1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to WOKP Daily with 2 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is an asshole, right. We know this. We 4 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,120 Speaker 1: know that it took fifteen votes to even get that 5 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: Fisher Price gavel in his hand. We know that Marjory 6 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:36,159 Speaker 1: Taylor Green really has her hand up his ass and 7 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: is the puppeteer that winds McCarthy up and makes him work. 8 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: At the same time, we cannot discount that his shatter 9 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: right now around using the power of the House of 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: Representatives to open up an inquiry into impeaching Joe Biden 11 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:10,320 Speaker 1: based on absolutely fucking nothing other than Trump grievance at 12 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:15,640 Speaker 1: the fact that because he's been impeached twice, because he's 13 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:21,200 Speaker 1: been indicted twice and we're currently on indictment Watch number three, 14 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: that then everyone must be investigated. And the funny thing 15 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 1: is is that the only people who require investigation are 16 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 1: people who've been suspected of actually breaking the fucking law, 17 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: none of which Joe Biden has done. This is purely 18 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: a speculative, fucking waste of tax dollar money, waste of 19 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: fucking time for Kevin McCarthy to do this as we 20 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 1: move into the thrust of twenty twenty four election cycle. 21 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: And so what I find funny is that even a 22 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: current Republican, which you know, never happens often, so it 23 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 1: becomes news when I don't know, they get bitten by 24 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: the reality bug. When Representative Ken Buck goes on CNN 25 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:29,560 Speaker 1: with Dana Bash and basically says that what Kevin McCarthy 26 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:37,200 Speaker 1: is doing is irresponsible, and this is what the representative said, 27 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:42,280 Speaker 1: and apparently he's a hard line This is according to CNN, 28 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 1: A hard line member of the ultra conservative House quote 29 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: unquote Freedom Caucus pushed back, and he said that this 30 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: move by Kevin McCarthy to open this impeachment inquiry is 31 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 1: nothing more than a quote unquote shiny object. He said this. 32 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 1: It's not just me, it's the public. What he's doing 33 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:10,359 Speaker 1: is he's saying, there's a shiny object here, and we're 34 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: going to focus on that. We need to get all 35 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 1: these things done so we can focus on the shiny object. 36 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: Most of us are concerned about spending. It's an existential threat. 37 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:25,560 Speaker 1: Buck said, quote to think it's responsible for us to 38 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:28,600 Speaker 1: talk about impeachment at this time adding that he feels 39 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 1: the House investigations into the Bidens are fair, he said, right, 40 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 1: but that the impeachment chatter is bullshit. And here's the 41 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: thing is that this quote unquote ultrue conservative member recognizes 42 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: what we talk about on WOKF all the time, which 43 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: is that the Republicans don't have an agenda. They don't 44 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: have an agenda to move this country forward. Everything that 45 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: the Republicans have offered is to quote unquote own the Libs. 46 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: There's no oh, we need to be fiscally responsible. No, 47 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: because they added to the debt by seven trillion dollars 48 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 1: under Donald Trump, so they don't actually give a fuck 49 00:04:23,839 --> 00:04:28,920 Speaker 1: about spending. Spending is the word that they use when 50 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 1: they want to talk about completely cutting out social safety 51 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:38,480 Speaker 1: nets so that they can balloon the Pentagon and wipe 52 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,680 Speaker 1: away everything else, so that we can just become a 53 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 1: war heavy, military heavy country that makes no investments in 54 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 1: the actual citizens of this country, which is what makes 55 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: us distinctively different from authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. What makes 56 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: us different is that we don't in America, as of 57 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:07,799 Speaker 1: right at this moment, enforce an agenda through a policy 58 00:05:07,839 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: of fear, invest all of our money and strengths into 59 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: the military, while there are people that are going hungry, 60 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: while there is no public education, while there's no social security, 61 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:28,360 Speaker 1: no Medicaid. Right like, this is what the Republican Party wants. 