Linda Catalina The Reality of Political Activism

[Speaker 1] (0:00 - 0:07) You are now listening to the Here for the Truth podcast, hosted by Joel Rafiti and Yerasimos. [Speaker 2] (0:11 - 1:59) All right, everybody, welcome to episode 82 of Here for the Truth podcast. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for listening. Thank you for your support. We really appreciate it. Today we have Linda Catalina in the house with us. She is a Latina conservative political activist coming to us from Miami, and we dive into a broad array of topics of the reality of political advocacy, and if there even is a political solution. Before we get to that, applications for our eight-week private group coaching program, Rise Above the Herd, are now open. We're taking 20 people only, and we start again on the 12th of September. 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Linda lives in Miami, Florida, and has spent years informing people about the dangers of pharmaceutical products and advocating for medical freedom, and on top of all that, she's the host of the podcast Mostly Peaceful Latinas. Linda, thank you for being here for The Truth. [Speaker 1] (1:59 - 2:03) Thank you so much for having me. I'm very excited to be here today, or tonight. [Speaker 3] (2:03 - 2:25) Yeah, definitely a pleasure to have you on. I want to start off by asking, I know recently, I think it was the New York Times labeled you as a far-right Latina, but I'd love for you to just kind of talk about that a little bit, and what has occurred in your life, what have been some major rites of passage that have led you to speak out and do the things that you do? [Speaker 1] (2:26 - 7:35) So, I think that, you know, I'm one of the first, I would say, like Latinas to speak out against the left. I started about four years ago, in 2018. I was heavily influenced by Ana Paulina Luna. She was a conservative political figure online, an influencer and activist. Back then, now she's running for Congress here in Florida, in St. Petersburg, and her whole vision was that the Democrats were going to lose the base, and that Latinos were going to be the biggest minority in the U.S., which we are now. And so, because we have traditional values, and our culture is traditional, very religious, it would come the point where we needed more people like myself, like her and others, speaking out and trying to reach this Latino demographic so that we could tell them, hey, listen, like the left is not necessarily, has our best interests at heart, and they've been lying to us for a while and manipulating the truth. So, that's what led me to start kind of like posting content online, mostly political and about pharmaceuticals. I did a lot of content on vaccines. This was obviously prior to 2020, before mass censorship. It was like a free-for-all on Instagram. That's where I grew my platform and Twitter as well, but I'm banned from Twitter. So, it's just like Instagram and Facebook now, and of course, with our podcasts on YouTube and Spotify. But I, you know, my, I guess I'd say like my target demographic has kind of evolved. But at first, there was a lot of moms who had vaccinated children, and nobody talks about that, right? Like the news doesn't talk about it. It's kind of swept under the rug. And I was giving a voice to those women, those moms that were kind of like suffering in silence and looking for support through like an online community. It was kind of hard to break through the matrix, even for conservatives who are very into big pharma. They've always trusted vaccines. They didn't really talk about vaccinations or it's dangerous until COVID. So, you know, we were, we were some of the pioneers online of like medical misinformation before that was even a term. And, you know, I think that it was very rewarding for me because I had so many parents, especially moms, like thank me and say, hey, listen, like, after your content, I research more and like, you know, we're not going to vaccinate our kids. It's, you know, like it's a, it's a done deal. And, you know, three years later, like, you know, my friend's kid, they're like healthy, perfectly healthy kids. They're looking around the other kids of their friends who are vaccinated and they're like, holy shit, these kids have a thousand problems. They have allergies, they have eczema, they have diabetes. Some unfortunately have cancer and their child who's completely on job is perfect, you know? So that was very, very rewarding. Obviously through COVID things changed. Yeah. And I started posting more. I became more of an activist before I was in, I was involved in certain organizations and movements but it was really COVID what got me more involved here. Like locally, I sued my county for their illegal mask mandates. I was actually the only person to sue Miami-Dade County. And we, we didn't win. We, the case was dismissed at first. We were going to appeal, but then Governor DeSantis came through and he signed that executive letter prohibiting the counties and local governments from enforcing masks at the business level. So we just, you know, withdrew the lawsuit and that was it. But I realized, I guess, through COVID, the importance of being involved politically at the local level, right? That's what really affected at least for us, our lives, right? That's the reason why LA had masks until very recently when they want to bring them back. The reason why kids were still masked at school because certain districts, certain school districts just did whatever they wanted. So we, we really created a movement down here in Miami, in Dade County, and we were doing school board protests and stuff like that, which led to us getting attacked online by some anonymous account on Twitter, which we've actually been exposing for the past week. And it's, yeah, it's been a pretty interesting journey. Like things have changed after mass censorship. I was banned four times from Instagram. Thank God I got my account back. That kind of like traumatized me. So this year, I just said, you know, we're starting a podcast. It's going