Speaker 1: Native Land Pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership
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Speaker 1: what we're talking about today. We are talking about Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1: For those of you who may be unclear, Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: is the Senate Minority leader because he is responsible for
Speaker 1: what the Democratic Party's agenda might be in the Senate.
Speaker 1: As you all know, many of us, I'm saying us,
Speaker 1: Lolo included, many of us are very frustrated by the
Speaker 1: fact that he didn't understand understand the assignment last week.
Speaker 1: House Democrats are on or all the House are on
Speaker 1: recess this week, and we're trying to understand why anybody's
Speaker 1: given him a pass because we've not given him a pass.
Speaker 1: We are trying to understand, Chuck Schumer, why would you
Speaker 1: vote with a Republican party that refuses to hold Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and Elon Musk. Really President must accountable for his actions.
Speaker 1: You're giving them a rubber stamp. Let the Republicans do that.
Speaker 1: So those of you are at home and like I
Speaker 1: don't really care about none of this. If you are
Speaker 1: at home saying that, you probably don't watch the podcast
Speaker 1: quite yet. But welcome if you do, welcome home, as
Speaker 1: we say every week on Native Lampi. But what I
Speaker 1: will also say to you is we need to talk
Speaker 1: about accountability structure. That's lolo suggestion. We need to talk
Speaker 1: about why we should care. And we are going to
Speaker 1: get a little bit further into Chuck Schuber. Lola, I'm
Speaker 1: hanging up on you, y'all. Tune in over here, y'all.
Speaker 1: She's still yelling, hanging up. I'm hanging up. Okay, so
Speaker 1: on live now. Now, here's what I want to tell y'all.
Speaker 1: Why should you care? Why should you care? Well, I'm
Speaker 1: so glad you asked. So. The Congress is a coequal
Speaker 1: branch of government, and Congress dictates whether or what builds
Speaker 1: the president signs into law. Okay, what we have seen
Speaker 1: in recent weeks is that literally since Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: been torn into torn into office January twentieth, we have
Speaker 1: seen a Republican Congress, a Republican administration that has been
Speaker 1: willing to give Donald Trump a rubber stamp. We talked
Speaker 1: about this several times, that there's no accountability, that it
Speaker 1: feels like a land has no president. All of that,
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer had to have seen Hakim Jeffries, who is
Speaker 1: the House Democratic Leader we've been calling him the opposition leader,
Speaker 1: ensure that his caucus, that House Democrats, voted in lockstep
Speaker 1: to oppose a continuing resolution that even included a cut
Speaker 1: of a billion dollars to the DC government. What does
Speaker 1: that mean for you? If you live in Mississippi or
Speaker 1: Alabama or Washington State, which is where I'm from, why
Speaker 1: should you care about that? Well, if you're willing to
Speaker 1: cut the budget of another entity because you don't agree
Speaker 1: with their politics, or you want to punish them or whatever,
Speaker 1: that's a very dangerous precedent to set. And that is
Speaker 1: kind of the role where where that we're walking down.
Speaker 1: So we assumed that because Chuck Schumer said last week, Hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm going to be voting in lockstep with
Speaker 1: the House Dems. We're going to ensure that our party
Speaker 1: is lined up together. We're going to protect the American people.
Speaker 1: That's the most important party here, y'all. He was supposed
Speaker 1: to be protecting the needs and the interests of the
Speaker 1: American people. And guess what, Chuck, he didn't understand the assignment.
