Have you ever found yourself wondering if the scales of justice tip differently for the high and mighty? Our latest episode peels back the curtain on the controversy-rich world of political scandals, placing the spotlight on figures like Jeffrey Toobin, Anthony Weiner, and Jesse Jackson. We navigate the murky waters of accountability and the stark contrast between their comeback stories versus the everyday person's ordeal. Straying from the path of misogyny, we sidestep the 'Ho-Pick of the Week' segment and instead, delve into how we might capture the zeitgeist through an inclusive, event-driven perspective.
As we turn the page to the Trump Administration's legal entanglements, we can't help but highlight the healthcare irony surrounding Lauren Boebert's recent ordeal juxtaposed with her political postures. Then, the conversation takes a critical turn examining Hope Hicks' looming testimony in the Manhattan hush money trial. Does her potential verification of involvement spell disaster for Trump's trial? We also throw into the mix the qualifications of Trump's hires and how they square—or don't—with his immigration narratives. The chapter closes with eyes fixed on the ripple effects of Hicks’ words in the courtroom and beyond.
To round off our deep dive, we take a hard look at the essence of community engagement and its impact on tomorrow's outlook. The episode shares a sobering reflection on the disheartening voter turnout and the dwindling communal spaces that once knitted society closer. We narrate a touching anecdote that brings the reality of racial prejudice into sharp focus, seen through the innocent eyes of a child. Lastly, we explore the heavy burden shouldered by young minds as they confront the prejudice ingrained by parental influence, pondering its profound implications on our educational landscape and social fabric.
Have you ever found yourself wondering if the scales of justice tip differently for the high and mighty? Our latest episode peels back the curtain on the controversy-rich world of political scandals, placing the spotlight on figures like Jeffrey Toobin, Anthony Weiner, and Jesse Jackson. We navigate the murky waters of accountability and the stark contrast between their comeback stories versus the everyday person's ordeal. Straying from the path of misogyny, we sidestep the 'Ho-Pick of the Week' segment and instead, delve into how we might capture the zeitgeist through an inclusive, event-driven perspective.
As we turn the page to the Trump Administration's legal entanglements, we can't help but highlight the healthcare irony surrounding Lauren Boebert's recent ordeal juxtaposed with her political postures. Then, the conversation takes a critical turn examining Hope Hicks' looming testimony in the Manhattan hush money trial. Does her potential verification of involvement spell disaster for Trump's trial? We also throw into the mix the qualifications of Trump's hires and how they square—or don't—with his immigration narratives. The chapter closes with eyes fixed on the ripple effects of Hicks’ words in the courtroom and beyond.
To round off our deep dive, we take a hard look at the essence of community engagement and its impact on tomorrow's outlook. The episode shares a sobering reflection on the disheartening voter turnout and the dwindling communal spaces that once knitted society closer. We narrate a touching anecdote that brings the reality of racial prejudice into sharp focus, seen through the innocent eyes of a child. Lastly, we explore the heavy burden shouldered by young minds as they confront the prejudice ingrained by parental influence, pondering its profound implications on our educational landscape and social fabric.
one, two, three, four, like. If I was talking shit about a judge's daughter and posting it on on the twitter with my couple hundred thousand followers and doing all of this crazy shit, I would be in pre-trial, pre-trial detention right now, bond revoked.
Speaker 2:
My black ass would be locked up there'd be a hashtag going for you in no time right.
Speaker 1:
Hashtag free the d well, you know, carol, as much as I would like to free the d, I'm not. Jeffrey tubing can't be doing that over the zoom here what was he on? He was on something the other day commentate I'm like, this fool is bold, he's back they, they, let, they, let tubing out of time out here.
Speaker 3:
Uh, he's back on a lot of anthony wiener tried that at one time too.
Speaker 1:
We'll see how this works out for him, but at least like with, though like you, I mean, maybe I don't quite get what happened.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, what he did was stupid it wasn't like as like a history of of like, yes, he was paying for hookers with government money, wasn't he?
Speaker 4:
he was doing a lot of things he was doing a lot and it was like an underage girl or something with the hooker.
Speaker 2:
It was like with government was with his campaign funds yes, I think he was.
Speaker 1:
He was paying his his side chicks with campaign money, uh, but so he was pulling up.
