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Speaker 3: Studies show that other people also have opinions, so here
Speaker 3: with another installment of In my opinion is our good
Speaker 3: friend Leslie Joey.
Speaker 4: That's right, your favorite Auntie is back to straighten out
Speaker 4: America because America needs me.
Speaker 1: Lawd, have mercy.
Speaker 4: The election is now less than eight months away, and
Speaker 4: guess what. America is on the path to doing something
Speaker 4: really really stupid.
Speaker 5: The new Fox News polls finding former President Trump leading
Speaker 5: President Biden by five points nationally and it had to
Speaker 5: head matchup.
Speaker 6: This is his biggest lead yet against Joe Biden just
Speaker 6: over half of those voters, so that they are worse.
Speaker 1: Off today than compared to twenty twenty.
Speaker 7: A new CBS News poll shows forty six percent of
Speaker 7: registered voters remember the Trump error presidency as excellent or good,
Speaker 7: compared to President Biden's thirty three percent.
Speaker 1: If the election were held today. Even Democrats I know
Speaker 1: think that Trump would win. What is wrong with us?
Speaker 4: This is like a movie where you see the disaster
Speaker 4: coming from a mile away and nobody is stopping it.
Speaker 4: Every time I turn on the news, I'm shouting at
Speaker 4: the screen like it's a horror movie.
Speaker 1: Don't go in there, America.
Speaker 4: Let the faces in the America. I mean, are we
Speaker 4: gonna really bring back a man who tried to overthrow
Speaker 4: the government. This is like asking Jeffrey Epstein to watch
Speaker 4: your kids, or a pedophile priest to watch your kids,
Speaker 4: or that sixth who used to work at Nickelodeon to
Speaker 4: watch your kids. Hey, how about we do this? Don't
Speaker 4: let anybody watch your kid.
Speaker 1: And listen.
Speaker 4: I know some people don't care about January sixth, but
Speaker 4: let me remind you about something real quick. He was
Speaker 4: also a terrible in president. Do you really not remember?
Speaker 4: I know we don't have the attention spans anymore, but
Speaker 4: how can you forget the man who wanted to nuke
Speaker 4: a hurricane actually happened? And the thing that gets me
Speaker 4: the most is there are people who are saying we're
Speaker 4: worse off that we.
Speaker 1: Were in twenty twenty.
Speaker 8: In twenty twenty, we didn't even have some toilet paper
Speaker 8: we was wiping our asks with family photos, and listen,
Speaker 8: I know the pandemic wasn't Trump's fault, but Trump made
Speaker 8: it worse every chance he got. Don't you people remember
Speaker 8: the kind of advice he was giving us.
Speaker 5: President Trump suggested without facts that bleach injections might fight.
Speaker 9: COVID, And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks
Speaker 9: it out in a minute, one minute, And is there
Speaker 9: a way we can do something like that by injection
Speaker 9: inside work or almost a cleaning.
Speaker 4: He told us to inject ourselves, that we turn to
Speaker 4: him for advice, and dude was like, care yourself.
Speaker 1: I could go on and on about why it would
Speaker 1: be a terrible idea to.
Speaker 4: Bring back Trump, but you know what, I guess I
Speaker 4: shouldn't be surprised that America is about to do something
Speaker 4: that we know is harmful to us, because that is
Speaker 4: what we always do.
Speaker 1: Look at how we treat our own bodies.
Speaker 4: We know we need to sleep eight hours a night,
Speaker 4: but we stay up all night scrolling onto our phone
Speaker 4: until it falls on our damn face. We know we
Speaker 4: should take care of our mental health, but we entertain
Speaker 4: ourselves by watching documentaries in serial killers. We know we
Speaker 4: should go to the doctor, but instead we get medical
Speaker 4: advice from the internet.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen. I'm guilty of it too.
Speaker 4: When I feel sick, I look up symptoms on WebMD.
Speaker 4: I know it's irresponsible, but I can't control myself, probably
Speaker 4: because I'm dying of scurvy.
Speaker 5: We we are constantly making decisions that.
Speaker 4: We know are bad for us. We know we should
Speaker 4: be eating healthy, but instead we eat like shit. We're
Speaker 4: out here eating double stuff oreos and triple decker sandwiches.
Speaker 4: We stack our food like a fjenga. You know what
Speaker 4: has only one layer?
Speaker 1: A goddamn carry Just look at the Lyns we go.
Speaker 4: Just look at the Lynx we go to for fast food.
Speaker 1: Look at it.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 8: This week we learned the answer to the age old
Speaker 8: question how long would you wait in line just for
Speaker 8: an in and out burger?
Speaker 10: At the store's first location in Idaho, some patrons had
Speaker 10: to wait as long as eight hours. This week's opening
Speaker 10: featured customers even braving cold temperatures to camp out overnight
Speaker 10: just to be.
Speaker 1: The first in line.
