1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wika F Daily with 2 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:19,800 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Long Island Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: as we close out this Pride Month on woka F, 4 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 1: I want to share some of my thoughts and reflections 5 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:33,520 Speaker 1: on our theme that we started the month with, which 6 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,520 Speaker 1: is that Pride is a riot right. Pride started out 7 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:46,880 Speaker 1: as a activation point when you know, Marsha P. Johnson, 8 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:53,440 Speaker 1: black trans woman, and others had had enough of being 9 00:00:54,320 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: bullied by police, of being beaten, of being oppressed, of 10 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,559 Speaker 1: having their just basic human dignity stripped away because they 11 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: had the audacity to be out and queer in a 12 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: world that refuses to see them. And what is unfortunate 13 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: is that, for the first time in my life, and 14 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: I'm sure for the first time in your lives, we 15 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 1: are living at a time when it isn't about progression anymore. 16 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 1: It isn't about expansion of rights that were denied marginalized 17 00:01:29,959 --> 00:01:33,440 Speaker 1: people because at the writing of this constitution you had 18 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 1: the white men that were in power who owned other people, 19 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: telling us what the laws should look like in a 20 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 1: democratic land. I mean, let that just sink in. And 21 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,240 Speaker 1: now you have a radicalized, corrupt Supreme Court who is 22 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,920 Speaker 1: deciding that there is no precedent and they are going 23 00:01:51,960 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: to be the originalist. So essentially, I don't know what 24 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,640 Speaker 1: the Clarence Thomas is doing on the Supreme Court, because 25 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 1: you know, if they want to be that original then 26 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: maybe I don't know. Slavery should come back, right, and 27 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 1: so he should have no voice and have no place. 28 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 1: I think about how hard the LGBTQ community has fought 29 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 1: over the last several decades, and the part, the small 30 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,920 Speaker 1: part that I have played in the fight for marriage equality, 31 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: in the fight for dignity, respect and humanity as a 32 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:33,239 Speaker 1: voice of the community. And I think that for a while, right, 33 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,399 Speaker 1: and I've said this before on this show, that during 34 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: the Obama years, we all got comfortable because we had 35 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: felt that there had been decades of fighting, decades of blood, 36 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: decades of loss. I mean, if you would think about 37 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,080 Speaker 1: the first pandemic to hit this country was the AIDS epidemic, 38 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: and because of who it was killing initially, the Reagan 39 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,080 Speaker 1: administration didn't give a fuck, right, they wouldn't even utter 40 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,600 Speaker 1: the word AIDS. So let it wipe out the queer 41 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:05,920 Speaker 1: community that we think is an abomination anyway. That tells 42 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:11,680 Speaker 1: you who these people are, that regardless of their sexual 43 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:16,079 Speaker 1: orientation or gender identity, they were human beings that were 44 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: dying literally in the streets, and the President of the 45 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: United States could have given a shit right. During the 46 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 1: Obama years fast forward, we thought that we had arrived, 47 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,280 Speaker 1: that we had gotten to this place where equity and 48 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: justice was going, was it within our reach, and that 49 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: we were seeing it. We were celebrating, And then we 50 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: got complacent because we believe that once things were codified 51 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: into law, which they are not, but once the Supreme 52 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 1: Court had made this decision to respect the rights of 53 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,960 Speaker 1: human beings, that we would never be living at a 54 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: time when that same body would be the body to 55 00:03:54,400 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 1: take away constitutional rights that are earned. So I sit 56 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,920 Speaker 1: here today on the last day of Pride, and I'm 57 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: thinking to myself, we have to riot, we have to 58 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,960 Speaker 1: get out into the streets. We have to recognize that 59 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: the powers that the supposed founding fathers of this nation 60 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: granted the people was that the will of the people 61 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: were going to move the representatives of this country and 62 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,880 Speaker 1: not the other fucking way around. And the thing is 63 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: is that I think that our representatives have gotten way 64 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,480 Speaker 1: too fucking comfortable right that, I've gotten a series of 65 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 1: emails and text messages from the Biden administration, from Nancy Pelosi, 66 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:46,320 Speaker 1: and