Speaker 1: He did not understand the assignment. Instead, he said, you
Speaker 1: know what, hell with this. Not only am I going
Speaker 1: to vote with the Republicans on this Continuing Resolution, I
Speaker 1: am going to get ten of us to stand in
Speaker 1: lockstep to pass this. As you all may know, in
Speaker 1: the Senate, the United States Senate, most of us would
Speaker 1: just think a simple majority, right would ensure that we
Speaker 1: could pass policy. Well that's not the case. In order
Speaker 1: for a cloture vote to happen, you have to have
Speaker 1: sixty votes. So because of the margins in the margins
Speaker 1: in the Senate, you normally are going to have to
Speaker 1: have some Democrats who side with Republicans to get the
Speaker 1: bill to cloture, and then for the ultimate measure, whatever
Speaker 1: that legislation is. Here was the Continued Resolution, which is
Speaker 1: a budget how things will be funded throughout the government
Speaker 1: or not funded, which is another big part. So they
Speaker 1: voted for cloture, which means the overall bill could continue,
Speaker 1: and then they allowed the Republicans to get this measure
Speaker 1: through that now gives Donald Trump and Elon Musk more
Speaker 1: rain to do whatever they want to do. So regardless
Speaker 1: of if you guys care about this or not, what
Speaker 1: you've got to understand is that even at your job.
Speaker 1: You have accountability. If you come into work late every day,
Speaker 1: you got to have a conversation with your boss. Right
Speaker 1: after you had a conversation with your boss, you still
Speaker 1: coming to work late. You are may get disciplined, maybe
Speaker 1: some type of probationary period, and then you ultimately lose
Speaker 1: your job. If the American people are telling you what
Speaker 1: time it is, Chucky, if the American people are telling
Speaker 1: you how they want you to vote, Chucky, I'm going
Speaker 1: to need you to fall in line. Friend. So that's
Speaker 1: what's happening. So now Chuck Schumer's making his calls, he's
Speaker 1: making his rounds, he's asking people for cover, he's asking
Speaker 1: people for support. He's telling them, whatever you want to do,
Speaker 1: I'll do it, man. We told you what to do. Man.
Speaker 1: So here's the thing I want to know from y'all
Speaker 1: if you think that Chuck Schumer should face any consequence
Speaker 1: for again, this is the Senate minority leader. He only
Speaker 1: got but so much power. And mind you, let me
Speaker 1: tell you. When the Republicans were in the minority, there's
Speaker 1: a guy named Mitch McConnell who some of y'all might
Speaker 1: have seen like this at a press conference, and he
Speaker 1: was stuck. He didn't get stuck when it was time
Speaker 1: for them to debate a continuing resolution that they didn't like.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one, when he didn't want to give
Speaker 1: Joe Biden approval or be on the other side of
Speaker 1: what they would what they would call a democratic rubber stamp,
Speaker 1: he didn't give him no support, No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: Guess what Mitch McConnell did, friends, He philibustered that bill. Philibuster,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you asked. That means that he was
Speaker 1: on the Senate floor talking that ish about the bill
Speaker 1: because he didn't want the thing to pass. That's what
Speaker 1: you do, you put up a little bit of fight.
Speaker 1: And here's the problem. Me a political myself. I'm a
Speaker 1: political strategist. I grew up professionally in this stuff. I
Speaker 1: love this stuff. I have been telling people for a
Speaker 1: year that we are living, we will live under a
Speaker 1: fascist regime if Donald Trump wins this election. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have been and you know why I'm telling you that
Speaker 1: because I believe it, and we're already seeing signs of it.
Speaker 1: We have lost there's an index, a democracy index. We
Speaker 1: have lost standing on that democracy index. I believe the
Speaker 1: words that are coming out of my mouth. I ain't line, y'all.
