Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I open up today's show with a really horrific story,
Speaker 1: and I'm certain that you by now have no doubt
Speaker 1: seen the NonStop coverage of the pregnant woman who we
Speaker 1: all watched that was being evacuated from the maternity hospital
Speaker 1: in Marapoul in the Ukraine, who was bloodied, very very pregnant,
Speaker 1: has died, and so has the baby that she was carrying.
Speaker 1: You know, often when we talk about war, or have
Speaker 1: talked about war in this country, we talk about it
Speaker 1: as if it doesn't have real life consequences, as if
Speaker 1: somehow the people, both the civilians that are on the
Speaker 1: ground and those that are fighting, that they're not real
Speaker 1: people with families and homes and hopes and dreams and
Speaker 1: community and all of these things. We talk about war,
Speaker 1: and we play it out in action movies, and we
Speaker 1: play it out on video games, and you know, and
Speaker 1: don't really understand right unless you have actually seen war firsthand.
Speaker 1: So this story is really hitting people. And again I
Speaker 1: want us to say, because I think that we should
Speaker 1: have empathy we should have deep empathy and deep understanding
Speaker 1: about what is happening on the ground as the NATO allies,
Speaker 1: as the United States contemplates whether or not they're going
Speaker 1: to get involved even more so than they are. That
Speaker 1: there are all of these complications of war that we
Speaker 1: don't discuss. That you know, frankly, as many people have said,
Speaker 1: is that Putin has broken all of the quote unquote
Speaker 1: war norms, if there are norms to be had in war,
Speaker 1: which frankly, they're not right because one person's liberator is
Speaker 1: seen as another person's terrorist, right, and you can justify
Speaker 1: a lot of things. We all know that America has
Speaker 1: over the course of its many bloodied invasions that have
Speaker 1: happened on our watch and with our dime. But nonetheless
Speaker 1: we don't really talk about the people who are casualties
Speaker 1: of war. We don't even question here in the United
Speaker 1: States how other countries like Iraq and Iran and places
Speaker 1: that we have bombarded right with attacks over the courses
Speaker 1: of generations, how they see the United States. And so
Speaker 1: when we see these stories like the one that has
Speaker 1: been captivating the news the last day or two, it
Speaker 1: is heartbreaking and it should break our hearts. We should
Speaker 1: be thinking about what are alternatives to war and what
Speaker 1: is the true motivator behind our inaction? Is it inevitable
Speaker 1: that we are all going to be drawn into World
Speaker 1: War three? Is that inevitable? Are we just slow pacing
Speaker 1: the inevitable here? And if so, how many lives are enough?
Speaker 1: Because in World War Two it was six million, right,
Speaker 1: What is going to be enough? Enough damage that has
Speaker 1: caused enough lives that are lost? And look, I am
Speaker 1: not advocating for the US to put boots on the
Speaker 1: ground now, but it's the questions that I'm asking about.
Speaker 1: How do we go about making these decisions? How do
Speaker 1: we go about deciding right that you know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a million lives, maybe it's six hundred thousand, right, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you put a price on two million people
Speaker 1: having now become refugees over three weeks time? In three
Speaker 1: weeks time, two million plus people have fled the Ukraine,
Speaker 1: have poured into bordering countries, two million people. We are
Speaker 1: also still in a health pandemic, but we're not talking
Speaker 1: about that anymore. We're not talking about the consequences of
Speaker 1: what is going on and what is it that the
Speaker 1: world is willing to stomach when I heard the story
Speaker 1: initially of the pregnant woman and her child that has died.
Speaker 1: You know, it's heartbreaking, right, it's heartbreaking to see people
Speaker 1: because I put myself in their shoes. What would you grab?
Speaker 1: Where would you go? Just this past weekend, I was
Speaker 1: celebrating my mother's birthday, and you know, of course we're
Speaker 1: talking about what is happening in the world. So we're
Speaker 1: talking about Putin's war in the Ukraine. And you know,
Speaker 1: my dad asked a question that many of broadcasters have asked, Well,
Speaker 1: if we knew that he was a thread, and he
Speaker 1: had already surrounded put troops on the ground, why didn't
Speaker 1: people leave earlier? And I said to him the same
Speaker 1: thing that I wrote many weeks ago, at the beginning, right,
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, at the beginning of the war, what
Speaker 1: I wrote about Ukraine, but us here in America. If
Speaker 1: you'll phone, if your phone rang in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, started buzzing. Let's say it's four o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning, and all of a sudden, there are alerts
Speaker 1: going off everywhere that oh my god, we are under attack.
