WEBVTT - It Can Happen Here 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.560 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:19.279 Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.800 I open up today's show with a really horrific story, 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:27.240 and I'm certain that you by now have no doubt 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:32.199 seen the NonStop coverage of the pregnant woman who we 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:37.960 all watched that was being evacuated from the maternity hospital 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:44.160 in Marapoul in the Ukraine, who was bloodied, very very pregnant, 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.040 has died, and so has the baby that she was carrying. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:55.280 You know, often when we talk about war, or have 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.800 talked about war in this country, we talk about it 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.760 as if it doesn't have real life consequences, as if 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.800 somehow the people, both the civilians that are on the 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.120 ground and those that are fighting, that they're not real 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.520 people with families and homes and hopes and dreams and 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.440 community and all of these things. We talk about war, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.800 and we play it out in action movies, and we 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.720 play it out on video games, and you know, and 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:31.360 don't really understand right unless you have actually seen war firsthand. 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:39.360 So this story is really hitting people. And again I 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.039 want us to say, because I think that we should 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.039 have empathy we should have deep empathy and deep understanding 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.240 about what is happening on the ground as the NATO allies, 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.360 as the United States contemplates whether or not they're going 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:58.400 to get involved even more so than they are. That 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.240 there are all of these complications of war that we 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:05.000 don't discuss. That you know, frankly, as many people have said, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.040 is that Putin has broken all of the quote unquote 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.880 war norms, if there are norms to be had in war, 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:15.320 which frankly, they're not right because one person's liberator is 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:19.040 seen as another person's terrorist, right, and you can justify 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.440 a lot of things. We all know that America has 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.360 over the course of its many bloodied invasions that have 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:29.840 happened on our watch and with our dime. But nonetheless 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.800 we don't really talk about the people who are casualties 0:02:34.840 --> 0:02:37.240 of war. We don't even question here in the United 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:41.519 States how other countries like Iraq and Iran and places 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.919 that we have bombarded right with attacks over the courses 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.480 of generations, how they see the United States. And so 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.840 when we see these stories like the one that has 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.320 been captivating the news the last day or two, it 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:59.480 is heartbreaking and it should break our hearts. We should 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.800 be thinking about what are alternatives to war and what 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:08.400 is the true motivator behind our inaction? Is it inevitable 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:12.120 that we are all going to be drawn into World 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:16.160 War three? Is that inevitable? Are we just slow pacing 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.280 the inevitable here? And if so, how many lives are enough? 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:25.799 Because in World War Two it was six million, right, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.120 What is going to be enough? Enough damage that has 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.440 caused enough lives that are lost? And look, I am 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.360 not advocating for the US to put boots on the 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.800 ground now, but it's the questions that I'm asking about. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.040 How do we go about making these decisions? How do 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:48.560 we go about deciding right that you know, maybe it's 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.560 a million lives, maybe it's six hundred thousand, right, Like, 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.200 how do you put a price on two million people 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:05.280 having now become refugees over three weeks time? In three 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:11.560 weeks time, two million plus people have fled the Ukraine, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:18.520 have poured into bordering countries, two million people. We are 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.320 also still in a health pandemic, but we're not talking 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:26.240 about that anymore. We're not talking about the consequences of 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.400 what is going on and what is it that the 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:33.040 world is willing to stomach when I heard the story 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:37.599 initially of the pregnant woman and her child that has died. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:45.920 You know, it's heartbreaking, right, it's heartbreaking to see people 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.599 because I put myself in their shoes. What would you grab? 