Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily. Folks.
Speaker 1: I am not going to sugarcode or reach for platitudes
Speaker 1: or try and tell us that, you know, we must
Speaker 1: roll up our sleeves and fight. What I'm going to
Speaker 1: share on today's show is a live that I did
Speaker 1: the morning after because I wanted to bring people into community,
Speaker 1: but to have real talk. If you're not in a
Speaker 1: place for real talk about who America is and where
Speaker 1: we find ourselves, then this episode is not going to
Speaker 1: be for you because it is not an episode where
Speaker 1: I am talking about self care. Where I'm talking about
Speaker 1: I'm talking about real ship. And again, this is taken
Speaker 1: from my life that I did following the results, so
Speaker 1: take it in folks. First off, we are in absolute
Speaker 1: and total mourning those of us that have been working, marching, donating, speaking,
Speaker 1: using our platforms creating. Today is a really dark day.
Speaker 1: And I said, and I've been saying for the last
Speaker 1: couple of days, to give yourself and the people around
Speaker 1: you grace. And I say that because what has been
Speaker 1: triggered in this country is astounding. I think that we
Speaker 1: all wanted to believe that America is better than it is.
Speaker 1: I think that we wanted to believe, as I did,
Speaker 1: as you've heard me say time and time again, that oh,
Speaker 1: it's thirty percent of the country. It's thirty percent that
Speaker 1: is aligned with Donald Trump and white supremacy and misogyny,
Speaker 1: and it's not. We see that now. And I think
Speaker 1: that what the hiccup was between twenty sixteen and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four was COVID was the fact that five hundred
Speaker 1: thousand people had died by the time that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: had left office, and people were scared, and he told
Speaker 1: them to inject bleach and light and you know, every
Speaker 1: type of idiotic thing to do that would put their
Speaker 1: lives and those around them in danger. He said to
Speaker 1: open up and liberate places and all of these things.
Speaker 1: And people chose their lives in twenty twenty In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, white people chose themselves. And I'm going to
Speaker 1: be very clear, honest and blunt. I woke up this
Speaker 1: morning and I already started losing followers. And I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that because what we all now stand to lose
Speaker 1: in the coming months and years ahead are things that
Speaker 1: we're not even going to be able to wrap our
Speaker 1: minds around. For those in the comment section right now
Speaker 1: that are saying that their children are in danger. They
Speaker 1: are We're all in danger. We're in danger because Project
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and Donald Trump told us what their
Speaker 1: plans were, so we know what is coming, we know
Speaker 1: what to expect. It has been very clear. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and the millions of Americans that supported him have told
Speaker 1: us that their priority, their number one priority is collective
Speaker 1: suffering and pain for those that do not love like them,
Speaker 1: look like them, or pray like them. Elon Musk said
Speaker 1: that America is going to need to go through necessary
Speaker 1: hardship in the short term in order to have long
Speaker 1: term prosperity. When I look at some of the exit
Speaker 1: poll numbers, which I'm really not going to trouble myself
Speaker 1: with and neither should you. But the accuracy is that
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, a majority of white women voted for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. In twenty twenty they did it again, and
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four they did it yet again. This
Speaker 1: election is not on Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. They
Speaker 1: ran an incredible campaign in the shortest time span that
Speaker 1: we've ever seen. This election, right is the determination. This
Speaker 1: clean sweep of MAGA is the determination of white people
Speaker 1: in America that have decided that they are done playing
Speaker 1: with democracy, that democracy no longer serves their interests, and
Speaker 1: so if they cannot get ahead, then their goal and
Speaker 1: desire is to pull every single person back and down.
Speaker 1: Oh we're not going back to what was. There's a new,
Speaker 1: fresh hell that is going to be in front of us.
Speaker 1: Let me just speak the truth, friends, because I think
Speaker 1: that we need to get this off of our chest
Speaker 1: and get it out into the open. They have talked
Speaker 1: about mass deportations, and yet a majority half of Latino
Speaker 1: men voted for Donald Trump. Because that is how white
Speaker 1: supremacy works. It expands itself right in order to bring
Speaker 1: in the people so that they have the numbers. But
Speaker 1: then it will turn on itself. So those Latino men
Speaker 1: that think, oh I'm fair skin, right, Oh I came
Speaker 1: here legally, they don't give a fuck. But you will
Speaker 1: find that out. The white women that decided to vote
Speaker 1: alongside their husbands, they didn't just vote alongside their husbands.
