How Political Controversies Shape Our Lives

Are the decisions made in the hallowed halls of government affecting your life?

Our dialogue into the deeply polarized arenas of diversity in our armed forces and the charged discussions encircling trans rights, without shying away from the provocative question of whether education is inadvertently promoting a culture of victimhood.

This discussion promises not just insights, but a reflection of our collective readiness to embrace change.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

It's all over, I'll done so. Deficit for me? I don't care, you know I have no idea, yeah, well, yes. You have kids and you have great kids. You have a family, you have a house, you have a job. You better fight for that, president, you know.

Speaker 2: 0:14

And you better fight, you go to.

Speaker 1: 0:16

Biden, it's fine too, you know. And if Biden wins, don't complain about your fuel prices or the food prices, or that you can do nothing anymore.

Speaker 2: 0:26

So that's your own fault then yeah Well, I hate to say this, but I myself don't have any kids or family either. But you're right. You know, people who have family, have kids, have grandkids. They have to do something about it. Otherwise not just about price or money, financial crisis, no, no voting. Yeah. Their grandkids or kids might have to join the military to fight for the outside enemy.

Speaker 1: 0:58

That's another thing that will be even more than that. Yeah, who wants to go and become a police officer? Not me, I mean, there are so many people that. No, because I don't take the risk that I twist somebody's arm by arresting him and he gets sued, you know, for all the money he has. That's ridiculous. You know a cop should have the freedom. You know. If you get arrested, yeah, and you resist arrest and you run away, shoot him. Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, shoot him, it's over. Yeah, you shouldn't have any more rights Some way. You resist arrest. You shouldn't have any more rights whatsoever. But they have all the rights, but the cop has no rights. He has no rights, yeah.

Speaker 1: 1:46

So, statement with the well DEI. You know, diversion and equality and all the rap, you know I mean if you're laying there in the gutter and with a gun and shooting at your enemy. Oh, what are you? Are you crossing the aisle? What are you? You know I mean it's bullshit. You know it should be. You shoot in army. Yeah to kill, yeah to kill this enemy, you know, and all the crap.

Speaker 2: 2:21

Yeah, I think they don't. Don't you think they kind of intentionally divide this country?

Speaker 1: 2:26

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 2:28

Yeah, and then including, let's say, you know, trans or LGBT community. They, the people who are saying, have all the saying about trans community. They are not trans. Have you noticed that? How possible? Positive to us or negative to us? Meaning the left side might be a supporter, but at the end of the day, they're not even trans. They kind of put this topic subject in the middle and have people to divide people in a way.

Speaker 1: 3:04

It's the same, like in a trend. If you're trans, I don't care, you have the same right as anybody else. But why do we have to go? Oh, we have to give more rights because you only want a 2% or 3% of the population, but we have to bow for you. Screw that crap. You know what I mean. I don't want to say the other word. And I see a lot of people in the trans community. They hate Trump For what. You don't hate you. You said well, you have the same rights as anybody else. Why do we have to have more rights and why do we have to bow for you? You don't have to bow for me, but I will not bow for anybody else.

Speaker 1: 3:45

And if somebody says I know, in the trans community, I know they hate Trump and they start hating me too. And I said well, why do you hate me? For I don't hate you, I vote for Biden. I said that's fine, that's your right. That's your right here in America that you can vote for Biden. And I'm not going to tell you You're wrong, but that's your way of thinking. You think he's good, you think he supports you. You know with everything, with your operation, if you need one, and it's fine with me.

Speaker 1: 4:20

Vote for him you know, but you still can be a friend of mine, but I don't know if I tell them I'm a trans supporter. I'm an idiot, you know, and I'm crazy and you're stupid and I hear it all.

Speaker 2: 4:36

I hear it all you know.

Speaker 1: 4:38

But I don't tell the Biden supporter that you're stupid. I don't say that.

Speaker 2: 4:43

Yes, it's okay here. What I notice is sometimes, you know, sometimes I express my point of view or my experience and then it's based on my experience, not yours, and they will not agree with you experienced even though they've been through it. But if they don't have a logical you know saying or argument back to you, they will personally attack you. Yeah, oh yeah, they didn't. Yeah, it's, they're not on that topic to begin with. They start attacking you personally If you read the Constitution, if you learn, if you do your research. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:32

Yeah, because I'm in the same community. But I mean, but that will not say that I kind of hate room for this. No, I mean, I mean I can do what I want. If I want to put on a dress, I can go out, but nobody cares. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 5:48

But no it's that will say that politics is a dirty business. And if it's not we, the people anymore, and it's just we, the government, it's just over you know, and also I think, like I mentioned earlier in the beginning, I think the society is turning.

