WEBVTT - Welcome to Hell 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.400 Good morning peeps, and welcome to Okay f daily. Right, folks, 0:00:16.720 --> 0:00:20.240 let me just say just welcome to hell Okay with 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.600 me your new tour guide, Danielle Moody. So let's just 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.920 start this Tuesday off with the hot shit that happened 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:34.599 yesterday and then you know, move into the healthscape that 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:38.599 is just life in America. So, first of all, how 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:42.040 does yesterday open up? Well, yesterday opens up with the 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.480 fact that there were rumors that Elon Musk once again 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.560 was making a bid for Twitter. Well, as it turns out, 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.680 by the time that we didn't even make it to 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.240 five o'clock yesterday that we learned that Elon Musk, yes, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.200 has bought Twitter for the bargain basement price of forty 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:01.760 four billion dollars. Yes, the known races transphobe piece of shit, 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.399 Elon Musk is now the owner of one of the 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:11.080 most important platforms for our democracy. Let's just start there 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.600 that while the Department of Justice is so fucking hell 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.399 bent on going after Russian oligarchs, that we are doing 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.000 nothing in this country to ensure that I don't know 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:26.240 that spaces and places that were made for the sole 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:31.480 purpose of connection of community of camaraderie, and all of 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:36.320 these things have turned into town halls and playgrounds for 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.360 the uber and super rich. But of course, I mean, 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:41.560 what else did we think was going to happen in 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:45.800 a country where we put fame and celebrity above integrity, 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.960 right and morals? Where you know, we allowed for a 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.919 reality TV show host who is a failed fucking businessman 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.720 to become president of the United States. Right, I alone 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.120 can fix this. No, you alone broke the shit. Why 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.120 the fuck open? And maybe you know at some point 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:10.280 when we're all sharing cells at Rikers or whatever federal 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.720 facility that we will end up in at some point 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.320 in time, because you see, what has happened with our 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:20.000 social media spaces is that either they're being controlled by 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:24.320 monopoly all of Facebook and Meta, or they are being 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.840 bought up by multibillionaires who just want to have some fun. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.600 The thing that I keep asking myself is where the 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.320 fuck are the people that are actually on our side 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.440 with any money? You know where is? But then I 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.560 think to myself, well, how would they amass such wealth 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.880 if you're not trampling on you know, the ability of 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.240 small business to be able to develop, if you're not 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.560 trampling on or stealing from your workers. If you're not 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.680 doing awful, crass shit, how else would you amass one 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.960 hundred billion dollars. It isn't on genius alone, which is 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.919 what we love to sell to the American people, right, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.280 this fantasy that you know, it was integrity and hard 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:09.079 work that gets these multibillionaires where they are. It isn't 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.280 not for the ones that have tens and hundreds of 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:16.240 fucking billions of dollars. No, they did it on the 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.440 backs of people. But we don't want to tell that story, right, 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.119 We want to provide the fantasy because then you have 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.120 regular schmows that are going around and caping for the 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:30.240 likes of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, because at the 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.200 end of the day, you know, wealth is where it's at, 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.640 and that's what people want, right, and so they'll vote 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.040 against their own interests so long as you keep dangling 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.280 the false idea that they too, one day are going 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.200 to be rich, and when they are, they're not going 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.800 to want to pay their taxes. But until then, you're 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.720 going to pay more taxes than Elon Musk and Donald Trump. 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:55.120 Because that's the world, the country that we have created. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:01.000 I am so fucking out done by Elon Musk and 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:04.600 this fucking sale because you know, there are many of 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.040 my friends and colleagues who are like, well, I'm not 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.600 gonna leave Twitter. You know, I'm gonna stay here and 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:13.160 I'm gonna fight. You're gonna fight what like the fucking cesspool? 