I'm like, miss me with your bullshit. I don't 67 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: want you all in power anymore, and I don't want 68 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 1: to give you power anymore. As a matter of fact, 69 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:56,159 Speaker 1: I'm reclaiming my motherfucking time and my mother fucking energy, 70 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: and I'm going to put that into state and local 71 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 1: work right into doing the best that I can to 72 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: protect my little community, my hub, my space, because you 73 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: all don't do dick with the power that is given 74 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: to you. And so unless the people decide that we 75 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 1: have had enough of feckless fucking leadership, until the people 76 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 1: decide that we have had enough of people giving us 77 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,599 Speaker 1: lip service and then doing nothing with the power that 78 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: we have given them, you know, I want to tell 79 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: you this. Kamala Harris went on and did an interview 80 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:36,599 Speaker 1: with Dana Bash on CNN following the Roe v. Wade decision, 81 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 1: and Dana Bash asked a very basic fucking question, what 82 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:50,880 Speaker 1: do you say to Democrats who voted to get you 83 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:56,279 Speaker 1: in office, who voted for a democratic House, who voted 84 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:01,200 Speaker 1: for the democratic control of the Senate and are saying, 85 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: do something, do something now. Vice President Harris's response to 86 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 1: that very clear question was do what now? You're the 87 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,480 Speaker 1: vice president of the United States. The last time I checked, 88 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: this wasn't just a figurehead position, right that the president 89 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: and the vice president of these United States have the 90 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: power to get things done, but need the actual will 91 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: to do so. The democratic establishment is sitting around, and 92 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:37,719 Speaker 1: even Republicans, as my colleague on the other show that 93 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: I do democracy Ish said, even Republicans are saying in 94 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: quiet like, I can't believe Democrats aren't pushing back more 95 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: as to what is happening right now? Yeah, so are 96 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: the rest of us sending a fundraising fucking email about 97 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade instead of putting it together an action plan, 98 00:06:56,120 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: instead of putting abortion clinics on, like stay fucking lines 99 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: right so that people don't have to figure out how 100 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: they're going to travel cross state lines, get plane tickets, 101 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:15,200 Speaker 1: and do all of these things. Figuring out the strategic, creative, 102 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:19,800 Speaker 1: innovative ways to fucking protect the very people that voted 103 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: for you, instead of throwing up your hands and saying, 104 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,520 Speaker 1: do what now, then get the fuck out of the way, 105 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: Because I am coming this close to starting to actively 106 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: call for Democrats who actually give a shit, like Alexandrio 107 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 1: Cassio Cortez and Cory Bush and the others, to fucking 108 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: mobilize the Third Party, because I am so tired of 109 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: being told what Democrats can't do and what they're unwilling 110 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 1: to do because those that are in leadership are wealthy, 111 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: and they are white, and they are protected, and they 112 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,600 Speaker 1: think that the rest of us, oh, you'll get another 113 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: shot at some point. But what is how opening in 114 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:02,760 Speaker 1: this country? Now? What we the rest of us are 115 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 1: going to have to live with for the next thirty 116 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 1: forty fifty years, they'll be long dead and gone, so 117 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: they could really care less. So without the actions of 118 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: people recognizing that it is time for us to hit 119 00:08:17,680 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: these streets, It's time for a national fucking work boycott. 120 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,320 Speaker 1: It's time for us to shut this ship down and 121 00:08:25,360 --> 00:08:29,080 Speaker 1: to remind these elected officials who exactly they work for. 122 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: And I'm saying, you know, I don't advocate for violence 123 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: at all. I don't advocate for violence, but I want 124 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 1: to be very clear that the right does that they 125 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,600 Speaker 1: are advocating for violence. That each and every measure that 126 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: you are seeing coming out of this Supreme Court. Each 127 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: and everything that you're seeing coming out of the mouths 128 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: of Republican candidates is a flare. Is a signal to 129 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 1: what they are willing to do and how far they 130 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: are willing to go in order to control this country 131 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,280 Speaker 1: and everyone and everything in it. So if we're not 132 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: ready and willing, right, everyone needs to start thinking about 133 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 1: what they're going to be willing to sacrifice and stand 134 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: up for in order to fight for our freedom, because 135 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: it's going to be us on the front lines, not 136 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: these elected officials that are sitting up in their fucking 137 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: ivory towers, praying and wagging their fingers at their opponents 138 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: that literally seventeen months ago tried to fucking kill them. 139 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,679 Speaker 1: If that wasn't a wake up call, I don't know 140 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: what the hell is, but I know the rest of 141 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:37,080 Speaker 1: us are not hitting snooze anymore. 