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Speaker 4: I'm sure sure some of people seen in the news
Speaker 4: or something that's been dominating in the news recently, is
Speaker 4: with the events that have been happening in Israel, in
Speaker 4: the Middle East, obviously in Gaza as well.
Speaker 1: How closely, if a tool, are you following this.
Speaker 5: I was interested to see because I thought this could
Speaker 5: be the first of a lot of bad things that
Speaker 5: could happen in the Middle East, especially like I was saying,
Speaker 5: with Russian and Ukraine, and I feel like a lot
Speaker 5: of things are often uneasy. And I was also worried
Speaker 5: to see if this would lead to any kind of
Speaker 5: anti Semitic or anti islam sentiments both in Western Europe
Speaker 5: and the US outside of what was going on in
Speaker 5: the Middle East.
Speaker 7: I try to look at both sides because it seems
Speaker 7: like each side has been kind of hammering at the
Speaker 7: other one for so long that it's hard to take size.
Speaker 7: I just feel really sad for the humanitarian crisis. I meant,
Speaker 7: one point one million people being forced to leave their
Speaker 7: homes and they have twenty four hours to do that.
Speaker 6: Where are they going to go?
Speaker 8: For me, I needed to educate myself more about the
Speaker 8: history before, you know, trying to choose a because I
Speaker 8: know through throughout, especially on social media, a lot of
Speaker 8: people are taking side. So I took more of the
Speaker 8: stance and was trying to educate myself about the history
Speaker 8: of both countries to kind of get a better understanding
Speaker 8: of like, how do they get to this point today?
Speaker 11: Probably innocent victims would be number one for me. Some
Speaker 11: concerns for America and also sadness for my Jewish friends.
Speaker 10: I was watching their theyhbors talking about all the peoples
Speaker 10: that had died and how they did the children in
Speaker 10: and how they cut the babies and children heads off.
Speaker 10: It was like kind of really disturbing. You know, what's
Speaker 10: going on in the area is terrible. When is it gonna.
Speaker 13: End or with it?
Speaker 1: What do you think Israel's response is going to be?
Speaker 3: Now, well, I fear that we're going to escalate so
Speaker 3: that more countries on how to get involved, and so
Speaker 3: it will end up being something much more major and
Speaker 3: a lot more people are gonna die.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 7: I feel like Israel is always really hardcore when it
Speaker 7: comes to defending themselves, and so they're gonna just blast
Speaker 7: the Palestinians.
Speaker 2: Retaliation was the first thought that came to my mind.
Speaker 2: That's scary.
Speaker 5: I'm worried that there's been a weird situation where Israel's
Speaker 5: going to say that they haven't committed any war crimes
Speaker 5: because they tell the people of Palestine they have twenty
Speaker 5: four hours to move out when they don't have the
Speaker 5: ability to do that, and then when civilians do die,
Speaker 5: Israel's going to say that they didn't commit war crimes.
Speaker 1: Obviously Palistine's going to say that they do.
Speaker 5: And it's going to be a weird situation because Israel
Speaker 5: has the support of the UN and Palestine doesn't. But
Speaker 5: Palistin does have the local support of it the entire
Speaker 5: region other than Israel, and so I think it's going
Speaker 5: to end up with even worse relations between the Western
Speaker 5: world in Israel versus all of the rest of the region.
Speaker 4: If there is now an invasion of Gaza by Israel,
Speaker 4: which is being talked about. I think it's being referred
Speaker 4: to as a ground invasion and occupation.
Speaker 1: Is that a reasonable response? Is that an unreasonable response
Speaker 1: from Israel? And why? I mean, how do you feel
Speaker 1: about that?
Speaker 11: That's so hard for me to say, because I don't
Speaker 11: want anybody to be fighting. I don't want anybody to
Speaker 11: be losing their lives. But you also have to people
Speaker 11: have to protect their citizens too, So I think there's.
Speaker 3: A reasonable response. You should have stayed in your place
Speaker 3: and not this alone. I don't think you can go
Speaker 3: to a country's land and you do that and not
Speaker 3: expect a response back.
Speaker 10: We got to protect that sales. That not just for them,
Speaker 10: that's for everyone. And it's really just trying to stand
Speaker 10: up and protect their people. You know they've been invaded.
Speaker 10: So what do you do? Do you do nothing?
Speaker 13: Is just that?
Speaker 4: Or do you find thinking specifically about how President Biden's
Speaker 4: responded to the crisis so far?
Speaker 1: How do we feel you're doing well? You're doing badly.
Speaker 5: I saw that put the biggest worship we have in
Speaker 5: our navy movies, the Air Force, the largest batlership.
Speaker 1: I saw that they have.
Speaker 5: They put it in the Mediterranean, and I think that's
Speaker 5: a really good sign that we're there to support. I
Speaker 5: wouldn't want him to take action against the Palestinians, but
Speaker 5: I like that he's showing the US as a presence.
Speaker 3: I agree that I don't want him to take action.
Speaker 3: We have our own issues to deal with.
Speaker 11: My opinion is he doesn't quite know what to do
Speaker 11: yet or what to say. He's maybe still thinking everything
Speaker 11: through it in the options and doing a wait and see.
Speaker 2: It's that good thing about I think to me it's
Speaker 2: a good thing.
Speaker 4: What role should the US play now? Should they be
Speaker 4: trying to break a peace? Should they be supporting Israel militarily?
