1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:23,800 Speaker 1: I open up today's show with a really horrific story, 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: and I'm certain that you by now have no doubt 5 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,199 Speaker 1: seen the NonStop coverage of the pregnant woman who we 6 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:37,960 Speaker 1: all watched that was being evacuated from the maternity hospital 7 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:44,160 Speaker 1: in Marapoul in the Ukraine, who was bloodied, very very pregnant, 8 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 1: has died, and so has the baby that she was carrying. 9 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: You know, often when we talk about war, or have 10 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 1: talked about war in this country, we talk about it 11 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 1: as if it doesn't have real life consequences, as if 12 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 1: somehow the people, both the civilians that are on the 13 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,120 Speaker 1: ground and those that are fighting, that they're not real 14 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 1: people with families and homes and hopes and dreams and 15 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 1: community and all of these things. We talk about war, 16 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:20,800 Speaker 1: and we play it out in action movies, and we 17 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: play it out on video games, and you know, and 18 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:31,360 Speaker 1: don't really understand right unless you have actually seen war firsthand. 19 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: So this story is really hitting people. And again I 20 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 1: want us to say, because I think that we should 21 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 1: have empathy we should have deep empathy and deep understanding 22 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: about what is happening on the ground as the NATO allies, 23 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 1: as the United States contemplates whether or not they're going 24 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: to get involved even more so than they are. That 25 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:01,240 Speaker 1: there are all of these complications of war that we 26 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: don't discuss. That you know, frankly, as many people have said, 27 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 1: is that Putin has broken all of the quote unquote 28 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 1: war norms, if there are norms to be had in war, 29 00:02:11,320 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: which frankly, they're not right because one person's liberator is 30 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:19,040 Speaker 1: seen as another person's terrorist, right, and you can justify 31 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: a lot of things. We all know that America has 32 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,360 Speaker 1: over the course of its many bloodied invasions that have 33 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: happened on our watch and with our dime. But nonetheless 34 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:34,800 Speaker 1: we don't really talk about the people who are casualties 35 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 1: of war. We don't even question here in the United 36 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: States how other countries like Iraq and Iran and places 37 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 1: that we have bombarded right with attacks over the courses 38 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 1: of generations, how they see the United States. And so 39 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,840 Speaker 1: when we see these stories like the one that has 40 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: been captivating the news the last day or two, it 41 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: is heartbreaking and it should break our hearts. We should 42 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: be thinking about what are alternatives to war and what 43 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: is the true motivator behind our inaction? Is it inevitable 44 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,120 Speaker 1: that we are all going to be drawn into World 45 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,160 Speaker 1: War three? Is that inevitable? Are we just slow pacing 46 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: the inevitable here? And if so, how many lives are enough? 47 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:25,799 Speaker 1: Because in World War Two it was six million, right, 48 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: What is going to be enough? Enough damage that has 49 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: caused enough lives that are lost? And look, I am 50 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: not advocating for the US to put boots on the 51 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:39,800 Speaker 1: ground now, but it's the questions that I'm asking about. 52 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 1: How do we go about making these decisions? How do 53 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:48,560 Speaker 1: we go about deciding right that you know, maybe it's 54 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: a million lives, maybe it's six hundred thousand, right, Like, 55 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: how do you put a price on two million people 56 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: having now become refugees over three weeks time? In three 57 00:04:05,320 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: weeks time, two million plus people have fled the Ukraine, 58 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: have poured into bordering countries, two million people. We are 59 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,320 Speaker 1: also still in a health pandemic, but we're not talking 60 00:04:21,360 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: about that anymore. We're not talking about the consequences of 61 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 1: what is going on and what is it that the 62 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:33,040 Speaker 1: world is willing to stomach when I heard the story 63 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 1: initially of the pregnant woman and her child that has died. 64 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: You know, it's heartbreaking, right, it's heartbreaking to see people 65 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,599 Speaker 1: because I put