WEBVTT - Authoritarian Rager

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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<v Speaker 1>Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks.

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<v Speaker 1>Before I get into some recent thoughts on Donald Trump's

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<v Speaker 1>fourth indictment, I want to talk about what continues to

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<v Speaker 1>unfold in the state of Florida. So what we need

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<v Speaker 1>to understand is that there are real world and real

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<v Speaker 1>life implications for all of the hateful policies measures autocratic

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<v Speaker 1>behavior that Ron DeSantis has been exhibiting and wielding over

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<v Speaker 1>the state of Florida. So according to Inside Higher Ed,

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<v Speaker 1>which if you are in higher education, that is kind

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<v Speaker 1>of one of your trade magazine newspapers that you read

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<v Speaker 1>on the latest of what is going on in higher education.

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<v Speaker 1>And I want to read you a piece of what

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<v Speaker 1>was offered up inside of this article, and this is

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<v Speaker 1>reposted on the Daily Beast. The New College in Florida

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<v Speaker 1>is in complete chaos after Ron DeSantis stage a conservative

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<v Speaker 1>takeover of the school earlier this year. Now with the

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<v Speaker 1>semester's start just weeks away, students are being greeted with

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<v Speaker 1>housing issues, canceled classes, and missing professors. Since Desanti has

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<v Speaker 1>appointed six new right wing trustees to the school's board.

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<v Speaker 1>In January, more than forty faculty members have quit The

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<v Speaker 1>small public college. Students are outraged as the dropped courses

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<v Speaker 1>are setting them back in their majors. One parent said

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<v Speaker 1>the school told their son to just quote, choose something else.

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<v Speaker 1>These are young adults who are not looking to fill

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<v Speaker 1>up a semester with high school elected. It's not like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>chorus is closed, so let me just take that art class,

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<v Speaker 1>Danny Delaney told Inside Higher Ed. Delaney's son is transferring

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<v Speaker 1>to Hampshire College in Massachusetts, which extended guaranteed admission to

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<v Speaker 1>new college students after DeSantis' takeover. These are people's lives

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<v Speaker 1>that Ron desantists is fucking around with. You have all

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<v Speaker 1>the right to hold your right wing bullshit, conspiracy theorists

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<v Speaker 1>live filled misogynistic, capitalistic, driven racist ideology. What you don't

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<v Speaker 1>have is the right to force other people into subscribing

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<v Speaker 1>to your hateful shit. That is what dictators and autocrats

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<v Speaker 1>do you see in a democracy. Right when George W.

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<v Speaker 1>Bush or any of the Bushes and Reagan and others

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<v Speaker 1>were president of the United States, they didn't say at

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<v Speaker 1>that time that everyone then must be a Republican, everyone

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<v Speaker 1>must be a Christian. Everyone must do X, Y and z.

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<v Speaker 1>If you want to create policies that have parental advisories

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<v Speaker 1>on music, If you want to create policies to ensure

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<v Speaker 1>that young people are not going to be influenced by

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<v Speaker 1>pornography or actual pornography and hateful speech and all of

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<v Speaker 1>those things, great, go for it. But when you are

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<v Speaker 1>telling people that their history doesn't matter, which is our

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<v Speaker 1>shared history, that critical thinking is no longer allowed because

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<v Speaker 1>you have instituted a board of trustees in this school

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<v Speaker 1>that basically function like the thought police. Where do you

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<v Speaker 1>think that that state is going to end up? Colleges

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<v Speaker 1>and universities, right are laps for how we want to

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<v Speaker 1>change aspects of our world. It's by providing new minds

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<v Speaker 1>with knowledge and big questions on how they can move

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<v Speaker 1>in this world, how they can affect change, how they

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<v Speaker 1>can decide to apply their skill set to tackle some

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<v Speaker 1>of the world and society's biggest issues. Ron de Santis, however,

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't want big ideas. He doesn't want critical thought, he

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't want innovation. Neither does the Republican Party. They're not

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<v Speaker 1>interested in what the future of America looks like so

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<v Speaker 1>long as it somehow mirrors their heyday of the nineteen fifties,

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<v Speaker 1>where you could hang a black person right and not

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<v Speaker 1>have any laws be thrown at you, not even worried

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<v Speaker 1>rite about going to prison or any being seen as

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<v Speaker 1>a criminal, Where you could rape a woman and say, ah,

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<v Speaker 1>she was wearing a skirt, so that meant that she

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<v Speaker 1>asked for it, Where you could promote just your cronies

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<v Speaker 1>and just employ through nepotism, taking into account no one

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<v Speaker 1>else other than your golf buddies and their kids. You

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<v Speaker 1>see those, It's just some of the ways in which

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<v Speaker 1>the world has changed and shifted. America has grown and

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<v Speaker 1>expanded over the last fifty sixty years, and that is

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<v Speaker 1>what has Republicans absolutely terrified and on their authoritarian regime. Rager,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, these people can't possibly vote because they're

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<v Speaker 1>thinking too much. They're thinking about the ways that we've

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<v Speaker 1>actually created no policies to make their lives any better.

