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Speaker 1: This was a sad one.
Speaker 2: Brace yourself.
Speaker 1: Linda Torodo is at life's end due to an eye
Speaker 1: injury sustained while covering a protest in twenty twenty. A
Speaker 1: journalist who was shot in the eye by Minneapolis police
Speaker 1: while covering the twenty twenty protest following the murder of
Speaker 1: George Floyd, has entered hospice care due to her injury,
Speaker 1: signaling that she is dying from her wounds. Linda Toroto,
Speaker 1: age forty two, is at life's end and receiving palliative care,
Speaker 1: the National Press Club said in a statement last week.
Speaker 1: Toronto was photographing demonstrators during the twenty twenty unrest in
Speaker 1: Minneapolis when a police officer shot at projectile at her face. Toroto,
Speaker 1: who was wearing protective goggles and press credentials, suffered a
Speaker 1: traumatic brain injury as blinded in one eye.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: I was lining up a photo when I felt my
Speaker 1: face explode she wrote in an NBC op ed. She
Speaker 1: goes on to say, my goggles came off and my
Speaker 1: face was suddenly burning and leaking liquid, the gas mixing
Speaker 1: with the blood. I threw up my arms and started screaming, Press,
Speaker 1: I'm press, although I'm not sure if anyone could hear
Speaker 1: me with my breathing apparatus and the general chaos around me,
Speaker 1: she wrote. Toronto sued the Minneapolis Police Department and was
Speaker 1: awarded six hundred thousand dollars in twenty twenty two as
Speaker 1: part of a broader settlement between the city and the
Speaker 1: people assaulted by police doing the twenty twenty protests. A
Speaker 1: friend of hers said her condition has been deteriorating slowly,
Speaker 1: in that she was dying still. She has some lucid moments,
Speaker 1: but they are becoming more infrequent, he wrote. In his substack,
Speaker 1: she wrote that she was getting ready to die at
Speaker 1: thirteenth June post in her substack, I really don't feel
Speaker 1: lucky or unlucky. I feel like the sweeping notes in
Speaker 1: the Flower song the Nelson Dorma saying anything Vivaldi ever wrote,
Speaker 1: and in short, she gave her life to cover the
Speaker 1: protest of twenty twenty and we salute you. You are
Speaker 1: an ally to us. Linda Torodo, I said it was
Speaker 1: going to be a sad one, all right, Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden, Supreme Court. We didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: talk about Donald Trump. Let me back up a bit
Speaker 1: because one of the things that we didn't get to
Speaker 1: cover for Donald Trump was an event that he did
Speaker 1: in Detroit. It was one of those blacks for Trump events.
Speaker 1: I don't like how that sounds. Blacks for Trump sounds racist.
Speaker 1: We're not black people for Trump or African American supporters
Speaker 1: or black support. You know something, Blacks for Trump just
Speaker 1: feels it makes my stomach turn. But he had this
Speaker 1: event in Detroit and it was at a church, as
Speaker 1: you do, right, And you know, the video was released
Speaker 1: and we saw the video and Trump was on stage
Speaker 1: with two three black folks, and then the camera pans
Speaker 1: to the audience, away from the stage to the audience,
Speaker 1: and the audience is full of white people in a
Speaker 1: black church. But the audience is full of white folks.
Speaker 1: And there might have been one or two black people
Speaker 1: in the audience. I don't remember.
Speaker 2: And we'll say a handful, yeah, just and the only
Speaker 2: reason I'm cutting rams is off to make that not correction,
Speaker 2: but amendment is that some of our listeners are real
Speaker 2: light skin intentionally choose semantics, yeah, to cancel everything else
Speaker 2: that we're saying. So they were a handful of black
Speaker 2: people on the pulpit with him and a handful of
Speaker 2: black people in the audience. Yeah, but you will count
Speaker 2: four instead of three and then say everything we said
Speaker 2: was wrong, right, and said that I have to guard
Speaker 2: against that, but I've seen that happen.
Speaker 1: We're generally speaking, we don't have time to split hairs here.
Speaker 1: But I'm glad you did that because you're right. People
Speaker 1: will use a small uh semantic error, semantic error to
Speaker 1: invalidate the entirety of what we're saying here. But the
Speaker 1: video is available for public consumption. You can watch it yourself,
Speaker 1: and you can see that the smoke and mirrors that
Speaker 1: have been part and parcel to Donald Trump's campaign since
Speaker 1: the beginning, and really his whole brand since the beginning,
Speaker 1: it is on full display. Blacks for Trump goes to
Speaker 1: a black church, you know, you make a donation, it's
Speaker 1: possible to gain access to a black venue, black owned venue, right,
Speaker 1: and then you invite all the white people and then
Speaker 1: say I had a Black for Trump's Blacks for Trump
Speaker 1: event at a black church with a handful of black
Speaker 1: people on the stage.
