinks he has, but like now they are coming out. He is a, he would be by definition a senior citizen in any other space. I mean, he is a senior citizen. He's had his AARP card for a decade. Oh, by the way, speedily succeed on social media. I'm so glad Biden is out of this conversation now that we can, so we can focus on Trump and his, um, mental decline. Because I tell you one thing Biden would never talk about on a Palmer's penis. Thank you. I'm pretty sure that's not on any list of things that Biden cares to discuss or even knows about to discuss. That's why that whole conversation annoyed me, but that's, you know, neither. We're past that now. But you know what though, I want to say, one thing I did notice about the syringes, uh, for, um, the campaigns coming out this week. I've caught a bit of them. It's been so much in the media. It's been hard to keep up with everything. Yeah, I'm not mad at you for flooding us, but keep on doing it. but they did have bill clinton out talking and today I didn't catch everything that he said, but I did catch a clip where he was like Yeah, you know, you know trump is running and I'm only two months different than him in terms of age, but clearly we're not the same. We can tell, sir. We can tell. No matter how much McDonald's Clinton ate on a daily basis. He used to go to that one on 19th street and get his little breakfast. And he presents himself as a coherent person. So, you know. You know Hillary look like she ain't age a day. Not a day. 2016 and like girl. I was like give me your, You know what her secret is? That she's not being stressed out by all of us. She's like, you know what? I try my best. She's like, you know what? I try to help y'all out a bit and like, try to push y'all forward. But you know what? I ain't gotta be bothered by us. In terms of, what did, where were we going? Well, in terms of his craziness, we gonna wrap that up. I think that, Yeah, cause he had a very busy week. Of crazy, of crazy, of crazy ridiculousness. Mm hmm. Um, including, uh, Mr. Call himself the father of IVF, which outside of it being just after being explained, he just finds a new way to describe himself that's just weird and creepy as hell when it comes to women. Period. Stay out of our vaginas, sir. No one wants you there. Your wife doesn't. None of the people you paid don't. None of the rest of the American people want you. Anywhere around or thinking about their vaginas. Okay. Mm hmm. You're probably thinking about grabbing all of them But we don't want that anywhere in your lips and say you're the father of something? Not that you didn't know the phrase and had to ask somebody to sum it up to you in two minutes or less. Moral, shame, scruples, none of it. Like there is no barometer for how far is too far and how much is too much. There is no too far. Nothing is too much. There isn't. Like you will literally say anything. He's one of those people that believe. And I'm so sick of that in our political system because it's just like, it's actually dangerous to get up here and just say whatever the fuck. Well, for the most part, I think that politicians do it from time to time, but I feel like he is an anomaly in the fact that he literally does it anytime. And all the time. The, the last thing. from the whole circuit of foolishness from this week that really pissed me off, which is why I wanted to end here, was on the, I believe the, Trump town hall on Fox to a room full of women. This week with Harris Faulkner, I was quite, it was a black woman. Yeah. Who is a black woman? We think so. I would say that's what I'm saying. She's probably skinfolk and maybe not the kinfolk. But, you know, it is what it is. But anyway, she sat down with him at a room full of women to have, I guess, like a women's town hall. I don't know what that was supposed to do. Well, nothing because they, it has been reported that all of the women, most of the women in the audience were supporters of his, but Fox didn't air that information, but continue. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't be surprised also. Some of them were even creeped out by some of the comments. Yeah. Did you see some of the faces in this room? Right. I was like, if they were just the first, they were very, they were disturbed. Right. Whether or not they wanted to admit it, the initial shock and awe in your face was disturbance. I know when I see a woman's like. Yeah, I know the fuckface when I see it, cause I've given it to several people. What in the hell? I know them faces. But, uh, outside of the father of IVF, who just hadn't had IVF explained to him, so he didn't know what it was, nor could he explain how he was supported, but he just said, that sounds great. what particularly bothered me was that when Harris Faulkner told him that the family of Amber Thurman, um, um, um, Had did a preemptive Regarding that and he made some kind of quip comment discuss that say something like well, I guess we're gonna get our viewership And was like that's great Acknowledgement. No acknowledgement for what that family he could have acknowledged her. He did want to acknowledge her. He did want to acknowledge what her family is going through. And furthermore, he decided to make a joke about her fucking death. We'll have more viewers. Again, the big dick jokes. Like, he literally is obsessed with people being I'm obsessed with him because he has probably lived a life where women have, I keep trying to remote job. Yeah, but on top of it being like the most disgusting response that you could ever have to a situation like that, because let's not forget why Amber Thurman, who was a young lady who, died after, being denied a timely, uh, D& C procedure at a Atlanta area hospital. She died and, It was completely preventable. Yes, it was completely preventable because a DNC procedure is something that was very routine pre the Dobbs decision that happened in June of 2022. And then in, I think it was August, she presented at the hospital. and was not able to get the DNC procedure because doctors were too afraid of the new six week abortion ban that had recently been instituted in Georgia. A lot of women don't even know they're aborting in six weeks. Oh. I know from first hand experience. Same. So, I, um, I knew I was pregnant. Found that I was pregnant. I grew up in my mouth the day that I when I left. That's always funny. When I found out I was pregnant with Anaya, I was heading into the second, I second trimester. You were like, this is a bull. Where's the first trimester? The hell? Yeah. Amber Thurman died as a direct result of Trump's actions. Grand in 2016 with a promise of instituting Supreme Court justices that would overturn Roe. And he delivered. What did he do? He ins he put three Supreme Court justices on the court that overturned Roe in 2022 and now in 21 states. Abortion is either banned outright from the moment of quote, unquote conception, or it is restricted at a at, at a six weeks or 12 abortion ban. Six weeks is a total abortion ban in Georgia, South Carolina. That's a total abortion ban in Iowa. Like, come on. Because, and, and, and like practice. So, yeah. Amber Thurman died as a direct result of Trump's actions. And he had the nerve to laugh about it. It's funny to laugh that her parents were giving a pre ample it was a preemptive, uh, press response to whatever he was going to say. Because he is, he's the protector of women because don't forget that. But yeah, those women do not include. Amber Thurman and literally anyone who is not someone that he got pregnant, so. The irony is every time I hear of him say stuff like that, it just brings me back to another thing I saw months ago, or a while ago on social media. That was like Tim Walls is the guy, like you asked to like walk you back to get home safe. Trump. And Trump is the guy that Trump and Jay Vance are the reason why you need that escort. Exactly. I saw that recently too. That is such a good point. I mean, and it gets that It is, it gives it every chance that they get so. Alright, alright, alright. Alright! So on that note, let's go, let's go into the headline. I already feel like I got a hangover from just social media news in itself, but like, there's a whole other. Outlet of