1 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to woka F Daily with 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream 3 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:22,119 Speaker 1: studios here in Times Square. Folks, I'm very excited about 4 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: today's episode of wig F because I decided, along with 5 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: my other DCP host and colleague, Mark Thompson, that we 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: would start doing monthly crossovers of his show, Make It 7 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,680 Speaker 1: Plain and Woke. F. Now, if folks remember us back 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: from serious days on Sirius XM, then you know that 9 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,279 Speaker 1: Mark show was a staple there and I used to 10 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,839 Speaker 1: fill in for him. So the opportunity to get to 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: sit down once a month to kind of hash out 12 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: where the Democratic where the Democratic Party is going as 13 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:59,760 Speaker 1: we make the long, long, long fucking March two what 14 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:05,480 Speaker 1: midterm twenty twenty two. So in today's conversation we unpack 15 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: what happened in Virginia as well as why the mainstream 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,959 Speaker 1: media thinks that it's okay to continually use black voters 17 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: as a scapegoat when we all recognize who the culprit 18 00:01:16,520 --> 00:01:20,080 Speaker 1: is constantly in our political landscape and guess who it is? 19 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: White women, the people that they never want to talk 20 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: about but instead of want to do fucking docu series 21 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: of empathy on for us to really understand how Karen 22 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,119 Speaker 1: and Jill and jan are feeling as opposed to what 23 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: it is that they're doing to fuck our country over 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: so that they can continue with their proximity to patriarchy 25 00:01:40,360 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: and whiteness. The reality, folks, is that there is no 26 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: one to blame for what happened in Virginia and what 27 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: will potentially be foreshadowing for what could happen in midterms 28 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,720 Speaker 1: other than Democrats. Here's the thing, and I will say 29 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 1: this until I am blue in the goddamn face. Democrats 30 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 1: don't have a long game. They do not see strategy 31 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: outside of two and four year elections. They're not even 32 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: creating strategic plans for down ballot candidates. Right. So, when 33 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,959 Speaker 1: we are looking at this CONTI made up bullshit controversy. 34 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,640 Speaker 1: The next the right's new red scare and their new 35 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 1: boogeyman right of critical race theory, which by the way, 36 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,080 Speaker 1: is only taught at the graduate level and is not 37 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: taught in K through twelve elementary and high schools. But nonetheless, 38 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 1: let's not let logic enter into the chat. The fact 39 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: is that until Democrats recognize that white people right, are 40 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: no longer the base of their party. That cow tolling 41 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: to the white working class is not exactly how you're 42 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 1: going to advance and instead, excuse me, instead creating policies 43 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,800 Speaker 1: right and working on policies that everybody else wants. And 44 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,360 Speaker 1: those are the policies that guess what the Progressive Caucus, 45 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: which is the largest caucus right now in Congress, is 46 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 1: pushing for. We're pushing for an expansion of healthcare, not 47 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: just barely holding on to what it is that we have. 48 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:23,880 Speaker 1: We're pushing for an expansion of voting rights, not just 49 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 1: barely holding on to what we were able to secure 50 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 1: in the nineteen sixties. We want an expansion of abortion care, 51 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: not just barely holding onto Roe v. Wade. And I 52 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: find that with the Democrats, the reality is that all 53 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: they ever do is just hold on. Nothing is about expansion. 54 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, that son of a 55 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 1: bitch Joe Mansion this week once again says some hot 56 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: trash with regard to well, I respect the President of 57 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: the United States, but the United States is not a 58 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: progressive country. It's not a center it's left country. Well, 59 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: fuck you, Joe Mansion, because actually, if you were to 60 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: pay attention to the numbers outside of your downtrod in 61 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 1: West Virginia where a majority of the people are living 62 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: in fucking poverty, right while you're living high on the 63 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:18,200 Speaker 1: hog on your seven hundred thousand dollars yacht, that maybe 64 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 1: you would understand that majority of people want to be 65 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: able to put food on their table, want to be 66 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: able to get their medicine, and do all of those 67 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,320 Speaker 1: things at the same goddamn time, and not pay play 68 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:33,719 Speaker 1: three card monte with their lives. Right. That that isn't 69 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:38,040 Speaker 1: a leftist sensibility. It is an American value that no 70 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:41,679 Speaker 1: one should ever be working forty hours a goddamn week 71 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 1: and not be able to have the bare minimum met meeting, food, shelter, clothing. Right. 72 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: One of the things that I think we forget because 73 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: once again in America it seems that our memory is 74 00:04:55,560 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 1: that of a fucking gnat, is that during twenty tw twenty, 75 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: the lines at food banks, folks were miles long. Places 76 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 1: that we're giving out food for free, churches, food pantries, right, 77 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: different community organizations were running out of food right an hour, 78 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: two hours after they were opening. What does that show 79 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: you when we look at the gas prices that are 80 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,080 Speaker 1: right now through the roof in every state across this country. 81 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: I was in California last week, and I will tell 82 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: you this first of all, every time that I go 83 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 1: to California, I'm always like, I don't know how fucking 84 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,880 Speaker 1: people live here because one, yes, the weather is gorgeous. 85 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,720 Speaker 1: You know, they don't have any seasons, and it never rains, right, which, 86 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,839 Speaker 1: frankly I like rain. Maybe that's the scorpio in me, 87 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: but like I like it. I think it's refreshing. But nonetheless, 88 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: the traffic, the traffic in LA is like nothing I've 89 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,240 Speaker 1: ever seen. And I'm from I lived in Washington, DC. 90 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: I lived in the DMV where they I thought that 91 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,080 Speaker 1: they invented traffic because they can't drive in any type 92 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:15,320 Speaker 1: of fucking weather. Right, So if the gas prices in 93 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:20,680 Speaker 1: LA are at over five dollars a gallon, which I 94 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: cannot believe, and then you were driving right and sitting 95 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: in traffic up to two hours to go roughly you know, 96 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: twenty miles, do you know how much gas your car 97 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: is requiring and how much money you are spending every 98 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 1: single week. So just to think about that and the 99 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 1: fact that people are barely making making ends meet. I 100 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:53,479 Speaker 1: don't