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.880 Where would you go? Just this past weekend, I was 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:57.360 celebrating my mother's birthday, and you know, of course we're 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:00.680 talking about what is happening in the world. So we're 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:05.800 talking about Putin's war in the Ukraine. And you know, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:10.680 my dad asked a question that many of broadcasters have asked, Well, 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.440 if we knew that he was a thread, and he 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.440 had already surrounded put troops on the ground, why didn't 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.600 people leave earlier? And I said to him the same 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.440 thing that I wrote many weeks ago, at the beginning, right, 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.560 three weeks ago, at the beginning of the war, what 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:32.040 I wrote about Ukraine, but us here in America. If 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.800 you'll phone, if your phone rang in the middle of 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.440 the night, started buzzing. Let's say it's four o'clock in 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:41.840 the morning, and all of a sudden, there are alerts 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.800 going off everywhere that oh my god, we are under attack. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.520 What are you grabbing? And where are you going? You 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.520 are going to stay for as long as possible, because 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.640 you have no idea what your future looks like. All 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:01.440 you know is the present moment. And as I was 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.880 explaining that to my dad, he said, oh my god, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:09.159 you're right, and he started looking around the kitchen, looking 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.719 around the living room in the house and saying, where 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.839 would we go and what would we do? And I'm like, 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.159 these are the questions that people ask, right there is 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:24.599 no right area for invasion and attacks and the brutalities 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.440 of war, whether we're talking about the Ukraine or Syria 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:34.159 or Ethiopia right whether we're talking about so many areas 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:39.840 around the globe right now that are in refugee crises. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:46.080 Millions of people have been pushed from their home from 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:52.920 all that they know. It's hard for us here who 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.120 are so far removed. But honestly, not really not if 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.040 we're actually paying attention and we're being honest with ourselves. 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:06.720 Little over a year ago, our capital was under attack, 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:15.440 stormed by three thousand plus people holding their Trump flags, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:20.480 decked from head to toe in military regalia, zip ties, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:33.080 cocktail bombs, building guillotines, threatening violence, actually actualizing that violence 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:40.160 by beating police officers. Capitol Police DC metro Police. We'd 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:45.960 never in our lives seen what we saw on January 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:52.880 sixth in Americans modern history. The world a gasp as 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:58.480 our Capitol building was under siege for over one hundred 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.760 and eighty minutes, while the president and of the United 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:04.760 States at that time, the twice impeached criminal Donald Trump, 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:09.520 was sitting around gleefully calling people, you see what they're 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:15.800 doing for me. So we're looking at these people in 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:19.080 the Ukraine that are fleeing to train stations, that are 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:24.760 in bumper to bumper traffic, pregnant women dying on stretchers, 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.400 and we're thinking that this can be us. It was us. 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.520 Over the course of the last two years, folks, we 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.640 have seen our Capitol building under siege and other state 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:45.000 capitals under siege in this country. We have seen cops 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:52.480 decked out in their latest gi Joe Fitz attacking citizens 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:58.480 of the United States in real time. We don't need 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:04.640 to be thinking about foreign invasion in this country because 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.520 it is more likely that we will have a civil 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:13.559 war before Putin's nuke could ever land here. And this 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.360 is what drives me crazy, is because all of this 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.960 is important, but the reality is is that you cannot 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:24.880 send people. You cannot send our soldiers to go and 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:32.000 fight for democracy in the Ukraine and ignore the democracy 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:36.480 that is crumbling at home. How do we do that? 