1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, Keep Send. Welcome to ok F Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,439 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. So, folks, 3 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: it is Woke Wednesday. And what I launched last week 4 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: was a Woke Wednesday that was a little more formulaic 5 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 1: in terms of covering stories that I think are really 6 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 1: important and running through them with you. So Woke Wednesdays 7 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: are going to be top three stories that I think 8 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,600 Speaker 1: that folks should be woke to and having conversations about 9 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 1: on your own social media platforms with your own friends, colleagues, 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: et cetera. And so I want to start off today's 11 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: Woke Wednesday with sharing quickly the feelings that I've been having. 12 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: If you're following me on social media, which I know 13 00:00:58,480 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 1: that many of you do, you know, the weeks and 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,399 Speaker 1: the days are getting very long. And I don't just 15 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: mean our move towards spring here, I mean just the constant, 16 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: just pounding of bad news. And I want to encourage 17 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: everyone that even as I go through my feelings on 18 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: social media about feeling hopeless, but you know, there are 19 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 1: times when I feel hopeless as everybody else does, and 20 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 1: so when you see that, don't think that I am 21 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: like walking away from my work, not yet anyway, but 22 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:43,959 Speaker 1: that I'm just exhausted, as many of us are. I 23 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: just get fucking exhausted and overwhelmed, and it's usually a 24 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,800 Speaker 1: time when I need to take a absolute break. And 25 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 1: so what in my break look like after the Supreme 26 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: Courts news, It looked like watching the amazing Disney Plus 27 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: animated series done by Kugali Media called Uwashu. And let 28 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: me just tell you, if you are looking for just 29 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: a little break, a little reprieve, watch this extraordinary little 30 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: animated series. It's the first time that Disney has ever 31 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: partnered with an outside group, an outside media company. Kugali 32 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 1: is the media company founded by three African men, two 33 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: Nigerian men, and one Ugandan. And the story is about 34 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:31,720 Speaker 1: a wealthy Nigerian girl whose father is a tech billionaire 35 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,959 Speaker 1: in a futuristic Legos and it is extraordinary the way 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: that it was done. It's inspiring, it's beautiful, and I 37 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: just loved it so much. I don't have kids. I 38 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: watched it because I wanted a break. So I say 39 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:50,519 Speaker 1: all that to say, go ahead and check that out, 40 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,359 Speaker 1: all right. So that's a little good news if you're 41 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:56,600 Speaker 1: looking for a little reprieve from things. And also I 42 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: think that the more people that watch it, the more 43 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 1: that Disney will get the message that we want other stories, 44 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:06,080 Speaker 1: that we want other tales. The world is rich, the 45 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: continent of Africa is rich, and this story and the 46 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: curation and the music all done by people inside the 47 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:17,960 Speaker 1: continent and it's just it's glorious. And then they follow 48 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: up with a documentary on the making of it because 49 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,680 Speaker 1: it was a huge undertaking in the first time that 50 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 1: Disney had ever done something like this. So anyway, Awaju 51 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,400 Speaker 1: Disney Plus check it out. I'm not getting paid for this. 52 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,720 Speaker 1: I just really loved it. All right. Now, let's get 53 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: into the news. So what are the top three stories. 54 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,720 Speaker 1: Let's start off with what happened over the weekend in 55 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:46,360 Speaker 1: Selma at the fifty ninth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Bloody 56 00:03:46,400 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 1: Sunday being the day when the late John Lewis among 57 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 1: other civil rights leaders were beaten because they crossed the 58 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: Edmund Pettish Bridge wanting to seek racial justice, equity, right 59 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: to be treated with dignity and respect, and it was 60 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,720 Speaker 1: televised they were beaten bloody and it was one of 61 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: those inflection moments in the fight for civil rights. Now, 62 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: what happens there on the fifty ninth anniversary, Well, Vice 63 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:29,240 Speaker 1: President Kamala Harris gives a speech where she calls for 64 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: an immediate cease fire with a caveat of six weeks. 