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So 170 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: subscribe to Slate's Political Gapfest, new episodes every Thursday, Folks. 171 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:44,520 Speaker 1: I'm very happy to welcome to woke f Daily for 172 00:11:44,960 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: the first time, Representative Liz Bennett, who is running for 173 00:11:49,880 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: State Senate in Iowa and is the will be let's 174 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,079 Speaker 1: speak good things into the universe, will be the first 175 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: out LGBTQ woman to be in the state Senate if 176 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:10,959 Speaker 1: you win your the general election. Has been a representative 177 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: in the House of the Iowa House since twenty fourteen 178 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: when you were first elected, Representative Bennett, tell me the 179 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:27,440 Speaker 1: significance of that historic win for you and also for 180 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,880 Speaker 1: the state of Iowa. Absolutely. You know, Daniel, only think 181 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 1: representation matters, and I don't think I realized that as 182 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: much until after I got elected. You know, when you 183 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: are a queer woman and you're running for office, you 184 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: can often be reduced to certain aspects of your identity. 185 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 1: So I felt like when I was running, I had 186 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:56,679 Speaker 1: to extra extra lean on other things, you know, other 187 00:12:56,800 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: aspects of my identity. You know, of course I inhabit 188 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 1: the space of a queer woman in Iowa. But really 189 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: I was running. I was running on more economic issues. 190 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: I was running on raising the minimum wage, I was 191 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:13,840 Speaker 1: running on climate change, I was running on early childhood education, 192 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:16,160 Speaker 1: et cetera. But I felt like I had to be 193 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 1: extra conscious of, you know, kind of quote unquote not 194 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: making an issue of the queer thing. We'll just say, 195 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 1: you know, So the first year that I was there, 196 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean I was out and everything, but 197 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,920 Speaker 1: I just really hardly talked about it. That started to 198 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 1: change for me when school counselors who were bringing field 199 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: trips to the capitol would reach out and say, hey, 200 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: I heard that you are a member of the LGBTQ community. 201 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 1: I have some students who I think would really benefit 202 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: from speaking with you. And so just as that started 203 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: to happen over time and I started to speak as events, 204 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: I started to see how important it really was, you know, 205 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,400 Speaker 1: to be out and proud in that role, especially in 206 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: the state of Iowa. You know, was it initially the 207 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,120 Speaker 1: desire not to make it front and center. Was it 208 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,679 Speaker 1: because of fear right that you know, the folks, the 209 00:14:12,720 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: hetero folks in Iowa would say, oh my god, we 210 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:19,600 Speaker 1: can't possibly have this out queer woman, you know, representing us. 211 00:14:19,720 --> 00:14:23,120 Speaker 1: Or did you just not see it as necessary? Because 212 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: there there are there are different reasons why, you know, uh, 213 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: candidates make the decisions that they do. So I just 214 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,760 Speaker 1: want to understand what your initial thought was and then 215 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,520 Speaker 1: the and then the shift. Yeah. Absolutely so, No, it 216 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,359 Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily a fear on issue at all. I'm very lucky. 