Speaker 4: You disgusting, glutting this mother.
Speaker 1: Eight hours.
Speaker 4: I'm not a mathematician, but it's you're waiting eight hours
Speaker 4: for fast food.
Speaker 5: It ain't fast fool.
Speaker 11: I believe.
Speaker 4: Some of the stuff we eat shouldn't even be legal.
Speaker 4: In fact, in some countries it's not legal. Their shit
Speaker 4: that's been bad in Europe because it gives you cancer,
Speaker 4: and we're like, nah, we good because we don't care
Speaker 4: enough to make good decisions. It's even acceptable in America
Speaker 4: to binge drink as an adult. Listen, it's cute at
Speaker 4: twenty one, but baby at forty five, it's called alcoholism.
Speaker 4: And after eating like shit, we know we should be exercising,
Speaker 4: but instead we're doing shit like this and next.
Speaker 11: You've always wanted six pack abs but can't seem to
Speaker 11: get to the gym. Now there's a shortcut for that.
Speaker 11: Researchers at the University of Miami have developed a new
Speaker 11: plastic surgery technique called abdominal etching. It can reshape belly
Speaker 11: fat to make you look like you spent a lot
Speaker 11: of time at the gym. Tools and some foam it's
Speaker 11: a surgery, are used as sculpt abdominal fat to accentuate
Speaker 11: muscle lines, typically six for men and three vertical lines
Speaker 11: for women.
Speaker 4: Jesus wept, what is wrong with you people? You can't
Speaker 4: trick people into thinking that you got fake ads.
Speaker 1: That's why we got spinks.
Speaker 4: I can't believe that this is what we got our
Speaker 4: scientists working on.
Speaker 1: Forget about curing diseases. We gotta make Jordan's look like
Speaker 1: he doing sit ups.
Speaker 3: Uh uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe he was a different name for that joke. No,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good name. I think I think
Speaker 1: it makes a joke.
Speaker 3: Personally, Paul or Steve or that's great, But it's.
Speaker 1: Not just Jordan's.
Speaker 4: We all make wrong decisions, from food to exercise to
Speaker 4: mental health. Last, but not least most importantly, we know
Speaker 4: we shouldn't be dating DJs, But here I am swiping
Speaker 4: right on everything God with DJ and his bio. Now
Speaker 4: I'm on the third hour of listening to his new
Speaker 4: song and the bet still hasn't dropped.
Speaker 1: Drop the big DJ I ride. I gotta go get
Speaker 1: the sleep. So here's an idea, America. How about for
Speaker 1: at least this.
Speaker 4: Election, for this one thing, Let's not do the obviously
Speaker 4: stupid thing that we know we shouldn't do.
Speaker 1: And that means you're gonna have to put in some effort.
Speaker 4: It means getting involved in the political process.
Speaker 1: It means not sitting on your ass just because you're
Speaker 1: not in love with the choices.
Speaker 4: I know you like fast food, but this time, let's
Speaker 4: eat a carrot instead of voting for a guy who.
Speaker 1: Looks like a carry.
Speaker 12: You know, all this week I've been sharing my opinions
Speaker 12: on news, but I'm not the only one with opinions
Speaker 12: around here. So here with another installment of in my
Speaker 12: opinion is our good friend Charlemagne the God.
Speaker 6: Hey, y'all remember twenty twenty right, Yeah, COVID social distancing,
Speaker 6: murder hornets.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'all forgot about murder hornets? Huh?
Speaker 6: Or maybe you remember our nationwide reckoning with racism. After
Speaker 6: the murder George Floyd, white people across America looked around
Speaker 6: and said.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, are we racist?
Speaker 6: So America took a good hard look at itself, and
Speaker 6: when big corporations sought themselves in the mirror, they said,
Speaker 6: oh shit, we're white as inequality in corporate America, there
Speaker 6: are only five black CEOs running Fortune five hundred companies.
Speaker 12: You can see six percent of top executives as black.
Speaker 12: In terms of the population of the United States, that
Speaker 12: should be thirteen percent.
Speaker 11: In the video, Nike said, don't pretend there's not a
Speaker 11: problem in America. Critics point out that all of Nike's
Speaker 11: executives are white.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 6: The board and Knike was so white. They were all
Speaker 6: wearing new balance. And to address this problem, businesses turned
Speaker 6: to a solution called diversity. Equity and inclusion are DEI.
Speaker 6: It means more fair hiring policies, new anti discrimination rules
Speaker 6: for the workplace, and sensitivity training seminars. And the first
Speaker 6: thing it led to was a shitload of ads.
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Speaker 6: Today every day, General Mills serves the world by making food,
Speaker 6: people love and inclusion.
Speaker 1: It's one of our secret ingredients.
Speaker 12: The craft times all purposes to make life divisious, and
Speaker 12: we believe we can't achieve that.
Speaker 1: That one essential ingredients diversity.
Speaker 10: It's diversity that makes life delicious.
