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Speaker 1: Hi, Catherine, Hello Chelsea.

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Speaker 2: This is our post election minisode. Minisode.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so we wanted to gather some resources for everybody

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Speaker 1: to make sure that the people who want to get

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Speaker 1: involved and activate are doing something. There was like eleven

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Speaker 1: million people that didn't vote this year compared to Biden,

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Speaker 1: So I think the popular vote ended up at eighty

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Speaker 1: one million for Biden and around seventy million for Kamala,

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Speaker 1: and then Trump got seventy five million, which is only

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Speaker 1: one million more than he got last time he ran.

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Speaker 1: So the comfort in that is that it's not like

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Speaker 1: he's gaining an audience. The Left has lost their audience

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Speaker 1: because of Gaza and Israel and a bunch of people

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Speaker 1: that didn't want to vote because of that, which I

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Speaker 1: will never understand, because if anyone's going to go after

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Speaker 1: Israel in a more aggressive way, it is Trump. At

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Speaker 1: least Kamala would have pressured Netnya, who first cease fire

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Speaker 1: pulverization of Gaza. But anyway, that should be some comfort

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Speaker 1: knowing that he didn't gain so many more followers. I

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Speaker 1: don't believe every Trump voter is a racist and a bigot.

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Speaker 1: I just believe that people are really uninformed in this country,

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Speaker 1: and that's what Trump's administration wants is for people to

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Speaker 1: get more uninformed, and we're gonna make sure we get

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Speaker 1: more informed. And one of the things I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to touch upon is like I read this book about

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Speaker 1: economics when I saw this economist speak at one of

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Speaker 1: these like getaways.

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Speaker 2: Like this was years ago retreat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one of these like Google retreats or something that

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Speaker 1: I went to. And the economy that we're experiencing now

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Speaker 1: is not because of Biden. It's because of fucking Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: That every economic policy, the major economic policy, takes four

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Speaker 1: to six years to actually show up in society.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't.

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Speaker 1: You don't just make a change in a policy and

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Speaker 1: it affects everybody. Inflation is not a result of Biden

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Speaker 1: being pre Inflation is a result of COVID happening in

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Speaker 1: take to make sure people were stabilized after COVID. That's

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Speaker 1: why our economy is in the whole. One of the reasons.

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Speaker 1: The other ones are wars everywhere, and yes, we do

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Speaker 1: support wars in other countries because we're supposed to be

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Speaker 1: a democracy, and we're supposed to be helping other places

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Speaker 1: remain democratic. So that's why our economics are the way

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Speaker 1: they are. Trump is going to walk in now where

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Speaker 1: the economy is going to boon a little, and that's

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Speaker 1: because of what Biden did to stabilize our economy, which

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Speaker 1: he gets absolutely no credit for. So and then you're

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Speaker 1: going to see all of the policies that Trump enacted.

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Speaker 2: But I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be lecturing my audience because I

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Speaker 1: don't think Mandy Trump supporters are listening.

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Speaker 2: That's probably true, And if you are.

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Speaker 1: I'd love to understand where you're coming from. I really would,

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Speaker 1: because your vote is for the collective, not for yourself,

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Speaker 1: I think. But I know I come from a place

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Speaker 1: of privilege and maybe you think I could afford that luxury,

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Speaker 1: but I'm always voting for the sake of others and

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Speaker 1: marginalized communities. That is the first thing I think of, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: not my pocketbook.

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Speaker 3: While should we provide some resources.

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Speaker 2: Yes, let's provide some resources.

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Speaker 3: So I feel like for those that have money, give money.

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Speaker 3: If you have time, give time. I think this is

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Speaker 3: you know, we took our week to wallow and this

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Speaker 3: is time to get involved with an organization that you

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Speaker 2: And I think bringing.

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Speaker 3: Back how pissed off we all were in twenty sixteen

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Speaker 3: next four years. We were all in the streets, we

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Speaker 3: and now we get actionable again.

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Speaker 2: Take Now we take action again. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So some of these these are all LGBTQ plus organizations

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Speaker 1: that you can support today. You can join, to volunteer,

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Speaker 1: you can you can donate whatever you feel comfortable doing.

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Speaker 2: There's the Trevor Project.

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Speaker 1: There's g l SCN lesson that creating safe and inclusive

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fantastic, and that's all places that you can

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Speaker 3: you can give to organizations like the ACLU.

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Speaker 2: I know they're super duper and warm moode right now.

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Speaker 3: You can get involved with places like the Yellowhammer Fund,

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Speaker 3: which is an incredible organization. They not only provide funds

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Speaker 3: for people who need abortion care, but you can also

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Speaker 3: join with them in maybe accompanying someone to their appointment

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Speaker 3: if they need a chaperone, or helping to drive someone

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Speaker 3: get involved in your local LGBTQ youth organization. There is

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Speaker 3: a new organization that I well maybe it's not new,

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Speaker 3: and they're available for LGBTQ folks who maybe don't have

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Speaker 3: they'll do anything from like listening. If you've had a

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Speaker 3: If your family is not attending your wedding, so definitely

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Speaker 3: reach out to them if you need some support. But also, like, Chelsea,

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Speaker 3: what would you say about getting involved with people that

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Speaker 3: you know? I mean, I think, like send somebody a note.

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Speaker 3: If you have like a queerer, trans person or a

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Speaker 3: send them a note, send them a text. If you're

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Speaker 3: feeling like your your nervous system is totally shot, get

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Speaker 3: out in nature. Any other sort of recommendations that.

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Speaker 1: You'd have, Chelsea, Yeah, I mean I would just remind

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Speaker 1: your way for people. You know, we're all in this together,

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, what advice would you have? I know a lot

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Speaker 3: of people are staring down the barrel of Thanksgiving and

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Speaker 1: Right now, I am not going to be around any

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Speaker 1: That's where and that's where I'm at, and that's.

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Speaker 2: Where I'm staying. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I sent an email to someone last night letting them

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Speaker 2: I don't know how.

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Speaker 1: Long this feeling will last where I am not willing

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the right advice to give

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think from both of us, you're off the

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Speaker 1: And you don't have to be an asshole about it. No, No,

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Speaker 2: I'm not there yet. I can't. I can't be with

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, so I know we went over a lot

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Speaker 1: of LGBTQ groups. There's also Earthjustice dot org, which is

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Speaker 1: of the nation's leading environmental law organizations. And then there's

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Speaker 1: also Indivisible, which is a grassroots movement of thousands of

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Speaker 1: local indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders,

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Speaker 2: That's Invisible dot org.

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Speaker 1: And then there are some crisis hotlines because I know

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Speaker 2: Okay, So that is your election update everyone. Godspeed,