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Well, well, well. It is time to get ourselves together.
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Time for Mindful Monday. We're so blessed to have a
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yoga teacher to help us out. She's a sound healer,
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sound bath specialist, astrologer, numerologist, a life coach, and a
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meditation instructor. All that is in the person of Sahara Ali.
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And it's time for Mindful Monday. Good morning, Sahara.
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Good morning, Dominique. Good morning, KBLA family, and welcome to
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Mindful Monday. Mindful Monday is where we get our minds
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right for the week by setting positive intentions, honoring our
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mind and body through meditation, prayer, and affirmation as we
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step unapologetically into our week, being on purpose with our power, faith, truth,
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and wisdom. Today, I'd like to unpack the celestial influence
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of Mercury retrograde coming up on the 24th. putting this
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week in Mercury Retro Shade in Scorpio. Mercury changed directions
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three or four times a year, shifting our perspective, aiding
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deep introspection, disorder, disruption, renewal, and is now a great
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lexicon assisting our reality. Everybody talks about Mercury Retrograde, even
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the newscaster, which is kind of cray-cray, but it's good.
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Mercury's goal is to keep us in present time as
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a journey in Scorpio stirs the pot by calling out
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the elephant in the room. highlighting misunderstandings, confrontations, putting haters
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on front street, revealing truth, giving us a chance to
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right wrongs, clarifying our words, healing our hearts, to change
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our mind, to change our lives. The gift of Mercury
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Retrograde supports the expression of both sides of our brain.
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The right brain opens, stimulating intuition, clarity, and creativity, leaving
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the left brain for linear thinking. And retrograde planets facilitate
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karmic balance, bringing light to all things in our lives,
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allowing us to redo, rethink, reframe, and go over old
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ground to face truth and retrieve our power. Mercury retrograde
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affects all forms of communication, so expect delays in travel
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and communication and all the things that have to do
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with thinking and speaking, or even moving in that case.
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So pay close attention to all details. Make extra time
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for all tasks and exercise, lots of patience, but most
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of all, slow down. Slow down to receive divine guidance
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supporting major change. We have three weeks of intense Mercury
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retrograde energy aiding us to consciously reframe our thoughts and
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actions so we can manifest what we want, releasing what
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we don't want. As we navigate the full Mercury retrograde
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and Scorpio cycle, the call to action is to utilize self-love. self-love,
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inner wisdom to celebrate our wholeness, allowing truth to unfold.
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And it's so important that truth is unfolding and we
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must celebrate our wholeness as we walk through the valley
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of the shadow of craziness. And as we go forward
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today with our Mindful Monday Meditation, let's set the intention
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to mindfully soften our hearts, open our minds, let go
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of resentment, judgment, and anger and Trusting truth to unfold.
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Be kind and loving to ourselves as we unapologetically reframe
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our expectations, centering and grounding our minds and body to
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embrace the gift of Mercury retrograde for three weeks. So
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take a breath. Let's center ourselves and get quiet. Quiet
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our minds for a moment. Take a breath. Tap into
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inner peace. And now slowly exhale, releasing any tension or
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tightness in your body and just breathe. Breathe connecting to
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the wisdom within. Breathe allowing your heart to open and
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your mind to be ready for change and dealing with
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the wisdom that already exists within you. Just breathe and
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be right here, right now, one with your breath, one
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with the power of your wholeness. As you allow yourself
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to relax and let go, call on your angels. Call
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your angels to support as you release and let go
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and open to relaxation. Give yourself permission to center yourself,
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to ground yourself, and to lean into trust. Trust and
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know that the Most High is guiding all actions. Breathe
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and align with your highest good, making the promise to
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engage in self-love. Engage in self-love, forgiveness, compassion, and be patient.
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Be patient for God's will to be done, not ours.
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And breathe being right here, right now, acknowledging every moment,
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every action, everything offers an opportunity for positive change. It
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offers us an opportunity to engage in freedom, empowerment, and
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most of all, growth. So as we are in this
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meditative state, Lean into the possibility of change. Relax and
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let go, releasing expectations. Find inner peace, opening to the
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gift of our Mindful Monday meditation, holding the space for
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your inner wisdom. Breathe, relax, and anchor yourself right here,
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right now. And call in the light. Call in the
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light and imagine a light glowing over your body from
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your head to your toes. anchoring you down to earth
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in this moment right here, right now. Taking the biggest
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breath you've had all morning and hold the image of
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that light. And as you exhale, open your heart. Open
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your heart, open your mind to divine will being done
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as we are in retrograde, asking us to reframe, review, reevaluate,
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but most of all, retrieve our power from seen and
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unseen places. and things that no longer work for our
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highest good. Relax, let go, and feel your body centered
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and grounded, holding the image of your body in this
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beautiful glowing light, and open your heart and mind for
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our Mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today, I unapologetically
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embrace my wholeness, ready to review, retrieve, and renew all
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aspects of my life. Today, I unapologetically embrace my wholeness,
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ready to release, review, retrieve, and renew all aspects of
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my life. See with that. Are you open to release?
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Are you open to review? Are you open and ready
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to retrieve your power to renew all aspects of your life,
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knowing that the universe is your partner? Slowly begin to
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bring your awareness back to the room. Connecting with your breath,
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connecting with your light, connecting to your wholeness. And give
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yourself permission to be unapologetically, mindfully blessed this week, embracing
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your wholeness, ready to release, to review, retrieve, and renew
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all aspects of your life. And to be unapologetically, on purpose,
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picking up your power to shine your light. And remember
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that we never walk alone. Thank you, Dominique. Thank you, Miles,
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Tabitha Smiley, 1580 KDLA family. Have an unapologetically, mindfully blessed week.
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Embracing your wholeness and ready to release, review, retrieve, and
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renew all aspects of your life.
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Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. We can go
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a little deeper with that. I also want to talk
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about Mercury retrograde in Scorpio during election season. Sounds like it.
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There could be shenanigans at hand and why we're slowing
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down when everything's already taking longer. All that and more.
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If you've got a question or a comment or more
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for Sahara Ali, 809-20-1580 is the number. This is KBLA
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Talk 1580. The conversation continues right now. Not just me,
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Sahara Ali is here. And she'll rejoin us in the
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final hour for a messy Monday. I don't know what's
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more messy than this election, to be honest with you.
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The fact that there's so much, there's so many shenanigans
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going on in many of our races and there's so
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much deception going on with a lot of these propositions.
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And I just wonder what, you know, and now you've
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got the Trump administration trying to single out 20,000 people
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in California and saying that they think they're undocumented, which
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is based on who knows what, eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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you know, the Doge, they're probably, this is a DEI administration,
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so they're probably saying, oh, all the, all the people
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that have a la in, in, you know, Lakeith, Lavon
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in front of their name, you know, all the people
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that have a sha, Shanice, Shaniqua, you know, Sharita, they
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all have to be undocumented. I mean, who knows? They,
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you know, and so, What would you say about how
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to proceed in this election in the middle of a
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retrograde in Scorpio, which is a lot of secrets and
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hidden stuff, right?