Speaker 4: Should they be doing something else?
Speaker 1: What?
Speaker 13: What?
Speaker 1: What? What should the US do in response?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 13: Continue to protect Israel?
Speaker 10: Because I think the majority I blesses and and I'm
Speaker 10: spiritual a lot.
Speaker 13: Well, I mean, it's kind of.
Speaker 10: Naturally because I've been praying for Israel ever since, you know,
Speaker 10: God saved me. So I say they're gonna be He's
Speaker 10: gonna be full for us to protect Israel at all costs, costs, costs,
Speaker 10: it's no end to what you're gonna do to protect Israel.
Speaker 11: I think the US now should also do what they
Speaker 11: can to protect the innocent victims in Israel. I mean,
Speaker 11: there's so many children, Yeah, and it's heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: What does that mean though?
Speaker 2: That mean yeah, well.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 11: It just goes back to my whole I just don't
Speaker 11: want there to be any more. And if we I
Speaker 11: feel like, if we take a super strong stance, it's
Speaker 11: not going to stop, and it's going it's going to
Speaker 11: get worse.
Speaker 9: We go over there and like step in, it could
Speaker 9: be a lot worse.
Speaker 5: I think they should maintain the original borders that Israel
Speaker 5: had to protect Israel, but also not have them push
Speaker 5: a ground war into the Gadsa strip.
Speaker 1: If they need to.
Speaker 5: Have a military presence to protect Israel, I would get
Speaker 5: behind that. But moving anything into what currently or as
Speaker 5: of two weeks ago, was Palestine inland, I think it's
Speaker 5: too far.
Speaker 7: I don't think we should get involved militarily. I think
Speaker 7: you mentioned something about broker in peace. I think that's important.
Speaker 7: I think probably we would provide humanitarian aid for those
Speaker 7: who have been displaced, help with the refugees, and kind
Speaker 7: of dovetailing off of what he said, I think providing
Speaker 7: intelligence and targeting hamas because there's so many innocent people
Speaker 7: who are involved in just like in this country, everybody
Speaker 7: wants to live a happy, peaceful life, and these folks
Speaker 7: lives have been disrupted by this terrorist group. So just
Speaker 7: like we targeted al Qaida, we need to go, you know,
Speaker 7: target Hamas.
Speaker 8: I mean, the role that I would like them to
Speaker 8: play is just to kind of just be like that
Speaker 8: mediary like for both sides, so they can just get
Speaker 8: to some time of peace or resolution. Because in the
Speaker 8: sense of like all these innocent lives on both sides
Speaker 8: that they're dying, they have nothing to do with this
Speaker 8: war and this conflict that was going on for years.
Speaker 8: So it's just unfair to the general population on both
Speaker 8: sides of what's you know, happening to them now.
Speaker 12: I just think that when you start getting involved and
Speaker 12: then it's just gonna escalate and they may bring all
Speaker 12: of that here, it's like, what's gonna bring peace?
Speaker 13: What's gonna bring peace?
Speaker 3: I think that we should provide some humanitarian aid, try
Speaker 3: to broker peace, But I also think we need to
Speaker 3: pay attention to the other regions of the world because
Speaker 3: I think they're watching against closer to see what the
Speaker 3: response is gonna be.
Speaker 4: Who would support in principle US military involvement.
Speaker 13: I think that you.
Speaker 10: Need to just gonna get in there and just wipe
Speaker 10: them out and be through with it, you know, wipe
Speaker 10: who out that people that's fighting against Israel.
Speaker 13: I think I think he should be for it's real
Speaker 13: at all.
Speaker 8: Courts cool, I guess because right now what's happening on
Speaker 8: is it's just innocent people dying on both sides that
Speaker 8: are dying. So zach ceriance, you know, to clarifying wool nobody.
Speaker 13: Yeah, but we got the readin now.
Speaker 10: We didn't start the war, you know, and we wasn't
Speaker 10: really a part of the war.
Speaker 13: The war wasn't for us, but by the United States
Speaker 13: standing for Israel. I think they need to stand for
Speaker 13: it for us.
Speaker 12: I'm just for peace. I just feel like what would
Speaker 12: bring peace?
Speaker 13: Nothing?
Speaker 12: You said nothing, no peace. But I don't agree with
Speaker 12: people dying.
Speaker 13: This is just the beginning of wars and rumors of war.
Speaker 10: I mean, more stuff gonna happen that we don't see
Speaker 10: going on with Israel.
Speaker 5: And I would support military involvement as long as they
Speaker 5: stay within the current borders of Israel, don't go to
Speaker 5: West Bank, acout anywhere else.
Speaker 6: I would just support sending in peacekeepers.
Speaker 9: I'd rather stay out of it, but if we had to,
Speaker 9: then we have to.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking that a defensive posture for Israel would be okay.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to see us take any offensive action.
Speaker 2: I think the rest of the world is watching to
Speaker 2: see what we're going to do to.
Speaker 1: Joy Biden.
Speaker 8: When I think of Joe Biami, he's experienced. Is he
Speaker 8: the best candidate to represent the Democratic Party? That's kind
Speaker 8: of questionable for me.
Speaker 7: Still competent, not outstanding, sufficiently capable and knowledgeable about how.
Speaker 2: The political system works for the Democrats.
Speaker 5: He's a safe pick, and I like that he's always
Speaker 5: willing to take the smart the best opinion in the room,
Speaker 5: even if.