65 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 1: And while her speech is getting a lot of attention won, 66 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 1: there is controversy where what is being reported is saying 67 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,920 Speaker 1: that her speech was worded down by the administration. You know, 68 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: right before she was to give it, that she had 69 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: harsher crittiques for Israel that were wordered down. Now, her 70 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: office has pushed back in a statement and said that 71 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: that was not the case, that what she offered was 72 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 1: in alignment with what President Biden had said two days 73 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: prior when he also called for a six week ceasefire. Folks, 74 00:05:17,640 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 1: let me just take a breath. First of all, social 75 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: media is really giving us a front view to genocide. 76 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: We have now, according to the UN, have seen the 77 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: death of a tenth child, the tenth Palestinian child to starvation. 78 00:05:46,520 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 1: That is ISRAELI made right. We are seeing pictures I've 79 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:57,359 Speaker 1: scrolled on social media to see the hollowed out dead 80 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 1: faces of children come across my feed. And we are 81 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: seeing the United States pat itself on the back for 82 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: air dropping thirty eight thousand you know, meals for millions 83 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: of people. Millions of people are in danger of starvation 84 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: and dehydration, not to mention, you know, being bombed to pieces. 85 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,919 Speaker 1: But then the United States drops aid and wants to 86 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: be celebrated for that. But you're sending the money, our 87 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: money to drop the bombs that are causing the IDF 88 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: made famine in the first place. Are we in crazy town? 89 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 1: Like what the fuck is happening? Right? Like? Are we 90 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: in sane where you are both funding the aid and 91 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 1: funding the war at the same time, and we're supposed 92 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,440 Speaker 1: to think that that shit is normal and not see 93 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 1: any hypocrisy in that or depravity in that. So when 94 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:27,800 Speaker 1: I heard the Vice President's speech on the fifty ninth 95 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:33,920 Speaker 1: anniversary of an inflection point in the civil rights movement, 96 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 1: and I'm like, not only did I find it to 97 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 1: be in poor taste, I'm gonna be honest because folks 98 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: will tell me, oh, I'm coming to my senses because 99 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 1: I'm talking about Israel and Gaza. First of all, I've 100 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: been talking about Israel and Gaza since the beginning of 101 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: the war, which, by the way, is not actually a war, 102 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:03,080 Speaker 1: because the war is when two sides are fighting each other, 103 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 1: not just one side committing humanitarian crises. Right. I don't 104 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: see the Palestinian people having the same equipment AMMO or anything. 105 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: I see them trying to fucking bake bread but being 106 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: blown up or shocked to death because they're going to 107 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:30,360 Speaker 1: humanitarian aid tents to get flower. So it's not a war. 108 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: So let us be very clear about the language that 109 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 1: is being used to make us believe that somehow there 110 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: is some equal footing that is happening. There isn't. Thirty 111 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:46,040 Speaker 1: thousand people are dead and counting. So when the United 112 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:49,440 Speaker 1: States is calling for a six week cease fire, all 113 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,439 Speaker 1: they are doing is pressing pause on a fucking genocide. 114 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: Let us be real about that. So I'm not going 115 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:04,920 Speaker 1: to congratulate the administration for what doing what exactly, because 116 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: if the Biden administration wanted to put an end to 117 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:13,080 Speaker 1: this fucking travesty, they could. They could get on the 118 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: horn and tell Natanyahu, guess what, the fucking American gravy 119 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: train that you've been slabbering up is over. It is done. 120 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:26,080 Speaker 1: You are getting no more aid, you are getting no 121 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:30,600 Speaker 1: more weapons, You are getting not a fucking thing until 122 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: the atrocities stop. How many more fucking stories do we 123 00:09:35,280 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: have to see about these disgusting, idf fucking militants. The rape, 124 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:48,839 Speaker 1: the beatings, the posing with bodies and lingerie and all 125 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,839 Speaker 1: of these things that just show their lack of humanity. 