myself in their shoes. What would you grab? 66 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:52,880 Speaker 1: Where would you go? Just this past weekend, I was 67 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: celebrating my mother's birthday, and you know, of course we're 68 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 1: talking about what is happening in the world. So we're 69 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: talking about Putin's war in the Ukraine. And you know, 70 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: my dad asked a question that many of broadcasters have asked, Well, 71 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,440 Speaker 1: if we knew that he was a thread, and he 72 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:15,440 Speaker 1: had already surrounded put troops on the ground, why didn't 73 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,600 Speaker 1: people leave earlier? And I said to him the same 74 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 1: thing that I wrote many weeks ago, at the beginning, right, 75 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: three weeks ago, at the beginning of the war, what 76 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: I wrote about Ukraine, but us here in America. If 77 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,800 Speaker 1: you'll phone, if your phone rang in the middle of 78 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: the night, started buzzing. Let's say it's four o'clock in 79 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: the morning, and all of a sudden, there are alerts 80 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:44,800 Speaker 1: going off everywhere that oh my god, we are under attack. 81 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 1: What are you grabbing? And where are you going? You 82 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: are going to stay for as long as possible, because 83 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: you have no idea what your future looks like. All 84 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:01,440 Speaker 1: you know is the present moment. And as I was 85 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: explaining that to my dad, he said, oh my god, 86 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: you're right, and he started looking around the kitchen, looking 87 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:11,719 Speaker 1: around the living room in the house and saying, where 88 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: would we go and what would we do? And I'm like, 89 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,159 Speaker 1: these are the questions that people ask, right there is 90 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 1: no right area for invasion and attacks and the brutalities 91 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: of war, whether we're talking about the Ukraine or Syria 92 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 1: or Ethiopia right whether we're talking about so many areas 93 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:39,840 Speaker 1: around the globe right now that are in refugee crises. 94 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:46,080 Speaker 1: Millions of people have been pushed from their home from 95 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 1: all that they know. It's hard for us here who 96 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: are so far removed. But honestly, not really not if 97 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,040 Speaker 1: we're actually paying attention and we're being honest with ourselves. 98 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:06,720 Speaker 1: Little over a year ago, our capital was under attack, 99 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: stormed by three thousand plus people holding their Trump flags, 100 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,480 Speaker 1: decked from head to toe in military regalia, zip ties, 101 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: cocktail bombs, building guillotines, threatening violence, actually actualizing that violence 102 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:40,160 Speaker 1: by beating police officers. Capitol Police DC metro Police. We'd 103 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:45,960 Speaker 1: never in our lives seen what we saw on January 104 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: sixth in Americans modern history. The world a gasp as 105 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: our Capitol building was under siege for over one hundred 106 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 1: and eighty minutes, while the president and of the United 107 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:04,760 Speaker 1: States at that time, the twice impeached criminal Donald Trump, 108 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: was sitting around gleefully calling people, you see what they're 109 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: doing for me. So we're looking at these people in 110 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 1: the Ukraine that are fleeing to train stations, that are 111 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: in bumper to bumper traffic, pregnant women dying on stretchers, 112 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,400 Speaker 1: and we're thinking that this can be us. It was us. 113 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:34,520 Speaker 1: Over the course of the last two years, folks, we 114 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: have seen our Capitol building under siege and other state 115 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: capitals under siege in this country. We have seen cops 116 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 1: decked out in their latest gi Joe Fitz attacking citizens 117 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:58,480 Speaker 1: of the United States in real time. We don't need 118 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:04,640 Speaker 1: to be thinking about foreign invasion in this country because 119 00:09:04,679 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 1: it is more likely that we will have a civil 120 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:13,559 Speaker 1: war before Putin's nuke could ever land here. And this 121 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: is what drives me crazy, is because all of this 122 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: is important, but the reality is is that you cannot 123 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:24,880 Speaker 1: send people. You cannot send our soldiers to go and 124 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: fight for democracy in the Ukraine and ignore the democracy 125 00:09:32,040 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 1: that is crumbling at home. How do we do that? 126 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,640 Speaker 1: How do we say to ourselves? Oh, yes, and we 127 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: look at them right now, We look at the Ukrainians 128 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 1: with empathy. They're in the midst of deep suffering that 129 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 1: we can't imagine. And I'm telling you imagine it. Donald 130 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:59,199 Speaker 1: Trump all but this over the weekend, all but announced 131 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: that he's running office in twenty twenty four. Now, I 132 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: will tell you that I personally believe that Donald Trump 133 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: is not going to run for office in twenty twenty four. 134 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:12,520 Speaker 1: I think that this is all a major fucking grift, right. 