Speaker 1: It's not zen.
Speaker 12: I think he's a fair prison in it. I think
Speaker 12: he's loyal, and I think he's caring and compassionate.
Speaker 2: Not a knee jerk politician, and no ego.
Speaker 9: He is a huge step up from what we have.
Speaker 1: Some of you are super enthusiastic. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2: I agree with all of those.
Speaker 11: I think he's safe, but I don't think he's outstanding.
Speaker 6: I agree with whoever said safe.
Speaker 8: I mean he's he's the faith in the sense of
Speaker 8: democratic party. Right, So thank god, he's not the only
Speaker 8: democratic representative, you know, so we have our Congressmans and
Speaker 8: our senators and everything else.
Speaker 1: So I mean, I want to know why, why? Thank god?
Speaker 1: Why is that? Why? You please? He's not the only one.
Speaker 1: I mean, what worries you?
Speaker 6: What worries me about?
Speaker 8: I think it's statements that he made years ago.
Speaker 1: What kind of thing you're gonna make me say?
Speaker 8: I know that he said some things in regards to
Speaker 8: you know, just African Americans, you know, in the US
Speaker 8: at that time, So it always, you know, just maybe
Speaker 8: you know, question him as a.
Speaker 7: Person in a sense, even though I think he's a
Speaker 7: wonderful human being and he's done great stuff. I I
Speaker 7: think he needs to.
Speaker 6: Step aside because the his age does.
Speaker 12: Concern Yeah, his age concerns me ting.
Speaker 6: And I I hate to say that, but it don't.
Speaker 12: I think sometimes he getting a little older, it's time
Speaker 12: to step aside and let somebody with younger come in.
Speaker 12: And maybe he's a little softer, cause I think that
Speaker 12: is you get older, you get a little softer.
Speaker 6: So he's f reial.
Speaker 12: Yeah, they're not taking him seriously because of that too.
Speaker 13: No, he not doing this by hisself.
Speaker 10: Know, he got a whole lot of people helping him.
Speaker 13: So I think long as he.
Speaker 10: Got good back up, he gonna be a great president.
Speaker 4: It's Jay Barden too old to run again? Or is
Speaker 4: Jaevarden the right age? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: It's fine for him to run again.
Speaker 8: I don't think age should be, you know, at a
Speaker 8: determined factor for him to run.
Speaker 6: Or not to un I would prefer that he not
Speaker 6: run again.
Speaker 7: Not because I think he's incompetent, but when you get
Speaker 7: to be eighty, you don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 7: with your health. You could have a stroke, something else
Speaker 7: like that could happen. My concern is primarily physical health
Speaker 7: and less mental health and competence.
Speaker 5: I don't think it really matters. As long as he
Speaker 5: wants to run, he's going to be the favorite for president.
Speaker 3: He's too old. He should go sit down somewhere, going TuS.
Speaker 3: I think at this point you're kind of out of touch,
Speaker 3: you know, people getting my age. We're thinking about, you know,
Speaker 3: sitting down, playing with our grandkids, things like that. It's
Speaker 3: like there's some things that need to happen that you
Speaker 3: don't have the ability to do. Let some of these
Speaker 3: young bright stars that we see day after day in
Speaker 3: Congress do what they do. And while I'm thinking about it,
Speaker 3: there should be term limits immediately for everybody, so that
Speaker 3: we don't have people sitting in Congress for forty years
Speaker 3: grabbing a paycheck on a gravy chart.
Speaker 12: He can run again. But why when you get to
Speaker 12: a certain age, dementia, you can get al time. There's
Speaker 12: just things that out there can affect you being making
Speaker 12: your decisions. And do you really want somebody in office
Speaker 12: where sometimes they don't believe that they have those problems,
Speaker 12: and you might not even see that they have those
Speaker 12: problems until they have what a debate and he can't
Speaker 12: catch his words or he can't remember. I just feel
Speaker 12: like they look at that as a sign of weakness.
Speaker 12: Maybe it's time for him to step down.
Speaker 11: It doesn't matter to me right now, right now, because
Speaker 11: I put you know, he doesn't have limited mental capabilities.
Speaker 2: He has not shown that.
Speaker 11: Yes, that would be absolutely horrible if he was in
Speaker 11: office and did, But right now it doesn't bother me.
Speaker 4: So come the next selection, he'll be eighty two. If
Speaker 4: he completes his second term, will be eighty six.
Speaker 1: In his last year. How do we react to that?
Speaker 7: Well, I know some very very competent eighty eight year old.
Speaker 7: My mother's ninety four and she's sharp as attack. You
Speaker 7: just never know.
Speaker 5: I think nobody knows his health and his desire to
Speaker 5: work for more years than Joe Biden does. And I
Speaker 5: think if he didn't think he had the ability to
Speaker 5: do it for four more years, he wouldn't do it.
Speaker 5: And so I feel like him wanting to run is
Speaker 5: a sign that he's healthy enough to run.
Speaker 1: Should someone challenge Biden for the nomination to make it there, yes,
Speaker 1: to make it fun?
Speaker 9: Yes.
Speaker 7: I wish that Biden would just anoint a successor that
Speaker 7: doesn't have to be a challenge.
Speaker 5: I think that's a bad signal weakns of the weakness
Speaker 5: of the Democratic Party, and it could cause it divide.