to be the safest way to get the message out there. And circumventing through these apps and these social media giants who are just going to censor anything that we say online. So that's where we're at now. Podcasts. [Speaker 2] (7:35 - 7:58) I love it. So much to cover. It feels like a lifetime ago, advocating for medical freedom before COVID, doesn't it? Like it feels like a totally different world. Like things have shifted so much and people often don't recognize or give credit where credit's due to those who've been carrying this flag for such a long period of time. Particularly talking about vaccines, like that was trying to move a mountain prior to 2020. [Speaker 1] (7:59 - 8:48) A lot of people, you know, I found a tweet about myself last week, which I hadn't seen, search my name. It was I guess one of my followers and he's like, wake up with Linda, like the original anti-vax person, like, you know, something like that. And it was nice to see. Now you have somebody as big as Candace Owens with massive reach and following who has an entire series about dangers of childhood vaccines on partner. So things have changed. You now have politicians who are running on a medical freedom platform, you know. So there has been definitely like a matrix like change, a paradigm change in terms of medical freedom, which most people just neglected or just didn't think about it at all until COVID. [Speaker 2] (8:49 - 9:16) Yeah, definitely. Sorry, bro. Yeah, you go. I was just going to say it was one of the most taboo subjects ever. It was so airtight. And I'm very well aware of what my mentality was back then. And I never in a million years thought it would have been have openly discussed, let alone have candidates running with medical freedom in their story. So yeah, it's pretty incredible. And I think we often take for granted how far things have actually shifted. That's all. [Speaker 3] (9:16 - 9:47) Yeah. Yeah. And I think that's one of the silver linings of the whole COVID thing is that it's gotten people, when they brought out and wanted to mandate the COVID jab, people started looking into vaccines in general. Plus more people during quarantine, people were staying home, people had all this time, like they were going down rabbit holes, they were reading articles, they were researching. So the topic of COVID came up and people are starting to look at, oh, well, I don't want this vaccine, but then what are all these other jabs that people are taking? So I think it's definitely a positive. [Speaker 1] (9:49 - 12:49) For sure. For sure. I think that now moving forward, people are just going to be a lot more skeptical of big pharma overall, especially seeing... One thing that I didn't agree with when it came to the anti-vax talk online was the mRNA technology. Because before COVID, I had an argument on vaccines where I used to tell my followers, listen, modern day medicine has evolved through time. Things that we did 50 years ago, we don't do anymore. I had to get my gallbladder removed and it was done through a little robot. It took 30 minutes. We didn't even need an actual person cutting through and doing this whole mess. It was like three little dots, pump air, robot goes in, takes out the gallbladder and takes it out. Vaccines were actually that one medical discovery or that one medical accomplishment that has not evolved in the last 100 years. The same way, the same, what do you call it? The same method of vaccinating people hasn't evolved. The mRNA is a new technology. It's kind of like a Tesla versus a conventional gas powered car. Not to say that it's the better choice, but I never found it to be... I wasn't very like, oh my God, the mRNA is so much worse than other vaccines because I had read so much about the dangers of the MMR and the possible link with autism and stuff like that. We don't really know the dangers of vaccine because not every single parent or not every single side effect of the polio vaccine or the measles or the chickenpox is actually recorded in these databases. We have no idea. No one's recording if their kid has asthma as a side effect or eczema or allergies. We have just normalized these side effects for the last 50 plus years because it's genetic. Then a lot of times we look at the parents and the parents don't have asthma, parents don't have diabetes, the parents don't have allergies for eczema or all these other problems that children have nowadays. Occupational therapy is a big new world profession, teaching kids how to read because they're not developing on time and all these things. It's like, why is that? You know what I mean? Why? That wasn't the case like 50 years ago, 50 years, 60 years ago, 100 years ago. You knew if a kid genetically came differently than others, they were blind, they were deaf, they were missing a limb, stuff like that. They were down syndrome. Now anything that happens to kids to them is genetic and they don't even have to prove it because people just believe it. [Speaker 3] (12:49 - 13:00) There's so many different specializations that have cropped up in the last 15, 20 years that weren't around when I was a kid. For sure. [Speaker 2] (13:03 - 13:07) So what is the importance of advocating at the local level? [Speaker 1] (13:09 - 15:22) The local level is where most of the decisions for COVID were being made. In terms of closing down businesses until when they were closed, how many people they were allowing inside, the measures that they had to take. These local commissioners and local mayors were making their lives hell, saying you can open at 50% but it can only be this many tables and only four people per table and till 10 PM there's a curfew. So all of these things that were affecting people's daily lives were happening at a local level. If you had to wear a mask inside of the grocery store, if you had to wear a mask in school, all of this came down to the local level. That's why there was counties in Florida, like red counties where the rednecks are and stuff like that, they barely ever followed any COVID protocols at all. Very minimal. They weren't