WEBVTT - Footsies With Fascists 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, keeps, and welcome to Woke f Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.759 Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks, 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.200 I want to start off on this Woke Wednesday with 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:28.960 some thoughts and then we'll go into the stories first. 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.360 I'm saying this every week now, so forgive me, but 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.919 I know the feeling of exhaustion that people have because 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:45.040 I am literally feeling this achiness in my bones and 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:49.919 I'm really doing my best to try and double and 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:55.520 triple down on my self care and my routines, and 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.800 I'm finding myself faltering and also trying to give myself 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:04.680 grace for the times that I am faltering. And why 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:06.600 am I sharing that with you? Because I think that 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:10.959 you know, I'm a person that when everything around me 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.000 starts to feel out of control, I try my best 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:19.600 to control everything that I can, which is not necessarily 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:24.600 the best because you can't control everything right, like, there 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.080 is just no way to do that. And then what 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:32.480 happens when when everything right starts to feel like you're 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:36.440 going back to old patterns or you've you know, say 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.200 you've said I'm gonna not drink or I'm gonna eat 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.280 really well, or I'm gonna work out, and just everything 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:47.040 starts to become super overwhelming and then you fall off 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:51.400 of that wagon. And that happens to me more times 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.200 than I'd like to admit, right, And what I have 0:01:55.400 --> 0:02:01.640 learned is to rest when I'm tired, to take breaks 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.560 so that I don't have breakdowns, to remove myself from 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.440 places and spaces, and like go get some air and 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:15.080 take a long walk, to really connect with friends and 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:20.320 family if I've been kind of distant and also understanding 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:25.560 that folks, you know, I find it really hard sometimes 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:30.720 to articulate to those that are not necessarily in my business, 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.320 meaning in my industry, how draining it is to be 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.080 in politics, and draining isn't even the word, because draining 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.120 seems like, well, you just need a good night's sleep 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:44.560 or a vacation and then like things will go back 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:56.040 to normal. No. I feel crazy, exhausted, filled with grief, rage, 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.720 pretty much every emotion except for like the ones that 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.160 are good. Every time that I turn on the news 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:08.800 and you know, I'm trying desperately to find hopefulness and 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.040 then you get you know, decisions that come down, which 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.520 brings me to the first story that is on my 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:21.160 mind today. Which is the lowering of Trump's fucking bond 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.680 on the day that Tish James was getting ready to 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.880 see to begin the process to seize properties. It's so 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:38.480 fucking deflating and so aggravating. How beautifully this system, this 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.360 fucking criminal justice system, is set up to work for 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:47.080 wealthy white men in power. And you know, we look 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.160 at it and we're like, you know, we're angry, and 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.880 I'm seeing the tweets and I fucking like threw up 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.440 my hands that day, which was Monday, and said fuck it, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.480 like I'm over it, Like I don't want to cover 0:03:57.560 --> 0:03:59.960 these cases anymore. I don't give a fuck because I 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.360 know that Donald Trump is never going to prison, He's 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.920 never going to have to have any accountability for any 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.880 of his actions. We would rather in this country throw 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:15.000 low level drug offenders in jail for thirty years. We'd 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.679 rather throw poor people in jail because they can't afford 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.520 bail and keep them there. We would rather use our 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:28.880 criminal justice system to continue the harm, the torture of 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.960 black and brown people, which is what it was built for, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.720 right And so every time that we think that Donald 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.719 Trump is going to be held accountable, I think that 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:42.159 the reality is that he's not right and we have 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.560 to move on. I will cover what is news, but 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.080 I think that the fact is, like what the real 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.160 news is, right, isn't going to be the headline that 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:55.880 comes through and says Donald Trump's been convicted because he'll 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:59.200 just appeal, right, Donald Trump has to pay out this money, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.239 He'll just appeal and he'll just run out the clock 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.080 because his lawyers know the games to play. They know 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.159 all of the loopholes inside of the system. They know, 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.880 you know, how to maneuver, and the double speak and 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.360 all of this shit. Because for them, it's more money, 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.440 more time, more money right that they will have. And 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.640 for the rest of us, you know, we're told, well, 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.599 it's normal that you know this judgment was going to 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:31.680 be decreased. It's normal. Tell me what the fuck is 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.760 normal about Donald Trump? Tell me what the fuck is 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:41.360 normal about a Republican klu klux Klan takeover of American politics, 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.240 of our judiciary. Tell me what is normal about the 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.359 times that we've been living in for the last you know, 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.600 I don't know, seven eight years. Tell me what's normal nothing. 