135 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 1: But but I say that, but if everything continues the 136 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:23,200 Speaker 1: way that it has, if Republicans take over the House, 137 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:28,760 Speaker 1: take over the Senate, they already have a stacked Supreme Court, 138 00:10:29,440 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 1: they have been able to place their minions as secretaries 139 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 1: of states around the country, they have put in their 140 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:43,000 Speaker 1: activation points, then yeah, Donald Trump will most likely run 141 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:44,959 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, and it will be the last 142 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:49,439 Speaker 1: election that we have because, frankly, if you really think 143 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: about it, we have done nothing, nothing to secure our 144 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: election since twenty twenty nothing. Given all that we have 145 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: learned about what was at play as the insurrection was unfolding. 146 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: Who had instructed Trump, who had given directives and wrote 147 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: PowerPoint presentations. We know what their plan is. It's literally 148 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:20,199 Speaker 1: been uncovered by the January six Commission. And yet as 149 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: they have compiled all of this evidence, Donald Trump is 150 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: still free. All of those that have aided him are free. 151 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:31,080 Speaker 1: And now let me read you this piece of hot 152 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 1: shit that I came across, and I said, I'm just 153 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: kind of done right, Like some days, I just get 154 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 1: to a place where I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right. 155 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:44,839 Speaker 1: I don't even know what I'm thinking. So this is 156 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: an article in the Washington Post yesterday. Here's the headline 157 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: for you. Jinny Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, says 158 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,840 Speaker 1: she attended the January sixth stopped the Steel rally before 159 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: the Capitol attack. Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas, said 160 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:09,320 Speaker 1: she left the rally before the president took stage. So 161 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,720 Speaker 1: let me read you just a little bit of this, right, 162 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:20,400 Speaker 1: because I want you to think now about twenty twenty four. 163 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 1: I want you to think, no, no, no, think about November. Right. 164 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 1: I want you to think about the Supreme Court. I 165 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,560 Speaker 1: want you to think about the decisions that are being 166 00:12:30,559 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: made right now that are coming down from the six 167 00:12:32,920 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: to three conservative court. I want you to now think 168 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: what the right would do if one of the liberal 169 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: justices had a spouse that attended any Black Lives Matter protests, 170 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: which by the way, have all been peaceful, Right, if 171 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: that had happened, what they would be doing, what they 172 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,240 Speaker 1: would be calling for, and what Democrats would probably give them, 173 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: because they're spineless. They would say that they need to resign, 174 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,760 Speaker 1: that they need to set down. And if they wouldn't 175 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 1: resign from the pressure from the outrage, right from even 176 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 1: the appearance, even the appearance that something was awry, right, 177 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: they would work to try and impeach that Supreme Court justice. 178 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: They would turn it into a non stop Fox News 179 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: Republican event to take that person down. But here's where 180 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: we are. Virginia Thomas or Genie Thomas, wife of Supreme 181 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 1: Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for the first time, has publicly 182 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: acknowledged that she participated in the January six, twenty twenty 183 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:56,560 Speaker 1: one Stop the Steal in an interview with the conservative 184 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon that was published yesterday, Thomas, who goes 185 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: by Jinny, said that she was part of the crowd 186 00:14:04,920 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: that gathered on the ellipse that morning to support President 187 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Trump was claiming falsely that widespread Vodafron