126 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: You want to tell me that that's just a few 127 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 1: bad apples. Give me a fucking break. So, no, I'm 128 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,680 Speaker 1: not gonna pat the administration on the back for pulling 129 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 1: some political theatrics just in time for the roundup of 130 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 1: the primaries. Give me a fucking break. You think we're stupid? So, 131 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: you know, folks, I say this to say and then 132 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,440 Speaker 1: people are just like, so, then what you know? We're 133 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: not gonna vote and we're not gonna do this, that 134 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 1: and the other thing. No, but if you think that 135 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 1: I'm going into the voting booth happy to vote for 136 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,880 Speaker 1: Biden and Harris, no i am not. But I'm also 137 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 1: not gonna put my life, my family's life, and all 138 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:41,920 Speaker 1: of your lives at risk by another Trump administration or 139 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: any fucking Republican entering into the White House when they 140 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:47,280 Speaker 1: are telling us very clearly about what they're doing. But 141 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:52,680 Speaker 1: two things can be true at the same fucking time. Right, 142 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit around and use my social 143 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 1: media platform and my influence to smoke up people's ass 144 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: or gas like them into thinking that somehow Biden is 145 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: assault of the fucking earth. Not when you are the 146 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: reason why tens of thousands of fucking children are dead. 147 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: But do I think that Donald Trump would be a 148 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 1: good move? No, I do not. This is what it 149 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,280 Speaker 1: looks like to be between a rock and a fucking 150 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 1: hard place. This is what it looks like when you 151 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,719 Speaker 1: are forced to make really hard, fucking choices that challenge 152 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: your values, but you have enough common fucking sense to 153 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: know that what is staring you in the face is 154 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: your own demise And do you want to be a 155 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:52,680 Speaker 1: party to that? Because you can't help anybody if you 156 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: can't help yourself. So don't get it twisted when people 157 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: see me commenting and i'llo so sharing videos and things 158 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: on social media talking about I came to my fucking sensus. 159 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: I've had sense switching gears the Supreme fucking Court. You know, 160 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: on Monday, the Supreme Court issues are ruling via their website, 161 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: by the way, because the courts were actually closed to 162 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: say that in a nine zip decision. Oh, Donald Trump 163 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: can remain on the ballots in Colorado and in other 164 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,439 Speaker 1: states that tried to remove him because of the Constitution 165 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: in the fourteenth Amendment that says that participation in a 166 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: insurrection disallows you from the ballots. And apparently states rights 167 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: only matter if you are a red state and you 168 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: are taking away the rights of your constituents. But if 169 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,760 Speaker 1: you are a blue or purple state and you were 170 00:12:57,800 --> 00:13:00,839 Speaker 1: trying to uphold the Constitution, apparently actually just a step 171 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: too far. Let me tell you something. One of our friends, 172 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: Elie Mistel, wrote a piece for The Nation that says 173 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: that the Supreme Court must be stopped, and I wholeheartedly agree. 174 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: There is nothing supreme about the Supreme Court that is 175 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:21,080 Speaker 1: filled with fucking grifters right, that are filled with radical 176 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: right wing white supremacists right. And Clarence Thomas is absolutely 177 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: a white supremacist. Don't get it twisted. Who are an 178 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: unelected body that get to make rules and judgments for 179 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: the rest of us, right, that get to decide who 180 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:46,520 Speaker 1: has bodily autonomy and who doesn't that get to decide. 181 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: After fifty some years of affirmative action and trying to 182 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:56,559 Speaker 1: rebalance the scales of slavery and Jim Crow, oh you've 183 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:59,560 Speaker 1: gone a step too far. There's just too many successful 184 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 1: black and around people. I can't fucking stand the Supreme Court. 