217 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: Um I got my start in politics, really, um my 218 00:14:44,840 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: real start, you know, as a Stonewall Stonewall Democrat, Um, 219 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: I worked to protect marriage of quality in the state 220 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 1: of Iowa. So really the network that I had built 221 00:14:54,640 --> 00:15:02,359 Speaker 1: was built around that training, mobilizing, voter identification, old fundraising 222 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So it wasn't that you know, 223 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: I was afraid or anything, because I you know, I 224 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: was a small place. You know, everybody knew. But it 225 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: was more of the feeling that, um, you know that 226 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: aspect of a person's identity, it can just really become 227 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:24,520 Speaker 1: front and center in a person's mind. And unfortunately, you know, 228 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: there's certain issues for which a person would not be told, 229 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: m oh, well that's less important or people don't really 230 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: care about that, you know, but I think issues pertaining 231 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: to marginalize people are still given that treatment. So I 232 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: felt like I really had to prove and remind people, Hey, 233 00:15:46,800 --> 00:15:50,080 Speaker 1: I am a female trainer for a technology company here 234 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: in Iowa. You know, I'm working with people. Some of 235 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,040 Speaker 1: these folks this is going to be their first family 236 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:59,640 Speaker 1: sustaining job. You know, I've competed in this environment. I'm 237 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,120 Speaker 1: taking the perspective of a young professional to the state legislature. 238 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:07,120 Speaker 1: I'm taking the perspective of somebody who chose to stay 239 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: in Iowa after graduation, who knows what it's like to 240 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: you know, have to work extra shifts to pay your phone, 241 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: both things like that. You know, I really had to 242 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:23,520 Speaker 1: remind people that I'm a fully fledged person with a 243 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: lot of different experiences that connect to the struggles that 244 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 1: we're all facing. You know, what we are learning right 245 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,920 Speaker 1: with these horrific decisions that have been brought down by 246 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:40,200 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court and kind of, in my humble opinion, 247 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: currently a very ineffectual administration is that the power really 248 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:50,000 Speaker 1: is in the States. So can you talk to us 249 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:57,440 Speaker 1: about the importance right of of people like yourself being 250 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:02,160 Speaker 1: in the state legislature and the impact UM that is 251 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: necessary to fight back against what we are seeing at 252 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:14,359 Speaker 1: the UM at the federal at the federal level. Absolutely, Daniel, 253 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:17,560 Speaker 1: I'm incredibly passionate about this, and I'm so glad that 254 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: you that you asked about it because you know, I 255 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,960 Speaker 1: think even before I ran for office, UM, you know, 256 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,040 Speaker 1: I think with my experience here working on marriage equality 257 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:31,400 Speaker 1: in Iowa, you know, something that kind of shocked everybody nationwide. UM. 258 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:36,280 Speaker 1: You know, even when New York states UM legalize marriage 259 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:39,560 Speaker 1: between same same sex people. UM, it was one of 260 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,760 Speaker 1: those like underhanded, you know, kind of shade comments where 261 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:45,840 Speaker 1: they said, come on, even Iowa has this, but what 262 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 1: that right? Right? I was like, yeah, okay, whatever, you 263 00:17:51,760 --> 00:17:55,160 Speaker 1: don't know, you don't know anything about us, but whatever, right, 264 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:00,080 Speaker 1: you know. But that's just a small illustration of of 265 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:03,719 Speaker 1: you know, especially for folks who are living in really 266 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: difficult states and difficult political situations. UM, the progressive activism 267 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 1: there really makes a difference. You know, polsters are looking 268 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:18,479 Speaker 1: at what people believe in some of these states. UM. 269 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: You know, in a state like Iowa, you know, we 270 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,240 Speaker 1: still are currently first in the nation with the Caucuses. Um, 271 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 1: you know, so what happens here, you know, for me, 272 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,919 Speaker 1: really is a way to influence what happens in the 273 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:35,800 Speaker 1: rest of the nation. Um. You know now that we 274 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,440 Speaker 1: don't have a right to privacy, apparently now that your 275 00:18:40,480 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: trash can has more of an expectation of privacy than 276 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: your uterus. Damn, it's right. It's mind blowing. It's it's 277 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 1: just mind blowing. It's one of these things. You know, 278 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: maybe you feel like this sometimes, Daniel. We know these things, 279 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,119 Speaker 1: you know, we know these things, but I think it's 280 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 1: a coping mechanism. It's almost like it's still unbelievable or 281 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 1: it's still shocking. And I really think that's because it 282 00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: really is so much to internalize that, like literally, a 283 00:19:17,040 --> 00:19:23,000 Speaker 1: trash can, a trash can, a corpse has has more rights. Um. 284 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,240 Speaker 1: You know, So when we're talking about getting thrown back 285 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:31,560 Speaker 1: to the States, Um, you know, people have to know 286 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,320 Speaker 1: that what has happened at the federal level is the 287 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: result of a concerted effort unfortunately by people. We know, 288 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: people we say at the gas station, yep, our neighbors, 289 