mainstream news, so our headline hangover, Jen, what's been dominating, like, the, the news people who pride themselves on being news, as opposed to just Woo! I need to sum it in my schedule, but let's see what they're talking about. Oh, we know that. Um, All right. So, you know, Kamala continued her media blitz. As we all know, she had done some podcasts like call, call her daddy last week and Howard Stern. So this past week she had a town hall in Detroit with charlamagne from the Breakfast Club. Oh, and I Heart, yeah. Oh, and I Heart. What else did she do? Fox, she had that Fox and Frizz. Just with Bret. Just Bret Baier. Just Bret Baier. Which was very contentious from the outset. It almost was like he had something to prove to Trump, it felt like. Yeah, it did. But she didn't let him get not one soundbite. No, she was ready for him. And she handled him so well. I thought so. As much as, as well as he went in that. Because, you know, Trump, Trump, I mean, Fox is always going to lie. I think he was trying to give her, like, make her have a Hillary moment. Cause do y'all remember when Hillary kind of insulted Trump supporters? And he was. Was that the deplorable soundbite or was that at a different time? Yes, I think it was the deplorable and I think he was trying to get her. He was trying to bait her. She was like, I'm really nervous to hear about the American people. You better than me. You a good HBCU sis, okay, you not talking to your average. You better than me. And also she reminded me, she reminded me, I'm sorry, that's, that's your person, that's not me. That part, um, she did the few. Meanwhile, Trump was dodging in the media, citing exhaustion, then saying it wasn't exhaustion, I think. Yeah, but he came on Fox and Friends, they was like, yeah, they said you were exhausted. He's like, I'm not exhausted, what are you talking about, I'm not exhausted. You just don't like to answer questions. Well, we've noticed that he can't answer them coherently. Yes, because that was also dominating the news cycle this week. He's ranting and he's scathing everywhere. I think that has honestly what I've seen a lot of in the headlines. It's just kind of like this juxtaposition between Kamala, coherence, who seems presidential, can handle this, can handle contentious interviews. And then we have Donald Trump who is turning down interviews, but then when we see him, And you know in his rallies and things like that. He's swaying ridiculous as jasmine says sundowning Um, he's incoherent Goes off on rants. Yeah are very Just don't make sense. It was no sense one thing that I I heard on, probably MSNBC, let's be honest, you know, it's like, yeah, every time he talks about Kamala, he, insults her intelligence, calls her like every, like derogatory name in the book, calls her stupid, like, whatever, whatever, whatever, everything that he is is. He is everything short of a child. God, he called and she is the opposite of so. Yeah, but at the same time he she goes on an interview with like Brett bear and like even though okay, you might not be a huge Kamala fan, but even just in that interview, you got she presented herself. She sure did like She's not the dumbest person on the planet, which is what Trump is saying. She's like the most incompetent person alive. She was not. Like, I mean, you might not agree with what some of her policy positions are, but she came on a channel that she watched 24 7 and presented herself to not be everything that Trump is saying that she is. Of course, that's not to say that will sway the most, like, art of Trump supporters. But, it's like, it's like, it creates a juxtaposition of exactly. And it's like, I wonder, is he lying, or is she just really good at not being dumb on Fox News? So like, I mean, stretch your brain to make that make sense. She's not dumb at all. I know a lot of people would love to think that the black woman running for president is just She just learned all of these new words to come on Fox News. But that's actually not the case. It's not the case at all because she has held a public office since the 90s. There's a theme at that. But again, it's the racist tropes that he plays on. Of course. At this point, it's just desperation. That's what I'm saying, but there's also, there's a quote that usually comes to me, which is that It's much easier for a smart person to play stupid than it is for a smart. A stupid person to play smart. Oh, that's what we see every day from him. That's perfect. And so what we do know is that she's not playing dumb, but she's also, Smart. Exactly. Like actually smart. Like she's actually smart. If she was, if she did not have the smarts that she has, she wouldn't be able to articulate, carry herself. Exactly. In the ways in which she does. And this is a And achieve the things in which she has. Period. Because what we're not going to do is act like she just happened to get here. Like, even if somebody's paid for all your achievements, you feel some type of way when people win. The way that actually get the Have to work hard to get where they are. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. He doesn't understand that. No. Work hard. He's like, Oh, you mean those people? Yeah. When they're tired, I just don't pay them overtime and I fire them and I hire some, some of them. And the most interesting thing about that, because he did, he did say that and they did bring that up in some ads this week. Was that for the union people supporting him, I just find it odd you have unions that are actually suing him for unpaid work during his last, uh, run. During his first run. But members are voting. But there are some members who are voting and I am really confused as, or talking about voting for him. Uh, and I'm, I'm very confused because he stands for none of which you stand for and was out here joking with Elon Musk when he plans to give a cabinet position, which he so explicitly said that Elon has paid for it by donating not only the 45 million that he said he would donate, but at least double that and then some, which we don't have. Yeah, I heard 75 million dollars. Is that a double? It's about, it's about a hundred, a hundred million. It's not a double, is it, Miss 90? So he's gotta be at a hundred because he said more than double, but I'm just saying like All this stuff that they're letting him that y'all let him tell y'all it makes no sense I don't know if it's dialing into like The old tropes of maybe the beginning of unions where they were eliminated like excluding people of color but I think you need to realize that The things that you got that he's trying to do It actually affects you all and not just the people of color who happen to be part of it. Exactly. And the same way that he says that he wants to eliminate overtime taxes because he plans to eliminate what overtime is considered as currently, which means that it will not be over 40 hours a week, which means that'll be a monthly amount of hours in which you are allotted. And people can work you as much out of those hours, no matter how many days or weeks that they feel off and on. And if they decide that they've worked you for three weeks out the month, it's 80 hours a week. And that's nearing the overtime thing that they get to leave you off the last week of the month and not compensate you. So I think people need to really pay a lot more attention to that because a lot of what unions provide are overtime protections the dues in which they pay actually go to. The benefits that they have. There are people that make it sure you're getting your pension, your second pension. Your, tile off, your PTO, your vacation, your overtime pay, your double time pay, all these things. Yeah. That's another thing, but you know. Well, shout out to our girl Kamala for trying to reach across the aisle. Hello! Because she is doing a phenomenal job. I don't know if I would have made the same effort. Um, I don't know if I'm in the Lord's work. Okay. Strongest soul. I was wondering like, how do y'all feel? Cause I'm just like, hmm, do we need to do this? Do we think it's going to really sway anyone at this point? No, I mean, like you have, like, it shows, it shows one that she is, trying to be president of a