Speaker 1: What are you grabbing? And where are you going? You
Speaker 1: are going to stay for as long as possible, because
Speaker 1: you have no idea what your future looks like. All
Speaker 1: you know is the present moment. And as I was
Speaker 1: explaining that to my dad, he said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you're right, and he started looking around the kitchen, looking
Speaker 1: around the living room in the house and saying, where
Speaker 1: would we go and what would we do? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: these are the questions that people ask, right there is
Speaker 1: no right area for invasion and attacks and the brutalities
Speaker 1: of war, whether we're talking about the Ukraine or Syria
Speaker 1: or Ethiopia right whether we're talking about so many areas
Speaker 1: around the globe right now that are in refugee crises.
Speaker 1: Millions of people have been pushed from their home from
Speaker 1: all that they know. It's hard for us here who
Speaker 1: are so far removed. But honestly, not really not if
Speaker 1: we're actually paying attention and we're being honest with ourselves.
Speaker 1: Little over a year ago, our capital was under attack,
Speaker 1: stormed by three thousand plus people holding their Trump flags,
Speaker 1: decked from head to toe in military regalia, zip ties,
Speaker 1: cocktail bombs, building guillotines, threatening violence, actually actualizing that violence
Speaker 1: by beating police officers. Capitol Police DC metro Police. We'd
Speaker 1: never in our lives seen what we saw on January
Speaker 1: sixth in Americans modern history. The world a gasp as
Speaker 1: our Capitol building was under siege for over one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty minutes, while the president and of the United
Speaker 1: States at that time, the twice impeached criminal Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: was sitting around gleefully calling people, you see what they're
Speaker 1: doing for me. So we're looking at these people in
Speaker 1: the Ukraine that are fleeing to train stations, that are
Speaker 1: in bumper to bumper traffic, pregnant women dying on stretchers,
Speaker 1: and we're thinking that this can be us. It was us.
Speaker 1: Over the course of the last two years, folks, we
Speaker 1: have seen our Capitol building under siege and other state
Speaker 1: capitals under siege in this country. We have seen cops
Speaker 1: decked out in their latest gi Joe Fitz attacking citizens
Speaker 1: of the United States in real time. We don't need
Speaker 1: to be thinking about foreign invasion in this country because
Speaker 1: it is more likely that we will have a civil
Speaker 1: war before Putin's nuke could ever land here. And this
Speaker 1: is what drives me crazy, is because all of this
Speaker 1: is important, but the reality is is that you cannot
Speaker 1: send people. You cannot send our soldiers to go and
Speaker 1: fight for democracy in the Ukraine and ignore the democracy
Speaker 1: that is crumbling at home. How do we do that?
Speaker 1: How do we say to ourselves? Oh, yes, and we
Speaker 1: look at them right now, We look at the Ukrainians
Speaker 1: with empathy. They're in the midst of deep suffering that
Speaker 1: we can't imagine. And I'm telling you imagine it. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump all but this over the weekend, all but announced
Speaker 1: that he's running office in twenty twenty four. Now, I
Speaker 1: will tell you that I personally believe that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is not going to run for office in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I think that this is all a major fucking grift, right.
Speaker 1: But but I say that, but if everything continues the
Speaker 1: way that it has, if Republicans take over the House,
Speaker 1: take over the Senate, they already have a stacked Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: they have been able to place their minions as secretaries
Speaker 1: of states around the country, they have put in their
Speaker 1: activation points, then yeah, Donald Trump will most likely run
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, and it will be the last
Speaker 1: election that we have because, frankly, if you really think
Speaker 1: about it, we have done nothing, nothing to secure our
Speaker 1: election since twenty twenty nothing. Given all that we have
Speaker 1: learned about what was at play as the insurrection was unfolding.