understand how we are still having conversations about progressivism 101 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: versus moderism, versus moderation, like we are in crisis in 102 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: this country, and being moderate is basically about, you know, 103 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:09,200 Speaker 1: being complacent, shutting your eyes to the reality that is 104 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:11,040 Speaker 1: in front of you, which to me, is what Joe 105 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,960 Speaker 1: Mansion is doing. He doesn't care. He's a two bit 106 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:17,040 Speaker 1: ho that is bought and sold by either coal or 107 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: big Pharma, right, like those are the ones that are 108 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: riding his tickets. So he could give a fuck clearly 109 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: about the people of West Virginia. And you will hear 110 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:28,160 Speaker 1: in my conversation with Mark one of the things that 111 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:33,280 Speaker 1: he offers up that would help to I guess, cut 112 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: Joe's knees off, right, cut him off at the knees, 113 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: so that he is not able to use the people 114 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: of West Virginia as his bargaining chip. If you just 115 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: include them in legislation and then heavily campaign that you're 116 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:51,960 Speaker 1: going to get everything that you need and Joe Mansion 117 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: still doesn't come to the table, then he's showing his 118 00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: whole ass, right, Then he's showing his whole entire ass. 119 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:03,360 Speaker 1: And we know where he is. So the other thing, 120 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: unfortunately that I wasn't able to get to in my 121 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:09,000 Speaker 1: conversation with Mark, and so I want to switch gears 122 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,520 Speaker 1: and talk to you all about now. There are multitude 123 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 1: of cases that we are paying attention to and have 124 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: been talking about on woke a f. We know that 125 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: oral arguments started in the Texas Ban case that we 126 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,600 Speaker 1: talked about earlier in the week, and the feeling, the 127 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: sentiment at least from my legal colleagues is that the portion, 128 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:40,360 Speaker 1: the portion of the Texas Ban which is about the 129 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: bounty right, is about essentially deputizing everyone in Texas and 130 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: everyone in the United States for that matter, to be 131 00:08:47,720 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: able to bring up charges right and collect up to 132 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars or past go like we're all living 133 00:08:54,040 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 1: in black Merri monopoly. Is that what the justices at 134 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 1: least have signaled thus far, Gorsitch as being one of 135 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: them and one of the conservatives and one of Trumpers, 136 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 1: is that if you're allowed to create this kind of 137 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,439 Speaker 1: bounty with abortion, then what is to stop you from 138 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: being able to do this with any other issue? Right? 139 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 1: And then we are creating this chaotic, wild wild West 140 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: in our adjudication, right and so that in and of itself, 141 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 1: the fact that Gorsitch even mentioned this signals to me 142 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:38,440 Speaker 1: that even the most staunch advocate that our anti abortion 143 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: are looking at the Texas law, which was written in 144 00:09:42,280 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: such a malicious way that that will be part and 145 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 1: parceled and thrown out, God willing. The other thing, though, 146 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:53,720 Speaker 1: that we are that we are watching, and what will 147 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: come up next month is the Mississippi band, which I 148 00:09:57,040 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: believe that they will most likely uphold, which is the 149 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: teen week abortion ban, which would bring again Roe v. Wade, 150 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: making it more and more toothless. Right now, you're not 151 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:14,240 Speaker 1: allowed to seek an abortion after twenty four weeks. The 152 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: Mississippi ban is looking at fifteen weeks. I believe that 153 00:10:20,120 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: they are going to uphold the Mississippi ban, and then 154 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: that is going to be the law of the land. 155 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: And then what white evangelical Christians will see is that 156 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,719 Speaker 1: they can continue to chip away, chip away, because they 157 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,080 Speaker 1: have friends on the Court that will then decide that 158 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,000 Speaker 1: eventually Roe v. Wade will just be null and void. 159 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,920 Speaker 1: It'll still exist, It'll just get to a point where 160 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: it's just like, doesn't even matter that we have this. 161 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 1: If women and people with uteruses are being forced to 162 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 1: have to make these decisions before they even have as 163 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: menstrual cycle. So there's that the other two cases right 164 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: now that are and there are a couple of other 165 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: cases one that I will say another insurrectionist was sentenced 166 00:11:03,880 --> 00:11:07,440 Speaker 1: to prison, which is great, but again I believe that 167 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 1: these people should have the books thrown at them. I 168 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 1: saw on Twitter that somebody I believe it's Michael Harriet, 169 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:15,600 Speaker 1: one of the senior writers at the Root dot com 170 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: and he's been on wok F tweeted that there are 171 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 1: fifty people right now across the country that are serving 172 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: life sentences for marijuana, while white people are making billions 173 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,880 Speaker 1: of dollars. If you can provide a life sentence for marijuana, 174 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,959 Speaker 1: you can provide a life sentence for trying to overthrow 175 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: the government. And so those are the feelings that I 176 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: have with regard to how our criminal justice system is 177 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:47,199 Speaker 1: completely unbalanced and purposefully. So. The other case that is 178 00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: starting is the Written House, the Kyle Rittenhouse case, where 179 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: we have learned that Kyle Rittenhouse will most likely take 180 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: the stand. One of the people who survived his brazen 181 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: shootout spoke about and we saw a video of different 182 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: vantage points of Kyle Rittenhouse going on the hunt for 183 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:14,840 Speaker 1: trouble and on the hunt for people. And I hope 184 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 1: that those videos and the words of the victim that 185 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,600 Speaker 1: did survive, and the SI will use the word victim, 186 00:12:20,760 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: Judge Schrober, you can go fuck yourself. Is that it 187 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:29,440 Speaker 1: resonates that we do not want to live in a society. 188 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:33,120 Speaker 1: And frankly, this is what the prosecution should ask the jury. 189 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: What kind of world do you want to live in? 190 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: Do you want to live in a society when anyone 191 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: anywhere can sling an AAR fifteen over their shoulder and 192 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: decide that they're going to go take the law into 193 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 1: their own hands and just shoot people up and then 194 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: are able to walk. Because if Kyle Rittenhouse is not 195 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and does 196 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: not receive a guilty verdict and the maximum sentencing, then 197 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,560 Speaker 1: what you are setting up is that very scenario, Well, 198 00:12:58,559 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: we will see angry, grieved white males grab guns and 199 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: go out and solve their own problems or do what 200 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,040 Speaker 1: they've always wanted to do, which is hunt people of color. Right, 201 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,400 Speaker 1: which brings me to the other case that we are 202 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:14,720 Speaker 1: going to have eyes on on Woke a f which 203 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: is the case that involved the murder of Ahmad Aubrey. 