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.160 You know, I am right now trying to figure out 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.960 because Twitter is where I have a mass, the most 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.159 followers right of all the platforms that I'm on. But 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.240 I don't want to be in this fucking cesspool. I 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:27.040 got a piece last week of what it was like 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.640 to go against Elon Musk and dare I fucking have 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.520 thoughts and perspective on this six white, straight, wealthy man. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.719 Dare I as this lowly black child of immigrants and 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:43.400 a lesbian at that have the audacity to speak out 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:50.760 against like this type of ego and obsession and craven behavior. 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.960 God forbid I do that and not become a target 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.600 of the right and of these fucking bots. I'm just 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:03.560 so sick to fuck death of this place. And you know, 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:09.400 I realized yesterday at around three o'clock, like I cannot 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:14.039 allow an afford for America to make me obese because 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.080 all I want to do is just sit around and 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.479 eat bags of chips and fucking wash it down with 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:21.840 a bottle of vodka, just to get to a level 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.280 of numb. That's the feelings that are going through my 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:28.960 head right now, right like, is how do I numb 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:33.720 this sense of fucking rage that I can't I can't 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:37.120 manage to wrap my fucking arms around. So you have 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.720 the Elon Musk story that breaks. Then you have, you know, 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.280 one good story that happens with regard to Donald Trump 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.400 and the fucking fact that we have no Department of Justine, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.320 So with any type of fucking cohonez, any type of 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:53.719 fucking ovaries, any type of fucking spine that is going 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.320 to activate on all of the goddamn information that we 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.280 have out there that people have been reporting on and 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:06.000 investigating on, but paging Merrick fucking Garland, My god, you know. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.479 So you got this one story of a New York 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.760 judge that says, you know what, We're holding Donald Trump 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.920 in contempt right on a ten thousand dollars a day 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:21.600 fucking charge until he turns over the documents that A. G. 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:27.000 Tiss James has stated right via subpoena that she needs 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.279 in order to continue her investigation. Well, a New York 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:33.760 judge said, yeah, I take my job seriously, and so 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.320 we're finding you ten thousand dollars a day. And I'm 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.160 thinking to myself, now, for any normal person ten thousand 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.880 dollars a day, one ten thousand dollars a day would 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.520 fuck us. But Donald Trump, he don't pay nobody, He 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.360 don't pay his friends, he don't pay the fucking government. 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.880 So you tell me how the judge is going to 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.640 be collecting ten thousand dollars a day from Donald Trump? 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.599 And also, if you're a billionaire or a fake one 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:01.240 at that, how is ten thousand dollars a day going 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.960 to affect you when you don't pay any of your 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.520 bills anyhow? Like, do you understand what I'm saying? So 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:11.800 even the perception of there being some sliver of justice, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.320 I'm like, unless the judges going to knock on Donald 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.520 Trump's door and say, give me ten thousand dollars every 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.520 single fucking day, write me a check, Unless we throw 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:23.080 that motherfucker in jail, what are we going on again? 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.960 A hope in a dream? Right? With these civil fucking 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.400 cases that end in no jail time whatsoever, but just 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:35.440 cash penalties. Then then we moved to the other breaking 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:40.360 news that happened yesterday. CNN has obtained twenty three hundred 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:45.080 text message exchanges between Mark Meadows and Trump's inner circle, 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:50.360 including his disgusting fucking spawn who all of them, along 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:55.280 with forty current and former Republican members of Congress right 0:07:55.520 --> 0:08:01.360 who were actively working to overthrow the election and texting 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.440 back and forth on as our friend Glenn Kershner called it, 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:08.200 the fucking trees and hotline that they were on in 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:12.480 order to get Mark Meadows to do something. But you see, 