Speaker 1: I believe that we are fifty two steps closer to fascism. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I'm not telling you something I don't believe. So
Speaker 1: my question is for folks in elected office who have
Speaker 1: also said the same thing that me and my friends,
Speaker 1: people who are in the political process have said for
Speaker 1: over a year that this will be fascism, that democracy
Speaker 1: will be dead, which means only that people power will
Speaker 1: exist no more. If we really believe that, why would
Speaker 1: you vote in favor of giving somebody more reach like
Speaker 1: Elon Musk would doge the Department of Government Efficiency that
Speaker 1: ain't even a real department. Why would you give Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: who's signing in these executive actions, all these executive actions
Speaker 1: that are not into law, rogue authority for him, abuses
Speaker 1: of power for him trying to strengthen and garner more
Speaker 1: presidential power, which he clearly doesn't need. There need to
Speaker 1: be more checks and balances. Why would you give him
Speaker 1: more authority? And not even filibuster it. Y'all wanted to
Speaker 1: keep the filibuster bro use the filipbuster. So I want
Speaker 1: to just tell y'all about some other folks who didn't
Speaker 1: quite get this right. Okay, So there were several several
Speaker 1: Democrats who voted to support this measure, and I know
Speaker 1: that some of you have already been following this issue,
Speaker 1: so you know who they are. I am going to
Speaker 1: one of our graphics because y'all, my memory is bad
Speaker 1: to pull up who the list of senators were that
Speaker 1: voted for this bill, the Continuing Resolution. Some of them were,
Speaker 1: for example, Kristin Gillibrand in New York. So why are
Speaker 1: you voting for it? What's on the line for you?
Speaker 1: Catherine Cortes, mast them out of Nevada? Why are you
Speaker 1: voting for it? Let me see who else voted for this.
Speaker 1: I want to name everybody, because it's not just Chuck
Speaker 1: Shoo who should be facing these consequences. It's the other
Speaker 1: people too who voted for this. But I do think
Speaker 1: that he had an obligation and he didn't fulfill his obligation.
Speaker 1: He's the leader, so if he gives them cover, which
Speaker 1: means he gives them permission to vote for it, we
Speaker 1: have a problem, you know. So let's see who else.
Speaker 1: The vote was sixty two to thirty eight, and it
Speaker 1: was a six month extension of the current budget, which
Speaker 1: means that in six months we're gonna be back here again,
Speaker 1: probably before them. So Cinni Minority leader Chuck Schumer, John
Speaker 1: Fetterman of Pennsylvania again, Catherine Cortes mass So of Nevada.
Speaker 1: Dick Durbin, who is normally pretty good on issues of Illinois,
Speaker 1: voted for this. Brian Shattz of Hawaii. Now, Brian, what
Speaker 1: you doing? Gary Peters of Michigan, really, what are you doing? Like?
Speaker 1: Do these folks not realize they have people who would
Speaker 1: be impacted by some of these cuts in their states.
Speaker 1: Maggie Hassen of New Hampshire, a Grin again, Kirsten Gillibrand
Speaker 1: of New York, and Jean Shaheen of New Hampshire, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, says she's not going to uh seek
Speaker 1: office again, She's gonna step down after this term. So
Speaker 1: what did you have to lose? Friend? And then Angus King,
Speaker 1: who is an independent from Maine but caucuses with the Democrats.
Speaker 1: That's what we're up against. So my position is you
Speaker 1: need to make sure these people hear from you and
Speaker 1: understand what's at stake here. There are those of you
Speaker 1: who have been hearing us say this for weeks now
Speaker 1: that you need to call these members of Congress, make
Speaker 1: your voices heard, ensure that they are doing the right thing.
Speaker 1: And you're like, why should I care? Why should I
Speaker 1: Why should I take my time to call them? I've
Speaker 1: never seen them work for us? Why should I care? Well,
Speaker 1: this is what I'm gonna tell you. Where I think
Speaker 1: black folks in particular have the greatest amount of power,
Speaker 1: it is in our political power, and it is the
Speaker 1: place where we will surrender it the easiest. We uh
Speaker 1: forsake our obligation to hold these members of Congress accountable
Speaker 1: whether they whether we believe they work for us or not,
Speaker 1: they actually do. They are paid with our hard earned
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars. And so those are the reasons why you
Speaker 1: should care and really focus on. Hey, these I'm gonna
Speaker 1: look at what this bill says it will do to
Speaker 1: people in communities like mine. I'm gonna look at what
Speaker 1: this bill will do to me personally. This is how
Speaker 1: these things would harm me personally. I think those are
Speaker 1: the kinds of conversations that we have to do now.