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:41.640 How do we say to ourselves? Oh, yes, and we 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.560 look at them right now, We look at the Ukrainians 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:50.640 with empathy. They're in the midst of deep suffering that 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:56.320 we can't imagine. And I'm telling you imagine it. Donald 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.199 Trump all but this over the weekend, all but announced 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:03.240 that he's running office in twenty twenty four. Now, I 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.360 will tell you that I personally believe that Donald Trump 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.400 is not going to run for office in twenty twenty four. 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.520 I think that this is all a major fucking grift, right. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:18.080 But but I say that, but if everything continues the 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:23.200 way that it has, if Republicans take over the House, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:28.760 take over the Senate, they already have a stacked Supreme Court, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.839 they have been able to place their minions as secretaries 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.120 of states around the country, they have put in their 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:43.000 activation points, then yeah, Donald Trump will most likely run 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.959 in twenty twenty four, and it will be the last 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:49.439 election that we have because, frankly, if you really think 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.800 about it, we have done nothing, nothing to secure our 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:58.640 election since twenty twenty nothing. Given all that we have 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:04.560 learned about what was at play as the insurrection was unfolding. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.680 Who had instructed Trump, who had given directives and wrote 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:14.520 PowerPoint presentations. We know what their plan is. It's literally 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:20.199 been uncovered by the January six Commission. And yet as 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:24.240 they have compiled all of this evidence, Donald Trump is 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:28.200 still free. All of those that have aided him are free. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:31.080 And now let me read you this piece of hot 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.520 shit that I came across, and I said, I'm just 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:39.680 kind of done right, Like some days, I just get 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.200 to a place where I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right. 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.839 I don't even know what I'm thinking. So this is 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.720 an article in the Washington Post yesterday. Here's the headline 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:54.880 for you. Jinny Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, says 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.840 she attended the January sixth stopped the Steel rally before 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:04.200 the Capitol attack. Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas, said 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:09.320 she left the rally before the president took stage. So 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.720 let me read you just a little bit of this, right, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:20.400 because I want you to think now about twenty twenty four. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.480 I want you to think, no, no, no, think about November. Right. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.560 I want you to think about the Supreme Court. I 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:30.560 want you to think about the decisions that are being 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:32.840 made right now that are coming down from the six 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.040 to three conservative court. I want you to now think 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:41.160 what the right would do if one of the liberal 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:47.280 justices had a spouse that attended any Black Lives Matter protests, 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:54.880 which by the way, have all been peaceful, Right, if 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.840 that had happened, what they would be doing, what they 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:01.240 would be calling for, and what Democrats would probably give them, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:06.040 because they're spineless. They would say that they need to resign, 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:10.760 that they need to set down. And if they wouldn't 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.760 resign from the pressure from the outrage, right from even 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:21.400 the appearance, even the appearance that something was awry, right, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.360 they would work to try and impeach that Supreme Court justice. 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:31.120 They would turn it into a non stop Fox News 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:38.079 Republican event to take that person down. But here's where 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:44.520 we are. Virginia Thomas or Genie Thomas, wife of Supreme 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.160 Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for the first time, has publicly 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.840 acknowledged that she participated in the January six, twenty twenty 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:56.560 one Stop the Steal in an interview with the conservative 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:02.760 Washington Free Beacon that was published yesterday, Thomas, who goes 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.880 by Jinny, said that she was part of the crowd 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.960 that gathered on the ellipse that morning to support President 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.880 Donald Trump. Trump was claiming falsely that widespread Vodafron had 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.760 delivered the presidency to Democrat Joe Biden, a falsehood he 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:23.560 continues to this day to repeat. Thomas said that she 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.520 was at the rally for a short time, got cold, 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.520 and went home before Trump took the stage at noon 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:34.760 