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:15.480 it was really funny to me that in these exchanges, 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.000 which began before the election and then ended with the 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:25.400 inauguration of Joe Biden, that even before even before a 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:31.160 fucking vote a ballot was cast and counted, Don Trump 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.960 Junior is out there along with Marshorie Taylor Green along 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.360 with others, saying we need to do something to stop 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:43.319 this steal. You have Sean fucking Hannity texting back and forth, 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.000 who has a megaphone right, texting back and forth. What 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.199 do I need to do? Boss to Mark Meadows, Yes, sir, 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.760 I'll alert the people that they need to be voting 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.320 in all of these states that Donald Trump is fucking 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:59.040 trailing in. But you know that he's trailing. You know 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:03.240 that you've said that you've gotten your fucking trollmaga people out. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.600 But guess what, it's not enough, right because you don't 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.000 want to take shit on face value. You don't believe 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.960 in democracy or free and fair election. So even before 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:17.280 the fucking election happens, you're out there trying to do 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.800 what exactly And how is that not against the law? 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.720 How is it not fucking treason? How is it not 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:28.800 election fraud? But once again, paging Merrick Garland, anybody see him? 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.720 Anybody here from him? Should we put him on a 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:38.120 fucking milk carton, folks? I am at a place. I'm 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.480 at a place where I'm beginning to go back to 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.960 the dark side, where I'm like, I don't know why 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.880 I do the work that I do because it's clearly 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:52.240 not having any impact, And I don't know why people 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.880 aren't more riled up about the fact that your democracy 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:59.520 is being fucking stolen from you in broad daylight, from 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:05.120 wealthy billionaires, from the fucking greedy, from these fucking treasonoust 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:09.439 ass obstructionist cult members like and no one is doing 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.959 a thing. Somebody tweeted at me yesterday and they were 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.240 just like, yeah, I think that the biggest mistake that 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.000 Joe Biden has made. It I'm thinking to myself, I mean, 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.080 the biggest Which one are we talking about? Is it 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.760 the fact that you're not going to relieve student loan debt? 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.880 Is it the fact that you still think Mitch McConnell 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.079 is an upstanding moral citizen, or is it the fact that, 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:34.040 like you put in the most lackluster milktoast, motherfucking ag 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.240 after we had a fucking mobster in the White House? 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.800 Which one of the mistakes we pull them down today? Okay, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.960 because that's the question that I'm asking. The tweet said 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.480 this when Joe Biden said that we were going to 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:52.200 turn the page right and not look in the past 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.480 to what Trump has done, but look in the future. 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.280 They were like, yeah, that was the biggest mistake that 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.760 Joe Biden made and we all should have been paying attention. 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.160 But you see, I, along with many of you, were 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.320 paying attention way before that when I didn't want Joe 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.360 Biden to become President of the United States. And now 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:14.240 I think to myself, you know, somebody will say, well, 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.520 who could have won. I don't know anybody with an 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.400 authentic message that was actually going to penetrate the people. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.800 Because here's the thing, folks, And I keep doing these 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:29.040 media trainings with nonprofit organizations and groups that are like 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:33.600 issue based focused from abortion to voting, to civil rights 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.320 to incarceration, and I keep telling them stop trying to 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.199 hit people with your facts and your figures. No one 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:44.440 gives a fuck. I literally said that yesterday in a training. 