Shonique was made for Congress Episode 3

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Today in this pod, I'm going to continue my conversation with Shonique Williams out of California, running for California District 41. We've covered some of the things that have transpired in her life that have happened, that have motivated her and have pushed her in this direction. And like she had mentioned before, she's built for this. And we found out exactly what, what she means by that. And we are going to find out more of why she is built for this in today's episode. My name is Kurt Mullet. I'm Hoosier Blue and I have something to say. Let's get at it. So, Shanique, I just want to tell you once again, thank you for joining me and sharing your story with us. Two people from different parts of the world. We were talking about the temperature earlier and you're saying it's going to get in the 90s and where you live today. And last night we had snow and 19 degrees. And we also talked about our dogs and how they distract us and you can hear mine in the background. So we're like in a lot of ways, although we're different parts of the world. But I just want to tell you, thank you for joining me once again. And today we're just going to cover your story about your campaign and how you decided and what made you decide to run for office. [00:01:31] Speaker B: Well, yeah, so as you know, from different parts of the world. But I love these conversations with people, as I told you when we first met, because I consider these to be healing conversations. If we take the time as people to sit down and to actually speak with someone, you know, speak and listen to understand, not listen to react, we'll learn that we have to so much more in common with someone than we have different. Right. And doesn't matter your race, your color, your background, your age, any of that, none of those things matter. There really are a lot of commonalities with many people in the world. And so, you know, I'm delighted to know that me sharing my domestic violence experience and that was just one portion of the story. And I didn't even go into all the detail, as much content as that was. I didn't go into all the details, detail of how that case resolved and closed out. But I'm delighted to know that it has sparked a desire in other victims, other survivors to speak up and to share their story. I encourage people to speak up and share their story. No matter what you experienced, as I said in, I believe it was the first episode. I unfortunately have experienced just about every trauma in life. You can think of starting in childhood, physically, mentally, emotionally, sexually abused there, you know, as an adult, went through a lot of different harms with the domestic violence, the wrongful incarceration over policing, racial profiling. I, you know, did not speak to previously. I've experienced child loss. I had a son that passed away, stillborn in April of 2020. So imagine that the height of the pandemic, and I experienced a stillborn child. You know, that was my, that was my only child. You know, it's, it's these things that have shaped me. And when I say that I'm built for this, when I say I'm built for Congress, what I mean by that is in elected office, we need someone, we need people, we need individuals that believe in people over politics. I'm highly educated, you know, I have a master's degree in legal studies and I graduate law school here in just a few weeks. I have not ever received less than a 3 point cumulative GPA upon obtaining any degree. However, based on the fact that I do cuss a lot when I'm angry, which I think everybody in America should be angry, and we're actually not angry enough, I, I do believe that people, you know, automatically perceive, right. And it's not even my thoughts. This is based on my DMs and the hate speech that I get, right? People automatically perceive that I'm not educated, that I'm not articulate because they see me screaming and cussing, right? And it's, it's, it's the thought process not of, well, what is she screaming and cussing about? What is she upset about? That, that thought process doesn't come to a lot of people's minds. Instead it's like, oh my God, she's ghetto. Oh my God, she's ignorant. Oh my God, she's chimping out. And it's like, hmm, Interesting, because as I spoke with you about previously, Kurt, if I was a non black woman and I was saying the exact same things, exact same tone, exact same amount of cuss words, no one would call me ghetto. No one would call me ignorant. No one would assume that I came from, you know, underprivileged background. No one would assume I'm on welfare. I saw a comment the other day, someone was like, oh yeah, she must she. Because this is before they knew I was a congressional candidate. And they, they were responding to some viral moments that I've had. Oh, I bet she has multiple baby daddies and multiple kids. No, no, but this was, this is just the ignorant perception and Thought all just because I'm a black woman. It's, it's nothing other than that. It's because I'm a black woman. And then some of these same ignorant people that were flooding the comments, you know, with, with that, the moment they find out I'm a congressional candidate because this wasn't on my platform, that they were making these ignorant, you know, biased, anti black, racist comments, the moment they found out I was a congressional candidate because another person goes in there and comments, it's like, oh, the Democrats just let anybody run for office. Well actually, if you know anything about government, you know, anything about America, anybody can run for office. Look at who's your president. Look at who's your president? Your president. Cuz he's not my president. Your president is Donald Trump. Your president is a man that is not educated, that does not have any qualifications to run for president. However, he has strange cult that follows him around Trump supporters and MAGA extremists. And there is not a question of his intelligence, although he has multiple bankruptcies, although he's a 34 count felon of heinous crimes, although, you know, he spews hatred, bigotry, racism on a left to right basis, he wakes up and does that. No one challenges his intellect. No one challenges if he was built for the position he was built for. So went on that rant to say, when I say I'm built for this, what I mean is someone that has figured out the system, has fought through systematic barriers, has fought through oppression, that's the person we need in office. Because when you have people sitting at this table and they're making decisions for welfare recipients, disabled participants, women, people of color, minorities of any kind, you know, marginalized communities of any kind, and they themselves do not fit in that demographic or they are so removed from those demographics. Demographics, right. Because let's be honest, people get to a certain status in life and then they look down on where they came from. When people do that, you're not a representation, not a real representation of the people because you can be a black woman in elected office and then not be a black woman in elected office. Right? Black people, we love to say all skin folk, are not kin folk. And what that means is just because someone looks like you, they have the same color or race or you know, background of you, that does not mean that they are going to represent you. Because people do sell out, people do find themselves, you know, desiring whatever political career that they want. So they no longer are representations of the people. [00:08:00] Speaker A: Right? And we Talked about that before in the previous. I think the first episode was how, you know, just because. Just because you're white doesn't mean you all think the same way. Just because you're black doesn't mean y' all think the same way. Just, you know, I mean, those, those are true across the board. And I want to go back to your comment, what was made to you about the Democratic Party allowing anyone to run. Well, yes, it is a fact. Like you said, anyone can run, but the Democratic Party is a true representation and we want a true representation of the United States. Well, and let me back up. No. Okay. Yes. [00:08:42] Speaker B: Let me party too. [00:08:45] Speaker A: Right. Okay. Let me. Because this is an educational path that we're taking here. Okay. That means my education, too. And this is the mis. You know. [00:08:58] Speaker B: Well, that's what it's supposed to be about. So I can agree. [00:09:00] Speaker A: Yeah. The optics aren't quite there, but we are supposed to be the party of diversity that represents all walks of life in this country, regardless of race or gender or anything. Who you love any of that. And I always refer back to the picture of Congress that shows the Republican side and the Democrats, Democratic side. And I think it is a good representation of our country. And who does represent them more? It's more that comment I would have said. Well, it's more along the lines of the Republicans don't allow or don't want everyone to run. They only want a certain type to run. So, I mean, that's where I would say that about that. But yes, I understand when I say that the Democratic Party isn't a representation of who we are. It really is not. And I've learned to understand that more and more as time have, as I've gotten more political in my older years and understanding that. So I shouldn't say stuff like that because it's simply not true. But we are trying to improve that. But you and I talked about some of the shit that went down with Jasmine and instances with her, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene and how you got two women who. And I don't want to tear people down, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is along the lines of Donald Trump. She's a freaking idiot. She got her money because of her family. Okay, you ain't got to do it. [00:10:38] Speaker B: I'll do it. Fuck her. [00:10:40] Speaker A: Yeah. And Jasmine, you know, her education, you could put up with any against anyone in Congress and probably would stack up to all of them. So. [00:10:51] Speaker B: Yes, sir. [00:10:51] Speaker A: Anyway, that's. [00:10:54] Speaker B: So just going back in clarifying. The Democratic Party has failed us. The Democratic Party is complicit. I'm a Democrat. I'm a proud Democrat. Because when I was 8 years old and I learned about the Democratic and the Republican Party at school and I came home and I was talking with my grandma and, you know, she's asking what did I learn in school? And I'm, you know, telling her what I learned. I just remember I asked her, I said, you know, well, Grandma, what are you? Are you a Democrat or a Republican? My grandma told me, we're Democrats, baby. And from 8 years old, I have been a Democrat, I will die a Democrat. But also with her telling me, you know, we're a Democrat, she went on to explain what the Democratic Party was about. And I agree with you. Your, your thoughts, your, you know, and even just the way that you stated in that moment, I know that for you, the Democratic Party means what it means to me as well. We are a party for the people. We are supposed to be the party that represent the underprivileged, the underrepresented, the over police, the minority, the marginalized. Like that's who we are supposed to be. But the Democratic Party is failing to do that. One of the reasons, there's a million reasons. I'm running for Congress, right? But one of the reasons I'm running for Congress is because Democrats are getting their ass whooped in Congress. And I don't appreciate it. Democratic Party is allowing people like Marjorie Taylor, they were allowing her to come in and dispute whatever ignorance she wanted. And they were not willing to stand up. They were not willing to speak out. And then when you had someone doing it, such as Jasmine Crockett, she was being viewed as ghetto. She was being viewed as ignorant. She was being viewed as the problem. No, she was speaking up. She was speaking up. She was fighting for what she believed in. Not just, not for her own personal benefit, but for the people that she was responsible for advocating for. When you're in Congress, you're not responsible for advocating for just your district, for just your state. You're literally responsible for the whole entire United States. I think people's brains do not grasp that concept because they have horrible fucking representation in Congress for their district and for their state. So even me being a candidate in District 41 here in California, I let people know all the time, baby, listen, the way I'm going to be in Congress, you are not going to remember what district I run for. I promise you, you're not going to remember what district, because I'm going to be on their ass like you're not going to remember because you shouldn't, you should not remember what district a congressional