204 00:13:19,679 --> 00:13:24,120 Speaker 1: The judge has already said that there is discrimination in 205 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: terms of how the jury was selected in that case, 206 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,480 Speaker 1: with there being only one black juror that is going 207 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: to be sitting in hearing this case of a group 208 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 1: of white men that decided that they, once again, we're 209 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: going to go on the hunt for a black person 210 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:41,440 Speaker 1: and then murder him in cold blood and think that 211 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: that was going to be acceptable and without public outcry, 212 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: once again, we would have never heard of a mod Aubrey, right, 213 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 1: because the buddies on the police force were friends with 214 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: the murderers, right, and without the outrage from the public, 215 00:13:58,679 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: would have gotten away with it as they do across 216 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: these small white towns every fucking where. Right. So we 217 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: will see how this case unfolds with a jury of 218 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,840 Speaker 1: eleven white people and one black person and see whether 219 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:20,120 Speaker 1: or not a Mard Aubrey's family will receive justice. So 220 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: coming up next, friends, is my conversation with my friend, 221 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:28,280 Speaker 1: colleague and activists Reverend Mark Thompson, host of Make It Plain. 222 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: Let me know what you think about this conversation and 223 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 1: frankly We're looking for a name for our crossover episode. 224 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 1: So if you have an idea of how we can 225 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:40,840 Speaker 1: match together Make It Plain and Woke as Fuck, do 226 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: drop it in the comments section, Folks. I am so 227 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: excited to do a special that we have decided to 228 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,600 Speaker 1: do a crossover episode of Mark Thompson's Make It Plain 229 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: and Woke as Fuck. So Mark and I have decided 230 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: that as a countdown to the midterm elections, we are 231 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: going to be gathering monthly and raging together about whether 232 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: or not Democrats are going to be able to pull 233 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: out a win and whether or not black people will 234 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:16,400 Speaker 1: continue to be blamed by their dysfunction. Mark, I am 235 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,440 Speaker 1: so happy to be back in studio with you. Um 236 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:26,600 Speaker 1: this week we got a take you say, crossover, What 237 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 1: do you mean exactly? Crossover of our two shows. Yeah, okay, 238 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,400 Speaker 1: here you want to make sure. So this week we 239 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:39,520 Speaker 1: had a sample of what the midterm elections could potentially 240 00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:43,160 Speaker 1: look like. We did not get election results, as we 241 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: will no longer ever get the day of an election. 242 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: We got results that in New Jersey the Democrat was 243 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: able to screech by and for the first time in 244 00:15:53,920 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 1: four decades New Jersey, folks, decided to re elect a Democrat, 245 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:02,120 Speaker 1: but in Virginia. Virginia has been the story of the week, 246 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: whereas Terry mcculloff, who was trying to go for another 247 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: stab at being governor, was defeated by newcomer businessman and 248 00:16:13,840 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: Trump light or, as some have said, the delta variant 249 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 1: of Trump, Glenn Yuncan, was able to snatch the governorship 250 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 1: and essentially roll Virginia back into the nineteen fifties. Currently, 251 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:32,000 Speaker 1: black voters, once again by mainstream media and white pundents, 252 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 1: are being blamed for Terry mcculloff's lackluster campaign. What are 253 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: your thoughts on what happened in Virginia. Well, first of all, 254 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,440 Speaker 1: it is fun to be with you, Daniel, looking forward 255 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:49,360 Speaker 1: to this. I think that first of all, Democrats, we've 256 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: been fortunate in Virginia past few elections cycles because Virginia usually, 257 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 1: like traditional midterms, goes back and forth. And the fact 258 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: that it's stayed blue since Obama's first election, I mean 259 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: that was a blessing that should not have been taken 260 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,600 Speaker 1: for granted. I think there were several issues in Virginia, 261 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: first of all, that being one of those issues being 262 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: Terry mcculiffe he was not the ideal candidate. He is 263 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,000 Speaker 1: a political operative, he always has been. He is not 264 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: a charismatic, hope inspiring, social justice changing type politician. He's 265 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 1: not going to inspire anybody of the polls. In fact, 266 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 1: when he won the first time, it's pretty much what 267 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: he was seeing as Also, people talk about culture wars, 268 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,360 Speaker 1: but let's talk about the culture of Virginia. You can 269 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 1: only serve one term as governor. You can't succeed yourself, 270 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:42,199 Speaker 1: and so in four years, most Virginia governors are not 271 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,199 Speaker 1: that memorable. There's only so much you can do it 272 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:45,679 Speaker 1: for you. So it's not like somebody who has come 273 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: to Virginia be the governor and is all of a 274 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,439 Speaker 1: sudden Lyndon Johnson. And I mean, who can name the 275 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: greatest Virginia governor? No one. The only one that most 276 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: people can name historically is L. Douglas Wilder, because he 277 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,520 Speaker 1: was the first African American one to make a decision 278 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party to make a decision to resurrect 279 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: a one term governor when you really can't point of 280 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 1: anything he did. The nature of Virginia is to get 281 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: a new person every four years. The Democrats should have 282 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: followed that culture and gotten someone new for this four years. 283 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 1: This is never has only happened one other time in 284 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:28,240 Speaker 1: history where a previous governor comes back later on to 285 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,000 Speaker 1: win again. That was sometime ago. Nobody remembers what he did, 286 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:34,720 Speaker 1: so that was a mistake, and let's be honest about it. 287 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,040 Speaker 1: Why did that happen? And I think this may not 288 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: only be for telling for the midterms, but for the 289 00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:47,560 Speaker 1: presidential election. Vice president's lieutenant governors are usually groomed or 290 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,000 Speaker 1: given a runway to be a successor. That would have 291 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:57,240 Speaker 1: been justin Fairfax now, not to litigate the charges against him. 292 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: In this era of me too, there were charges brought 293 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: up against Tim on the eve of Ralph Northam's presume 294 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: presumptive resignation because of black face. And let's just be honest. 