that day. She says that she was disappointed. Quote, I 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:38.160 was disappointed and frustrated that there was a violence that 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:42.240 happened following a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.000 Ellipse on January sixth Now I want to know what 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:53.720 part did Jinny Thomas decide to leave? Was it when 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.520 Rudy Giuliani was yelling at the crowd to go and 0:14:56.560 --> 0:15:01.400 get their country back right? Was when they were continuing 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.880 to tell the lie over and over again that the 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:10.280 election had been stolen. Jenny Thomas is the wife of 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:17.320 a Supreme Court justice, who no doubt is educated. Does 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.680 she not understand how the electoral college works? Or does 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:26.200 Clarence Thomas also believe that the election was stolen? And 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.200 that had he been given the opportunity for one of 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:35.480 those bogus, fucking sixty six cases, had it made it 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:41.120 up to the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas certainly would have 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:45.000 voted to insert Donald Trump as President of the United States. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.040 Why is this not a bigger news story? Well, there 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.640 are a couple of reasons, right, Europe is at war. 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.840 But again, why do we have no scrutiny? Why are 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.600 we not digging in to Jinny Thomas and Clarence Thomas's finances? 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.760 Why is there no call from Democrats to say what 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:10.600 the fuck is going on here? And certain that they 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.080 are two distinctly different people, but we're talking about the 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.200 wife of a Supreme Court justice being at the rally 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.640 that was the pregame for the insurrection that costs people's lives, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.000 and we're just going to let that go as if 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:33.040 it's not a big deal. Is if that's just normal behavior, folks. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:39.560 It's like you watch these things unfold, you see these 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.360 stories making like a blip on our radar, and I'm 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:47.200 telling you, by the time that we get to November 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.880 and we lose, right, because this is what all the 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.640 polls are saying, and this is what we know to 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:56.200 be true, that Democrats haven't offered a fucking thing right 0:16:56.440 --> 0:17:00.960 to the American people outside of infrastructure. Nothing's been offered 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:06.720 right infrastructure and a couple of emergency COVID checks that 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.600 Republicans voted against. And guess what, America is going to 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.840 put the gavel right back in their hand for them 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:16.840 to finish off destroying our democracy and starting impeachment proceedings 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:21.560 for everyone under the sun, just because they can, because 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.520 they know that Democrats won't do anything about it except 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:27.360 go on television and bitch and moan as if they 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:35.320 have no power. It's so infuriating to be on the 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:40.840 losing team, to consistently be on the losing team, And 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.720 I'm just I guess I'm kind of over it, right, 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:53.800 like I'm over democrats inability to message to the American 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:59.199 people that the Republican Party is aligned more with Putin 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.640 than they are with the founding fathers, that they are 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:09.080 aligned with a man who is responsible and gave orders 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:15.159 to bomb a maternity hospital where certainly you know that 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:20.240 women and children are going to be present, and you 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:26.880 gave the okay, this is no what military operation that 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:33.200 he's doing to liberate the Ukraine from Nazis, as Representative 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.239 Cawthorne said, and as Tucker Carlson continues to go on 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:43.280 Fox News on a regular basis and say Putin is 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:48.479 their idol. They believe that Donald Trump was akin to Putin, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.679 except Putin is actually fucking smart and isn't just a 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:58.320 puppet to whomever it gives him attention. He's a ruthless murderer. 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.560 But this is who Fox News is giving airtime and 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:11.959 applause to through Tucker Carlson. This is who is sitting 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:19.199 in the House of Representatives. Representative Cawthorne was at a 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:27.280 rally calling Vladimir Zalinski a thug, a man who has 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:31.440 been visiting the wounded soldiers in the Ukraine to shake 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:36.400 their hand and to thank them, the man who sent 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.880 off his children and his wife so that he could 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:44.480 stand his ground and defend his country more so than 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:50.800 any fucking sniveling, spineless, ass kicking Republican would ever fucking do. 