62 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 1: And so instead of once again the media calling out 63 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,800 Speaker 1: and saying, well, you're not actually talking about spending, because 64 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: you all approve budgets that give the Pentagon way more 65 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 1: money than they ask for, what you're really talking about 66 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 1: is a divestment from public education, is a divestment from Medicaid. 67 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: That's what you're talking about. Because there's more than enough money. 68 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 1: If we were to actually tax the rich who are 69 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: your donors, at a reasonable rate, more so than their 70 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: executive assistants are taxed, then again we would have more 71 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: than enough. So why is it that you Republicans function 72 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,120 Speaker 1: from a scarcity mindset and model and yet want to 73 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: tell us once and again that America is this abundant country. No, 74 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,400 Speaker 1: you want to ensure that it is abundant for some 75 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:35,120 Speaker 1: and desolate for others who you deem to be unworthy. This, 76 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: to me is the basis of all pushback and conversation 77 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: around Republicans and their lack of an actual agenda. You 78 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: look at this state of Florida, which is bleeding business, right, 79 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: they are running from that state. Just recently, the Alpha 80 00:06:56,279 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: Kata Alpha fraternity, which was planned to have their convention 81 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five in Orlando, has just pulled. You 82 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 1: have other businesses, right, Convention business is huge down there, 83 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 1: cause who doesn't want to be in the quote unquote 84 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,520 Speaker 1: Sunshine State if you've got to be at a conference. 85 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: And yet you have businesses that are saying, we're taking 86 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: our conventions, our summits, our retreats elsewhere. You listen to reports, 87 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: and this is just anecdotal, but you listen to reports 88 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 1: of people being interviewed small business owners and they're talking 89 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: about how tourism is down in this state, which is 90 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: completely and totally going to affect their bottom line. So 91 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: when you look at the way that DeSantis is operating 92 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 1: this state, fully focused on the culture wars and not 93 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 1: actually on anything else, that is indicative of what the 94 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 1: Republican Party is going to do nationwide. So instead of 95 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: allowing them to go off on these tangents about fiscal responsibility, 96 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: why not actually call them out on their irresponsibility as 97 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: it pertains to giving the biggest tax breaks to the 98 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,560 Speaker 1: wealthiest people, and we're all still waiting on the motherfucking 99 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: trickle down that we were promised four decades ago. How 100 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: long it takes. And so when you actually have a 101 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,960 Speaker 1: member of the Republican Party say this is just a 102 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 1: shiny object and a waste of fucking time, maybe the 103 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: media should pay attention to that instead of providing the 104 00:08:45,679 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: spotlight and the microphone in order for Kevin McCarthy to 105 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:56,400 Speaker 1: turn the next several months into a motherfucking circus. But 106 00:08:56,480 --> 00:09:00,479 Speaker 1: I think that that is, you know, generally asking too much. 107 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:10,679 Speaker 1: What frustrates me, you know, is just the fact that 108 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 1: there is so much that is happening, and yet I'm 109 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: watching wall to wall coverage on Hunter Biden. I just 110 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:27,840 Speaker 1: want to remind folks Hunter Biden's issues have nothing to 111 00:09:27,880 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 1: do with anyone's day to day Why because he's not 112 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:38,840 Speaker 1: a fucking elected official. He don't represent nobody but himself, right, 113 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: nobody voted for him. He didn't lie to the people, 114 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: he lied to his family, He embarrassed himself. But this 115 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: individual act is the cause the resistance for the Republican Party. 116 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 1: A man who is unelected isn't sitting at anybody's judgeship 117 00:10:03,240 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: isn't doing harm to anyone, but the person who is 118 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: doing collective harm, Donald Trump, who defrauded the American people, 119 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: who caused an insurrection and an uprising against democracy and 120 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: is still doing it. There's nothing to see here, folks. 