Speaker 1: Who had instructed Trump, who had given directives and wrote
Speaker 1: PowerPoint presentations. We know what their plan is. It's literally
Speaker 1: been uncovered by the January six Commission. And yet as
Speaker 1: they have compiled all of this evidence, Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: still free. All of those that have aided him are free.
Speaker 1: And now let me read you this piece of hot
Speaker 1: shit that I came across, and I said, I'm just
Speaker 1: kind of done right, Like some days, I just get
Speaker 1: to a place where I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what I'm thinking. So this is
Speaker 1: an article in the Washington Post yesterday. Here's the headline
Speaker 1: for you. Jinny Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice, says
Speaker 1: she attended the January sixth stopped the Steel rally before
Speaker 1: the Capitol attack. Thomas, the wife of Clarence Thomas, said
Speaker 1: she left the rally before the president took stage. So
Speaker 1: let me read you just a little bit of this, right,
Speaker 1: because I want you to think now about twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: I want you to think, no, no, no, think about November. Right.
Speaker 1: I want you to think about the Supreme Court. I
Speaker 1: want you to think about the decisions that are being
Speaker 1: made right now that are coming down from the six
Speaker 1: to three conservative court. I want you to now think
Speaker 1: what the right would do if one of the liberal
Speaker 1: justices had a spouse that attended any Black Lives Matter protests,
Speaker 1: which by the way, have all been peaceful, Right, if
Speaker 1: that had happened, what they would be doing, what they
Speaker 1: would be calling for, and what Democrats would probably give them,
Speaker 1: because they're spineless. They would say that they need to resign,
Speaker 1: that they need to set down. And if they wouldn't
Speaker 1: resign from the pressure from the outrage, right from even
Speaker 1: the appearance, even the appearance that something was awry, right,
Speaker 1: they would work to try and impeach that Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 1: They would turn it into a non stop Fox News
Speaker 1: Republican event to take that person down. But here's where
Speaker 1: we are. Virginia Thomas or Genie Thomas, wife of Supreme
Speaker 1: Court Justice Clarence Thomas, for the first time, has publicly
Speaker 1: acknowledged that she participated in the January six, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one Stop the Steal in an interview with the conservative
Speaker 1: Washington Free Beacon that was published yesterday, Thomas, who goes
Speaker 1: by Jinny, said that she was part of the crowd
Speaker 1: that gathered on the ellipse that morning to support President
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Trump was claiming falsely that widespread Vodafron had
Speaker 1: delivered the presidency to Democrat Joe Biden, a falsehood he
Speaker 1: continues to this day to repeat. Thomas said that she
Speaker 1: was at the rally for a short time, got cold,
Speaker 1: and went home before Trump took the stage at noon
Speaker 1: that day. She says that she was disappointed. Quote, I
Speaker 1: was disappointed and frustrated that there was a violence that
Speaker 1: happened following a peaceful gathering of Trump supporters on the
Speaker 1: Ellipse on January sixth Now I want to know what
Speaker 1: part did Jinny Thomas decide to leave? Was it when
Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani was yelling at the crowd to go and
Speaker 1: get their country back right? Was when they were continuing
Speaker 1: to tell the lie over and over again that the
Speaker 1: election had been stolen. Jenny Thomas is the wife of
Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice, who no doubt is educated. Does
Speaker 1: she not understand how the electoral college works? Or does
Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas also believe that the election was stolen? And
Speaker 1: that had he been given the opportunity for one of
Speaker 1: those bogus, fucking sixty six cases, had it made it
Speaker 1: up to the Supreme Court, Clarence Thomas certainly would have
Speaker 1: voted to insert Donald Trump as President of the United States.
Speaker 1: Why is this not a bigger news story? Well, there
Speaker 1: are a couple of reasons, right, Europe is at war.
Speaker 1: But again, why do we have no scrutiny? Why are
Speaker 1: we not digging in to Jinny Thomas and Clarence Thomas's finances?
Speaker 1: Why is there no call from Democrats to say what
Speaker 1: the fuck is going on here? And certain that they
Speaker 1: are two distinctly different people, but we're talking about the
Speaker 1: wife of a Supreme Court justice being at the rally
Speaker 1: that was the pregame for the insurrection that costs people's lives,
Speaker 1: and we're just going to let that go as if
Speaker 1: it's not a big deal. Is if that's just normal behavior, folks.