presidential party. Exactly. When you have And for all people. It's like, it's like Trump is like, I don't need additional votes because Well, he told people at the beginning Yeah, you don't need to vote Don't worry about it He said if you vote once Kathleen, she better vote for me He said the same thing to Judy I don't know, I don't understand why It's the Jewish part The Jewish people, which is also anti semitic. It just, it don't roll over well. It doesn't. You're putting a target on these people's back. Well, he doesn't mind putting a target on anybody's back as long as it ain't his. That part. Because when he thinks he has a target on his back, which is not, which is just people being like, Hey, you did wrong stuff and you should be held accountable or there are consequences for these. He's like, whoa, no, not me. Anyway, we want to say kudos to Kamala. She handled herself very well. In this blitz, like, I mean, she can't go and like, who's, it's like, she's been reaching this whole black man narrative. She's been attacking. I mean, hey, you going on podcast? As well. The political poor podcast is accepted. Hey, hey, listen. We would love to have you. Bye. We are, there, there are a list of people we would love to have at Cobbler's right at the top of the hill. Right at the top. Come on sis. That's my only list. I don't need nobody else. Well listen, we might have someone at home coming. They say she's coming. Oh yeah. Well, someone from the campaign is coming. Let's tell them. She was in Georgia today. Y'all better reach out to Cobbler HQ. Barack Obama was there. You know what, you're right. Let's go ahead and send an email. Okay. Why not? period. We'll be at Spell House homecoming. Hope to see you there. I'll be there in spirit. Hope to see you there. Yeah. Okay. Well, moving on, I can't stand this guy. Ron DeSantis, threatened channels who were airing ads about Amendment 4. A judge ruled. Yeah, he sued them. His, health department, which is under his direction by somebody he appointed, sued them. And the judge was like, And stupid. This is literally the first amendment. No, no. These are the abortion ads, correct? So, yeah, the amendment 4 is the abortion ballot initiative that's in Florida currently. They're campaigning for it. It's on the ballot in Florida. If you're a Florida voter, get out and vote for it. Please. Yes! Amendment 4. It will enshrine abortion. Access to abortion up to viability in the constitution of Florida. Currently Florida has a six week abortion ban. It's just before most people know, pregnant and that just the Supreme court allowed that to go into effect just a couple of months ago. So this is just, it's a very new landscape in Florida because a lot of the states in the South, right after the Dobbs decision, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, all of the southern states surrounding Florida had instituted abortion bans almost immediately. And so a lot of people were getting their care from Florida, which had at the time, I believe, a, a viability ban and then it was at 12 weeks and now it's at six weeks. So abortion care in Florida has been Um, decimate it. damn near, yes. So, there is a possibility that in Florida, it will be reinstituted to Viability, which is the, the Roe standard. So up to about 24 weeks. And in order to get the ballot initiative just on the ballot, Floridians Protecting Freedom, which is the organization that, um, put together the ballot initiative, they had to get about 900, 000 signatures. They ended up getting over a million signatures. It is a, it's a difficult burden to overcome to get it passed because they need a 60 percent threshold, which anyone who does math better than me knows that that's more than 50%. That's more than a majority. So you need a pretty much a super majority to get it passed. Right now it's polling at about 70%. So that is encouraging. There's an ad that has been running on TV channels that, tells the story of a cancer patient who, Oh, the brain tumor. Yes. She had a brain tumor while she was pregnant. And in order to get the life saving cancer treatment that was going to save her life, she had to get an abortion because she, they would not, they were, they can't give her that treatment while she was pregnant. And, in Florida, that would be illegal. So it was like, you know, either, Yes. Die. Period. Or, or die. Yeah. If you didn't get an abortion, there was no option. Right. So they wanted to, they were airing this, this ad, to make people aware. It's a powerful ad too. It is a powerful ad. We will link it so you can go watch it. But it was airing on Florida, um, television stations. And DeSantis was like, uh uh. So instead of, Uh, helping his state recover from double hurricane, uh, devastation. He was more concerned with making sure that, he suppresses the, first amendment as much as possible. Yeah. I met the health department too. And then they lost. They lost. The judge literally, and I have, this is the most profound statement I've ever read in a court. It is the first amendment. Stupid. Stupid. Yeah. That's like, that is a quote That is not a, that is not a paraphrase of the judge said, I loved it. It is in the, I loved every moment. The order from the judge. And also like, judges hate frivolous losses, like whether you're a conservative or Republican or a conservative or a liberal, like as an attorney, like you are. Prohibited from bringing frivolous losses like things that you know are a waste of their time. It's a waste of time. Mm-Hmm. So this was, you're already know the outcome, you're waste of our time. This was basically, it's the first amendment. Stupid. Mm-Hmm. is the judge saying this is a frivolous lawsuit and probably if you were not the governor of the state. You would have probably been sanctioned. That's why voting is important. And also people, well, we're talking about Florida. Let's also keep in mind that they had a ballot, a ballot initiative years ago. Before, I think when DeSantis was running, that was allowing felons to have their rights restored in order to vote. And the majority of the people in the state voted for it, and then DeSantis wrote it out. So let's just make sure that we write him out, and vote him out. This judge also, I mean he can't do it again. He ruled against Florida in 2018 and ordered Florida Governor Rick Scott to restore the voting rights of felons after they're released from prison. Uh huh. So listen, listen, case in point, pay attention. And Rick Scott is definitely running with Ron DeSantis, so it's scary, but that's a great example of how what you do on November 5th will have consequences and effects. And also midterm elections. Make sure you vote on all of those because those people all have. I know we're going to get into this later, but I'm really excited about all the congressional seats. Oh yeah. Whew. Jesus Christ. Let's remember, vote blue down the ballot because you know these other people will gang up. And that's my thing. We got to think critically about, about all of, about voting. Like we're not just voting for one person. No, we're voting down ballot. We're voting for all the appointments. Because as you see, we're voting for the cabinet. What is, they're trying to put everything. We're voting for Congress. And if you're listening to Republicans, they're trying to return a lot of things to state rights, which means that it's even more important that you know who's in your state. Also, these are the same people who might either be protecting democracy on the hill or out here trying to give tours to people to let them in and give a fist up or give them tours. Let's not do the work. Let's not do the work of electing those same people back in. I guess I'll move on to the next headline, so next up on the headline hangover is the Al Smith dinner. I'm sure people saw several clips on social media, um, the mainstream media as well of Trump's, um, explicit of written speech and Harris also appeared virtually in a pre recorded video with Molly Shannon from. Superstar I wish I could do it, but I feel like the way that my the way that my stuffy nose is set up Oh my god, that shit was Hilarious. I'm better at the whole, like, the whole setup, but I can't sniff through