candidate, a congressional elected official represents, in my opinion, which I believe to be the way it should be. Because Congress is a federal position, okay? We are not talking, you know, city council, mayor, those are, those are local positions, that city. Congress is federal. So with us being in a federal seat, a federal position, you have a responsibility, again, in my very strong opinion, to answer to the entire country, not just your district and not just your state. And so if someone is in office and you do that in Congress and you don't know their name, right now, it's a problem. Vote their asses out. And the reason I say that, and I say that with certainty, I don't care who it is, vote them out. Because it's complicity. There's not a reason we should only know a few names in Congress. Everybody sitting here watching this, we know who Jasmine Crockett is. We know who AOC is, right? There's certain names we know why. Because they stand up, because they speak out. We know who Ilhan Omar, we know these names. Not because they're problematic, not because they're disruptive, not because they're ghetto, not because they're ignorant, because they stand the fuck up. They do not back down. They do not care who it is. And I will go on to say, not just against the Republican Party, I love when someone even comes up against their own party. So for me, the reason I had to stop you with the Democratic comment is because that is how our party is supposed to be. But the Democratic Party continuously fails people. The Democratic Party will sit here. Karen Caldims, California Dems. They know that they are on my shit list because even with me being in California, we had Prop 50, right? Prop 50 was a result of the gerrymandering that took place in Texas. Our governor here decided to. Okay, that's how Texas wants to play. Let's even the playing field. Let's go ahead and redraw our congressional maps here in California. But we're not going to gerrymander. We're actually going to allow the voters in California to decide if this is what they want. California voters, we showed up, we showed our asses out. We voted yes in favor of Prop 50. We got new congressional maps as of November of 2025. That is literally what opened up the seat that I'm running in. This district used to be in Riverside county where I told all you guys my story from this is full circle of why this seat is meant for Me, this originally was in Riverside county, in the very same county that I expressed, you know, my harm, the domestic violence and everything that I went through. And it left. And it was under a Republican. He don't even get no camera time. He's not about to get a name out of me. Fuck him. So it was under that Republican over there. Very proud Trump supporter, maga. And so the seat came over here to southeast Los Angeles, North Orange County. So it's what's known as an open seat. Open seat because there's no incumbent. Right. Well, my opponent, she gets camera time. Linda Ineffective as Sanchez, she gets to leave California District 38 and she gets to run in California District 41 as the incumbent. So that would confuse voters because they'd be like, wait, I thought you just said it was an open seat and there was no incumbent. Correct. But the way Congress works and people don't know that if a current congressional candidate leaves their seat and go runs in another seat, another district, mind you, her map, her district did not get erased. She left her district and she's coming to run in the open seat. She gets to become the incumbent there because she's currently still in Congress even though, guess what, Bet you didn't know her name until I just said it. Linda Ineffective Ass Sanchez. She's been in Congress. She's been in Congress for 23 years. I'm 34, ma'. Am. If you've been in Congress Since I was 11 year old, why doesn't America know who you are? Because you sit down, you're complicit, you're silent. [00:17:15] Speaker A: I've never heard her name. [00:17:16] Speaker B: No. [00:17:17] Speaker A: And I guarantee I won't forget it now. [00:17:19] Speaker B: I guarantee nobody. Oh, I won't let you forget. Nobody watching this. Sanchez's name. People in California did not know who Linda Ineffective Ass Sanchez was until I started running a campaign against her. And the reason I call her Linda Ineffective Ass Sanchez, this is, this is literally her name. [00:17:34] Speaker A: Well, it's kind of self explanatory, isn't it? [00:17:38] Speaker B: Let me help people, the viewers, understand why I call her that. I'm not just picking on her. She's ineffective as hell. She's been in Congress for 23 years. She has authored one bill that got passed. We have a city in the district known as Whittier. Whittier, California. Whittier, California is what she terms her hometown. She renamed, okay, this post office already existed. She renamed a post office in the city of Whittier. That is the bill that she authored. [00:18:03] Speaker A: And that is, oh my gosh you. [00:18:07] Speaker B: Wow, America. You have paid this woman for 23 years to be your Congress. Your Congress member. 23 years. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Effective as hell. [00:18:17] Speaker B: 23 years. That's the only bill she has passed. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Wow. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Get out of the way, lady. I need you to go down. [00:18:23] Speaker A: Sit your ass down. [00:18:25] Speaker B: And on top of that. Hold on. She didn't. Stole. Her husband allegedly stole $800,000 of her congressional money that she didn't know about. I say allegedly because. Hold on, he was convicted. She just alleges that she didn't know. If anybody knows anything about FEC filings and reportings. Baby, how did your husband steal $800,000 of your money from your congressional money and you did not know? Because we have to stamp, write and approve everything. If you have a treasurer. [00:18:51] Speaker A: Bullshit. [00:18:52] Speaker B: Right. Shout out to my treasurer. Because even as a candidate, he don't play any games. You can't get no dollar out of him if you do not get approval from me. So I know even as a candidate that what she's stating is inaccurate. And I also know if they were able to track the fact that he stole $800,000, oh, that's well over a million plus dollars that he stole. And guess what? This was happening during the height of the pandemic. So while we were struggling as Americans, as Californians, as the people that were in her current district at the time, that would've been District 38. While we're struggling to feed our families, we're struggling to get rent, you know, memorandums put in place so that we didn't get unhoused because of the pandemic and people being laid off left to right, people literally dying in the street. Linda Ineffective Ass Sanchez and her husband, they're off there squandering the money of the community. And that's just the money we know about. That's just what we know about. So for me, I'm very loud and I'm very vocal about the corruption and the people that stay in place. I didn't lose my track of mind. The reason I have an issue with the California Democratic Party, in particular, the Democratic Party as a whole. When Linda Ineffective Ass Sanchez came over here to District 41, they automatically endorsed her. Automatically. So it's me and it's one other Democrat running. This is a solid blue district, so we don't even have a Republican run in this race. So we did not get the opportunity to present ourselves as candidates. We didn't get the opportunity to, you know, win the endorsement. I'm not saying they could not have endorsed Her. But open up the platform and allow each candidate to present to yourself, you know, the California Democratic Party. Why we deserve your endorsement. Nope. They automatically gave it to Linda Sanchez. That's a democracy. Fuck California Democratic Party. So I'm a strong Democrat, but fuck my own party. Because at the same time, my own party needs to be dismantled and rebuilt. Because somewhere in here, they lost the goal. The goal was to amplify the voices of the people. The goal was to be the party for the people. So I tell everyone that I'm in space with, listen, I am a representation of the Democratic Party. I grew up on the welfare system, okay, As a child, previous to going into foster care and then aging out of the foster care system, fighting through all of the barriers that I did. And guess what the Democratic Party does. This is who they say that they feed money into the poor, the working class, marginalized women, domestic violence survivors, incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, low income, you name it. I literally check off basically every fucking box of the Democratic Party who we represent. So why aren't you rallying behind me, Democratic Party? Why? Instead of Linda and effective ass Sanchez, she doesn't fit into the bill of the Democratic Party. Oh, I know. It's money. It's all about money. It's all about greed. It's all about corruption. You would really sit here and as you're listening to me, you're like, go Google this shit. This is all available. Like, damn, how could this be true? How could somebody be in office for 23 years and be doing nothing? How does she keep getting voted in? [00:22:00] Speaker A: Oh, it's, that's, that's, that's something that happens across the nation. And, and it's, it's, it's wild that you're sitting here talking about these things and I'm sitting here thinking this is the same shit that's going on in Indiana. The same kind of crap that's going on in Indiana. It is all about. Because I, I, I can't stand our Democratic Party. And there's a lot of us that, [00:22:23] Speaker B: of course, Linda Sanchez, it's all bullshit. Almost, Almost half a million dollars from APOC funds. What? Her other dark, corrupt money. She has majority of the elected officials local in her pocket, from the mayors to the goddamn, you know, city council members. It's all corrupt and it's all bullshit. So people are not wrong. [00:22:42] Speaker A: It's all about money. [00:22:43] Speaker B: When they say the lesser of two evils, they're not wrong. But I'm just one of those family members, right? You know, in a family where it's like, hold on. I could talk shit about my family, but you can't talk shit about my family. I'm gonna talk about my mama. You better not talk about my mama. That's how I'm about the Democratic Party. Because it's like, hold up. They are, they are wrong. But I'm here to revive the Democratic Party. So I said, I think on one of these other episodes, I'm not saying that, you know, we need to go run up and storm the White House, but if anybody was supposed to do it, it is supposed to be the Democratic Party, because what do you mean we're allowing a pedophile to remain president? What do you mean? Somebody that literally has these types of Right. Because it's not the fact that he's a felon, because again, shout out to redemption. I do believe anybody can have a second chance. I don't care that Donald Trump is a felon and he's president. My issue is the reason he has felonies, okay? And then my issue is the felonies that he needs to have that he has not received. And my issue is the fact that he has not been sentenced. But we have people sitting in prison right now for weeks. [00:23:49] Speaker A: My issue is that on January 20th, an hour after the inauguration, January 20th of 2021, an hour after the inauguration, that the FBI wasn't at his doorstep fucking arresting his ass and throwing him in prison for insurrection against our country. That complicity. I know, but I mean, that was it. And I think it was for a lot of people. And I'm sure the California Democratic Party is exactly the same as the Indiana Democratic Party when it. Yeah, beyond that, they, they. They hate progressives and they do not want progressives to win elections in this state. They want centrist who are going to concentrate. [00:24:39] Speaker B: They want moderates. Because centrists sometimes be swayed to be a little bit progressive. They will. [00:24:45] Speaker A: Republican, Republicans, whatever you want to call them. [00:24:48] Speaker B: I mean, what I call it, I, I got terms for everything. They want Republicans that cosplay as Democrats. Somebody like Linda, ineffective ass Sanchez, you're not. She's not a fucking Democrat. You're not a Democrat. You are ashamed to our party. She needs to stop claiming us. Because when you are ineffective ass Sanchez like her, you make people believe that's what the Democratic Party is about. And it's not true. You're really a Republican. You cosplay as a Democrat. So when you come in as a Republican cosplaying as a Democrat and you fail the American people. The American people Then think that's what the Democratic Party looks like. It's just as bad when somebody disgusting as the fuck Donald Trump comes in and says he's a Christian. You're not a Christian. You're not a Christian. Rather, people like how angry I am and how much I cuss. Please believe, baby. I do not play about the word of God. I am a Christian. Right? Someone like Donald Trump, you're not a Christian. And so when you come in, you're not a Christian and you're a pedophile. You're not a Christian and you're a racist. You're not a Christian and you're a bigot. I'm a Christian. I cuss. And God's trying to deal with me with that, but he knows I'll be like, listen, Father, not today. I'll repent tomorrow. But at the end of the day, it's not a true representation of a Christian. But because Donald Trump and Maga and Trump supporters say that they are Christian, people look at the Christian demographic and they say, oh, yeah, see, this is exactly why I don't believe in God. This is exactly why I don't believe in Jesus. Because what do you mean that someone like Trump is a Christian? Well, he's not, sweetie. Read the Bible. You would literally see the way that Donald Trump lives and operates just as well as his followers. Nowhere in there does that align with Christian. Real Christian values, right? Because real Christian values, it's y' all Christians that think y' all Christians about to be real mad at me. Real Christian values. We love all people. You can. You can hate someone's sin. The Bible tells you that. But that does not give you the right to hate a person. You don't hate the person. You love the person. So if you hear someone pushing for hatred, pushing for division, pushing for bigotry, racism, maybe automatically right there, you know, they're not Christian. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Okay, well, you could go down a long line. You don't need to stop at Donald Trump. You can go with Mike Johnson, you can go Pete Hegseth. I mean, down the line. [00:26:58] Speaker B: They know those people you just named. A lot of those names is irrelevant. People don't have no idea who they are. Why? [00:27:04] Speaker A: Yeah, well, those of us in politics do, but, I mean, Nancy, Mace and others, they stand up there and talk about Christianity and all of this shit, yet they are so far removed from the teachings of Jesus Christ and what he told us to be as human beings. It's fucking insulting for those of us who know what the Bible said, but it's Christian nationalism that they are promoting. They're not promoting Christianity, they're promoting Christian nationalism, which is a completely different [00:27:39] Speaker B: same bullshit that slave masters were pushing to keep slave on plantation. That's when I say I'm Christian, I say I believe in God. Please know that I'm not talking about a slave master's teaching of the Bible. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm literally talking about being a true follower of Christ, a true personal relationship. I know the difference of believing in the message and not the messenger. You know, so I myself, I'm non denominational Christian because the messenger is irrelevant to me. It's the message. And if you yourself, you know, do not have that personal relationship with God, that that's not what we're talking about. So I won't go too much further down that rabbit hole Christianity point. But my point is it's the same right when you have the person that is not truly a Democrat, they're really a Republican cosplaying as a Democrat. It causes people to look at the Democratic Party. Oh yeah, they're weak. Oh yeah, they're not for the people. Oh yeah, they're evil. Oh yeah, I can't trust them, just like the rest. And it infuriates someone like me whose grandmother set her down at 8 years old and told her what the Democratic Party was. Because see, my grandmother was not far removed from segregation. So my grandmother was, well, alive, born and living through the same times as Ruby Bridges, as you know, some of these other young women, because Ruby Bridges is still only in her 70s. So that is a young woman still alive during the time of segregation. So she experienced and witnessed all of these things that America wants us to forget about when they want to erase the white supremacy history in this country, even though they still operate under that and they want to remove that from schools because they're so. I won't even say they're ashamed and guilty of their white supremacy. No, they're not. They're not ashamed and they're not guilty. Because if you're ashamed and if you were guilty, why are you still perpetrating that on today? They just don't want people aware, people educated and people knowledgeable of the harm that they are on today. You know, so with that being said, that's the Democratic Party that I stand for and I fight for because I know what it meant. I know the hope and the dream and the belief that someone such as my grandmother who was alive during segregation, I know what that meant to Her. And I know that the Democratic Party is a party of hope, and it is the party for the people. And so I'm very vocal about everybody that's not on that same mission of the Democratic Party being for the people. Get the fuck out of the party. Call it what you. And I'm not unapologetic about that. Get your sorry ass over there with the Republicans. And I don't care how Republicans feel about that. I do know when you run for office that you're supposed to try to adhere to both. Both sides, the Democrats and the Republicans. Absolutely not. Because Republicans back in the day, I probably could have, you know, adhered to a few of them, because I do know a lot of Republicans, some of the old school Republicans, had a thought process of, you know, safe, you know, economy, a thriving economy, things of that nature. That was before. But the moment Donald Trump became president and he ran as the Republican Party, you absolutely should have left your party, because it's a shame to be a Republican today. Even if you didn't leave then, when he won this second term, the fact that you're still a Republican disgustes me. [00:30:55] Speaker A: Right. Well, and they all said it when he ran the first time, every single one of them that are. That are licking his boots now stood right out there in front of a microphone and talked about what a horrible individual he was. I mean, from Ted Cruz to Marco Rubio. I mean, the list goes on. And here they are standing there, right there, carrying his luggage and licking his boots. [00:31:14] Speaker B: I'm not saying they're going to be Democrats. You could be an Independent. I don't. You don't have to. But I just right for you, currently still calling yourself a Republican and rallying and supporting behind a pedophile, like someone that literally children forget. Even everything else he did, he harmed children. So if you want to forget he's a racist, a big. All of that, okay, he harmed children. The Epstein files are. I literally saw. I went back and forth with some crazy MAGA yesterday, and she was sitting here saying that the Epstein files are fake and they're made up by the Democratic Party to tarnish Donald Trump's good name. What good name? What good name? [00:31:55] Speaker A: He's never had a good name. [00:31:57] Speaker B: He had the MAGA look, y'. All. And y' all know what the MAGA look is? She looked just like the maga. She had the look, you know, and it's like, oh, my God, you guys gotta stop paying attention to the party. Because, see, Donald Trump and his people, they don't even Want Medicare for All like I do. And baby, she needs Medicare for All because them teeth was just thrown in her mouth were so yellow. And it's like, you know, Medicare for all is actually going to take care of your dental appointments for free. You need Medicare for All. And she was proud Trump. And I'm like, listen, how are you proud Trump? And he won't even give you dental benefits. And you need them, okay? You need them. If nothing else because I mean, nothing was working for her the whole everything was bad. She was skinny but had a double chin. Med care for all because I'm serious, many people don't realize you can actually some great benefits under, you know, Medi Cal and Medicare you can get great benefits to take care of your, your gut health. And she needed that. And you know, this isn't a body shame, it's just so serious. She was skinny but had double chin. Something was very, very wrong on top of the yellow teeth that were just. [00:33:06] Speaker A: But what do you, what do you call this? Because this is where I struggle. Is it stupidity? Is it cult? Is it ignorance? Because studies have been done that shows that many of the policies that are being passed through right now and the big beautiful bill and all this other bullshit are going to hurt, hurt the MAGA based voters as much, if not more than the rest of us. And they all think it's about owning the libs when it's their asses getting owned. [00:33:32] Speaker B: I'm telling you, it's a cult. [00:33:34] Speaker A: What do you call it? [00:33:35] Speaker B: See, you and all rational people, we're trying to understand how and why, but we're not going to understand as rational people. You cannot understand Trump supporters. Rational people cannot understand maga. You go down a rabbit hole and you get more lost than Alice in Won Land. It's not possible for us to understand there's no greater explanation than these people are a cult. And the reason I say occult is because how else do you describe someone that is just blindly choosing to follow the. It doesn't matter if the Trump supporter is black, white, Asian, Latino. When you tell them anything, like you can tell them the, the crazy, just undisputable fact about Trump. Trump. And instead of just acknowledging and accepting the fact, I had, this is, this is a true, true story. I was out gathering signatures to get my name on the ballot, right? And in my district is a city by the name of La Habra. And so this is in Orange County. My district again is southeast Los Angeles, North Orange County. So I'm in La Habra and it borders whittier this area where I'm at, and I'm at a Walmart, actually gathering signatures to put my name on the ballot, like I said. So I'm walking up to random people. You know, you didn't have a look to me. I'm just walking up to people explaining, you know, hey, I need my name on the ballot. This is the signature amount I need. So I walk up to this couple, and it's a black couple. They're possibly in their 40s. So when I walk up to them, you know, I give my spill. They, they do take the time, they listen to me. And as I go on, one of the last things I said, I say, like, you know, I'm fighting for affordability and sustainability. It's too expensive in this country, the state of California, and we should be focused on affordability and sustainability in our country, because that is the cause and the reason for the homeless epidemic, all of these things. However, with Donald Trump in office, instead of getting to focus on what we really need to focus on, I'm also now prioritizing impeaching his ass. So that was the last part of my little speech. So as soon as I say that, that the husband in, in the, in the couple, he laughs. So I was just like, I took a step back, I said, aw, don't tell me y' all wanted him. So they keep laughing now, the ladies laughing, too. And so they're like, yeah, we, we actually love Trump. So I said, no, no, no, now I need you to talk to me. I said, come on. I said, black people, Black people, please talk to me. What, what do you mean you love Trump? What do you love about. So the, the wife, right? She's just like, I just, it's just, I mean, everything. I, I just love him. I said, okay. I turned to the man, I said, what do you, you love about him? And so he was just like, listen, I, I think he's right. You know, the, the, the, the immigrants have came here and took our jobs. I said, really? I said, what do you do for work? Right? What do you do for work? So he didn't tell me. The woman goes on to say that, oh, I, I, I work for the county. I, I work for the county. I said, oh, how long you been doing that? She said, you know, close to 20 years. I said, okay. And so we, we start dialoguing, right? Because she don't even know I'm about to just play all with her head. So I was like, oh, really? You know, how, how's that going? So she goes on about the spill, and she goes and says, yeah, well, and I see them come in mind she's talking about immigrants, right? And I see them come in and. And. And they get on, you know, welfare. They. They get on a cal, you know, CalFresh, and. And they just stay on it for years. They don't want to work. They don't want to do anything with themselves. I said, really? I said, because facts, data and statistics state that it's the white population of America that is the highest population that receives CalFresh and welfare benefits. She goes, well, I'm just saying, you know, from my office, I'm just saying where I work. I said, oh, okay. I said, well, but the facts and the data and the statistics like that can't be disputed. Even