121 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: According to the Republicans, their front runner is a man 122 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: that is on indictment Watch number three, who just the 123 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: other day, Representative Ted Lewie read into the congressional record 124 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is an accused and found guilty of ripe. 125 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: But this is their motherfucking front runner, And like, we're 126 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: not having real conversations in the media about those facts. 127 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 1: Those are fucking facts. Yes, So how is it like 128 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:15,679 Speaker 1: that we're here? It's just, you know, the level of irresponsibility. 129 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:18,920 Speaker 1: And I just, you know, sometimes I trouble myself and 130 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: I stay up way too late because my mind won't quit, 131 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:28,199 Speaker 1: and I ask myself, how did we get here? Where 132 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,880 Speaker 1: did the failure begin? Right? Like? How far back do 133 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: we have to go? And I honestly think, y'all, it 134 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,240 Speaker 1: was Nixon for me anyway, I'm talking about modern era, 135 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: modern times. If Nixon had not have been pardoned, if 136 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:58,760 Speaker 1: what had been seen as good for the country, would 137 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: have been accountability and responsibility if Nixon had gone to 138 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:14,960 Speaker 1: jail for his crimes and received the sentence that was 139 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: on par with lying and cheating the American public. I 140 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: don't think that we would be here because Nixon wouldn't 141 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 1: have been able to then, over the course of time, 142 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:41,040 Speaker 1: erase his criminality. You wouldn't be able to rewrite that 143 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: fact because that motherfucker would have had a criminal record. 144 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:47,959 Speaker 1: I'm not saying he would have served the I mean 145 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: probably because he was old, But I'm not saying he 146 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: would have served the rest of his life and died 147 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:58,040 Speaker 1: in prison. Maybe. But the fact is is that in 148 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:04,959 Speaker 1: America we believe that a stain on this country would 149 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:13,440 Speaker 1: be accountability. When it is the denial of accountability that 150 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: has us in this situation. And it isn't just with 151 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 1: the cancer that is Donald Trump and Magadum. It is 152 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: the culture of lying and greed that we have embraced 153 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: with both arms. Everything is about denial. Richard Nixon could 154 00:13:39,760 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: have a long life and deny after the temperature had 155 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:53,840 Speaker 1: simmer any real wrongdoing and become a folk hero. But 156 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,000 Speaker 1: had that man been made an example of to future 157 00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: politicians that you are not above reproach that actually running 158 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: for office means that you are going to be held 159 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: to a higher standard because you are not just choosing 160 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: to represent yourself. You're choosing to represent a constituent body, 161 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: whether that be your district, your state, or the nation. 162 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: So if you are choosing to step into that place, 163 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: you are not above reproach. You should be held to 164 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: the highest standard. And so when we chose as a 165 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:52,720 Speaker 1: nation to absolve wrongdoing by a raisure, we set up 166 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: the circumstances that we are living inside of right now. 167 00:14:59,320 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 1: This also applies to slavery. We have allowed slavery to 168 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:13,880 Speaker 1: be discussed in this country as a quote unquote necessary evil. 169 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: While it was so horrible. Everybody owned slaves. It was 170 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: just what you did during that time, and we normalized 171 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 1: the rape, the torture, the brutality, the dehumanization of an 172 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: entire people. Now, in contrast, in Germany, after the Nuremberg trials, 173 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:59,960 Speaker 1: to hold Nazis accountable for their crimes against the Jewish people, 174 00:16:02,240 --> 00:16:08,400 Speaker 1: they built monuments. It is embedded in their curriculum to 175 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: teach about the atrocities of what went down, not to 176 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 1: shame those generations, but instead to shine a light on 177 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: if not vigilant, if we are not holding ourselves and 178 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:34,880 Speaker 1: our leaders to account, that we can fall down on humanity, 179 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:43,760 Speaker 1: on our country. And so it is our duty to remember. 