In this episode of Talking With People, I sit down with a group of women to talk about their opinions on current events and current events in the world, including the upcoming mid-term elections, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and abortion.
00:00:47.000I'm sad that I didn't two years ago, but I can't change that.
00:00:51.000I'm saying right now that this is something that I know is right, and you guys, I need to be on the right side of history, and if he doesn't win, then at least I tried.
00:01:31.000TikTok was basically full time for me.
00:01:33.000I was taking ads by the time I graduated college from like the Biden administration and Planned
00:01:38.000Parenthood and like dating apps and stuff.
00:01:39.000So it was like fully financially, you know, sustained.
00:01:42.000So you were getting the Biden administration was buying ads from you?
00:01:44.000Yeah, I was doing full on political propaganda.
00:01:47.000You've heard the old saying, women can't live with them and they always vote Democrat.
00:01:53.000In yesterday's installment of Talking With People, I spoke with a wide array of different Americans who span the political spectrum.
00:02:00.000Many of you were surprised by how these people leaned politically, because it turns out that judging a voter by their immutable characteristics may not be as productive as once thought.
00:02:11.000Today's a little different, in that we'll be focusing on one specific conversation, though it takes place with three subjects.
00:02:21.000At first glance, there's very little chance that someone like me would find common ground with a group of self-manifesting, 20-something-year-old ladies who just came from high tea.
00:02:33.000Hold on to your hats, because this may not go exactly how you were expecting.
00:03:50.000Yeah, I've seen a lot of it on the media, and I just had to write a paper on something pretty controversial.
00:03:57.000So I've been very passionate about the Dakota Access Pipeline and all the pipelines that are being put underground by a Dallas-based company, Energy Transfer Partners.
00:04:08.000Basically, the pipeline's already leaking.
00:05:03.000Um, from what I heard, because I work in the private airline industry, and so for corporate aviation, I heard if a certain party gets elected, they're going to be taxing on corporate jets, and so I would be out of business.
00:07:15.000Unfortunately, a lot of young women are just going to OnlyFans now too.
00:07:18.000Is that something that you've noticed?
00:07:20.000You have quite a few friends who do that?
00:07:22.000I feel like that's become like the easy thing because of the industry being so competitive even from foreign people too.
00:07:29.000They're coming really educated and they are getting hired because they're willing to work for a little less.
00:07:34.000So it is very competitive and cutthroat.
00:07:37.000So you got the message I guess growing up, go to school, get straight A's, probably take out a loan if your parents weren't able to afford it for you, and you get out and you're going, I'm basically starting the same as a guy who's a shift manager at Dunkin Donuts.
00:08:07.000I think on top of that I feel like diversity is being prioritized over experience because in the aviation industry that's what they're doing and a lot of airlines they're hiring for diversity purposes instead of experience so you're having a lot of these issues with you know they're saying the Boeing manufacturing is terrible quality control so but a lot of it is because of the new cars the new pilots that don't have as much experience but they're hired because of the diversity quotas that they're trying to fulfill.
00:09:14.000So it seems like there's a mixed bag here, because obviously your view on the Dakota pipeline would be something that would be seen as more left.
00:09:20.000But then obviously you all seem to agree on the idea that maybe the education system has failed you on the promise, and the DEI kind of diversity situation has made it tough to get a job.
00:09:30.000So with all that being said, who do you think is best, or at this point in time, how do you think it goes?
00:09:37.000Do you think there's one person who's better than the other to kind of rectify this or provide you with more opportunity?
00:09:42.000The opportunities that you said maybe your parents had that you feel you didn't?
00:10:06.000I was doing accounting at a construction company And I was making great money and it pushed me back into school because all of these places want you to have a bachelor's and stuff and I was just straight off experience and so right now I'm in the middle of school at almost 30 because the requirements are different but yet like the industry hasn't changed.
00:10:29.000We were using the same programs that were built years ago so it's It's just completely different and it's not caught up to standard of what we need for today.
00:10:42.000Well, you just said the economy was booming under Trump.
00:10:44.000We've seen Biden's America, but no one's more fit than the other.
00:10:46.000Seems like you're saying that there's a lot of issues with Trump, too.
00:10:50.000You know, just all the hatred and racism that comes with it, that people associated with Trump and all the protests that
00:11:02.000So all of that is what made me feel very sad to see people breaking into Targets, breaking into Walmarts to make like their voices known that they're minorities or they're not getting their voices heard.
00:11:13.000A lot of that I found very disturbing and I don't want to see that happen again.
00:11:17.000And forgive me, how is that Trump's doing, people breaking into Target or Walgreens in San Francisco?
00:11:23.000Well, a lot of it was him persuading people to do something about what they're unhappy about and breaking into the White House and things like that.
00:11:35.000It just seemed like it fueled people to do something just out of the ordinary.
00:11:41.000But it seems like all these, you're talking about, you know, for example, Black Lives Matter, the Summer of Love, and now you're seeing it with Palestine, you know, on campus, that those were people in opposition to what Trump stands for.