Speaker 1: They voted for their own subjugation. But it doesn't matter, folks,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, they believe that
Speaker 1: their whiteness will in fact protect them and maybe for
Speaker 1: a little while it will. You'll feel good playing house,
Speaker 1: You'll feel good being a baby factory. You'll feel good
Speaker 1: being pushed out of the workplace because you got a
Speaker 1: good old white man that is going to be there
Speaker 1: to take care of you until he gets tired of
Speaker 1: doing that. And your abuse and whatever happens is whatever happens.
Speaker 1: Because we now live inside of a lawless society. You
Speaker 1: think the laws domestic violence that has protected women, the
Speaker 1: safe spaces that women have been able to take themselves
Speaker 1: and young children to get away from dangerous men, you
Speaker 1: think that those things are still going to exist. They won't.
Speaker 1: They talked about getting rid of no fault divorce. No
Speaker 1: fault divorce is a piece of legislation that Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: signed in allowing people to get a divorce because they
Speaker 1: no longer wanted to be married, not because they needed
Speaker 1: to prove that there was any type of violence or
Speaker 1: prove anything. It's just I don't want to be married
Speaker 1: to this person anymore. That's going to go out the window.
Speaker 1: While some states in this election voted to enshrine abortion rights,
Speaker 1: I'm wondering how that plays out when the federal national
Speaker 1: abortion ban comes in because we know that states' rights
Speaker 1: only works when they are doing what exactly, protecting their
Speaker 1: right to oppress, protecting their right to jerrymander, protecting their
Speaker 1: right to harm. But any time that any state tries
Speaker 1: to do something to enact laws to protect their own constituents,
Speaker 1: it turns around that, oh, the executive in the federal
Speaker 1: government is really the deciding factor. So folks that are
Speaker 1: saying to themselves, well, I'll be safe because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stop you in that sentence right now, there is no
Speaker 1: safety for people that look like me. I think that
Speaker 1: safety has oftentimes been an illusion because during every Democrat
Speaker 1: and Republican presidency we have watched countless black men, women,
Speaker 1: and children be gunned down. That number is just gonna
Speaker 1: go all the way up because now militias and white
Speaker 1: supremacists are embolden. They're embolden on the courts, they're embolden
Speaker 1: as the cops. So there is going to be a
Speaker 1: significant amount of change that is going to happen quickly.
Speaker 1: Last night I was on Ziteo with Mehdi Hassan and
Speaker 1: he asked me, Dinielle, well, what is the pivot that
Speaker 1: Democrats are going to need to make like, what will
Speaker 1: democrats learn in this moment? And I said, what does
Speaker 1: it matter if Donald Trump becomes president? Because at that
Speaker 1: time we hadn't known Donald Trump becomes president. We don't
Speaker 1: need to worry about the Democratic Party because it's not
Speaker 1: going to exist. We don't need to worry about who's
Speaker 1: to blame in this situation, although I am putting the
Speaker 1: blame squarely on white people, because black men and black
Speaker 1: women showed the fuck up and did what needed to
Speaker 1: be done. But it is really difficult to be black
Speaker 1: and queer and to wake up in a country that
Speaker 1: despises you, regardless of how long and how hard you
Speaker 1: have been fighting for it to live up to its ideals.
Speaker 1: My mother said to me this morning, tears running down
Speaker 1: her eyes. Why do they hate us so much? I
Speaker 1: had no response. I don't know. Our skin is too dark,
Speaker 1: our hair is too kinky. I have no idea. Why
Speaker 1: do they hate gay people and trans people and queer
Speaker 1: people so much? I don't know. Because we have the
Speaker 1: audacity to live in our truth, that we have the
Speaker 1: audacity to want to live in our skin and be
Speaker 1: loved and protected instead of conforming ourselves to their gender
Speaker 1: binaries and their stereotypical bullshit. Folks. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the future holds. I am not a sorcerer, but I
Speaker 1: do know that people like me are no longer safe
Speaker 1: in this country. People right, young women that are of
Speaker 1: child bearing age are no longer safe in this country
Speaker 1: postmenopausal rite the cat ladies. They are not safe in
Speaker 1: this country. And you are gonna watch as Donald Trump
Speaker 1: takes his throne with pure immunity, pick off community after
Speaker 1: community after community. You are gonna watch people that told
Speaker 1: you that they love you align with the powers that
Speaker 1: be in order to protect themselves. Black people are waking
Speaker 1: up in this country today and saying, who are our allies?