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: our friends, our family members, and so what that means 290 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: is that we have to get active in our communities. Um. 291 00:19:53,800 --> 00:19:57,840 Speaker 1: That's gonna look like grassroots organizing in my opinion. UM, 292 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: it's gonna look like looking really looking at the numbers 293 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:09,880 Speaker 1: and statewide organizations, looking at realistically what state legislative seats 294 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:16,439 Speaker 1: could be could be turned or kept with additional capacity 295 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: and funds. It's gonna look like you know, for forty 296 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: nine years, the right has been looking at building their 297 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,560 Speaker 1: bench and not allowing people to get away with saying 298 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: things like, oh well, on the city council level, I 299 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:35,560 Speaker 1: would never have to make a decision on that, or 300 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:39,400 Speaker 1: this is a nonpartisan office. Um. You know, we hear 301 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 1: that all the time. But we know that these local 302 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: races are a springboard, you know, to state in national politics. 303 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: And we also know that locally elected officials m you know, 304 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:57,560 Speaker 1: who are on more directly answerable to citizens, can actually 305 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:03,360 Speaker 1: make decisions. I mean, locally electeds can make zoning decisions. Um, yep, 306 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 1: you know they can. They can make curriculum decisions, yep. 307 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:13,640 Speaker 1: Um you know county attorneys um, you know, and even 308 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,000 Speaker 1: attorneys general of states can make decisions on what is 309 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:21,879 Speaker 1: prosecuted um in your state. Um, you know we I 310 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: think we've talked about this a lot um, but you know, 311 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:30,080 Speaker 1: your mayor and your city council, UM, they can hire 312 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:35,000 Speaker 1: and fire the people who work for the police department. UM. 313 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: You know, so your county attorney, your your local elected officials, 314 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,679 Speaker 1: your police, you know on up to your state legislative officials. 315 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:47,880 Speaker 1: We really can make a difference in those races. One 316 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 1: of the questions that I am listening to people ask 317 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:58,640 Speaker 1: these days is about the sustaining the anger right, sustaining 318 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 1: the rage, sustaining the fury that we have right now, 319 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,160 Speaker 1: recognizing that a body of people who are not elected 320 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,880 Speaker 1: by the people have the ability to strip away our 321 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,960 Speaker 1: rights as they see fit, and they have made no 322 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 1: small qualms that the Supreme Court is about to roll 323 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: back a series of protections that have been won over 324 00:22:22,359 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 1: the last fifty, you know, two one hundred years. So 325 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:30,320 Speaker 1: my question for you is, what do you believe is 326 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:34,919 Speaker 1: going to activate the Democrats and the independence in your state? 327 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: What do you think is going to sustain them to November? 328 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: Right to recognize what they have to do in order 329 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: for there to be continued progress. Here's the deal. I've 330 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: always told people that that I would be honest with 331 00:22:56,320 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: them and not bullshit them. Danielle, I am honestly working 332 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: that out. I am trying to figure it out right 333 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: now because my biggest worry is that, you know, again, 334 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: maybe it's kind of a trauma response. Um, I'm still 335 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: hearing people say, oh, that would never happen here. I 336 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,720 Speaker 1: don't get it. I don't get how. I don't get 337 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,960 Speaker 1: how people can still say that after last week. I 338 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,239 Speaker 1: just don't get it. I think another another thing that 339 00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:28,439 Speaker 1: I need to go away because we have to be 340 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 1: real with ourselves right now. We have to be real 341 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,480 Speaker 1: with ourselves. We have to be real with our friends 342 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 1: or family members, etc. Um. You know, a big motivator 343 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:38,879 Speaker 1: for me in my life is really thinking about like 344 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 1: when you look back on your life, you know, and 345 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 1: and look back at the conflicts of your time, what 346 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,159 Speaker 1: will you have done? You know? And for me you know? 347 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: And this this is as a you know, a young 348 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 1: activist all the way up until now. Am I going 349 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: to feel okay with it? Um? If I shrugged my 350 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: shoulders or made an excuse us, etc. And I mean 351 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: that is something that I have said to people in 352 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:09,159 Speaker 1: the past when I'm asking them to get involved and 353 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 1: to do grassroots work. And as people have told me, like, well, 354 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,159 Speaker 1: you're using guilt, you're using fear. No, I'm talking to 355 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:21,719 Speaker 1: you about reality, and no one is doing you a 356 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: favor by not telling you the reality and allowing you 357 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,880 Speaker 1: to make a choice. You know. So I I am 358 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,960 Speaker 1: honestly still trying to wrap my head around what if 359 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:36,840 Speaker 1: actually going to be because you know, some people in 360 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: political science research have opined, you know, or whatever, written 361 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,879 Speaker 1: that there seems to be a fundamental personality difference or 362 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: kind of a difference in what we value and prioritize. 