if that's what you see and experience in your office, that's not what's happening on a statewide level, let alone on a national level. And I, I'm talking to her calm, just like this, because she has no idea yet who she's talking to. So she's just like, well, yeah, I hear you. And I said, okay. I said, well, you know what? What else do you support about Trump? Like, why else do you love him? And so she was just like. She started laughing, and she was just like, you know, just everything. I said, listen, I'm asking because I'm trying to give you grace. I said, I'm trying to give you grace. I said, I'm trying to find it. I'm trying to find it, mind you. They got my clipboard in their hands at this time. I said, I'm trying to find it, and I'm trying to really understand what it is you like about this man, because I'm very confused right now. And I said, and as a black. You black. I'm trying to get it because he don't like us. He don't like black people. And she was like, well, see, that's just what people think. And that's not true. Trump doesn't dislike black people. He doesn't like immigrants. I said, you really think that? I said, you didn't see the video? You didn't see the pictures of him depicting Michelle Obama and Barack Obama on the apes? Like, you didn't see that? Because I seen it. She was like, yeah, I seen it. But I think he was saying it has something to do with the Lion King or something. Something. Believe that. And this is really. This is a true conversation, you guys. That happened in La Habra, California, just last month, in February 2026. Okay? So you think it. Get. It was bad? Oh, no, I'm telling y' all the story because it's so funny, because it kept getting worse. And again, she's not knowing who she's talking to. If any of you guys have tuned in yet to my Instagram, this is why. This is funnier, because she doesn't know who she's talking to. So we going back and forth. We're dialoguing still, and I'm still just trying to give her grace because it's funny before I eat her ass up. So then I'm just like, like, okay. I said, well, you know, even with all of that, we. We going through other, you know, a few other spills. I said, what. What about the Epstein files? So she said, well, what about them? I said, even if you know, you. You. You do, you know, love and support Trump, you know, on his issues and his policies that I disagree with? I said, you. You openly and willingly love and support a pedophile. So she was like, well, I. I don't think that, you know, the. The Epstein files are. Are actually, you know, what did she say? I don't believe that they're actually telling the truth of what I said, oh, I don't either. I definitely think there's more things that happen on the island that we will never know. And so she's like, no, I'm just saying I don't think it's telling the truth about Donald Trump. I said, no, you don't think he was on the island? She says, no, I mean, he might have went to the island, but I don't think he's just telling the truth about what he did on the island. And I said, well, what do you think he did on the island? So then she gonna say, well, you know, I just feel whatever he did on the island, it has nothing to do with me. It has nothing to do with him being my president, because it was before he came pres. Became president. President. I said, oh, you don't think he ever went to the island once he was president? She was like, no, I think that all of that was before president. I said, okay. I said, so what about the fact that there is solid proof that he participated in pedophilia? He was raping and molesting children. Like there's solid proof of that? What about that? She says, so serious. She says, again, anything he did before he became president has nothing to do with me. [00:40:24] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:40:25] Speaker B: So anybody that watches my content, I took a nice big step back because at this point in Time I was a little bit closer to her than Armreach. And I know me, and I know my personality, and I know my style. And you just told me that you do not mind or do not care for the fact that this person participated in these acts of pedophilia because it was before he became president. So you and I, or neither one of us are in a safe space right now. Cause I'm not safe from going to jail, and you not safe from being hit. Because, lady, what are you talking about? Right? So I take this large step back, and then I say, I said, can I have my clipboard back? I don't even. Can I have my clipboard back? Because they're holding it. So she's trying to continue to dialogue with me. And I said, ma', am, I just need my clipboard. And so she just was like, well, I'm just saying, you know, you know, people really just got to listen to what he's saying. And she's trying to. I said, no, no, no, I don't need to hear anymore. I just need my clipboard. So somewhere in there, she continues to try to talk. And I'm just like, can you please just give me my clipboard? Because we don't have anything else to talk about. Once you let me know that you do not care that this man has raped and molested children, there's nothing else for us to discuss because you clearly, you know, just whatever he has to say, you're going for it. And so again, she realized at this point, again, her holding this clipboard for me was what was keeping me from walking away. And mind you, the reason I would have walked away if the clipboard was blank, but it has other people's names, addresses, and information on it. So, you know, know, I couldn't leave that with her. And so she's again trying to hold it. She's literally holding it to her because she's trying to continue this conversation with me. And it's like, girl, you didn't already. You didn't say fighting words to me like, I protect children. You didn't say fighting words to me at this point, like, we don't need to talk about nothing else. So at one point in time, when she finally gives me the clipboard back, she gives me the clipboard back, and I go to look because my. She has signed. I go to look, and she has had. Resided in Compton, right? So I. I look at the clipboard, I laugh, and I said, you live in Compton. She's like, yeah. I said, well, what Are you doing shopping over here? Mind you, Compton's not in my district, you guys. Compton was. Is a distance from La Habra, okay? So I said, well, what are you doing shopping over here? She says, oh, well, I prefer to shop over here because it's. It's better. I said, so as a Republican, a proud MAGA Trump supporter, you understand that the demographics in which you live in Compton, it is better for you to shop in a city like La Habra because again, La Habra is in Orange County. Right. You understand that and you still believe in your party. And I just walked away from there because again, she had already said words that were significant enough to fight her. [00:43:05] Speaker A: So, yeah, you know, so from, from her first comment when she said that, that immigrants are taking a job, and then she told you about. [00:43:16] Speaker B: She'd been at her job almost 20 years and they didn't steal her job, so what job? [00:43:20] Speaker A: But then she told you about how they're constantly coming in and applying for welfare. [00:43:24] Speaker B: Yep. [00:43:25] Speaker A: So that's contradiction. Besides the fact that you pointed out that the data is there and it shows, you know, you know, those are bullshit lies. And then her mentality, that her mentality is a, it's a white MAGA mentality, well, it doesn't affect me, so I don't give a shit. And it blows me away. [00:43:51] Speaker B: It does affect her because remember, she lives in Compton. [00:43:53] Speaker A: Well, yeah, but I mean, that's just the mentality of the fucking. [00:43:57] Speaker B: She knew and she knows. Wait a minute. All cities aren't even created equal in America, Right? We're not even all created equal. [00:44:05] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:44:05] Speaker B: Over here in this community, in this neighborhood, you're. Your goods and your produce are not to the same standard as over here in this predominantly white neighborhood. La Habra, you guys that do not know, is predominantly white and Hispanic. And it is a very racist area. It's Orange County. Orange county is a racist county. Everyone knows that. And it is very harmful to the black community. So for her. [00:44:34] Speaker A: And Compton is a predominantly black community, [00:44:38] Speaker B: and it's ignorant, and it's ignorant that people think of Compton as ghetto, because Compton is not ghetto. Some great individuals came from Compton, such as Serena Williams. Right. And I'm just saying those names because those are who people know. But many great people came out of Compton. And so for her to live in a predominantly black community and neighborhood and to be a black woman, but then to shop in a predominantly white racist community and neighborhood, and at the exact same time you're spewing this hatred towards non black people, towards you know, undocumented, because I hate saying immigrant. Just they're all. They are fucking undocumented. They're people. Right? Towards an undocumented community. It just shows who you are, but you don't even know who you are. So I always explain to people, for one, what she was experiencing. She's experiencing anti blackness as a black woman. Remember I said all skin folk are not kin folk. But she also. Yes, as you pointed out, Kurt, and I love explaining to people, she has a white supremacist mentality. A white supremacist ideology. I tell people white supremacy is not about race or color. It is an ideology. You can be black, white, Asian, Native American, and you can still be a white supremacist. And I'm going to call you a white supremacist. No matter what color, race, sex, you know, demographic you come from. If you display white supremacist ideology like that woman, it's every. As you so eloquently pointed out, everything she said contradicted the other. How did undocumented people come here and steal your job? But you've been at your job almost 20 years. I don't know what the husband did for work. He never spoke up. I don't know. But they didn't clearly steal your job. Trump told you undocumented people come here and steal your job. So you ran with that, even though you've been at Your job almost 20 years. Years. How is it? [00:46:28] Speaker A: And, and her comment about Shanique, her comment about the Epstein files. These people are ignorant. What do they think that they're just like notepad paper where people have wrote down. Do they not understand that their actual testimony and their actual evidence that has come from court cases and that's what the Epstein files is. [00:46:48] Speaker B: Come forward and literally apologize to their wives about the ship island. They're not admitting that they participated in pedophilia, but they are saying, yeah, I was there, I was sleeping around, I was cheating on my wife. I'm so sorry. You know, we have people admitting to the sexual acts that were taking place there. It's just no one to admit to the pedophilia. But then we have documentation, redacted documentation, pictures and proof that the pedophilia was taking place there taking place and all [00:47:19] Speaker A: kinds of crazy shit that's coming up out, and they're not even being honest with us. [00:47:23] Speaker B: The fact that you're defending files that literally teeth, okay, Because I don't know how much you guys have gone down the rabbit hole. Teeth were being taken out of the, the mouth of children of toddlers to keep them from biting down on the perverted person's genitalia. Okay? There was a whole dentist. And the reason we know this is a fact and the reason we know this is not a major up fiction from, you know, a child or, or some person just looking to get paid is because. Go look at the pictures. There is a dental shop set up on the Epstein Island. It's. It's a dental shop. Why the hell would Epstein island need a dental shop? You guys? Like, why would they need dental devices? Why? Because it's true. They were snatching the teeth out of these children to keep these children from biting them. [00:48:16] Speaker A: They had their own gynecologist too. They had their own gynecologist children. [00:48:20] Speaker B: And, and let's be. What was that about? Because of the, the STDs that were being passed around the STI. You better goddamn believe it was for these forced abortions, okay? [00:48:31] Speaker A: Because they were now youth pregnant. [00:48:34] Speaker B: But then. Wait, the same Democrat, the, the, the, the, the, the same Democrats, the same Republicans? Because you better believe there was Democrats on that island too. The same. Yeah, the same Republicans, the same independents, the same politicians, the same celebrities that are now anti abortion. But you were all pro abortion back on the island when you guys were trying to hide your