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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley, My wife and I have been married

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Speaker 1: for seventeen years and have always considered ourselves to be

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Speaker 1: a politically conscious black couple. We're both grads of an

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Speaker 1: HBCU and we have great jobs. Our marriage was always solid,

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Speaker 1: and we were die hard Democrats. We worked hard to

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Speaker 1: get Obama elected for his first term and second term.

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Speaker 1: During President Obama's second term in office, my wife law

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Speaker 1: her job and she blamed it totally on President Obama.

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Speaker 1: There were some trade agreements that affected her job and

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Speaker 1: she was laid off because of that. She got a

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Speaker 1: new job at a bank, and she started hanging out

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Speaker 1: with her new coworkers who were all very conservative Republicans.

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Speaker 1: They eventually brainwatched my wife, and believe it or not,

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Speaker 1: my wife voted for Trump. Throughout Trump's administration. My wife

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Speaker 1: has seen nothing wrong with his behavior and how he

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Speaker 1: runs the country. She makes excuses for his sexiest and

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Speaker 1: racist ways, and it drives me crazy. The other night

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Speaker 1: we watched the debates and she said I was a

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Speaker 1: fool to follow any of them. The next day, she

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Speaker 1: put a Trump for America's sign in our front yard.

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Speaker 1: I took it out and she put it right back.

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Speaker 1: She recently joined the Black Republican Coalition with those fake

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Speaker 1: high class demons at her job. But the last straw

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Speaker 1: for me was when she donated five hundred dollars of

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Speaker 1: my hard earned money to Trump's campaign. I lost my mind,

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Speaker 1: and she told me that if I didn't like it,

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Speaker 1: I could leave. Our neighbors think we are crazy, and

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Speaker 1: our old friends don't associate with us because of her

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Speaker 1: belief in Trump. I've talked to a lawyer about divorcing

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Speaker 1: her because we have We've both changed a lot in

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Speaker 1: the last six years. I do not see us making

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Speaker 1: it to November in the same house. She needs help,

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Speaker 1: and I need peace. Help her brother out, how should

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Speaker 1: I handle this? Wow? You know, I mean we've heard

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Speaker 1: about since Donald Trump has been elected. You know when

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Speaker 1: people come over for like the holidays and things like that,

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Speaker 1: they do, heated arguments ensue. And but this is a

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Speaker 1: little more serious. I mean, you guys are married, and

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Speaker 1: this is a major problem in your house. And and

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Speaker 1: like you said November, come election time, it's really going

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Speaker 1: to be rough if your wife still feels the same

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Speaker 1: way and you still feel the same way. More so,

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Speaker 1: this is a problem in your marriage though, because of

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Speaker 1: you know, of what she's doing. I mean, she's saying

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Speaker 1: things like if you don't like what she did with

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna get past this. I mean, I'm gonna try,

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Speaker 1: but I don't see it. Right now, you're already talking

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Speaker 1: about divorce. You're right, people do change in marriages. You

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Speaker 1: guys have been married for seventeen years. You say you've

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Speaker 1: both changed a lot in six years. You don't say

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Speaker 1: specifically what that means. But the hope, of course, is

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Speaker 1: to change and to grow together. You don't want to

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Speaker 1: because of politics. I don't know what's going down on

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Speaker 1: her job. You know she gave them money. You say

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Speaker 1: see how she's going to come back from this. If

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Speaker 1: you know, come on, even if he does win this

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Speaker 1: next term, it's just for or more years, all right.

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Speaker 1: You guys maybe need to check out some marriage counseling

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Speaker 1: or something, because this is pretty serious to the voice

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Speaker 1: over Donald Trump. I don't think he should destroy your marriage. Steve. Yeah, well, okay,

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Speaker 1: good glad you're asked me, because that ain't how I feel.

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Speaker 1: Let me gonna get into it. Been married seventeen years.

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Speaker 1: Politically conscious black couple. Y'all both graduated from HBCU, got

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Speaker 1: to get Obama elected second term. Your wife lost her job,

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Speaker 1: totally blamed it on President Obama, like her fucking company

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Speaker 1: some trade agreements, gave up a job, got laid off.

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Speaker 1: Now she blaming him for getting laid off. The hell

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Speaker 1: Republicans and YDA brainwashed her, and your wife voted for Trump.

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Speaker 1: I'm out, marriage over bingo out right after this. All right,

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Speaker 1: we'll have part two of Steve's response coming up at

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the hour's subject a House Divided

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Speaker 1: by politics. We'll be back right after this. You're listening

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Speaker 1: all right, Steve, come on, let's recap today's strawberry letters.

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Speaker 1: Subject a house divided by politics. Nice little h b

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Speaker 1: She got laid all cause of that. She got a

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Speaker 1: new coworkers. They all very conservative Republican YDA brainwashed your wife,

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Speaker 1: and believe it or not, your wife voted for Trump.

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Speaker 1: Now all throughout the administration, your wife has seen nothing wrong.

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Speaker 1: He do what he's behavior. He let me explain something

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Speaker 1: to you. Once you become a Trump follower, you have

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Speaker 1: got to act like he's done nothing wrong. That's the

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Speaker 1: only way. She makes excuses for a sexist and racist

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Speaker 1: ways and drive me crazy. Another night, y'all, watching the

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Speaker 1: any of what if you follow any of thom Next day,

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Speaker 1: America sign up in the front yard in front of

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Speaker 1: no the hell we ate? So I took it back down.

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Speaker 1: She put it right back. She didn't join the Black

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Speaker 1: he is, why he needs your money, Bloomberg ain't ask

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Speaker 1: for nothing right now, and they're mad at him. I

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Speaker 1: lost my mind. She told me. If I didn't like it,

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Speaker 1: I could leave. Our neighbors think we're crazy, y'all are

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Speaker 1: you ain't got no more damn friends, no more because

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Speaker 1: they quit talking to y'all, because they're not coming over.

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Speaker 1: This half of a a house with just Trump had him.

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Speaker 1: She's not gonna do it. I've talked to a lawyer cap.

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Speaker 1: She got that make a marry breaker hat on again.

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Speaker 1: You gotta picture of stroking a car Michael on your

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Speaker 1: T shirt. This ain't enough. We both changed a lot

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Speaker 1: and I need peace. Helper brother out hush, and I

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Speaker 1: handling divorce huk yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. It's like that

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Speaker 1: divoss hull that's over you, just saying, hey, divorce hull,

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Speaker 1: putting up Trump's side, donating five hundred dollars of Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump leave huh. Find you somebody like Brennie Sanders or

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Speaker 1: don't show any signs of doing. We tanned each other apart.

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Speaker 1: He didn't got bit of everybody in his cabinet that

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Speaker 1: ain't went to jail if you ain't going to jail, y'aut,

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Speaker 1: more people in his cabinet has been arrested and put

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Speaker 1: all y'all's ass is gone. He's got the highest turnover

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Speaker 1: told you either like it or leave it, you can

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Speaker 1: issue you an ultimatum. You either stop supporting Donald Trump

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