Speaker 5: I think an advantage you have when you are the
Speaker 5: returning candidate is you don't have to have a primary
Speaker 5: where the six or ten candidates will tear each other
Speaker 5: down and then have to pretend that they wanted each other.
Speaker 3: I think it'll be an invitation for the Republican Party
Speaker 3: to pounce and try to uh the bidas more.
Speaker 1: And that's despite you saying Biden need to have a
Speaker 1: lie down.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he does, two old, but I don't want
Speaker 3: anybody to challenge him because of that reason. So he's
Speaker 3: the president. He's going to be the president until he
Speaker 3: can't be the president anymore, and that's at the end
Speaker 3: of his second term.
Speaker 1: It's not in fighting point. It's more important to you.
Speaker 3: Than the Yeah, it's more important.
Speaker 12: Okay, So if he ran again, and I would vote
Speaker 12: for him if I don't know anybody else that I
Speaker 12: would think can challenge him and would win.
Speaker 2: I'm scared about dividing the Democratic Party as well.
Speaker 9: It'd be nice to have another option.
Speaker 1: But it ain't true.
Speaker 9: I like where he's at, and like where we're at.
Speaker 9: I mean, there's a lot to gamble on.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, Well.
Speaker 6: She's experienced, she's knowledgeable.
Speaker 7: I did not feel like she lived up to the
Speaker 7: expectations because I was so excited when she became the
Speaker 7: vice president. I think she's a wonderful person. I don't
Speaker 7: think she's been given an opportunity to really shine and
Speaker 7: grow in.
Speaker 6: Her position, and I'm not impressed. Overall.
Speaker 5: I think she's competent. Everything she has done has been domestically,
Speaker 5: so I don't think she's had much the opportunity to
Speaker 5: work international affairs.
Speaker 3: Intelligent, fierce, strong sense of right and wrong, and fearless.
Speaker 12: I think she does a lot of backup for Biden.
Speaker 12: I think that she's in that heir and that is
Speaker 12: where he makes those decisions, believe it or not, even
Speaker 12: though he's president, he confirms with her a lot, and
Speaker 12: they make decisions together.
Speaker 11: I do think she's experienced, but she also gets very
Speaker 11: nervous during interviews. I don't know whether it's insecurity or
Speaker 11: just nervousness that.
Speaker 2: I sense sometimes, But I think she's hidden.
Speaker 10: I think will fail if she which president did, because
Speaker 10: she's that active on the down low.
Speaker 13: I don't even know why she eate my vice's bresident.
Speaker 9: I don't really really know a lot about her.
Speaker 4: I don't would come of hires be good president or
Speaker 4: by president.
Speaker 5: I think she would be a capable of good president.
Speaker 5: I really wish that there was some sort of initiative
Speaker 5: she could be in charge of that is seen by
Speaker 5: the general public. I don't think there's been a situation
Speaker 5: that Kamala Harris has been able to kind of show
Speaker 5: that she's a good leader.
Speaker 7: I do not think she would be a good president.
Speaker 7: I don't get a strong sense of leadership from her.
Speaker 7: When I see her speak, I think she's somebody who
Speaker 7: knows how to speak. I just don't feel that I
Speaker 7: would have confidence in her as a leader.
Speaker 12: I don't think if she wasn't able to do her
Speaker 12: job and wasn't capable, so they had to see something
Speaker 12: in her for her to get that position. Pushed King
Speaker 12: to shove and she had to do what she had
Speaker 12: to do, she would do it.
Speaker 1: Can she beat Trump in the election?
Speaker 13: I don't think so.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think he would eat her lunch, I hate to
Speaker 7: say it, tear her to shreds.
Speaker 4: Put your hand up if you think she could beat
Speaker 4: Donald Trump in an election. Put your hand up if
Speaker 4: you think Kama House could beat Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Not thinking about Trump, there's this question.
Speaker 4: About whether he should be taken off the ballot disqualified
Speaker 4: from running because of the events of January sixth. Do
Speaker 4: you think Trump should be disqualified from running again because
Speaker 4: of January sixth or not? If you think he should,
Speaker 4: put your hand up, Wow.
Speaker 10: Not just January sixth, all the mess that just because
Speaker 10: we will never forget the world would never forget and
Speaker 10: it ain't the march on the Capitol. It's it's just
Speaker 10: he's just a crazy idiot, you know. He do stupid stuff.
Speaker 10: He even in court in Atlanta. So that's that's the opinion.
Speaker 10: He shouldn't even be on the ballot. He really they
Speaker 10: really need to just like him up and throw away
Speaker 10: the key.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's confident, but I'm not under any
Speaker 3: illusion that he's going to jail. So they're going to
Speaker 3: have to fix that to keep him from getting on
Speaker 3: the ballot.
Speaker 1: This question about disqualified from the ballot, Oh.
Speaker 6: I mean yeah, definitely.
Speaker 8: I mean just everything that we've seen, not just him
Speaker 8: being president more then.
Speaker 2: I mean he was Donald Trump right right.
Speaker 9: So he was.
Speaker 6: I mean, he made a name for himself and it was.
Speaker 1: So no Amy, you put your hand up.
Speaker 11: I agree that he probably will never go to prison,
Speaker 11: but I still think what he did it's a felon.
Speaker 2: So I think he should not be able to run.
Speaker 12: I agree.
Speaker 6: I don't care if he goes to prison.
Speaker 7: I just don't want him to be running for president again.
Speaker 6: That's all I care about.