evidence of the women and the children that you were raping and molesting. So when you were forcing them. [00:49:02] Speaker A: But that's the hypocrisy of them. It's just the same thing as with the pro life people. How they want to drive home about the fetus being taken away or all of this shit. But they have no fucking problem with 30 some kids being blown away by an AK47 or genocide being, you know, takes place in Gaza or a school that gets bombed school, you know, they don't give a shit. Or just the way the poverty levels that hit our children and how children in this, in our own country, after they are born, how they are treated and taken care of. They're not pro life, they're pro birth. And it's just, it's an unbelievable. [00:49:46] Speaker B: They're not even birth, they're pro birth for their benefit because they don't want black men and women procreating together. [00:49:53] Speaker A: Right, right, right. Yeah. You know, Indiana, we have some of the strictest abortion laws in the country. I mean we've got people here that are trying to, to imprison women for life if they have an abortion. No exception for rape. No. Except no exceptions, period. Yet we have, we are ranked 47th in the nation for maternal mortality rate. And for black women. Women, we are 49th. And these want to make it. I mean, it's just, it's. [00:50:23] Speaker B: Oh, wait, but hold on. Even with that, have you heard about the concentration camps that specifically house young girls that are pregnant? Who did they get pregnant by? Because some of these young girls, they're, they're teenagers and young adults. Some of them have been in ICE custody for more than nine months. So who impregnated them? [00:50:47] Speaker A: Right. [00:50:48] Speaker B: Who impregnated them? You guys. Oh, because you're also going to then say, well, you didn't hear the news that there's ICE agents that will sit there and rape and molest these women and young girls, telling them if they do not have sex with them, that they're not going to let them see their kids, they're not going to let them see their mothers. This is what these federal agents that Trump has deployed in order to. To make America great. They're raping and molesting women, telling them, you will not see your children, you will not see your parents. If you do not have sex with me. That's fucking rape. If anybody knows anything about Priya, that's the Prison Rape Elimination act, okay? That is federal. Priya states that you cannot consent to sex when you are incarcerated in a prison, in a jail, whether that be federal prison, whether that be a county jail, whether that be a juvenile hall, you cannot consent. Why? Because when you are incarcerated, you are property. You're property of the state in which you reside and are, you know, the federal government. If you're in federal prison, you're. You're state property. You're federal property. So you cannot consent to sex even if you wanted to participate and consent to sex with another inmate. It's. It's illegal. You both can violate it for Priya, you both can be charged with rape of each other. That is the legal law. So knowing that, how and why do we have people that have been in ICE detention centers in America for an extended period of time? How are they pregnant? Who's having sex with them? Doesn't matter, right? Because it's against the law. But the thing is, even once you realize a lot of these people are actually minors, it's even more heinous, because now we're talking about statutory rape. We're talking about, you know, just the, the, the pedophilia, the harm of minors. It's continuing and it's ongoing, and there's no one policing it. There's no way. [00:52:48] Speaker A: Yeah, there's no. Yeah. And they're profiting off of it. They're making money. I know, I know. And, and again, this is, this is what happens when you and I start talking. You know, we could, we could fill up three hours in a heartbeat because [00:53:02] Speaker B: it just goes connected, all of it. [00:53:05] Speaker A: It's crazy. But they don't. We know, we know this regime does not give a fuck about the law. They break law law. They break the law. [00:53:13] Speaker B: Have not followed the rabbit hole, the 13th amendment. Okay, so you had slavery in America. Slavery was supposed to be abolished, Right. However, under the 13th Amendment, the way that you were able to continue on with slavery was due to incarceration. So when many people, ignorant people, wonder why, oh, black people, why do they always say that they're just being over policed and you know, because we are. And the reason why is because the system, I hate when people say the system is broken. It's not broken. The justice system operates. The criminal justice system operates the way that it was designed. It was designed to further advance slavery. And so when slavery was supposed to be abolished, instead of completely abolishing it, there was these technical laws that came in saying, hey, but if this person commits a crime, you can incarcerate them, you can hold them, and they have to work off whatever, you know, punishment by committing this labor for you. So that's how you then took, you know, slaves that were freed. That's how you then took them and had them go back and do your work. Because once they went into incarceration with you for whatever fake crime they committed, now they're back picking your cotton fields. They're back, you know, taking care of your plantation, whatever the case may be. Now we look at 2006 and we see the, the rate of the population as a whole of, of what the black population represents in America versus the population that we represent in prisons and in jails. And we see that these things don't add up because again, we're over policed and we are, you know, harmed by, by that. So now when you get black people that are angry regarding ICE and, you know, you know, Trump being in office right now, what some people do not understand, black people are saying, this is not our fight or we don't want to get in the fight fight. They're mad because we've been saying this for years, for our entire lives, some of us, me being 34, this has been my entire life, we've been saying the government over polices us, the government racially profiles us, the government pulls us over due to the color of our skin. The government pulls us over due to our hair texture. When we've been saying it, everyone thought that the black people were exaggerating. We were lying. We were, you know, you know, running from accountability now that it's happening to non black people, okay, now people are paying attention and people are like, wait a minute, this isn't right. Well, no shit. Black people have been telling you this. And so then when you look at the carceral system that I just explained, you went from slavery to. Then you went to state prisons, federal prisons, county jails. And then now you look at 20, 26 and you see ICE detention centers. All of them are connected. What else do they have in common? They are all most commonly owned by private owners. Who are these private owners? Your governors, your judges, your district attorneys, your city council members, your mayors, your congress members. They all have stocks, okay, in the private prisons. And that's why, when someone's like, well, why would, you know if they were innocent? Why would they be thrown in prison if the black people are really innocent? Well, because if you are a crooked, corrupt person and you own a prison, how are you going to make money for your prison? You have to. To put bodies in there. You have to put bodies in there. And if you're corrupt, you don't care whose body it is. You just want the body in there so you can make the profits off of that body. But because you're corrupt and you're also racist, you don't want to fill it up with your own kind. You want to fill it up with black people. So that's what America did with the prison industrial complex. So now someone like Trump and his supporters, once that's no longer working, because black people are being erased from America. We are eradicating, we are declining as a population in America. Guess what? Who is another large population that's not white and is growing at a mass population in America? Latins. Okay? Because Trump would have ignorant people think when he's saying undocumented, a lot of ignorant people think he's only talking about people from Mexico. No, motherfucker, if you are from anywhere outside of America, he's talking about you, too. Doesn't matter if it's Nigeria, doesn't matter if it's Africa, doesn't matter if it's English. And anyone minus his wife, her undocumented ass, anybody outside of America, he's talking about you. But he puts the focus on undocumented Hispanics, undocumented Latin culture, because that's gonna cause other People to turn the blind eye because they think he's not talking about them. And for him, he doesn't care. He gets to just fill these prisons up, these. These, you know, ICE detention centers, him and his buddies. And they get to capitalize. But not only do they capitalize as the prison industrial complex, so does big pharmaceutical, because BIC Pharmaceutical goes in. They over medicate, misdiagnose, over diagnose and overmedicate these people, because once they're on medications, whether it be county jails, juvenile halls, state prisons, or ICE detention centers, you now make more money on that body. And that's the same thing for the foster care system. So, Kurt, you and I, we could talk about how all of these things intersect. And these are not conspiracy theories. You. All. These are facts that I've studied for years. This is not conspiracy theories. But then again, some things are conspiracy theories until we prove them to be true. But these are all of these things intertwine. These are how all of these things interweave. Even the foster care system interweaves into the prison industrial complex, interweaves into the ICE detention centers, interweaves into the adoption, the adoption process here in America intervene, you know, Interweaves into human trafficking. All of the shit intervenes. And that's why when you're going up against the beast like this, someone like me that's willing to speak against the corruption and the harm, that's why it just looks like, oh, my God, this problem, this person's so problematic, and they're so disruptive because I'm over here calling this shit out. Calling this shit out, staring that down and refusing to back down. And it looks problematic to people that. [00:59:10] Speaker A: Yeah, and all of these things that you just spoke about, you know, the systems, the prison, all of these things, this is not a new thing, okay? This is just a reinvention of a mindset that has been in our country for, you know, hundreds of years, let's say, I mean, since 1619, when the first slave boat, you know, landed in America. I mean, this is just reinvention of these things and, you know, everything else. Exactly. [00:59:40] Speaker B: Modernizes. It's modernizing. It's modernizing. [00:59:44] Speaker A: So when. When people say that the. The slave catchers or the slave masters in colonial America are just. Just the same as the ICE agents. [00:59:53] Speaker B: They are. [00:59:54] Speaker A: You know, they are. This is just a reinvention. They just have a different. And we know that these assaults are taking place not only with our ICE agents, but there's documentation and there's proof that Israeli soldiers have been doing this to Palestinians and Russians have been doing this to Ukraine. I mean, you know, in Ukraine there's a huge amount of children who have been kidnapped and relocated into Russia and their identities wiped away. Their families will never see them again. So this kind of bullshit is, is, it's a white dude's, you know, thing all around the world. I mean, this is just something that, you know. But we, we, we focus here because of what's happening in our country right now. And it just blows me away. And I'll never understand how, you know, you could stand there and have a conversation with a black couple who is a die hard Trump supporters and just will deny and turn a blind eye to everything that this son of a bitch has done and who he is because he's been this way his entire life. [01:01:00] Speaker B: I mean, but not only just a black couple, a black couple that lives in Compton and doesn't even benefit. [01:01:05] Speaker A: Yeah. [01:01:07] Speaker B: From the shit that Trump is pushing. [01:01:09] Speaker A: Yeah. It doesn't affect me. Yeah. [01:01:12] Speaker B: No, but I'm saying they don't even. First of all, Trump only cares about old white men with money. Right. Like that. That's it. He don't give a damn. Not even about an Elon Musk. Like, like they're frenemies. They don't like each other. We all saw. [01:01:27] Speaker A: But I don't even, I don't even think he cares about. I only think, I mean, because I've, I've read plenty of things about him in New