185 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:14,760 Speaker 1: I have lost all faith, hope, and respect for that body. 186 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: And so this decision is not unlike the less bunches 187 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: of decisions or what is coming at us in June, 188 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:28,880 Speaker 1: which is just more guns, less rights, less access, and 189 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: more white supremacy and patriarchy. That's what this is. And 190 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: so like what pissons me off about America and Americans, 191 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: I mean, the list is so long right now, but 192 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: it's the fact that, like every other fucking country, as 193 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: their rights are being violated and taken away, people just 194 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,320 Speaker 1: up and fucking get in the streets for however long 195 00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: that it takes. And I don't know if it is 196 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: that Americans are just so exhausted and overworked, are just 197 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: so like aloof I don't know what it is, but 198 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:13,640 Speaker 1: this Supreme Court is fucking wrecking havoc on our democracy. 199 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: I posted this week and I said, look, I just 200 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: like I think that it's cruel for us to wait, 201 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:24,000 Speaker 1: have to be forced to wait until fucking November to 202 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,080 Speaker 1: find out that democracy is officially dead, right, Like I 203 00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: would just love I would love it if and to 204 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,000 Speaker 1: save the what's left of my nerves to just know 205 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:40,840 Speaker 1: this ship is sailed. We're like on the Titanic and 206 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: everything is just slipping away. But it's so slow, it's 207 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:53,040 Speaker 1: so goddamn painful. Right, I'm just like, I don't want 208 00:15:53,080 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: death by a thousand cuts. I'm like, just off it already, right, 209 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: just pull the plug on democracy so that we all 210 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 1: just figure out what our next steps are. But this 211 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:10,400 Speaker 1: slow fucking role death that is happening right now, it 212 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 1: is exactly what Steve Bannon wanted. It is the flooding 213 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:18,640 Speaker 1: of the zone, the weakening of the spirit, the breaking 214 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: of the heart, the lifting of the veil, the clearing 215 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: of the rose colored glasses, like you name it. I 216 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: can keep going. And then at the same time, my 217 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: third story, right is France, France sitting back watching the 218 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: United States and saying, you know what, we're not gonna 219 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:47,520 Speaker 1: do here. We're not even gonna play around. We're gonna 220 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: enshrine abortion into the constitution. We're not even going to 221 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: waste time for there to be another right wing push 222 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: in this country, which, by the way, there was because 223 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 1: the wing, the fascists are on the rise, on the move. 224 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: They're all the rage these days. It's just trend. Be 225 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: like a motherfucker. And they said, so now we're not 226 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 1: gonna play games, We're not gonna make assumptions because look 227 00:17:15,040 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: at America. And so they just enshrined abortion into the constitution. 228 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 1: And I'm saying to myself, wow, this is really it. 229 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,439 Speaker 1: The rest of the world is looking at America and saying, oh, wow, 230 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:38,640 Speaker 1: America is really at the find out stage. They've been 231 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: fucking around with everyone else's democracies, with everyone else's autonomy, 232 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: with leadership, and moving people in and out of different 233 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: countries and bombing these places and keeping quiet and all 234 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 1: of those things. And now the right wing, the white supremacists, 235 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: the Christian fascists, have taken hold. And while America was 236 00:18:03,880 --> 00:18:06,720 Speaker 1: looking down its nose at everyone else and saying, oh, 237 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: look at their elections. Look how crazy these things are. 238 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:13,640 Speaker 1: Thank god, we're okay and safe. And now it's our turn, 239 00:18:14,760 --> 00:18:23,240 Speaker 1: because America's empire is done right like it's been. Actually, 240 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen was the beginning of the end, and over 241 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:41,560 Speaker 1: the last eight years we have unraveled, backslid and are 242 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: in an essential free fall. And it was the Daily 243 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:52,639 Speaker 1: Beast that said recently that the Supreme Court just picked 244 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 1: up where the January sixth mob left off. And those 245 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: are facts. Right. We didn't want to believe Hillary Clinton 246 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: but her emails, but this, that and the other thing 247 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 1: she told us, whoever the next president is going to 248 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,919 Speaker 1: be of these United States, is going to control the 249 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,960 Speaker 1: Supreme Court. So any of the rights that you think 250 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: that you have are going to be gone? Was she wrong? 