had 188 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:17,760 Speaker 1: delivered the presidency to Democrat Joe Biden, a falsehood he 189 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 1: continues to this day to repeat. Thomas said that she 190 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: was at the rally for a short time, got cold, 191 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 1: and went home before Trump took the stage at noon 192 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: that day. She says that she was disappointed. Quote, I 193 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: was disappointed and frustrated that there was a violence that 194 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: happened following a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the 195 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: Ellipse on January sixth Now I want to know what 196 00:14:46,240 --> 00:14:53,720 Speaker 1: part did Jinny Thomas decide to leave? Was it when 197 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,520 Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani was yelling at the crowd to go and 198 00:14:56,560 --> 00:15:01,400 Speaker 1: get their country back right? Was when they were continuing 199 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: to tell the lie over and over again that the 200 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: election had been stolen. Jenny Thomas is the wife of 201 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice, who no doubt is educated. Does 202 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: she not understand how the electoral college works? Or does 203 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas also believe that the election was stolen? And 204 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 1: that had he been given the opportunity for one of 205 00:15:30,240 --> 00:15:35,480 Speaker 1: those bogus, fucking sixty six cases, had it made it 206 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: up to the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas certainly would have 207 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: voted to insert Donald Trump as President of the United States. 208 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: Why is this not a bigger news story? Well, there 209 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: are a couple of reasons, right, Europe is at war. 210 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: But again, why do we have no scrutiny? Why are 211 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: we not digging in to Jinny Thomas and Clarence Thomas's finances? 212 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:07,760 Speaker 1: Why is there no call from Democrats to say what 213 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,600 Speaker 1: the fuck is going on here? And certain that they 214 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: are two distinctly different people, but we're talking about the 215 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:17,200 Speaker 1: wife of a Supreme Court justice being at the rally 216 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: that was the pregame for the insurrection that costs people's lives, 217 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: and we're just going to let that go as if 218 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:33,040 Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. Is if that's just normal behavior, folks. 219 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:39,560 Speaker 1: It's like you watch these things unfold, you see these 220 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: stories making like a blip on our radar, and I'm 221 00:16:43,360 --> 00:16:47,200 Speaker 1: telling you, by the time that we get to November 222 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: and we lose, right, because this is what all the 223 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 1: polls are saying, and this is what we know to 224 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 1: be true, that Democrats haven't offered a fucking thing right 225 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: to the American people outside of infrastructure. Nothing's been offered 226 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:06,720 Speaker 1: right infrastructure and a couple of emergency COVID checks that 227 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: Republicans voted against. And guess what, America is going to 228 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: put the gavel right back in their hand for them 229 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: to finish off destroying our democracy and starting impeachment proceedings 230 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:21,560 Speaker 1: for everyone under the sun, just because they can, because 231 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: they know that Democrats won't do anything about it except 232 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,360 Speaker 1: go on television and bitch and moan as if they 233 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: have no power. It's so infuriating to be on the 234 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:40,840 Speaker 1: losing team, to consistently be on the losing team, And 235 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: I'm just I guess I'm kind of over it, right, 236 00:17:44,840 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 1: like I'm over democrats inability to message to the American 237 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:59,199 Speaker 1: people that the Republican Party is aligned more with Putin 238 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 1: than they are with the founding fathers, that they are 239 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: aligned with a man who is responsible and gave orders 240 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:15,159 Speaker 1: to bomb a maternity hospital where certainly you know that 241 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:20,240 Speaker 1: women and children are going to be present, and you 242 00:18:20,359 --> 00:18:26,880 Speaker 1: gave the okay, this is no what military operation that 243 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:33,200 Speaker 1: he's doing to liberate the Ukraine from Nazis, as Representative 244 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:37,239 Speaker 1: Cawthorne said, and as Tucker Carlson continues to go on 245 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: Fox News on a regular basis and say Putin is 246 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:48,479 Speaker 1: their idol. They believe that Donald Trump was akin to Putin, 247 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:52,679 Speaker 1: except Putin is actually fucking smart and isn't just a 248 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: puppet to whomever it gives him attention. He's a ruthless murderer. 