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Lurie Breaks It Down

I Freakin’ Told You So & Other News You Can Use

Lurie Breaks It Down

Women's Empowerment Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Culture, News, History

5.0617 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Lurie breaks down the latest on the government shutdown and what we can learn from building community & helping one another. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

0:20.0

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. All right, good people, today is Wednesday, October the 29th. Let's get into the news.

0:54.7

Now, I kind of want to title this. I freaking told you so because I did. And I am and I told

0:59.9

you so kind of assistant. Mass layoffs are here and not from the federal government. We are getting

1:04.6

news today that they are laying folks off at Paramount, at Amazon, at Pricewaterhouse, Cooper,

1:09.8

at UPSPS at Target.

1:11.2

Target?

1:12.2

As Dr. Carr said this morning on Urban View mornings, are people still working at Target?

1:15.9

That's crazy.

1:16.9

But what I told you was that when demons show you who they are, we have to believe them.

1:21.4

Now this one is particularly in the I Told You So Kind of Energy because of all the things

1:25.8

I'm about to share with you.

1:27.1

And we had a caller, Tim, who called up and basically said that, you know, we should not be acting as though the Democrats aren't responsible for the shutdown. So a lot of this information is going to be aimed at people who believe that, you know, for some reason, the Democrats are responsible, even though it's the Republicans who own the House, who own the White House, who own the Senate. But the reality is, I have been talking for a few

1:49.0

years now about the ways in which Project 2025 is really a Republican wish list to get rid of

1:55.0

all of the programs that the Democrats had established since the Great Depression. I have

1:58.9

repeatedly said that the only reason the white nationalists who wrote Project

2:02.7

2025 needed a Project 2025, which actually is something they've been working on since the

2:07.1

first Project Whatever was issued in 1981 when Ronald Reagan was in office, was to undo the gains

2:13.0

of the New Deal.

2:13.8

Because when you understand what the New Deal was, you realize that they already have a

2:18.1

playbook for how to redo slavery. And they're working on that. The slave era is making a comeback,

2:22.7

make no doubt about it. But the new deal was something that happened in the 1900s that basically

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