251 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: So my feeling about America is that folks are still 252 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: in this place of disbelief. It can't possibly happen here, 253 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: but they're watching it day by day. Right, they're watching 254 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:42,119 Speaker 1: what happened in Oklahoma with the young non binary youth 255 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:47,800 Speaker 1: that succumbed to trauma of being beaten, right, and the 256 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:55,840 Speaker 1: Oklahoma governor not giving a fuck. He didn't lose his job. Right, 257 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: he could come right out and say, we don't want 258 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: these people in our state. But we're looking at Ghana 259 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 1: getting ready to pass new laws that say that you 260 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: can't even say that you're gay without going to jail, 261 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:13,200 Speaker 1: and we say, oh my god, how archaic the fuck 262 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,120 Speaker 1: you think they get those rules from? Because white evangelical 263 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: Christians do their dirty work in nations in Africa to 264 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: see how things will play out. Right, what is happening 265 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 1: in Ghana is no different of what will happen in 266 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: the United States and a Trump administration or a Hally 267 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 1: administration or any Republican administration, they are telling you everything. 268 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 1: They're gonna outlaw IVF, They're gonna outlaw being gay, They're 269 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: gonna ban all of the books. They're gonna close down DEI, 270 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:56,160 Speaker 1: They're gonna close down HBCUs. They're gonna close down any 271 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:59,840 Speaker 1: access to any money for any initiative that is not, 272 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: gonna deny climate change, gonna rid the country of child 273 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:16,080 Speaker 1: labor laws, going to get rid of unions. I just 274 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: talked about a law the other day in Kentucky that 275 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: they're trying to put in place that would make it 276 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:27,159 Speaker 1: okay for employers to no longer provide lunch breaks or 277 00:21:27,280 --> 00:21:33,000 Speaker 1: rest breaks. This is what the Republican Party is doing. 278 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: So yes, can I start out at the top of 279 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: the show cursing the Biden administration out and saying that 280 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: they are putting us between a rock and a hard place. Apps, 281 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,880 Speaker 1: So fucking lutey do I also know what the fuck 282 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:48,840 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is doing apps fucking lutey. Two things 283 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:52,280 Speaker 1: can be true at the same time. I can absolutely 284 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:58,719 Speaker 1: be disgusted with the Biden administration's actions in Israel, and 285 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: I can absolutely know that we are in the midst 286 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:08,400 Speaker 1: of an existential crisis. And do I think that if, if, if, 287 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,359 Speaker 1: by the grace of God, Biden is re elected in November, 288 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: do I think that we are safe and clear. Absolutely not. 289 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,679 Speaker 1: I don't think that we'll ever be safe or clear again, 290 00:22:21,040 --> 00:22:29,679 Speaker 1: because unless somebody wants to actually take control and say, 291 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: you know what, the Department of Justice is opening up 292 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 1: an investigation into the Supreme Court. You know what, We're 293 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:41,080 Speaker 1: not only going to try and convict the footshoulders of 294 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:45,399 Speaker 1: the insurrection, but we're going after members of Congress. You 295 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: know what. That We're going to pave the way for 296 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:53,280 Speaker 1: the Justice Department to take down Donald Trump and then 297 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: go after all of his sick offens, all of the 298 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,959 Speaker 1: people that aided and abetted his crime spree. Like, unless 299 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:04,639 Speaker 1: you're going to go to the root of the rot, 300 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:11,280 Speaker 1: you can just expect a new crop every few fucking years. 301 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: So all the election re election of Joe Biden will 302 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:24,879 Speaker 1: do is bias time unless we're willing to use that 303 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:30,879 Speaker 1: time to get to the rot. That's the question that 304 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:35,560 Speaker 1: we have to ask ourselves. But understand again that we 305 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:40,280 Speaker 1: are absolutely between a rock and a hard place. The 306 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 1: decisions that we make in the next several months are 307 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:56,359 Speaker 1: going to affect the next several generations. What will it be? That? 308 00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,640 Speaker 1: Is it for me? Today? Dear friends on wokf as 309 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,639 Speaker 1: all power to the people and to all the people power, 310 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:11,040 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck. M.