Speaker 1: Who are our allies? There are none. Fifty percent of
Speaker 1: this country listen to Donald Trump for nine years, listen
Speaker 1: to him the last fucking week of this campaign, and
Speaker 1: chose him over a black and Asian woman. They didn't
Speaker 1: vote against their best interests. Their best interest is white
Speaker 1: supremacy and misogyny. That was always the goal, it was
Speaker 1: always the plan. Donald Trump was right about who America is.
Speaker 1: We have had moments, moments when we've been able to say, oh,
Speaker 1: look we're better than we thought we were. Look we
Speaker 1: passed marriage equality. Look, we had affirmative action. Look, we
Speaker 1: had Roe v. Wade. Do you know that this country
Speaker 1: has only had a democracy for sixty fucking years and
Speaker 1: now it is done. Why do I say sixty years?
Speaker 1: Because that is when the Voting Rights Act passed. That
Speaker 1: is when we had Roe v. Waight, That is when
Speaker 1: we had affirmative action. That is when it became illegal
Speaker 1: to discriminate against people based on their race and based
Speaker 1: on their gender. We held on to that true democracy
Speaker 1: for sixty years because don't talk to me about before.
Speaker 1: Don't talk to me about your fucking fourth of July, right,
Speaker 1: because those forefathers did not include people that look like me.
Speaker 1: We were three fifths and you know what we're about,
Speaker 1: what two three four five laws away from being back
Speaker 1: on a plantation. As was said earlier today on social media,
Speaker 1: we have a maga Supreme Court that, oh sure Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas is on there, but I'm sure Clarence Thomas cut
Speaker 1: himself out a little cozy deal. So you know what's
Speaker 1: on the table. Brown versus the Board of Education. Oh,
Speaker 1: they won't get rid of that, Danielle. They're gonna get
Speaker 1: the whole fucking department of education. You think segregation is
Speaker 1: not on the fucking table, y'all. I don't know what
Speaker 1: resistance looks like in this moment. I really don't, because
Speaker 1: I am in too much fucking pain, and the pain
Speaker 1: is so deep that it's numb. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: When you're in so much pain that your body actually
Speaker 1: can't feel anymore, that's the pain that black people, people
Speaker 1: of color, queer people, marginalized folks, people with disabilities are
Speaker 1: waking up in this country experiencing a type of pain
Speaker 1: that they can't put a name to. To go have
Speaker 1: people smiling their faces. Oh hello, take your order and
Speaker 1: literally vote to take your life and livelihood away. Who
Speaker 1: can you trust? Donald Trump has sowed the seeds of distrust.
Speaker 1: But these motherfucking exit polls, Oh no, they have showed
Speaker 1: us who we are. They continue to say that you
Speaker 1: will repeat history if you do not learn from it.
Speaker 1: And do you know what their responses, Burn the books,
Speaker 1: criminalize the teachers, shut down the schools. We are two
Speaker 1: steps away from critical thinking being a crime in this country.
Speaker 1: Just wait, we have a red country screaming red, rage red.
Speaker 1: They don't care what they are gaining from Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: Because they're not gonna gain a fucking thing. It was
Speaker 1: never about the gains, folks, It was about who they
Speaker 1: get to direct the losses towards. So long as you
Speaker 1: lose and I lose, that's their gain. We tried to
Speaker 1: come at these people with facts, and they came out
Speaker 1: us with telling us that Donald Trump was their fucking Messiah,
Speaker 1: that he was brought to them by Jesus, this Christ himself.
Speaker 1: They believe that God gives us interesting tools to work with.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump was their tool. For sixty years, they have
Speaker 1: watched this country change in front of them. They watched
Speaker 1: the black man become president of the United States twice
Speaker 1: and lost their fucking minds. Don't talk to me about oh,
Speaker 1: I didn't do this, and all I didn't do that,
Speaker 1: and not all white people miss me with the bullshit
Speaker 1: today because if everyone had voted like their lives were
Speaker 1: on the line, that they weren't going to be able
Speaker 1: to hide behind their whiteness. Because this is what's gonna happen, folks.
Speaker 1: This country is gonna get real dangerous, real fast. I
Speaker 1: talked about the hashtags and how many black lives have
Speaker 1: been lost. That number is going to accelerate young queer
Speaker 1: kids today are waken up. We told them years ago
Speaker 1: that it gets better when they get older. What the
Speaker 1: fuck are we telling them to? Just kidding? You know?