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<v Speaker 1>Do we think that what happened on Maui was a

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<v Speaker 1>fucking accident that was mother nature? It wasn't. You can

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<v Speaker 1>tell yourself that, you can tell your shareholders that. But

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<v Speaker 1>the wildfires and the fucking massive hurricanes and tornadoes and

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<v Speaker 1>all of this extreme heat and extreme weather that we

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<v Speaker 1>are experiencing is not natural disasters that somehow happened because

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<v Speaker 1>of God. They happen because of greed and capital and deregulation.

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<v Speaker 1>I know that generations from now, if there are still

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<v Speaker 1>books around, if the planet is actually still functioning, that

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<v Speaker 1>the moments that we are living in will have been

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<v Speaker 1>those red flag moments where historians and professors will be saying,

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<v Speaker 1>why didn't they listen? Why didn't they heed the warnings?

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<v Speaker 1>The environment was changing right before their very eyes, and

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<v Speaker 1>they did nothing. Their political party, once in a two

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<v Speaker 1>party democratic system, had turned into an entire cult and

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<v Speaker 1>they did nothing. They had so many opportunities to stop.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's not as if we haven't seen these things

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<v Speaker 1>happen before, right McCarthyism, neo Naziism, apartheid. We have seen

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<v Speaker 1>what happens with absolute power. We saw what happened in

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<v Speaker 1>Iran a post the late seventies when the religious regime

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<v Speaker 1>took over. So none of this is new. It's just

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<v Speaker 1>using new tools to spread the same amount of lies

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<v Speaker 1>and hysteria to divide people, to make you think that

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<v Speaker 1>what you were seeing with your own eyes isn't actually

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<v Speaker 1>fucking happening. We know the weather systems were not like

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<v Speaker 1>this twenty and thirty years ago. We know that we

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<v Speaker 1>were not experiencing belts of triple digit temperatures affecting almost

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<v Speaker 1>one hundred million people at one time. We know that

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<v Speaker 1>that has never happened before, that every fucking summer is

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<v Speaker 1>the hottest summer recorded on planet Earth. But no emergency session.

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<v Speaker 1>We know that by the time that all is said

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<v Speaker 1>and done with, the accounting for of lives lost and

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<v Speaker 1>MAWI will probably be into the thousands. That didn't happen

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<v Speaker 1>because it was God's will. It happened because of failed

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<v Speaker 1>fucking governments. And I'm not just talking about inside of

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<v Speaker 1>the United States. I'm talking about around the fucking world.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about calling for the Paris Climate Agreement that

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<v Speaker 1>looks really great on paper, but no one is actually

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<v Speaker 1>doing the really hard work of making it happen. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>talking about a political part that wants to lie to

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<v Speaker 1>thirty percent of the country to tell them that they

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<v Speaker 1>can bring back coal and factory jobs. You're fucking lying.

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<v Speaker 1>We are living in the future. Would you like your

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<v Speaker 1>kids to chew the fucking air? Would you like it

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<v Speaker 1>to just be the norm that you know, some weeks

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<v Speaker 1>we stay inside for days because the air is too

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<v Speaker 1>fucking polluted for us to go outside. But don't you know,

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<v Speaker 1>react in any way. It's not a big deal. Just

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<v Speaker 1>slap on a mask and watch the sky turn yellow

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<v Speaker 1>and green. I get beside myself looking at the headlines

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<v Speaker 1>that are screaming at us, that are telling us to

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<v Speaker 1>do something, to take action. The people who can afford

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<v Speaker 1>to flee will for as long as they can, whether

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<v Speaker 1>you're fleeing the authoritarian states of Florida and Texas, uprooting

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<v Speaker 1>your families and your lives to go to higher ground, right,

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<v Speaker 1>just like people who can flee tornado valleys and hurricane

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<v Speaker 1>prone areas. But guess what we're running out of higher

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<v Speaker 1>ground and what happens then? The headlines are heartbreaking, and

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<v Speaker 1>we pay a lot of attention to them because they're

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<v Speaker 1>clickbait and because we can't get enough. We pray for

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<v Speaker 1>accountability as it pertains to Donald Trump and literally his

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<v Speaker 1>crime syndicate, because we think that that is going to

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<v Speaker 1>take us back to a place of normalcy where we

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<v Speaker 1>can have ease and deep breaths. Again, the same way

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<v Speaker 1>that we felt about COVID, which by the way, is

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<v Speaker 1>raging again. Hospitalizations are going back up. But we're not

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<v Speaker 1>going to talk about that because you know, corporate America

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<v Speaker 1>and the c suite at media networks and you know

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<v Speaker 1>Biden not wanting to have this as a talking point