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.480 No one cares. You keep trying to meet people with 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:52.600 your motherfucking bullet points, and they're bringing actual bullets to 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.400 this duel. Right, So here's the thing that you need 0:11:56.440 --> 0:12:00.160 to understand on Earth too. In alternative fact land that 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.000 Kelly an Conway and the rest of the entire MAGA 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:07.400 nation lives in, they don't have facts there. What they 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:12.360 do have is a significant and important ability to storytell 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.880 and rile up their base. And I say to myself, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.840 where the fuck is that on the left. No, we're 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.760 too good for that. We think that if we tell 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.960 you that the polls say that eighty percent of Americans 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.120 believe that you should have an abortion and have the 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.920 ability to do so, that that somehow is going to 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.480 resonate with actual, real people who don't give a fuck 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.800 about your facts and your bullet points. Folks, if we 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.680 are not asking ourselves why we are doing such things 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.480 right and like who we are trying to meet? Do 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.880 we think that people are showing up in this upcoming 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.200 midterm election cycle? Do we think that anything is going 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:51.960 to get them out? And now that we don't even 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:56.840 have right these quote unquote democratic town hall spaces to 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.720 be able to send out our messages because guess who's 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.800 going to fuck with the algorithms. Guess who's going to 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:07.320 make sure right that the trolls and the bigots and 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:09.720 the racists have their way. You might as well have 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:14.880 sold Twitter to fucking Donald Trump, basically, right. So here's 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:22.600 the thing. I do not know if any of this 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:28.560 even matters anymore. That's where I am, dear friends. I 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.760 don't know if everything, if all hope isn't lost. And 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.520 you know, if you listen to me, you probably think 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.679 at this point then I'm fucking crazy because some days 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.640 I'm scrounging around in the dark just trying to find 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.240 that mustard seat of hope and put it deep into 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:49.280 my pocket and seal it up real good, hoping that 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.040 it doesn't escape me again. And then there are days 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.520 like today where I just want to go outside, go 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:58.600 into the middle of the street and just fucking scream. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.679 I really do. I just want to do and I 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.679 want it to be socially acceptable to do so. I 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.840 want to act like a toddler just for a good 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:14.000 sixty seconds and scream up because that's the level of 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:19.800 rage that I have right now? What the fuck, guys, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:25.800 what the fuck is this administration doing about anything? Seriously? 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:34.000 What are we doing right now? I just you know, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.440 Congress had the ability a long time ago to fucking 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:44.000 regulate technology firms. Right are they media? Are they technology? 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.840 What kind of rules and regulations? What can we be 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:51.120 thinking about right? Future? Tense? About what is being developed 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:55.440 and making sure making sure that not one company, one 0:14:55.560 --> 0:15:00.760 person has a fucking monopoly, right, making sure sure that 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.600 like the people are still participating in this democracy and 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.480 have the ability to do so. And guess what we 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:12.800 have failed across the board because what I just what 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.360 I what drives me crazy, folks, is that greed will 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:22.640 always win out. We have been sold through Hollywood right 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:27.360 through you know. Mister Smith goes to Washington through these 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:34.760 you know, Scooby Doo type tales where good prevails that 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:40.000 happens in Hollywood, it doesn't happen in reality. And what 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:44.880 I'm realizing is why we were so in love with 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:49.440 Obama was because he was our real life fairy tale 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.560 come to life. Right, all of the things that we 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:58.160 thought couldn't happen and would never happen, he materialized, right, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:04.760 he actualized. But that's a once in a generation type 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.120 of leader. And it only lasted for eight years and 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:12.280 then was erased in four Then we went back to 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.240 the same old, same old. And I'm being asked questions 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:18.240 about what do you think if Bernie Sanders runs again? 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:23.960 Are you crazy? Right? Is this an Octanagerian like fucking 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:31.000 face off? Is that what we're doing? Folks? I M 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:38.440 I don't know. I don't know. I really don't know. 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:42.760 I don't know where we go from here. Where As 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.160 I speak, right now, the Supreme Court is hearing a 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.680 case that will allow prayer back in schools, So we 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:55.000 are just think, just just sit with me for a minute. 