Speaker 1: For those folks that are able to hide behind their whiteness,
Speaker 1: trust and believe that some of y'all will in order
Speaker 1: to protect yourselves. But the rest of us are gonna
Speaker 1: have to exist right out in the open and plain
Speaker 1: fucking sight. It is. It is a deep dark place
Speaker 1: that we find ourselves. And honestly, folks, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: this again. Miss me in the comments section with not
Speaker 1: all white people, miss me in the comment section with
Speaker 1: white people aren't the enemy? Miss me with it. Okay,
Speaker 1: why do you think that towns have been burned down?
Speaker 1: Do you know that the last surviving, the last surviving
Speaker 1: living witness to the Tulsa massacre over one hundred years ago,
Speaker 1: voted yesterday for Kamala Harris only to see this country
Speaker 1: do what for her, deny the fact that she even
Speaker 1: lost what she lost one hundred years ago, to see
Speaker 1: that nothing has changed really fundamentally, because we've never addressed
Speaker 1: the deep dark racism that exists in this country. We
Speaker 1: just kid ourselves that it will go out of style. Oh,
Speaker 1: they'll die off. There were young kids on Halloween dressed
Speaker 1: up as Donald Trump and their Maga hats holding an
Speaker 1: AR fifteen, a toy one dressed up as a school shooter.
Speaker 1: Racism and hatred is going to die out. No, they've
Speaker 1: been grooming. They've been grooming these kids, telling them who
Speaker 1: to fear, who to hate. There's no disruption education. Our
Speaker 1: public education system is supposed to be our disruptor. You see,
Speaker 1: after the Holocaust, Germany had to come to Jesus moment
Speaker 1: and they vowed not only to hold trials and hold
Speaker 1: people responsible for the damage, for the deaths, for the
Speaker 1: murders that were caused, but to also teach how it happened,
Speaker 1: why it happened, so that it wouldn't happen again. Tell
Speaker 1: me where we've done that in America. Tell me where
Speaker 1: we have reconciled with looking at human beings as chattel.
Speaker 1: Tell me where we have made the pivot into recognizing
Speaker 1: everyone's humanity. We haven't, And that too was purposeful, because
Speaker 1: then those that are oppressed spend the time and the
Speaker 1: energy trying to convince you that your foot is on
Speaker 1: their neck while you look up at the sky and say,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about, young, And you know,
Speaker 1: I got to say, this is not the under belly
Speaker 1: of America. It's not. This is America. These are the
Speaker 1: same people that spit on, threw rocks at and bombed
Speaker 1: a church and killed four little black girls. That's who
Speaker 1: America is, right, the same people who watched as George
Speaker 1: Floyd took his last breath, had life squeezed out of him,
Speaker 1: yelling for his mother, and then folks want to turn
Speaker 1: around and re enact that for fun and make it
Speaker 1: trend on TikTok. That's who America is. All. Political violence
Speaker 1: is new. Racism is new. No, it's not. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: Instead of us investigating the rise of white supremacy and
Speaker 1: white militia and white nationalist groups in this country, instead,
Speaker 1: what did we do? Oh, the FBI decided to investigate
Speaker 1: black extremism. Somebody point to me and show me where
Speaker 1: that's at. Is it on the police force? Is it
Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court? Where's the black extremism at? Pointed
Speaker 1: out to me. Was it on January sixth? But we
Speaker 1: didn't look into it? Right? Republicans debted that because they
Speaker 1: didn't want their base investigated, and Democrats let it go. Y'all,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you that the road ahead is
Speaker 1: dark and I don't know what resistance looks like, to
Speaker 1: be honest, because I said when I launched my show
Speaker 1: Woke AF back in twenty seventeen, when I launched Woke AF,
Speaker 1: I said that everything in America was going to get
Speaker 1: bloodier before it got better. We have hit that bloodier stage.
Speaker 1: Because if we thought that the camps that were built
Speaker 1: during Donald Trump's first administration, where he had his lawyers
Speaker 1: go to court so that he wouldn't have to provide
Speaker 1: hygienie products, toothpaste, soap, water flushing toilets for the undocumented
Speaker 1: people that he corralled up, if we think that those
Speaker 1: camps are only going to be for those folks. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump was talking about the Aliens Act right seventeen ninety
Speaker 1: eight or whenever it was. He loves the seventeen hundreds,
Speaker 1: which was used to in turn Japanese Americans in this country.