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Right, but everything is coming to the surface so you
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know what you're working with. So if you know what
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you're working with, then you know how to proceed forward
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because you're not blindsided. and that's the thing with Mercury
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retrograde not only is Mercury retrograde Venus is retrograde so
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the delusions of how you feel or the power you
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think you have, you will have your face broken because
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it's not what you think you have. So, you know,
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you have to understand that Mercury retrograde slows things down
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so you can see reality. Mercury retrograde gets a bad
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rap because it forces us to go within, tell ourselves
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the truth, and to reframe things with clarity. And also,
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if there is something that's shady, it's going to surface,
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and it's going to, like Mercury moves forward, then it
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moves back. So if you missed it the first time,
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then you did it the second time. And so you
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have to rethink, renegotiate, reevaluate. But most of all, this
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Mercury retrograde with Venus, it's dealing with our feelings. It's
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dealing with matters of the heart. It's dealing with all
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those things that's been swept underneath the rugs. The time
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you didn't speak your truth, the time where you just
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fucked it up and you decided you weren't going to
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speak up. But this time it's imperative to speak up.
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We are in a new cycle and there's six other planets,
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retrograde Saturn, retrograde Pluto, retrograde Uranus, retrograde. But this is
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a deep time of reflection, retrieval, and exposure of things
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that are not on the up and up, or lies
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that have been told, you know, secrets that have been said.
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It's time to clean the slate and come correct.
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Lies and secrets, lies and secrets. But here's the thing.
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You said, you know, we'll know what we're working with
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because things are being unveiled and leaked and coming out.
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But you also said time to speak up. But we've
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got this Venus and Scorpio dynamic that can create some
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clashes and drama. So is there a certain way that
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you're supposed to speak up?
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It's only a clash if you mince the words. If
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you're speaking from the heart, and people know when you're
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speaking from the heart that it's not malicious. People can
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feel the wisdom within you when you say, okay, I'm
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fed up. When you say I'm fed up, people are like, oh, okay,
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something's going on. I need to listen up. And so
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when you say you're fed up about something or when
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something hits the end of the road, it gets people's attention.
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And some people are acting out in ways of being
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irresponsible with expressing what they're.
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Fed up with.
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And so this is the other part with Mercury and
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Venus in Scorpio. It's saying you could be fed up,
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but you can deliver that in a softer blow. And
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even if you deliver it in a sour blow, you
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still have to look at you and what you're saying.
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You still have to look, you know, you point the
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finger three at you, one at the universe. So it's
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a collective dynamic.
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Some of it is about ego too, right? With the
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whole Venus and Scorpio, like if, yeah, if we start,
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if people, well, if we, if I, if one starts,
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you know, coming from a big head place or, you know,
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do you know who I am? Energy? that conversation is
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probably not going to go good, right?
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But that's why they're saying that, do you know who
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I am? And say, well, do you know who you are?
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Because it's going to be, it's clap back. It's some
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hard clapping back. It's not like, I understand who you
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think you are, but do you know who I am?
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It's a clap back season. So we need to really
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be mindful what we want to clap with. And who
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we want to clap for.
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We could end up with some more October surprises, too, right?
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I mean, we were talking about elections and secrets coming
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to light. We could be getting October surprises all the
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way up to November 3rd, sounds like.
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Well, this energy, you know, because not only is Mercury
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and Venus together retrograde, but Saturn is retrograde, Pluto is retrograde.
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So it's going deep, deep, deep, deep down in the well.
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to pull up all of the trash that has been
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thrown in there so it can be reviewed in a
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proper way to be managed. There's a higher force. And
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this is, you know, this morning when I was waking
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up and spirit said to me in my head, it's
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just like, you know, everybody wants to be spiritual and
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holy until it comes down to living in that spirituality
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and in that holiness. We will be airy-fairy like, oh, yeah,
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the universe is my friend and I believe in God
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and all of that. But as soon as, you know,
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the poop hit the fan, people are like, oh, I'm
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depressed and I'm missing. It's like, no, God is saying,
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let's change your mind. Let's reframe where you're standing. Let's
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pick up your power. Let's be empowered and say no
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to say yes to yourself and trust that as you
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walk through the valley of this craziness, Fear no evil
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because there's a higher plan always going on. And it's
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hard for us to lean into that higher plan when
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people are coming at us and the reality that we're
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standing in or the illusion, I'd say, is not our truth.
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This is an opportunity to really look at what is
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your truth? Because Scorpio brings birth, death, regeneration. Before there's
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birth to anything, there's a death. And in order to regenerate,
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you're going to have to let something go.
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Before there's birth.
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Of anything, there's death. That sounds weird. Sorry. It does.
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It just does. What do you mean by that? What
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does that mean? Transformation.
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Complete transformation. Let's say, okay.
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Okay. So it's like the death of my not mommy self.
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My mommy self is born. I mean, that would be
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one simple example.
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Yeah, but we talk about, we don't necessarily have to
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lean into giving birth, but we are giving birth to
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a new self. So the new self, the old self
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has to transform and die before we embrace the new self.
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It's not literally about giving birth, but in birth there
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is a transformation that breath has to take place for
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birth to be here and present on this plane. The
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death is like you leave the womb and now you're
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over here on this side. You know, and so like
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what wound are we leaving? Are we leaving and not
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just the wound that gives birth, but the wounds that
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we've been carrying for far too long. That's why this
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one is really hard because it's an end. It is
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an end to years and years of sweeping stuff underneath
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the rug, sucking your teeth, holding in your feelings, because
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the universe is saying if you step up to the
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plate and take the trash out, I have a huge
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blessing for you.
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Um, okay. Sounds good. Step up to the plate, deal
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with those feelings. And then when it comes to retrograde,
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I don't want to, I kind of ask you for
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the short version because I want to have, make sure
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we have time to talk about, well, let's talk about
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where your sound baths are and how folks can connect
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with you. But you said slow down for mercury retrograde.
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And I always feel like I've got to speed up
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because the car might break down and I, somehow I
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always end up late and eat later. Yeah. in Mercury
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retrograde or the computer might not boot up. So why
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do you say slow down?
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Because everything is moving in sort of a distorted perspective
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that you can be blindsided and that you don't know
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what type of erratic thing that may manifest or the delay,
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like you said, the computer may not boot up. I
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had this problem this morning. I was, At the computer,
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it is like, oh, no, it's the 11th hour. And
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it's like, okay, take a breath, reframe where you're standing,
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and go with the flow. And so it's about going
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with the flow. It's about getting out of the way.
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And it's the universe setting up dynamics so that you
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can reframe where you're standing with yourself. So when I
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say slow down, get prayed up. Be patient. Be a witness.
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You know, I have this concept that I teach all
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my clients. When you're in the basement, you can't see
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anything and it's dark down there. If you go to
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the rooftop, you can do a 360 and you can
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see it coming and you can see it going. So
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this is an opportunity to get out of the basement,
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go to the rooftop, do a 360 and see it
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coming and going and knowing that you are already elevated
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and you will be just fine. So meditation, prayer... honesty
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with yourself, willingness to take the trash out and to
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be in acceptance of the dynamics that are unfolding in
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front of you and be in your power. My mantra
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is this is not my truth. It's right here. This
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craziness has nothing to do with me. This is not
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my truth.
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Got it. Got it. You know, radio is different during retrograde,
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but we'll talk about that later. Right now, I want
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to make sure folks know how to connect with you
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and what's happening with the bathing of ourselves and sound
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and such.
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Yes.
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So when's the next sound bath? When do we have it?
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We have a sound bath on Saturday. I am so sorry. See,
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Mercury retrograde. I went blank for a minute. I thought
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we was leaving. I have a sound bath on Saturday
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at Yoga House. That's the only one. And the other
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note that needs to be put on the table, this
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is the last Mercury retrograde of the year.