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:55.919 But this is who their heroes are. And I'm like, 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.040 my god, what do these people have to do and 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.560 say in order to set off an alarm in this 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:06.320 country in order for us to have our attention, not 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:09.360 just on the horrors that are happening across the sea, 0:20:09.440 --> 0:20:13.680 but honestly be able to make the fucking connection between 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.680 what we are seeing Putin do and want to do 0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:19.560 and what we are seeing that Republicans want to do 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:25.200 in America. This is the first time, folks, I got 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.199 to say, at least in my life, that what you 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.240 are seeing right now with the Republican Party, and they're 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:37.080 splintering right in their support of Russia. Donald Trump three 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:44.840 weeks ago was standing at a rally praising Vladimir Putin, 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:53.240 praising him for his leadership and his strength. This is 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.960 a man that has caused a refugee crisis of two 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:02.000 million plus people, a man that has killed children and 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:07.760 pregnant women. This is what the Party of Family Values 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:13.040 is cheering on, and no one is holding their feet 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:18.480 to the fire on it. And that's why I continue 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:22.480 to say that if we lose, when we lose for midterms, 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.879 it's not just going to be by the fault of 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:29.560 Republicans and their voter suppressions freed that they have been on. 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:34.159 It's going to be because Democrats fail to offer an alternative, 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:38.959 and also they fail to identify who our enemy actually is. 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:46.800 You're still referring to these people as your friends, and 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:52.080 they are literally it at war, siding with your enemy, 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:57.440 siding with our known enemy. How do we let that 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:02.639 roll off of our backs? How do we pretend and 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:14.560 say that this is okay? It's wild America, America is wild. 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:22.560 You know I was speaking, you know, folks, if you 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.320 have not seen me on TikTok, I have decided to 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:30.919 venture into this new realm and it will new to me, 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.080 not new to the kids, but new to me, and 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.840 so I deliver content in a much different way over there. 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:39.640 But one of the stories, one of the things videos 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:45.880 that I posted recently, was about Jesse Smollett, the actor 0:22:47.840 --> 0:22:52.080 formerly from Empire, a show that was on Fox, who 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:57.800 back in twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen made false claims, 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.400 or at least the police in Chicago continue to say 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.680 that false claims were made with regard to a hate crime. 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:10.119 And Jessice Smollett was just sentenced to five months in jail, 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:16.120 one hundred and fifty days right oh, close to two 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:19.679 hundred thousand dollars worth of fines, all for lying to 0:23:19.720 --> 0:23:25.080 the police. And what I said over the weekend and 0:23:25.359 --> 0:23:32.600 what I recorded on TikTok was this is some hot bullshit, right, 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:35.280 not because I don't think that there should have been 0:23:35.320 --> 0:23:38.760 some type of fine. Right. Okay, you lie to the police, 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.160 so the fuck what? Oh you lied about a hate crime. 0:23:42.160 --> 0:23:45.040 People are saying, oh my god, he set the LGBTQ 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:48.280 plus movement back, you know, a decade. No he didn't. 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:52.480 The only thing that sets the LGBTQ movement back are 0:23:52.520 --> 0:23:56.919 Republicans and white Evangelical Christians. Right are the people like 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:01.919 Governor Deth Santis, who is pushing for a return to 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:06.679 discrimination at the highest power for the LGBTQ community, with 0:24:06.840 --> 0:24:12.640 making trans kids his biggest and favorite target. Jesse Smollett 0:24:12.680 --> 0:24:19.280 made a mistake that cost him, most likely his career. Police, however, 0:24:19.720 --> 0:24:22.639 lie to the public all the time. They lie about 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.120 the unarmed black people that they kill. They lie when 0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:30.160 they plan evidence on people. We take their police reports 0:24:30.160 --> 0:24:33.480 as if they are some type of fucking gossipel knowing 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:37.080 that it's been proven time and time again that police 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:41.120 officers lie. Case in point, George Floyd. If you had 0:24:41.119 --> 0:24:44.919 read the initial reporting, the police report said that George 0:24:44.920 --> 0:24:49.200 Floyd died of like some type of natural causes, some 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:54.440 type of cardiac arrest following you know, a lack of oxygen, 0:24:55.440 --> 0:24:58.000 not the fact that Derek Chauvin had need on his 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:00.560 neck and cut off his oxygen. S lie and killed 0:25:00.640 --> 0:25:03.360 him in broad daylight after eight minutes and forty six 0:25:03.400 --> 0:25:06.680 seconds of torture. That's not what the police report said. 0:25:08.320 --> 0:25:11.920 The police report for Mike Brown, who was shot dead 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:18.119 in Ferguson didn't say that he had put his hands 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:24.400 up and said don't shoot, don't shoot. What about Eric Gardner? 