249 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: But this is who Fox News is giving airtime and 250 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:11,959 Speaker 1: applause to through Tucker Carlson. This is who is sitting 251 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:19,199 Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives. Representative Cawthorne was at a 252 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:27,280 Speaker 1: rally calling Vladimir Zalinski a thug, a man who has 253 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:31,440 Speaker 1: been visiting the wounded soldiers in the Ukraine to shake 254 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,400 Speaker 1: their hand and to thank them, the man who sent 255 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:39,880 Speaker 1: off his children and his wife so that he could 256 00:19:39,960 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: stand his ground and defend his country more so than 257 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: any fucking sniveling, spineless, ass kicking Republican would ever fucking do. 258 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: But this is who their heroes are. And I'm like, 259 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:59,040 Speaker 1: my god, what do these people have to do and 260 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: say in order to set off an alarm in this 261 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,320 Speaker 1: country in order for us to have our attention, not 262 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,360 Speaker 1: just on the horrors that are happening across the sea, 263 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: but honestly be able to make the fucking connection between 264 00:20:13,760 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: what we are seeing Putin do and want to do 265 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 1: and what we are seeing that Republicans want to do 266 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: in America. This is the first time, folks, I got 267 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 1: to say, at least in my life, that what you 268 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,240 Speaker 1: are seeing right now with the Republican Party, and they're 269 00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:37,080 Speaker 1: splintering right in their support of Russia. Donald Trump three 270 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: weeks ago was standing at a rally praising Vladimir Putin, 271 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 1: praising him for his leadership and his strength. This is 272 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:57,960 Speaker 1: a man that has caused a refugee crisis of two 273 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: million plus people, a man that has killed children and 274 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: pregnant women. This is what the Party of Family Values 275 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: is cheering on, and no one is holding their feet 276 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:18,480 Speaker 1: to the fire on it. And that's why I continue 277 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: to say that if we lose, when we lose for midterms, 278 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,879 Speaker 1: it's not just going to be by the fault of 279 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,560 Speaker 1: Republicans and their voter suppressions freed that they have been on. 280 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: It's going to be because Democrats fail to offer an alternative, 281 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:38,959 Speaker 1: and also they fail to identify who our enemy actually is. 282 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 1: You're still referring to these people as your friends, and 283 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: they are literally it at war, siding with your enemy, 284 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,440 Speaker 1: siding with our known enemy. How do we let that 285 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: roll off of our backs? How do we pretend and 286 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 1: say that this is okay? It's wild America, America is wild. 287 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: You know I was speaking, you know, folks, if you 288 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,320 Speaker 1: have not seen me on TikTok, I have decided to 289 00:22:26,440 --> 00:22:30,919 Speaker 1: venture into this new realm and it will new to me, 290 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:34,080 Speaker 1: not new to the kids, but new to me, and 291 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: so I deliver content in a much different way over there. 292 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,640 Speaker 1: But one of the stories, one of the things videos 293 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 1: that I posted recently, was about Jesse Smollett, the actor 294 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: formerly from Empire, a show that was on Fox, who 295 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:57,800 Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen made false claims, 296 00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: or at least the police in Chicago continue to say 297 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,680 Speaker 1: that false claims were made with regard to a hate crime. 298 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: And Jessice Smollett was just sentenced to five months in jail, 299 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,120 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty days right oh, close to two 300 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars worth of fines, all for lying to 301 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 1: the police. And what I said over the weekend and 302 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: what I recorded on TikTok was this is some hot bullshit, right, 303 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,280 Speaker 1: not because I don't think that there should have been 304 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 1: some type of fine. Right. Okay, you lie to the police, 305 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 1: so the fuck what? Oh you lied about a hate crime. 