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Okay.
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How about that one? How about that one? But my
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sound bath, only sound bath now right now is at
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Yoga House on Saturday.
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And you got to get there at 545 p.m. is
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when you got to get there if you want to
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get in. If you want an appointment with Sahara, maybe
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you want to get yourself literally straightened out with the
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yoga consultation or reading some live coaching or sound bath,
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sound healing, call Elise at 213-628-9783, 213-628-9783. 9783 and come
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see about you. Um, we're going to do the messy
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Monday thing, uh, second, second hour. Well, third hour, no
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next hour.
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Right.
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Right. So you'll be back with us then. Um, we
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just got a minute here, Sahara. I'm thinking about this,
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you know, I'm really in thinking about the deception and
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illusionary perspective of Mercury retrograde and you're, telling us about
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how these transits are kind of opening our eyes. Just
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what would you suggest for us to make sure that
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we're not delusional in our perspective? I mean, is it
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more meditation? Is it, you know, what would you suggest?
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The first step is be willing to release the lies
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you tell yourself about the value of yourself. Because nobody
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can harm you if you're standing in the value of yourself.
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And yes, meditation, prayer, acceptance of what is, and emotional
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management and discernment.
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I got it.
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Don't overreact. Let people show you who they are and
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stand in your power and breathe. Because this one, they'll
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chop their own head off. You don't have to say
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anything as long as you are holding the space and
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not lying to yourself about the expectation of who you
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want them to be. Okay, we got to leave it there.
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But you'll be back. Go have a breather. I'll talk
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to you in a minute on a messy Monday. News, traffic,
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and sports. Then we're going to talk national politics and international.
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All that straight ahead. Only right here. We're not the
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only ones with elections. There are elections coming up in France.
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That is one of the reasons why they are rioting, protesting.
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I use the word rioting advisedly. I know there's some
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stuff being smashed up and stuff. But really they're protests.
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They're protests about affordability. They're protests about poor schools, broken
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down classrooms, not enough teachers, just the state of the economy.
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And it's also happening in neighboring Italy. The scary thing
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about France, though, is that they have Marie Le Pen,
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the sort of far right-wing fascist candidate, and the far
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right is using these protests to boost their chances in
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their upcoming election. And we've seen that happen here in
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the United States, where sometimes conservatives are able to take
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legitimate protests, right? And scare people saying, oh, well, you know,
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law and order, law and order. If you let these
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people protest, then your life is in danger. And sometimes
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people buy that, and we see these sort of reactionary
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voting patterns that end up creating more police states, more authoritarianism,
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more leaning toward fascism, which we're seeing in Latin America
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and in Europe. And if, as a result of all
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of this protesting, Marie Le Pen is able to become
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the French president at a time when Macron is not
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too popular and he's struggling. That's not going to be
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a good thing as we see the growing footprint of
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authoritarianism and right-wing fascism across the globe. I'm not saying
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that blaming the students or the people who are protesting
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because if you can't afford food, you can't afford gas.
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Student housing apparently is a huge problem in France, just
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like it is here. Then of course, you have a
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right to protest. But the other side of that is
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that the French right is brazenly using this to boost
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their election chances. You know who else has an election
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coming up? Israel. Donald Trump just endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu, the
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Israeli prime minister who you know, by the way, still
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facing these corruption charges, but as long as he keeps
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these wars going and wins elections, I guess he kind
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of has a similar situation to our U.S. president who
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was able to stay out of jail and avoid prosecution
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by becoming president and getting the extreme court to give
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him some kind of weird, unheard of immunity. In any case,
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the resident has endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu. And it's interesting because, well,
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it's interesting because, like, as the guy becomes a worldwide
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pariah for the genocide in Gaza, and his extremist positions, even,
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you know, even for a far right-wing Israeli politician, he's
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an extremist. The fact that the resident would think, oh,
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this is a good time. I should endorse Netanyahu. That's
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what he did. And does it mean anything? I don't know. Apparently,
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Trump is not that popular in Israel anymore. But I
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think it's also weird. I don't know if weird is
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the right way. the right word. I think it's, um, significant,
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let me say that, that the resident has chosen to, um,
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endorse Netanyahu right the same weekend that we're dealing with the, um,
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attacks by these Israeli settlers in the West Bank on journalists.
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You know, a Washington Post journalist, um, was hospitalized. And
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these are so-called settlers who go in and take over
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people's homes on the West Bank, on Palestinian land, and
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just say, nope, we live here now, and weaponize the
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Israeli army as their personal security in order to enable
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that to happen. So I think it's extremely significant because
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even though Israeli police are saying they've arrested 10 people
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for violence against journalists on the West Bank, Netanyahu has
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said there's not an issue. You know, he downplays the
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settler violence and tries to say, oh, it's just a
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group of teenagers, or it's not, you know, it's not
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a big deal. So the fact that our president, our U.S. president,
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yes he is, whether we like it or not, would
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go ahead and endorse this guy right when he's being
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an apologist for actual violent attacks on U.S. and other
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foreign journalists is crazy work. This Washington Post photographer, her
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name is Heidi Levine, was beaten by a crowd of
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masked journalists israeli settlers on the west bank beaten she
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had broken ribs she had broken vertebrae she had to
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have surgery on her hand her finger was almost cut
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off she has stab wounds all over her lower body
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she had to be stitched up we are not talking
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about someone smacking you you know pimp slapping you and
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walking on these people were trying to kill this woman
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The next day, they attack a group of European diplomats
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and random tourists. And, you know, they do this all
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the time to Palestinians. That should be illegal. It is illegal.
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That should be prosecuted. But the fact is, now that
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they're so emboldened that they just feel they can stab
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and beat and try to sever the finger of a photographer...
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For the Washington Post? Do you know how out of
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control you have to be? When even our right-wing U.S.
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ambassador Mike Huckabee says these are despicable acts of terror
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carried out by masked cowards? We are way, way, way, way,
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way out over our skis on this. They attacked a
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Belgian consul general. And so the resident says, you know
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what would be great to do today? I think I'll
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endorse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Because, well, we know
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he hates the press unless they're flattering him. But a normal...
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normal president, you know, and they have their own problems,
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our normal president, but a normal president would be talking
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about protecting the press, the free press, would be sanctioning
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the Israeli government for not protecting the press. Maybe that's
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where these 10 arrests come in, but I find it
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extremely significant that the U.S. president is valuing the re-election
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of his boss, I mean, the prime minister of Israel,
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over the protection of his own U.S. journalists, over the
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popular opinion of his own political base. Because it's not just...
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Democrats that are saying, you know, we need to ease
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up on support for the Israeli military and the genocide
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in Gaza. Conservatives are saying it too, especially the young
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MAGA folks. So the fact that he'll ignore his base,
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the American people, and his duty to protect the press,
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to try to boost Netanyahu is very telling. We're talking politics.
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You're invited in 809-20-1580. That's the number or hop into
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YouTube at KBLA 1580 on youtube.com. I'm Dominique DiPrima. Happy
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Mercury retrograde from all of us at KBLA Talk 1580. Wow.
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According to the 2026 Black Census Project, only 3% of
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black Americans said they trust the federal government. That means
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97% of us are like, yeah, no, I don't think so.
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And according to the same poll, 90% of us say
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we plan to vote. We don't trust them, but we're
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voting anyway. And what's interesting is that this time, this
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particular election, a lot of black voters are saying, according
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to Black Census Project, that we're going to vote early.