Speaker 1: It's like you watch these things unfold, you see these
Speaker 1: stories making like a blip on our radar, and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, by the time that we get to November
Speaker 1: and we lose, right, because this is what all the
Speaker 1: polls are saying, and this is what we know to
Speaker 1: be true, that Democrats haven't offered a fucking thing right
Speaker 1: to the American people outside of infrastructure. Nothing's been offered
Speaker 1: right infrastructure and a couple of emergency COVID checks that
Speaker 1: Republicans voted against. And guess what, America is going to
Speaker 1: put the gavel right back in their hand for them
Speaker 1: to finish off destroying our democracy and starting impeachment proceedings
Speaker 1: for everyone under the sun, just because they can, because
Speaker 1: they know that Democrats won't do anything about it except
Speaker 1: go on television and bitch and moan as if they
Speaker 1: have no power. It's so infuriating to be on the
Speaker 1: losing team, to consistently be on the losing team, And
Speaker 1: I'm just I guess I'm kind of over it, right,
Speaker 1: like I'm over democrats inability to message to the American
Speaker 1: people that the Republican Party is aligned more with Putin
Speaker 1: than they are with the founding fathers, that they are
Speaker 1: aligned with a man who is responsible and gave orders
Speaker 1: to bomb a maternity hospital where certainly you know that
Speaker 1: women and children are going to be present, and you
Speaker 1: gave the okay, this is no what military operation that
Speaker 1: he's doing to liberate the Ukraine from Nazis, as Representative
Speaker 1: Cawthorne said, and as Tucker Carlson continues to go on
Speaker 1: Fox News on a regular basis and say Putin is
Speaker 1: their idol. They believe that Donald Trump was akin to Putin,
Speaker 1: except Putin is actually fucking smart and isn't just a
Speaker 1: puppet to whomever it gives him attention. He's a ruthless murderer.
Speaker 1: But this is who Fox News is giving airtime and
Speaker 1: applause to through Tucker Carlson. This is who is sitting
Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives. Representative Cawthorne was at a
Speaker 1: rally calling Vladimir Zalinski a thug, a man who has
Speaker 1: been visiting the wounded soldiers in the Ukraine to shake
Speaker 1: their hand and to thank them, the man who sent
Speaker 1: off his children and his wife so that he could
Speaker 1: stand his ground and defend his country more so than
Speaker 1: any fucking sniveling, spineless, ass kicking Republican would ever fucking do.
Speaker 1: But this is who their heroes are. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: my god, what do these people have to do and
Speaker 1: say in order to set off an alarm in this
Speaker 1: country in order for us to have our attention, not
Speaker 1: just on the horrors that are happening across the sea,
Speaker 1: but honestly be able to make the fucking connection between
Speaker 1: what we are seeing Putin do and want to do
Speaker 1: and what we are seeing that Republicans want to do
Speaker 1: in America. This is the first time, folks, I got
Speaker 1: to say, at least in my life, that what you
Speaker 1: are seeing right now with the Republican Party, and they're
Speaker 1: splintering right in their support of Russia. Donald Trump three
Speaker 1: weeks ago was standing at a rally praising Vladimir Putin,
Speaker 1: praising him for his leadership and his strength. This is
Speaker 1: a man that has caused a refugee crisis of two
Speaker 1: million plus people, a man that has killed children and
Speaker 1: pregnant women. This is what the Party of Family Values
Speaker 1: is cheering on, and no one is holding their feet
Speaker 1: to the fire on it. And that's why I continue
Speaker 1: to say that if we lose, when we lose for midterms,
Speaker 1: it's not just going to be by the fault of
Speaker 1: Republicans and their voter suppressions freed that they have been on.
Speaker 1: It's going to be because Democrats fail to offer an alternative,
Speaker 1: and also they fail to identify who our enemy actually is.
Speaker 1: You're still referring to these people as your friends, and
Speaker 1: they are literally it at war, siding with your enemy,
Speaker 1: siding with our known enemy. How do we let that
Speaker 1: roll off of our backs? How do we pretend and
Speaker 1: say that this is okay? It's wild America, America is wild.
