1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Ook f Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: Happy fucking Friday, but more importantly, happy fucking Pride. I 4 00:00:24,239 --> 00:00:27,960 Speaker 1: have so many feelings as we begin this Pride month, 5 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: and yesterday I talked a bit about it on the show, 6 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 1: and for this fucking Friday, I'm saying fuck it to 7 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:37,880 Speaker 1: the entire state of fucking Florida and Ron de Santis. 8 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: It is really challenging right now, and I want folks 9 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: to like, really understand how and challenging isn't even the 10 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: right word. It is so dehumanizing, so cruel, so hateful. 11 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: So discuss what is happening in the state of Florida 12 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: at the hands of Rond de Santis, who is doing 13 00:01:06,760 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 1: his best to try and show what an alpha dog 14 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:15,360 Speaker 1: he is by attacking the most vulnerable community among us. 15 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: Within the LGBTQ community, which I am a proud member of, 16 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: have been out for a very, very long time. But 17 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:31,120 Speaker 1: your status of being out or in is not about 18 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: anything other than safety, right. I have fortunately been able 19 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 1: to live and existence in environments and communities and family 20 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,320 Speaker 1: that have been supportive and loving I have never had 21 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,840 Speaker 1: any adverse treatment for being queer that I know of, 22 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: and that is so not the case for a majority 23 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: of people. My experience is not the majority of LGBTQ 24 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: people's experience, and it's certainly not the majority of trans 25 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: people's experience, particularly black trans people and trans people of color. 26 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:16,800 Speaker 1: And when I think about the attacks, when I think 27 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: about how hard it is just in general right to 28 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: come out, to live your truth, to live inside of 29 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:31,320 Speaker 1: your body, right, And all you're asking for, all you're 30 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: asking for is dignity, right, All you're asking for is 31 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: to be treated with dignity and respect. Like, and I 32 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: continue to ask, like, why is that so fucking hard? 33 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: And the thing that I want from reporters? Right? But 34 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: of course Ronda Santis is too much of chicken shit 35 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: to actually take any questions from reporters, right. He only 36 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 1: he only creates a comfortable environment for himself where he 37 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: surrounds himself with people that are just yes, men and 38 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 1: women and who not in small and he can't take 39 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 1: any any adverse comments or treatment. Like right now, that 40 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,080 Speaker 1: motherfucker finds himself on a tour de fource, apparently in 41 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,960 Speaker 1: New Hampshire and NBC News has reported that guess who's 42 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: not taking any questions from reporters, just going up and 43 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: shaking the hands of people who already like him and 44 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 1: are excited to see him, but won't take questions from reporters. Right. 45 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 1: And the funny thing is is that Ron DeSantis has 46 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 1: been able to govern inside of this hateful bubble that 47 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,960 Speaker 1: he has created in Florida, but he has no idea 48 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: about how the rest of the country actually feels about 49 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: what is happening in Florida, those that aren't part of 50 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:48,000 Speaker 1: the LGBTQ community, those that aren't black, or Jewish or Asian. Right, 51 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: And you know, when I see the fact that he 52 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:59,480 Speaker 1: is making all of these cruel, vicious, hateful policies and 53 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 1: just passing them one right after the other, even if 54 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: reporters aren't able to ask him the direct question, they 55 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: should be writing about it. What is the trans community 56 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: ever done except ask for dignity and respect? Why are 57 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 1: you so afraid of people who don't want to exist 58 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: inside of this false, fictional binary that was created only 59 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:29,640 Speaker 1: to really ultimately control women and give men sis men 60 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: the ability to continually dominate. That's all this is about. 61 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,400 Speaker 1: It's about power. And so what does the trans community 62 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:46,599 Speaker 1: offer and represent. It is bodily autonomy, right, That's what 63 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:50,600 Speaker 1: it is. And you can already see with the Republican 64 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,960 Speaker 1: policies to roll back abortion in this country that they 65 00:04:55,080 --> 00:05:02,279 Speaker 1: want total and absolute control over womb, right over people. 66 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: It isn't about the fucking kids. They could give a 67 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: fuck about kids, because if they actually, if the Republican 68 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: Party actually cared about kids, then maybe they would care 69 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: about ar fifteens that turn their bodies into Swiss cheese. 