the book. I said, I saw some takes that people were like, it wasn't that funny, it missed. I was like, you must have not seen the movie. It did not miss a thing. Well, like, that shit did not miss. That's probably why they don't enjoy SNL, do you? First of all, if you saw the movie, and that was very much a millennial thing, like, Superstar came out when he was in middle school, But the movie was a hit. Right. Because it was a skit recurring on the show. That's right. That's right. That's what the Roxbury was. I remember the night at the Roxy Ferry. Jasmine B. Powell. I almost heard an S. But, just know, like, We were SNL people, okay? You do SNL. No, that's true. No, you're absolutely right. We watched it as a family. Woo, guys. But there was so much that we kept, I kept seeing in the headlines from this dinner. He attacked Kamala. multiple times. Multiple times. At a religious, Catholic event. Like, they put a bishop's curse. And Blayden on Foxx was like, Well, Foxx wrote the joke. Come on. And Foxx was like, No, we didn't. Nah, I don't know. I don't know about that. He said a lot of things that were just inappropriate. Eric Adams was in the audience. He like, had a joke about him. All of his jokes kind of, like, fell flat. Milani was not amused. I was like, why did you even go? Like, you guys just No, you don't have to. You don't have to do it. We know. She's still trying to sell the books of her art. That's I'm sorry. She needs to This is completely I'm sorry. I'm trying With no fashions. A fully, a fully PR'd. She's like, she's like Shereffy, he's doing her hair. How do you have a fashion show with no fashions? How do you have a fashion show without no fashions? You want no fashions because she was nude. Exactly. But you can't call it fashion art if there are no fashions. You could have just thought that art, that's where you was going. Right. But when you want to throw fashion in there, it's hot. This is fashion. This is high fashion. Well, she was there and was not amused. Did she bust a wide open and tell her to bring it back? She, I didn't see it on, but who knows Yeah, it was just, like, Even when we ran the first time, I said, is this really about to be our first lady? My mother was disgusted. Like, are y'all serious right now? Uh, not after we had a whole, what I, not after. There was a tan suit gate. And a, and a arms. Arms gate. Okay. That's, come on now. What we're not gonna do. And now we got the first lady to, we went from tan suit to To soft core porn. Soft porn. Period. Yep. For the first lady. That's cool. But please tell me more about how. The left is, I mean, the irony that somebody was all immorally trying to figure out how somebody who all their lives were immigrants now just don't like immigrants. I'm just, I would love to. You hire immigrants, you marry immigrants, you move their families over, but all of a sudden you don't like, you are immigrants. All of a sudden you don't like immigrants. Well, what I don't understand is even when I see a lot of like, I guess what you would consider like, A bit more right wing of like white America. I'm like, you do realize that if there was a group of people who are definitely immigrants, it's all of you. Like, we do know that did not have a look of you. No, that's not, that's not within their peripheral mindset. I mean, just, just cause you was the first, and not even the first, In terms of their history, they were the first, but we'll go into that later on. Next. You spoke him, you spoke him up, so you talked him up last episode. I sure did. You sure did. That was not my intention. So David Duke came out with an endorsement of Jill Stein. And we all know who David Duke is, and if you don't, you can listen to the podcast. What? Episode 1 who doesn't know who David Duke is? Wake the hell up if you don't. Yeah, just Google him. Yeah, there's a thing called Grand Wizard and a little thing called the KKK. He apparently has a radio show. And that's the thing, it's like, okay, so what did David Duke do now? He endorsed the third party, the Green Party candidate, Joe Stein. I don't know. The one that they literally only have on the ballot. Let's get into it. What's the how? Oh, I know exactly what to make of it. Yeah. Because I don't remember if I brought this up. He's like the most anti Semitic person in the entire Well, in order to be the KKK grand wizard, you pretty much are anti Semitic and all neo Nazi and all of the things. But on top of that, so he cited, he cited his reason for, um, not, so he supported Trump in 2016 and 2020. And He cited his, support for Jill Stein as, being because Trump had, is, now like a, a loyalist to the Jewish lobby and he's like becoming like very, pro Israel, which, of course, is not true. They were doing, being anti Semitic, and then Jill Stein is, is like, like, stop funding Israel to, continue to, Implement this, this attack and genocide on Palestine. Jill Stein's full of it. And she, I mean, one, she don't give a fuck about Israel or Palestine. She doesn't give a fuck about our pockets. Right, but y'all go ahead and vote for Jill Stein. No, you don't, no. The only reason she's in the race is because she's getting all her funding is coming from pro Russia groups and anti environmentalists who, are lobbying their own causes. Yeah. Or, you know. All of her investments are in Oil or gas or, she has stock in, international energy corporations that are. Very anti climate change and like anything that says that climate change does not exist so yeah, Alright. So, for our last headline hangover, which I guess technically this hangover happened a couple weeks ago, but, the three officers involved in Tyree Nichols. Murder were convicted of, excessive force and witness tampering. Yeah. So you might remember, last year, Tyree Nichols, who is a black man, was, killed. He was, he was stopped by police in Memphis, Tennessee, The end result of that encounter was him being, uh, injured by the five officers who were all black. Yes, he was beaten to a very serious injury and then he died three days later, um, at the hospital. But, um, so those injuries, yeah. Three of the Scorpion unit. That's what they were called. The Scorpion unit. They always naming them something. That's why the red dogs in Atlanta got dispersed. They always naming them some crazy stuff. They be out here doing crazy stuff. Yeah, so there was a federal case, that brought charges against all five, I believe, of the officers that were involved in the incident and three of them were convicted of charges. None of them were convicted of any type of manslaughter Manslaughter, or, you know, I mean, some of them died. of, of Tyree Nichols Two of them were, uh, convicted of witness tampering, because they tried, like, in the aftermath of, what happened, which was, some of it was caught on body camera footage, I think that, that was made available, but in the aftermath, they tried to, you know, cover it up, and of course, They're working together, making sure like, Oh, you know, everybody is doing the same thing. Yeah. So they're two of them were charged or all three of them were charged with witness tampering. And then one of them was charged with, injury by excessive force. So that was a federal case that was, when it happened, it was very much so in the news of, of course, another, black man, being unalive at the hands of police officers in this, instance in a southern state in Memphis, Tennessee, whose police department has a history of discrimination against black citizens, even with black officers as we have in this case, That doesn't matter. It, it doesn't, it doesn't matter when you're working within a system of oppression, doesn't work. Also, what is significant is that, Memphis was one of the cities that, the DOJ had, entered into consent decrees with the Memphis Police Department to, investigate patterns and practices of discrimination yeah. Mm-Hmm. So, so yeah, that was, consent decrees that were issued by the DOJ. And then of course Trump had, instructed his, attorney general at the time, the first one, I think of, of so many, I don't remember, Jeff, Beauregard of Alabama. So, yeah, basically, the Trump DOJ declined to, do anything, do anything concerning those