Speaker 3:
Uh, what's his name? Uh, what's his name? Jesse jackson with the rainbow. He's paying off his baby mama child support using the rainbow coalition.
Speaker 1:
So wait, there's a there's a straight up prostitutes well, there's a better comparison, I think. Uh wait, what was the dude?
Speaker 2:
who's workers wait, who?
Speaker 1:
no, what was the dude who was running for office, running for president, but got us um?
Speaker 3:
john edwards oh yes, he's a john edwards john edwards, or forgive that motherfucker, because he's from my state, my home state.
Speaker 1:
Ah man, what an ass hey john edwards and anthony wiener are psychos or in a similar vein, because john edwards story is fucking crazy and you know that dude wild that dude was still trying to be vice president, like well, you know it's like I know my campaign yeah I'll be number two man.
Speaker 4:
Get the fuck out of here. Obama must have been like dog. Is you serious?
Speaker 3:
right now I can't imagine what that conversation was like and I was so because I, when he was my senator, like I, I liked him so when he ran for president and I was I was like oh yeah, not north carolina all right, we got somebody besides jesse helms that people will know us for.
Speaker 1:
See how that he had one job, yes, he did all right. So hope hicks. Uh, she is set to testify in trump's hush money election interference trial.
Speaker 2:
I really thought you said ho-picks, ho-hicks.
Speaker 1:
Ho-picks, like the ho-picks of the day Like the ho-picks of the day. Yeah Well, generally speaking, that would be Lauren Bober, but we don't have an award for that on this podcast. We can create one podcast um one I'm. I feel like that's okay, but I, generally speaking, it would have to be men being nominated for that, because I feel like a shithole of the week no, no, our whole pick of the week, because I just feel like that would.
Speaker 1:
If to constantly be choosing women and nominating women for that and labeling them whole in a derogatory fashion would just be a slight, a tad bit too misogynistic.
Speaker 3:
There are plenty of male holes. Jason Miller's one of them. Male holes.
Speaker 1:
No, but I'm talking about like it have. We'd have to have an event happen during the week to for that person to be eligible.
Speaker 2:
Let's just get back to whole pics.
Speaker 1:
Well, okay, well, okay Side tangent.
Speaker 2:
Whole pics for the next topic Before we do that.
Speaker 1:
I will give you an example of whole picks here with Lauren Bobert, where she underwent emergency surgery today to remove dangerous blood clots because she's been diagnosed with a condition that disrupts blood flow. And I was basically saying that, well, first of all, don't worry, her leg is fine after the surgery, but regardless she would have still been able to use her hands. But also, thank goodness she has government-sponsored medical healthcare, because that is oh that's possibly stop her from having a stroke.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, and that could have put her into bankruptcy.
Speaker 1:
Not that kind of stroke.
Speaker 2:
Medical bankruptcy if she didn't.
Speaker 3:
I tell you what ain't nothing like that good old socialism right.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. So socialism, the only thing that could prevent Lauren Burbitt from from stroking out, all right. So Hope Hicks, trump's former White House communications director. She's expected to be a witness in in the Manhattan hush money election interference trial that I'm specific about calling it that, because really that's what it was. It was trump's first attempt, or at least that we knew of, to interfere in the in the 2016 election and it is likely that interference that got him propelled him into the white house in the first place, because if this story with paying Stormy Daniels and other women had become public at the same time that the tape dropped, it probably would have been over for him, probably.
Speaker 2:
I thought about all the other stories, and there's so many things. Anyway, go on.
Speaker 1:
Well, but in 2016,. Again, you got to imagine. I know.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, that Access Hollywood tape dropped and it was a story for about four hours because immediately afterward WikiLeaks dumped Hillary Clinton's emails and then that was all the media covered for like weeks emails, and then that was all the media covered for like weeks. Uh, and it's not that I was super engaged with news coverage at the time, but I particularly remember the day that it dropped because I was like damn, that was fucking crazy, we grabbing people by the pussy now and then about it, because it was like it was a running joke with everyone. We're all laughing about how insane it was. He's like he's doomed now, and then, by the end of the day, the only thing people were talking about was hillary's emails. I was like, damn, how the fuck did that happen? Little did we know. Uh, thanks russia. But so hope hicks is going to testify, uh, on behalf of the prosecution here.