Speaker 7: We're on a four hundred dear long journey and scars
Speaker 7: don't fade, but neither does hope.
Speaker 1: After your doctor, black people are right for you. That's right.
Speaker 6: Nobody's buying basiline because of diversity. Come to think of it,
Speaker 6: I don't think I've ever actually bought basoline.
Speaker 1: It's just there, like it comes with the house.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: So that's how things stood in twenty twenty, But that
Speaker 6: was like fifteen years ago. Today, when people talk about DEI,
Speaker 6: it's more likely to sound like this.
Speaker 7: DEI is just a rebranded version of hating white people.
Speaker 8: DEI in this case stands for divisive, erroneous and insidious.
Speaker 7: DEI, which stands for didn't earn it, discrimination, exclusion and indoctrination.
Speaker 6: EIDI stands for doctor dre easy e in ICEQ. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: y'all cheering out there, but do you want with attitude
Speaker 6: coming to your office? These right wingers are crazy, right Jesus,
Speaker 6: But here's the part where you all stop applauding everything
Speaker 6: I say. The truth about DEI is that, although it's
Speaker 6: well intentioned, it's mostly garbage. Okay, it's kind of like
Speaker 6: the Black Little Mermaid. Just because racist hate it doesn't
Speaker 6: mean it's good. And you know I'm right because every
Speaker 6: one of you has sat through one of those diversity
Speaker 6: training sessions and thought this is bullshit, and it's not
Speaker 6: just you. Over nine hundred studies have shown that DEI
Speaker 6: programs don't make the workplace better for minorities. In fact,
Speaker 6: it can actually make things worse because of the backlash effect.
Speaker 6: Remember Dare from school, y'all remember Dare? Yeah, she said
Speaker 6: whoa DEI training is like dam for racism, And you
Speaker 6: all know how effective that was. I was sitting there going,
Speaker 6: oh shit, there's a ton of fun drugs I should try.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know about Moley. Thanks Officer John.
Speaker 6: But the biggest failure of DEI is that the number
Speaker 6: of black people in power at big companies is basically
Speaker 6: the same as it was five years ago. In fact,
Speaker 6: maybe the only thing that DEI has accomplished is giving
Speaker 6: racist white people cover to be openly racist.
Speaker 3: D I breeds complacency, Dana and complacency kills.
Speaker 7: We're gonna have doctors who don't know how to perform
Speaker 7: heart surgery, and we're gonna have planes that are falling
Speaker 7: out of the sky.
Speaker 1: Boeing recently bragg not about being.
Speaker 11: The best in the business, but about surpassing its diversity quotas.
Speaker 1: Oh goody, but then not so good.
Speaker 4: A door flying off one of Boeing seven thirty seven supermaxes.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry if I see a black pilot I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be like, boy, I hope he's qualified.
Speaker 6: I mean, honestly, when I see a black pilot, I'm
Speaker 6: not worried that we're going to crash. I'm worried that
Speaker 6: we're gonna get pulled over. That's right, and no officer,
Speaker 6: I will not step out of this vehicle, all right.
Speaker 6: But yeah, they're blaming the EI for everything, even that
Speaker 6: bridge in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: They called Baltimore's.
Speaker 6: Mayor the DEI mayor, like he was given the job
Speaker 6: for being black.
Speaker 1: Then they said the.
Speaker 6: Shipping company was too focused on DEI instead of safety.
Speaker 1: But almost the entire leadership with the company is white,
Speaker 1: no black people. Right. If anything, the Baltimore mayor, he
Speaker 1: should have been the one to make it racist. Just
Speaker 1: come out like.
Speaker 6: These tracks knocked down my bridge, Okay, all right, and
Speaker 6: one of y'all crackers better pay for it, okay. And honestly,
Speaker 6: I'm not surprised these programs didn't work.
Speaker 1: And here's why.
Speaker 6: It's just corporate pr They want good vibes and also
Speaker 6: they want to cover their ass. Okay, did you know
Speaker 6: that if a company gets sued for civil rights violations,
Speaker 6: just having a DEI program will be counted as evidence
Speaker 6: in their favor even if the program doesn't do shit. Okay,
Speaker 6: it's the I have a black friend of the legal system,
Speaker 6: all right. We don't need corporate DEI. Yes, we want
Speaker 6: diversity and equity and inclusion, but we don't want it
Speaker 6: from Vasoline. Although I'm not going to Frontvasoline has been
Speaker 6: there for the black community.
Speaker 1: Respect. Okay, that's right, that's right. I'm moisturized. Okay.
Speaker 6: Look, man, real DEI is only going to come from
Speaker 6: black leadership. I don't know how to do it because
Speaker 6: I'm not a black leader, but I do know how
Speaker 6: to tell if it's working. Just keep an eye on
Speaker 6: right wing media. The more they're freaking out, the more
Speaker 6: progress we're making.
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