180 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: And so for me, when I am thinking truly about 181 00:16:56,240 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: where we are right now, I think about our desire 182 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: to just quote unquote be good, right to be seen 183 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 1: as good, rather than to be seen as great, Because 184 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: greatness is about what you are able to consistently overcome 185 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: and move through, not what you're able to ignore and 186 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:34,359 Speaker 1: to pretend doesn't exist. Great people are not defined by 187 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: what they haven't the obstacles that they haven't moved through. 188 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:48,199 Speaker 1: It is because of those obstacles. It is because of 189 00:17:48,240 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: the overcoming and despite quote unquote all odds, being able 190 00:17:56,680 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: to move through and learn through the falling down, learn 191 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 1: through the darkness to get to the light. And so 192 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:17,240 Speaker 1: this country could have learned that we hold our politicians 193 00:18:17,320 --> 00:18:24,199 Speaker 1: accountable because they're not infallible. That what it means to 194 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: be a country of integrity and a quote unquote symbol 195 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:32,880 Speaker 1: of democracy isn't that we don't jail politicians. It's that 196 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:39,440 Speaker 1: we only want those politicians that have integrity and honesty 197 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:46,879 Speaker 1: and follow the rule of law to represent us. You know, 198 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: the Vice President recently traveled to Florida and she said 199 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 1: something in her speech that I want to lift up 200 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:12,359 Speaker 1: because she went there to criticize the new education guidelines 201 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: and new lies. And this is according to an opinion 202 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 1: piece in the Washington Post. And the opinion piece is 203 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:29,040 Speaker 1: by a Republican, Gary Abernathy. Why are Republicans so afraid 204 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:35,400 Speaker 1: of confronting America's racial past? And this is what Kamala 205 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: Harris said and what he found himself as a quote 206 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: unquote conservative nodding to quote, let us not be seduced 207 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: into believing that somehow we will be better if we forget. 208 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,399 Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris said, quote, we will be better 209 00:19:55,680 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: if we were remember. We will be stronger if we remember. 210 00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: And then on top of that, Florida State Senator Bobby Powell, 211 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: a Democrat, said this, and he was talking in the 212 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:19,359 Speaker 1: context about African American about black contributions to this society. 213 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:26,320 Speaker 1: And again, it is about telling the truth. And he 214 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: said this, The full measure of African American history is 215 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 1: not a handpicked Rosa Parks here and a Martin Luther 216 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: King Junior there. It is the sweeping collection of stories 217 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: spanning several centuries, the lessons of cruelty and inhumanity interwoven 218 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:52,560 Speaker 1: in the determination of a people to live and breathe free. 219 00:20:52,640 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: It is as much Florida's story as the nation's story, 220 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:03,120 Speaker 1: and it needs to be fully told. America's story has 221 00:21:03,280 --> 00:21:09,919 Speaker 1: never been fully told because it has been cherry picked 222 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 1: to believe that George Washington never told a lion cut 223 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: down a cherry tree, and Lincoln freed the slaves, and 224 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 1: you know, and everything was great, and Lyndon B. Johnson 225 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 1: passed the Civil Rights Act, and blah blah blah, and 226 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: on and on and on. It's cherry picked. America is 227 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,000 Speaker 1: and has been exceptional in some ways because of the 228 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 1: people that have pushed it to live up to its ideals, 229 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:41,200 Speaker 1: that have died, have sweat, have sacrificed, had palaces for 230 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:48,440 Speaker 1: the pushing. But when we cherry pick as a way 231 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:59,399 Speaker 1: of protection, we make ourselves more vulnerable to lies and 232 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: authority and fascism, which is the place we have ourselves 233 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:10,200 Speaker 1: in now. If we were steadfast in our truth, a 234 00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: Donald Trump would have never been able to exist. But 235 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,440 Speaker 1: because only some of us know the truth, and the 236 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 1: rest have been protected and wrapped in lies. We are 237 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: here and that's something that keeps me up at night. 238 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: We can be better than this, but being better is 239 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:47,159 Speaker 1: a choice of not moving around pain, but instead moving 240 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: through it. That is it for me today. Dear friends 241 00:22:55,640 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: on Woke af AS always power to the people and 242 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: to all the people power. Get woke and stay woke 243 00:23:05,560 --> 00:23:06,000 Speaker 1: as fuck.