Chapter 1: What insights does Janiyah Thomas offer as Trump's Black media manager?
Well, in this episode, Janiya Thomas comes in. She was a black media manager for Trump. So she's got a lot of insights about that world. Also, Alicia Krauss has got the news. And we'll do that right after this. Thanks for tuning into The Adam Carolla Show. You can watch the full show on YouTube. Just search Adam Carolla Show and hit subscribe so you never miss an episode.
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From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Corolla Show. Adam's guest today, political commentator Janiyah Thomas.
Plus the news with Alicia Krauss. And now, Adam Corolla. Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get on. Man, they get on. Janiyah Thomas in studio. Worked as the black media manager for President Trump. Um... In town, in perfect timing because of the whole Southern Poverty Law Center business. I guess we can get into that. Good to see you.
Yes, thanks for having me.
I guess I would have to ask this to all black conservatives or folks that are associated with Trump in any way, shape, or form. How are you doing with your family?
That's a heavy question.
My family hates me and my politics as well, but it's not as bad probably as you.
Yeah. I mean, like starting off, I had a lot of like hard conversations with family members. Some don't want to talk to me anymore. Then like I told this story before, but like my aunt and I stopped speaking for like a couple of months.
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Chapter 2: How do family dynamics affect political beliefs?
It's like, what do you mean they can't get lawyers and accountants?
I'm pretty sure the Jay-Z's of the world have lawyers and accountants.
Yeah, I Probably has more than one.
Exactly. So it is very insulting because it's like, why do you think that we're incapable of doing certain things and having certain things?
Well, here's what I would say. The most... racist you can be is to think a group is not capable of doing something. That is the ultimate. Thinking they're something else. You know what I mean? Like you go, black people, they're great dancers. That's not nearly as racist as thinking they can't get a checking account. I'll play you 30 seconds of Newsom just because it'll blow your mind.
He sat where you're sitting and told me that they don't have access to it. Look down the road six months. Yes, your husband lost his job. That's why you need to sock away some money when he's gainfully employed. Yes, they foreclosed on your home. That's why you need to have a network, a community, friends, family members, money put away.
Don't have the kids. Half of African-Americans in the state of California, roughly half of Latino families, have no access to a checking account or an ATM. Things we take for granted. They don't have a checking account. What's wrong with them? Well, because they don't have the resources to sock those things away. Why do we have them?
A lot of different reasons, but roughly half those families don't.
Why do Armenians have them?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of political narratives on Black communities?
I'm not a child. I can take care of myself.
I think we're moving in the right direction. It's getting better than it was before, especially with the younger generation, I think it's better. But there's some people, like the baby boomers that are still left, like my grandmother's age, they're not going to change their mind. They have been so mentally programmed to believe and think certain things. Yeah. And like they just don't hear it.
I'm like Joe Biden has literally said stuff like I don't want my kids growing up in a racial jungle.
Right.
And I'm like, but that's OK. But you have a problem with Trump.
Right. Well, also. Here's what I think. Black women are, I don't know, 90 percent Democrat or maybe more. I don't know. Ninety one.
Probably something like that.
Black men are sort of moving a little bit the other direction. It's interesting that the men are easier to move than the women. But also in terms of the black community, how many years of nothing coming out the other end before you start to realize that? I don't think this is working.
Like, you know, if you had the ne'er-do-well brother-in-law and you lent him five grand and he told you he's going to have that money for you at the end of the week and 61 years has gone by and you've never seen. When he gets up there and says next week, I'm going to give you your money back. At what point do you stop believing him?
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Chapter 4: How does the Southern Poverty Law Center impact political discourse?
Also, where are we going? Trump, with all his plans of putting trans people and gay people in cages and stuff, he's been on the job for five years now. The clock's ticking. He's got to get to this. We can wrap up this war and start putting trans people in cages and rounding up blacks and Hispanics. That's what he ran on. I love when they go, that's what he ran on.
Like, he did not. He said locking up and sending illegal people back. You can go by choice or you can go by force. Either way, you're going back to where you came from.
I don't know why that's such an exotic and offensive thought.
And it's even more offensive to the people that came here legally and had to go through all the paperwork and the process to do it. So I feel like, you know, especially my friends in the Hispanic community, in that community that have done it legally, they're like, this is not fair because we had to do all this. And then now you want to just hand over all these things to people that...
don't deserve it because they came here illegally?
On a racial equality front and the progress report I experienced this morning. Oh, here's a good question for you. So I live amongst the ruins in Malibu and There are crews all over the place. All crews. And every crew is Hispanic. They're 100% Hispanic. Now, this is an interesting subject for you. And I'll circle back to what I was going to say. But I'll circle back to this.
But I was on the job site. I go there a couple days a week, check the progress. Foreman happened to be there. And it's basically a white guy. And he's in charge of 25 Hispanic people who are working. And they're doing all the work. And I was talking to him today. By the way, they're getting ready to pour the slab. There's going to be 3,000 yards of concrete in this foundation.
