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Speaker 1: your position, even the people that put you in back

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Speaker 1: like it. There are some people that just will not bend.

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Speaker 1: Now why they won't bend, I mean, that's all different story.

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Speaker 1: It might be because there's some bad securings going on there.

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Speaker 1: That again that's who business. We wasn't a part of

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Speaker 1: that discussion, but you know they didn't they didn't made

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Speaker 1: a deal off the table with somebody else or somebody

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Speaker 1: got some dirt on them. Now I want to come out,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So there's a reason why

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Speaker 1: they may not bend. But the point is some people

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Speaker 1: don't bend. And I'm asking you this is your game.

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Speaker 1: I'm asking you like, yeah, I mean, are you cool

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Speaker 1: with that? Like? Is that somebody you won't represent you

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Speaker 1: that's not willing to compromise at all? Well, it depends on,

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Speaker 1: which brings me to my third point, what they're willing

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Speaker 1: to bend on. Let's take another break. So this last

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Speaker 1: point I want to bring up, I think is specifically specially.

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Speaker 1: I can't think of any other adjective. It's so crucial,

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Speaker 1: so important for I'm gonna say, because I can only

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Speaker 1: speak from my own scan, I'm gonna say black voters

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Speaker 1: because of what we're going through with this filibuster and

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Speaker 1: this John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Now I've done an

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Speaker 1: episode about filibuster. You know, filibuster whose the history of filipbustering, right,

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Speaker 1: and what particularly this Voters Act is kind of coming from.

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Speaker 1: And Republicans are astute in their in their chest to

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Speaker 1: say that the Democrats are tying this to the January

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Speaker 1: six insurrection, and that's a bad faith comparison because not

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Speaker 1: They're like, yo, that's not fair. You you're trying to

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Speaker 1: manufacture rage. And the Democrats are like, okay, let me

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Speaker 1: explain this logic to you. They believed the election was

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Speaker 1: fraudulent because of a big lie like talked about last week,

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Speaker 1: and therefore asked all of their representative to change the

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Speaker 1: voting laws because these are the things that made the

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Speaker 1: selection fraudulent. So the so, while they might be absolutely

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Speaker 1: correct that you're tying this to rage, the Democrats are like, well, nigger,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean follow the logic, like this is

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Speaker 1: what this is how we got here. Y'all thought, y'all

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Speaker 1: trying to change our rights for voting because you think

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Speaker 1: that's how we cheated, despite again any evidence otherwise. That's

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Speaker 1: what that's what y'all believe. So of course we're tying

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Speaker 1: it to this. So the question you have to ask

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Speaker 1: yourself now here go to game, like, Yo, this message

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Speaker 1: is so important. Whoever you brought to the two, whoever

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Speaker 1: you voted for it to come to the table. When

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Speaker 1: you choose that person, your most powerful thing is you

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Speaker 1: check in that box to the person or the people

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Speaker 1: you wanted to go off this, Why, here's your game.

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Speaker 1: You have to ask yourself, if comp if you want

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Speaker 1: somebody reasonable, and if compromises so important, who are what

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Speaker 1: are they willing to put on the altar for the

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Speaker 1: sake of compromise? For so for if I take Biden's

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Speaker 1: entire platform, the legacy of his presidency, and I asked

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Speaker 1: myself him and everybody that comes with his party, of

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Speaker 1: all the things that you told me you were going

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Speaker 1: to do on the campaign trail, of all the things

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Speaker 1: you said you was gonna do. Right, if you run

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Speaker 1: into somebody that's not willing to ben, not willing to compromise,

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Speaker 1: who are you going to throw on the altar first?

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Speaker 1: Who you gonna sacrifice first? Are you gonna sacrifice Black people?