out there chasing you if you don't have a mask. The bluer the district or the county, the more strict that it got. So when Miami Beach had its beaches closed, we couldn't go inside of the beach even though it's a massive vast space where people don't have to be on top of each other. We had to go up two hours north to Port St. Lucie to be able to go to the beach because there was a red county and that county had open beaches, but ours didn't. Does that make sense? So the local level is where a lot of your day-to-day life gets affected. Same thing with the school board. DeSantis has a pretty tight grip on Florida, but our school board decides to do whatever they want. So DeSantis is saying, hey, we can't have books that talk about anal sex or transgenderism or abortion and stuff like that, like sensitive subjects. Our school board says, I don't care. I'm going to do whatever we want. We're going to adopt the books that we want. And if people aren't pushing back, there's no pushback from people in the district and they're just going to do whatever they want. [Speaker 3] (15:22 - 15:37) Yeah. I think people have gotten so disillusioned with the federal elections that then they just kind of drop out altogether. But I'm someone that thinks if you're going to vote and be involved, it's so important to do it at the local level. So I totally hear what you're saying. [Speaker 1] (15:38 - 15:40) Yeah. Yeah. That's why. [Speaker 2] (15:43 - 16:05) What is it in you that makes you, I guess, what's your drive to stand so staunchly for what you believe in? Initially, where did that come from for you? Actually decide I'm going to put myself out there and become an activist for what I actually believe in and what I consider to be the truth and justice and freedom. Where's that drive come from? [Speaker 1] (16:06 - 18:45) I don't really have the drive anymore, I'll be honest with you. It's just kind of exhausting altogether. I do like recording the podcast because we have an audience now and I wouldn't really want to shut down my social media and just disconnect from my followers, my day one followers. There's some things that just come naturally, like being a natural born leader, things kind of fall on your lap or you just have the urge to fight back. Like I said, I was just posting content as a blog. It wasn't really my source of income or anything. It was if you started running a fashion blog on the side while you have a job. It was the same thing for me on Instagram. I was running my blog, my diary online about what the research that I would do on my free time, whether it was about the vaccines or Nikola Tesla, sometimes like conspiracies or politics, like human trafficking, things like that. But when it came to COVID, I think that a lot of people became activists because they saw how wrong things were. The closing, the mask, the social distancing, the illegal, everything that they did was pretty illegal. It was done under like an emergency act or emergency response. And I think that's when a lot of people became more active in their local communities. I'll be honest, like I said, just two minutes ago, I'm pretty exhausted of many things in general. I don't watch the news. I don't have cable at home. I mostly inform myself through social media accounts and stuff like that. Of course, for my podcast, whenever we do headlines at current events, we do research and read different headlines from different publications just to see if we can get a complete story or just make sure that we have the right points to talk about. But as far as with the activism, I don't really do much here in general in Miami. What I do try to do is help local politicians that I know that are running with fundraisers and stuff like that. Or if there's a school board protest or meeting, I'll push it so that people are aware of it. But it's pretty exhausting, to be honest with you. Like 2020 and even 2021 took a huge toll on, and I feel like a lot of people, not just me. But yeah, that's pretty much it. [Speaker 3] (18:46 - 19:10) Yeah. I'm still curious to talk a little bit about the Latin community because I know you're an advocate of your faith and family and traditional values, and it's really big in the Latino community. And yet they tend to vote more left. So maybe you can talk a little bit about why that is. But at the same time, I know that that's shifting. Yeah. [Speaker 1] (19:14 - 20:33) So what I can say is that the Democratic Party and the liberals own everything. And everything means the media. When you control the media, you control the narrative, you control the country. And the Democrats have a huge thing for minorities, whether it's Blacks, whether it's Latinos, whether it's Asians, the LGBT community, stuff like that. They've always done a great job in terms of communicating to certain demographics. When it comes to the Latino community, you have two channels where people get their information in Spanish, only two, Univision and Tenemundo. And both channels are pretty much like Democrat stained own channels, right? So that's the narrative most Latinos get, which was five years of disdain for Trump, making him look like a racist, xenophobic man that hates brown people, that wants to deport everyone, that wants to build a wall to keep the brown people out. So it's very difficult to try to change the narrative of those minorities, as far as the Latino population and other ones, when Democrats control everything. You see what I mean? [Speaker 3] (20:33 - 20:34) Yeah. [Speaker 1] (20:34 - 21:58) Also, in our home countries, people vote for democracy, right? Over here in the US, we're a constitutional republic, and people are also not that politically knowledgeable. They're just not. So they think Democrat equals democracy. Does that make sense? It sounds crazy, but they're like, oh, well, I'm voting for democracy through Democrats. So those are just some things at the very base level that I can say. I think that the Latino population is slightly shifting to the right based on economic policy, what they're seeing right now with the Biden