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And if you are going to vote by mail, the
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Secretary of State here in California suggests putting it in
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federal custody at least seven days early. In other words,
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if you're going to use the U.S. mail, I would say,
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you know, maybe 10, but who knows? She's the Secretary
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of State. I like to put mine in a county
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drop box or hand it to the election worker or
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go vote in person. But a lot of us are
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voting early, and that is really a great idea. It
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was part of the No Kings theme this weekend, vote early.
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And black voters apparently... are on, on, you know, all
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over this. And I, I love that for us. Um,
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I hope it holds. We've got Paul on the phone.
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Good morning, Paul from LA. Welcome.
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Um, good morning, Dominique. Good morning, KBLA fam. Um, I
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want to call in just strictly on what you were
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just discussing. Um, what's the saying though? Just listen to
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black women. Everything that you're saying, like we understand the
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essential risk that is going on right now. And, um,
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When you hear those numbers of not trusting the government,
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that's literally from our past history, but then also from
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what misinformation and disinformation does.
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Yeah.
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And I tell people, I don't know if you guys
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have seen the reporting recently. In the last two years
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that this administration has been in office, black medium net
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wealth has dropped 25%. They did that in two years.
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So how are we winning?
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Yes. I mean, and everyone else is, you know, doing
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slightly better. But black people are taking... I mean, the numbers,
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the economic numbers show black people are taking the hit.
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And clearly that was the intention.
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And that's why... And I tell people, like, you know,
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I have my boys I deal with in the streets
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and the gym and everything. And they'll come to me
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because they... If they want to debate or they want
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to know. And I always say to people... Voting is
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a part of the work. But the one thing you
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never give up is your voice and your political capital.
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The reason in 2016 that the Mueller report and everything happened,
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and it was confirmed by that Senate committee that actually
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had Kamala Harris and Marco Rubio on it, that yes,
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the 2016 election was compromised by Russian influence. But what
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they also said in people, because most people didn't read it,
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was the misinformation and disinformation was targeted directly into the
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black communities. Why did they do that? Because the goal
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is elections are won on the margins. 90 million people
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did not vote in the election. Those are poor white
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people and people of color. So when you understand these things,
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the largest voting block is non-voters. Do you think those
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racist people, those MAGA people and rich people are sitting
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on the sidelines? Never give up your voice to vote.
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It's just a part of the work. So when people
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say voting does nothing to you, the next question you
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should have for them is, what else are you doing
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outside of voting too? It's and voting.
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Yeah, I think that's right. And And it's also down
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ballot voting, right? I know you know that because you
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pay more attention than most. But it's not just mayor
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and governor. Like, there's so much important stuff on the ballot. Dr.
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Malino-Abdullah was talking earlier in California. You know, a simple
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thing like Prop 3, which, okay, schools will have money
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if you vote yes. If you vote no, they probably
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won't have money.
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I mean.
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The commercials can make it as confusing as they want to,
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but these things are important. And then, you know, when
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you talk about the power of our vote and the
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importance of our vote, Paul, of course, Prop 39 is,
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this is actually that, whatever that spot we're running, this
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is actually MAGA on the ballot. It really is. This
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is the Trump agenda, Project 2025 on the California ballot.
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Yes, and I'm happy you brought that up. If your
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vote didn't matter so much, why did Elon Musk just
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drop $ 150 million directly into the state of Texas alone?
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So you talk about follow the money. If your vote
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didn't matter so much, they wouldn't be trying so hard
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to make sure you don't vote because they know if
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you do vote, just like the polling that you just said,
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that study that you just said, is we would be
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voting against what's going on right now because we understand
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the essential threat of it. Everything matters, everybody. Everything matters.
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Because it's federal, nobody talks about the judges. Look at
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the Supreme Court right now. The reason we have a
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mad king is because they played a 50-year game. We
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may talk about Prague in 2025. No, the Federalist Society
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came about in the 70s in response to the civil
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rights movement, in response to black people being at the table.
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So why would you ever give people... that don't like
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you and want to take us back to 1961.
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Right.
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To 1961. Why would you want them to be the
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people at the table while you sit back and complain
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about everything and say, you know what? I don't care.
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Turn to your children and say, I'm sorry about y'all,
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but I'm so selfish. I don't care.
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Yeah. And that's, you know, I think sometimes as Californians,
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we think, well, we have some kind of protection because
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we're cool. We're hip, you know, we got swag, and
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we're blue. We're a blue state, meaning Democratic Party blue.
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Dominique, we have ICE in our communities terrorizing people, and
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there are people cheering it on. So I want people
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to understand that. Don't ever think you're going to make
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your life and your community that you swear about better
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using massive tools, because you end up sounding and turning
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into the oppressor.
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Yeah, well, that's, and I think it's easy to sort
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of skim over something when we have such a long ballot,
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and I know there's been a lot of conversation about
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You know, some of these, I think the most discussed
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are probably Prop 40 and 39, right? The billionaire tax
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and this voter ID measure, which is really, you know,
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a voter suppression measure. But I just don't want people
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to be confused. And these ads are really confusing. I
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had a family member ask me yesterday, well, Prop 40
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is going to make them tax my benefits, right? And
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I said, no, no, that's the billionaire's telling you, you know,
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spending $ 100 million to defeat a measure that's going to
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tax them. And so there's a lot of confusing stuff,
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even on the ones that are most discussed.
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Right. And I've been listening to Dominique Duprema since I
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was a kid in Los Angeles. Right. And I have
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to say this.
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I was a kid too.
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What I want people to understand is, Black people take
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parties out of it. Black people flipped around to voting
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Democratic after the New Deal happened with FDR. And then
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you later had. the Civil Rights Movement. The rich people
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that you're talking about right now, they want their hands
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on a tax code, and they want to take away
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the working rights. All that happened is they suckered those
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poor white people who are the majority overall into falling
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into the trap, and now... they're going to be dealing
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with apartheid and slavery too, because they don't care about
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that overall. For them, their skin color is their capital. However,
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I'm going to turn to you and say, when you
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lose your house, when you lose your farmland, when you
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don't have anything, don't turn around us because we tried
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to tell you. Because you know why? Because 92% of
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black women and 80% of black men voted against this
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for distinctively what we see going on today.
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I thought it was 85% of black men.
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The number is 80%. It was 80%. I think 78%
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to 80%. And I've heard people say 85%, but it's
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92% of black women. But let me say this last
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thing on this. We feel that's 92% of black women
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that actually voted. That's 80% of black men that actually voted.
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We have a problem of people sitting on the sidelines.
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And I guarantee you the people that sit on the
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sidelines are people that don't understand the saying of, it's
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not what you can do for the government, it's what
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you expect the government to be doing for you.
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Yeah, well, and the government, and by doing for you,
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we mean taking your money and using it to do
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for you because that money doesn't come poof out of
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the sky. It's, you know, out your pocket.
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Working conditions, worker protections, protecting pensions. You want to make
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sure that, and this is the difference with our ancestors
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compared to us. Our ancestors strategized, they fought, and they
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were very strategic. And they demanded their equity and their
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seat at the table. And if they didn't get it,
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we were willing to be personful with our dollars. We
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were willing to move, even if we didn't all move
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on cold.
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Yep.
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We still understood the big picture, Dominique. And that's all
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I'm telling people. If you want to.
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Stay with me, you know. Oh, we're going messy.
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I forgot.