investigations. Oh, that's true. The DOJ did decide to not do anything, but you, you know what I do remember from around that time, they also decided to do, which outside of trying to get like immunity for officers and all types of other stuff, um, was that they actually, with the help of the Supreme Court, and reverse, different titles of, the voting rights act, which directly. It affects how people are able to show up and intimidate people at polls, how states are able to go ahead and add different things on to like voting and restrictions and requirements along with tons of other things. So let's just keep in mind if we're upset about those things that happened then about the DOJ go into certain places and step in on behalf of people. residents and citizens who are not being treated as full citizens or being persecuted in these areas by the government entities in which they pay for the services, you know what I mean? Whether it's the police, whether it's you know, being discriminated upon by getting housing or health care or things like that. Um, I think that's all very important to tie together. I'm so glad you brought that up, Jasmine. Like, that is such a good tie in we thought about doing something different as our highlight topic, but we thought it would be a good moment to kind of talk about Project 2025. And it's awesome that you bring that up because the DOJ and how a conservative administration will use the DOJ. At their whim and to their, especially with immunity. Mm-Hmm. Especially with so many things that you just highlight that it's exactly what they, intend to do with a DA. It's like, has nothing to do with just, it should be the DOAJ. Yeah. Department of Anti Justice I mean, at this point it's like the irony, is that the same thing you're saying? Like the same thing we hear in a lot of these like. Trumpian soundbites and stuff. It's just like, Oh, you know, they're going to do this. They're going to do that. And I'm like, those are the only person that did all of these things, like weaponize branches of government against people. Right. So we thought it would be a good week to talk about, Project 2025. And I know it's been in the news and dominating a lot of the mainstream and social media for quite a few months now. The actual policy platform, which is the mandate for leadership, 900 page document, which a lot of people are talking about. I'm sure a lot of people are, are familiar with kind of the, the bullet points. But, it's just, bears repeating ad nauseum that this is something that should be taken very seriously. Um, and what I, I mean, this is not, uh, I guess this could be a continuation of the, 7th scroll because I saw a Video on social media, and it was, um, I can't remember what if it was a pack or who produced a video, but there were a series of black men that were given like this big binder Oh yeah. With 900 changes in it. And they were looking through it and they were like, oh, this is a lot, you know, it's a lot. And wait a minute. This is, I don't like that. Actually, not good. Turn the page, that's not gonna work for me. That's not cool for me, that's not good for my family. Hold up, what? So yeah, I thought that, I thought that was a very well done video. It's very sustained and kind of got to the point very quickly about kind of the harms that project 2025, entails, I think we look at it from the perspective of our community, like the black community, like we live in it, kind of a metropolitan area. We are, uh, dare I say middle class at this point. I don't know where we stand. I don't know where we stand. In this economy? Right, exactly. So, but we're, you know, we Feel like as an individual or am I a couple? Right. Um, but I think it should be taken seriously by, you know, every American who does not stand to gain anything from wealthy, white, Christian nationalists taking over the government in which you believe to be a free and fair place but even if you believe all of that, if you do believe all of that. that I assume you believe that you should be able to vote for who you want to vote for. You should be able to say what you want to say. No, that's a thing. I don't think that 2025 encourages democracy. It's not one thing. People who are maybe thinking like, Oh, it's not so bad, or it's not a big deal. I'm just saying like, my biggest thing about this was it would be different if it were any other. Actual election, if it were a thing between like taxes and ideals or child care or this or even some of that, I don't see eye to eye if you're like, I don't think everybody deserves health care. Like some of those things we can't see eye to eye on just cause, but right now we're having a conversation of, do you like getting the chance to vote for people? Or. Do you even as a regular person with a regular job want to be fired off your job because the president decides that you don't like him Yes, Project 2025 is real, so we thought it would be very, poignant to discuss just, what Project 2025 is and what it does and what it intends to do if there was a future. a conservative and in this instance, in this reality, that means a Trump presidency. I think a lot of what we see now is Trump or for the past couple of months, Trump has been trying to distance himself from Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation, which is the organization that has put out Project 2025. And yes, he like, did not write it. His campaign is not, first of all, let's be honest, Trump in no way, shape, or form could be credited with reading a 900 page document. He don't read, let alone write something that's not on there. You can tell his campaign or the people who currently work for him right now I wouldn't say that they're the most policy savvy. All the people who worked in his previous administration who have a Grasp of policy to a certain extent work for the Heritage Foundation who put out Project 2025 so as much as he tries to distance himself from it, there's no data between Project 2025 and Trump. So project 2025 is a project, vote. That, um, envisions to take place in the year 2025. Which is probably the worst group project I've ever heard of. yeah, it's a project developed by The group project nobody told y'all to get together. Well, they've been, they've been project game for quite a while. The Heritage Foundation, conceived Project 2025 and actually in terms of what Project 2025 is in its like individual state, there's four pillars. There's the policy aspect, there's the personnel aspect, there is a training, and then there is a playbook, a 180 day playbook. The Heritage Foundation which is the conservative think tank, that put Project 2025 into play Heritage Foundation, um, has produced the Mandate for Leadership, which is the policy aspect of Product 2025 every year since 1980, since, Ronald Reagan became president. Yeah. Ronald Reagan in his first term. President implemented 60 percent of the mandate for leadership agenda. And that included a lot of the horrible things that Ronald Reagan did, like a, attack against, social services. Yeah. All, of the things that You associate with a, Reagan presidency, all of the horrible things, probably, yes, Reaganomics, were in the mandate for leadership in 1980. They have produced it every four years during a presidential election, since then. So, yes, when they tell you like, oh yeah, this is not something new, like yeah, this is just kind of what we do, that is true to a certain extent, but if you look at previous iterations of their play, or their agenda, You will notice that this one is, just a tad bit more extreme and more anti, anti democracy, anti, checks and balances, anti government, and not only do they have the policy aspect of it, but so, in Trump's first term, he also was able to get, At least, I think it's more, but at least 60 percent of the policy agenda from the Mandate for Leadership. The only reason why he couldn't get more, even though he wanted to just, like, let's just do it all, like It's because they did not have the government personnel to do so, and a lot of the people that he brought on to either run the, the the agencies and all of the inner workings of the executive branch. They were not. very well versed in the workings