70 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: Maybe they would care about those parents that have to 71 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:23,919 Speaker 1: go and identify their children after mass shootings with dental 72 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:30,360 Speaker 1: records because their bodies are unrecognizable. If they cared, then 73 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: maybe they would care about the growing mental health crisis 74 00:05:34,760 --> 00:05:38,039 Speaker 1: that young people are in in this country, the silent 75 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 1: pandemic that we're actually not talking about, because they're being 76 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,279 Speaker 1: faced with a world and an environment that is unsafe 77 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: for them. The other day, I mentioned this on the show, 78 00:05:51,080 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: and I'll just bring it back up again. I had 79 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: the wonderful honor of being inducted into my high school's 80 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: Hall of Honors, where they celebrate and provide awards to 81 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: those who have reached you know, exceptional heights in their career, 82 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:11,799 Speaker 1: and I was super honored. But one of the real 83 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: honors was being able to be in a gymnasium filled 84 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,040 Speaker 1: with nine through twelfth graders. Right when was the last 85 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: time I was around Generation Z and Generation Alpha in 86 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: a way that I'm just like in conversation, And I 87 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: was talking to these young people right about, you know, 88 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: what are their fears? What are their interests? And I 89 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:39,479 Speaker 1: got to tell you that my sister had joined me 90 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: at the at the gymnasium at the you know, the 91 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:50,120 Speaker 1: like the mini assembly that was held. And these kids 92 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: are like, we're fourteen, fifteen years old, sixteen years old, 93 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:58,479 Speaker 1: and they're talking about fear of fresh water running out. 94 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 1: They're talking about fear of not being able to support 95 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:07,719 Speaker 1: themselves or their families, like real economic anxiety, not that 96 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: couched in racism. They're talking about climate change, they're talking 97 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 1: about gun violence, right wanting to be successful but not 98 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:24,080 Speaker 1: really understanding what that success looks like. I asked what 99 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: path these young people wanted to take, you know, were 100 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 1: they interested in going to college show me your hands, 101 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: you know, or were they interested in a vocation? And 102 00:07:33,920 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: I'll tell you that, you know, damn near thirty close 103 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: to thirty over twenty five years ago, when I was 104 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:45,559 Speaker 1: in high school, if somebody had asked, if an adult 105 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,200 Speaker 1: had asked how many of you were going to college 106 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: right or interested in going to college, every single hand 107 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:56,360 Speaker 1: would have gone up. Not even half of the hands 108 00:07:56,400 --> 00:08:00,680 Speaker 1: went up. And when I asked, you know, just interested judging, 109 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 1: but like why, they're like, why the debt? You know, 110 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,640 Speaker 1: when we could get out and start making money now, 111 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: because it was like this real attachment to wanting to 112 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:16,920 Speaker 1: make money and needing to make money. Why Because they're 113 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: listening to how their families are struggling right now, how 114 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 1: expensive everything has become. And so when I'm in this 115 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:34,079 Speaker 1: room filled with these kids, I'm thinking myself, Wow, older 116 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: generations have really fucking failed. It's like absolutely spectacularly failed. 117 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:47,440 Speaker 1: When fifteen year olds today are going to be so 118 00:08:47,679 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: much worse off than fifteen year olds of ten and 119 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:59,880 Speaker 1: twenty years ago. So for the first time, right, younger 120 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: generations are worse off than the generations that preceded them. 121 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 1: They're in more debt, they're going to experience write all 122 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:17,480 Speaker 1: of the repercussions of climate denial, They're going to experience 123 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:26,720 Speaker 1: the economic severe economic disparities right on top of you know, 124 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:30,760 Speaker 1: are crumbling democracy and the fact that there are people 125 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,680 Speaker 1: that are running for the presidency right now and the 126 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:36,800 Speaker 1: Republican Party that want to take away their right to 127 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: vote until they're twenty five years old because they don't 128 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: want to have to answer to this younger generation that 129 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: is so much more equipped and educated and technologically advanced 130 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 1: than any other generation that preceded them. And So when 131 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: I think about why Ron DeSantis is making the kind 132 00:09:57,160 --> 00:10:00,200 Speaker 1: of attacks that he is against trans youth and the 133 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: LGBTQ community, why because they we represent free thinking and 134 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: Generation Z and Generation Alpha don't really give a fuck 135 00:10:11,080 --> 00:10:15,320 Speaker 1: right about people's sexual orientation or gender identity. More of 136 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: them identify with they then pronouns than any other generation. 