Speaker 2: 6:08

I think, starting from the school system, it's turning us to become victim. Nice, like you know, like, for example, I know, disabled is very unfortunate, but some disabled use that as their ticket. Seriously, because I'm disabled, so I should get all the benefit, yeah, or?

Speaker 1: 6:38

all, I'm trans or I'm like undocumented.

Speaker 2: 6:41

Yeah, I should, yeah, I should entitle to that.

Speaker 1: 6:45

I know.

Speaker 2: 6:46

Yeah, but I, I, it's very easy to get into that. I personally experience you, but I try, you know. I tell myself, no, I don't want this, I got to do it myself. Like you said, responsibility yeah, I don't want to. You know, I don't want to help from government because that that's kind of like. That's kind of like the system they put you in and they can control you right, like you know, like it's the same thing in 1980.

Speaker 1: 7:16

I wanted to work here and I did. You know, I imported the antiques for the first year.

Speaker 1: 7:22

I drove an 18 wheeler and I never held my hand up. You know, I came here to make something out of myself, you know, to get a new life, because I felt in the Netherlands so it's probably my own fault too and I came here to America. I don't want any help. Yeah, somebody can help me. Hey, take me out for dinner. No, but I went after the job for that.

Speaker 1: 7:48

I was a truck driver for a couple of years. Then I started my flower business and I started importing flowers and at 17, 18 people working, and I paid her taxes. And for the wages, you know, I paid sales taxes. I paid so many taxes in the 25 years that I was here working I never had a dime from the government. And now I have my social security, you know, and it's too much to die from and not enough to live on, you know, yeah, well, that's just the way it is. You know, some social security coming from the Netherlands, yeah, and they say, hey, double dipping. No, I can fit 50% here and 50% there. I get the same as anybody else, I don't get anything more. You know.

Speaker 2: 8:39

Yeah, the social security system has a loophole, because they didn't. They designed it, but they didn't add the inflation to it. See, you work for 20, 30 years and then now you retire.

Speaker 1: 8:57

Your social security is not catching up to the new yeah, they will say it's not enough to live on and not to die from. You know. Yeah, in the last couple of years we had an increase of about 10% and the prices are up with 17 or 18%. So I'm behind already, you know. Same with fuel prices. Yeah, I can drive every day where I want to go. I used to, you know and I mean when I had my own business I drove 70, 80,000 miles a year and that came down to 20,000 or 15,000. Now it's under 7,000 because I cannot afford the fuel. Yeah, in my car, yes, so everywhere. So I have to sit home, you know.

Speaker 2: 9:44

Yeah, somebody cut the pipeline.

Speaker 1: 9:48

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 9:53

Yeah, some people still don't understand, because this is a chain reaction, ripple effect. Everything will become expensive if we don't have our own supply. All the food, all the material, film, you know, even the computer, microphone, music, it's all Coming from somewhere, right, they have to travel and have to use the oil gas.

Speaker 1: 10:20

Yeah, that's the bottom part, that's the bottom line, it's energy, you know.

Speaker 2: 10:25

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 10:28

I had two oil trucks in the Netherlands too, for heating oil. I did that for years. Still they had the natural gas here. You go out of business again. Yeah, but it's all about energy, you know, and we have so much energy, trum says. You know. So if the energy comes down to about $2 a gallon, you know, and then prices are coming down too, you know. So you don't have to increase wages. But it's demand and supply again. Enough supply, yeah, prices down, you know, and there's no supply, and then the prices goes up. It's the same with all those illegals. Yeah, prices of rent goes up, houses goes up, and then nobody can buy a house, nobody can afford a house anymore, you know. So they will say, hey, I'm glad Trum will be back, you know. And if they start deporting illegals, hey, I'm a volunteer. I'm a volunteer to drive a bus to the airport, you know for free.

Speaker 1: 11:33

And I'm happy, you know, and paying for my guests to get there, but they don't have to pay me anything, you know, just to help Trum getting illegals deported. You know, and yeah, start with the criminals, you know first.