Speaker 1: When that new shoe drops, or there's a a concert
Speaker 1: you want to go to, or there's you know, some
Speaker 1: contest where you can earn some you know, participatedness and
Speaker 1: you get a five hundred dollar gift card. Right, we
Speaker 1: will bust a move. But when it's come, when it
Speaker 1: comes time to protect our interest, we don't. And so
Speaker 1: I really want to understand from you all why, like
Speaker 1: what would keep you from engaging in that way. Our
Speaker 1: voices are sometimes all we have, and so we've got
Speaker 1: to lift our voices and make sure that we hold
Speaker 1: these people accountable. Now here's let me tell you some tea.
Speaker 1: So Chuck Schumer been getting all this pressure, and what
Speaker 1: he did was he has a new book out on
Speaker 1: the rise of anti Semitism in America, and his little
Speaker 1: book tour was supposed to start. His book tour was
Speaker 1: supposed to start in Baltimore Monday. So yesterday, y'all, Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer canceled the tour. And let me tell you why
Speaker 1: he canceled the tour because some of you understood the
Speaker 1: assignment in ways that he did not, in ways that
Speaker 1: some of us have not. And you called his office
Speaker 1: until they cut the phones off, and you blew up
Speaker 1: the social media accounts until they cut those off, and
Speaker 1: they stopped responding, but the pressure was successful because he's
Speaker 1: postponed the tour because he did not want to face
Speaker 1: those who he hurt. And that is what this is
Speaker 1: all about, y'all. We are in a different age. Something
Speaker 1: more is required out of all of us. And I
Speaker 1: will tell you, honestly, I don't have all the answers.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even remember all the Democrats who voted against
Speaker 1: or voted for the continued Resolution. But what I can
Speaker 1: tell you I know is that if we do extraordinary things,
Speaker 1: we will experience extraordinary results. I want to hear from
Speaker 1: y'all honestly on what else you think we can and
Speaker 1: must do. I think that some people would say, how
Speaker 1: do y'all got all this time to be mad at
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer? You should be mad at the Republicans, Chiad.
Speaker 1: We've been mad at them. We've been mad at them,
Speaker 1: but they don't feel accountable to us. They say smartmouth
Speaker 1: things to us when we raise our concerns to them.
Speaker 1: We need to go first to the people who said
Speaker 1: that they stood with us on issues, who go on
Speaker 1: our platforms to reach our people, who come to our
Speaker 1: churches and ask for our votes, who come into our communities,
Speaker 1: for Black History Months, gatherings and all the things in
Speaker 1: the parade celebrating. Judent team voted for the holiday, but
Speaker 1: when it comes time to protect the funding that will
Speaker 1: keep us alive, we looking like where you at? Those
Speaker 1: are the kinds of things that we need to be
Speaker 1: wrestling with in this moment, and I think it is
Speaker 1: abundantly important that we start shifting our expectations and we
Speaker 1: start shifting how we deal with elected officials who are
Speaker 1: supposed to serve us. Let me tell you why, y'all.
Speaker 1: Do you know there are whole communities of people who
Speaker 1: know by default to call their elected officials, who know like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: if I host this fundraiser, I have an audience with
Speaker 1: this person, They'll at least listen to what I have
Speaker 1: to say. They know that if they go up to
Speaker 1: Capitol Hill and request a meeting, that that member has
Speaker 1: an obligation to hear from them. We have that power.