Speaker 4: So when Emery didn't put his hand up, Emory tell
Speaker 4: us why.
Speaker 5: I think using something like the courts to block someone
Speaker 5: from running for election is very anti democratic. I think
Speaker 5: it's a bad look when other countries, if they were
Speaker 5: to talk, if we heard about it, say a country
Speaker 5: that we might have a bad rap about, whether legitimate
Speaker 5: or not. So say some South American country and we
Speaker 5: heard that they ran for election and they had a
Speaker 5: small run in the capitol where no one thought the
Speaker 5: country was going to be overthrown. And the other country,
Speaker 5: the other party forced him off the ballot and made
Speaker 5: him in eligible so he couldn't run for reelection.
Speaker 1: We would say that government is corrupt.
Speaker 5: And so I think it's a really bad look if
Speaker 5: we block someone from trying to run for president. I
Speaker 5: think if we make his resumes stand against another capable,
Speaker 5: person's going to lose. I'd rather do that than block
Speaker 5: someone from running in the democracy.
Speaker 4: That's my argument to you guys, know, the argument back
Speaker 4: Emery's point.
Speaker 1: It's not very democratic, is it.
Speaker 10: I think they need to just take him off the batter.
Speaker 10: I don't know if they can, but I'm saying that.
Speaker 10: That's my opinion, you know, on what we know about him,
Speaker 10: and and up the way he presented himself.
Speaker 4: You know, he just missed up some might argue, and
Speaker 4: people have said this when these debates have happened, you know,
Speaker 4: online or on the press or whatever in the media,
Speaker 4: that people have said, you know, that might cause real division,
Speaker 4: even possibly violence in the country.
Speaker 1: What would you say back to that?
Speaker 12: I agree, and I agree that it's not that he
Speaker 12: caused it because I feel like this. However, people feel
Speaker 12: they felt that way all along. They just needed an
Speaker 12: outlet or someone to stand up or jab been someplace
Speaker 12: where no one speaks, and then when one person speaks,
Speaker 12: then everybody will speak. Or someone's dancing and then nobody's dancing,
Speaker 12: but that one person on the floor and everybody's dancing.
Speaker 12: He only awakened what people were already feeling. We already
Speaker 12: are divided, We already have a lot of racism, but
Speaker 12: we try to pretend like it does not exist, and
Speaker 12: it does.
Speaker 4: Some people have said that if Trump is re elected,
Speaker 4: then it could even mean the end of the union.
Speaker 4: It could even mean, you know, at the end of
Speaker 4: the US, as we know that, a country torn apart.
Speaker 4: Others say, if he wins again, there'll be another Trump term,
Speaker 4: but it will pass and it be Okay, where are
Speaker 4: you guys on that? And I just want if you
Speaker 4: think it's that first one. If you think it is
Speaker 4: the Union in danger if Trump wins or not, put
Speaker 4: your hand up if you think the Union is in
Speaker 4: danger if Trump wins, I.
Speaker 10: Say years because of what we already know about him.
Speaker 10: You know that one thing about the character you was
Speaker 10: here before, what people people don't forget. So I don't know,
Speaker 10: I don't know. I think if he run, he might win.
Speaker 10: I'm not saying that he would not win because no,
Speaker 10: he you know, they said money talk.
Speaker 13: He got a lot of money, so he can pay
Speaker 13: you w You're like, he had the people to have
Speaker 13: the captain.
Speaker 9: So I think if he ruined, he.
Speaker 1: We or we Darryl very quickly search the union.
Speaker 3: We know that he has people that follow him blindly,
Speaker 3: so it's not a very big stretch to think that
Speaker 3: he can convince people to do stuff that would destroy
Speaker 3: what we know as democracy.
Speaker 4: Now we're going to do a lightning fast round. Now
Speaker 4: I'm going to show you some pictures. I'm going to
Speaker 4: say the name, and I want one word.
Speaker 1: One word, and if you don't know them, say don't know.
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior r FK Robert F. Kennedy junior. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's running as an independent.
Speaker 4: He's running as a Democrat first, but he's now running
Speaker 4: as an independency president r FK JR.
Speaker 7: I saw one negative report on him, so I'm not certain.
Speaker 7: I don't remember exactly, but I just recalled that it
Speaker 7: was something that was a little bit too wacky for me.
Speaker 1: Conspiracy theorists and trustworthy.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 12: When when you said the name, I just thought about
Speaker 12: the family. It's a popular family. It's a family that's
Speaker 12: been there so I and especially through slavery and being fair.
Speaker 12: So I don't know too much about him, but he
Speaker 12: comes from a great family.
Speaker 2: I think he hides things.
Speaker 13: I think he just he looked crooked.
Speaker 10: I don't know too way about it, but he looked
Speaker 10: for me, he don't really look like the kendedy. He
Speaker 10: looked like they they had a baby on the other side,
Speaker 10: you know.
Speaker 9: He looked crooked. Established for the name, but but I
Speaker 9: just I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Next one, guys. Alexandra ksho QUOTEZ.
Speaker 2: She's the voice of the people.
Speaker 6: I'll say that she's very outspoken. That's foken.
Speaker 5: I had good ideas, but I'd say invites conflict.
Speaker 3: Uh, courageous.
Speaker 2: I don't know too much about her, divides everybody.
Speaker 13: I don't know out.
Speaker 9: I've never heard of her.
Speaker 1: Marianne Williamson.