00:11:52.000It seems like, really, if you were to take that and segment it out and say, okay, these were radical leftists who were committing acts of violence, but then go back to what you said, the economy was booming, I got laid off, It seems like one of those things where maybe it's personality versus results.
00:12:50.000But another thing, too, I do want to know, like the student loan debt, that was something that was brought up by Biden, and that never really happened.
00:13:20.000But that's what you're pressured into whenever you're younger.
00:13:22.000Right out of high school, you know, your family pressures you to get a degree because degree equals, you know, a great job and that's what you have in your head when you're a kid.
00:13:31.000So, you obviously stick to that but it's not what the reality is.
00:13:39.000You know, for example, people who either paid off their loans or people who chose not to go to school because they said, I don't think it's going to, they went to go work in an oil rig.
00:13:47.000And they're paying taxes saying, I don't really think that my tax dollars should go to forgive a loan for whatever it is, a gender studies degree.
00:13:54.000And there's, it seems like everything that people say maybe was good under Biden was kind of a promised government program that came from tax dollars.
00:14:01.000Is that something that you've I definitely don't think our tax dollars are going in the right places.
00:14:29.000I mean we both have Teslas and we get to enjoy like not having to pay for gas and not worrying about an outage or pipelines busting or gas prices going up.
00:14:41.000So there's a lot of clean energy out there and I know that the batteries aren't made in the best way.
00:14:55.000It's just being ignored and swept under the rug.
00:14:58.000So you would like to see more solar and wind?
00:15:00.000Yes, yes, and cleaner food without pesticides, more organic food for the children at the schools and in the market.
00:15:09.000I feel like the pharmaceutical industry wants us to be sick, wants us to have cancer, wants us to be on medication because it's a billion dollar industry.
00:15:18.000So, the fact that we could grow our own food and be organic, it's not something that I feel like the country focuses on or wants to push, but would be the best.
00:15:26.000So, not big fans of the big pharmaceutical industries?
00:17:08.000They don't have the strictest emission standards over there in China.
00:17:10.000Yes, and I think that we've had a huge reliance on China.
00:17:13.000I also learned that environmental science, where we have the resources, but the labor cost is cheaper in China.
00:17:19.000So a lot of the resources that we're getting from China are available in other countries, but because their labor is so cheap, that's why we keep outsourcing to them, which is giving them so much power, which is another thing that I feel like we should get away from.
00:17:34.000Well, come on, of the two candidates, who do you think is going to be tougher on China?
00:18:19.000I definitely have to vote for Trump because my job relies on it.
00:18:23.000But it's unfortunate because I'm not really much into politics, but I know that that's going to really affect my job opportunities, so that's the route I have to go.
00:18:33.000Were you old enough to vote last election?
00:18:36.000So who did you vote for last election?
00:18:50.000It sounds like, because there's been a lot, a lot of shifting we've noticed today, where a lot of people said, I voted for Biden, I'm not going to do that again.
00:19:15.000We need fresh, young, new people in there.
00:19:18.000Who are making the decisions versus people who are like literally not even showing up to work and getting paid our tax dollars, which people don't focus on, but that is a big thing.
00:19:28.000Most people in Congress are like 90, 80, like how can they make a fazzable decision on what our lives are now?
00:19:57.000That's one of my reasons is because I didn't know which one to vote for.
00:20:01.000They all seemed like they were terrible choices, so I just, I didn't have Would you say a reason maybe that you're voting for Trump this time, and I know you're undecided, and you're undecided, but even considering it, is because of the contrast, where like you said, the economy was booming, like, you lived under a term of Trump, and for any of the negatives, you see the difference economically, and now you have Biden, like, do you think that's something that maybe hasn't happened in your lifetime, where you go, there's a noticeable change?
00:20:28.000Yeah, I mean we bought our house on that interest rate.
00:20:30.000It was like 3% and I was making a ton of money and things were good.
00:20:36.000I was living the life and now I'm not.
00:20:38.000So that definitely hurts you when you're able to provide a certain life for your family and then it gets taken away because interest rates are higher because, you know, of the interest rates it's like a domino effect on everything.
00:20:52.000We're millennials, so people in our generation are stuck with what the boomers did and the generations after us, and their decisions are still overpowering our lives.
00:21:18.000They're saying the boomers are going to basically take it all.
00:21:22.000There's a good chance that it won't be around, or at least not in its current capacity, so I would advise saving yourself in a different portfolio than relying on Social Security.
00:21:31.000That's correct, and we did learn that in school recently, that it's projected that we won't get our social security because the boomers.
00:24:32.000Like I will say this, I never ate healthier than when I was dirt poor.
00:24:36.000When I was dirt poor, I would go to the store, I was living in California, yep, I would get oats, that was cheap, back then eggs were relatively cheap, oats, eggs, milk, I'd get whatever fruit was on sale, tuna, put in a package, and I'd actually buy sometimes baby food, because there's always baby food on sale, and as long as you get past it.