295 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:16,160 Speaker 1: We can support women, but we also have to state 296 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,439 Speaker 1: objective facts. Those allegations came up at that moment, and 297 00:19:20,480 --> 00:19:22,800 Speaker 1: at that moment only didn't come up a week before 298 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: or a week later, when Ralph Northam was pressured to resign, 299 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: those allegations came up. So we just put that out there, 300 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:34,679 Speaker 1: that being the case that nullified Ralph Northam's resignation. It 301 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,000 Speaker 1: nullified Justin Fairfax being able to assume the governorship, and 302 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 1: just even with those allegations being there and never really 303 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: being resolved or litigated, it probably nullified Justin Fairfax's hopes 304 00:19:47,960 --> 00:19:52,280 Speaker 1: of ever being governor. That's just a factum. So where 305 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: there was there no one else. I don't believe that 306 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: there were other black women who ran, and I'm not 307 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:58,919 Speaker 1: sure about the numbers. I'm looked at them. I think 308 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:01,119 Speaker 1: there were two black women and just Fairfax. And what 309 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: do we do? We split the vote. It's like we did, 310 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:07,119 Speaker 1: and you didn't bring up Boston. Now the progressive A 311 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: woman of color who won in Boston is progressive. She's good. 312 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,000 Speaker 1: But there were four black people on the ballot. All 313 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:17,720 Speaker 1: of their votes combined in Boston were greater than her votes, 314 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: the votes for her. So that's what we do. We 315 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 1: split up. And people should have been more intelligent about 316 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:28,800 Speaker 1: that in Virginia. But there were even black establishment Virginia 317 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,600 Speaker 1: politicians like um LeVar Stoney. I think he's the mayor 318 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:39,800 Speaker 1: of Richmond who had a an acquaintance with Justin Fairfax's accuser, 319 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: and conspicuusly she comes forward. He's at this pushing for 320 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: Terry McCullough, But what are you doing? I mean, even 321 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: as a young black man, why wouldn't you push for 322 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: someone else that could have won this? And again, it's 323 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: not a personal attack on Terry. If somebody said marku 324 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: Shrman for governor of Virginia, I shouldn't. It's not personal. 325 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,160 Speaker 1: That don't mean I'm a bad person or people should 326 00:21:00,160 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: like me. That's just not what is appropriate at this time. 327 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:05,440 Speaker 1: I don't live in Virginia, I don't have Somebody who 328 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,240 Speaker 1: was indigenous to Virginia politics should have run for office 329 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,159 Speaker 1: in that state, and that's where it was. So that's 330 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,520 Speaker 1: the first mistake in terms of blaming black voters. Of 331 00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 1: course it's going to happen. But I'm gonna be real 332 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: with y'all, and this is where folk might get a 333 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:22,479 Speaker 1: little uncomfortable. But the real culprit in this as always 334 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: as white women. I mean, that's white women are responsible 335 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: for Trump. In twenty sixteen, ye white women were almost 336 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,640 Speaker 1: responsible for Roy and Moore in Alabama. White women, Um so, 337 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,040 Speaker 1: I'm so. And our friend Ellie Mistol even tweeted, you mean, 338 00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: do you mean to say the day after their oral 339 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: arguments to get rid of Row which is suppose see this, 340 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: this is something that's scary. Row could actually save Democrats 341 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:50,840 Speaker 1: in the mid terms. And Row goes down, you would 342 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,240 Speaker 1: think more women of all colors would come out in droves. 343 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 1: But what did Virginia women do. Oh no, no no, no, 344 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:00,639 Speaker 1: we don't care about that because we're more worried about 345 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,240 Speaker 1: critical race theory. Be more specific than that. Not just 346 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: critical race theory, Danielle, but a black woman author. Come on, 347 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:14,719 Speaker 1: Come on, so what what is what is going on? 348 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 1: And you know it's it's it's just like twenty sixteen 349 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,960 Speaker 1: white women elected Trump and then all of them were 350 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 1: out with us at the Women's March on a day 351 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:27,800 Speaker 1: after innauguration? Is everybody back Poland how do you do that? 352 00:22:27,840 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 1: How do you vote for him and then show up 353 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: at the Women's march? That means you know something is wrong, 354 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: something in therapy is not everybody's in therapy. Well, something 355 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: may work in therapy. Mark my words, voted for Junkin. 356 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: He's gonna do something crazy. It's gonna offend those women. 357 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:42,840 Speaker 1: Oh we shouldn't done it, But why did you do 358 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,400 Speaker 1: it in first place? Because I have said this over 359 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: and over again, is that white women get their power 360 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: from their proximity to white men, and that has that 361 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: has been the case since slavery and beyond right is 362 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:02,520 Speaker 1: that so long as they is a white patriarchal figure 363 00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,640 Speaker 1: in their life, that is where they will assume their 364 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: power from. And you know, it's funny because was jahat 365 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: Ali who I have to who I have to pull 366 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:15,879 Speaker 1: up because his peace in the Daily Beast that I 367 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,159 Speaker 1: read a part of it. I read a part of 368 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 1: it yesterday on woke af because I said, you know, 369 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: here's the thing. Everybody consistently, consistently wants to call out 370 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: black voters, wants to come for us and say, well, 371 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 1: we're the reason why you're not going to get someone elected. Meanwhile, 372 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,360 Speaker 1: we're the reason. We're the ones that are always showing 373 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,160 Speaker 1: up for you. We're the reason why Biden is president 374 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: right now. And so what troubles me about white women 375 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:52,640 Speaker 1: in general is the fact that you know, he says 376 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: in in wash his Peace, he says something like, you know, 377 00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:01,879 Speaker 1: white women are never going to vote in favor of you. 378 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,240 Speaker 1: He's like he's he's like, here's the thing, and this 379 00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:07,560 Speaker 1: is what and this is what this is what he 380 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:09,640 Speaker 1: wrote that I have to that I want. I'm trying 381 00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 1: to pull up. We will see if I can. But 382 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,719 Speaker 1: he basically said, if you wouldn't get your economic stability, 383 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: you get your housing stability, you get all of those 384 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,879 Speaker 1: things from your proximity to white males. Why would you 385 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,640 Speaker 1: then decide to disrupt that? How does that work for you? Right? 