Speaker 1: You know I was speaking, you know, folks, if you
Speaker 1: have not seen me on TikTok, I have decided to
Speaker 1: venture into this new realm and it will new to me,
Speaker 1: not new to the kids, but new to me, and
Speaker 1: so I deliver content in a much different way over there.
Speaker 1: But one of the stories, one of the things videos
Speaker 1: that I posted recently, was about Jesse Smollett, the actor
Speaker 1: formerly from Empire, a show that was on Fox, who
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen or twenty nineteen made false claims,
Speaker 1: or at least the police in Chicago continue to say
Speaker 1: that false claims were made with regard to a hate crime.
Speaker 1: And Jessice Smollett was just sentenced to five months in jail,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty days right oh, close to two
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars worth of fines, all for lying to
Speaker 1: the police. And what I said over the weekend and
Speaker 1: what I recorded on TikTok was this is some hot bullshit, right,
Speaker 1: not because I don't think that there should have been
Speaker 1: some type of fine. Right. Okay, you lie to the police,
Speaker 1: so the fuck what? Oh you lied about a hate crime.
Speaker 1: People are saying, oh my god, he set the LGBTQ
Speaker 1: plus movement back, you know, a decade. No he didn't.
Speaker 1: The only thing that sets the LGBTQ movement back are
Speaker 1: Republicans and white Evangelical Christians. Right are the people like
Speaker 1: Governor Deth Santis, who is pushing for a return to
Speaker 1: discrimination at the highest power for the LGBTQ community, with
Speaker 1: making trans kids his biggest and favorite target. Jesse Smollett
Speaker 1: made a mistake that cost him, most likely his career. Police, however,
Speaker 1: lie to the public all the time. They lie about
Speaker 1: the unarmed black people that they kill. They lie when
Speaker 1: they plan evidence on people. We take their police reports
Speaker 1: as if they are some type of fucking gossipel knowing
Speaker 1: that it's been proven time and time again that police
Speaker 1: officers lie. Case in point, George Floyd. If you had
Speaker 1: read the initial reporting, the police report said that George
Speaker 1: Floyd died of like some type of natural causes, some
Speaker 1: type of cardiac arrest following you know, a lack of oxygen,
Speaker 1: not the fact that Derek Chauvin had need on his
Speaker 1: neck and cut off his oxygen. S lie and killed
Speaker 1: him in broad daylight after eight minutes and forty six
Speaker 1: seconds of torture. That's not what the police report said.
Speaker 1: The police report for Mike Brown, who was shot dead
Speaker 1: in Ferguson didn't say that he had put his hands
Speaker 1: up and said don't shoot, don't shoot. What about Eric Gardner?
Speaker 1: What about John Crawford? What about Austin Sterling? What about
Speaker 1: Stefan Clark? What about Sandra Bland? What about Rickia Boyd?
Speaker 1: What about Brianna Taylor? Police lie? That is what they do.
Speaker 1: They are an organized and legalized gang that is allowed
Speaker 1: to do whatever it is that they want. And because
Speaker 1: of the badge that they wear in the uniform that
Speaker 1: they have on, we take their word for everything, just
Speaker 1: like we take priests. Oh and then look what they
Speaker 1: were able to do je iterations of sexual abuse. So
Speaker 1: somehow Jesse Smollett needs to pay a bigger price for
Speaker 1: what Kyle writtenhouse shot and killed two people injuring a
Speaker 1: third who took the stand. He got off Scott free.