0:16:55.720 --> 0:17:00.680 Abortion is already lost in Red States, right, has been 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.960 in June. It'll be lost across the country, and there 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:11.320 will be a patchwork of abortion asylum states. At the 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.080 same time that this is going on, we're going to 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.600 have on our six to three Supreme Court probably prayer 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:20.600 back in schools at the same time that we're going 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.920 to be allowing for this to transpire. I'm not saying 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.920 that it has, but I'm saying the Supreme Court is 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.600 hearing it, and I'm saying who is on the Supreme 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.760 Court leads me to believe that at a time when 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:35.680 people are not going to be able to get abortions, 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:39.760 you're going to allow prayer back in school We're not 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:43.800 allowed to say gay, We're not allowed to talk about 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:48.080 critical to talk about race or identity or difference right 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:56.080 at all? What else is happening? Oh, transuth aren't allowed 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.520 to play on sports. We have hundreds of voter suppression 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:05.080 bills across the country. They are making signals about, you know, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:12.879 defunding public schools and bringing back um pre Brown versus 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:18.120 the Board of Education, so resegregating our schools. They're floating 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.720 around stripping marriage equality, which we just need one case 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:24.560 out of Texas to do that, because now they want 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.360 to protect Texas. So that was that was said by 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:34.760 a candidate running for attorney general there. And then they're 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.080 also coming for interracial marriages, because that was something that 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.080 was said just flippantly. But once again, we don't want 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.040 to take any of these things seriously. Like as a party, 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.880 we don't want to fight the culture war because that's 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.879 not what the American people want. They want kitchen table issues. No, 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:51.640 they want to know that they're going to be able 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.600 to send their kids to school for an actual education, 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.480 like so that they can be global citizens, so that 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:01.560 they can participate in their democracy and understand what that 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.800 actually means and how far we have come and why 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:13.760 we are backsliding now. But under the current systems in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.960 that's not going to be the case. So you tell 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:22.520 me where you think America is going to be a 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:25.359 year from now. I won't even go into twenty twenty 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.520 four because I honestly don't think that we make it there, 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.040 do you know what I'm saying? Not intact as like 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.520 a country. I think that we get to twenty twenty 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.199 four and have an election the way that you know 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.360 Orbon in Hungary has elections, and the way that Putin 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:44.159 in Russia has elections and the way that Mohammad bin 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.000 Salam has elections right, like they're going to be elections 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:51.119 with air quotes, but they're not going to actually matter, 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.400 amana fucking thing. So you tell me with the list 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:57.800 of things, and I know that I'm missing many, trust 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:01.640 and believe, where do you think that we go as 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.359 a country in a year from now? What do you 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:08.239 think that that looks like Republicans are certainly going to 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:11.480 take back the House in the Senate right if they don't, 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.560 the only reason why that won't happen is literally an 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:19.360 act of somebody's God, right like divine intervention is literally 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:22.159 what I am praying for now. So what does that 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.920 tell you about what I'm hearing from on the ground, 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:30.120 grassroots organizations and issues focused organizations. I'm hearing that they 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.960 don't understand the current media landscape that we're in and 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.720 the climate, and the things that they are putting out 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:42.680 are still under the perception that we're not dealing with 0:20:42.800 --> 0:20:47.919 one political party and one hopped up white supremacist cult 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:52.240 that actually knows how media works, that knows how to 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.720 get people onto their side, that knows how to rile 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.560 up people. Because they don't have to depend on facts. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:21:00.320 But I'm telling you you don't have to defend non 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.600 facts either. The facts are on our side. You just 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:11.240 need to tell the stories. Folks. I don't feel good today. 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.840 I did not feel good yesterday. It's why I tell 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:18.200 you that by the time that we get to Friday, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.800 that if you are not shutting off the news, shutting 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:25.760 off social media and just connecting with the people around 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.520 you or the environment around you and just like engaging 0:21:29.560 --> 0:21:32.320 in that way, you are not going to make it. 0:21:32.440 --> 0:21:35.080 And I need every single one of us to make it, 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:40.359 including myself, because I feel on the fucking verge today 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:44.919 right like I mean, there is just nowhere to look. 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:48.600 And the funny thing was is that when I came 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.000 back from spending time with my friends over the weekend, 0:21:52.440 --> 0:21:56.000 I was like so blissful, like completely blissed out, Like 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.560 where was I Just like you know, in nature by 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:03.760 the order, you know, playing with little kids and you know, 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:06.840 being in the outdoors, like there's nothing better than that. 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.560 And I'm thinking to myself, you know, this is how 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:15.160 people begin to slowly disconnect and disengage. Because I don't 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.800 believe it's because we don't care. I think that for 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:22.359 some people. It's because we care too much, right, that 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:28.199 we care so much that now what is transpiring every 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:33.240 single day is actually too much for our emotional and 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.040 spiritual well being. And at the end of the day, 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:44.000 if that is not intact, right, then we are not okay. So, 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:50.040 if it now becomes a matter of survival right an 0:22:50.080 --> 0:22:53.960 emotional health and well being versus being actively engaged in 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:58.320 a crumbling democracy, what do you think most people are 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:01.240 going to choose. They're going to choose to hold on 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.400 to whatever little pieces of their sanity that they can 0:23:04.760 --> 0:23:08.320 and let the rest go with God. That's what they're 0:23:08.359 --> 0:23:14.679 gonna fucking choose. So you know, folks, as a person 0:23:14.800 --> 0:23:20.439 who truly believes in our democracy, that believes in like 0:23:20.560 --> 0:23:25.520 the voice of the people, I am struggling today to 0:23:25.560 --> 0:23:31.760 figure out how to hold balance, how to hold space 0:23:32.040 --> 0:23:36.600 for the rage that I have and the desire to 0:23:36.720 --> 0:23:40.639 utilize whatever platforms that I have for however long or 0:23:40.760 --> 0:23:43.159 short I may be able to hold onto them for 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.479 before I decide that my emotional well being and the 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:52.080 health and wellbeing of my family and friends is more 0:23:52.119 --> 0:23:55.439 important than raging against the machine that is literally going 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:57.480 to turn us all up and spit us all out. 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.879 I don't mean and want to be dooming gloom on 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.720 a day and day out basis. But I'm reading the cards, 0:24:05.760 --> 0:24:08.359 I'm looking at the tea leaves, I'm seeing the headlines 0:24:08.640 --> 0:24:16.000 and I'm like, wow, yo, you know, is this how 0:24:16.040 --> 0:24:21.200 they felt in you know, in Germany and in South Africa, 0:24:21.440 --> 0:24:26.080 like as apartheid and the Nazis were bearing down? Is 0:24:26.119 --> 0:24:29.080 this like? But where do you escape to? I mean, 0:24:29.400 --> 0:24:33.040 just on Sunday we were cheering the fact that McCrone, 0:24:33.600 --> 0:24:40.160 you know, is the first centrist right in France's history 0:24:40.880 --> 0:24:46.680 or president regardless of party, to be reelected like Frances 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:50.480 like one and done right and they like to move 0:24:50.520 --> 0:24:56.919 on real quick. But given right mccrown on one hand 0:24:57.119 --> 0:25:01.720 and then Lepine on the other, they're like, so maybe 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:06.119 we don't want to be fascists like right now, maybe later. 0:25:07.000 --> 0:25:09.320 But the thing that I said yesterday, and what folks 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:14.480 have to understand and recognize is that she grew in 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:18.680 there her numbers much in the same way that Trump did. 0:25:20.400 --> 0:25:24.639 So while Donald Trump did not win the twenty twenty election, 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:26.520 I know, I don't need to tell you good people 0:25:26.560 --> 0:25:35.280 that he gained millions of voters. So while le Penn 0:25:36.400 --> 0:25:44.199 did not win this time, she gained percentage points. The 0:25:44.320 --> 0:25:48.439 last time she ran she got something like thirty thirty 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:52.280 three percent of the vote. This time she got nearly 0:25:52.359 --> 0:25:57.199 forty two forty one point eight, so basically forty two percent. 0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:01.600 That shouldn't make anybody. He feel good. And as a 0:26:01.600 --> 0:26:04.920 matter of fact, over the weekend, aim and Mohedeen had 0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.560 one of the best threads on this. He's like, wake 0:26:07.640 --> 0:26:11.440 the fuck up, you'll sitting here, you know, popping champagne 0:26:11.480 --> 0:26:14.920 and celebrating, and he's just like, this is not over. 0:26:15.760 --> 0:26:18.879 Like this is a slow as Bill Mahr said, a 0:26:19.040 --> 0:26:22.600 slow moving coup. I will add it is a slow 0:26:22.680 --> 0:26:28.560 moving global coup because think about what a G seven 0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:35.240