The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Republican Says Kids Should Be Working Instead Of Receiving Free School Lunch

Episode Date: January 29, 2025

Charlamagne Tha God Gives Donkey Of The Day To A Republican Who Says Kids Should Be Working Instead Of Receiving Free School Lunch. Listen For More!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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we explore the personal journeys that shape extraordinary lives. Join us for heartfelt conversations with remarkable guests like David Oyelowo, Mel Robbins, Martin Sheen, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Billy Porter. Listen to My Legacy on the iHeart Radio app, Apple podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. This is My Legacy. I'm so sick of hearing men talk about women's basketball. This is Lexi Brown.

And Mariah Rose. And we've got a new podcast, Full Circle. Every Wednesday, we're catching you up on what's going on in women's basketball. We've got you with analysis, insight stories, and a little bit of tea. Full Circle is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Full Circle on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports. Yes, you are a donkey. The latest on that police killing of a black man.

Now the new developments in the deadly spa shooting rampage. Man, yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. And so we are in a state of emergency. Okay, white supremacy and violence is and always been, the number one threat to our society. But I'm also very proud that my wife is white. To the Breakfast Club, bitches! Alright, Sean Dean, please tell me, why was I your donkey of the day? Well, donkey of the day for Wednesday, January 29th goes to Georgia representative Rich McCormick.

He is a Republican who was on CNN yesterday defending Trump's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs. Now I don't know about y'all, but I grew up on school lunch programs. Okay, during the school year and at summertime. My grandmother was a lunch lady at R.A. Ready Intermediate School in Montecone and South Carolina. Drop on the clues, mom, for R.A. Ready Intermediate School. Okay, so sometimes she would bring those lunches home. And I'm gonna tell you something, I remember one kid in fourth grade who was so poor, mind you, none of us came from any money but he had it worse than a lot of us. That school lunch program was the only time that young brother used to eat throughout the whole day.

And I remember we had an evil, mean ass teacher named Miss Freeman. That woman used to punish that young man by telling him he couldn't eat lunch. And I'll never forget the pain in that young man's face when she used to do that to him. People are really really cruel and that's what we are seeing from folks like Rich McCormick. Okay not only does he agree with the federal aid freeze on school lunch programs he says that kids should be working instead of receiving free lunch. Let's go to CNN Pamela Brown for the report please. Would you support getting rid of, you know, school lunch for vulnerable kids and breakfast and head start? Do you support that and what do you say to your constituents? When you talk about school lunches, hey, I work my way through high school.

I know about you, but I worked since I was, before I was even 13 years old, I was picking berries in the field before I had child labor laws that precluded that i was a paperboy uh... and when i was in high school i worked my entire way through you're telling me that kids who stay at home instead of going to work at burger king mcdonald's during the summer should stay at home and get their free lunch instead of going to work i think we need to have a top down review i think you're painting a lot of these kids with a broad brush i would say that's not necessarily a fair assessment

of all of the kids. So you would say all the kids in your district who use the free lunch, for example, or breakfast, they're all just sitting at home and not working. Okay, I just want to clarify because that seems like what you were trying to insinuate. No, this gives us a chance. This gives us a chance though to see

where is the money really being spent? How many people got their start in fast food restaurants when there were kids? Versus just giving a blanket rule that gets all kids lunches in high school who are capable of going out and actually getting a job and doing something that makes them have value. Thinking about their future instead of thinking about how they're going to sponge off the government. Okay, you want high school kids to get a job.

What about elementary school? What about middle school kids? Okay, you know what I'm saying? Like, let me tell you something, man, that you already probably know. America does not give a damn about poor people. I mean, they could care less. When I first heard this story, I thought to myself,

does Rich McCormick know that they're poor, white, you know, kids that he'll be depriving as well? Because, you know, blackness is just my default setting. So I just assume this is happening because of race, because growing up, I was a black kid who benefited from school lunch programs. But no, guys like Rich McCormick don't give a damn about color.