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But look, Paul, I always love your insights. And according
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to the Pew Research Center, 83% of black voters backed Harris.
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So we can use that number because Pew is pretty reputable, right?
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Yeah, that's total, though. But that's who voted. We have
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a lot that are still sitting on the sidelines.
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Oh, no doubt. No doubt. No doubt. Paul, thank you
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so much. We've got news, traffic, and sports. And then
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Messy Monday, all that straight ahead, only here.
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Well, well, well. It is time to get ourselves together.
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Time for Mindful Monday. We're so blessed to have a
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yoga teacher to help us out. She's a sound healer,
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sound bath specialist, astrologer, numerologist, a life coach, and a
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meditation instructor. All that is in the person of Sahara Ali.
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And it's time for Mindful Monday. Good morning, Sahara.
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Good morning, Dominique. Good morning, KBLA family, and welcome to
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Mindful Monday. Mindful Monday is where we get our minds
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right for the week by setting positive intentions, honoring our
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mind and body through meditation, prayer, and affirmation as we
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step unapologetically into our week, being on purpose with our power, faith, truth,
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and wisdom. Today, I'd like to unpack the celestial influence
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of Mercury retrograde coming up on the 24th. putting this
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week in Mercury Retro Shade in Scorpio. Mercury changed directions
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three or four times a year, shifting our perspective, aiding
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deep introspection, disorder, disruption, renewal, and is now a great
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lexicon assisting our reality. Everybody talks about Mercury Retrograde, even
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the newscaster, which is kind of cray-cray, but it's good.
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Mercury's goal is to keep us in present time as
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a journey in Scorpio stirs the pot by calling out
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the elephant in the room. highlighting misunderstandings, confrontations, putting haters
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on front street, revealing truth, giving us a chance to
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right wrongs, clarifying our words, healing our hearts, to change
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our mind, to change our lives. The gift of Mercury
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Retrograde supports the expression of both sides of our brain.
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The right brain opens, stimulating intuition, clarity, and creativity, leaving
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the left brain for linear thinking. And retrograde planets facilitate
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karmic balance, bringing light to all things in our lives,
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allowing us to redo, rethink, reframe, and go over old
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ground to face truth and retrieve our power. Mercury retrograde
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affects all forms of communication, so expect delays in travel
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and communication and all the things that have to do
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with thinking and speaking, or even moving in that case.
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So pay close attention to all details. Make extra time
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for all tasks and exercise, lots of patience, but most
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of all, slow down. Slow down to receive divine guidance
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supporting major change. We have three weeks of intense Mercury
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retrograde energy aiding us to consciously reframe our thoughts and
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actions so we can manifest what we want, releasing what
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we don't want. As we navigate the full Mercury retrograde
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and Scorpio cycle, the call to action is to utilize self-love. self-love,
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inner wisdom to celebrate our wholeness, allowing truth to unfold.
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And it's so important that truth is unfolding and we
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must celebrate our wholeness as we walk through the valley
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of the shadow of craziness. And as we go forward
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today with our Mindful Monday Meditation, let's set the intention
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to mindfully soften our hearts, open our minds, let go
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of resentment, judgment, and anger and Trusting truth to unfold.
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Be kind and loving to ourselves as we unapologetically reframe
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our expectations, centering and grounding our minds and body to
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embrace the gift of Mercury retrograde for three weeks. So
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take a breath. Let's center ourselves and get quiet. Quiet
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our minds for a moment. Take a breath. Tap into
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inner peace. And now slowly exhale, releasing any tension or
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tightness in your body and just breathe. Breathe connecting to
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the wisdom within. Breathe allowing your heart to open and
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your mind to be ready for change and dealing with
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the wisdom that already exists within you. Just breathe and
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be right here, right now, one with your breath, one
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with the power of your wholeness. As you allow yourself
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to relax and let go, call on your angels. Call
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your angels to support as you release and let go
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and open to relaxation. Give yourself permission to center yourself,
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to ground yourself, and to lean into trust. Trust and
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know that the Most High is guiding all actions. Breathe
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and align with your highest good, making the promise to
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engage in self-love. Engage in self-love, forgiveness, compassion, and be patient.
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Be patient for God's will to be done, not ours.
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And breathe being right here, right now, acknowledging every moment,
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every action, everything offers an opportunity for positive change. It
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offers us an opportunity to engage in freedom, empowerment, and
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most of all, growth. So as we are in this
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meditative state, Lean into the possibility of change. Relax and
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let go, releasing expectations. Find inner peace, opening to the
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gift of our Mindful Monday meditation, holding the space for
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your inner wisdom. Breathe, relax, and anchor yourself right here,
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right now. And call in the light. Call in the
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light and imagine a light glowing over your body from
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your head to your toes. anchoring you down to earth
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in this moment right here, right now. Taking the biggest
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breath you've had all morning and hold the image of
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that light. And as you exhale, open your heart. Open
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your heart, open your mind to divine will being done
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as we are in retrograde, asking us to reframe, review, reevaluate,
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but most of all, retrieve our power from seen and
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unseen places. and things that no longer work for our
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highest good. Relax, let go, and feel your body centered
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and grounded, holding the image of your body in this
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beautiful glowing light, and open your heart and mind for
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our Mindful Monday affirmation for the week. Today, I unapologetically
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embrace my wholeness, ready to review, retrieve, and renew all
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aspects of my life. Today, I unapologetically embrace my wholeness,
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ready to release, review, retrieve, and renew all aspects of
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my life. See with that. Are you open to release?
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Are you open to review? Are you open and ready
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to retrieve your power to renew all aspects of your life,
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knowing that the universe is your partner? Slowly begin to
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bring your awareness back to the room. Connecting with your breath,
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connecting with your light, connecting to your wholeness. And give
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yourself permission to be unapologetically, mindfully blessed this week, embracing
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your wholeness, ready to release, to review, retrieve, and renew
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all aspects of your life. And to be unapologetically, on purpose,
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picking up your power to shine your light. And remember
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that we never walk alone. Thank you, Dominique. Thank you, Miles,
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Tabitha Smiley, 1580 KDLA family. Have an unapologetically, mindfully blessed week.
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Embracing your wholeness and ready to release, review, retrieve, and
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renew all aspects of your life.
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Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. We can go
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a little deeper with that. I also want to talk
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about Mercury retrograde in Scorpio during election season. Sounds like it.
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There could be shenanigans at hand and why we're slowing
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down when everything's already taking longer. All that and more.
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If you've got a question or a comment or more
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for Sahara Ali, 809-20-1580 is the number. This is KBLA
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Talk 1580. The conversation continues right now. Not just me,
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Sahara Ali is here. And she'll rejoin us in the
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final hour for a messy Monday. I don't know what's
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more messy than this election, to be honest with you.
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The fact that there's so much, there's so many shenanigans
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going on in many of our races and there's so
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much deception going on with a lot of these propositions.
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And I just wonder what, you know, and now you've
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got the Trump administration trying to single out 20,000 people
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in California and saying that they think they're undocumented, which
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is based on who knows what, eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
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you know, the Doge, they're probably, this is a DEI administration,
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so they're probably saying, oh, all the, all the people
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that have a la in, in, you know, Lakeith, Lavon
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in front of their name, you know, all the people
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that have a sha, Shanice, Shaniqua, you know, Sharita, they
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all have to be undocumented. I mean, who knows? They,
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you know, and so, What would you say about how
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to proceed in this election in the middle of a
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retrograde in Scorpio, which is a lot of secrets and
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hidden stuff, right?