Speaker 1:
And I think what's most noteworthy about this is Hope Hicks, unlike Michael Cohen, who's like virulently and publicly anti-Trump, hope Hicks is, or has been up to this point, pretty much a Trump insider, at least until she testified to the January 6th committee. She ain't been out here on this. Trump is a criminal. I'm trying to get Trump, I'm trying to lock Trump up. She's just engaged in pretty normal post-administration or post-Trump administration activity. She's just been behind the scenes. She ain't been out front doing a lot of crap making a lot of noise. None of that front. Doing a lot of crap, making a lot of noise, none of that. So, in terms of credibility, when she does testify in this trial, I feel like it will likely be impossible to impeach her.
Speaker 3:
If you're trump's defense counsel, well, I mean that's true, like she hasn't been on some rehabilitation or book tour. She just kind of went back to her life. But she was real, like when you were reading the stuff, like after january 6th and everything, and she was complaining she's like man, we're not gonna be able to get shit, like no jobs, like we are effed. And I mean her real qualification was that she was a model and she was friends with ivanka, like that was her claim, that was her qualification when she got her job at the White House.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, I mean big like. If you go bigger picture for a second here, just in terms of like the people Trump ended up hiring in his first administration. Part of his problem is like normal people who were actually qualified to do a lot of these jobs were not going to go work for Trump Like, so his, his pickings were rather slim and one of the few things I mean. Obviously he didn't have much choice but, like you had a couple of options here where you could go with these retreads who had been excised from politics in America largely, and a perfect example of that would be like Paul Bannafort. That's how you know like there's no, there's no presidential campaign in the United States in the last 20 years. They could have possibly had Paul Bannafort running it, except for Trump's, you know. So individuals like that. Or you had to hire these young people who might be extraordinarily bright or talented or whatnot, but had no experience. And you know I don't necessarily feel like Hope Hicks is extraordinarily bright or talented, but I mean fine Einstein people.
Speaker 3:
Einstein people, I guess.
Speaker 1:
Sorry.
Speaker 2:
I said it would depend on what the talent is, I guess, and I was just saying she probably could get the Einstein visa if she wasn't American. The same, I'm sorry, not Ivanka. Ivanka substitute. Melania.
Speaker 1:
She could get an Einstein visa, like Melania. It is also funny you bring that up, because what was it like a week ago?
Speaker 1:
Some of the documents surrounding the way Melania's mother got was able to get her green card, yeah, chain migration, the thing Trump rails against his his own family personally benefited from. So yet another level of hypocrisy there. But Back to this whole pig thing, this whole pigs thing, qualifications aside, um, now she said publicly that she only found out about the hush money payments when when that story broke publicly. But, uh, according, the prosecutors are saying that she was directly involved in helping mich Cohen negotiate those payments, like you know, weeks before the 2016 election. And if that is the case and she's willing to testify to those facts, trump is fucked Like again in terms of consequences. This trial probably, more than likely, ain't going to put Trump behind bars, but it is going to get a felony conviction if, that's, if she testifies to facts anything remotely resembling, uh, what it seems or what it appears to be, that she knows. Uh, he, he screwed trump's, trump's fort. So he's finally going to face some kind of consequences legally.
Speaker 2:
I know we've been waiting on this moment, um, do you think hope hicks might fall out a window, or is that not? That just doesn't happen here.
Speaker 1:
I don't think, I don't think Putin is there. That would be yeah that would be pushing it. Like. I know we live in such a weird age with the misinformation, but there's no way they could spend that. They're not going to be like oh, hillary Clinton took out Hope Hicks because she was going to exonerate Trump. No one's going to.
Speaker 3:
I mean, if it didn't happen to Cassidy Hutchinson, I don't see it happening to Hope Hicks.
Speaker 1:
Right Again. We've been waiting on a moment like this where Trump finally faces some legal accountability, and I think we're finally going to get it.
Speaker 3:
Oh, gosh, I hope so and, as we said, you know everybody was hating on this, but this has turned out to be our one shot. Yeah, it looks like, at least before the election I mean our most you know, yeah, what the georgia thing?