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Speaker 1: Are you gonna sacrifice the things that we asked you

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Speaker 1: to do for the sake of compromise so that you

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Speaker 1: can get your other things together? You're following me. You

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Speaker 1: just wanted to be the president that brought everybody together,

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Speaker 1: the Party of reason, the Party of justice. So now

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Speaker 1: that it comes down to, okay, here's what I'm asking

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Speaker 1: of you about protection for our voting rights. Now, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna link some some some pages for you to understand

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Speaker 1: exactly what's in the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which

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Speaker 1: has to do with you know, mail in ballots, uh,

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Speaker 1: felons being able to vote, like and as a side

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Speaker 1: note about felons being able to vote, the fact that

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Speaker 1: they can't is proof that our justice is m doesn't

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Speaker 1: believe in rehabilitation. Because if you believed in rehabilitation, once

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Speaker 1: you do your time, I should be able to get

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Speaker 1: my rights back. But you don't believe in that clearly,

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Speaker 1: or you let felons vote. So that's a justice issue.

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Speaker 1: And we all know it's black and brown people for

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Speaker 1: the most part affected by these things, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. So all that to say, once you look

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Speaker 1: into those things, what are you willing to let go?

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Speaker 1: What are you like, I this is a nonstarter. We're

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Speaker 1: getting this. Is it climate? Yeah, that's important. Is it

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Speaker 1: your infrastructure? Yeah, that's important. Is it the things that

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Speaker 1: the black community asked of you? Are you gonna bend

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Speaker 1: on that? I need to know when ship hits the fan,

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Speaker 1: are you gonna sacrifice my issues, our issues on the

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Speaker 1: altar of compromise? For the sake of your overall legacy.

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Speaker 1: Because what I'm what I'm getting at is that's usually

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Speaker 1: what happens there's black issues. Democrats are walking around here

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Speaker 1: like they got the moral high ground out this mug

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Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, we really need you guys to

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Speaker 1: come out to vote. We like, Nigga, we came, we went,

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Speaker 1: we did vote, and we're like all right, but like

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do though, And they're like, well, we

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Speaker 1: can't have you know, these hate mongering right wing in here.

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Speaker 1: It's like yeah, no, yeah, okay, but cool. But what

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Speaker 1: are y'all gonna do? And they're like, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: black lives matter. It's like, nigga know, okay, so but

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna do though, That's what I'm like, you

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Speaker 1: got you gotta keep keeping on their neck, like what

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Speaker 1: you're gonna do though? You can't just keep riding on

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Speaker 1: these sayings. You know what I'm saying, Your platform can't

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Speaker 1: be we not them, you know, saying like put in work,

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Speaker 1: put on now, I will never you will never hear

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Speaker 1: me ever in my whole life ever, pit struggling minorities,

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Speaker 1: you know, poor bipoc people against each other. I will

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Speaker 1: never ever do that because that's self defeating. I'm not that. Like.

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Speaker 1: If you know me, like I believe deeply in the

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Speaker 1: realities and the necessity of intersectionality. I absolutely but I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm you call me what you want. I believe that

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Speaker 1: that is cornerstone to all of our survival. So having

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Speaker 1: said that, the Asian Hate Crime Bill went through, we

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Speaker 1: still didn't get to George, Florida through. We were sacrificed

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Speaker 1: that ain't no this to the Asian community. They understood

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Speaker 1: the assignment and got the ship done. That first Native

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Speaker 1: American senator, that sisterhood that got the the monument in

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Speaker 1: you talk protected and covered, she understood the assignment. That's

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Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to get to

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Speaker 1: the table, put on for yours, get your issues taken

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Speaker 1: care of. I'm not dissing them. They understood the assignment.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about us. We know where we stand with

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Speaker 1: conservatives because Mitch McConnell got on that thing and said

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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with your voting rights and nobody taking that

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Speaker 1: from you. I don't understand what this laws for. It's like, Okay, Nick,

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Speaker 1: I know where you wanted, I know where you stand

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Speaker 1: the homies in Atlanta when Cliff all Right, he's and

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Speaker 1: I don't know, and I'm saying the homies just as