I'm not going to bore you. But the slab's going to be 300 yards, and that's coming soon. And it's totally insane what the Coastal Commission is forcing them to build to put a single-family residence there. on PCH in Malibu, and I'll give you guys more on that. But I'm standing there with a guy, and it's 100% Hispanic, 100%.
And I see one guy pop up, and he's got blonde hair, and he's a tall, white dude with blonde hair. And I've never seen it on this job site, or just about any... Working with all the Hispanics. And I say to the foreman, I go, who's that guy? Is that the boss's son? And he goes, that's my nephew. And I said, that would explain the blonde guy on the job site. By the way, good for him, man.
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Chapter 5: What are the impacts of welfare dependency on communities?
Yeah, and also the welfare system has screwed us over time and time again. And I feel like for some of us, we're complacent with being dependent on the system and not wanting to do the hard work anymore.
You have no idea how destructive that can be. And I'll give you the white guy version of the welfare system. The welfare system does the same thing. My mom was on welfare, and I said to her, why don't you get a job? And she said, I'll lose my welfare. Exactly. Okay, so no job for Chris Carolla and no cool car for me. So I get it.
But I had a friend who was in the trades, and he was an electrician. And he was a union electrician, and he did okay for himself financially. But somehow he got an apartment on Ocean Boulevard in Santa Monica. And he got rent control.
Chapter 6: How does rent control affect housing stability?
And he got this little one-bedroom apartment, but it's right on Ocean Prime Real Estate. And he's paying way under current value for this place, right? He's paying, you know, for the sake argument, if that thing was on the open market, it could get three grand a month. And he's paying 700 bucks a month.
Yeah.
He never bought a house because he wasn't motivated because he would have had to, the house he could afford would be in North Hollywood over the hill. No more living in front of the ocean. No more getting something at a quarter of the price. It's anyone else is going to pay for it. And he kept, he stayed put and he never saved up and he never bought a house because he wasn't incentivized.
It keeps you like stagnant.
It kept him stagnant. So he's never been an owner. because the government intervened, forced low-cost housing and rent control, and made it unrealistic for people to move away from that.
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Chapter 7: What role does government play in housing and economic issues?
Once they got in, there's stories like that littered all over the place. New York. Yes, yes.
And it keeps you stagnant mentally, so you don't want to, like, it's not motivating you to do more.
Also, I don't know, is it the government's job to tell people who own homes what they can charge? for their unit? I mean, don't you think that'll sort its way out? I've said it a million times. They want a living wage or minimum wage or whatever it is. Literally down the street from here is a Home Depot. There's a bunch of day laborers who are waiting outside in the parking lot.
The government doesn't need to get involved with how much those guys get an hour. That's them and you. And they're not doing it for $10 an hour. And you're not doing it for $40 an hour. So you guys can figure it out. Yeah. Why does the government need to decide what that price is? Yeah. That guy, you go, the government goes, well, why? Because you want to pay that guy five bucks an hour.
It's like, yeah, I do. But he ain't doing it.
Yeah.
He's not getting in my truck for that money. Yeah. We are figuring it out. Exactly. And it's going to be a number that's about right. You know what I mean?
It's between the employer and the employee. Like, it doesn't need to be a government intervention type of thing.
Well, first off, no one needs to work at McDonald's. They work there for slave wages. Who works at McDonald's? Who doesn't want to work at McDonald's? Don't work at McDonald's. If you don't want to work at McDonald's, you don't have to. If McDonald's was forcing you to work at McDonald's, then I would have an issue.
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Chapter 8: How do AI-generated personas influence online narratives?
But like you don't most average people that are voting aren't paying attention to those things. They just direct their problem at who the news tells them to direct their problem at. It's not Gavin Newsom. It's Donald Trump's fault.
Well, I told people all through COVID, we're like, Trump's a dictator. I was like, Trump didn't shut the beaches. Nope. That was Newsom that shut the beaches. Trump's a dictator. Trump didn't shut your kid's school down either. That's Gavin Newsom. Your guys...
You know, obviously, like I grew up in the South, so we had Republican governors by like the week two or three of COVID. We're open. Businesses are open. You may have to wear a mask, but businesses are open. That's the choice.
Right.
You know, Georgia did the same thing. And I'm like, that's not an executive level issue that is up to the state to decide that.
Right, right. So it's the weirdest thing ever to live in a state that's completely shut down. I have friends whose small restaurant was destroyed by the government, shut down. They're out of business. Family owned for 50 years, out of business. That's all your guys that are doing that. We had Garcetti or Karen Bass.
We had Garcetti, progressive mayor and a progressive governor, shutting down your businesses and trying to force vax mandates and doing all the things a tyrannical dictator would do. By the way, you take the Supreme Court. Who wanted to force a vax mandate? Who wanted? It was the left of the Supreme Court. It was Sotomayor, who's a dope, who was lying.
But the progressive side of the Supreme Court is the one that wanted to force you to take an experimental vaccination. So who is really the dictator here?
And even on that front, during that time, they were forcing government employees to And sometimes, like, a lot of those people that work in government buildings that are, like, careers are minority communities, minority people in D.C.
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