of a federal government. They had no fucking clue what they were doing. So that kind of stifled them in a way. And so, of course, he didn't get an extra four years to continue that. So now they're coming back with. So much more planning, that's where the personnel aspect of it comes in. The Heritage Foundation was founded in 1973 by, um, three White men, Edwin Fulner, Joseph Kors, who, yes, Kors, the bigger Kors, um, some family fortune, yes. And Paul Weirich. Paul Weirich is termed by conservatives who still call themselves that as the, Founder, or the, the godfather of the modern conservative movement. He founded the Heritage Foundation, and he founded a lot of other organizations, including ALEC, which is the American Legislative Executive Council, which is a think tank for problematic conservative state legislation. Weyrich was the architect of using abortion As the wedge issue when white evangelical Christians were so upset about desegregation after the Brow vs Board of Education decision, but they couldn't, they couldn't mobilize voters around desegregation because it wasn't popular anymore. Paul Wyrick was the individual that was like, Hey, let's use abortion because that's something that we can one get with the Catholics on. Mm-Hmm, and also two, it makes it look like we c care about a exploit wife. Yeah. So, yeah. But really, what we do is, we don't give a shit about black people. And one thing I wanted to read, this is one of my favorite books, Anthea Butler is a scholar in religious, dare I say critical race theory, but you know, I don't want DeSantis to censor me. But anyway, it works. But yeah, this is a, this is a quote from her book, White Evangelical Racism. They were banned. I just want a title. We don't even know. We're censoring this whole episode. Please. Racism, not abortion, explains why evangelicals came together to pursue political action. A process that came about with a push from Paul Weirich, one of the founders in 1973 of the Heritage Foundation. Along with Edwin Fulner, Joseph Kors, and other political operatives. In fact, it was the stripping of tax exempt status from Bob Jones University following its loss of a civil rights case brought by African American parents in Holmes County, Mississippi in May of 1969 that was the catalyst for full throated evangelical engagement in the political realm. The IRS issued new guidelines with the upshot that schools would need to enroll a significant amount of minority students in order to qualify as tax exempt, with significant defined as 20 percent of the minority school age population in the community the schools serve. The court's decision angered evangelicals, and it was Paul Weirich. The Catholic who founded the Heritage Foundation. Wasn't even a white evangelical. Who showed them how to harness their anger into political activism. And that anger was mobilized behind abortion. The exact mentality and ideology that he exuded back in 1973 is alive and well today. That is not something that is just, erased because he is no longer with us, but it is a, it is the foundation of this organization who has developed Project 2025. Of course the, you know, pro life has nothing to do with life. It has nothing to do with them giving a shit about any babies that live or do not live. Because if that was the case, then why? There are a lot of things that would be different. Why would they have bombed a lot of abortion, and service places in the nineties, they would care about going school and they would care about hungry children and they would care about childcare. Childcare for healthcare. They don't care about maternal health. Give about minimum wage. They do wage black people and minorities, black people, brown people, indigenous, people and women the like. And then women to a certain extent not the ones that are carrying their very white children. They care about them. they care about those individuals gaining any type of power. And quite frankly, they're scared that they have gained too much power already. So project 2025 the mandate for leadership and the policies behind it have always been a incremental. Step towards making sure that those who appear as the enemy to a white Christian establishment nation do not gain any further recognition. And at this point, if you look at some of the bullet points of Project 25, it's very much so aimed as making sure that we don't have any type of, of rights or equality within a nation in which we live. White evangelicals overwhelmingly support conservatives and they have a recent Pew Research Center poll has Trump gaining 82 percent of white evangelical support whereas black evangelicals overwhelmingly support the democratic Kamala Harris. So that, I mean, that one, that one, that tells you right there. It's not about Christianity. It's not about Christianity at all. But I'm saying if you go up report it, then maybe you should be able to people try to. Feed the children, trying to educate the people, trying to help out the least of us. What, like Jesus would do? Exactly. They're not interested in that. Exactly. So, yeah, there are a lot of things in Project 2025 that, are just, not things that a lot of people would like to see. So, what are those things? Like, I feel like there are a lot of people who are not going to take the time to read Project 2025. So, if you were to boil it down what is Project 25 going to do? Okay, we can start with Reproductive Rights. First of all, probably institute a national abortion ban, but in the way that it would do it would be one to bring back a 150 year old law called the Comstock Act, which has been getting a little bit of media attention. It's Yeah. Um, so especially, uh, Alabama brought, it's not with the IBMs Trump, they all roll off the book. Yeah. So the Comac Act, is a 18 hundreds era law that, was named after this, this really weird, guy. Or it's a weird guy. It's a weird white guy who, was a, like a purist and wanted to get rid of, all,, things that were, like, of the devil. Um, and, uh, whether, yeah, it was, yeah, abortivations. Yeah. Or, pornography, condoms, like any type of contraception so the law is still in place. The CompStat Act has never been repealed. It's a dormant law because it hasn't been enforced in like our, lifetime, the amount of time that we're able to think. But. Some states are trying to, bring it back now and they're like, oh, well this law is still on the books. So basically it prohibits the mailing of materials that would be used for an abortion or any, uh, obscene, um, Which would include like, hey, Playboy magazine, like it was like, I understand that most people now are probably not buying a magazine to enjoy their porn. But some states have even banned porn. Um, on the internet. Oh, I didn't know. What's this? What's this text? Virginia has like a, like some ban on some of the websites. So Comstack, even though it's still in place and it has not, it has not been repealed, there are iterations of it that have gone through the court system in the past. So basically, Project 2025 calls for Comstock to, make sure that, you're not able to mail any abortion pills, anything that, um, anything that could be used to perform an abortion. So national abortion ban right there, you don't even have to pass a law. Like all you need is a, Very aggressive DOJ to go out and enforce or a very aggressive president to just say it is not official or duty. That was just, that was just reproductive rights. Yes. But also, restrictions on contraception. So, under the Affordable Care Act, there's a mandate that insurance plans have to, offer most contraception for free. They'll get rid of that, so either a complete, barrier for contraception for a lot of people, or they'll find some way to ban it outright for the people who do have insurance that will still cover it. Um, but also on top of that, and I think the most overarching thing about the repro aspect of it is that they want to rename the Department of Health and Human Services To the Department of Life, which will, recognize that a life, begins at conception, which is a theory of personhood, which would literally life. Any access and freedom to, have access to not just abortion, not just contraception, but IVF, but literally, any person who Who is capable of having a menstrual cycle monitored by the government. You will be putting on a government. That's crazy. And that's giving handmaids not. That's not normal. Yes. No, it's not. It's, it's, I mean, it's, there are some aspects of handmaids. But that would be the, that would be the gotcha. So, in terms of the economy, Project 2025 seeks to destroy it by getting rid of all the immigrants. Well, yes, there's, there's no economy where you don't have people to pick your vegetables to supply it in the store so people can eat. The economy would be decimated if, immigrants were quote, unquote, Deported. I'm just saying. Back to. We're talking about somebody trying to round up legal immigrants. So in addition to that. At what point does that stop? It calls on the federal government to, implement work requirements for assistance programs like SNAP, like supplemental nutrition assistance programs, for low income families. A lot A lot of these programs enable families that are working some of those low income jobs, making 7. 