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<v Speaker 1>for the right. But that's happening again. So just like

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<v Speaker 1>I was on a train the other day and I'm

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<v Speaker 1>sitting I'm thinking to myself, Man, I really got to

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<v Speaker 1>take out my masks again. I really got to retrain

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<v Speaker 1>myself back into protecting myself, regardless of if there is

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<v Speaker 1>going to be a press conference to tell me to

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<v Speaker 1>do so. See, that's the thing is that much like

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<v Speaker 1>with COVID and just trying to get back to normal

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<v Speaker 1>and pretend a million plus people didn't die and that

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<v Speaker 1>our lives and work and wasn't changed, right, there is

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<v Speaker 1>no going back to normal. Guys like and I I've

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<v Speaker 1>said this before, but there was no normal if you

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<v Speaker 1>weren't a white cis hetero, white evangelical Christian male. Everyone

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<v Speaker 1>else works with the hyphen right. And so if you

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<v Speaker 1>are a black person in America, you've always been treated

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<v Speaker 1>like a second class citizen. You've always known that government

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't actually work for you, that your voice and your

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<v Speaker 1>vote you have had to fight for every step of the way.

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<v Speaker 1>Now white folks in places like Ohio and Kansas and

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<v Speaker 1>Wisconsin are like, oh wait, it's not just the blacks

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<v Speaker 1>and the Latinos that they were trying to suppress, Like

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<v Speaker 1>I was okay with that, but now it's me first.

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<v Speaker 1>They come for the low hanging fruit, the folks that

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<v Speaker 1>have been traditionally marginalized and treated like second class citizens

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<v Speaker 1>and oppressed. And because we don't band together and stay together,

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<v Speaker 1>they just keep crying open the cracks. The goal is

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<v Speaker 1>to create no room for there to be cracks, for

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<v Speaker 1>us to be able to see that our liberation is intertwined.

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<v Speaker 1>It isn't just about trans people, LGBTQ people, black people,

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<v Speaker 1>Latino people, Asian people. It is about all of us,

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<v Speaker 1>all of us having the ability to breathe fresh air,

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<v Speaker 1>drink clean water, provide for our loved ones, build a life.

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<v Speaker 1>And so when one group, one party, decides that they

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<v Speaker 1>want to disrupt for a portion, that should be seen

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<v Speaker 1>as a disruption for the fucking hole. You shouldn't have

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<v Speaker 1>to know somebody love somebody to see that what they've

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<v Speaker 1>been doing is fucking wrong. So whether it is the

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<v Speaker 1>capitalistic driven climate change that has killed people, burned a

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<v Speaker 1>historic city in town to the ground, and you know

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<v Speaker 1>what's gonna happen. The fucking corporate vultures are gonna come

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<v Speaker 1>in and put up a fucking Hilton and a race

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<v Speaker 1>whatever history, because that's what the fuck they did in

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<v Speaker 1>parts of New Orleans after Katrina. We are more powerful

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<v Speaker 1>than we know. That is the purpose of what it

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<v Speaker 1>means to be and stay woke is to recognize the

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<v Speaker 1>connective tissue that binds us all is our shared humanity,

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<v Speaker 1>and by virtue of that humanity, realizing that we all

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<v Speaker 1>deserve to be free. So I sit here and I

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<v Speaker 1>want to believe that accountability will come at some point,

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<v Speaker 1>whether we're talking about Trump, whether we're talking about climate change,

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<v Speaker 1>whether we're talking about education, the economy. But accountability only

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<v Speaker 1>comes through actions of the collective. We're never returning to

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<v Speaker 1>what we once were, nor should we have a desire to,

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<v Speaker 1>because the goal should be to be better, even if

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<v Speaker 1>it's one percent better each and every day, with every

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<v Speaker 1>step that we take forward as individuals and as a nation.

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<v Speaker 1>So anybody that is selling you on the bullshit of

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<v Speaker 1>going backwards is a used car salesman and is somebody

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<v Speaker 1>that is trying to get you to give up the liberty,

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<v Speaker 1>the innovation, the creativity that we've gained in exchange for

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<v Speaker 1>some white utopia that is only good for the thirty percent.

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<v Speaker 1>We're better than what they're selling, We're better than what's

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<v Speaker 1>being done, and we're better fighting as a collective than

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<v Speaker 1>in our silos. What we are facing is not just

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<v Speaker 1>the potential of a criminal that has been brought up

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<v Speaker 1>on ninety one charges, impeached twice, and is a rapist

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<v Speaker 1>becoming president of the United States again. We're up against

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<v Speaker 1>an entire mindset and ideology that has thrown law and

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<v Speaker 1>order out the window. Alongside freedom. We are in a

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<v Speaker 1>collective struggle that we can only win through collective solutions.

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<v Speaker 1>That is it for me today, Dear friends on wogay

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<v Speaker 1>f as always, power to the people and to all

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<v Speaker 1>the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.