Speaker 1:
unless somehow fanny willis gets removed from that case, that's. That's gonna go to trial, likely at the end of the year, maybe before the election, but it's definitely not going to conclude before the election. And in this dc case, with trump's attempt to overturn the election, um, I look the Supreme Court could find a number of ways to either one, completely boot the trial by granting Trump some form of immunity to these charges, or, two, they could find a way to infinitely delay it until after the election, if not as far after the election, and we don't have to get into the mechanics of that. But like we're really there's really only one path for the supreme court to get that trial back on track and that's to stamp out trump's claims for immunity and do it in a timely manner. Um, yeah, and then the the Florida documents case again on you.
Speaker 1:
You might listen to another a number of other podcasts who talk about every twisting turning development and in that, in that particular case I don't talk about it much on here because we already concluded, like a year ago the judge cannon was. I guess it hasn't been a year. We concluded six or seven months ago. The judge cannon was going to do everything she possibly could to ensure that this trial doesn't take place before the election, if it does at all. And I think we were pretty spot on in that analysis. And then all the you know and shout out to the people who like, inform you of, like the way the system is is designed to work and how Canon is abusing that with these, with you know, on these other platforms.
Speaker 1:
But I feel like we were spot on, like you know, in in every, in every instance where they're like, oh, we're down in the weeds about this particular motion and this ruling and in this filing, and in the fact that she's had all these motions that haven't been decided, but and they're not even on the die, and like the conclusion is that she ain't going to trial before the election unless they get her off the case, which again she's.
Speaker 1:
She's put DOJ here in a spot recently with demanding that DOJ submit some jury instructions that yeah, for all intents and purposes, or violate the law, like the jury instructions or the total opposite of what the law says. So, um, you know, if she orders, uh, anyway, more importantly is she's doing everything in her power to make sure that don't go to trial, but she might fuck around and make a reversible order that could get her appeal up off the case I mean, she's trying really hard, she's being really delicate to keep it from going to the 11th circuit court of appeals, yeah, but she also is not the brightest and sooner or later shit catches up to you she's gonna fuck around you're engaging in fuckery like that.
Speaker 1:
You know. I mean, she's also set herself up in a number of ways to tank the case once it does go to trial. It's a lot. We don't even need to get into the weeds Again that's what the other podcasts are for to get into the weeds of all the comings and goings of judge cannon in florida. We ain't there, uh, on this podcast because it's not going to go to trial, not as long as she's there. Um yeah, any anything else on, um hope hicks, carol, you got anything?
Speaker 1:
I'm tired, I mean uh yes, I too am tired of all of this shit, but I also have also also in another sense. It's midnight o'clock I know we're wearing you out with these late podcasts and I apologize, carol.
Speaker 3:
We're gonna do better but we need to start recording from the beginning and then save our shit talking for after.
Speaker 1:
Well, we'll keep that in mind for the next episode of the podcast. And so, moving on Arizona's pro-Trump fake electors, they were recently invited to testify before the grand jury and they chose to invoke their Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
Speaker 3:
You just fucking morons. I swear to God, these idiots, what the Just all of them.
Speaker 1:
I guess in arizona republicans are showing more and more to be like just dumb dumb, dumb dumb it's, it's crazy, right, because you like once upon a time, not that long ago, you would think of, like the arizona republican party is like the fucking gold standard Like from.
Speaker 1:
John McCain on down. You'd be like if there was a model for a reasonably center-right conservative party that engaged with the public in a manner of ways that were typically popular and resulted in electoral wins, you'd look at Arizona. You'd be like that's what you guys can be, and now it's like the carry lake everything, or everything trump touches die standard of republicans in there.
Speaker 2:
Yeah, it's just, and she's right like I'm assuming that she is or she's prime, or I guess it's still primary time.
Speaker 3:
Well, she's the front runner, Like she's ahead of Ruben Gallego, like in polling, yeah, but look just again, polls.
Speaker 1:
We ain't got time to get into the specifics of how off the polls have been. We'll do that on another episode in. We'll do that on another episode, uh, but uh, just again. Side note uh, now that biden is is leading in a number of polls here, uh, in some swing states, and just in terms of um popular vote, ain't none of these news networks talk about polls? No more.