363 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm depending on where we fall at in the political spectrum, yep, 364 00:24:57,280 --> 00:25:01,359 Speaker 1: you know. So somehow or another, we have to somehow 365 00:25:01,480 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: figure out how to take who we are as people 366 00:25:06,840 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: who are left of center and make it sustainable. UM. 367 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: I do think that, um, you know, for both the 368 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,880 Speaker 1: state and the national party. Um. This kind of what 369 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,880 Speaker 1: I see in my role is this kind of every 370 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: two year cycle of like okay, okay, everybody, this time, 371 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 1: this time, we're going to flip one of the chambers. 372 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,480 Speaker 1: That's that's what we're gonna be doing. Um. I think 373 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 1: that we're we need to reorient ourselves. The time has 374 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,880 Speaker 1: passed for us to rewarient ourselves yep, and really sit 375 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: and say, we are going to have to have some 376 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:45,520 Speaker 1: intestinal fortitude. Um. We need to define the long term 377 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: mission and we need to be able to know what 378 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: the pieces along the way are. Um, this is what 379 00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:55,520 Speaker 1: the anti choice movement did. You know, they've known that 380 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,120 Speaker 1: They've just been chipping away, chipping away, putting things into 381 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:00,600 Speaker 1: place over the long term. But I think a lot 382 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: of times for people who are left of center, um, 383 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 1: you know, we kind of need that that immediate feel 384 00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: good or that immediate victory. Otherwise we are really proud 385 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 1: to being like, oh, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter 386 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,480 Speaker 1: if I do anything. Um, I have news for you, m. 387 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:23,200 Speaker 1: Voter suppression laws all across the nation are not being 388 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: pushed because it doesn't matter if we vote. Like, don't 389 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,720 Speaker 1: get me wrong, I'm not one of the people who's 390 00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 1: just shouting, oh, we'll just you know, just vote, it'll 391 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 1: fix everything. No, we have a lot harder, you know, 392 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:39,440 Speaker 1: road to hell than that. Yep, yep. But I I'm 393 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 1: just gonna be straight up. Anybody saying that it doesn't matter, 394 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: I think for some people that's a very privileged perspective. Um, 395 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,560 Speaker 1: maybe it's a trauma response for some people, and for 396 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,760 Speaker 1: other people it's a lazy perspective. You know. One of 397 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,840 Speaker 1: the questions that I want to ask you too is 398 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: that you know your state is very white, right and 399 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 1: as a as a black queer woman, Um, when I 400 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:07,960 Speaker 1: am in bipoc circles, there is a sense there has 401 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: always been a sense of urgency because our rights have 402 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: always been up for grabs and decisions are compromises are 403 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,919 Speaker 1: always made on the backs of black and brown people 404 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 1: and queer people. And so you know, when you are 405 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: going door to door, when you are in you know, 406 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:28,120 Speaker 1: your town halls, as you are, as you are campaigning, 407 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: what is the sentiment on the ground with people in 408 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 1: Iowa who are largely white, right, um? And again who 409 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,040 Speaker 1: are are not the target of the of the of 410 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,240 Speaker 1: the radical rights. So is there a sense of urgency? 