00:24:56.000That's what I was eating all the time.
00:24:57.000I really kind of had to pare it down and I realized, oh my gosh, I'm eating really, at this point, this would have been 2008, 2009, on what would be considered pennies a day just by limiting it, you know?
00:25:07.000I could have easily gone to Taco Bell, but I knew that that wouldn't be good for me.
00:25:11.000There's a lot of other countries, you know, you're talking about inflation.
00:25:39.000We're definitely at the highest level of income compared to the majority of the world and I think a lot of us don't realize that.
00:25:48.000So that was part of some of the things that I learned today at school was just the levels of income and how we really are at the highest level already but we don't realize how privileged we are and how much we really have as far as opportunity goes.
00:26:03.000Um, in comparison to the majority, like, people who walk to work barefoot and ride their bike, we have cars.
00:26:28.000I think we're just comparing our life to the boomer generation.
00:26:32.000We're just trying to max our potential.
00:26:34.000Yeah, it would just be nice to not, like, our house, when it was first built, was probably not $350,000, right?
00:26:43.000But we're stuck paying these astronomical prices just because of, you know, all the change that's been going on with interest rates, population growth, things like that.
00:26:56.000But you also have to take into account, you talked about the previous generation, right?
00:26:59.000You could eat bologna on Wonder Bread and get a 1,200-square-foot house, which was the average house back in the day.
00:27:04.000You could get that for really just a song these days.
00:27:07.000I'm assuming that's not what you're looking at.
00:27:09.000They say even, I think, from a year ago to today, or even two years ago, you have to make 80% more income to get, like, the same standard.
00:27:52.000You're not seeing anything severe coming out of the pipeline.
00:27:54.000Yeah, because they're too big to fail, right?
00:27:56.000These people are part of the World Economic Forum and of course huge supporters of this administration and they'll receive favorable policies.
00:28:04.000But I would say there's, I agree with you on a lot of that, it's about $12,000 actually.
00:28:08.000An American family right now, just as far as groceries and day-to-day items, needs $12,000 more than they were making in 2019 to live the exact same and purchase the same
00:29:07.000I've grown up in the era of social media where I'm running for president and they would just play something that I've publicly uploaded and be like, is that not you?
00:29:13.000They dig deep in your likes and your tweets.
00:29:16.000Like this is what you did when you were 12.
00:29:18.000Yeah, they don't even need to dig deep for me.
00:29:20.000Even Cultural Appropriation Month was just two weeks ago.
00:29:23.000But no, I definitely wouldn't shy away from it.
00:29:26.000I'm a big fan of what Trump did for the economy.
00:29:32.000I would actually disagree with you since you're asking me on the idea of these protests.
00:29:36.000I mean, you look at Black Lives Matter, you look at what happened with Antifa, you look at what's happening right now with the pro-Hamas protests.
00:29:43.000These are not—these, by the way, they're funded by either foreign entities or AstroTurf, and it's designed to make you think exactly what you think.
00:29:50.000Oh my gosh, if Trump gets in, we'll have to deal with riots.
00:29:52.000And I don't think that really our democratic republic, our representative republic, should be subject to mob rule.
00:29:58.000You should never be afraid to vote because Trump didn't call people to commit those wanton acts of violence.
00:30:04.000I mean, that entire summer, right, when they're burning down cities, Anyone could have been president.
00:30:08.000But obviously, people, the general population is going to correlate that with Trump's... With the president.
00:30:26.000And we had Black Lives Matter before he was coming in, right?
00:30:28.000That was a big reason that he won, right?
00:30:30.000They were burning down cities, so they just acted up again.
00:30:34.000And I think that if you were to ask yourself who has not called for violence versus Kamala Harris and Joe Biden saying they're not going to stop rioting in the streets, nor should they stop.
00:32:57.000We're married and I thought wait when I grow up. I'm gonna have a woman in my house instead of my brother
00:33:02.000You can't comprehend it Like playing with like dolls and stuff doesn't mean that
00:33:07.000they're like a girl. I just I think that's so stupid I was looking up their skirts.
00:33:11.000Yeah, so, like, what do you think, like, a kid playing with a doll, you're gonna call him, like, a girl because, just because that's considered a feminine kind of act?
00:33:19.000It's very controversial for sure, and I will say my son is seven years old, and he designs Barbie dresses, and he loves to sew and design, and I just encourage him, but does that mean that he wants to be a girl?
00:33:50.000So your son designs, he does little Barbie dresses?
00:33:52.000Yeah, he cuts them up and he makes them out of balloons, aluminum foil, fabric, whatever he can find to create a fashion dress.
00:34:01.000He makes it and it's really awesome most of the time.
00:34:04.000As long as you don't tell him he's a girl, you know, that'll come in handy, the fine motor skills, when he has to unhook a bra and he's older.
00:34:51.000It turns out that you may gain some new perspective as well as provide some for other people out there regardless of the chasm that you think may exist between you both politically.