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.960 So stop trying to apply normal rules and logistics to 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.880 a person that has said fuck you to the system. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.159 Not only said fuck you to the system, but like 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:07.240 actively has continued to try and burn it down from 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.560 the outside in and the inside out. And so we 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:17.160 continue to apply these arbitrary bullshit rules for the preservation 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.159 or at least the perception of the preservation of some 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:27.320 type of legal normalcy that doesn't fucking exist. So when 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:31.440 I saw the judge lower his bond to one hundred 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.040 and seventy five million, I just said, fuck it, who 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:40.120 gives a fuck anymore? Right, Like, the justice system is 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.240 working exactly how it was designed to work for, exactly 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.840 who it was designed to work for. And that's the fact, 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:53.040 you know, and I think that what else is also 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:58.000 true is that the other strategy is to just depress 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:04.279 the vote by depressing to really depressing the people. Because 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.119 when you feel like everything is hopeless, it doesn't matter 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.840 what you do, that you have no power, no voice, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:16.400 no say, you know, you become easily pliable and malleable. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.520 And that's what the Republican klu klux Klan white supremacist 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.960 counsel is working on doing. And they're doing a great job, because, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:31.520 like I said, I'm fucking exhausted, and I know that 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:36.160 you all are too, you know, I honestly, I say 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.520 to my friend's advent, I don't know how people listen 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.680 to me all the time. This is not me advocating 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.240 for you to, like, you know, not up your subscription 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.600 or not continue listening to the show. But I struggle 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.600 to listen to the news, which will be my story 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:55.920 number two, because nothing good has come of it, right, 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.880 And the reality is that the only thing that is 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:05.080 going to hold Donald Trump accountable is us is people 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:13.000 voting in November. To keep democracy, to keep abortion in 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.640 blue states at least you have some access to it, 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:21.560 to you know, keep voting right and free and fair elections, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:27.080 to keep democracy, to keep some semblance of bodily autonomy. 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.560 All of that will go with a Trump two point 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.160 zero regime. Right, Like they're telling us everything that they're 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.760 going to do, we don't have to fucking guess. They've 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:43.640 taken away the guessing work. So it's just like if 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.520 people don't come out to vote, because by the time 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:51.280 November rolls around, you are exhausted and depleted and just 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:58.360 like hopeless, then they win, then they've won. So, you know, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:00.800 I do want to say something somebody I posted in 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.560 my comment section to a post that I said, where 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:08.120 I said, I feel like, you know, we always learned 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:14.120 about fallen empires in school, but we never learned about 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:18.600 what was happening while they were falling. And I said, well, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.840 now we know, right, because we are living inside of 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:26.800 a falling empire and where you have this deep sense 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:31.480 of unease where every day is something new being taken 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:36.520 away or ruined, right, and you still trying to convince 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:39.360 yourself like, no, no, no, America can come back, America 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.520 can come back. No, actually, it's not ever going to 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:47.920 come back the way that we knew it. Right, What 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:49.960 we are trying to do right now was just to 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:55.559 hold on so that these right wing, rabid Republicans don't 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.240 burn down the country in a way that makes it 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:05.480 possible for the next fifty years for anything to grow, 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:11.920 because that's what they're doing. And so what I say 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.960 to folks, somebody in the comment section said I'm going 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.400 to take a break from politics, and somebody said, right now, 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:19.520 are you crazy, like you're gonna take a break now. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.120 I would rather you fucking take a break now than 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.880 take a break in November. I would rather, folks, tap 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:29.120 out right for a couple of months and get right 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:33.439 back in, you know, come August. Because if you need 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.640 a break so that you don't lose your fucking mind 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.040 and then don't opt out of the election, then take 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:42.400 a fucking break. I'm never gonna be one of those 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.400 people that says, no, you got to stay in it. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.199 You gotta stay miserable, you gotta cry at everything, you 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:49.520 gotta be rageful all the time. You got to spend 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.679 all of that energy. No, I'm not gonna say that. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:53.520 What I'm going to say is that if you're going 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.600 to take a break, then to you know, if you 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.280 have the resources to be able to donate, to be 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.160 able to support or independent media like myself and others 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.360 who don't get paid by the mainstream but do their 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.680 best to try and continue to have conversations with the 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.959 folks that are willing to support their voice. So if 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.120 you have friends and family and colleagues around you that 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.800 are like, I'm tapping out, then say like, look, you know, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:24.079 tap out of this, but tap into WOKF Daily, tap 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:29.360 into you know, a muckraker, tap into you know, other 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.000 shows and other individuals that are like doing the work 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.280 right that mainstream media refuses to do. And if you 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.840 need to take a break, do that, right, but find 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:43.679 another way to support that. Doesn't, you know, harm your 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:49.440 mental health. That's the real work, right Because I do believe, folks, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.160 and I've been saying this for a long time, that 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:53.120 I do think that things are going to get worse 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:56.040 before they get better. I remember saying this way way 0:11:56.080 --> 0:12:00.280 way way back on Serious XM. You know, say saying 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:03.960 that things are going to get bloodier before they get better. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:08.480 And that, folks, was in twenty seventeen, and here we 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:15.520 are in twenty twenty four. So it's not great. It's 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.319 not great. But again, if you need to take a break, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.960 I encourage you to do that now and find other 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:30.400 ways to support that, don't challenge your mental health. Let 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:36.360 me now turn to fucking mainstream media and the uproar 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:42.440 that has happened over NBC News deciding to hire Ronna 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:48.440 Romney McDaniel. I never agree with fucking Chuck Todd, and 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.960 I think that Chuck Todd has been part of the 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.480 fucking problem in journalism. And so when you have lost 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:58.880 Chuck Todd and he is talking about the credibility of 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.320 this network being challenged because of them deciding to bring 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:08.120 in an alecching Denier a fucking January sixer so that 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.480 they can have access because they think that if they 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.640 play well with the devil, the devil won't burn them. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:18.040 Are you dumb? So he comes out on Meet the 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:24.560 Press and you know, says that the CEOs and you know, 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.120 the folks, their bosses, oh, Christen Welker, and apology for 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.440 putting her in such a horrible, you know position, with 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:36.360 having Roni McDaniel on after they decided to pay her 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:42.400 three hundred thousand dollars to become a contributor. And now 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.120 there are rumors that because of all of the pushback 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:48.559 and because of Rashida Jones, who's the president of MSNBC, 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.400 saying she will not be on our airwaves. But yet 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.520 you approve the deal to begin with, you thought it 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.320 was a good idea. Then why don't you think it's 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.600 a good idea now? Oh, because all of your talent 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.000 is saying that they will not have her on air, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.480 and you can't fire all of them, you know, the 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.240 way that he did Mehdi Hassan, I'm just so over it, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.920 do you know what I'm saying. I'm over the fucking 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:19.760 disgusting revolving door between the MAGA world and mainstream media. 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.160 They bash mainstream media saying it's liberal when it's totally 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:28.920 fucking not, because there is a revolving door that comes 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.800 with these administrations. And the fucking thing is we're in 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:38.400 this position because of mainstream media and they continue to 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:43.040 just get worse. And my co host of Democracy Ish, 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:49.440 my friend Wajahat Ali you know, tweeted and said, you know, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.720 you'll pay Roni McDaniel, but when it comes to black 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.520 and brown talent, there is never any money. Kurt Bardella, 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.080 friend of the show, also tweeted that you know why, 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:05.680 because people like us when you see me on MSNBC, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.920 understand that I am not being paid. I go on 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:13.040 MSNBC when I think that I have something to say 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:18.480 and to offer that has a larger reach, Right, So 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.960 I'm doing it as part of my work, but I 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.280 don't get paid for it like work. I never have. 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.320 For all of the years that I have been on MSNBC, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.800 which at this point is about ten years, I've never 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:35.120 once been approached about a contributorship. But I have watched 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.680 them give contributorships to less talented white Republicans on a 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:44.720 regular fucking basis. I have watched them ghetto wise, right 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.840 the weekend shows, which is where you see all of 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.960 the hosts of color except for Joy Reid, who is 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:57.400 the only person of color in their lineup, who is 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:05.560 until seven pm. From Morning Joe until seven pm. There 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:11.760 are no people of color hosting anybody that you see 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.760 right that is a person of color that comes on 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:21.840 that show unless it says MSNBC Legal Analyst, MSNBC political contributor. 