386 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: And so the reality is is that they do live 387 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 1: in this very unbalanced and instable place because at one 388 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,960 Speaker 1: time they want to say, oh, well I am woman, 389 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: hear me, roar. But then when you have an opportunity 390 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 1: to step out on your own, they always always prove 391 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 1: where their allegiance lies. And I saw when in twenty sixteen, 392 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: I think I was the most shock that I had 393 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: ever been because I said, one of your own is 394 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: on the ballot. This woman, this white woman, is going 395 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 1: to break the glass ceiling that you all in the 396 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,200 Speaker 1: first wave of feminis some second wave feminism have been 397 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,919 Speaker 1: talking about four fucking decades. And so here she is 398 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 1: and they turned on her. Yeah, and with a quickness 399 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 1: for a man that literally had said that he could 400 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: grab a woman anywhere he wants because he's a star 401 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:20,760 Speaker 1: and he can do that. And they said, that's just 402 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 1: the locker room talk. Yeah, yeah, Um the eggs of 403 00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 1: pose Virginia twenty twenty fifty percent white women fifty percent 404 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 1: by forty nine percent Trump, which still too close. Um. 405 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,160 Speaker 1: The other night, white women fifty seven percent from young 406 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: forty three percent for mcculloff. So it's a combination. It 407 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: is there is in Wajahat is correct. Their proximity to 408 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: whiteness plus the weakness of Terry McAuliffe. Terry mccauliffe is 409 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: a He's an operator. Uh And I'm not even trying 410 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,720 Speaker 1: to say that in the pejorative since he's popular all 411 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:58,199 Speaker 1: of his all the Democratic Party elite and not so elite. 412 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: Everybody knows Terry's friendly. I oh, hey, it was up, 413 00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: you know. But that's not a reason for him to 414 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: run for governor Virginia. And this should have been thought 415 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: out more strategically by the party to the extent that 416 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,360 Speaker 1: there is any party, and unfortunately we're in some situations 417 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,159 Speaker 1: where there is no real party, no real organization, nor 418 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: real thought going on. People make political mistakes, but these 419 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: types of mistakes are devastating. This was not really thought 420 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: out well and it goes back to even before nor 421 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:31,919 Speaker 1: if if you look at the undermining of or the 422 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:35,879 Speaker 1: fall of Northam and Fairfax, they still had what a 423 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: couple of years to try to come up with something, 424 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,760 Speaker 1: and they didn't. No one did. You couldn't even find 425 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:42,959 Speaker 1: a way. And I know a couple of people in 426 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: that legislature who are black and minority of people of color. 427 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: Somebody should have say, hey, let's get this person together 428 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,120 Speaker 1: run for governor like tonight, it could have been done 429 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:53,680 Speaker 1: two years ago. To Northam controversy was what almost two 430 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: years ago, and when it was clear that Northam couldn't 431 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 1: run again anyway, when it was clear that Justin never 432 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: overcome that scandal. And I'm not adjudicating that, but once 433 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,080 Speaker 1: there's out there on you, there's not a whole lot 434 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: you can do with it. So Justin was finished. I 435 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: know we have friends who, oh, we gotta save Justin. 436 00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 1: I'm like, well, you know, that's not the air in 437 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 1: which we live. No, and it may not be fair 438 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 1: to him, the allegations may or may not be true, 439 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,600 Speaker 1: but the fact that they put that on him, So 440 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 1: then you go back, you deal with that as a sidebar, 441 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,720 Speaker 1: but you recruit, cultivate, incubate, but to someone else to run. 442 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,400 Speaker 1: But that's the thing that Democrats don't ever do. They 443 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 1: don't do with people of color, and they don't do well. 444 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,080 Speaker 1: And this is the thing that is frustrating me is 445 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,840 Speaker 1: that Republicans are running a playbook that they've been running 446 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 1: for fifty years. Roe v. Wade passed in nineteen seventy three, 447 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: and since nineteen seventy three and some minutes after right 448 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: Republicans have gathered themselves and said we are going to 449 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: overturn Roe v. Wade. For forty damn ne or fifty years, 450 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 1: that has been of top of mind. No other issue 451 00:27:57,119 --> 00:27:59,880 Speaker 1: has mattered. It has always been about judges. For them, 452 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,840 Speaker 1: has always been about the courts. Let us roll back 453 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 1: Rob Wade so that we can reinstitute Christian white Christian 454 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,479 Speaker 1: fundamentalism as the core pinnacle of values and morals in 455 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: this country. And people forget that the Pilgrims came here 456 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: right because they were religious zealots, right, who decided that 457 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 1: they wanted to be able to live the way that 458 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: they wanted and then not have to deal with the 459 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: king right and the monarchy. But they came here as 460 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: religious zealots. That is the foundation, right of how we 461 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: understand America. And so it's not shocking, and yet Democrats 462 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: act every time that they are so blown away by 463 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: what Republicans are doing. And I'm saying, but we saw 464 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: the writing on the wall decades ago, so where was? 465 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: Where is your long game? And this is what I 466 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: realize about Virginia and I realize about all of these 467 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: kind of purple states and then these right states, is 468 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: that there's no significant investment that is made by Democrats. 469 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:04,640 Speaker 1: The reason why Roy Moore didn't become Senator of Alabama 470 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 1: was because of black women and black people, not because 471 00:29:08,320 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 1: of the DFCC and the DNC that decided to invest 472 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 1: in Alabama because they saw it as like an opportunity. 473 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,479 Speaker 1: The fact is is that Democrats only see low hanging 474 00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: fruit as opportunity and they never want to sew any seeds. 475 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,280 Speaker 1: And then the question becomes for us going into the midterms, 476 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,360 Speaker 1: are do black women still have the morale or the 477 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 1: desire to save America from itself when America that won't 478 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: do a dog on thing in return, not even the 479 00:29:40,440 --> 00:29:46,160 Speaker 1: littlest thing you know that we need or that we 480 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: want as a people. Just over a dozen votes away 481 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,160 Speaker 1: from passage of HR forty, the Reparations Bill, Oh, we 482 00:29:54,280 --> 00:30:00,400 Speaker 1: scared can't do that, Mark, but you know, can get 483 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:03,400 Speaker 1: anything from Bill backbetter. Nothing of the agenda is going forward. 484 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,840 Speaker 1: There's not a thin single thing we can point to 485 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:08,560 Speaker 1: that our community and we just focus on black women 486 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,640 Speaker 1: and black women specifically have benefited from let me a 487 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: couple of small things. You know, the question becomes, what 488 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: is the point? How many more people can we motivate 489 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: out to the polls with that type of record coming 490 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,160 Speaker 1: from the Democratic Party and Joe Biden have a black 491 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: woman as vice president, Well, what do we have to 492 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:28,520 Speaker 1: show it? And again it's not a personal tag against her, no, 493 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: but it's it's a real question. It's a real question. 