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Progressive Priorities: Living Wage, Medicare For All And Education! - YouTube
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what do you think we should fight for in
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2019 so everybody keeps talking about
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economics you know which I think is the
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I guess people of color we always we
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know that economic oppression is our
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greatest enemy so I'm right there with
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that the the the everyday wage for the
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everyday man is a very big big on my
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list but one thing that I'm you know I
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can be a little bit idealistic one of
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the things that I dream about is I want
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politicians that get into office that
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five for political literacy for the
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average man because I one of the things
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that I keep coming across is when I talk
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to people when I go out and I see people
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is that people really aren't informed
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they don't have the information that's
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why I love this show like when I talk to
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the Young Turks followers shout out to
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the ones who came out to Arizona when I
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was performing and they loved The Young
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Turks because they feel like one guy was
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like I want this newspaper I watched
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this outlet and I watched this and then
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I watched The Young Turks and I just get
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a story and they're like everything else
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has become partisan so I just think that
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one of the things that I really am one
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of the things I like about Alejandra
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Ocasio is that she explains things in a
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way that the average person who is could
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be a maid or could be the flower shop
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owner in the Bronx can understand so
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they feel empowered right they feel like
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they have the information and they can
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make informed decisions and that's why
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they feel so proud that they elected her
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because they felt like they made an
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informed decision but I think that you
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know for me everything is gonna always
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be about economic so she talked about
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real estate getting money out of
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politics to me is such a big a big deal
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because my people and when I say my
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people I'm talking about people in
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marginalized groups that come from
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lower-income neighborhoods we suffer the
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most when it comes to the man cuz that
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we are the epitome of the have-nots so
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really getting that dirty money out of
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there and exposing because that's one of
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the things that I really like about this
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group of progressives that are in there
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not just in here doing a job they're
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exposing the corruption as they go and
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really explaining to people what's been
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happening to them and I
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that that gives people fuel and power to
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really believe that they can have change
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and so for me education is that as at
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the top of the list I was talking to
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someone in Arizona who's telling me
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about books that the schoolbooks that
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they have in a district that are the
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books are like from the 1990s you know
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you want to keep people down you make
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sure that they don't get the information
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that they need they don't know where
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they come from they don't have a sense
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of history and I'd like to see I'd like
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to see more women in politics because I
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think women are fair and just not all of
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them yeah well it's certainly true
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there's certainly a variety but they
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have been doing exceedingly well and
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wonderfully progressive lately and I
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wanted to talk about that in a second
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too but you mentioned a couple things
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that I wanted to touch on so rosario
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Dawson was supposed to join no michi
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there and she was there we just couldn't
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get to her in time and and it it if you
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notice know me said why she came out
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because she grew up in an area that I
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just talking about and Noemi mentioned
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and she was poor growing up and what's
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great about rosario is she didn't forget
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that's right right and a lot of people
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would get up and then then they want to
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burn the bridge behind him look at you
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before exam perfect example the guy who
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stood up for the Saudis just over the
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last couple of days was Paul Ryan he
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wanted to keep the war going in Yemen
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and he found a way to defeat Rokon and
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Roe Roe Connors per proposal in the
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house to end the war our at least our
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support for the war and he his father
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passed away and when he did his family
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got Social Security and it allowed him
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to go to college it allowed him to eat
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live go to college in a sense it saved
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his life okay and so what he do
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afterwards he said oh good thanks I
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appreciate it I'll take this bridge now
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and I'll throw it overboard that's right
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and and whatever helped me I'm gonna
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burn to the ground so he gave a two
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trillion dollar tax out to the rich
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along with Donald Trump he also helped
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Bush get his tax cuts etc and then when
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they asked him well how are you gonna
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make it up there's down two trillion
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dollar hole in the deficit he said
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entitlement reform we have to reform
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Social Security and Medicare the same
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social security that saved his life he
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now wants to reform reform means cut you
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guys paid into it your whole life he's
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gonna cut it
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so there's wonderful heroes like a Casa
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Cortez and rosario dawson I don't read a
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minute I see a pattern here
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and women in Congress let me tell you
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why because we come from a Commonwealth
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we come from America's you
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understand we know what it feels like we
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know what it we understand what would it
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mean to be a part of a system that you
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belong to but you really don't belong to
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and and I do agree with those programs
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being reformed but I do believe they
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should be reformed for the benefit of
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the people who need them because there
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there are problems with you know the
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food stamp program and the work to the
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welfare-to-work program because a lot of
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those programs are set up to keep people
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down they're not set up to that you know
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there's nobody in there really giving
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people access to information and
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education so that they can get on their
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feet and yes we can't forget where we
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come from we have to be collective
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thinkers and that's one of the things
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that I admire about Shaquille Shaquille
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O'Neal when there was he voted once for
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the Democratic Party when he was here
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with the Lakers I forgot which election
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it was he was being interviewed and they
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said hey why did you vote Democrat
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you're a millionaire and he said cuz I'm
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the only millionaire in my family and I
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have to be a collective thinker and when
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I vote I have to think about my aunt's
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and my uncles in New Orleans who don't
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have what I have and I just think that
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that's what you're saying we we have to
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be collective thinkers because if now
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we're gonna perish you know well I'm not
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sure basketball started with my
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basketball story okay story and that's
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Charles Barkley who taught you something
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about of the exactly the opposite way so
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he was a Republican in the vote
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Republican and his grandma once asked
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hey Charles you know the Republic for
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the rich why do you vote for them and he
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said grandma I am rich okay but then now
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if you notice I said former Republican
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because so then they asked Berkeley so
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why'd you stop being a Republican he
