5/17/2023 0 Comments Fireside chat meaningNo longer.Īnd so it does cause us, we who pay attention and feel and think about the principles that are at play - it does cause us to be upset, distressed, angry.īut I will say this - and many of you have heard me paraphrase Coretta Scott King many, many times, and I’m just going to keep doing it. We thought a woman’s right - a constitutional right - to make decisions about her own body was settled. And then after the 2020 election, when more people voted and more young people voted than ever before, states around our country started systematically and intentionally making it more difficult for people to vote. We thought, surely with the Voting Rights Act and all that it stood for - we assumed and thought the issue of voting rights in America was settled. We thought it was pretty well settled - the issue of territorial integrity and sovereignty - and now that is up for some debate, given what’s happening there. You look, for example, at Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine. Things that we long took for granted are now up for debate and question. There’s no question we are living in an unsettled world. I’ve - I’ve directly talked with 100 world leaders in person or by phone - prime ministers, presidents, kings, chancellors - since I’ve been Vice President. To your point, I just left Asia I’ve been traveling around the world as Vice President. But I will say this: There’s no question that right now we’re living in an unsettled world. THE VICE PRESIDENT: - the last issue, which is a first issue. So what - I think we’ll get into more detail to the last. Marriage equality and, of course, the topic of the moment right now, reproductive rights. Like I, for the first time in my career, have just - after 22 years of working - got equal pay as a male co-actor. So what has, I think, catalyzed this erosion when it comes to a few specific things - which I really wanted to ask you - is long battles of equal pay. So I just want to start at the fact that this country is regarded as a beacon of hope, freedom, and choice for the whole world, and these tenants are being endlessly assaulted right now. I am an Indian born of two physicians as parents and a recent immigrant to this country who totally still believes in the wholehearted, you know, American Dream. You’re a proud American-born daughter of an Indian mom and a Jamaican father. And I think we’re both daughters of India, in a way. And then I really wanted to start with something like that. I was thinking about, okay, what do I and the VP have in common? (Laughter.) You know, we’re women. THE VICE PRESIDENT: But I - I actually feel great because I’m in a room full of phenomenal women who are doing phenomenal things. (Laughs.) I was at - can you believe it, I was literally at the DMZ I think less than. You just landed last night, literally, from your, you know, tour in Asia.
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