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Right, but everything is coming to the surface so you
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know what you're working with. So if you know what
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you're working with, then you know how to proceed forward
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because you're not blindsided. and that's the thing with Mercury
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retrograde not only is Mercury retrograde Venus is retrograde so
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the delusions of how you feel or the power you
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think you have, you will have your face broken because
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it's not what you think you have. So, you know,
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you have to understand that Mercury retrograde slows things down
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so you can see reality. Mercury retrograde gets a bad
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rap because it forces us to go within, tell ourselves
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the truth, and to reframe things with clarity. And also,
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if there is something that's shady, it's going to surface,
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and it's going to, like Mercury moves forward, then it
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moves back. So if you missed it the first time,
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then you did it the second time. And so you
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have to rethink, renegotiate, reevaluate. But most of all, this
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Mercury retrograde with Venus, it's dealing with our feelings. It's
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dealing with matters of the heart. It's dealing with all
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those things that's been swept underneath the rugs. The time
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you didn't speak your truth, the time where you just
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fucked it up and you decided you weren't going to
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speak up. But this time it's imperative to speak up.
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We are in a new cycle and there's six other planets,
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retrograde Saturn, retrograde Pluto, retrograde Uranus, retrograde. But this is
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a deep time of reflection, retrieval, and exposure of things
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that are not on the up and up, or lies
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that have been told, you know, secrets that have been said.
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It's time to clean the slate and come correct.
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Lies and secrets, lies and secrets. But here's the thing.
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You said, you know, we'll know what we're working with
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because things are being unveiled and leaked and coming out.
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got this Venus and Scorpio dynamic that can create some
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clashes and drama. So is there a certain way that
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you're supposed to speak up?
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It's only a clash if you mince the words. If
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you're speaking from the heart, and people know when you're
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speaking from the heart that it's not malicious. People can
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feel the wisdom within you when you say, okay, I'm
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fed up. When you say I'm fed up, people are like, oh, okay,
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something's going on. I need to listen up. And so
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when you say you're fed up about something or when
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something hits the end of the road, it gets people's attention.
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irresponsible with expressing what they're.
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Venus in Scorpio. It's saying you could be fed up,
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but you can deliver that in a softer blow. And
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even if you deliver it in a sour blow, you
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still have to look at you and what you're saying.
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You still have to look, you know, you point the
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finger three at you, one at the universe. So it's
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a collective dynamic.
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Some of it is about ego too, right? With the
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whole Venus and Scorpio, like if, yeah, if we start,
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if people, well, if we, if I, if one starts,
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you know, coming from a big head place or, you know,
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do you know who I am? Energy? that conversation is
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probably not going to go good, right?
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I am? And say, well, do you know who you are?
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hard clapping back. It's not like, I understand who you
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think you are, but do you know who I am?
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It's a clap back season. So we need to really
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be mindful what we want to clap with. And who
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we want to clap for.
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We could end up with some more October surprises, too, right?
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I mean, we were talking about elections and secrets coming
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to light. We could be getting October surprises all the
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way up to November 3rd, sounds like.
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to pull up all of the trash that has been
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thrown in there so it can be reviewed in a
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proper way to be managed. There's a higher force. And
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this is, you know, this morning when I was waking
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up and spirit said to me in my head, it's
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just like, you know, everybody wants to be spiritual and
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holy until it comes down to living in that spirituality
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and in that holiness. We will be airy-fairy like, oh, yeah,
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the universe is my friend and I believe in God
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and all of that. But as soon as, you know,
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the poop hit the fan, people are like, oh, I'm
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depressed and I'm missing. It's like, no, God is saying,
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let's change your mind. Let's reframe where you're standing. Let's
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pick up your power. Let's be empowered and say no
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to say yes to yourself and trust that as you
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walk through the valley of this craziness, Fear no evil
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because there's a higher plan always going on. And it's
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hard for us to lean into that higher plan when
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people are coming at us and the reality that we're
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standing in or the illusion, I'd say, is not our truth.
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This is an opportunity to really look at what is
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your truth? Because Scorpio brings birth, death, regeneration. Before there's
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birth to anything, there's a death. And in order to regenerate,
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you're going to have to let something go.
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Before there's birth.
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Of anything, there's death. That sounds weird. Sorry. It does.
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It just does. What do you mean by that? What
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does that mean? Transformation.
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Complete transformation. Let's say, okay.
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My mommy self is born. I mean, that would be
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one simple example.
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lean into giving birth, but we are giving birth to
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a new self. So the new self, the old self
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has to transform and die before we embrace the new self.
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is a transformation that breath has to take place for
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birth to be here and present on this plane. The
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death is like you leave the womb and now you're
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over here on this side. You know, and so like
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what wound are we leaving? Are we leaving and not
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just the wound that gives birth, but the wounds that
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we've been carrying for far too long. That's why this
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one is really hard because it's an end. It is
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an end to years and years of sweeping stuff underneath
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the rug, sucking your teeth, holding in your feelings, because
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the universe is saying if you step up to the
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plate and take the trash out, I have a huge
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blessing for you.
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with those feelings. And then when it comes to retrograde,
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the short version because I want to have, make sure
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we have time to talk about, well, let's talk about
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where your sound baths are and how folks can connect
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with you. But you said slow down for mercury retrograde.
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because the car might break down and I, somehow I
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always end up late and eat later. Yeah. in Mercury
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retrograde or the computer might not boot up. So why
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do you say slow down?
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that you can be blindsided and that you don't know
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what type of erratic thing that may manifest or the delay,
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like you said, the computer may not boot up. I
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had this problem this morning. I was, At the computer,
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it is like, oh, no, it's the 11th hour. And
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it's like, okay, take a breath, reframe where you're standing,
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and go with the flow. And so it's about going
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with the flow. It's about getting out of the way.
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can reframe where you're standing with yourself. So when I
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say slow down, get prayed up. Be patient. Be a witness.
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my clients. When you're in the basement, you can't see
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anything and it's dark down there. If you go to
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the rooftop, you can do a 360 and you can
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see it coming and you can see it going. So
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this is an opportunity to get out of the basement,
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go to the rooftop, do a 360 and see it
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coming and going and knowing that you are already elevated
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and you will be just fine. So meditation, prayer... honesty
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with yourself, willingness to take the trash out and to
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be in acceptance of the dynamics that are unfolding in
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front of you and be in your power. My mantra
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is this is not my truth. It's right here. This
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craziness has nothing to do with me. This is not
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my truth.
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Got it. Got it. You know, radio is different during retrograde,
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but we'll talk about that later. Right now, I want
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to make sure folks know how to connect with you
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and what's happening with the bathing of ourselves and sound
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and such.
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Yes.
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So when's the next sound bath? When do we have it?
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We have a sound bath on Saturday. I am so sorry. See,
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Mercury retrograde. I went blank for a minute. I thought
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we was leaving. I have a sound bath on Saturday
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at Yoga House. That's the only one. And the other
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note that needs to be put on the table, this
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is the last Mercury retrograde of the year.
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Okay.
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How about that one? How about that one? But my
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sound bath, only sound bath now right now is at
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Yoga House on Saturday.
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And you got to get there at 545 p.m. is
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when you got to get there if you want to
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get in. If you want an appointment with Sahara, maybe
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you want to get yourself literally straightened out with the
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yoga consultation or reading some live coaching or sound bath,
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sound healing, call Elise at 213-628-9783, 213-628-9783. 9783 and come
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see about you. Um, we're going to do the messy
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Monday thing, uh, second, second hour. Well, third hour, no
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next hour.