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Speaker 1: a general thing. But Cliff all Bright, he's he's from

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Speaker 1: Black voters matter down there in Atlanta. When the President

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Speaker 1: and the Vice President went down to Atlanta to talk about,

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Speaker 1: you know, do some speeches about this act and about

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Speaker 1: changing the laws as filibus. So they was like, don't

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Speaker 1: come here. You ain't good out here. Don't come here

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Speaker 1: if you ain't got a plan, Nigga, don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to hear nothing out your mouth unless it's one

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Speaker 1: two and three. Nigga, you're gonna break this filibuster. You're

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Speaker 1: gonna get this law passed or not. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to hear nothing that you down to do that you

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Speaker 1: open to, nigga, get the ship done. If you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna get it done, don't come. And in my mind,

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Speaker 1: that's the type of energy I feel like this this alright,

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's the type of energy we gotta have.

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Speaker 1: We put you on. I'm speaking specifically right now to

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Speaker 1: the black community. They get ask us we did this.

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Speaker 1: We can't keep getting sacrificed on the altar of compromise,

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Speaker 1: like our it's our communities issues. And then you know

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Speaker 1: what they give us. They give us a quarter. They

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Speaker 1: they oh, they give us my Angelo on the quarter.

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Speaker 1: This ain't no shade to my Angelo. She's an icon.

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Speaker 1: Am I happy to see a black woman on the quarter. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'd love to see, though, serious talk

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Speaker 1: about reparations. I'd love to see a serious talk about

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Speaker 1: our writes to vote, about prison reform, about allowing felons that,

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Speaker 1: I mean, thanks making Juneteenth the national holiday, Nikki, we

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Speaker 1: celebrated it already. I mean, thank you, don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 1: And it's no shade to the to the black people

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Speaker 1: at the table. I've been trying to get this past

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Cool, thank you. You know. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: I'll be telling my daughter, hey, baby, I need you

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Speaker 1: to do the dishes by nine o'clock. That's your chores,

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Speaker 1: all right, do the dishes by nine o'clock. I walk

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Speaker 1: in the house is nine thirty dishes ain't done, and

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Speaker 1: cleaned my room and I'm like, great, well, look I

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Speaker 1: swept the floor. Awesome, Hey, I vacuumed amazing. Great, and

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Speaker 1: she all disappointed that I'm not happy that she did

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Speaker 1: those other things. And I'm like, fam, do the dishes

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Speaker 1: by nine, and that's like I don't understand. I mean,

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Speaker 1: artists is great, thank you. I sent you there to

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Speaker 1: do the dishes and do the damn this what why

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Speaker 1: you want me to be happy about this? And sometimes

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Speaker 1: I feel like you gotta treat these politicians the same

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Speaker 1: way I treat my child. We have to say, baby, listen,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for cleaning your room. I am

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Speaker 1: proud of you for taking this initiative. And I need

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Speaker 1: you to do what I ask you to do. There's

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Speaker 1: a reason why I asked you to do that specifically.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you going above and beyond, but I need

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Speaker 1: you to do what I asked you to do. So

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Speaker 1: here's my game, guys, here's the I think right now

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Speaker 1: going into the mid terms, be willing to look for

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Speaker 1: deep cut candidates because sometimes them deep cut candidates really

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Speaker 1: just shift the conversation. It makes those like um more

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Speaker 1: big name candidates have to talk that talk, have to

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Speaker 1: do the stuff because we're like, listen, you don't we

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Speaker 1: somebody don't have to be with us too, when no,

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Speaker 1: they don't. So you need to ask yourself, are my

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Speaker 1: issues going to be what you sacrifice for the sake

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Speaker 1: of getting the job done? And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you can stand for that, but I'm not sure I

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Speaker 1: could let that ship ride. Hood politics, y'all. It's so

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Speaker 1: you check in. If you understand city living, you understand politics.

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Speaker 1: We'll see how next week