306 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: People are saying, oh my god, he set the LGBTQ 307 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,280 Speaker 1: plus movement back, you know, a decade. No he didn't. 308 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 1: The only thing that sets the LGBTQ movement back are 309 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,919 Speaker 1: Republicans and white Evangelical Christians. Right are the people like 310 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:01,919 Speaker 1: Governor Deth Santis, who is pushing for a return to 311 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 1: discrimination at the highest power for the LGBTQ community, with 312 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: making trans kids his biggest and favorite target. Jesse Smollett 313 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: made a mistake that cost him, most likely his career. Police, however, 314 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,639 Speaker 1: lie to the public all the time. They lie about 315 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,120 Speaker 1: the unarmed black people that they kill. They lie when 316 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:30,160 Speaker 1: they plan evidence on people. We take their police reports 317 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 1: as if they are some type of fucking gossipel knowing 318 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: that it's been proven time and time again that police 319 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,120 Speaker 1: officers lie. Case in point, George Floyd. If you had 320 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,919 Speaker 1: read the initial reporting, the police report said that George 321 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:49,200 Speaker 1: Floyd died of like some type of natural causes, some 322 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:54,440 Speaker 1: type of cardiac arrest following you know, a lack of oxygen, 323 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: not the fact that Derek Chauvin had need on his 324 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: neck and cut off his oxygen. S lie and killed 325 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: him in broad daylight after eight minutes and forty six 326 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:06,680 Speaker 1: seconds of torture. That's not what the police report said. 327 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,920 Speaker 1: The police report for Mike Brown, who was shot dead 328 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: in Ferguson didn't say that he had put his hands 329 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 1: up and said don't shoot, don't shoot. What about Eric Gardner? 330 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,640 Speaker 1: What about John Crawford? What about Austin Sterling? What about 331 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 1: Stefan Clark? What about Sandra Bland? What about Rickia Boyd? 332 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: What about Brianna Taylor? Police lie? That is what they do. 333 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: They are an organized and legalized gang that is allowed 334 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: to do whatever it is that they want. And because 335 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 1: of the badge that they wear in the uniform that 336 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,879 Speaker 1: they have on, we take their word for everything, just 337 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: like we take priests. Oh and then look what they 338 00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: were able to do je iterations of sexual abuse. So 339 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:11,199 Speaker 1: somehow Jesse Smollett needs to pay a bigger price for 340 00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:16,119 Speaker 1: what Kyle writtenhouse shot and killed two people injuring a 341 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: third who took the stand. He got off Scott free. 342 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 1: He is embraced by the right wing as their new savior, 343 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,600 Speaker 1: politicians wanting to arm wrestle in order to bring him 344 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:34,400 Speaker 1: in as an intern, an intern, excuse me, an intern, 345 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:39,520 Speaker 1: a fucking murderer. So people wanted to come for me 346 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:43,640 Speaker 1: over my tweets and my video saying that, oh, there 347 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: needed to be accountability and responsibility in whose criminal system, 348 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter if you're wealthy and you're a black, 349 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,840 Speaker 1: or you're famous and you're a black, You're always going 350 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: to pay a higher price. Jesse Smollett is going to 351 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: be in jail for longer, right then most of the 352 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: people that storm the Capitol building and threatened to overturn 353 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: our democracy, an insurrection that costs people their lives, Jesse 354 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:19,159 Speaker 1: Smollett is going to jail for longer than that. And 355 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,920 Speaker 1: we think that that makes sense. We think that that's 356 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: what justice looks like. I'm so fucking sick of people 357 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:35,960 Speaker 1: talking about it and making these false equivalences when the 358 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:40,679 Speaker 1: evidence is presented in front of you. Right, that lays 359 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,000 Speaker 1: out very clearly that our justice system doesn't function outside 360 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:48,120 Speaker 1: of white supremacy. It is one of the biggest proponents 361 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: of that. You only have to look at sentencing right 362 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 1: There are people right now that are sitting in jail 363 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: serving maximum minimum sentences right for marijuana that white people 364 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 1: have now turned into after legalizing what they made illegal, 365 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:17,120 Speaker 1: into a multibillion dollar business, stealing lives, stealing hope from 366 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: communities of color, while we watch white people do so 367 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: much fucking worse. But then we want to say that, oh, 368 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 1: the punishment fit the crime. No it didn't. Jesse Smollett lied, 369 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: did or did not? Who even will know, honestly, because 370 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:48,440 Speaker 1: I don't believe the police, not in this situation and 371 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: not in most situations. So the fact is that we 372 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:04,880 Speaker 1: continue to look at the criminal injustice system and