Speaker 1: We just have decided that it's not important enough, or
Speaker 1: or because I don't want to cast judgment. You might
Speaker 1: be in a position where you're like, hey, given the
Speaker 1: work that I do and the hours that I work,
Speaker 1: I don't have time to call. Maybe you work all
Speaker 1: day and you're not allowed to make any personal calls,
Speaker 1: so you can't call the Hill, or maybe you don't
Speaker 1: you're not on social media, or maybe you're like, I
Speaker 1: can't fly. I can't afford to fly to DC to
Speaker 1: talk to these members in their face, only to potentially
Speaker 1: get denied a meeting. I get it. But what you
Speaker 1: can do also is look up organizations in your area.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're an educator, maybe you are, you know, a janitor,
Speaker 1: Maybe you are in a labor union. Did you know
Speaker 1: that these labor unions have relationships with these folks, that
Speaker 1: there are education associations that have relationships with these folks.
Speaker 1: That maybe you care deeply about civil rights, so you
Speaker 1: join the NAACP or Urban League or what have you,
Speaker 1: and they have relationships with these folks. Maybe you prefer
Speaker 1: to be a little more confrontational and you want to
Speaker 1: sign a petition about it when you can go to
Speaker 1: color Change right. Maybe you're seeing that there are people
Speaker 1: who represent your interests better who are running for office
Speaker 1: in these neighborhoods. You can support that person. Now you
Speaker 1: might say, Angela, I don't have money to give to
Speaker 1: these members, and actually I wish we ken't money out
Speaker 1: of politics all together. I understand that too. You can
Speaker 1: phone Bank for that person, you can text Bank for
Speaker 1: that person and push them. Now, some of y'all just
Speaker 1: like me too, I'm not gonna lie. Maybe like well,
Speaker 1: that sounds real cute and cool, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if there's gonna be another election. I'm with you. I
Speaker 1: don't know either. But here's what I do know. We
Speaker 1: have an obligation to do different. We are expecting extraordinary
Speaker 1: things from Members of Congress, from elected officials in these
Speaker 1: very trying times, but we are not doing extraordinary things ourselves.
Speaker 1: And calling your member of Congress and holding them accountable
Speaker 1: or meeting with them or showing up to their town
Speaker 1: hall is not an extraordinary thing. It is actually the
Speaker 1: least you can do. And if you're not able to
Speaker 1: do it, call a member of your family, call someone
Speaker 1: in your community who you trust and ask them to
Speaker 1: do it for with you. If you are intimidating, you
Speaker 1: could literally send a message to our ed Native lampod
Speaker 1: or you can put a question in the chat today.
Speaker 1: I'm looking on to Lo Lo too to see if
Speaker 1: we have any questions today to ask them, you know,
Speaker 1: to help. Can you help you can ask us to help.
Speaker 1: We would love to. We love those questions. Every week
Speaker 1: we answer questions on our main show that drops Thursday.
Speaker 1: But you just have to send in your question to
Speaker 1: Lolo our dm our Native Lampod on Instagram at Native
Speaker 1: Lampod on Instagram. You can send a question and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I want to let's run this through. Let's like trial
Speaker 1: and error. We can try to call somebody tomorrow. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that we should do some of those things.
Speaker 1: Let me get to some of these questions before we're
Speaker 1: out of time. Thanks Sol for Senandy. So, why did
Speaker 1: Chuck say that the filibuster would give Trump more power?
Speaker 1: Is it true if the government shuts down, Trump has
Speaker 1: a better plan hand. So here's a real thing. What
Speaker 1: Donald Trump wanted in this instance was for the government
Speaker 1: to stay open. This bill helps the government stay open.
Speaker 1: A lot of federal workers were saying themselves, shut it
Speaker 1: down because it's been shut down anyway. That's what we've
Speaker 1: been saying on the podcast for a little over a week.
Speaker 1: It has been shut Now, what they're doing is an
Speaker 1: abuse of power, and so they're engaging and shut down tactics.
Speaker 1: They just dismantled the Department Education. Do you know the
Speaker 1: same day that the Senate passed the continuing resolution that
Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer put his staff of approval on and endorsed
Speaker 1: and passed and voted yes on. Did you know that
Speaker 1: same day that Donald Trump dismantled the Minority Business Development Agency?