administration, which is less money in their 401k, more money at the pump, more money in groceries. They're seeing a disaster at the border. They've seen a disaster in Afghanistan. I mean, bad relationships with Russia and China, like it's just a shit show for one year, right? And so they're also seeing a huge push for LGBT, especially transgenderism. And you have a lot of Latinos who, although they may vote Democrat, they're also very anti that type of stuff, that those alternative lifestyles that they don't condone or find to align with their values and culture. [Speaker 2] (22:01 - 22:18) That's true. Can we talk for a second about Hunter Biden? Because can you imagine if that was Trump's son? And I just don't understand how this isn't the biggest story possible. This is literally the president's son that we're talking about. [Speaker 1] (22:19 - 23:57) Yeah. I've gotten very over the whole, what if that was Donald Trump Jr. or whatever, because it just doesn't do anything. Like Republicans, whenever they have power, they just don't drop the hammer. They're very weak. They're very spineless. Whereas the Democrats, they get power and they target their political opponents. Obviously it shouldn't be that way. Like you shouldn't just be retaliating and targeting your political opponents because Trump was president for four years. So now you want to just target him because you hate him. But the reality is that we don't live in that world. We live in a very corrupt world. And when it comes to the Hunter Biden situation, I'm not even appalled. There's nothing that you can tell me anymore that's going to shock me. Because look at the Epstein case. They let the guy kill himself. We don't know that. We don't know if they killed him, he killed himself, if he ran away to freaking Russia. I have no idea. And so with the Hunter Biden situation, it's like, why would anything happen when his dad is literally the president, manages the FBI, who's in bed with him, who wanted Trump to get out? Same thing with the CIA. So it's just to me, it's like just another day in America where we actually see the difference in judicial systems for the elite and the regular person, the average person. [Speaker 3] (23:58 - 24:05) What do you think is the solution? What do you think each individual needs to do to shift things? [Speaker 1] (24:06 - 26:22) Honestly, I think that it's hard to say, but I do think that violence is kind of like inevitable at this point. I know that sounds like something that people don't want to hear, like, oh, you don't have to get violent. It's not that I'm calling for violence. I want to make that very clear, or that I advocate for that, or that I think that's the best solution. I just think that that's where we're headed, because I feel like we're headed towards a civil war, because the country is very divided. We're talking about people are fighting kids having drag queen story hour. We can't even agree on basic moral things. We're not trying to drag queens. You can still go to drag queen brunch and do whatever you want as an adult. We're arguing about children being allowed to be in these LGBT establishments or establishments that hold LGBT events and saying, no, that's not appropriate. A child shouldn't be there. Just like a child shouldn't be at a club, right, or in a strip club. We're now having to explain ourselves as to why that's not the right thing to do. That's not good. We don't even have a lot in common as countrymen. So I think that we're headed towards a very dark and bad direction in terms of the citizenship. I don't see how anything changes without getting rid of everyone who's evil and bad within Washington, D.C. I just don't even see how they would even allow Trump to come back considering the fact that they're doing this whole January 6th insurrection sham wizard that they're doing, the hearings, and their entire point or their entire charade is to make sure that Trump never runs for office again. So I don't know. It's like I tell people all the time, it's like we live under an illegal occupation. A lot of people don't like to say that, but America is under an illegal occupation. We are occupied. [Speaker 3] (26:23 - 26:46) Yeah. I'm curious about Trump because obviously people have their opinions on him, but we're all advocates of medical freedom. We've been in this world for a long time talking about vaccines, and yet Trump is someone who stands tall and proud talking about how this vaccine was all because of him, and he's been bragging about it for a while. What are your thoughts on that? [Speaker 1] (26:46 - 29:59) Yeah. So I think that Trump has a very big ego where, I mean, I don't think people like my answer to this because I've answered this before, and people just don't like it, but it's just my opinion. I think that when this whole COVID thing happened, a lot of people from the Democratic side and even the Republicans were saying how Trump wasn't handling this well, how Trump was not going to be able to get a vaccine on time. And I think to him, the fact that he did develop these vaccines on time is an accomplishment on paper, not necessarily that it's spiritually or morally right. I just think that in terms of delivering something, like it's kind of like a corporate job. You don't always have to like what you do, but you have to deliver it to your boss, right? So I think him showing off as the father of vaccines or whatever it is that he says at his rallies, it's more of an ego thing because his enemies and people in Washington DC said that he would not be able to get this vaccine done. Um, I do think that the majority of the population, whether right or left are huge believers and advocates of vaccinations, including Republicans. I think that the anti-vax community and, um, the people who question vaccines overall, especially COVID is a smaller population than we think. And all you have to do is look at the data of how many people have gotten the first, second and third dose, which is a lot of people. So, um, you know, if Trump was saying something like, I'm going to force