25 an hour, allow them to be able to take care of their families, with, government assistance. In addition to that, it would increase student loan costs. Even the loans that Biden is trying to eliminate, they would, bring back and probably tap on like interest that is astronomical in the amount of that we probably never seen. Income tax cuts for the rich and increases for middle and lower income workers. Not to mention the tariff. Oh no, the tariff is really weird because the tariff is a Trump specific stupid. Yeah, because that's not in product 25. They was like, Oh, we, you got us on that one. He ain't even fucking with you on that one. When somebody doesn't know what terror means and gets into it. Yeah. With the gentleman from Bloomberg. And I love that he, I love that he checked him on that peaceful transfer. He checked him on the peace for it several times. And then that fool had the nerve to say, Well, you guys signed on the same tariff, so I'm talking about it. Whatever it was he said, I was like, Oh, no, clearly you're wrong and I'm right. That's pretty much what he alluded to. All of the things that they want to implement in terms of the environment and climate are all based in climate denial. Pseudoscience, any of the agencies that have been key to the responses to the hurricanes, uh, Melanin, Helene. FEMA gone, uh, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be dismantled. So literally, instead of knowing that a hurricane is coming, it's just going to show up on the doorstep. Hey, hey, what's up? And then Trump can use his sharpie to make it go another way. So what I heard, or what I read about it was that they want to get rid of it from NOAA. Allow it to be privatized and bought by certain companies. And then those companies could then tell us, so, so yeah, it's just, it's just real ridiculous. We would, we still wouldn't be here in a couple of weeks. So, gut or eliminate the Department of Education. I think that's a very significant, thing. And give the power, it's all about the states having power. And That is a relic of a, uh, pre segregation, era of American history, returning anything to the states. Whether it be abortion access, whether it be education, is that not the way in which the confederacy thought? Oh yes, yes. Yes. So I just think that they're sticking to a very confederate thought. Yes. And that's the era of great that they are trying to make America again. And in terms of education, they want to, Return all education policy and oversight to the states to determine whatever type of education system they want to have, and that's a thing that, Pissed them off back in the 70s because they had to start paying taxes on their segregation academies. That's the real issue. It has, again, nothing to do with abortion. Aka why they wouldn't have vouchers and school choice rights and stuff like that so you don't have to fund public schools. It's not even about religious academies. It's just about private schools not teaching The history, literally the history, the history of our nation of being a nation that was founded on stolen land and colonized by individuals who came over from the United States. Europe or wherever and was built by slaves. Oh, don't forget on Fox. They don't teach that when they talked about that to him And asked him about the thing about the Department of Education He said and they use that that specifically is teaching that the country was found on the backs of slaves And they were he was like No, I wouldn't fund them. Yes, they wouldn't plan out. I would not give them, and that's it. Calls for that in product 2025 is not funding any states that have a, contrary vision of history. That is a vision of history that is contrary to whatever the hell they want people to teach. Yeah, and I think the other thing that kind of caught me about the education thing, which I've seen a lot of talk, in mainstream media and even on social media, the clips about like defunding the Department of Education. And returning like schooling to grade, grade schooling, under college education back to states. What also stuck out to me was that there is a bit of it that talks about seizing the land that certain universities are on that are teaching things that are in, uh, conflict with what they believe and they believe they should be able to get control of the boards and the funding of those universities. How many of those do you think are HBCUs? All of almost of them. Not all of them, but almost of them. Exactly. This was the part that really stuck out to me. Not only should they be able to gain control of the board, which. In case we weren't paying attention. People take a look at Tennessee and see what they did with Tennessee State, with Tennessee State University and, and taking over the board's responsibilities in terms of spending their money when Tennessee has continuously not giving the funding to Tennessee State University that they're due, uh, yeah. that they are due from that state and from the federal government. However, back, back to what, back to the, and it's happened at a more than just Tennessee. But again, to with that, the part of that part of what they were discussing is not only should they be able to get control over other universities, other parts of the United States, they should be able to take over them. They should be able to have control over their endowment and their funding. And if they choose to, They should be able to sell off their land to private, Developers, because most of those lands are on prime real estate within the cities, i. e. where most HBCUs are in major cities would be considered prime real estate. So when you're seeing gentrification happen in black neighborhoods and around your HBCUs, they're literally talking about snatching up your whole HBCU and turning it into condos And renting it out. So when people at Howard were mad about the, the neighbors walking their dogs on the sacred grass, they would literally be walking in your quad and living in your dorm and new 3, 000 a month apartment. Project 2025 has so many devastating, Aspects. And we've only highlighted a few and just think about how devastating all of those Yes. Definitely. So. The craziness is going on this week. I was talking about it a lot. There is so much policy involved in I implore you to read all 900 pages. No, I don't. No. We'll, we'll link some very, we'll. Yeah, bullet points. Even, even, even the bullet points. You talk about voting access under budget 2025, which is kind of already underway, but. Well, I. Negative. It's not necessary. It's. The. See. See, that's the thing about Project 2025. It's not explicitly listed in there, but let me,, in my closing, I will read one of, Paul Wyrick, who you will remember as one of the founders of the Heritage Foundation, who was the architect of Project 2025. Let me read one of his most You said infamous quotes. Oh, yes, please share with us. said don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting population goes down. AKA as their desires get less and less popular. The only way they win is by counting people out. And that's what you need to know about voting. In terms of