Speaker 1: Did you know that he ended the CDFI fund what
Speaker 1: helps to which helps to ensure balance and fair access
Speaker 1: to poor communities to financial services and resources. That's what
Speaker 1: we're up again. So the government's been shut down and
Speaker 1: he doesn't need them to pass any bill to do that,
Speaker 1: So we should be using this time to hold them accountable. Like, yeah, bro,
Speaker 1: I would love to vote on your little bill, but
Speaker 1: until you rein and Elon Musk, I ain't got no
Speaker 1: time for that. Yeah, bro, I would love to vote
Speaker 1: on your little bill, but until you I'm signing executive
Speaker 1: actions that you think went through the legislative process, I
Speaker 1: ain't got no time for that. That's how you handle that.
Speaker 1: You do not meet someone who is a dictator and
Speaker 1: an abuser of power by giving them more access and power.
Speaker 1: That's not how that works. Come on, we gotta know
Speaker 1: better than that. We gotta fight better than that. Fighting
Speaker 1: back is not saying yes, that is surrender. And that's
Speaker 1: why I really believe that Chuck Schumer in his incendency too.
Speaker 1: But I don't believe he's gonna run again. The word
Speaker 1: on the street is he is not going to pursue
Speaker 1: office again. So he should be more bolder than more
Speaker 1: bold than ever. Right. I'm not talking about him stepping
Speaker 1: down from his seat, because that's gonna take too long.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about stepping down from leadership because if you
Speaker 1: can't lead, and you can't lead with courage, and you
Speaker 1: can't follow what the people who sent you want. And
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the small minority of donors who
Speaker 1: wanted you to pass that bill for defense funding. I'm clear,
Speaker 1: I see you, Bro, I'm not talking about them, talking
Speaker 1: about the people who wanted the federal government workers who
Speaker 1: you claim to be standing in solidarity with as they
Speaker 1: sue to get access to their jobs and to keep
Speaker 1: their jobs. I'm not talking about the small number of
Speaker 1: donors who had a business interest in this bill passing.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that your values are off, and because your
Speaker 1: values are off, you don't deserve to lead the American
Speaker 1: people on the centate side. That's what I really believe.
Speaker 1: I would like to go over what's being cut, but
Speaker 1: instead of me doing that, I'm actually going to refer
Speaker 1: you to our last podcast from Thursday where we talk
Speaker 1: about that in detail, Elizabeth. But I did answer your
Speaker 1: first question, Percy Miracles. What's the Democrats specific black agenda
Speaker 1: ain't one boom. We got to make one, and we
Speaker 1: have to demand that they are held accountable to that.
Speaker 1: I love this. Then this goes right back to the
Speaker 1: heart of what we were really saying. Boston Baby sixty
Speaker 1: eight says, I've called and left messages. What impact did
Speaker 1: it really have? What I can tell you is that
Speaker 1: I know for a fact that Chuck Schumer has been
Speaker 1: scrambling making calls to people asking for help, and it
Speaker 1: might have been your call. I think they might have
Speaker 1: said Boston Baby called me. So let me go ahead
Speaker 1: and do what I need to do. Let me at
Speaker 1: least ask a question. But I do want you to
Speaker 1: know it is a part of our collective action when
Speaker 1: we come together and say, it's not about who the
Speaker 1: person leading it is. It's not about if it goes
Speaker 1: exactly my way. Lolo knows about that. Me and Lolo
Speaker 1: both hardheaded and We like for things to be in
Speaker 1: our way, in our language, but it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be that if we agree on the end goal, which
Speaker 1: often is the liberation for people. Me personally, I'm always
Speaker 1: talking about the liberation for black people. The only way
Speaker 1: to liberation is for people to be on one accord.