you to get the vaccine, we're going to do some federal mandate or stuff like that. I think that's much, a much greater concern than him trying to brag about the vaccine. And I know that people say, well, there's people that suffered, um, injuries from the vaccine, but also like, that's their problem. I'm sorry. Like I, I feel bad, but like I have family that really needs the vaccine and they're having health issues, you know? And like, they wanted to get the vaccination. No one forced them to get it, you know? So I feel like it's also like the responsibility of each person to say, I'm not going to be the government's rat. I'm not going to be that experiment. I think it's more unfortunate when it happens to kids because the parents kind of like forced the kids to get this vaccine that two months, four months, six months, the kids have absolutely no say. Um, but yeah, I don't, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see if this is going to affect Trump's numbers. I don't think it will. Cause like I said, I know a shit ton of Republicans who are vaccinated and happily vaccinated too. And then there's obviously like a lot of like my online friends who are like, hell no, I'll never get the vaccine. So yeah. [Speaker 2] (30:00 - 30:09) And that's a pretty objective answer. And I think, you know, that makes sense to me that that could just be his mindset. You said I couldn't do this. Well, I got it done. So I'm going to brag about it. You know, it doesn't matter, whatever. [Speaker 1] (30:10 - 31:06) At the end of the day, I tell people all the time, like the ones that get very upset over, you know, me saying this, well, you shouldn't like, it was a virus, a virus with 99% survival. We didn't really need a vaccination. I'm like, dude, have you taken a look at like the measles or the chickenpox or other viruses that we vaccinate for? Most of them, 90% of them, 95% of all the things we vaccinate for have a survival rate of like 99%. You know, even when you look at polio, which everyone is so scared about, when you look at polio, the death rate is like 0.05 or something like that. It's like, it's not even 1%. Same thing with like the paralysis that you could potentially get from polio. So I think that people don't realize how many things are not dangerous at all that we have feared and gotten medicine for. [Speaker 2] (31:07 - 31:33) Yeah. Yeah. It's an intense level of programming that Big Pharma has managed to, you know, gain a grip on the majority of most people's minds, unfortunately, and they live in this constant state of, you know, fear of pretty much freaking everything. You mentioned earlier that, you know, America is essentially illegally occupied. By whom? [Speaker 1] (31:36 - 31:46) That's the question, right? Who's controlling Joe Biden? Who's behind the current? I mean, it's not him. It's not them. [Speaker 3] (31:47 - 31:48) The teleprompter. [Speaker 1] (31:48 - 32:23) I don't know if it's like a combination of like the Soros people and the Clintons and, you know, like the elite itself. I don't know. I don't know really who's behind the curtain controlling America, but there was certainly a coup that happened and it wasn't Trump. Between the FBI, the CIA, Washington DC overall to get Trump kicked out and get their guy in. Who's orchestrating the whole thing? I don't know if it's the Rothschilds and, you know, what they talk about is like the Illuminati or who it is. [Speaker 2] (32:26 - 32:27) Curious, isn't it? [Speaker 1] (32:28 - 32:39) For sure. Soros, I'm sure has some sort of like power or, how do you say it? Influence, for sure. [Speaker 2] (32:40 - 32:59) Hmm. Do you think like obviously in the quote unquote truth community, there's lots of speculation. Do you think it actually is Joe Biden at this point? I mean, just objectively, he looks pretty different from 10, 15 years ago or even less. [Speaker 1] (33:03 - 33:35) It's possible. I don't honestly, I don't watch Joe Biden that much either at all. Like I haven't even tried to analyze whether it's him or not. I think in some stuff I could see like pictures and videos, I can see how he looks different. But I also think that he looks frail. Like you could see the aging of Joe Biden since he was vice president until now. I'm not sure about that one, to be honest. I haven't found the rabbit hole yet. [Speaker 3] (33:35 - 33:38) I hear you there. What's your favorite gun? [Speaker 1] (33:44 - 34:10) Honestly, I don't really, I mean, I have two. I have my AR and a Glock. Surprisingly, I guess because the AR has the optic, like the lens, obviously you can shoot like a lot more accurately, but it is like scarier, like bigger gun, you know? So I guess I'll just stick to like my Glock. I think it's like a Glock 43 or is it over there somewhere? [Speaker 3] (34:11 - 34:11) Cool. Cool. [Speaker 1] (34:11 - 34:12) Yeah. [Speaker 3] (34:12 - 34:23) Yeah. I'm really curious to see what's going to happen in the midterm elections and what's going to go down between now and then. Do you have any thoughts? It's just going to get really crazy. [Speaker 1] (34:24 - 35:32) Yeah. I think that we have seen the attacks online intensify by the left, you know, including like trying to intimidate people to not show up to school board stuff, trying to intimidate people to not donate to certain candidates, but still talks to you. And I think it's going to get crazy. My whole thing is like with my friends is that, okay, suppose that there is a red wave and Republicans are able to gain control of the house again, Republicans never get shut down. So do I have a lot of hope for the Republican party? I don't. Because whenever they did have the power in 2017, they couldn't even get the house to pass the wall, to fund the wall. Like a lot of people don't remember that Trump had to go through like the courts and get money for the military and use his executive power to get funding for the wall. So, yeah. [Speaker 2] (35:34 - 35:39) So like, I mean, this is my mindset is that there's actually no political solution. [Speaker 1] (35:40 - 35:43) No, that's what I'm