Speaker 1:
It's fucking hilarious, fucking hilarious, how quickly that conversation died. Now that Biden has a slim lead, nobody cares about the polls Again. And another side note from that again, I'm sorry to go off on all these tangents, but however inaccurate the polls are, what you can kind of take away from them is like shifts from one candidate to another, so maybe the polls aren't accurate. But for a poll to go from, like you know, a Trump Trump plus two to Biden plus three or whatever, for instance, that is like a five point swing and regardless of that, like the fact that that's not predictive is one thing, but that it is showing some movement, if you can correlate that with, you know, developments in the news cycle or feelings about the economy, like that. Those are the takeaways that you can get from polls in in some instances.
Speaker 1:
But yeah, you know, the republican party chair and a number of her cohorts uh, from the fake elector plot prosecutors invited a number of them in front of the grand jury and and they were were all invoking their fifth amendment. Right, and I don't think it's noteworthy that they pleaded the Fifth, but I do think it's noteworthy that we're at a stage where the grand jury was like, okay, these are potentially targets of the investigation, but we're going to give them the opportunity to come in and share their side of the story and typically when you reach that point where you're interviewing the targets potential targets anyway this is the place where subjects do become targets. Not long after that you typically get indictments. So we could be in the, we could be nearing yet another set have had little to no effect in terms of how the stuff is covered by the news and the mainstream media, rather, and what effect it has on public opinion.
Speaker 1:
But that shit is all different when it's election season. Like the Republican party can't survive much more it is. And if more fake electors are indicted or you know the Republican party chairs indicted in Arizona and we get other indictments in other States, like it's spelling doom, like we're. We're lining up all the dominoes and all it's going to take is tipping a couple of them over for all of this to implode, especially this time of year. Any thoughts, kiddos?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I'll take it. I will take it.
Speaker 1:
You'll take it.
Speaker 2:
I mean, yes, this is all. I'm just enjoying listening to you today.
Speaker 3:
Well.
Speaker 2:
I appreciate your undefined attention.
Speaker 3:
It's going to be really fun to watch as the races get down to the wire and who's going to come through. Because there is no money and they aren't getting a dime from Trump Not a dime. And then they won't getting a dime from Trump Not a dime. And then they won't be getting any from the voters either, because they've capitulated to MAGA, but MAGA's giving to Trump. So it's like they just they cut off their nose to spite their face, and I love this for them. Fuck them, fuck them.
Speaker 1:
They're not going to have it and I'm here for it fuck them, they're not gonna have it and I'm here for it. Well, I think, um, at least specifically arizona. Like it was cool, you got invited in to speak to the grand jury. You, you took your fifth, like really what it was. I mean, I don't know, necessarily, I can't speak to the mind of the prosecutor specifically, but really it's also an opportunity to become a cooperating witness before you get indicted. Like this is your opportunity to flip right here you can point the finger, but they didn't do that and they probably going to pay the price.
Speaker 1:
And if you're listening to this podcast, make sure you stay tuned. You get to join in and laugh with us. This is more. Indictments are handed down and finally, the Florida Supreme Court has put abortion on the ballot in November in Florida by ruling that a six week abortion ban can go into effect, which is, you know, not ideal into effect, which is, you know, not, not, not ideal. But it does not apply to that. No, but they are going to allow, uh, uh, ballot measures in November to enshrine rights to abortion or access to abortion up to 24 weeks in the state constitution, and they're also going to put recreational marijuana on the ballot. So, I think, a few huge takeaways.
Speaker 2:
Because I'm going to Florida in like three weeks and you know, I mean, could you just expedite that one?
Speaker 1:
Carol, you trying to blaze up, you know, on your vacation here. Sorry you're going to have to wait, but what I think they do have like. They do have like the legal synthetic marijuana.
Speaker 3:
Oh, they do have a Delta 8. They have.
Speaker 1:
Delta 8,.
Speaker 1:
Delta 0, all that good stuff. So that's an option, but, yeah, a couple of huge takeaways from this Largely having abortion on the ballot or candidates run in support of access to abortion candidates, as we recently had a? Uh in a house seat or wait, a state seat in alabama flip, where the the democratic candidate won by 25 points, which is just fucking insane. Um, this doesn't bode well for republicans. Uh, obviously, this does put florida into play for Joe Biden Not that you should necessarily expect that, but it is now not only possible, but it likely spells doom for a number of other Republicans. Rick Scott, for instance. We could potentially lose his Senate seat in November.