Speaker 8: I recently heard of her name, But I'll be honest
Speaker 8: with you, I don't know much about her at all.
Speaker 7: I just know a little about her as an author
Speaker 7: of like I think, self help books.
Speaker 6: So I don't know much about her at all.
Speaker 1: I don't know her.
Speaker 3: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 12: Neither do I.
Speaker 13: I don't know her. No, don't know what no quote.
Speaker 1: Co Gretchen Whitma.
Speaker 6: First time I'm hearing her name. I don't know who
Speaker 6: they is either. I don't know anything about her.
Speaker 1: I don't know her.
Speaker 3: Competent Who are these people?
Speaker 9: No idea?
Speaker 4: Govin Newsom? Govin Newsome.
Speaker 8: I don't know enough about him.
Speaker 7: I think as a California governor, he would be very competent.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And I don't have anything negative to state about him.
Speaker 5: And I feel like the people of California are liking
Speaker 5: what he's done.
Speaker 11: Fair not a clue Liberal and Californians love him.
Speaker 13: I don't even know who he is.
Speaker 9: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Cornel West. Anybody who heard of him? Cornell West. But
Speaker 1: if you've heard of Cornell West. Any thoughts on him.
Speaker 8: I did hear he's one of the candidates to run.
Speaker 6: I didn't take it too seriously. I'll be honest, just
Speaker 6: seeing his name.
Speaker 3: Someone else that was me. I've heard of them, intelligent, competent, trustworthy.
Speaker 4: Some of the Some are saying that there might be
Speaker 4: a third party candidate at the next selection. Could be
Speaker 4: no labels, it could be an independent who gets you know,
Speaker 4: pick up. Would you consider voting for a third party
Speaker 4: candidate or not if it was Biden versus Trump?
Speaker 2: Saying that scares me, I would consider.
Speaker 8: I guess it just depends on the candidate that's running,
Speaker 8: and you know what they stand on checking out.
Speaker 7: No, I think it would dilute and it might be
Speaker 7: damaging if you don't want Trump to win.
Speaker 6: It might dilute the Democratic vote.
Speaker 5: I think whatever party splits loses if we don't have
Speaker 5: rank choice voting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't want to see that at all.
Speaker 4: Guy's a serious question crime. Has crime in your neighborhood
Speaker 4: gone up or down? And why do you think?
Speaker 1: That? Is a big question?
Speaker 4: I know, but we're going to quickly rise round again.
Speaker 4: Want uffle down in your neighborhood or stayed about the same.
Speaker 4: Let's say over the last I don't want to make
Speaker 4: it post of course, let's say six years. You know,
Speaker 4: just as a benchmark uffle down, will stayed the same,
Speaker 4: and why I haven't.
Speaker 8: Noticed any like rising crimes in my area, same for
Speaker 8: my neighborhood.
Speaker 6: Stayed about the same.
Speaker 5: It's gone up a little bit. I think the local
Speaker 5: police have are low on their budget.
Speaker 3: I've moved in that time, so where I moved from
Speaker 3: it's gone up, and where I am now it's pretty stable.
Speaker 12: I'm going to say that crime has increased, and the
Speaker 12: reason why I think so is because everything has changed
Speaker 12: since the pandemic. People are struggling to pay their bills,
Speaker 12: to struggling to eat. I'm seeing more homeless people than
Speaker 12: ever in places where they were never before. It's crazy
Speaker 12: right now. So I'll say it's increased.
Speaker 2: It's gone down.
Speaker 11: We became our uncity work away from the city of Atlanta,
Speaker 11: so we have our own police force with more officers,
Speaker 11: better trained officers, our own nine.
Speaker 2: To one one operators. What city is not Sandy Springs.
Speaker 10: Oh, I would say it had increased because I hear
Speaker 10: a lot of shooting and when you call nine one one,
Speaker 10: I think the police did take their time and just
Speaker 10: continue what they're doing before they react to the call.
Speaker 13: It's low response or no response.
Speaker 9: If you go online, if you look at what's happening
Speaker 9: around Atlanta, so it's increased a lot. I think the.
Speaker 4: Police position need to be increased to decreased.
Speaker 1: Stay the same where are.
Speaker 5: You will not I think in the city of Atlanta.
Speaker 5: As other areas incorporate, it's usually higher wealth areas and
Speaker 5: then they take their property taxes with them, and so
Speaker 5: the areas like Atlanta where it need a lot of help,
Speaker 5: a lot of Like I think I was anti Buckhead
Speaker 5: even though I live in Buckhead, but if Atlanta lost
Speaker 5: all that property tax, they'd really be suffering. And we
Speaker 5: have high value places because we live near at Lana,
Speaker 5: and we should pull our weight, which makes it hard
Speaker 5: for the police forces to keep up.
Speaker 10: You know, even when you look at the news and stuff,
Speaker 10: they are weighed big and for more people to come in,
Speaker 10: you know, coming join us, and the one that we
Speaker 10: got ain't doing what they're supposed to do. It they
Speaker 10: prior what and more important, which everything is important, but
Speaker 10: if they prioritiz nine one one cause they probably wouldn't
Speaker 10: be so on the download, but they need to speak up, get.