saying. There's no political solution. [Speaker 2] (35:45 - 35:50) Individuals just need to decide where they stand, what they value, what their morals are, and just go on and live their lives, right? [Speaker 1] (35:50 - 36:21) Yeah, there is, you know, pressuring local pressuring local politicians and stuff like that does kind of work. That's where I would say kind of does work. We've seen it here at a local level. I think being, you know, being involved in the school board is important. Your commission meeting as well. But as far as like Washington, D.C. and just thinking like, oh, my party is going to be in charge now. Like, no. [Speaker 3] (36:21 - 36:22) Yeah. [Speaker 1] (36:23 - 36:32) There's not a lot of political, there's not a lot of room for improvement between the two parties anymore, I think. So, yeah. [Speaker 3] (36:33 - 36:55) Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty apolitical, to be honest, you know, on the federal level, you know, I like observing to see what's going on. But I'm an individualist at heart. And I like to focus on how I can be the best human I can be and build community and see what happens from there. You know, but I agree with you. If I expect change and transformation to come from Washington, D.C., I'm going to wait a long fucking time. [Speaker 1] (36:56 - 36:59) Yeah, exactly. It's better to not. [Speaker 2] (37:01 - 37:56) Yeah. And I mean, people go through this journey and like, you're right, it is extremely exhausting. You know, they bump their heads against the wall for years on end. So, like, it's basically no means. And essentially, they just deplete themselves, you know, they've decided this big vision, they're going to catalyze all this change in the world, and they're the ones that are going to do it. And they just end up completely burned out. So, you know, I think the best that we can do is kind of what we're doing now, you know, we're creating these information resources, we're starting these podcasts, we're giving people places to go to get another perspective, to get another viewpoint. And at the same time, be creative ourselves, you know, and try to build ourselves up in a certain way, as opposed to constantly draining ourselves, trying to advocate for change from a collective level, which has never really proven possible in the history of mankind, if I'm honest. [Speaker 1] (37:57 - 38:01) For sure. No, that's true. You know, I agree with that. [Speaker 2] (38:02 - 38:09) So what's the what's the basis of Mostly Peaceful Latinas? And what was really, I guess, the inspiration to kick that off? [Speaker 1] (38:11 - 40:48) Honestly, the censorship, we just we've been dating for censorship for the past two years since 2020. And when Instagram and Facebook were getting attacked, and by the mainstream media to shut down certain pages of medical misinformation of QAnon, of Trump supporters of that. Yeah, we've been hit pretty heavily with censorship. I know my co host has lost like seven accounts on Instagram. In fact, she just lost her new account last week. And I think they have an internal list with her name, because she's come out in the media before. So that's why I tell her you have to like regret it completely. But that was kind of like the idea was that we needed to still communicate with our followers, and we would have to do it through another platform and able to sustain our, you know, our platform on Instagram and Facebook. And so that's kind of like why we decided to go with the podcast. We haven't filmed the last two weeks, so it's been kind of tough. Our studio and videographer and editor, they, you know, he's sick with COVID. And like he actually got symptoms and you have to stay home and whatever. Tomorrow is actually going to be the first day we record in two weeks or three weeks. And we go through current events, we go through headlines. Sometimes we have guests that are in town and stuff like that. It's mostly like current events. And obviously we give like our opinion or thoughts. When like the Roe v. Wade was going on, we had a whole episode about that. We've had episodes about like gun control and explaining the different laws that we passed since like the 1960s and stuff like that. We've had like congressional candidates come by the podcast and talk to us about their platform and how we can like, you know, help them out or what they're going to offer differently than like whoever they're running against. So it's just like, you know, politics, culture, current events. You know, the name came from, that was my bio. I used to have on my Instagram bio, mostly peaceful, that's fiery, my mostly peaceful Latina. That comes from the 2020 riots when CNN had a headline, this guy, it's like a fire in the back. And the guy's like, yeah, it's fiery, but it's mostly peaceful. And like, it's like chaos in the back, you know? So that's where the name came from. Obviously we're trying to appeal to a Latino population, you know, particularly Latinas. So we've been doing pretty well with that. So yeah. [Speaker 3] (40:49 - 41:16) It's still obvious to anyone that I think that is still using their eyes and can still hear things and can still critically think. I mean, you see what happened in the summer of 2020 with all these riots and the idea that they'd be called mostly peaceful. And then people are just led into the Capitol building in January 6th. And that's just like the worst thing to happen in the history of America. Like it's a fucking joke. [Speaker 1] (41:17 - 42:47) Dude, like, you know, I was talking about it yesterday, actually with one of my friends from the beach. I said, you know, if obviously January 6th was not an insurrection, obviously like Trump supporters and conservatives have the most guns in the world, probably. I think we have like a small army, right? Like if people really wanted to fuck shit up and take over, they could have done it. You know what I mean? Like they went in there with like selfie sticks and flags, like things did get out of control. And I think that like, if you assaulted an officer, if you committed