They don't give a damn about race. They don't give a damn about poor people, period. Okay, it's all a matter of class. But I just wanted to tell folks like Rich McCormick, because the Trump administration is ahead of schedule on ruining the economy, by the way. Now, I wanna say something, but they is ahead of schedule on ruin the economy by the way. I want to say something but they are ahead of schedule. See I've told y'all before that the economy since World War II does better when it's a Democrat in the White House and this isn't about party affiliation because I'm an independent I'm just dealing with facts. There have been 11

recessions in this country, 10 of them have been Republican led. So I'm already anticipating that for this administration. Say what you want Democrats create jobs, Democrats at least attempt to expand the middle class and scrimp from the economy. Okay. I understand that a lot of folks don't always feel that in their pockets. So it's hard for people to believe that. I get it. Well, let's be clear.

This capitalist society we live in doesn't matter who's in charge. Okay. Republicans and Democrats, because the gap between the haves and have nots is so wide. Okay. The wealth inequality in this country is so great that what they are currently implementing by attempting to order this federal spending freeze, you stop in Medicaid, school breakfast lunch programs, Section 8 rental assistance, the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and kids, farm credits, the VA, the

SBA, defense contracts, anything that provides people with financial relief, they trying to put a freeze on. Rich McCormick, if the have-nots, the poor, if they hungry and can't give food, what you think they're going to eat? That's right, your ass. Wait a minute, that might have excited you. Not your literal ass. I mean, figuratively, as in eat to rich. Okay. Let me give you a reminder from the late great Tupac Shakur on what happens when a country doesn't take care of the least of us. If I know that in this hotel room they have food every day and I'm knocking the door every day to eat and they open the door, let me see the party, let me see them throwing salami

all over the place. I mean just like throwing food around, where they're telling me there's no food in here. You know what I'm saying? Every day I'm standing outside trying to sing my way in. You know what I'm saying? We are hungry, please let us in. We are hungry, please let us in.

After about a week that song is going to change to, we hungry, we need some food. After two, three weeks it's like, you know, give me all the food, I'm going to be knocking on your door. After a year, you just like, you know what I'm saying, I'm picking the lock, coming through the door blasting, you know what I'm saying. It's like you hungry, you reach your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago. We was asking with the Panthers. We was asking with them, you know, with Civil Rights Movement. We was asking, you know. Now those people that were asking, they're all dead and in jail.

So now what do you think we're gonna do? It's only a matter of time, okay? Rich McCormick, this is how I know folks like yourself, y'all don't really believe in Christ. Y'all don't really believe in Christ because Matthew 25, 40 talks about taking care of the least of us, all right? Talks about taking care of the least of us.

He says, truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine you did for me. This just means that by caring for those who are most vulnerable, are marginalized, you are serving Jesus himself. That's not what you're doing, Rich McCormick. Please give that man the biggest he-huh? Alright. Well thank you for that donkey today. Give that man the biggest he-ha. Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! All right. Mm-hmm. Well, thank you for that donkey today. Mm-hmm. Or you get the horns. Wake that ass up. It's in the morning.

The Breakfast Club. The Indicator is a podcast where daily economic news is about what matters to you. And we're guessing most days, that's money. Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation. So as a new administration promises action on the cost of living, taxes, and home prices, The S&P 500 biggest post-election day spike ever. follow all the big changes and what they mean for you. Make America affordable again.

Listen to The Indicator from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get podcasts. Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This past season on my podcast, Here's the Thing, I spoke with more actors, musicians, policy makers, and so many other fascinating people, like writer and actor, Dan Aykroyd. I love writing more than anything. You're left alone.

You know, you do three hours in the morning, you write three hours in the afternoon, go pick up a kid from school and write at night, and after nine hours, you come out with seven pages, and then you're moving on. Listen to Here's the Thing on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to My Legacy. I'm Martin Luther King III, and together with my wife, Andrea Waters King, and our

dear friends, Mark and Craig Kilburger, we explore the personal journeys that shape extraordinary lives. Join us for heartfelt conversations with remarkable guests like David Oyelowo, Mel Robbins, Martin Sheen, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Billy Porter. Listen to My Legacy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, wherever you get your podcasts. Listen to My Legacy on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is My Legacy. I'm so sick of hearing men talk about women's basketball.

This is Lexi Brown. And Mariah Rose. And we've got a new podcast, Full Circle. Every Wednesday, we're catching you up on what's going on in women's basketball. We've got you with analysis, insight stories, and a little bit of tea. Full Circle is an iHeart women's sports production in partnership with Deep Blue Sports and Entertainment. Listen to Full Circle on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of iHeart Women's Sports.