Speaker 1:
It's about time, yeah, but you know like this will have consequences that reverberate far beyond florida, because republicans at this point, given the trump lost in 2020, um, he's going to have to win, not only win states that he lost in 2020, but with with this development, he's going to have to defend states that he won in 2020 and just give him the state of affairs with the funding of the Republican Party, like the party's broke, the apparatus to raise funds is totally dysfunctional.
Speaker 1:
Laura Trump strong, strong, armed her way into controlling the RNC money to Trump. Now, like this, like it's going to be impossible for them to spend enough money to defend or fend Florida, rather, while also defending North Carolina, while also spending in all these swing states to Trump. It's just, it's a wreck, it's a dumpster fire and I potentially think that this could be like the tipping point for the end of their chances in 2024. Like, I'm not guaranteeing you Biden is going to win, but just if you look at the circumstances and the way things are lining up, this development is probably the one in which you can. You will be able to look back on in November and say it really started today. This is where Biden's path to victory yeah.
Speaker 1:
I mean that's not totally fair. But where it's kind of solidified possibly this is the inflection point, All right all, right all right, I know you're, you know you're exhausted and I've worn you out, so we'll get to our shithole of the week award. Um, obviously, there's a number of candidates every single week who could likely warrant the nomination, but I feel like um after this weekend.
Speaker 2:
Thank you for applying for our asshole of the shithole of the week award. We get so many applications, so please understand you aren't chosen this week, but you'll have many chances to be named shit hole of the week well, I feel like we have to nominate, uh, caitlyn jenner.
Speaker 1:
Um, so if you're unaware, somehow, if you're listening to this podcast and you're not, like you know, totally enraptured by the social medias and deep diving into the Internet shenanigans, I guess it's possible that you missed all. The Republican outrage over Easter happened. Well, easter Sunday happening to fall on the same day as the transgender day of visibility. There was a lot of right-wing fake outrage about that. We don't have to get into it, but basically it's a day that's been around for over a decade. It just so happens that, because Easter shifts around, because you know again, that's a day that it's always on Sunday and doesn't necessarily line up on the calendar the same date every month, just a sheer coincidence here.
Speaker 1:
But Jenner herself came out and said on on the social media is quote I am absolutely disgusted that Joe Biden has declared the most holy of holy days a self-proclaimed devout catholic is transgender day of visibility. The only thing you should be declaring on this day is quote well, quote inside of a quote he is risen, emphasis on he. Um, and I just like yo man, you trans too bitch. Like what the fuck? I just don't understand. Like how?
Speaker 1:
I don't understand why why, yes, why, are you railing against trans people and you trans?
Speaker 3:
and then we're just gonna bring that around to Clarence Thomas, the people who run that like gaze for Trump or anti. What is the gaze against rumors? Them people? Because they are vile too.
Speaker 1:
Yeah, not great, but yes, Caitlyn Jenner is the Clarence Thomas of the trans community.
Speaker 3:
Yes.
Speaker 1:
You know, if there are any trans listeners out there, we like I would. I hate to speak for you, but I would imagine you probably feel about Caitlyn Jenner the way me and Ty feel about Clarence Thomas. We just vomit. But yeah, caitlyn, you were hereby awarded the shithole of the week award. Bitch, look in the mirror sometimes Just like what the fuck? I don't understand. All right, carol. Closing thoughts. Got any news or opportunity?
Speaker 2:
Yeah, I went to vote today in the primary the Democratic primary in New York, and I was only the 10th person to vote in my precinct at like 7 pm. The polls close at 9 and they're open from like 6 am, so it's not great, not a great showing. Dee talked about don't, don't. Don't. Take what Dee said as an indication that you shouldn't stay vigilant and vote, because you know every vote does matter, and I would have probably murdered my husband if somehow Joe Biden didn't win in New York. She didn't say that what I said that murdered.
Speaker 3:
No, we don't talk murder, we don't premeditate no no, no, no.
Speaker 2:
Anyway, stay on top of it. Don't. Don't let your precinct only get 10 fucking votes in a day. Bad Engage, this isn't. Nothing is a given. Anyway, take it away next person.
Speaker 1:
That would be Ty Closing thoughts after you.