York. The, the, the, the people that have associated with him in New York for years, they hate the motherfucker. He is not. He was never a popular dude. Everybody laughed at his ass. So I don't even think those people that associate that he considers an associate or that he's had business with that, that he even gives a. About them. I think the guy who's trying to [01:01:57] Speaker B: win them, like he, he likes them. They don't like him maybe, but he does. [01:02:00] Speaker A: Right, right, right. [01:02:02] Speaker B: People to support him and give him attention. There's definitely, if he's not a full on narcissist, he, he clearly displays a lot of narcissistic traits. Right. Some people fail to realize. [01:02:13] Speaker A: Absolutely. [01:02:13] Speaker B: You can display narcissistic traits and not actually be a narcissist. I would be surprised if he is not clinically diagnosed with narcissism. [01:02:22] Speaker A: And that same couple that you talked to who are denying the Epstein files and what's in it, these are the type of people who will deny everything that's in the Epstein files, even if his name is contained 38,000 times and there's testimony that says you raped a 13 year old girl and all of this shit. But they will go down to their dying breath that. That Joe Biden is a pedophile because there's pictures of him sniffing a young person. [01:02:50] Speaker B: I left a lot of commentary with her. You better ask. But believe she asked me, well, what about Clinton? I said, I don't give a fuck. [01:02:57] Speaker A: Burn his ass. If he's in the Epstein file, burn his ass. [01:03:00] Speaker B: Well, I won't. I'll say. I don't say anybody that's in the Epstein files because there are, there are people that are in the Epstein files [01:03:07] Speaker A: that, that have nothing to. [01:03:08] Speaker B: Yes, they did not actually participate in [01:03:10] Speaker A: anything, participate in any of it. [01:03:12] Speaker B: They have went for a gala, did not know. And I said the right the way, the only ones I believe that did not participate. You could tell the difference of if they had a, a visit. Right. And it was related to a fundraiser and then they didn't go back. But someone that was at that island visited that island. [01:03:29] Speaker A: Yeah, I think that's what people. If they were actively involved in it. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Exactly. You know the difference everybody in the Epstein's files. Because I know there are people that did not participate in any harm. But for me, I don't give a damn who you are. I don't care what your status is. I don't care what your relationship with nobody is. If you participated in the harm that took place on the Epstein island, you right. Prosecute your ass as well to the highest extent of the law. And do not give favor and prejudice just because of the fact that you are white or you are elite. Are you of. Are of power or of status? No, don't do that. And as. While we're at it, make sure we prosecute all of their complicit ass spouses. Because there's a lot of spouses of these disgusting pedophiles that weren't on the island too. But you cannot tell me that they did not have real intel and knowledge of what was taking place. Like you cannot tell me that. I'm not saying every single spouse knew everything that was going on. But there as women, we know there was. They were, they were going through their shit, they were going through phones, they were going through laptops that you were searching when your husband was. Was disappearing for days. When he brought you back the std, you were looking and you were figuring, trying to figure out, going down rabbit holes of where it came from. Fully known, all of the intricate Details, I do understand that. But you knew enough information to get his ass locked up that you did know. [01:05:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I, I couldn't agree with you more. I mean, there's, there is overwhelming proof. Proof, and it's amazing to me that we can find out the amount of proof that there actually is coming out when they're redacting the files and trying to take away. But we've, there's been people that have done a lot of digging that have found out ways to remove some of the redactions and then have done a lot of tracing. So there's a lot of, a lot of evidence that has come forth. And I'm with you 100%. And I think the majority of people, people on our, on the left, and I'm not going to say all, but you know, we truly believe in our hearts if, if they had anything to do with the actual act of harming these young girls or anyone for that matter, because now we're finding out there's young boys that have been involved, burn their ass. They need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And anyone who was complicit with it and knew about it, like you just stated, they need to go down too, because it's just. Absolutely. [01:06:11] Speaker B: But I also elections into elected officials. So you gotta imagine when you're coming up against a regiment, a system, a harmful, corrupt government like the American government, a lot of people are like, well, you know, why don't we see people in office that are fighting for us, people for us that are willing to speak up? Well, because the ones that are pedophiles are complicit in the pedophilia, are participating in the corruption, the greed, the APOC funds, all of that, they're fully funded and they're fully supported. Their people, their party gets up, goes out and votes for them. That's why I said you don't trust all Democrats. You don't fucking vote for somebody. Just being a Democrat, being a Democrat is not enough. You have to know that this person a fighter and they are for the people. And then you were like, well, how do we know? How do we know someone's a fighter? How do they know for the people? People have asked me, well, how do we know you're not going to get in office and do what you, you know they're gonna do? Well, for one, let me tell you right now, baby, I nobody's fucking slave. I am not a slave. I will not ever be a slave. So once you sell out to APOC funds or you know, this dirty corporate money or just, you know, the government, once you do that, you automatically become a slave and I will literally have to be killed before I become anybody's slave. Like, I think people can gather that for my personality. I'm not going down like that. Number two, guess what? You don't, you do not know that I'm going to get into office and I'm going to do everything that I said I'm going to do. You do not know that I'm going to fight for the people. What you do know is the people currently in office ain't did shit for you like Melinda Sanchez. You know that. You know that. So why participate in insanity? Why keep doing the same thing over and over and then hoping, what are you hoping for? That they'll finally stand up and start fighting? Are you, you hope they'll finally stand up and, and bring you affordable, you know, affordable, an affordable economy, a sustainable economy. Like, are you hoping and wishing and dreaming that one day this will happen, that they're going to bring forward real criminal justice reform? Like, are you hoping or are you willing to bet on the person that says this is what they're going to do has not had the opportunity to do it yet. And all it takes is vote me in and figure it out. [01:08:23] Speaker A: It out, right? [01:08:24] Speaker B: And guess what? If I just like anyone else gets into office and we do not do for you, the American people, what we said we're going to do, Vote our asses out and you keep rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat. You keep doing it over and over again until you get real representation that is willing to fight for you in this seat. And that, that's my messaging. But it, with it all being tied together, there's no way to pull the corruption down and except for to start unseating these people because someone like Donald Trump is like, well, how do these kind of people keep getting into office? Their dark money, their corruption, their favors, their quid pro quo's. Like they have so many people that they have favors that they owe to and vice versa. They're willing to go out sad and go out bad and it's like in order to cover themselves up. A lot of the people that are currently in Congress, they, that aren't speaking up for what's happening in the Epstein files. Why do you think that is? I personally believe because there's a great chance that some of them are in the Epstein files and if they're not themselves in the Epstein files, they aware of the information of the Epstein files. Why do you have elected officials that are not calling for the abolishment of ice? Because it confronts them. Why? Because they more than likely have stocks and bonds in the ICE detention centers. It's like one plus one will always. [01:09:43] Speaker A: When Joy Ann Reed sits there and asks, Hakeem Jeffries, why are you not, you know. Well, you use the word you're going to use and I'll use the words I'm going to use, and it's like, fuck you, Hakeem. Really? That's what your answer is going to be? I mean, that's just bullshit. But going back to your comment about them asking you, well, what about? How do I know that you're not going to. This goes back to what you have talked about before and what we have discussed before about instead of them asking why the rapist raped that woman, they're asking the woman, why were you wearing what you were wearing. That's the same fucking kind of mentality. Because we know what this person's going to do. Why in the fuck are you asking me? You know? Why are you asking me that? That, you know? Why don't you look at what we know for sure? You know? [01:10:34] Speaker B: Well, on top of why, my other opponent in the race, Hector de la Torre, he's an older Hispanic man. I'm not going to smash on his name because, you know, but he's in his 70s. He was a former assembly member here in California. He hasn't been in office for a few years. I do believe that he also is funded by dark money because he raised two, you know, wait, no, roughly $300,000 within two weeks. And it's like, you haven't even been in office in almost 10 years. So where did that money come from? But from that, for right now, I will digress because I'm going to focus on Linda ineffective ass Sanchez during the primaries. I hope it's me and Hector that make it out of the, you know, primary. And then I'm going to annihilate his ass then. But for now, now with Linda ineffective at Sanchez, it's like, well, you see that this is what she has done. You see what she's done, but you're not questioning, oh, well, why should we continue to vote for you? And you've done nothing for us. She's an older Hispanic woman, but you see the black woman in the race, well, how do we know? How do we know you're not asking Hector, how do you know that he's not going to get in office? And failure. You're not asking Linda Sanchez. [01:11:41] Speaker A: Is she finally effective? [01:11:43] Speaker B: You're not asking them, but you're asking the black. Black woman. Well, how do you know? [01:11:48] Speaker A: Right? [01:11:49] Speaker B: Anti black. [01:11:50] Speaker A: Up. It's up. [01:11:52] Speaker B: Like, come on. Even people with the. The. The. The Crockett in the telo race, at the end of the day, say what you want to say. Texas, you up. Okay? Mark my words. You up. Okay? Because guess what? Now we don't have Crockett in Congress. We could have had her in the Senate, but Texas, you failed to do your job. Job. Okay? Right now we have Talico, the token image of what you want your country to look like. He gets to come in as the pastor. He gets to come in as that. That. That. That centrist. Right? He gets to come in as that moderate. But guess what? I'm gonna fuck how nobody feels. I actually believe that he's a Republican cosplaying a Democrat. Not because I'm advocating for Crockett, but because I'm advocating for Crockett. Because what we did know, and what we do know is she was gonna stand up and she was gonna fight for Texans. And she's proven that. [01:12:44] Speaker A: She's. [01:12:45] Speaker B: We knew that. [01:12:46] Speaker A: Yeah. And I don't. I don't trust him as far as I can see him. So. [01:12:48] Speaker B: Right. We knew. [01:12:49] Speaker A: I just don't like the way he talks and some of the shit that he says. You can tell. You could tell. I don't care if he's taking APAC money or not. You could tell where the son of is going to be on things. [01:13:00] Speaker B: Yes, he's one of them. He's one of them and he's pretending to be one of us. And that's the problem with America. We literally saw proven track record that Jasmine Crockett was willing to stand by what was right. She didn't give a fuck who she had to go up against. Whether it was her own political party, whether it was Republican, whether it was maga, like Trump. She did not care. [01:13:20] Speaker A: Fearless. [01:13:20] Speaker