Speaker 4: Up quicker, one guys, big issue, but we're going to
Speaker 4: do it quickly. Roe Versus weighed the overturning of that
Speaker 4: and the abortion issue. Thinking about the next election, how
Speaker 4: important is that to your vote? And I want you
Speaker 4: to answer on a scale of one to ten. So
Speaker 4: one is it's not really that important at all. Ten
Speaker 4: is it's going to be the only issue I'm thinking
Speaker 4: about my issue, It's going to be the only thing
Speaker 4: I vote on.
Speaker 6: I would say a five for me.
Speaker 8: I'd have to look at all the issues in order
Speaker 8: to make you know a conform vote, so it would
Speaker 8: be a five.
Speaker 7: I'd also give it a five just because I think
Speaker 7: there are other more pressing issues now that we've kind
Speaker 7: of adapted to what's happening.
Speaker 6: With what's happened with Roe v.
Speaker 5: Wade, I'd say it's an eight, but I think it
Speaker 5: it isn't as difficult to do that because I think
Speaker 5: the majority of candidates are pro choice, So I think
Speaker 5: it can be an eight and still not limit me
Speaker 5: between who I choose.
Speaker 3: Look at it a seven just because I think it's
Speaker 3: outrageous that we should be thinking about telling other people
Speaker 3: what to do or were not take care of the kids
Speaker 3: that are here.
Speaker 12: I'll say, this is not really that important to me,
Speaker 12: So I guess three quick reason why it doesn't affect me.
Speaker 12: Maybe because I can't have more kids.
Speaker 2: It's a three for me, and I'd rather not say why.
Speaker 10: I would say a fair because people should be tired
Speaker 10: to make their own choice.
Speaker 13: You know who want to be in control.
Speaker 10: I don't want to be in control in you, and
Speaker 10: I ain't gonna never let you control me.
Speaker 13: So it should be people don't.
Speaker 1: Usa to Ukraine. Put your hand on.
Speaker 4: If you think it's been too much about right, hands up,
Speaker 4: nice and big.
Speaker 9: And not enough.
Speaker 4: So two people not putting their hands up, just quickly
Speaker 4: go on the people who did put their hands up.
Speaker 1: Why why is it about right?
Speaker 7: We have to stand up and support them. I mean
Speaker 7: it's our role as a world leader, and also it's
Speaker 7: the right thing to do.
Speaker 3: I don't know about the answer that question. I mean
Speaker 3: we're we have a tendency to look at everything else
Speaker 3: around the world, but refuse to look what's in front
Speaker 3: of us. So walking in here today, how many people
Speaker 3: that I see needed help but we're not helping them.
Speaker 3: But we'll help people ten thousand miles away. I don't
Speaker 3: understand that.
Speaker 4: What's the biggest economic hurdle that you face personally? So
Speaker 4: you know financial in your life. What's the biggest kind
Speaker 4: of hurdle in your life at the moment when you're
Speaker 4: thinking financially, when you're thinking economically.
Speaker 5: Student learns and planning, just thinking long term planning. What's
Speaker 5: going to happen with social security? When I reached that
Speaker 5: age in forty years?
Speaker 1: Health costs for you, your family, for me, And I'm.
Speaker 12: Going to say for me, I've been handicapped now for
Speaker 12: three years, and I used to work for the Postal
Speaker 12: service for twenty years. And because I worked for the
Speaker 12: Postal Service, I went on says d I Disability Insurance right,
Speaker 12: And since I've been on that, I can't get help
Speaker 12: for anything because of my job. But who has not
Speaker 12: worked or who came here from someplace else can come
Speaker 12: right here, get housing, stamps, health assurance, they're right now.
Speaker 12: I'm originally from New York City. They got a lot
Speaker 12: of people that came from Ukraine, brought them to New
Speaker 12: York City. They're living in hotels for free, they sending
Speaker 12: them out, they're working, making three thousand dollars a month,
Speaker 12: and on top of that, they're still allowing them to
Speaker 12: be able to get stamps and everything in here. I
Speaker 12: am born and raised an American and I cannot get
Speaker 12: any type of help. And when it comes to handicapped people,
Speaker 12: I know I can't possibly be the only one who
Speaker 12: has a grit. Handicapped people get a bad rap, and
Speaker 12: it's awful. It's awful. So when even right now they
Speaker 12: got in Georgia, Joe came to I moved to Georgia
Speaker 12: because Georgia was a place to come to where you
Speaker 12: didn't have to spend a whole lot of money to
Speaker 12: have a good life. Now they want you to pay
Speaker 12: three point five times to rent to get into a place.
Speaker 12: If I had three point five times to rent, why
Speaker 12: would I rent? I would buy a home. You know,
Speaker 12: So use your common sense. People out here struggling, you
Speaker 12: think it's you think it's a war in someplace else. Oh,
Speaker 12: the war is going to be here in a minute.
Speaker 12: Because people are homeless, they don't have food to eat.
Speaker 12: And when they see you and they think that you
Speaker 12: have something that they don't have, you're going to be
Speaker 12: the target. So now I'm worried about that that I
Speaker 12: can't walk, I can't run, and I'm a target for
Speaker 12: someone who thinks that I may have something which I don't.
Speaker 12: So yes, I got a lot of gripes so I could.
Speaker 12: I could gripe all day. I just got a thirty
Speaker 12: two thousand dollars of medical bill for doing one procedure
Speaker 12: for them to check my heart last week. Yes, what
Speaker 12: kind of what is that? And I have Medicare, but
Speaker 12: they told me I can't get it because because what
Speaker 12: I don't have Medicaid, so I can't get help.