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said I was a Republican until they went
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nuts I hate any I didn't sign up for
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that right he's like look at my selfish
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is the next guy but I just sign up for
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like torture and crazy stuff right and
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Wars on top of wars etc he said no I'm
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out I'm out I in sign up for this if
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Uncle Chuck says you're crazy you crazy
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cuz he stands on the line of crazy daily
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and so and by the way it's fear of
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strong Puerto Rican woman I just spent
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at the Sanders Institute Carmen you
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leaned
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oh yeah she's here she's actually coming
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to LA in January and she might even come
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on the show I can't promise it I don't
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know a little bit she let me tell you
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that when we were sending stuff to
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Puerto Rico the mayor was like text me
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and I'll make sure that the stuff gets
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where it needs to go and she's I texted
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her and she responded yeah she's amazing
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he's amazing and one of her staffers
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told me like because she just gives us
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fiery speech and I'm like oh I want
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around the show and they're like now
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look she sometimes has no filter I'm
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like perfect yes that's good that's tyt
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written all over it right you're right
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man strong Puerto Rican women for the
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wind like that
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I don't know where you guys are storming
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out of the game galloping and and
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leading progressives in this country we
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have won in the Supreme Court so we got
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well that's right Sotomayor yeah geez
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and lord mercy where'd you guys take
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over
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you the white guys are melting on
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Twitter but we are on our way so I never
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put two and two together before okay
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it's a plot that's not the right wing's
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gonna be out of like wait a minute we're
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gonna be on watch live so but but to
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what you said about education so that
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you know like you said there's you kind
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of two four things that you're
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emphasized one is education for
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everybody kids instead of getting the
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right education in the right books
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unfortunate that actually also goes back
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to real estate at the point of not
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making so I remember thinking when I was
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growing up we were I grew up in a nice
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suburb you sponsoring New Jersey and we
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spent a huge amount of money getting
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lights on our stadium in the high school
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because we wanted to be cool like the
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kids down in Texas and play Friday night
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yeah okay and then we go to perth amboy
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which is a minority town and and much
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poorer and and and they had a dirt field
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like they didn't have grass on their
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field okay and we don't get torn up but
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they got torn up every day that's where
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they practice that's where they played
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right and and i ieave lee asked i'm like
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why don't why do we have lights and they
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don't even have grass right what I
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didn't realize back then as a kid is
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because they do it based on your
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district right based on your area and
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and nobody's interested in sharing right
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there's no East Brunswick sharing with
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perth amboy and if we try to make that
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happen they're like no way no way okay
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that's for my kids not for your kids
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yeah and there's something fundamentally
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wrong with that system because it
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obviously reinforces wealth inequality
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so if you live in a really rich town
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your schools are gonna be amazing
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all your facilities are gonna be amazing
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and if you live in a poor town your
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schools are gonna be disastrous and you
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can't afford private schools you don't
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have any choices etc and so but the
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second part is also equally true very
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similar to what Alonso said we gotta
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educate people about the issues yeah and
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so the the example I keep using it is in
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in this last election there's two ballot
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issues they're both raising minimum wage
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in Arkansas and Missouri okay both very
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red states and in fact in Missouri they
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voted out claire mccaskill and put a
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Republican in the Senate and in Arkansas
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they passed raising minimum wage by 62%
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in Missouri by 68% and then they turn
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around and voted for Republicans why cuz
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nobody told them that the Republicans
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are against higher wages and Democrats
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generally speaking or for higher wages
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right all the people who didn't know
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that Obamacare was the Affordable Care
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Act yeah you know my favorite deception
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on that was Mitch McConnell when he was
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running for re-election in Kentucky in
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the last two weeks he ran used all his
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money that he got from his donors to run
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ads saying that he's for kynect which is
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the health care in Kentucky yeah it's
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Obamacare Obamacare in Kentucky and
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Mitch McConnell who try to repeal and
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replace Obamacare 50 times bragged about
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how he was for the Obamacare in Kentucky
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why because they just deceived people
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yeah and a lot of times the Democrats
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don't fight back yeah so people don't
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know I mean get another one of my
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favorite signs of all time in politics
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was when they rile up the tea party and
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they're like oh yeah the bailout of the
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banks is terrible and the Koch brothers
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sent the busses they're like all right
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so how long before we get to Wall Street
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people on the bus say and Koch brothers
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like we're not going to Wall Street okay
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no you're never gonna produce on Wall
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Street you're gonna turn that bus around
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and we're gonna go protest against
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Obamacare and one of the guys held up a
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sign they said get your government hands
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off my Medicare that's crazy
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but they don't know they really don't
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know it's amazing and listen as a
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comedian it's fun to watch but as a
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citizen aside cuz you're like what the
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and the only thing I wanted to say what
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also was we got to take care of our
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homeless people when we use it when you
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talk about real estate right so we have
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a we have people putting notes on our
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doors because we have an open lot in our
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neighborhood and they want to create a
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place for homeless families and my
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neighborhood they're losing their minds
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they're like we don't want this and of
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course I'm voting for it because I'm
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like you want them on the street but
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what I want to say is when we talk about
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these horrible fires because we run
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homeless people into the into the forest
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into the woods and they build these
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encampments in there and then they get
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cold and they set these fires and now
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all these houses burn down it's like
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they said in the Lion King the circle of
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life everything is connected whether you
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want it to be connected or not and if we
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don't take care of our people then the
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planet will take care of us yeah and
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then all of a sudden be incredibly
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lavish mansions burn down yeah right the
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great because fires don't know the
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difference between poor people and rich
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people that's right that fires don't
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have donors they don't know fires come
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for everyone hurricanes come for
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everyone that's right and so I know you
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could you know hire your own fire
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department if you're Kanye and Kim
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Kardashian all right but at some point
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that doesn't work either so we're all in
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this together
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