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Right.
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Right. So you'll be back with us then. Um, we
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just got a minute here, Sahara. I'm thinking about this,
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you know, I'm really in thinking about the deception and
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illusionary perspective of Mercury retrograde and you're, telling us about
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how these transits are kind of opening our eyes. Just
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what would you suggest for us to make sure that
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we're not delusional in our perspective? I mean, is it
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more meditation? Is it, you know, what would you suggest?
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The first step is be willing to release the lies
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you tell yourself about the value of yourself. Because nobody
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can harm you if you're standing in the value of yourself.
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And yes, meditation, prayer, acceptance of what is, and emotional
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management and discernment.
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I got it.
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Don't overreact. Let people show you who they are and
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stand in your power and breathe. Because this one, they'll
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chop their own head off. You don't have to say
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anything as long as you are holding the space and
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not lying to yourself about the expectation of who you
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want them to be. Okay, we got to leave it there.
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But you'll be back. Go have a breather. I'll talk
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to you in a minute on a messy Monday. News, traffic,
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and sports. Then we're going to talk national politics and international.
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All that straight ahead. Only right here. We're not the
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only ones with elections. There are elections coming up in France.
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That is one of the reasons why they are rioting, protesting.
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I use the word rioting advisedly. I know there's some
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stuff being smashed up and stuff. But really they're protests.
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They're protests about affordability. They're protests about poor schools, broken
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down classrooms, not enough teachers, just the state of the economy.
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And it's also happening in neighboring Italy. The scary thing
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about France, though, is that they have Marie Le Pen,
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the sort of far right-wing fascist candidate, and the far
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right is using these protests to boost their chances in
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their upcoming election. And we've seen that happen here in
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the United States, where sometimes conservatives are able to take
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legitimate protests, right? And scare people saying, oh, well, you know,
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law and order, law and order. If you let these
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people protest, then your life is in danger. And sometimes
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people buy that, and we see these sort of reactionary
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voting patterns that end up creating more police states, more authoritarianism,
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more leaning toward fascism, which we're seeing in Latin America
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and in Europe. And if, as a result of all
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of this protesting, Marie Le Pen is able to become
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the French president at a time when Macron is not
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too popular and he's struggling. That's not going to be
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a good thing as we see the growing footprint of
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authoritarianism and right-wing fascism across the globe. I'm not saying
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that blaming the students or the people who are protesting
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because if you can't afford food, you can't afford gas.
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Student housing apparently is a huge problem in France, just
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like it is here. Then of course, you have a
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right to protest. But the other side of that is
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that the French right is brazenly using this to boost
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their election chances. You know who else has an election
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coming up? Israel. Donald Trump just endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu, the
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Israeli prime minister who you know, by the way, still
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facing these corruption charges, but as long as he keeps
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these wars going and wins elections, I guess he kind
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of has a similar situation to our U.S. president who
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was able to stay out of jail and avoid prosecution
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by becoming president and getting the extreme court to give
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him some kind of weird, unheard of immunity. In any case,
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the resident has endorsed Benjamin Netanyahu. And it's interesting because, well,
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it's interesting because, like, as the guy becomes a worldwide
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pariah for the genocide in Gaza, and his extremist positions, even,
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you know, even for a far right-wing Israeli politician, he's
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an extremist. The fact that the resident would think, oh,
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this is a good time. I should endorse Netanyahu. That's
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what he did. And does it mean anything? I don't know. Apparently,
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Trump is not that popular in Israel anymore. But I
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think it's also weird. I don't know if weird is
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the right way. the right word. I think it's, um, significant,
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let me say that, that the resident has chosen to, um,
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endorse Netanyahu right the same weekend that we're dealing with the, um,
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attacks by these Israeli settlers in the West Bank on journalists.
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You know, a Washington Post journalist, um, was hospitalized. And
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these are so-called settlers who go in and take over
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people's homes on the West Bank, on Palestinian land, and
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just say, nope, we live here now, and weaponize the
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Israeli army as their personal security in order to enable
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that to happen. So I think it's extremely significant because
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even though Israeli police are saying they've arrested 10 people
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for violence against journalists on the West Bank, Netanyahu has
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said there's not an issue. You know, he downplays the
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settler violence and tries to say, oh, it's just a
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group of teenagers, or it's not, you know, it's not
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a big deal. So the fact that our president, our U.S. president,
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yes he is, whether we like it or not, would
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go ahead and endorse this guy right when he's being
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an apologist for actual violent attacks on U.S. and other
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foreign journalists is crazy work. This Washington Post photographer, her
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name is Heidi Levine, was beaten by a crowd of
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masked journalists israeli settlers on the west bank beaten she
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had broken ribs she had broken vertebrae she had to
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have surgery on her hand her finger was almost cut
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off she has stab wounds all over her lower body
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she had to be stitched up we are not talking
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about someone smacking you you know pimp slapping you and
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walking on these people were trying to kill this woman
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The next day, they attack a group of European diplomats
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and random tourists. And, you know, they do this all
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the time to Palestinians. That should be illegal. It is illegal.
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That should be prosecuted. But the fact is, now that
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they're so emboldened that they just feel they can stab
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and beat and try to sever the finger of a photographer...
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For the Washington Post? Do you know how out of
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control you have to be? When even our right-wing U.S.
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ambassador Mike Huckabee says these are despicable acts of terror
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carried out by masked cowards? We are way, way, way, way,
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way out over our skis on this. They attacked a
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Belgian consul general. And so the resident says, you know
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what would be great to do today? I think I'll
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endorse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Because, well, we know
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he hates the press unless they're flattering him. But a normal...
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normal president, you know, and they have their own problems,
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our normal president, but a normal president would be talking
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about protecting the press, the free press, would be sanctioning
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the Israeli government for not protecting the press. Maybe that's
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where these 10 arrests come in, but I find it
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extremely significant that the U.S. president is valuing the re-election
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of his boss, I mean, the prime minister of Israel,
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over the protection of his own U.S. journalists, over the
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popular opinion of his own political base. Because it's not just...
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Democrats that are saying, you know, we need to ease
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up on support for the Israeli military and the genocide
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in Gaza. Conservatives are saying it too, especially the young
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MAGA folks. So the fact that he'll ignore his base,
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the American people, and his duty to protect the press,
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to try to boost Netanyahu is very telling. We're talking politics.
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You're invited in 809-20-1580. That's the number or hop into
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YouTube at KBLA 1580 on youtube.com. I'm Dominique DiPrima. Happy
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Mercury retrograde from all of us at KBLA Talk 1580. Wow.
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According to the 2026 Black Census Project, only 3% of
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black Americans said they trust the federal government. That means
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97% of us are like, yeah, no, I don't think so.
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And according to the same poll, 90% of us say
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we plan to vote. We don't trust them, but we're
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voting anyway. And what's interesting is that this time, this
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particular election, a lot of black voters are saying, according
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to Black Census Project, that we're going to vote early.
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And if you are going to vote by mail, the
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Secretary of State here in California suggests putting it in
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federal custody at least seven days early. In other words,
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if you're going to use the U.S. mail, I would say,
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you know, maybe 10, but who knows? She's the Secretary
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of State. I like to put mine in a county
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drop box or hand it to the election worker or
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go vote in person. But a lot of us are
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voting early, and that is really a great idea. It
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was part of the No Kings theme this weekend, vote early.