think 373 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 1: that like they're somehow they're color blind, that somehow we 374 00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,440 Speaker 1: haven't heard countless stories of judges getting kickbacks for the 375 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: amount of black and brown kids that they funnel into 376 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: the prison industrial complex, that we don't know that cops 377 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: cover for each other. I'm just you know, I honestly, 378 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 1: when I was reading the replies of the video that 379 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,280 Speaker 1: I posted, and I'm reading some of the people's replies 380 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:38,680 Speaker 1: talking about, well, you lied to the cops, and so 381 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: you know, he should get the book thrown at him. 382 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: And I'm like, Okay, so that's to assume that cops 383 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,720 Speaker 1: don't lie. That's to assume that Donald Trump, who actually 384 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 1: lied to the entire nation about COVID nineteen, which by 385 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: the time he left office, four hundred thousand Americans have died. 386 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: At that point, we're now close to a million politicizing 387 00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: a pandemic because of Donald Trump. That divided this nation, 388 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: which was his fucking goal. Then he lied about VODA fraud, 389 00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: which because of that lie, we had an insurrection that 390 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: also cost people their lives. Donald Trump and every single 391 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: fucking person around him is a fucking liar. None of 392 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: them are in jail, and their lives actually cost American lives. 393 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:39,479 Speaker 1: So once again, don't talk to me about some version 394 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,840 Speaker 1: of accountability when it's not the same across the board. 395 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: And we know that, and we see it day in 396 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,720 Speaker 1: and day out, but somehow we continue to grasp on 397 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: to it like it's some type of comfort or blanket. Oh, 398 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 1: not all cops are bad, and oh, not all judges 399 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: are bad. But I'm like, how many how many bad 400 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: apples spoil the bunch? How many spoiled and scarred orchards 401 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,800 Speaker 1: right from from East Coast to West Coast do you 402 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,880 Speaker 1: need in order to say that something is rotten, something 403 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:28,239 Speaker 1: is wrong, it's wild? You know? You know, And and 404 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:31,240 Speaker 1: this is honestly, this is me doing both sides. Is 405 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,440 Speaker 1: m where I'm just like I wish. I wish that 406 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: Democrats had the same fortitude, had the same thirst, right, 407 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,360 Speaker 1: the thirst for blood that Republicans have the thirst for, 408 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,880 Speaker 1: you know, oppression and suppression. I wish that Democrats had 409 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 1: that same thirst, passion, and drive but for accountability, responsibility, 410 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: and the protection of our democracy. But they don't. They 411 00:31:56,280 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: clearly do not. And I say often like I honestly, 412 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,800 Speaker 1: I struggle. I struggle to figure out where we're going. 413 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,400 Speaker 1: I struggle to muster right some feeling that things are 414 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: going to get better when all I see is them 415 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,160 Speaker 1: getting worse. And when I'm looking for the Justice Department 416 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: and for the administration to talk talk. Oh, they're doing it, 417 00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:24,080 Speaker 1: but they're doing it for a foreign adversary, not the 418 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:27,360 Speaker 1: people that are literally trying to unseat them. Right at 419 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 1: this very moment, they got no smoke for them, Right, 420 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: we want to throw the book at an actor right 421 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,440 Speaker 1: for making some kind of false claims. Where's the book 422 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: being thrown out for the officers that lie about the 423 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: people that they plant evidence on, that lie about the 424 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: people that they've killed. Derek Chauvin would have never had 425 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: the opportunity to kill George Floyd had he been reprimanded. Oh, 426 00:32:55,720 --> 00:33:00,400 Speaker 1: I don't know, seven, eight, nine, ten infractions or to that. 427 00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: You know it is. It's so it's just so frustrating, 428 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: it's so annoying, it's so debilitating and depressing, and then 429 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,720 Speaker 1: there are some good moments. So I will leave you 430 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:31,640 Speaker 1: all with this. You know, I was catching off on 431 00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 1: the news and came across which I never ever watched 432 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:40,240 Speaker 1: sixty minutes because I was home with my parents, and 433 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: this is what one does. And so I was watching 434 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:52,360 Speaker 1: as Anderson Cooper was interviewing Pete buddhad edge Secretary of Transportation, 435 00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 1: talking to talking about infrastructure and politics, and I'm saying, 436 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:03,120 Speaker 1: what a fascinating place America is, where on one hand 437 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:09,440 Speaker 1: you have these two out, proud white gay men talking 438 00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:15,200 Speaker 1: about infrastructure and politics, one as a secretary right in, 439 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:21,279 Speaker 1: a cabinet member in an administration, and the other a newscaster. 