B: And she wasn't fearless. She wasn't talking bullshit. She was bold. She was on unapologetic. She was black as fuck. And that was their problem. Yeah, but whether America wants to admit it or not, listen, you see me out here advocating for women, minorities, unity and all of that, but at the exact same time, baby, I'm always black first. I was black before I was Christian, so clock that I was black before I was Christian. Okay? So with that being said, a black woman, black women, we are who is going to save America, because we are the backbone of America, whether people want to admit it or not. Guess what? It was even black women that was saving the fucking slave master's baby. Slave masters children were sucking off of black women's fucking titties, okay? They were drinking our milk. We were raising the slave master's children. Not just the ones that they raped and impregnated us with, not just those children, but their own children that they were having with their wives. We raised those children. We reared those children up, we did their hair, we ironed their clothes, we got them up and ready for their school days. We cooked for their asses. We have been the backbone of America since the slave masters came here and did whatever harmful things they did to us. So with that being said, even with all of that, they never were able to eradicate us. Everything they tried with eugenics, they never were able to eradicate the black population. That's why we are feared. Because it's like, damn, no matter what we do to these black motherfuckers, just like roaches, their asses don't go nowhere. They keep fucking multiplying. [01:14:56] Speaker A: How? [01:14:56] Speaker B: We didn't bomb the house, okay? We didn't sit here, we didn't turn left, all the lights on. We didn't. Did every. We didn't literally actually tore the house down. And all that happened was it got built right back up. Because remember, we built the fucking white house too. The house. [01:15:12] Speaker A: Right, right. [01:15:13] Speaker B: And here we go. We can't tear them down. And that's why black people are feared. But specifically the black woman, because the black woman is willing to stand up and speak out in a way that the black man is not. And I am not ever going to get on a platform and shame black men. The reason black men don't speak out, that people don't understand. Back on plantations, when black men did try to stand up and speak out when their wives were being raped in front of them or their daughters were being raped in front of them, the slave masters used to take the black man, stand him up in front of the plantation, up in front of the cities, in. In the towns, and they would rape them in front of everybody. They would beat them in front of everybody. They would lynch them in front of everybody to show the black men that you're weak, right? To tear the black man down. So now it is more common, conditioned into black men to put their fucking head down and to do what the white supremacist, what the slave master told them. So for my black men, I feel so sorry for them because I know and I Understand why they are terrified to stand up and to speak out, regardless if they don't fully understand. I know why they're afraid of, like, no, no, no, we can't do that. The slave master is going to hurt us. But see, you had the Harriet Tubmans didn't give a fuck. Let their asses come because we got it. We got to go down with a fight. And I'm not saying there was no black men that stood up and. [01:16:30] Speaker A: No, no, no, I understand what you're saying. [01:16:33] Speaker B: Right. Clearly there were. Right. But what I'm saying is there. There. There was such a dominance and such a force and such a revolution behind the black woman. Right. Because. Because if you know anything, once a black woman is fed up, it's over for everybody. When a black woman is fed up and we're fed up, we're fed up. [01:16:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, you know, just verifying what you say. If you look at history and if you look at pictures and documentation and stories and things like this, lynchings that took place. Not that there wasn't any women that were ever lynched, because there was. But the vast majority of the lynchings that took place in this country were black men. [01:17:08] Speaker B: Were black men. [01:17:08] Speaker A: And there's a reason for that. And you just laid it out there. And I. I also feel like. And correct me if I'm wrong, because I had a discussion with a couple, one woman who's a Syrian and a white woman yesterday, about the Constitution, because I've always had troubles with how our nation was formed and some of the things that took place because it was a white supremacist beginning to. And the Syrian woman pointed out that their main focus at that time was democracy. But from the. From the black person's point of view, they believe in the Constitution because they're going to hold their asses to what those words say in the Constitution. And I just wondered, you know, that all men are created equal. And I just wondered if that is how you feel about it or if that is something that is discussed or how, you know, um. And, you know, we could go on forever on this subject, but I just. I had never heard that before, and it made me think about it. [01:18:18] Speaker B: So I can say I. I can say I. I agree. If I understand. I think I understand where the person was coming from. So for. For one, I just want to highlight. My associate's degree is in criminal justice. My bachelor's degree is in psychology and a minor in addiction, and my master's degree is in legal studies. When you get a master's in legal studies, you actually do study the Constitution and you study how laws become enacted and, you know, things of that nature. So, you know, Bill of Rights, all of that good stuff. So I can understand why that person stated that, because you will see on my platform, I love using the Constitution against white supremacists because, yeah, we the people, right? Freedom for all. Like, just. I just love using, like, little snippets of it. And I don't know if you. Side note, but related. I don't know if you saw the, The. [01:19:07] Speaker A: The. [01:19:08] Speaker B: The viral video. There's a black Panther walking through a city I don't remember where, and he has his. He has his AR and he's walking through a rally, a Trump rally, right? And there's this MAGA pro Trump supporter, and she's just like, put your gun away. He's like, no, thank you. Because, see, the same people that are pro Second Amendment, the moment they saw this black man walking through with his ar, proud, and he's just smiling and he just laughing and walking through, proud Black Panther. Right? No, thank you. [01:19:41] Speaker A: So that video you're referring to, you know, I hope everybody sees it. [01:19:46] Speaker B: Yes. [01:19:46] Speaker A: Yeah. The woman we talked about before, okay. That's part of the March for democracy, the M4D movement. And that particular event was held by Cliff Cash, who is a white comedian who's a major advocate for, you know, what's going on right now. And the impeachment of Trump, that was his. That was the event. I shouldn't say his event, but that was the event that he organized. That was took place out front of Mar A Lago. So, yeah, I know those pieces. [01:20:17] Speaker B: I just saw the clip and I loved every. I watched it several times. Yeah, but I say that to. So, yeah, yes, I agree with what she's saying, because even myself, I. I bring forth the Constitution, even with all the harm that I experienced on my campaign. Please tune in again to my Instagram to, like, see all of the information that, you know, Kurt and I are not talking about, but all the harm that I've experienced in my campaign. One of the things I love stating is, well, I'm just exercising my First Amendment right. I've gotten arrested peacefully protesting. I've got arrested for defense of others. Some people don't understand, like, you have self and then you have defense of others. Right. So I've got arrested for standing in front of an innocent child that was at a protest, participating in a protest, and an LA county sheriff attempted to taser him. And so I stood in front of him refusing to let them taser a child. We know adults get, you know, murdered, unfortunately by getting tased. Because all adults bodies can't handle being tased. So why would we stand here and watch a child being a tase? So as a congressional candidate participating in a, in a school walkout, which is legal, right? School walkouts are legal. Why would you meet this child with harm and threaten to tase him? So when I stand in front of him, why do I get arrested for obstruction of a peace officer? It's not obstruction of a peace officer if you were harming someone. Like that's, that's not. People that don't understand. When, when George Floyd's neck was being kneeled down on and he was being murdered. Murdered, we the people, we had the right to intervene. We had a right to do that. That was murder that you all were watching. And the fact that you didn't intervene was because you do not understand. You do not know your constitutional rights. You do not know the law. You have the right to defend others. You have the right to do that. But the defense of others starts with defense of self. So what that means is, and this is me going into the legal degree that I'm about to graduate with in a few years, weeks. If I as a individual have the right to self defense and someone say someone is attempting to shoot me, but I don't have a gun on me, someone's pointing a gun at me, this would give me the right to legally defend myself lethally. Right, because you also are limited to the use of force. That's necessary. So if someone was attempting to shoot me and I didn't have a gun, if someone that was watching the scene shoots the person that was going to shoot me, that's not murder. That is defense of others. That person has a legal valid defense and they will not be prosecuted. Or even if they are prosecuted, they will be found not guilty because that's defense of others. If that all makes sense, what I'm saying. [01:22:56] Speaker A: Yeah, I bet people don't know that. [01:22:58] Speaker B: Yes, that's called defense of others. So when I stand in front of a child that was innocent, that did not commit a crime and the police are attempting to tase him for peacefully protesting, that is not obstruction of a peace officer. The reason why, it's not because they did not have a legal reason to tase him. He didn't have a weapon. He was not posing a threat. He was an innocent person, an innocent individual participating in his first amendment right to protest what a lot of maga and Trump supporters are doing throughout the country. If any of you have seen those viral clips, there are adults that are getting out of their vehicles, walking up to children, literally punching, punching children that are protesting anti ice, anti Trump. And America's allowing this. America's allowing it. And the reason I say America is allowing it, because you might be like, but I'm not allowing it. Yes, you are. Because if you're not making it your business to get up and to go out and to participate in these protests and keep these children safe, you are allowing it because we've already seen that you know what the right wing is doing. We've already seen, seeing what the Trump supporters in the MAGA are doing. So someone like me that goes out and helps participate in these protests, I don't organize these protests with the children, but I go out because try that shit with me. You think you about to hit somebody's fucking kid. I don't got to know the kid's name. I don't got to know their mom. I don't got to know their dad. But I guarantee you're not going to put your hands child in front of me, whether you be a maga, a Trump supporter, or even law enforcement, put your hands on me because you're not going to put your hands on this child. [01:24:35] Speaker A: And that is, you know, that is just one of the amazing things about you that I have grown to admire who you are over the time of getting to know you and your story and your vast knowledge and your. [01:24:53] Speaker B: I want to add in really quick, Kurt, for anybody that watched episode one, episode two, please understand the reason I have that mentality is because, remember, remember, guys, I was an abused child. So because I was an abused child, instead of becoming an abuser, I'm a protector of children. You see how everything always ties into each other. And this is why I'm built for this. You can't harm a child in front of me because I know what it's like to be a harm child and to not be defended and protected. Yeah, sorry, go ahead. [01:25:20] Speaker A: You were. No, you were so much more than an abused child, so. [01:25:24] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I was definitely way more than