494 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: And I asked this because Mark, you have been an 495 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: activist on the front lines, marching for speaking out for 496 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: social justice, for racial justice for over three decades. And 497 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: my frustration is that how do we continue to get 498 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: black people, young people, the bipoc, you know, people to 499 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 1: want to go to the polls when it's been eleven 500 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:01,840 Speaker 1: months and we can't point to anything that Biden has done. Right, 501 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,120 Speaker 1: it's been and and everybody wants to tell me, well, Danielle, 502 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: it's only been some months, right, But I don't also 503 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: don't know where our vice president is. Have you seen her? 504 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: Because because I haven't. Yeah, yeah, um that all of 505 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: these things are problems. It's as though they want to lose, 506 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: kind of like Obama in twenty ten. Obama came out 507 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: early on after he was elected, sid I'm gonna lose 508 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: the mid terms already. No, I'm gonna lose the bit terms. 509 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:30,040 Speaker 1: And we're like, why are you saying that? Why don't 510 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:31,680 Speaker 1: you try to fight for it? Was like they just 511 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 1: accepted it, and some of the same operators that were 512 00:31:35,280 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: in the Biden administration, I mean, the Obama administration around 513 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 1: and I think they may have already conceded that, but 514 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: it's going to be devastating UM. And and maybe they 515 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,840 Speaker 1: need to be honest about that that maybe the party 516 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: itself needs a total overhaul and redirection. And I just 517 00:31:55,120 --> 00:32:00,040 Speaker 1: don't see that as as forthcoming could bounce back from this. 518 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,800 Speaker 1: But there's gonna have to be a list of some 519 00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,400 Speaker 1: stuff is gonna have to get done. The people gonna 520 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: have to see some type of track record in this 521 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: UM and there's gonna have to be some you know, 522 00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:19,040 Speaker 1: some backbone in the party it's candidates and in its rhetoric, 523 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:25,120 Speaker 1: and that is really the message from Virginia. There's going 524 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,760 Speaker 1: to have to be a direct call out of specific 525 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: issues for Candida. I just don't think they can run 526 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:38,480 Speaker 1: an anti Trump message in every district. UM deal with 527 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:41,920 Speaker 1: the candidate that's there and call that person out specifically 528 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: like they should have done, yun Ken. I think those 529 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,880 Speaker 1: are things that are gonna have to gonna have to 530 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,000 Speaker 1: happen to have any shot of holding the House, much 531 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,800 Speaker 1: less the Senate. UM and then put some candidates out 532 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,719 Speaker 1: there that are really going to inspire people, not the 533 00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:01,200 Speaker 1: same old UM. I don't really like the term corporate 534 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,880 Speaker 1: because any given day somebody can be corporate or not, 535 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: but more so people with with energy, enthusiasm, progressive ideas. 536 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 1: It's the progressive ideas and agenda that most voters are 537 00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: motivated by any way. And if to the extent I 538 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:19,480 Speaker 1: mentioned cultural wars earlier, don't want to get in, but 539 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: to get into that now, Okay, So if there is 540 00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,280 Speaker 1: a cultural war coming up going going on, let's take 541 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,600 Speaker 1: a claim and get in it. You know, is the 542 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,720 Speaker 1: culture war about white supremacy versus is justice? Let's call 543 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 1: that what it is. Right, celebrating the Confederacy, all the things. Yeah, 544 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: all of that. I mean, let's call it out and 545 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: let us offer alternatives as Democrats for the opposite. Let's 546 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:49,640 Speaker 1: expand curricular. First of all, critical race theory is taught 547 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 1: at the earliest at the graduate level. There is no 548 00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: such thing. They are weaponizing something in the same way 549 00:33:55,560 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: they're weaponized Jeremiah right and Jim Cone into thousand and eight, 550 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 1: you mean to tell me, in all these years you 551 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 1: have been maybe to figure out an answer to that, 552 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: You're just gonna ignore it, you know, succumb to it. 553 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: We've got to know, we've got to draw these uh, 554 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,520 Speaker 1: these challenges, and the only way to do that is 555 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:21,760 Speaker 1: by having inspiring candidates that inspire and motivate BIPOC voters 556 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,480 Speaker 1: to the polls and give them something to do. But 557 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,000 Speaker 1: then but then you also at the same time have 558 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 1: to show have something to show for it. This is 559 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,520 Speaker 1: what Democrats have done since we fought to get Biden 560 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 1: elected and to bring a House and sent a majority, 561 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,920 Speaker 1: nothing to show for nothing. And you know what really 562 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: is troubling to me is that my mother, right, staunch Democrat, 563 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 1: used to sit herself in front of MSNBC every day 564 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: all day, has become absolutely disgusted with mainstream cable news. 565 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,120 Speaker 1: Has become absolute disgusted with the political climate. She told 566 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: me the other day. She goes, yeah, I don't watch 567 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,120 Speaker 1: anything anymore. I just need your sixty second updates. And 568 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:12,440 Speaker 1: I'm good because I don't need to steep myself in 569 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,239 Speaker 1: this toxicity. And I think to myself, if you are 570 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:21,160 Speaker 1: turning if the Democrats are turning off people like my mother, right, 571 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: a black woman, business, small business owner, immigrant to this country. 572 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:33,160 Speaker 1: You know, middle class, highly educated, second, you know, multiple degrees. 573 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,560 Speaker 1: If you are turning her off, then how do we 574 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:42,160 Speaker 1: have any possibility of turning on folks who were never 575 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:44,360 Speaker 1: engaged in the first place? And the things that you 576 00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,959 Speaker 1: were offering are the things that we've been saying. Yeah. Right, 577 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: So we have a new head of the DNC. Right, 578 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,120 Speaker 1: you have Jamie Harrison black Man. Right, you have all 579 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:00,319 Speaker 1: of these black politicos that are in places of power now, 580 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,359 Speaker 1: and yet Mark nothing has seemed to change. Why is that? 581 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:08,560 Speaker 1: Are we just putting black faces in high spaces and 582 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:13,279 Speaker 1: assuming that that is enough? Well breaking news? The chair 583 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 1: of the the DNC has little or no power, influence, or authority. 584 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,680 Speaker 1: And I know Jamie loved brother, He's a good brother. 