440 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: This would have been unthinkable ten years ago, definitely twenty 441 00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:35,759 Speaker 1: years ago, for certain, thirty years ago and here it was, 442 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,680 Speaker 1: but also coming at the same time when just a 443 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:45,399 Speaker 1: few days prior, Ron de Santis passes signs into law 444 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,799 Speaker 1: that don't say gay legislation. It's like, every time that 445 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to take steps forward, do we 446 00:34:53,560 --> 00:35:00,640 Speaker 1: take so many steps backwards. But it wasn't lost on 447 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,359 Speaker 1: me that that was a celebratory moment to watch these 448 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:09,399 Speaker 1: two out and proud white gay men who are gay 449 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:18,600 Speaker 1: fathers sit in conversation about infrastructure and politics. Moments like 450 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:24,800 Speaker 1: that do, in fact give me hope. It gives me hope. 451 00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:29,400 Speaker 1: And you know, and I pray that the young queer 452 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:32,239 Speaker 1: kids who did not see that because they don't watch 453 00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 1: fucking sixty minutes. I want them to have some hope 454 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:39,800 Speaker 1: about the future, about the world that we are leaving 455 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: for them. And so there are these glimmer moments that 456 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to look for more often to point out 457 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,320 Speaker 1: because we need to feel like there were some type 458 00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:59,000 Speaker 1: of progress somewhere being made, because otherwise we're going to 459 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,280 Speaker 1: go out of our minds with one bad news story 460 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:10,320 Speaker 1: after another after another after another. You know, I can't 461 00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:17,280 Speaker 1: express enough that the conversations that I had with my family, 462 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: you know, over the last couple of days are all 463 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: about well, we got to look for joy. Well, we 464 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:30,760 Speaker 1: have to center our happiness. You know, we're looking over 465 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,920 Speaker 1: at the backyard and seeing, you know, little buds starting 466 00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,640 Speaker 1: to pop off of the trees, knowing that spring is 467 00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,959 Speaker 1: just around the corner. We just had that useless right 468 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:45,439 Speaker 1: spring ahead where we all lost an hour of sleep, 469 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 1: Like why do we still even do that? No one knows, 470 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: But what it does signal, folks, is longer days, right, 471 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,439 Speaker 1: more sunshine ahead at a time when things feel so 472 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,880 Speaker 1: incredibly dark. And so I want to hold on to 473 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 1: those moments, right, I want to lift them up, lift 474 00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:09,320 Speaker 1: up the good news, lift up the good things, because 475 00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,920 Speaker 1: they feel very fleeting. And so if we don't honor 476 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,960 Speaker 1: them as we are, as they are happening, if we 477 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,720 Speaker 1: don't take a deep breath, if we don't give gratitude 478 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,200 Speaker 1: each and every single day just for the opportunity to 479 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,560 Speaker 1: be here, and not just because somebody does not have, 480 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:31,040 Speaker 1: but because we are grateful that we do. Right, even 481 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: for the smallest thing like breath in your body and 482 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:42,239 Speaker 1: the ability to open up your eyes. We have to 483 00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:47,879 Speaker 1: pay attention to the small so that the big things right, 484 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:53,839 Speaker 1: like the awful war that is unfolding, don't knock us 485 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,200 Speaker 1: off our feet, and that we continue to ground and 486 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:02,760 Speaker 1: grow roots and pay atten into an uplift that which 487 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 1: matters most. That is it for me today, friends, on 488 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:17,719 Speaker 1: this lovely Tuesday, as the weather begins to turn for 489 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 1: the better and we're starting to see fifty degree temperatures, 490 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:25,960 Speaker 1: which you know sounds so much better than twenties. So 491 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: get out there, Breathe some fresh air, go for some walks, 492 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:33,440 Speaker 1: take a pause, take it all in, find you some 493 00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:37,879 Speaker 1: joy as always. Power to the people and to all 494 00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:42,080 Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.