Project 2025, they don't want you to, basically. And they have made sure that they have a Supreme Court that has gutted the Voting Rights Act. And they are, actively engaging in voter suppression as we speak right now. As well as intimidation. That is, that is, that is just another overarching, that is where we are. That is where we are. That is where we are. In terms of, policy that Project 2025 would implement. They have realized that in order to implement a policy agenda, you need people. in place to do that. One of the major things that is different about this iteration of a potential Trump administration is, they have created a database of Loyal supporters who can submit their resumes. Um, it's kind of like a LinkedIn for like, Trump bros, J6ers, Trump bros, pretty much anyone who you will find on the right stuff, dating app, which is like all men. it's All high tea rose, high tea, alpha, rose, high tea, all of them probably looking for a job in the next Trump administration. So they it is like a, yeah, it's a LinkedIn for, um, MAGA supporters. They have been accumulating resumes, so to speak, to instill Trump loyalists. In the first 100 days or whatever. And basically, um, also another aspect of that is a schedule F program, but schedule F would pretty much. Eliminate the, the protections that federal government employees, which a lot of it, uh, If you're from here, your parents are from here, your grandparents are from here, a lot of government employees in this area, their career employees, Schedule F means that the administration, Oh yeah. can fire you with no cause, like just outright, that's not, that's not the case now, but if they implement it, they can just get rid of everybody who doesn't agree and implement or infuse the federal government with loyalists. Um, there's a training. Uh, series, dare I say? Uh, uh, a collection of videos, ProPublica, released these secret videos who like half of the people who are in these videos served under Trump. Like, yes, it was a secret to a certain extent, but they wasn't, but what is secret is this 180 day transition playbook, which no one, no one has seen, And everybody's like, what's in this? So Iliana Presley, Congresswoman Iliana Presley, at a recent, hearing on Project 2025, pressed some, authors or affiliates with, um, information about the playbook and like they dodged every question. There is a hotline, or a tip line, a whistleblower line, if you will. Anyone with information about this 180 day Transition Playbook. Part of that playbook is probably for November 5th, November 6th, through, you mean January 6th? No, I meant November 6th But I also do find it. Absolutely, absolutely hilarious that they went from, you ain't gotta vote, so if you vote now, you ain't gotta vote no more, to, if you could please early vote, to literally like, Trump tells people, all right, well, you know, voting happens on January 5th. It's three and a half months. So make sure you're there for January 5th to vote. Jen, what can we do? Can we do something out other than vote on January 5th? Yes! No, we want to! How about we just vote by November 5th? Right, so it's a lot other than voting. Right now, you guys, it's the final sprint. So you can get out and go canvass. Literally there will be so many events that pop up because in this final sprint, they need all hands on deck to get out here in campus, not just for Kamala, but for our down ballot races as well. They're calling, they're texting, they need you to get out there, knock on a few doors for an hour and convince somebody to go down there and save democracy. So that's what you definitely can do. Um, aside from that we're going to keep emphasizing if you don't want to do that, then, obviously phone bank. Also, I am a part of, This progressive turnout, organization's efforts to, get more voters in swing states out. So there are postcards that need to be mailed. And it's very fun and it's your way that like, for those who are more introverted or busy, Or whatever the case is, you can sit at home, make this a cute little night in, and you know. Yeah, have some sips, what you want to have some sips for. We wasn't, we wasn't talking shit this whole time. If we didn't talk so much, we could have done some postcards. We're not going to be doing some postcards. These are going to voters in Colorado. We like to talk shit too much. Colorado, get ready. We're sending things your way. I would say that. I would also say phone banking. Um, I know Sue, you're text making, text making, some of us are introverts, we don't like to talk to people, that's right, you don't have to talk to people, text making. There's so much guys, literally just Google volunteer and it'll come up what you can do in your area. Literally, I get alerts for like all the swing states, North Carolina, PA, Maryland is not a swing state, but they're still because there's a race here. That's very key. Um, I'm getting a lot of, um, Outreach for, for volunteer opportunities for that. So literally once you plug into one of these organizations, trust me, they're going to be blowing your hotline. I'm going to be bling it. They going to be blowing you up. So there's plenty to do. And then I also want to reiterate the toolkit for one, because again, you have 10 people in your life that you can organize and get together, make a plan, tell them about who's on the ballot, what's on the ballot, what's at stake. Everyone make a plan together. Making a party like this is our time to, this is our most powerful tool in the political process, our vote. And so we have to utilize it and we have to encourage other people to utilize it. This is not a game like in too many people fought and died for us to have this right. So I'll be damned if I squander it and I hope no one else will. And the last chance that we get to have this right? Yeah, that's right. In a typical election. Yeah, let's not take that for granted. We're not going down without a fight. When we fight, we win. Period. That's right. It's the final home strike. And the name of all the I know what that means. When you on the 400 and you get to that final home strike, 100 Sprint, you lay it all on the track. Right. You lay it on. Kamala's like, I don't think she's sleeping at this point. At this point, I could barely sleep trying to keep up with her. That's right. Also, in Red Bull, I'm like, yes, I know, I understand. Sis, we got you. It's all or nothing. She is out here giving it like, I can't help but think about, like, The Shirley Chisholm's, the Fannie Lou Hamer's, like, I just, I'll be damned if the women who came before us I will spite them over Whatever little issue or whatever it is. It's like no so many women had to work hard for us to get here Yeah, and I'm going to do my part to get this woman elected like I'm sorry. It's no seriously. I just We have to. That's a part of our duty. It is. Part of our duty. It really is. Just not as black women or women of color, it's also part of our duty as decent citizens. That part. Exactly. And for a person that comes from a deep military family, on both sides. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. People didn't lay down their lives and go fight the thing and put their lives on the line to come back here to have y'all sell the country over to the same people that they fought for their lives for and fought for y'all freedoms for. Period. So for all the people who are actual patriots, This would be your time to vote for the person who is the patriotic candidate and not the person who's trying to set us up. That's it. We'll see y'all next week. Yay, yay! It's the homecoming, it's gonna be a fun week. Hopefully y'all can describe it. Hopefully y'all can breathe clean again. Hopefully y'all can breathe clean again. Whatever she got. We all sniveling and sniveling. I know! Oh wait, I thought we were talking about the margaritas. Take y'all some elderberry. Oh, I'm making some elderberry and I'm bringing it. See? Get you some. Get you some elderberry sis. We're going to go, uh, medicate and hydrate before, uh, Yeah. Right. So. Cause we can not be down bad. We don't have to be up good. Yeah. I'm making, I'm making out of bread tomorrow morning. All right. Bet. Signing off. Bye.