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In this episode of 'Need to Know,' Dr. Nsenga Burton addresses the fallout faced by those who supported the 47th president, reflecting on the consequences and lack of foresight by some voters. She discusses how the actions of the current administration reflect past behaviors, the repercussions for job loss, deportations, and the undermining of judicial orders. Dr. Burton emphasizes the importance of paying attention to historical actions and the need for integrity and empathy, closing with the timeless advice to believe people when they show you who they are, whether in politics, business, or personal relationships.
▶︎ In This Episode
00:00: Introduction and Welcome
00:17: Voter Regret and Consequences
01:35: Government and Legal Issues
02:15: Integrity and Accountability
06:21: Economic Realities
07:40: Final Thoughts and Farewell
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A black executive perspective.
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:Now presents need to know with
the award-winning hyphenated Dr.
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:Nsenga Burton, Dr.
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:Burton.
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:What do we need to know?
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:Dr. Nsenga Burton:
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:Good morning and welcome
to Need To Know with Dr.
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:Nsenga Burton.
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:I am she.
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:Today I'm going to talk to you about the
people who have, I don't know if it's fear
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:of, uh, misNsenga out buyer's, remorse.
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:Uh, there are lots of terms that
kinda can describe this behavior
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:that's been very interesting.
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:But these are people who voted for
47 and now are like, oh my God, I
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:can't believe this is happening to me.
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:So, you know.
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:I think they call us.
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:Um, people who did not vote
for 47 snowflakes we're weak.
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:We just, you know, we
think we know everything.
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:Um, we're, you know, we do
everything about intellect, you
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:know, all that kind of stuff.
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:And I just wanna say that for those of us
who read for comprehension and Red Project
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:2025, in addition to paying attention
to 40 seven's first term when he was 45.
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:Uh, clearly made the right decision
because so many of, uh, the people
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:who have voted for 47 are now online
talking about they've lost their jobs.
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:They didn't know they
were coming for my job.
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:They've lost their partners.
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:Their partners have now been deported.
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:Uh, in some cases it
seems like it's illegal.
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:Uh, the courts have ordered in
many cases for people to be, um.
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:That the president could not use this
wartime, um, law to deport people
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:without hearings and all of the things.
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:And your, your president, uh,
is ignoring the courts, right?
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:We have three branches of government.
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:Executive, legislative and judicial.
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:Judicial is supposed to
really be the guardrails.
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:That's supposed to be the ones when
the executive branch messes up.
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:When the legislative, legislative
branch mees messes up the exec, uh,
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:the judicial branch is supposed to
come in and really interpret the law
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:and tell you what needs to happen.
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:So we now have a president who was not.
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:Following the law even when he is
told before the planes take off,
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:uh, when they are mid-air, turn
around and bring the flights back.
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:Don't, don't take off.
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:He's doing what he wants to do.
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:I say all of this to say
that people are actually
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:waiting for someone who has
a history of being a liar.
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:Right.
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:I mean, they can count his lies.
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:That's how much he lies.
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:Who has reneged on so much stuff
with other people, contractors who's
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:been sued hundreds of times for
failure to pay or to keep his word.
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:You know, when you fail to pay someone
for services that were rendered, that
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:is called not keeping your word right?
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:There's a lack of integrity.
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:This is someone who in our,
in, in their first term.
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:Did the same thing.
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:Did the same thing, but for some
reason you thought because you were
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:white, that you were going to be safe.
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:This is a person who does not care
about you and has shown that they don't
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:care about anybody else other than
themselves, not even their children.
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:That they're, they'll throw their own
children under the bus to survive.
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:Okay, so this whole idea, like,
I didn't think it would happen
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:to me, but you were okay with it.
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:Happening to other people means that
you actually have a lack of integrity.
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:So instead of looking for empathy
or sympathy, or, my gosh, please
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:help me, you know, I didn't know
he was gonna gut veteran affairs.
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:Why didn't you know that?
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:I mean, it's, he said it.