acts of vandalism and things like that, then you're going to have to face the law because the law is the law. But there's people that are being charged for like parading around the U.S. Capitol. You know, there's people that are losing, there's been people that have committed suicide inside of these bullocks in Washington, D.C. because they were set up to go, you know, and they didn't think it was going to get out of control. They didn't think that all of a sudden this is going to be an insurrection and the FBI was going to have freaking billboards around U.S. cities like looking for people. So it's pretty sad. I think it's very devastating that, you know, they're chasing down Trump supporters and they're really doing it to teach him a lesson to never stand up against the establishment ever again. So I think that's a bigger lesson here. [Speaker 3] (42:50 - 42:53) What do you say to the people that say that Trump is part of the establishment? [Speaker 1] (42:55 - 47:02) I think he is and I think he wasn't and isn't. I think it's one of those things where clearly like once you enter the White House, you are part of the establishment, right? I think that's undeniable. I don't think that Trump came from the D.C. establishment though and I think that's very evident, right? I think that he came as an entrepreneur, as a self, as a businessman and people laughed at him. The Republicans didn't want him. There's a different, there's like a different establishment that we're talking about, right? And I think that had Trump been the right guy that they wanted for the job, we wouldn't have seen the chaos and the lies and stuff in the media. They just wouldn't let him be. They would have probably criticized him and said bad things about him but not to the extent that they went. I think that it's been very obvious even with this January 6th sham that they've been doing the last like six weeks, I think. I haven't watched any of it but I know it's going on, that they're trying to not let him ever run again because he was a threat, right? Whether it was because of his erratic behavior, they didn't know what he was gonna do, he was changing things all around, he was removing people from certain positions. I think where you know Trump looks more like oh well he's part of the establishment as well, certain decisions that he made of people around him, of people in positions of power that shouldn't have been there, that he made a mistake about. I do have to say that you know one thing that he told me at a lunch personally and the people that were there is that you know I made certain decisions to have people like Bill Barr as attorney general because I don't just run everything. It's kind of like when you have when you're the CEO of your business like you're not in the accounting department, right? Like you're not in the operations department, like you're not in the marketing department. So you have these departments and people in charge to think to do things for you, ultimately you give that okay as CEO but you have also a board of advisors. So when Trump comes into Washington D.C. and he's going to look for a new attorney general, look for a new secretary of defense and secretary of state, his people come with a list and say these are the qualified people, these are the people that we think would be good for this based on your experience, based on x, y, and z. And so when it came like the example that he gave was like with Bill Barr is that that was kind of like they gave him a list and he was like top of the list because of what I just said. His experience blah blah blah, the work I've done. I think Trump wanted Pam Bondi to be the attorney general and asked her to be the attorney general. He didn't want Bill Barr. Unfortunately Pam Bondi said that she wanted to focus on the private sector and she didn't want to be in government anymore. She wanted to work in her own private firm or whatever. So she declined the request of the president to be attorney general. When that happened, the next person in line was Bill Barr who ended up accepting the nomination and then the rest is history. So I think that Trump's mistakes came from a lack of experience within the government itself as an outsider and then his advisors who weren't, we don't know if with intention or intentionally or unintentionally were giving him the wrong advice not just about people but about certain decisions. [Speaker 2] (47:05 - 48:06) Yeah I mean you can't expect someone just to jump into a presidential role and all of a sudden be able to wield unlimited power and make every decision in every department and know everything about everything. People project this onto Trump particularly and the president as if some superhuman that has this capacity just because I'm in this spot doesn't mean there's no devil under the rug, doesn't mean I'm not dealing with generations of entrenched bullshit. But if more than anything what that speaks to is how monumentous the challenge actually is and how deeply entrenched this inversion actually is to speak to the fact that someone can't even become president for four years and really enact real profound change in terms of something that's going to last. To me that speaks more volumes than anything else. [Speaker 1] (48:07 - 50:47) Yeah yeah I agree. You know I think that he was in a very tough position not having the media on his side not having even the FBI wasn't on his side like in his own agencies and ultimately Washington DC is a swamp. You know you had he's still making some decisions that are extremely questionable. Lindsey Graham for example is someone that like we just can't get rid of for some reason but that also comes with political power. You know he has political power. He has the vote of his state or wherever he whatever he is. He has the power of mega donors. That's something that I've learned when I started becoming more involved in local and state politics is like it really matters when it comes like what really matters is who has political power who's able to pull the most money for the party. So as an