411 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: And if and if so, what is that urgency around 412 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: you know? That's that's a good question. Um. I think 413 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,600 Speaker 1: it depends on who you talk to. UM. I do 414 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:03,360 Speaker 1: think that what I have seen in Iowa, um, particularly 415 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,960 Speaker 1: since twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, is I have seen other 416 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: white people actually have the moment where they say, oh shit, Okay, 417 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:15,359 Speaker 1: you know what this is what people of color have 418 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: been telling us. You know, we didn't see it, we 419 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:25,640 Speaker 1: didn't understand it, whatever, whatever the reason is, right now 420 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,720 Speaker 1: we see it. Now we see it, you know. And 421 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 1: so over the past several years, you know, that has 422 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: been a message that I have been using, is like, look, 423 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: people have been telling us, people have been telling us 424 00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 1: whatever it is within us. We did not hear them, 425 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: We did not listen, we did not fully believe them. 426 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: But here it is, um, you know. So we talked 427 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: about that at our rally, you know, on Friday, I 428 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: probably lost a couple of people. Whatever. But I think 429 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:58,000 Speaker 1: that if we do not like, we are going to 430 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: have to wrestle with and accept that that this issue 431 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: is tied with control over people of color, It's it's 432 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: tied with control over indigenous people. It's it's tied to control. UM. 433 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: So I think some people are doing the work and 434 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:27,480 Speaker 1: challenging themselves in that way. I think there's still a 435 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,840 Speaker 1: lot of work to be done here, though, honestly, you know, 436 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:39,440 Speaker 1: what are you what are your I guess what are 437 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: your feelings about this upcoming midterms? Right just across the board, 438 00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 1: not just in your state. For your election, but um, 439 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: nationally for for Democrats. UM. Where we go after here, 440 00:29:55,560 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: like what what do you what do you first see 441 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: to be the priority for you and you or state 442 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:08,440 Speaker 1: and the priority nationally for Democrats at moving forward? Right 443 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,479 Speaker 1: to be utirely honest, I'm still figuring that out. Um. 444 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,200 Speaker 1: AOC had a really good Twitter thread on that. Um 445 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 1: you know, maybe you've seen it. I do think that 446 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:25,479 Speaker 1: one thing um among both state and national Democratic voters, UM, 447 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,720 Speaker 1: is to refuse to accept, um learning the lesson here, 448 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:34,400 Speaker 1: but I'm refused to accept like whoa, we don't think 449 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: this is really going to happen. Um, oh this is settled, etc. 450 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: Regardless of the issue. Um. Democrats, when you have power, 451 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:47,480 Speaker 1: you need to use it. UM, don't don't take Well, 452 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:52,360 Speaker 1: that would never happen. Um. You know, state legislatures, State 453 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,959 Speaker 1: legislatures have had trifectas like democratic trifectors in the past. 454 00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: Um you know. And there's no nobody started a constitutional 455 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: amendment in Iowa. UM, you know, clarifying that abortion is 456 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,479 Speaker 1: a protected right. Um. You know, Democrats in Iowa did 457 00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:15,760 Speaker 1: not pass that legislation. Um, you know. And we're looking 458 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:20,040 Speaker 1: at what is going on nationally too, UM. I think. 459 00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: I think what we are going to have to understand 460 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: is that Republicans know what to do with power, yep. 461 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: And they don't They don't ever seem confused. No, they 462 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,160 Speaker 1: know what to do with power, and they don't get 463 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:36,240 Speaker 1: lost and this that or the other thing. You know, 464 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: just this hand ringing and humming and hawing and everything 465 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,360 Speaker 1: like that. We are talking about people's lives, you know, 466 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: like whether whether it's children being thrown in cages at 467 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: the border. Um, you know, whether it's Indigenous women being murdered, 468 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: you know, all the people. You know, whether whether it's 469 00:31:55,920 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 1: trans women whatever. U. Republicans know what to do with power. UM. 470 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: I think that Democrats are going to have to revocus 471 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,240 Speaker 1: and say we are going to put the blinders on um. 472 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: If and when we get power, we are doing this. Yeah, 473 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 1: I agree, UM. Representative Bennett. I you know, thank you 474 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:23,840 Speaker 1: for taking the time to join woke FU and you 475 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 1: know we will put all of the positive energy. Folks, 476 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 1: if you live in Iowa and you are and you 477 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,600 Speaker 1: are listening, this is an important election that will be 478 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,240 Speaker 1: happening UM in November, and we we wish you well, 479 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: UM and hope to see you on the other side. Yeah, absolutely, 480 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: thank you so much for your work, Danielle. It's been 481 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,160 Speaker 1: a pleasure of being here. Thank you. It's no secret 482 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: that the news is horsepill hard to swallow. 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