Speaker 1: So you think that what it's not going to be us,
Speaker 1: It can never be us that are put in the
Speaker 1: camps that are sent away. And the funny thing is
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this. I said, who is going
Speaker 1: to save America? Right? World War Two, we waited for
Speaker 1: six million Jewish people to be killed. Six million, and
Speaker 1: that's just the number that we work with. We know
Speaker 1: that there was actually more, and then the world intervened,
Speaker 1: but six million. Donald trum is reorganizing the access of
Speaker 1: evil with America at the center, aligning it with Russia,
Speaker 1: with North Korea. We will be at war with Iran
Speaker 1: soon enough. It is. I cannot fathom how America couldn't
Speaker 1: take democracy over the finish line. I just I don't
Speaker 1: get it, but I do because when this country became
Speaker 1: started to become too inclusive, right, we're respecting people's pronouns,
Speaker 1: we're respecting women's bodies. Right, it's too much. And they
Speaker 1: fucking yanked the cord on that shit and said, nah,
Speaker 1: this democracy shit. Mm mmm, you know it's amazing. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you something that I would never do. I'm
Speaker 1: never going on a right wing lie and going into
Speaker 1: the chat to say you're wrong, you're dumb, you're this,
Speaker 1: you're that. Motherfucker. If you think I give a shit
Speaker 1: about trolls today, this whole country is full of fucking trolls.
Speaker 1: Ain't nowhere to be safe from them, Like you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that's what we know today. The whole
Speaker 1: country is full of fucking trols, people who want the
Speaker 1: worst for you, People who they're not just hiding behind
Speaker 1: screens and avatars and saying oh die and whatever. No,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say that shit to your face. The question is,
Speaker 1: how are we going to decide to move forward? How
Speaker 1: are we going to protect those that we love? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I honestly do not have any answers today.
Speaker 1: I have a lot of questions, but I do not
Speaker 1: have a lot of answers for you know, I know
Speaker 1: that there are people right now with their platitudes and
Speaker 1: they're like, we live to fight another day, and you know,
Speaker 1: don't worry. Let's look at midterms and let's look at this.
Speaker 1: And I'm just like, look at the shit that we're
Speaker 1: sitting in. How about that? How about we just take
Speaker 1: a fucking collective pause. And for the Democrats that want
Speaker 1: to star pointing fingers and talk about what Kamala did
Speaker 1: wrong and what happened here and who's to blame miss
Speaker 1: me with it? You know, who's to blame? American oligarchs,
Speaker 1: corporate mainstream media, everyone who has been in cahoots for
Speaker 1: Donald Trump for the last nine years. Also that they
Speaker 1: can get more tax breaks. They don't care if it
Speaker 1: comes at the expense of breaking other people's backs. As
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, that's a perk. Again, we thought
Speaker 1: by telling people here's the deal, this is what they're
Speaker 1: up to, that they would be like, oh my god, shocked,
Speaker 1: I'm going to vote for my rights. Instead, they did
Speaker 1: vote for their rights. They vote for their right to oppress.
Speaker 1: They vote for their right to oppress and suppressed and depress.
Speaker 1: That's what they voted for. And there were people that said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not going to vote. I don't like
Speaker 1: neither one of them, right, I'm not going to vote
Speaker 1: because I have principles about Gaza. How do you think
Speaker 1: Gaza gounfair today? Real talk? It's not, you know, real talk.
Speaker 1: What do we think is happening? You think as people
Speaker 1: in this country are going to be toiling and reeling
Speaker 1: with how they're going to put food on the table,
Speaker 1: how they're going to afford healthcare, how they're going to
Speaker 1: afford to like live and exist, how we're going to
Speaker 1: get rid of because you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: that they want to get rid of. And I put
Speaker 1: it in a short the other day which was like
Speaker 1: the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the EEOC, you know that
Speaker 1: make sure that folks are treated equally at work and
Speaker 1: are not fired on the basis of race, on gender,
Speaker 1: on religion, on all of those things. That's gone. So
Speaker 1: people are just like, oh my employer, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: be okay, I have a job. Your boss can fire you,
Speaker 1: right and now fire you. Look at you, Call you
Speaker 1: the N word, call you a whull host of things.
Speaker 1: What's your recourse? These are the these are the this
Speaker 1: is real talk, folks. I'm genuinely not trying to scare
Speaker 1: any I'm scared enough. I don't need to try and
Speaker 1: scare Like, we're here, We're here, We've arrived. So what
Speaker 1: I offer to all of you is to find ways
Speaker 1: to protect yourself and protect the people that you love,
Speaker 1: and protect your communities, because that's what it's going to
Speaker 1: be about. You know what's sick too, is that I
Speaker 1: know that gun sales are going to go through the roof.