585 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 1: But that's not where the source of change and influence is. 586 00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,560 Speaker 1: It's it's sort of in you know, it's really an 587 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:33,760 Speaker 1: honorary position. It's the people who run these local races 588 00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: that are important, and Jamie really can't tell them what 589 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:41,000 Speaker 1: to do. I think we have an embedded consultant class 590 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:44,800 Speaker 1: throughout the Democratic Party, and these consultants are mostly white, 591 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: many of them Zuckerberg types, and they think they know 592 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: everything and they just don't. And people like us don't 593 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,839 Speaker 1: know squat. They think we're not qualified or intelligent enough 594 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,520 Speaker 1: to offer any type of input or advice in these situations. 595 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,120 Speaker 1: And I think that's where the problem is. That a 596 00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,480 Speaker 1: Terry mcculoff campaign that wasn't just a casual decision that 597 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: he and some friends made, that was consultant to death. 598 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,319 Speaker 1: This is what you do want to do it, right? 599 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,840 Speaker 1: They I'm assuming they focus grouped that. Yeah, and they 600 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,520 Speaker 1: and it was stupid. Even the whole idea behind him 601 00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: running all of that was a mistake and a real 602 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,319 Speaker 1: long shot. And so I think that all of this 603 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:27,040 Speaker 1: has to be rethought reset, and it starts at the top. 604 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:32,160 Speaker 1: I mean, you cannot have a president who is beholden 605 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,799 Speaker 1: to one at the most wanting to have if you 606 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 1: include cinema senators, So, Daniel, most of us went to school, elementary, 607 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,440 Speaker 1: high school. Who the presidents. We learned about a school, 608 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,040 Speaker 1: We learned about Lincoln, we learned about Roosevelt, you know, 609 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,040 Speaker 1: we learned about Kennedy, Johnson and mixing because of Watergate, 610 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 1: and now Obama because it was first. So that's pretty 611 00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,000 Speaker 1: much what you get. So you go through the history 612 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,279 Speaker 1: of those presidents and you get to Johnson, what's the 613 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: first thing or even after they are here, with presidents 614 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:06,480 Speaker 1: who got things done in spite of the legislature or 615 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,880 Speaker 1: with the support of legislature, there's no day, there's no 616 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,480 Speaker 1: lesson in school. There's no page in the history book 617 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:20,200 Speaker 1: that explains a senator controlling a president. And so that's incomprehensible. 618 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,319 Speaker 1: So I think, what happens with your vomit? Everybody else 619 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,439 Speaker 1: it's a hamstudent. What I need to the cable news 620 00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:29,040 Speaker 1: because cable news can't even explain it. It's incomprehensible and 621 00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,479 Speaker 1: inexplicable for people to say, wait a minute, we vote 622 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,120 Speaker 1: of him, but why can't he get anything done? Mansion, mansion, mansion, 623 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,759 Speaker 1: there's the people don't that doesn't compute for people. I mean, 624 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,000 Speaker 1: you turn it off. We hear that man's name Mansion, 625 00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 1: more than I hear Biden's name, and frankly more than 626 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:47,319 Speaker 1: I have heard our you know, vice president who I 627 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,160 Speaker 1: said the other day, I want to put on a 628 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:52,200 Speaker 1: milk carton because I honestly don't know. I don't know 629 00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 1: if it's strategy that they are keeping Kamala Harris out 630 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,200 Speaker 1: of you know, the limelight, or or what is happening there. 631 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,279 Speaker 1: But the reality is is that what pisses people off, 632 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,440 Speaker 1: like my mother, is that she didn't have an opportunity 633 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,279 Speaker 1: to vote for Joe Mansion. She don't live in West 634 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,959 Speaker 1: vir right, she don't live in Arizona, so she sure 635 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 1: is hel didn't vote for Kristen Cinema. So when we 636 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 1: look at these things that we say, wait a minute, 637 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:20,040 Speaker 1: the balance of power is absolutely off in so many ways. 638 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,319 Speaker 1: I mean, we have workers' strikes happening in across industries 639 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,200 Speaker 1: because we realize that the capitalist structure that we live 640 00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:30,560 Speaker 1: in is unbalanced, right, and so our society, our political 641 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: landscape is so unbalanced where you have exactly one and 642 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,799 Speaker 1: a half senators that no one voted for outside of 643 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,759 Speaker 1: their combined maybe fourteen, maybe ten million people that live 644 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 1: in those places combined, right, that voted for them. And 645 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 1: so if you are a person that believes in the 646 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:53,080 Speaker 1: power of your citizensury and the responsibility thereof, and then 647 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,759 Speaker 1: you recognize that the person that you voted for is 648 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: beholden to them, then you're going to start second guessing 649 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,000 Speaker 1: your vote and why how you voted to begin with 650 00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:05,239 Speaker 1: right right, well, and and again it's frustrating because nobody 651 00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 1: can understand it. Nobody can can explain it. So you 652 00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:13,359 Speaker 1: do what you gotta do. Mansions for sale, see it again, 653 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,840 Speaker 1: it's the consultant class. It. Well, you can do this 654 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:16,799 Speaker 1: to it. We don't hear from common because I'm gonna 655 00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,839 Speaker 1: tell you one thing the consultant class I think really 656 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:22,400 Speaker 1: has perfected is the art of nothingness. Don't take it. 657 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 1: Vice President Daniel Moody Mills LAILO. Don't take a position 658 00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 1: on anything because you can't. Then you can't be held 659 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:29,920 Speaker 1: a counter everything, you can't be blamed for anything. So 660 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: just kind of fading to the back. I mean, I 661 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,719 Speaker 1: really think that's what the mentality is. Don't take a 662 00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,320 Speaker 1: hard line position or step out there on anything. Plus 663 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:43,040 Speaker 1: the fact in terms of mansion. He's for sale. Yeah, 664 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,520 Speaker 1: so wait a minute. Democratic Party, somebody was saying, uh, 665 00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,080 Speaker 1: Black Women's views on Twitter was saying, one thing we 666 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:51,359 Speaker 1: need a couple of days break from is all these 667 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:53,600 Speaker 1: emails and texts to send five dollars because you're only 668 00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:56,640 Speaker 1: doing nothing with the money. Obviously, y'all Democrats with sendmi 669 00:40:56,640 --> 00:40:58,360 Speaker 1: five dollars. Give us a just give us the weekend 670 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:00,160 Speaker 1: off after a gin. You didn't go back Monday, but 671 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,640 Speaker 1: they still the next day they text and send it. 672 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:04,200 Speaker 1: Send some money, sends some money. People sick of that. 673 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,440 Speaker 1: They burned out from it. But the fact is the Democrats, 674 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:09,839 Speaker 1: unlike Democrats of thirty years ago, raised a whole lot 675 00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:13,400 Speaker 1: of money, got big Hollywood constituencies. If matching is for sale, 676 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,640 Speaker 1: go back. What is your price? You w what is 677 