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:He brought in a veteran as his
vice president so that it can
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:look like he's pro veteran.
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:While you wouldn't notice him gutting
Veteran Affairs and getting rid of
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:all of your benefits, including Social
security, which they claim you haven't
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:earned, including the veteran sitting
next to him as the vice president
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:saying You don't need them.
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:You didn't earn them.
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:Okay, so I just wanted to say today,
sometimes you need to know all of the
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:information you have in front of you.
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:All of the information you have in front
of you and you should stop trying to make.
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:And this goes for anything.
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:It's not just this 47.
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:It goes for relationships.
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:When someone is showing you
who they are, believe them.
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:I know the great Maya Angelou said
that, but it is true when someone has
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:shown you who they are, believe them.
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:There was nothing that 45 did, uh, 47
did in his in when he was 45 in his first
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:presidency that he is not doing now.
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:The only thing is, is that because
he had been president before, now
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:he has a shorter runway, which means
he's just hitting the ground running
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:because he knows how things work and
how to get around them now, so he
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:doesn't plan to pay you your benefits.
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:This man, this is a man who
doesn't pay contractors.
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:He's not paying you your benefits.
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:He don't even know why you have benefits.
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:He doesn't think you should
have Social security.
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:We should be able to
take care of ourselves.
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:They needed that during the depression.
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:People don't need that now.
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:The government needs that money
as if it's not our money, as if we
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:haven't been paying into it through
our hard work all these years.
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:All right.
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:So sometimes all you need to know
is what's in front of you and you
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:had the information and you made a
miscalculation because you didn't
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:care about other people, right?
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:You don't care if he's deporting,
uh, immigrants that you don't like.
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:Even in the Latinx community, you know,
you may be Cuban, but you don't care
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:that the deporting Venezuelans, right?
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:And now they're coming from
Cubans, and you're like, but
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:wait, we got Rubio in the house.
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:He rubio's our person.
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:Rubio can't stop Trump.
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:And if he can, he's not because he,
after the power he, he has the power.
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:Now he's in the circle.
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:And even though his face shows
like, oh my God, what have I done?
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:Every time there's a press conference,
he's not gonna go against it
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:because he'd have to admit that
he made a bad decision repeatedly.
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:So you have made a bad decision repeatedly
and you are now suffering for it.
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:And even though I do typically have
empathy, I have to say, I'm sorry.
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:Yeah, I'm sorry That your spouse is gone.
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:That is deported.
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:I'm sorry that you all had jobs, you
know, three months ago and now you
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:don't have jobs and now you're competing
with, uh, literally tens of thousands
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:of people in a sluggish job market.
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:I'm sorry.
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:We're heading into a recession and
everybody's gonna be cash poor.
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:They don't have jobs, right?
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:So you're gonna have to live off your
credit cards if you have them, and
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:you're gonna pay ridiculous rates because
we're going into, uh, a recession.
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:I'm sorry that you didn't understand that
the economy was terrible under this person
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:before, so it's gonna be terrible again.
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:So this is what happens when you
don't pay attention to what's in
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:front of you, when you don't look at
what people have shown you before.
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:So I just want you all to understand when
people show you who they are, business,
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:politics, relationships, friendships,
believe them, and then don't cry about
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:it when 10 million people told you,
listen, we're trying to tell you.
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:We read the documents as, as Tom
Cruise says, I read the papers, Matt.
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:We read the documents,
we saw what happened.
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:We've read the analyses.
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:We lived it.
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:Don't do it, and you do it anyway.
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:Then you need to know
that we don't give a damn.
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:All right, so.
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:Tune in next week for need to
Know Another Need to know with Dr.
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:Nsengaa Burton.
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:And of course, uh, make sure that
you listen to, uh, a Black Executive
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:Perspective podcast, the award-winning a
Black Executive Perspective podcast next
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:week as well with Tony and Chris who are
doing amazing work in the podcast field.
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:All right, so have a wonderful day.
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:And remember when people show
you who they are, believe it.
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