137 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:25,400 Speaker 1: And that scares the hell out of Republicans. And so 138 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 1: what do right, what do they do? They turn their 139 00:10:30,400 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: fear into hateful policy to try and silence a generation 140 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: of people that has critical thought right, that has questions 141 00:10:44,280 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: about why we have all just been going along for 142 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 1: the get along when it comes to capitalism, Why we've 143 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 1: all been going along for the get along when it 144 00:10:54,280 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 1: comes to patriarchy and misogyny, Why you go into different 145 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: stores and there aren't just clothes, but they are clothes 146 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:07,800 Speaker 1: that are specific genders. And if you move outside of that, 147 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: then there are headlines and conversations and bands and this, 148 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,560 Speaker 1: that and the other thing. This younger generation Gen Z, 149 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 1: they and Gen Alpha they are probably the most queer. 150 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:28,239 Speaker 1: And I don't mean queer necessarily in their sexual orientation 151 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,440 Speaker 1: or identity. I mean queer in terms of queering the norm, 152 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: moving and thinking outside of the box. Right, not proceeding 153 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:47,040 Speaker 1: in this linear way of being and not right, not 154 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: connecting with bullshit hierarchy just for the sake of hierarchy. 155 00:11:55,040 --> 00:11:57,599 Speaker 1: You know. There are so many memes and I have 156 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: posted them, and some of them are really and TikTok 157 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:08,839 Speaker 1: videos about the real difference in ideological makeup of the generations. Right, 158 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,480 Speaker 1: if you go on TikTok and you look at like, 159 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 1: you know, the boomers versus you know, Gen X versus 160 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,240 Speaker 1: millennials versus Gen Z and so on and so forth, 161 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,959 Speaker 1: and how older people really view Gen Z is like, oh, 162 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: they don't want to work, right, And I've said it. 163 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 1: I've said it too. Oh they don't want to work. No, no, no, 164 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,520 Speaker 1: they don't want to work, Like we did like we 165 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: do right. They want their work to be of purpose. 166 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: They don't want to just succumb and fall in line 167 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: to hierarchical thinking just for the sake of somebody said 168 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: because I told you so. They're the ones that are 169 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,640 Speaker 1: going to continually ask why why are we doing things 170 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 1: this way? Why is this functioning like this, and then 171 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: decide whether or not they actually want to take part 172 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: or just op the fuck out. You See, when I 173 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:08,040 Speaker 1: was entering into the workforce, as I'm sure many of 174 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: you were, it was, you know, you kiss the ring, 175 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: You keep your head down, you keep quiet, you soak 176 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: up as much information as you can. If your bosses 177 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: are abusive, you just deal with it, because that's part 178 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:22,600 Speaker 1: of what it means to quote unquote grow up. If 179 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: you get screamed at, if you get demeaned, right like, 180 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,960 Speaker 1: that's all just par for the course. Except these younger 181 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: generations are now growing up in a way where we 182 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 1: have created laws and policies around mistreatment right where we 183 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: have openly discussed and you have entire departments in companies 184 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: and organizations that are created about having inclusivity and diversity. 185 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:56,280 Speaker 1: And that is what the rond Descantis is of the 186 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: world fucking hate because they want the ability to demean, 187 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 1: to discriminate, to create fearful environments, to push people back 188 00:14:07,559 --> 00:14:11,719 Speaker 1: into the closets, to make people fearful to speak up 189 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 1: and exist. So he's going to defund leftist ideology. Oh, 190 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: you mean progress. And the question that I want reporters 191 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: to ask is, so, what is it about progress that 192 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: you hate? Right? What is it about people all being 193 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: able to have a voice, whether it is in their 194 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: company or their organization or in government. Why is that 195 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: such a problem If each generation's job is about perfecting 196 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: this union, why are you trying to roll back the clock. 197 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,359 Speaker 1: Why at a time when we need to be ensuring 198 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:53,600 Speaker 1: that young people who do decide to go into higher 199 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 1: education are globally competitive. Why are you changing curriculum and 200 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: only qu focusing on the quote unquote basics. The basics 201 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:07,520 Speaker 1: aren't going to get them into the middle class, let 202 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 1: alone anything above that. So is your goal to create 203 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: just and solidify an indentured class, right? Like, these are 204 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:24,080 Speaker 1: the real questions, because you see, we get very distracted 205 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: with the hate, right, We get very distracted with the 206 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,480 Speaker 1: banning of drag shows and the banning of trans youth 207 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,040 Speaker 1: from participating in sports, right, and all of these things, 208 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: but we're not getting to the they're there, and that 209 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:47,240 Speaker 1: they're there is about control, because so long as you 210 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:53,160 Speaker 1: can create an environment of fear and hopelessness and despair, 211 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: those people are easier to control. Because you see what's 212 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: happening in Florida is that those that can actually afford 213 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 1: right to pick up their entire lives are leaving the state. Right. 