Speaker 1: So if you can't agree on how we get there,
Speaker 1: if you can't agree on when we get there, if
Speaker 1: you can't agree on the tactics for how we get there,
Speaker 1: we're going to have a problem. And I think that
Speaker 1: it is dangerous enough in this country right now. We
Speaker 1: have got to pivot. The tactics of the past have
Speaker 1: got us so far, thank you. It is time for
Speaker 1: the tactics of the present. It's time for the tactics
Speaker 1: of future generations. And so I'm not suggesting that we
Speaker 1: leave it at a call. I'm suggesting that we launch
Speaker 1: a campaign to call for his resignation as the minority leader.
Speaker 1: Because it's not that Chuck. Maybe. I mean, some people
Speaker 1: would argue he's always been a bad leader. Some people
Speaker 1: would say, eh, it's indifferent. But what I guess, what
Speaker 1: I'm telling you all is we are living in unprecedented
Speaker 1: times and we need innovation and creativity and boldness and
Speaker 1: courage to get us through this season. If we don't
Speaker 1: have that in leadership for the people who have to
Speaker 1: sit down with Donald Trump, not the people who are
Speaker 1: in the background whispering laughing with him in the Oval
Speaker 1: office and at these different public gatherings, but people who
Speaker 1: really believe that this man is the threat we said
Speaker 1: he is, then that means we got to take a
Speaker 1: one eighty. That means we got to try a different approach.
Speaker 1: That means that the season and the time that we're
Speaker 1: in requires something greater of us. So let us lean
Speaker 1: into what that greater might be. I would love to
Speaker 1: hear from you all on what you think this moment
Speaker 1: requires from us politically, psychologically, economically, Like y'all, I really
Speaker 1: think we should be moving like this is turning into fascism.
Speaker 1: We should know where we're going to get our food from.
Speaker 1: We should know how to contact people if they're not
Speaker 1: saved in our phone. We should know some phone numbers
Speaker 1: by heart. We should have all of our documents. Do
Speaker 1: you have your birth certificate? Do you have your Social
Speaker 1: Security card? Because they cut back on Social Security access right,
Speaker 1: do you have your passport? If you don't have a passport,
Speaker 1: hurry up and go get one. If it's near expiration,
Speaker 1: maybe you have six months left, go get your passport. Okay.
Speaker 1: For people who are like, stop up on nonperishables. If
Speaker 1: you can afford a generator, get a generator. If you
Speaker 1: have a neighbor that you're close to and y'all can
Speaker 1: go in on a generator, get a generator. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I'll figure out how we can grow some crops.
Speaker 1: I want to learn how to farm, y'all. Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: not in the right place again. I'm in Seattle, but
Speaker 1: like I need to learn how. I need to know.
Speaker 1: And if I'm not the farmer, can I, you know,
Speaker 1: put some resources into somebody who is one. I am
Speaker 1: not trying to scare you. What I'm trying to tell
Speaker 1: you is I don't know what we're up against, and
Speaker 1: I don't know where we are going from here. But
Speaker 1: I know that we can create a vision of the
Speaker 1: America that we want to see. I know that we
Speaker 1: can hold accountable those in power for the America that
Speaker 1: we want to see. And we must demand change, we
Speaker 1: must demand to move different. But those demands all start
Speaker 1: with us. So until next time. I'm so grateful to
Speaker 1: be here with you all. I wouldn't mind if you
Speaker 1: posted Shumer must step down. I wouldn't mind if you
Speaker 1: told us who you think should be leading the Democrats
Speaker 1: in the Senate. I want to know. We know who's
Speaker 1: leading the Republicans, Donald Trump on every level, because don't
Speaker 1: nobody else have a backbone or a spine in his party?
Speaker 1: So our folks can look the same way, right, So
Speaker 1: let's move different. Let's do our parts so we can easily,
Speaker 1: in an integrity call upon them to do their parts.
Speaker 1: And until next time, welcome home. I'll see y'all in
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