Speaker 1: He is embraced by the right wing as their new savior,
Speaker 1: politicians wanting to arm wrestle in order to bring him
Speaker 1: in as an intern, an intern, excuse me, an intern,
Speaker 1: a fucking murderer. So people wanted to come for me
Speaker 1: over my tweets and my video saying that, oh, there
Speaker 1: needed to be accountability and responsibility in whose criminal system,
Speaker 1: because it doesn't matter if you're wealthy and you're a black,
Speaker 1: or you're famous and you're a black, You're always going
Speaker 1: to pay a higher price. Jesse Smollett is going to
Speaker 1: be in jail for longer, right then most of the
Speaker 1: people that storm the Capitol building and threatened to overturn
Speaker 1: our democracy, an insurrection that costs people their lives, Jesse
Speaker 1: Smollett is going to jail for longer than that. And
Speaker 1: we think that that makes sense. We think that that's
Speaker 1: what justice looks like. I'm so fucking sick of people
Speaker 1: talking about it and making these false equivalences when the
Speaker 1: evidence is presented in front of you. Right, that lays
Speaker 1: out very clearly that our justice system doesn't function outside
Speaker 1: of white supremacy. It is one of the biggest proponents
Speaker 1: of that. You only have to look at sentencing right
Speaker 1: There are people right now that are sitting in jail
Speaker 1: serving maximum minimum sentences right for marijuana that white people
Speaker 1: have now turned into after legalizing what they made illegal,
Speaker 1: into a multibillion dollar business, stealing lives, stealing hope from
Speaker 1: communities of color, while we watch white people do so
Speaker 1: much fucking worse. But then we want to say that, oh,
Speaker 1: the punishment fit the crime. No it didn't. Jesse Smollett lied,
Speaker 1: did or did not? Who even will know, honestly, because
Speaker 1: I don't believe the police, not in this situation and
Speaker 1: not in most situations. So the fact is that we
Speaker 1: continue to look at the criminal injustice system and think
Speaker 1: that like they're somehow they're color blind, that somehow we
Speaker 1: haven't heard countless stories of judges getting kickbacks for the
Speaker 1: amount of black and brown kids that they funnel into
Speaker 1: the prison industrial complex, that we don't know that cops
Speaker 1: cover for each other. I'm just you know, I honestly,
Speaker 1: when I was reading the replies of the video that
Speaker 1: I posted, and I'm reading some of the people's replies
Speaker 1: talking about, well, you lied to the cops, and so
Speaker 1: you know, he should get the book thrown at him.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, Okay, so that's to assume that cops
Speaker 1: don't lie. That's to assume that Donald Trump, who actually
Speaker 1: lied to the entire nation about COVID nineteen, which by
Speaker 1: the time he left office, four hundred thousand Americans have died.
Speaker 1: At that point, we're now close to a million politicizing
Speaker 1: a pandemic because of Donald Trump. That divided this nation,
Speaker 1: which was his fucking goal. Then he lied about VODA fraud,
Speaker 1: which because of that lie, we had an insurrection that
Speaker 1: also cost people their lives. Donald Trump and every single
Speaker 1: fucking person around him is a fucking liar. None of
Speaker 1: them are in jail, and their lives actually cost American lives.
Speaker 1: So once again, don't talk to me about some version
Speaker 1: of accountability when it's not the same across the board.
Speaker 1: And we know that, and we see it day in
Speaker 1: and day out, but somehow we continue to grasp on
Speaker 1: to it like it's some type of comfort or blanket. Oh,
Speaker 1: not all cops are bad, and oh, not all judges
Speaker 1: are bad. But I'm like, how many how many bad
Speaker 1: apples spoil the bunch? How many spoiled and scarred orchards
Speaker 1: right from from East Coast to West Coast do you
Speaker 1: need in order to say that something is rotten, something
Speaker 1: is wrong, it's wild? You know? You know, And and
Speaker 1: this is honestly, this is me doing both sides. Is
Speaker 1: m where I'm just like I wish. I wish that
Speaker 1: Democrats had the same fortitude, had the same thirst, right,
Speaker 1: the thirst for blood that Republicans have the thirst for,
Speaker 1: you know, oppression and suppression. I wish that Democrats had
Speaker 1: that same thirst, passion, and drive but for accountability, responsibility,
Speaker 1: and the protection of our democracy. But they don't. They
Speaker 1: clearly do not. And I say often like I honestly,
Speaker 1: I struggle. I struggle to figure out where we're going.
Speaker 1: I struggle to muster right some feeling that things are
Speaker 1: going to get better when all I see is them
Speaker 1: getting worse. And when I'm looking for the Justice Department
Speaker 1: and for the administration to talk talk. Oh, they're doing it,
Speaker 1: but they're doing it for a foreign adversary, not the
Speaker 1: people that are literally trying to unseat them. Right at
Speaker 1: this very moment, they got no smoke for them, Right,
Speaker 1: we want to throw the book at an actor right
Speaker 1: for making some kind of false claims. Where's the book
Speaker 1: being thrown out for the officers that lie about the
Speaker 1: people that they plant evidence on, that lie about the
Speaker 1: people that they've killed. Derek Chauvin would have never had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to kill George Floyd had he been reprimanded. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know, seven, eight, nine, ten infractions or to that.