that. [01:25:26] Speaker A: Yeah, but, but, but, yeah, I understand. Yeah. Exactly what you're saying. So I, I just want to tell you I'm so grateful that we cross paths and that we have become friends and that you shared your story on my platform so I could help spread the word and, and, and try to introduce you to people that may have never heard of you or have ever had a chance to know you. So before we end this, to tell people how to get a hold of you, what your website is, your platforms, and all of those things to help support you. Because I know the more people that see this, the more support they're going to want to give you. To defeat Linda ineffective as Sanchez. [01:26:20] Speaker B: There we go. Yes. I just want to say thank you to everyone that has tuned in, participated watch this episode. If you have not watched the previous two episodes, please do that. I'm pretty sure Kurt and I will be sharing out more spaces in the future. For now, I hope you guys learned a lot about me as a candidate. Why I'm built for this, why I'm running for Congress, how effective I will be, not just to California's District 41, but to the state of California and to America as a whole. I'm looking forward to representing all of us, fighting for all of us in Congress. We definitely need real representation. The Democratic Party needs to be revived. We need to restore hope and dignity to our party. Right. We no longer need to be operating in this guise of defeat and allowing our asses to be whooped by right wingers. We do not need to do that. We absolutely need to stand up and fight. And we need a fighter in Congress. So that is why everyone in District 41, California, you need to vote for me. June 2nd is the primary in California. June 2nd for everyone outside of California, outside of District 41. I know some of you are feeling like, well, you know, why would I support you or how would I support you if you're not in my district? Well, for one, again, as I explained, when you are running for Congress, when you are elected to Congress, you not only represent your district, you represent your state and you represent the the country. So I am not just responsible to District 41, I am responsible to all of you that are watching this. I genuinely am. If I'm doing my job and please believe I'm going to do my job. So the ways to support me, tune in, pay attention to my social media sites. The biggest platform to stay in connection with me is going to be Instagram. And my Instagram is Shonique for Congress. I know Kurt is going to drop that here on the description. So that's going to be Shonique for Congress. Congress. S H O N I Q U E F O R C O N G R E S S that's the Instagram. The website is actually the same. Shoniqueforcongress.com tick tock yes.com the tick tock and at this point, just Google my name. Just Google my name. But yeah, is Shonique.com Williams and Facebook. I'm sorry, offhand, Facebook is not coming to me at this moment. However, when you do log on to the website, it is going to give you the links for Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Twitter as well, slash X. But I don't really care to use that damn Elon Musk website. To be honest, you guys even really need to follow me over there. I don't update it. But with that being said, said, I am a hundred percent grassroots. I do not accept apop money. I do not accept dirty corporate money. And so with that being said, I do need financial support. Okay, I need financial support so that I can win my seat. You can donate for a primary in California, but. Well, actually a primary for any congressional candidate. You can donate any amount between $1 to 3,500 for the primary and then after primary you can donate that same exact amount again. If you are so inclined to do so and you have the financial ability to do so. You can donate your full $7,000 at one time. I know that sounds confusing, so I'm going to repeat it. You can donate between $1 to $3,500 for my primary. For my general election, you can donate another $1 to 3500, but you can also donate a full $7000 at one time. I know times are tough. I know things are hard. That's why I'm fighting for affordability and sustain. Feel as if donating a $2 $5 is insignificant. I promise to someone like me that has a grassroots campaign, that $1, that $5, that 10, that 20, it means the world because it adds up. Just imagine right now like say my Instagram followers is like roughly 20k right? If every person on my Instagram gave me $1, that would be $20,000. I can do so much with $20,000. So do not ever feel like just your $1 wouldn't make a difference. It would mean the world to me. And if you have more to give, that would mean the world to me as well. But I'm just so thankful, so grateful. I look forward to interacting with you all. I am very friendly, I am very kind. Please DM me, message me, ask questions, send love, send support. I do get a lot of hate mail. So I love seeing the love and the support. I do respond back, even if it takes a couple days. I do my best to respond back to every single email, every single dm. And again, I do really genuinely Appreciate the love and the support that I get. So a shout out would always be greatly appreciated. [01:31:23] Speaker A: Yeah. And I know it's very difficult, especially right now with the way things are for candidates to ask for money, especially grassroots candidates, because this is how you're funded is by the people, because you're working for the people. But this is what we need to do in our country. We need to remove. Remove all of these corporate money and donations and packs and all of these things that are just that have had a grasp on our, on our governance for so long. [01:31:51] Speaker B: And we need to buy us out the corrupt. The corrupt, Exactly. Sanchez, let me tell you guys, numbers Linda ineffective ass Sanchez has over $600,000 for her campaign. You don't do shit for anybody. How do you have. Oh yeah, because over half million is apoc money and corporate money and dirty money. You know, Hector de la Torre ain't even been in office for over 10 years and here he goes, $300,000. So that's another reason why people that are truly for the communities, for the people like you just, you know, so, you know, eloquently stated, Kurt. This is sometimes how we lose our elections because we do not have the same funds in order to get the vote out. It sucks. Politics is predatory. I'm going to be honest with you guys. It's predatory the amount of money it cost for me to get. So when I just said everyone giving me a dollar would raise me almost $20,000. This is a real number, you guys. In order to send mailers to 33% of my district. Not 100%, 33% of my district. My district has roughly 850,000 registered voters. [01:32:57] Speaker A: Okay, wow. [01:32:59] Speaker B: So it's Los Angeles and Orange county. So we're large here, right? So in order to send 33% of my district mailers, it's going to cost me $19,000,500 plus tax. That's to send 33% of my district Millers. And by Mellers, I mean, you know how in the mail you get the little, the, the, the printed piece that tells you about the candidate. Oh, but here's the thing. That's not even me having my own Meller. That's not me having my own slate. That's me being on a slate sharing costs with other candidates. If I wanted to have my own Meller baby, I don't even know the number because I'm not. And go check. I can't afford it. So me asking for a dollar, this is to get one. One Meller sent out to 33% of my district. And $20,000 is even going to cover it because after tax, I don't know. I don't know what the taxes are on $19,000. I'm looking at close to $25,000 to send one piece of mail to 33% of my district. [01:33:59] Speaker A: Yeah, that's nuts. There needs to be a cap on the amount of money that people can raise for campaigns and spend. There has to be, because this is just. It's unfair and it's not right. But the system was set up on purpose, you know, this way. On purpose. Yeah, because they want in there. Who they want in there. So, you know, it's crazy. So. Well, I wish you all the luck and I know we're going to stay in contact because absolutely, we've created a friendship here and, you know, I support your ass. I'm going to do everything I can to get your name out there and talk about you as much as I can and, and to share your, your information and, and who knows what may come down the line. We may need to get together in May or, you know, right before the primary and do something else. [01:34:48] Speaker B: I already thought this was a given. You know, once I get elected, you got to come pull up on me, Kurt, you and the. [01:34:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we're going to find a way. We're going to find a way. That's for sure. And I hope you can make some contacts with some of the people that I've talked to you about, and I'm going to throw your name out, Cliff Cash, and see if we can get you involved in that group right there because you're needed to be involved in all of these groups that you possibly can. And that's one of the things that, being a content creator, I can give to you that I might not be able to give you much else. Being as far away from each other, others, we, we. [01:35:24] Speaker B: You've given so much. And I just say for everyone that's watching, I, I, you know, know that, you know, Kurt doesn't mind. I am willing to come on individuals podcasts. I'm willing to share, you know, different portions of my story. The sad part about it is I've been through so much shit, you'll never know how, you know, my story can help connect with your viewers, you know, so do not be afraid. Again, reach out. Connect with me. Would, would love to, to work together. As long as you are fighting for what's right, standing up for democracy, I will work with you. I don't care how small or how large Your platform is we're all out here just trying to live. [01:36:03] Speaker A: And when we talked about that, I made it clear to you that I'm new on the podcasting and I'm trying to build an audience and it's getting there and I'm getting a lot of views and things like that. But my main platform like yours is Instagram. I have over 150,000 on my Instagram page. And with all my platforms, you know, I'm close to 240,000. So I do have an audience that listens to me and I share your stuff on all of it. And just like I talked to you before, really consider about Substack because it's a great platform. [01:36:36] Speaker B: You gotta learn substack now. [01:36:39] Speaker A: You can learn, but I know you're very busy and everything, so, you know, once again, I appreciate it. Thank you so much for the on ended note. [01:36:48] Speaker B: Fuck ice. I love the beanie. [01:36:51] Speaker A: Fuck ice. [01:36:52] Speaker B: There we go. [01:36:53] Speaker A: Darkyarn.com. this is where you can get this. And they're a great organization. There's an impact donation that's made every time you buy a piece of clothing from them. There's an impact donation that they give to organizations around the country. And right now they're funneling it to Minnesota. So if you buy this beanie, six bucks goes directly to this cause in Minnesota. So it's darkyard.com and it started down as an LGBTQ apparel line. They're first class. But now they've gotten into the political field because of the way things have changed. So thank you for that. I appreciate you bringing that up. [01:37:32] Speaker B: And outside of Buck Ice, it's always power to the people. [01:37:37] Speaker A: Power to the people. Thanks, Shanique. I really appreciate it. And thanks everyone for listening to the series that I've had with Shonique and the things that we've talked about. I appreciate it. Give my channel. Channel a like, give me a subscription. Go follow Shanique and her. Place her pages. Give her a like. Please go to the website. Donate. That's something I'm going to do later on this afternoon when I get free. So I just want you to know, [01:38:04] Speaker B: I'm telling you, it's always some shit going on. [01:38:06] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. There's never a dull moment. But that's what's great about you. [01:38:10] Speaker B: You got to talk about it online. But did you see even the. The stop. The. The. The freaking. The. The stop with the California Highway Patrol the other day? [01:38:19] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. [01:38:22] Speaker B: Here. [01:38:22] Speaker A: That we didn't cover? That's what people need to know. There's so much shit that has happened to you. [01:38:27] Speaker B: There's so much shit that's happening. [01:38:29] Speaker A: Yeah. This is why you need to go to her Instagram page and follow her, because then you can understand, you know, why she's built for this and what she's going to do. Get a list. So, yeah. So thank you, everybody. Shonique Williams joining me. I'm Kurt Mullen. I'm Hoosier Blue. I've got something to say. Catch you on the flip side.