Speaker 3:
Yeah, I had wanted to. I was listening to this pod today and it's something that I had thought about and he was just talking about just how there's no community anymore. And I was thinking about that same thing in my old neighborhood when they were building these houses and I would look at how they build communities. Now, while these houses were super close together, it was less about community than trying to fit as much onto the space. But there was no, no playground, but there's.
Speaker 3:
These are made, these neighborhoods were made for families, but there was no like community space, things that get people out of their houses, get them into the neighborhood, gets them to where they interact and engage with their neighbors. To know them, you know, and I was just you know, and so when they were talking about it, I was like, wow, okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one that you know has noticed, you know has noticed that. But yeah, I was like you know, no swimming pool in the community, no playground, not even like a common, like grassy area, no, you know, just anything like a walking trail where people can walk their dog, a little dog park where people could meet up, and I think that has a lot to do with the state of things today, why people are so afraid, and it's because they don't know each other.
Speaker 3:
There's no wanting to get to know each other. And my best friend, lizette, called me today. I was on the way to get Jeremy and her kids go to public school Now. They used to go to private school, but during COVID, and then she loves public school. She's like oh my God, the resources, public school is great. I've been wasting money.
Speaker 3:
And she was talking about one of her son's friends and they have their group of friends and the little boy I'm not going to say his name, but his mom is mexican but his dad is like a afro latino, so she goes. She doesn't know if he's like me, the dominican or panamanian or puerto rican, but he's not an American black guy. But the kid is, you know, half and half, but whatever the case. So they were one of the kids. They were like hey, are you going? You know everyone's all excited and he's like no, my dad says I can't go. And then you know and the kids are like what, what, why not? And then Caleb, the little boy, is right there and he goes. My dad said he doesn't trust black people. Now, mind you, these are 11 year olds yeah, that's crazy and and the little boy just goes.
Speaker 3:
Oh, it's all right, I get it. And the little boy just goes, it's all right, I get it. And Lizette was like friend, like this kid is in sixth grade and yet is carrying the baggage of these adults to have to be at 11 years old to be understanding of this kid's father's bigotry, at 11, you know. And I said, well, his dad has probably already prepared him at this age to what he would have to deal with. But it's just, and she goes. I in public school I never would have thought you know people are, she goes, but I just don't understand. And and she was like her son just looked at him and she, he was just like, really like it, just he couldn't wrap his head around that like these kids. And so it's like that same thing.
Speaker 3:
It's like here is a friend of his kids and he's made no effort to get to know the parents, no effort to well, you know what? Let me, let me step outside of my comfort zone and reach out to these parents and maybe maybe say hi to them in the carpool, maybe speak to them, maybe get to know them as people. So at this point this guy is, is exinging his son out, isolating him from his own community at school, in that he now they're gonna be like oh, that's the one with the racist dad, or you know what I mean or not being able to enjoy because of his dad's bigotry, when all his dad has to do is get to know and it just continues to fuel. Which is why they want these vouchers, which is why they want their kids homeschool, because this kid, he's a part of this group and he probably knows that what his dad is saying isn't true, because he's not experiencing that.
Speaker 3:
This kid is a part of his friend group, otherwise he wouldn't have even been invited. And this kid is a part of his friend group, otherwise he wouldn't have even been invited. And so that's conflicting for them. And so this kid, this poor kid, has now had something heaped on him that he's going to have to reconcile himself with as he gets older. Yeah, you know so, but it all ties into it. And then they continue to isolate themselves more and more and more.
Speaker 1:
You know, I just pour that kid a shot of vodka. He deserves it.
Speaker 3:
You know, I just, but I do hope that it doesn't change who he is, but it makes him more compassionate, though I have a feeling that the dad felt so comfortable to say that this kid will have to hide any kind of friendship. He has probably the dad felt so comfortable to say that this kid will have to hide any kind of friendship he has probably, like they used to some back in the day when they would play at school with when they went home. We were living separate lives, you know, and they knew that that kid would never be invited to their birthday, that they would never be able to go to that kid's birthday. But it's sad because this is 2024, you, you know, and we are a multi, you know, racial community.
Speaker 1:
Well, that is until Trump wins in November and begins the purge. And that concludes this episode of Pardon the Insurrection.