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,319 Speaker 1: the price now? One price might be And Marcos and 678 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:24,880 Speaker 1: Daily Coast have talked about this. The Democrats are considering 679 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,400 Speaker 1: some form of restitution, you could almost call the reparations 680 00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,400 Speaker 1: for families whose children were taken from them and dislocated 681 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,640 Speaker 1: right during it. And I'm not opposed to that. That 682 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:40,360 Speaker 1: should happen, just like HR four, they should happen. But 683 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,439 Speaker 1: that's a whole other situation. That's not even the money yet, 684 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:44,879 Speaker 1: but they don't. They're scared of that, So do that. 685 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,760 Speaker 1: But go to Joe manchioner, their bad West Virginia, who's struggling, 686 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: who's poor. They would benefit from bill back better in 687 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,239 Speaker 1: West Virginia, even more than we would. So okay, let's 688 00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:57,399 Speaker 1: put in the bill all these coal miners and coal 689 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,560 Speaker 1: miners families who are in an obsolete entry industry. Let's 690 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,440 Speaker 1: put him on a pension from from now to the 691 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,120 Speaker 1: rest of their lives. Pay him who would be opposed 692 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,719 Speaker 1: to take them? Take them, cut Joe under his very 693 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:11,879 Speaker 1: knees with his own constituency. Let's take care of those people. 694 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,439 Speaker 1: So he didn't have that as an excuse anymore. They 695 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,920 Speaker 1: are taken care of because their industry is dead. They're 696 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:22,680 Speaker 1: paid for life. What's your excuse now? But if he's 697 00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: for sale, then going by him all this will we 698 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,879 Speaker 1: gotta see what he's gonna do, and let's just kind 699 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,280 Speaker 1: of talk what is it? And Joe Biden is supposed 700 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,239 Speaker 1: to be as much a master of the Senate and 701 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:38,040 Speaker 1: Senate politics as LBJ was, So people like your mom, 702 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,680 Speaker 1: I know, and others don't get it. And so there's 703 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,120 Speaker 1: a point if you don't get you turned on on 704 00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,080 Speaker 1: TV off, This is not telling you anything if you 705 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,040 Speaker 1: can't explain to me how the's one person this has 706 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,040 Speaker 1: never happened before in history. One senator and then then Biden. 707 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,280 Speaker 1: Then who was a consultant watched this? Who was a consultant? 708 00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,160 Speaker 1: Y'all to says, now, before you go to Rome, go 709 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:01,080 Speaker 1: give a speech and say this is the biggest moment 710 00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:03,960 Speaker 1: of your agenda, and if this doesn't pass, then that 711 00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,560 Speaker 1: will define your presidency. And I need this pass before 712 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,800 Speaker 1: I leave a room. Don't do that before you know 713 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,719 Speaker 1: if you've really got the votes or not, even on 714 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,719 Speaker 1: the progressive side. Not to mention Mansion because Mansion never 715 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,120 Speaker 1: agreed to it. And that's what Jara Paul and everybody 716 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,319 Speaker 1: else sait, Wait a minute, has Mansion agreed to this? 717 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,839 Speaker 1: Corey Bush had a good suggestion, make them in the 718 00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,680 Speaker 1: Senate pass build back better before we pass infastr That's 719 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:29,320 Speaker 1: what I said, the same thing. And Representative Corey Bush 720 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,600 Speaker 1: is so strategic and so smart, because I am so 721 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,920 Speaker 1: tired too of Nancy Pelosi saying, well, we've passed hundreds 722 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,839 Speaker 1: of pieces of legislation in the house. I don't give 723 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: a damn right, because to me, that is like a 724 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:44,719 Speaker 1: substitute teacher coming into a class and saying, here are 725 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:46,399 Speaker 1: all the dittos that you need to fill out until 726 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,279 Speaker 1: your real teacher comes back, because I just need to 727 00:43:48,360 --> 00:43:51,719 Speaker 1: keep you busy. Yeah, right, And so this is this 728 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,279 Speaker 1: is the problem that we are going to continue to 729 00:43:55,320 --> 00:44:01,600 Speaker 1: have until we restabilize right our political landscape and recognize 730 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,839 Speaker 1: who actually should have the power and who doesn't and 731 00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:09,040 Speaker 1: figure out how to reorient that. Folks. This is our 732 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:13,040 Speaker 1: first ever, make it plain and woke as fuck crossover. 733 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 1: We are trying to come up with a name for 734 00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,520 Speaker 1: what it's going to be when Mark and I sit 735 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:21,480 Speaker 1: down and talk once a month. So if you have ideas, 736 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,839 Speaker 1: drop them in the comments section on both of our 737 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,319 Speaker 1: shows and let us know. Mark, thank you so much. 738 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:33,719 Speaker 1: We gotta go rage against the machine, but off the mic. 739 00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Appreciate you, Thank you, Danielle friends. As always, 740 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,400 Speaker 1: at the end of every Friday show, I love to 741 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,680 Speaker 1: shout out my super supporters and my wokeust for all 742 00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,760 Speaker 1: of your amazing support, but I just want to shout 743 00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,480 Speaker 1: out all of you patrons in general for the support 744 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,120 Speaker 1: that you've had of Woke a f as we have 745 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,600 Speaker 1: made transitions, made tweaks, and you got eyes have been 746 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,440 Speaker 1: riding with us from the beginning, and I appreciate that. 747 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,800 Speaker 1: I hope that you are enjoying this new video side 748 00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:10,200 Speaker 1: of Woke. Affidaily and tell me what you would like 749 00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:13,080 Speaker 1: to see more of, because that would be really helpful 750 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,520 Speaker 1: as we're on this journey. But as always at the 751 00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:18,480 Speaker 1: end of every Friday show, let me shout out my 752 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,560 Speaker 1: super supporters. Abdul Sada, a met year Wood, Courtney Battle Courtney, 753 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:28,160 Speaker 1: Dana Garcia, Dana Holmes, Denise Grenier, Desire Voudoon, Donna maybrey 754 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:33,880 Speaker 1: Erskine Hawkins, Glenn Herb Campbell, Jennifer Reeve, Jennifer Tress, Joshua Silo, 755 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:40,000 Speaker 1: Jay Torres, kay Altham, Kamia Shaw, Katherine Dusell, Lt. Larry Wilkis, Levation, 756 00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:44,920 Speaker 1: Glenn Lisa Athena, Lynn Fields, Miss Michael d. Burlison, Nicole Gayar, 757 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:49,800 Speaker 1: Nicole Moody, Nicki Hudson, Robin Todd, Rochelle Kitkart, Samantha Sargent, 758 00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:56,320 Speaker 1: Sata Callahan, Siabunga, Siatole, Stephanie Richin, Susan Raeafer, Tennisha Massey, 759 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,719 Speaker 1: Tina Jackson, Todd Hadel, Travis and Zach mccampis. Thank you, 760 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:05,799 Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you to my wokeus, Christy Hey Good, Harridus, Apostelidas, 761 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:10,800 Speaker 1: Jeremy Lee, Kristin Monroe, Louis K. Smith, Lindsay Gwynn, Malorie Mking, 762 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:16,760 Speaker 1: Nicole M Young, Tania Evans, Zenanta Valencia, Lisdebald, and Michael 763 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:21,120 Speaker 1: Newton my dad. I appreciate you all so so very much. 764 00:46:21,440 --> 00:46:24,680 Speaker 1: Have a happy, healthy and RESTful Friday, and I will 765 00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,520 Speaker 1: see you back here on Monday. As always, Power to 766 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,320 Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke 767 00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:32,919 Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.