214 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,840 Speaker 1: Those that are left behind are going to be the 215 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: ones that are the most endangered. What kind of education 216 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: are they going to receive? And this is why I 217 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: appreciate and I have lifted this up Gavin Newsom, the 218 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: governor of California, and what he is pushing back against 219 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: with the textbooks, the textbook publishing companies that are folding 220 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: to Ron de Santis and to Greg Abbott and changing curriculum. Well, 221 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: guess what, there isn't a plethora of fucking textbook publishers 222 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 1: in the country. So if Florida decides that, oh, we're 223 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,280 Speaker 1: not going to talk about slavery, we're not going to 224 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,400 Speaker 1: talk about the suffragist movement, we're not going to talk 225 00:16:56,440 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: about unions, and we're going to take all of that 226 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,720 Speaker 1: out of the history books. Well, that isn't just about 227 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: the lack of education that is going to be happening 228 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 1: in Florida because those books are sent all around the country. 229 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: And what Gavin Newsom is saying, and frankly, what the 230 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: fuck Kathy Hopel should be saying in New York the 231 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: governors of the two most populous states, is like, yeah, no, 232 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Speaker 1: we're not doing that. So when I think about this 233 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:38,959 Speaker 1: Pride Month, when I think about what a difficult situation, 234 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 1: what a dangerous situation. So many queer people are in 235 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:46,480 Speaker 1: around this country. And look, you know, folks, I know 236 00:17:46,520 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: that it's very easy for those of us who live 237 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 1: currently in safe zones to say, well, people should just move. 238 00:17:55,840 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 1: How would you feel having to pick up your entire 239 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:04,360 Speaker 1: life and just move and start over again when generations 240 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: of your family have lived in one state in area 241 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,240 Speaker 1: where that's where your family is, that's where you went 242 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,320 Speaker 1: to school, that's where you've laid down roots, and now 243 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: you're just going to uproot yourself and go and start 244 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:23,480 Speaker 1: over again. And look, we've seen this happen in this 245 00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:29,600 Speaker 1: country with the great migration over the course of a 246 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:34,359 Speaker 1: decade plus, with black people fleeing Black Americans fleeing the 247 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:38,120 Speaker 1: South and spreading out into the North and Midwest where 248 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: there was just a little less racism. You know, maybe 249 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: they wouldn't have a burning cross on their lawn, maybe 250 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:50,600 Speaker 1: they wouldn't have to be fearful of being lynched each 251 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:56,800 Speaker 1: and every day that they left their homes. We saw 252 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: it with the Holocaust and people fleeing, spreading out all 253 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,720 Speaker 1: over Europe and coming to the United States. So there 254 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: have absolutely been so many situations where you're talking about 255 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: Syrian refugees, Ukrainian refugees, right. There have always been times 256 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 1: in political climates and moments that have forced people from 257 00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,520 Speaker 1: their homes. To think about the fact that that is 258 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: happening inside of the United States, with people needing to 259 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: flee Florida. I want us to wrap our minds around 260 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:43,920 Speaker 1: that reality because that is where we are. So this Friday, 261 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:49,640 Speaker 1: I say fuck it to all of the inhumane, horrendous, 262 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:56,360 Speaker 1: cruel policies that are becoming law all over this country. 263 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 1: And the fact is that we cannot wait until we 264 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 1: are the ones that are affected before we actually do 265 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,360 Speaker 1: something about it, because there are young people that are 266 00:20:08,359 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: depending on us, frankly, because they don't have the right 267 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,000 Speaker 1: to vote yet, and yet the decisions that are being 268 00:20:14,040 --> 00:20:18,479 Speaker 1: made right now are going to affect their futures. So 269 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: the question is what are we all going to do 270 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: about that? That is it for me today, dear friends, 271 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:33,480 Speaker 1: on wokef and as always, on this fucket Friday. If 272 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,639 Speaker 1: you are a Patreon member, do tell me in the 273 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 1: comment section who and what you are saying fucking to 274 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:42,199 Speaker 1: this Friday, and for everyone else, hit me up in 275 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:45,680 Speaker 1: the socials at D two cent D E two c 276 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,359 Speaker 1: E n T S. As always, power to the people 277 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,040 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay 278 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.