Speaker 1: That's what's crazy, is like who wins here? Every aspect
Speaker 1: of the GOP, including the NRA, gun sales are going
Speaker 1: to go through the roof. I've already seen it where
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, we need to buy guns. It's
Speaker 1: the master fucking plan here, because that's gonna keep us safe.
Speaker 1: There are more guns in this country than there are
Speaker 1: fucking people right now. How well has that been working
Speaker 1: out for us? It hasn't. But this is what people
Speaker 1: will do in order to feel like they are going
Speaker 1: to be able to protect themselves and their families. For
Speaker 1: those of you that are parents, I really my heart
Speaker 1: goes out to you. I don't know how you explain
Speaker 1: this moment to young people who were not able to vote,
Speaker 1: but all of the decisions that were made last night
Speaker 1: and today are absolutely going to affect their lives moving forward.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how you talk to them, but
Speaker 1: you try and keep your families as safe as you
Speaker 1: possibly can. But it is important now more than ever
Speaker 1: to tell the truth. To tell the truth. America is
Speaker 1: a dangerous place. It is a dangerous, dangerous country for
Speaker 1: anyone that is not white, not ciss, not hetero, not
Speaker 1: pseudo Christian. It is a dangerous country that just got
Speaker 1: increasingly more dangerous because all bets are off. So for
Speaker 1: the folks that think that you know everything's going to
Speaker 1: be fine. We survived Trump the first time. Understand that
Speaker 1: there were lots of folks that were acting as guardrails,
Speaker 1: lots of folks that stop Donald Trump from doing his
Speaker 1: worst like shooting protesters. None of those people are around anymore,
Speaker 1: and he has the military and the courts. So our resistance,
Speaker 1: our action has to look really different than what it's
Speaker 1: been because the things that we used to have on
Speaker 1: our side, or we thought that we had on our side,
Speaker 1: we know longer have on our side. So take today,
Speaker 1: take the week to grieve, because the loss is really
Speaker 1: real and it is going to get realer by the hours,
Speaker 1: the weeks, and the months. So take care of yourselves, ground,
Speaker 1: you know, build and find community because we are going
Speaker 1: to need each other now more than ever. And it
Speaker 1: is it's going to be about how we create community
Speaker 1: that keeps us safe as safe as we possibly can be.
Speaker 1: And we also have to change our idea of what
Speaker 1: safety actually looks like in Trump's world and in Trump's America.
Speaker 1: That's that's this is this is the new world order,
Speaker 1: and we have to figure out how to move in
Speaker 1: this new space. And it is not going to happen overnight,
Speaker 1: but just going inward and protecting ourselves and not thinking
Speaker 1: about the other is how we got to this place.
Speaker 1: So we have to start thinking collectively minded as opposed
Speaker 1: to individualistically, as opposed to selfishly. We need to build
Speaker 1: the collective power wherever you are. But today, be gentle
Speaker 1: with yourselves, Be gentle with the people around you. Give
Speaker 1: yourselves deep, deep grace. And I do want to say
Speaker 1: that we will get through this, but I don't know how.
Speaker 1: And for as long as it is not illegal for
Speaker 1: me to speak my mind and to share my thoughts,
Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to do that. But do know
Speaker 1: that the work that I do is going to get
Speaker 1: increasingly dangerous. I don't know what is to come for
Speaker 1: political analysts, academics, journalists. I have no idea. I know
Speaker 1: what history has shown us where those people go and
Speaker 1: what happens to them. So a lot of your folks
Speaker 1: that you love and appreciate and have been following for
Speaker 1: a long time, they may go off platform for their
Speaker 1: own safety and protection. And like I said, I will
Speaker 1: continue to speak for as long as I can without
Speaker 1: jeopardizing my safety and the safety of those that I love.
Speaker 1: So that's my promise to you. I wish that I
Speaker 1: could give you all a collective hug. Hug yourselves, end
Speaker 1: each other, and take good care today. Deeply, I'm going
Speaker 1: to take the rest of the day to meditate and
Speaker 1: to be in nature and to be with my family. Y'
Speaker 1: all be well, Be well. There are dark days ahead,
Speaker 1: and in the darkness, it is really important for you
Speaker 1: all to be the light, to really be the light.
Speaker 1: That's what this moment is going to require, because we
Speaker 1: will have to be each other's lanterns. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends on wok f as always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.