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And black voters apparently... are on, on, you know, all
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over this. And I, I love that for us. Um,
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I hope it holds. We've got Paul on the phone.
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Good morning, Paul from LA. Welcome.
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Um, good morning, Dominique. Good morning, KBLA fam. Um, I
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want to call in just strictly on what you were
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just discussing. Um, what's the saying though? Just listen to
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black women. Everything that you're saying, like we understand the
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essential risk that is going on right now. And, um,
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When you hear those numbers of not trusting the government,
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that's literally from our past history, but then also from
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what misinformation and disinformation does.
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Yeah.
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And I tell people, I don't know if you guys
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have seen the reporting recently. In the last two years
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that this administration has been in office, black medium net
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wealth has dropped 25%. They did that in two years.
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So how are we winning?
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Yes. I mean, and everyone else is, you know, doing
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slightly better. But black people are taking... I mean, the numbers,
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the economic numbers show black people are taking the hit.
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And clearly that was the intention.
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And that's why... And I tell people, like, you know,
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I have my boys I deal with in the streets
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and the gym and everything. And they'll come to me
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because they... If they want to debate or they want
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to know. And I always say to people... Voting is
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a part of the work. But the one thing you
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never give up is your voice and your political capital.
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The reason in 2016 that the Mueller report and everything happened,
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and it was confirmed by that Senate committee that actually
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had Kamala Harris and Marco Rubio on it, that yes,
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the 2016 election was compromised by Russian influence. But what
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they also said in people, because most people didn't read it,
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was the misinformation and disinformation was targeted directly into the
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black communities. Why did they do that? Because the goal
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is elections are won on the margins. 90 million people
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did not vote in the election. Those are poor white
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people and people of color. So when you understand these things,
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the largest voting block is non-voters. Do you think those
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racist people, those MAGA people and rich people are sitting
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on the sidelines? Never give up your voice to vote.
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It's just a part of the work. So when people
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say voting does nothing to you, the next question you
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should have for them is, what else are you doing
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outside of voting too? It's and voting.
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Yeah, I think that's right. And And it's also down
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ballot voting, right? I know you know that because you
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pay more attention than most. But it's not just mayor
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and governor. Like, there's so much important stuff on the ballot. Dr.
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Malino-Abdullah was talking earlier in California. You know, a simple
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thing like Prop 3, which, okay, schools will have money
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if you vote yes. If you vote no, they probably
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won't have money.
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I mean.
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The commercials can make it as confusing as they want to,
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but these things are important. And then, you know, when
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you talk about the power of our vote and the
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importance of our vote, Paul, of course, Prop 39 is,
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this is actually that, whatever that spot we're running, this
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is actually MAGA on the ballot. It really is. This
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is the Trump agenda, Project 2025 on the California ballot.
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Yes, and I'm happy you brought that up. If your
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vote didn't matter so much, why did Elon Musk just
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drop $ 150 million directly into the state of Texas alone?
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So you talk about follow the money. If your vote
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didn't matter so much, they wouldn't be trying so hard
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to make sure you don't vote because they know if
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you do vote, just like the polling that you just said,
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that study that you just said, is we would be
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voting against what's going on right now because we understand
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the essential threat of it. Everything matters, everybody. Everything matters.
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Because it's federal, nobody talks about the judges. Look at
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the Supreme Court right now. The reason we have a
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mad king is because they played a 50-year game. We
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may talk about Prague in 2025. No, the Federalist Society
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came about in the 70s in response to the civil
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rights movement, in response to black people being at the table.
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So why would you ever give people... that don't like
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you and want to take us back to 1961.
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Right.
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To 1961. Why would you want them to be the
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people at the table while you sit back and complain
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about everything and say, you know what? I don't care.
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Turn to your children and say, I'm sorry about y'all,
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but I'm so selfish. I don't care.
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Yeah. And that's, you know, I think sometimes as Californians,
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we think, well, we have some kind of protection because
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we're cool. We're hip, you know, we got swag, and
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we're blue. We're a blue state, meaning Democratic Party blue.
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Dominique, we have ICE in our communities terrorizing people, and
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there are people cheering it on. So I want people
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to understand that. Don't ever think you're going to make
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your life and your community that you swear about better
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using massive tools, because you end up sounding and turning
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into the oppressor.
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Yeah, well, that's, and I think it's easy to sort
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of skim over something when we have such a long ballot,
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and I know there's been a lot of conversation about
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You know, some of these, I think the most discussed
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are probably Prop 40 and 39, right? The billionaire tax
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and this voter ID measure, which is really, you know,
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a voter suppression measure. But I just don't want people
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to be confused. And these ads are really confusing. I
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had a family member ask me yesterday, well, Prop 40
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is going to make them tax my benefits, right? And
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I said, no, no, that's the billionaire's telling you, you know,
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spending $ 100 million to defeat a measure that's going to
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tax them. And so there's a lot of confusing stuff,
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even on the ones that are most discussed.
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Right. And I've been listening to Dominique Duprema since I
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was a kid in Los Angeles. Right. And I have
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to say this.
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I was a kid too.
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What I want people to understand is, Black people take
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parties out of it. Black people flipped around to voting
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Democratic after the New Deal happened with FDR. And then
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you later had. the Civil Rights Movement. The rich people
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that you're talking about right now, they want their hands
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on a tax code, and they want to take away
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the working rights. All that happened is they suckered those
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poor white people who are the majority overall into falling
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into the trap, and now... they're going to be dealing
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with apartheid and slavery too, because they don't care about
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that overall. For them, their skin color is their capital. However,
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I'm going to turn to you and say, when you
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lose your house, when you lose your farmland, when you
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don't have anything, don't turn around us because we tried
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to tell you. Because you know why? Because 92% of
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black women and 80% of black men voted against this
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for distinctively what we see going on today.
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I thought it was 85% of black men.
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The number is 80%. It was 80%. I think 78%
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to 80%. And I've heard people say 85%, but it's
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92% of black women. But let me say this last
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thing on this. We feel that's 92% of black women
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that actually voted. That's 80% of black men that actually voted.
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We have a problem of people sitting on the sidelines.
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And I guarantee you the people that sit on the
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sidelines are people that don't understand the saying of, it's
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not what you can do for the government, it's what
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you expect the government to be doing for you.
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Yeah, well, and the government, and by doing for you,
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we mean taking your money and using it to do
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for you because that money doesn't come poof out of
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the sky. It's, you know, out your pocket.
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Working conditions, worker protections, protecting pensions. You want to make
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sure that, and this is the difference with our ancestors
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compared to us. Our ancestors strategized, they fought, and they
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were very strategic. And they demanded their equity and their
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seat at the table. And if they didn't get it,
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we were willing to be personful with our dollars. We
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were willing to move, even if we didn't all move
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on cold.
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Yep.
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We still understood the big picture, Dominique. And that's all
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I'm telling people. If you want to.
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Stay with me, you know. Oh, we're going messy.
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I forgot.
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But look, Paul, I always love your insights. And according
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to the Pew Research Center, 83% of black voters backed Harris.
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So we can use that number because Pew is pretty reputable, right?
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Yeah, that's total, though. But that's who voted. We have
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a lot that are still sitting on the sidelines.
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Oh, no doubt. No doubt. No doubt. Paul, thank you
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so much. We've got news, traffic, and sports. And then
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