Host: Welcome back to the Washington Journal on Thursday, September 5th, 2024. We’ll proceed to our Open Forum segment where viewers can ask questions and leave comments about the discussion we had before the break with our guest, Gary J. Kunich who is the acting deputy director of the VA… and here is Meryl from Fort Wayne, IN, Meryl whatchu got for us today?
Meryl: Good morning, I just wanna respond to the previous caller talking about why there ain’t much funding going towards housing assistance for homeless veterans and I just wanna say, we’d have more money if the darn government didn’t give my and all taxpayer money to ILLEGAL IMMIGRATS at the southern border. Giving em free driver’s licenses, free checks, housing em, and the works for illegally crossing the border!! We should be helping our own but we are letting in ANIMALS, MURDERERS, RAPI —
Host: …AND THat was Meryl from Fort Wayne, IN. Moving on we have, Sam from Pewaukee, WI. Sam, let’s hear it.
Sam: Hey.. Hello.
Host: Hey Sam
Sam: Can yer hear me?!
Host: Yes, Sam we can hear you.
Sam: Hello?… ?? *click*
Host: And we lost Sam there. Ok, so we have Dylan from Augusta, GA. Dylan, you have the floor.
Dylan: Hiya!
Host: Hello Dylan.
Dylan: Yeah, so starting off I used to be a realtor here in Georgia, then I retired and started retailing on eBay. My income has stayed roughly around ten, f-fuh-forty kay which I used to put all 3 of my girls thru college. My point is there’s been a significant increase in taxes during this Biden-Harris era and my point is the taxes they think they’re hitting the upper class with ishitting us in the middle class the most. These corporate guys skate away thru tax write-offs. I think we’d have better tax regulation if it accounted for write-offs, especially for Big Corporate and that’s all I wanted to say today.
Host: That was Dylan from Augusta, GA. Joining in, we have Carmen from College Park, MD. Carmen?
Carmen: Hey, I wanna reply to the previous caller who said the VA assistance crisis was a blessing in disguise because it's a slippery slope for boosting welfare. Why would it be a slippery slope, ya know? if we’re the so-called Christian nation that we claim to be, housing assistance for veterans and non-veterans should never be so controversial. Like. some of these folks go fight the war, then come back home and fight another war just to get the assistance they’re entitled to. And that is all i have to say on the matter.
Host: Thank you Carmen from College Park, MD. Now we have Lily from Cleveland, MS. Lily where do you stand?
Lily: hello! ***feedback sound emanates***
Host: Hi Lily. Could you —
Lily: Hi thank you for having me ***more feedback***
Host: Lily.. uhm… could you turn down your television volume?
Lily: what?? ***more feedback***
Host: Your TV’s volume is affecting the call, could you turn it down, please?
Lily: WHAT? ***even louder feedback*** oh! ***more fb*** I see! ***fb ceasing gradually***
Host: There we go. How’s it going, Lily?
Lily: Good morning, I’m good, how about you?
Host: I’m good as well, you have the floor…
Lily: Ah yeah. I’m here to say what I always say time and time again. Whatever issue we got, put. Trump. In. Donald Trump will save us. He is god’s chosen and he will lead us thru whatever Biden-made wilderness it is. And that’s all I have to say.
Host: Alright ***inhalation*** Thank you, Lily. Next up we have Allen from Allentown, PA. Allen, whatchu got for us?
Allen: Hey uhh… Morning..
Host: Good Morning.
Allen: Yeah, thank you. So like… this previous caller had me but they lost me at the end when they said illegals in all caps. I was hoping they were gonna say industry-military complex or sum’… very wishful thinking honestly in hindsight. I don’t even get it anymore man. I just feel like it’s all a charade and there’s a gun to my dome threatening to pull the trigger if I don’t play along. Like folks call in at ya show all the time complaining about a symptom of the problem like it's the actual problem.. right… like some amateur looked at ya sickness and said, “I know what it isss! The cough is the reason why your nose is runny, your skin is pale, and why you’re sweating crazy with a body temperature of 45 degrees Celsius” you feel me?… Like shit muddafuckaz don’t be knowing chicken shit, come on here and spew horseshit. Fuck shit, I don’t even know any-fucking-more dawg… **huff** Sorry for my colourful language, one of them days ya feel me, but like what if us focusing on a specific symptom is part of the whole shit. Like the niggas with actual motion, the mfs that sneeze and start a hurricane just coz they’re rich and powerful an’ shit, are the muddafuckaz that know what thee root cause is that’s butterflying fucking up everybody else’s fucking lives. Maybe coz these fuckaz cause the problems w their motion and slap the folks that can’t protect themselves with the power or resources like the rich mfs got in a picture-perfect frame. You da muddafuckin problem. right. Like these niggas got motion in every-fucking-thing. Ya whole fucking life, G. From what you learned in school to what you watched on tv at home, the kicks you thought you always wanted, the dreams you felt like you were allowed to have, every-god-damn song on the top charts, fucking Jimmy Kimmel, as a matter-o-fact, fuck all them Jimmies. Lil backstory, I used to work in the NSF cyber security division before I left and built a career in moving merchandise, ya feel me. Anyways, these niggas weren’t just out here granting funding to any ol Steve Urkel-looking muddafucka just coz his research was cool… the higher-ups needed to see a connection in what you were doing and their grand scheme… fr tho, I don't even fucking know.. but they know.. they know. Tip for all you Doc Brown ass niggas better start subtly pitching how ya shit is good for warfare if you want your dream Dexter’s laboratory. Crazy how you can trace all of Earth’s problems back to one place. Follow the money. Ask yaself, how is money made from these people’s suffering? Money is the new world life blood whether we like it or not and its niggas out here clotting up the system w their insatiable greed. What is it all for, my nigga you gonna die and leave all this shit behind anyway, and if you stupid enough to wanna live forever, go head, I wouldn’t wish that shit on my worst enemy, ya feel me. Even y’all niggas, talking bout you a non-profit company but I know that nigga Sam Feist got investors that carefully curate ya segments for certain people at certain times. Reinforcing the ideologies we think we should have, solidifying our ontological prisons. We owe to ourselves as a collective to strive for a better life for ALL OF US! And that starts with recognizing it's not us versus them, it's ALL OF US versus the 1% hoarding all of the earth’s wealth. It is for all of us. But shit that’s my piece.