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.760 If it just says that person's name, they're coming on 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.720 for free, which is a majority of the fucking people 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:33.480 that are coming on. It's a continuation of a slap 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.280 in the face. I said this. You know at the 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.760 end of the Trump administration that no one that had 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:44.040 that campaign or that administration on their resume should be 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:50.080 employable outside of Fox and Oaan and whatever other type 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:55.880 of right wing conspiracy fucking outlets. To legitimize them and 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:04.040 to whitewash them through mainstream media makes them now credible, Right, 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:08.800 These people that spent their years lying to our faces 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.080 and supporting a criminal and now you want to have 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.879 them on Dancing with the Stars, in NBC News and 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.919 The View and other places and think that like people 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:21.959 don't get it. And so the outrage that folks are 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.720 receiving now and they're saying, oh, they're gonna NBC is 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.560 gonna rescind the offer and blah blah blah. I hope 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.400 the fuck that they do, you know, but they never 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.680 should have extended it in the first place. And this 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:34.960 kind of foot seas that they want to keep playing 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.320 with fascists isn't going to land them anywhere. They're not 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:43.240 going to be liked anymore. Pick me, pick me Donald, like, oh, 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.520 you know, if you were to become president, like, we'll 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:48.080 play nice with you. No, you fucking won't. And you 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:52.520 know why, because he's going to shut you down regardless. 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:59.040 So it's just, you know, the anger that I had 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:03.359 at that announcement and the pushback. I wish that, I 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.720 will say this, I wish that the people that are 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:13.679 so adamant about Roni McDaniel not being on NBC News, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.120 I wish they were as adamant when Mehdi his son 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:22.199 was being wrongfully terminated. You know, I wish that a 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.320 person of color, a Muslim, who is one of the 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:31.640 best interviewers I have ever seen, was given that kind 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:38.240 of support internally by his fellow colleagues who would have 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:42.359 gone on air and said him being fired is absolutely outrageous. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.560 I wish that they would have done that for Tiffany Cross, right. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.520 I wish way back in the day that they would 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.120 have done it for Melissa Harris Perry right. Like, It's 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.639 just it's amazing, folks. And you know, I could list 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.720 off a bunch of names of people who once had shows, 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:04.280 had platforms and were shut down. But white mainstream media 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.879 will bring back, you know, Jeffrey Tuban on CNN after 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:13.399 he's caught like fondling himself on a call, but you 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:18.040 won't hire back Mark Lamont Hill, a scholar on Palestine 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.280 and Palestine and Israel. Like it is wild, do you 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:25.040 know what I'm saying? But you understand that mainstream media 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:30.840 is complicit in the fuckery. They're complicit and they perpetuate 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.040 it on a regular basis, which is why I say 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:42.159 often support independent media, support people who believe in what 0:19:42.320 --> 0:19:45.679 they say and will tell you the truth and work 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:52.000 off of something called integrity as well as passion, because 0:19:52.160 --> 0:20:00.720 those two things don't exist in corporate media. Folks. We're 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:05.560 in tough, tough, tough tough times, and they continue to 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:09.000 get worse. You know. Right now as I'm speaking, the 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.600 Supreme Court is hearing the case on MiFi pristone, mif 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:15.320 of pristone, the abortion pill that was approved by the 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:20.000 FDA twenty three years ago and whose usage is now 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.440 being challenged, which means that if they overturn the use 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.640 of MEFA pristone, the FDA loses its teeth, loses its 0:20:28.680 --> 0:20:34.240 ability to confirm medication. That you know, the Supreme Court, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:40.400 those those nine unelected black robes, get to decide what 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:43.359 you put in your mouth, what you don't, what you 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.919 you know, whether you have a baby, whether you don't. 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.800 We're in dark times. We're in dark, dark times, and 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:54.320 so I tell you, please find the light, Please seek 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.200 it out. Please make it a regular part of your 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:01.080 day of your life. Please find the joy. If it's 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:05.000 gardening right now as we enter into spring on the 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.440 East coast, if it is you know, going for walks, 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.440 if it's you know, cooking, baking, hanging out with your 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.600 loved ones, just whatever it is, do it, and do 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.320 it often so that you are connected to and reminded 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:26.960 of and grounded in what's important. That is it for 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:31.320 me today, dear friends on Woke app. As always, Power 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.320 to the people and to all the people. Power, get 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:36.320 woke and stay woke as fuck.