Speaker 11: Jesus adjusting to my husband's recent retirement and my possible retirement,
Speaker 11: and how does insurance medical insurance play into that?
Speaker 13: My life is cool. I just paid up for automobile.
Speaker 13: I'm great.
Speaker 4: I mean some of these stories a coin tough, right?
Speaker 4: Can you vote to change that?
Speaker 3: The reason we can't get any change in that is
Speaker 3: because we have career politicians that are blocking everything that happens.
Speaker 3: If we have term limits, that will prevent the corruption
Speaker 3: that has inherent in some money being in office for
Speaker 3: twenty and thirty years, Emery.
Speaker 5: I think a lot of the price changes inflation, we
Speaker 5: don't have any control over its a lot of the
Speaker 5: federal reserve, which we're not going to vote for. And
Speaker 5: I think that you have the most control in your
Speaker 5: household by you controlling your household and then by your
Speaker 5: local government and then stake writ in federal We don't
Speaker 5: have that as much day to day.
Speaker 4: I'm an honor, you're you know, real frustrations there, not
Speaker 4: just frustrations life coeting issues.
Speaker 9: Can you can you vote to change it?
Speaker 12: I was just talking about this earlier. I said, until
Speaker 12: we all banned together. So you know what the problem is.
Speaker 12: The people that are doing well or don't have problems,
Speaker 12: they don't see it's a problem. Just like I'm gonna
Speaker 12: say this, if you're not handicap, you have people all
Speaker 12: the time saying, oh I understand, you will never understand.
Speaker 12: And it's a difference between a person being born handicap
Speaker 12: and becoming handicap. But the point being is that until
Speaker 12: we all stand together united, they will never be change.
Speaker 4: Brian Kemp, the governor here, has banned transgender athletes competing
Speaker 4: in sports of the other gender. So you know, if
Speaker 4: you're a man you transitioned to be a woman, then
Speaker 4: you can't compete in that athletic sport. Want you put
Speaker 4: your hand out if you think that's the right kind
Speaker 4: of that's the right decision or the wrong decision.
Speaker 1: Okay, right hands up, nice and clearly yeah, clearly wrong decision.
Speaker 3: My understanding of that issue is that you were born
Speaker 3: that way, like a discongruence between the brain and the body,
Speaker 3: and so you're saying that that didn't happen, you know.
Speaker 3: So you're saying that that first is not who they are,
Speaker 3: but that's where they are.
Speaker 1: Right decision.
Speaker 12: I think it's the right decision because guess what, a
Speaker 12: man is still a man. And if a man's body
Speaker 12: is different from a woman, so if he's running in
Speaker 12: a sport with his more women, he may be able to,
Speaker 12: let's just say, beat the woman, yes, because of his strength.
Speaker 12: It's different.
Speaker 4: I want you to draw two animals for me. On
Speaker 4: the left hand side, I want you to draw what
Speaker 4: animal would Joe Biden be? And on the right hand side,
Speaker 4: you guessed it, guys, what animal would Donald Trump be?
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be art. I want you to
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 10: You can.
Speaker 4: You can also you can write the word under the
Speaker 4: drawing nice and big. I want you to hold it
Speaker 4: up and I want you to say, who who you've drawn,
Speaker 4: and one quick reason why you've drawn them in that way.
Speaker 14: Okay, I got Biden he's a lamb because he cares
Speaker 14: about everybody else. And I got Trump as a tiger
Speaker 14: because he always try to keep up stuff gone, we
Speaker 14: need to put him in the zoo.
Speaker 11: I have Biden as a dog because he's intelligent, he
Speaker 11: kicks kind, but he can also be tough. And Trump
Speaker 11: is a snake because he's a snake. He's mean as
Speaker 11: a snake.
Speaker 12: I said Biden is a big he's a teddy beer.
Speaker 12: Then I put Trump is a bad dog. Tell us wife,
Speaker 12: reach I feel because he's a teddy be because he's compassionate,
Speaker 12: he's kind, you know, he's one of them. He's one
Speaker 12: of them people you just want to hug. And of
Speaker 12: course I put Trump is the bad dog, the one
Speaker 12: that he like a like a pit. It is good
Speaker 12: one here, I don't want to love it. Let go.
Speaker 3: Biden has a kitten because he's docile. Donald is the
Speaker 3: horse's ass because he's an ass.
Speaker 1: That's part for Biden.
Speaker 5: I had an owl because I think he's wise, and
Speaker 5: I also think an owl is not like the strongest thing,
Speaker 5: but the owl is trustworthy. And then for Trump had
Speaker 5: a snakehead fish. It's an invasis species in Florida. When
Speaker 5: they get caught, they kind of go crazy and they
Speaker 5: kind of they attack anything that's nearby it, whether they
Speaker 5: want to eat it or not, and it's it wreaks
Speaker 5: havoc on the wildlife in Florida.
Speaker 7: Biden is a German shepherd, but basically because they're Doug commander.
Speaker 7: But I think he's loyal, you know. And then Trump
Speaker 7: the skunk because I think he stinks.
Speaker 8: For Biden, I said a cat.
Speaker 2: I mean I had the cats.
Speaker 12: I thought of the cat, so I.
Speaker 8: Mean they're independent, they're loving. And for Trump, I know
Speaker 8: you said an animal. The only thing that came to mind.
Speaker 8: It was a roach, because nobody like roaches.
Speaker 1: Yes,