example and this is like a small example here in Miami we have the school board races like coming up soon right. There's three seats that are up for re-election and two out of the three seats may be flipped by DeSantis backed candidates. Sorry I missed the word DeSantis backed candidates and there's another one for district six that DeSantis hasn't endorsed anyone and he won't say why. He won't endorse Sandra who's like a teacher a long-term teacher and she's not part of any establishment. He won't endorse her but he also won't endorse Maritere which is the one that's already holds the seat and she's a Republican. And so it's kind of like one of those things where just where we feel I mean this is not something that we heard it's just like us conspiring and assuming where well he's not going to back a candidate like Sandra that has no political power that nobody knows that hasn't been able to fundraise that even a hundred thousand dollars and he's not going to piss off the people and back the person sitting in that seat already that everyone hates. Does that make sense? So he just isn't back anyone but that's also not good because we would prefer to have Sandra the non-establishment candidate win in district six but a lot of it's like political bullshit. [Speaker 3] (50:47 - 50:50) It's a business to a certain degree. [Speaker 2] (50:51 - 50:54) People forget that. [Speaker 1] (50:55 - 50:56) Absolutely. [Speaker 3] (50:56 - 51:20) I mean there's so much money in politics so much at all the different levels when you think about it you know when you think about even just the incestuous relationship between politicians and the corporate world and all the lobbying I mean there's so much money there's so much that goes on behind the scenes that I think people think they know but the degree that which it happens I think is on a whole nother level. [Speaker 1] (51:21 - 51:23) Yeah. Very true. [Speaker 2] (51:24 - 51:34) All right we know you've got limited time so what's your message to whoever's listening? [Speaker 1] (51:37 - 55:29) You know I think that I think things are going to get worse before they get better and I don't mean that in a personal state I mean that as a whole. If you look at the Waymore Republic, do you guys know about the Waymore Republic? So this is very important for people to understand because it's usually not taught in school at all because it's such a controversial and sensitive subject. It's what led to the rise of the Nazis and so they don't want you to talk about it because it's like are you are you giving an excuse to the Nazis? You know what I mean? So if people look into what was going on in the Waymore Republic which was like Germany in the 19 late 1920s 1930s I believe it's basically what's going on in America. Insane amount of degeneracy, the transgender stuff, transgender surgeries, there was like even legal like teen prostitution, there was a lot of drugs, veterans were on the street after World War I. It was just a complete shut show. It was a very it was a liberal project. It was a liberal state, liberal country, very extremely open-minded and morality was down in the country. There was high inflation as well so we're talking about economically Germany or Waymore Republic back then was completely screwed and then also morally screwed, culturally screwed, like everything that is hyperinflation was like one of the biggest things that happened during the Waymore Republic which is we are pretty much headed that way and so everything is a cycle right like when this happened that gave rise to Hitler and the Nazis. We're like to talk about it, we're not going to get into it but I think that if people understand what's happened before they wouldn't be so like freaked out like oh my god this has never happened before like these trans surgeries and this and this degeneracy like no no it's happened before. It's definitely happened before and that's a problem because eventually one side pushes so hard so hard that there's no middle ground anymore and then you're going to have a reactionary side push back and the pushback is never looks pretty. It's never moderate. It's never non-violent so I think that it's going to have to get a lot worse before there's a massive pushback and it gets better. I think that you know you have to work on yourself, your finances, community. If you're in the city it's like I'm in the city and oftentimes I think what if something happens where am I going to go to have my guns, ammunition, have my food sources, stuff like that. There's a lot of money to be made on the internet whether it's through e-commerce, whether it's through content marketing, whether it's through influencing. I mean I don't know there's like so many avenues and I think that people should take advantage of that especially in our time to be able to make money on the internet which is not hard at all and just take care of each other. I still talk to liberals. I mean I don't really talk politics with them and I don't care to. I treat them as people. If they treat me like shit then I'll respond respectfully but I try to treat everyone the same regardless so that's that. [Speaker 2] (55:30 - 55:46) Thanks heaps Linda. Truly I really appreciate your message and I appreciate that you're real with yourself and real in the way that you express it so thank you so much for your time. How can people I guess find you and discover your podcast and stuff like that? [Speaker 1] (55:47 - 56:19) Yeah so my main page is at wakeupwithlinda on Instagram. Our podcast Mostly Peaceful Latinas. You can find us on Spotify, Apple, actually anywhere where you get your podcast and also on YouTube if you actually want to watch the show. We're going to drop it on we're going to record tomorrow. We'll drop the new one on Thursday. We're also on TikTok same thing Mostly Peaceful Latinas. On Instagram same thing Mostly Peaceful Latinas. On Twitter as well which you have to be more active but that's pretty much it. [Speaker 2] (56:20 - 56:24) Awesome guys thanks so much for listening and we'll see you next time. Take care.