Speaker 1: You know it is. It's so it's just so frustrating,
Speaker 1: it's so annoying, it's so debilitating and depressing, and then
Speaker 1: there are some good moments. So I will leave you
Speaker 1: all with this. You know, I was catching off on
Speaker 1: the news and came across which I never ever watched
Speaker 1: sixty minutes because I was home with my parents, and
Speaker 1: this is what one does. And so I was watching
Speaker 1: as Anderson Cooper was interviewing Pete buddhad edge Secretary of Transportation,
Speaker 1: talking to talking about infrastructure and politics, and I'm saying,
Speaker 1: what a fascinating place America is, where on one hand
Speaker 1: you have these two out, proud white gay men talking
Speaker 1: about infrastructure and politics, one as a secretary right in,
Speaker 1: a cabinet member in an administration, and the other a newscaster.
Speaker 1: This would have been unthinkable ten years ago, definitely twenty
Speaker 1: years ago, for certain, thirty years ago and here it was,
Speaker 1: but also coming at the same time when just a
Speaker 1: few days prior, Ron de Santis passes signs into law
Speaker 1: that don't say gay legislation. It's like, every time that
Speaker 1: we have an opportunity to take steps forward, do we
Speaker 1: take so many steps backwards. But it wasn't lost on
Speaker 1: me that that was a celebratory moment to watch these
Speaker 1: two out and proud white gay men who are gay
Speaker 1: fathers sit in conversation about infrastructure and politics. Moments like
Speaker 1: that do, in fact give me hope. It gives me hope.
Speaker 1: And you know, and I pray that the young queer
Speaker 1: kids who did not see that because they don't watch
Speaker 1: fucking sixty minutes. I want them to have some hope
Speaker 1: about the future, about the world that we are leaving
Speaker 1: for them. And so there are these glimmer moments that
Speaker 1: I'm going to look for more often to point out
Speaker 1: because we need to feel like there were some type
Speaker 1: of progress somewhere being made, because otherwise we're going to
Speaker 1: go out of our minds with one bad news story
Speaker 1: after another after another after another. You know, I can't
Speaker 1: express enough that the conversations that I had with my family,
Speaker 1: you know, over the last couple of days are all
Speaker 1: about well, we got to look for joy. Well, we
Speaker 1: have to center our happiness. You know, we're looking over
Speaker 1: at the backyard and seeing, you know, little buds starting
Speaker 1: to pop off of the trees, knowing that spring is
Speaker 1: just around the corner. We just had that useless right
Speaker 1: spring ahead where we all lost an hour of sleep,
Speaker 1: Like why do we still even do that? No one knows,
Speaker 1: But what it does signal, folks, is longer days, right,
Speaker 1: more sunshine ahead at a time when things feel so
Speaker 1: incredibly dark. And so I want to hold on to
Speaker 1: those moments, right, I want to lift them up, lift
Speaker 1: up the good news, lift up the good things, because
Speaker 1: they feel very fleeting. And so if we don't honor
Speaker 1: them as we are, as they are happening, if we
Speaker 1: don't take a deep breath, if we don't give gratitude
Speaker 1: each and every single day just for the opportunity to
Speaker 1: be here, and not just because somebody does not have,
Speaker 1: but because we are grateful that we do. Right, even
Speaker 1: for the smallest thing like breath in your body and
Speaker 1: the ability to open up your eyes. We have to
Speaker 1: pay attention to the small so that the big things right,
Speaker 1: like the awful war that is unfolding, don't knock us
Speaker 1: off our feet, and that we continue to ground and
Speaker 1: grow roots and pay atten into an uplift that which
Speaker 1: matters most. That is it for me today, friends, on
Speaker 1: this lovely Tuesday, as the weather begins to turn for
Speaker 1: the better and we're starting to see fifty degree temperatures,
Speaker 1: which you know sounds so much better than twenties. So
Speaker 1: get out there, Breathe some fresh air, go for some walks,
Speaker 1: take a pause, take it all in, find you some
Speaker 1: joy as always. Power to the people and to all
Speaker 1: the people. Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.