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:28.640 What about John Crawford? What about Austin Sterling? What about 0:25:28.680 --> 0:25:33.920 Stefan Clark? What about Sandra Bland? What about Rickia Boyd? 0:25:34.560 --> 0:25:42.480 What about Brianna Taylor? Police lie? That is what they do. 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:47.080 They are an organized and legalized gang that is allowed 0:25:47.080 --> 0:25:50.320 to do whatever it is that they want. And because 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:52.199 of the badge that they wear in the uniform that 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:54.879 they have on, we take their word for everything, just 0:25:54.960 --> 0:25:57.480 like we take priests. Oh and then look what they 0:25:57.480 --> 0:26:06.800 were able to do je iterations of sexual abuse. So 0:26:06.880 --> 0:26:11.199 somehow Jesse Smollett needs to pay a bigger price for 0:26:11.359 --> 0:26:16.119 what Kyle writtenhouse shot and killed two people injuring a 0:26:16.200 --> 0:26:19.800 third who took the stand. He got off Scott free. 0:26:22.880 --> 0:26:26.760 He is embraced by the right wing as their new savior, 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:30.600 politicians wanting to arm wrestle in order to bring him 0:26:30.640 --> 0:26:34.400 in as an intern, an intern, excuse me, an intern, 0:26:34.480 --> 0:26:39.520 a fucking murderer. So people wanted to come for me 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:43.640 over my tweets and my video saying that, oh, there 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:47.680 needed to be accountability and responsibility in whose criminal system, 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:53.760 because it doesn't matter if you're wealthy and you're a black, 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:55.840 or you're famous and you're a black, You're always going 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:58.159 to pay a higher price. Jesse Smollett is going to 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:03.919 be in jail for longer, right then most of the 0:27:03.920 --> 0:27:07.080 people that storm the Capitol building and threatened to overturn 0:27:07.119 --> 0:27:15.040 our democracy, an insurrection that costs people their lives, Jesse 0:27:15.160 --> 0:27:19.159 Smollett is going to jail for longer than that. And 0:27:19.280 --> 0:27:22.920 we think that that makes sense. We think that that's 0:27:22.960 --> 0:27:29.280 what justice looks like. I'm so fucking sick of people 0:27:29.359 --> 0:27:35.960 talking about it and making these false equivalences when the 0:27:36.080 --> 0:27:40.679 evidence is presented in front of you. Right, that lays 0:27:40.720 --> 0:27:45.000 out very clearly that our justice system doesn't function outside 0:27:45.000 --> 0:27:48.120 of white supremacy. It is one of the biggest proponents 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:53.760 of that. You only have to look at sentencing right 0:27:53.880 --> 0:27:56.280 There are people right now that are sitting in jail 0:27:57.800 --> 0:28:04.560 serving maximum minimum sentences right for marijuana that white people 0:28:04.560 --> 0:28:08.359 have now turned into after legalizing what they made illegal, 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:17.120 into a multibillion dollar business, stealing lives, stealing hope from 0:28:17.160 --> 0:28:24.480 communities of color, while we watch white people do so 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:32.480 much fucking worse. But then we want to say that, oh, 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:36.480 the punishment fit the crime. No it didn't. Jesse Smollett lied, 0:28:38.160 --> 0:28:42.400 did or did not? Who even will know, honestly, because 0:28:42.440 --> 0:28:48.440 I don't believe the police, not in this situation and 0:28:48.560 --> 0:28:59.400 not in most situations. So the fact is that we 0:28:59.520 --> 0:29:04.880 continue to look at the criminal injustice system and think 0:29:04.920 --> 0:29:11.640 that like they're somehow they're color blind, that somehow we 0:29:11.720 --> 0:29:15.440 haven't heard countless stories of judges getting kickbacks for the 0:29:15.480 --> 0:29:17.920 amount of black and brown kids that they funnel into 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:22.120 the prison industrial complex, that we don't know that cops 0:29:22.160 --> 0:29:29.320 cover for each other. I'm just you know, I honestly, 0:29:29.480 --> 0:29:33.160 when I was reading the replies of the video that 0:29:33.200 --> 0:29:36.280 I posted, and I'm reading some of the people's replies 0:29:36.360 --> 0:29:38.680 talking about, well, you lied to the cops, and so 0:29:39.000 --> 0:29:40.760 you know, he should get the book thrown at him. 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:44.680 And I'm like, Okay, so that's to assume that cops 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:48.720 don't lie. That's to assume that Donald Trump, who actually 0:29:48.800 --> 0:29:54.280 lied to the entire nation about COVID nineteen, which by 0:29:54.320 --> 0:29:58.640 the time he left office, four hundred thousand Americans have died. 0:29:59.080 --> 0:30:04.760 At that point, we're now close to a million politicizing 0:30:04.840 --> 0:30:08.800 a pandemic because of Donald Trump. That divided this nation, 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:15.360 which was his fucking goal. Then he lied about VODA fraud, 0:30:16.840 --> 0:30:22.040 which because of that lie, we had an insurrection that 0:30:22.200 --> 0:30:26.800 also cost people their lives. Donald Trump and every single 0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:30.480 fucking person around him is a fucking liar. None of 0:30:30.480 --> 0:30:34.880 them are in jail, and their lives actually cost American lives. 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:39.479 So once again, don't talk to me about some version 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:42.840 of accountability when it's not the same across the board. 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:44.800 And we know that, and we see it day in 0:30:44.840 --> 0:30:48.720 and day out, but somehow we continue to grasp on 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:55.120 to it like it's some type of comfort or blanket. Oh, 0:30:55.240 --> 0:30:57.800 not all cops are bad, and oh, not all judges 0:30:57.840 --> 0:31:02.400 are bad. But I'm like, how many how many bad 0:31:02.440 --> 0:31:09.560 apples spoil the bunch? How many spoiled and scarred orchards 0:31:10.080 --> 0:31:15.800