Speaker 2: You don't say that part.
Speaker 1: Well, that part we know from the video. But yeah,
Speaker 1: and then if you roll that into the next series
Speaker 1: of headlines, more black people will look at that and say, well,
Speaker 1: obviously Donald Trump is getting support from black people, And
Speaker 1: then you can convince them that, well, if other people
Speaker 1: are doing it, maybe me being on the fence about
Speaker 1: it isn't so bad. Let me go ahead and answer
Speaker 1: this poll saying that I would support this man, right,
Speaker 1: And so again it's smoking mirrors trying to artificially generate
Speaker 1: the look of black support for Donald Trump. But and
Speaker 1: this is not the only thing. This is just kind
Speaker 1: of one of the things that we didn't get to cover.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend too much time talking about
Speaker 1: it because we've got a lot to cover here. But
Speaker 1: it was one of the things that really bothered me
Speaker 1: because again, the angle was Donald Trump's in Detroit and
Speaker 1: he's got so much black support, and when you look
Speaker 1: at the video evidence, you're like, okay, so where's this
Speaker 1: black support whereas it because I don't see it in
Speaker 1: the audience. And I know he's not knocking on doors.
Speaker 1: And if black people were really supporting him in Detroit,
Speaker 1: they would have went to that church. And if it
Speaker 1: was an event where black people were prioritized so that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump could speak to that community, that will be
Speaker 1: black people in the audience. So it means one of
Speaker 1: two things. Either black people were not as supportive as
Speaker 1: they made both the things that you're about to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: so that or that black people weren't invited or allowed
Speaker 1: in to the degree that white folks were. And that's
Speaker 1: on Donald Trump in his campaign. So and as Q mentioned,
Speaker 1: it's probably both, and you need to know that, and
Speaker 1: so can. I can't spend too much more time dissecting that.
Speaker 1: But the video is available you care to watch it.
Speaker 1: Let's fast forward a bit more the debate. Since we're
Speaker 1: talking about Donald Trump, I will mention kind of the
Speaker 1: big thing that Donald Trump mentioned on the debate stage
Speaker 1: that social media has taken and run with, which is black.
Speaker 2: Jobs, more specifically immigrants, Yeah, coming to steal black jobs,
Speaker 2: black jobs, and by black jobs, he means low skill,
Speaker 2: low pay. It should be so offensive because it's so obvious.
Speaker 2: It should be so offensive because it's so obvious. Black
Speaker 2: people like me because I'm a criminal. Black people like
Speaker 2: me because I'm a felon. Black people you should be
Speaker 2: afraid because immigrants are coming to steal black jobs. Here
Speaker 2: go some tennis shoes. Here are my Trump sneakers. Look
Speaker 2: at these two rappers I got to come on stage
Speaker 2: with me. Don't black people love rappers? So doesn't that
Speaker 2: mean that they support me? By black jobs, I mean
Speaker 2: that you don't need a degree or any skill, you
Speaker 2: don't have to be smart, and they don't pay much.
Speaker 2: Those are the black jobs. You should be offended when
Speaker 2: you hear these things because they're so blatantly disrespectful, They're
Speaker 2: so blatantly dismissive, they're so blatantly dehumanizing and marginalizing. And
Speaker 2: I cannot and I forget, forgive me for this is
Speaker 2: just not this is not a message just for black people.
Speaker 2: I understand. We have been lied to, We have been
Speaker 2: promised things during campaigns that never happened. We have been
Speaker 2: failed by both parties, cause it would just be flat
Speaker 2: dishonest to say we've been let down by the democratic
Speaker 2: process or by Democrats at large as a party. Republicans
Speaker 2: have let us down too, so like the idea that
Speaker 2: the Democrats have let us down, so we need to
Speaker 2: vote Republican now, as if they've shown up for us.
Speaker 2: We've been let down by both parties. The growing frustration,
Speaker 2: the growing apathy, the growing desire to just throw up
Speaker 2: your hands and not participate at all, I get it.
Speaker 2: We have to stop pretending that our feelings aren't real
Speaker 2: and aren't valuable. But we have to also stop pretending
Speaker 2: that we're being gas lit. When people come out and say, hey,
Speaker 2: that other guy will destroy our country, that's not gaslighting.
Speaker 2: When you hear that he's an existential threat, that is literal,
Speaker 2: and this is not conspiracy theory. These are not even
Speaker 2: the words of those that are oppose him. These are
Speaker 2: his words, Dictatorship day one. That's him. There are documents
Speaker 2: that read like a full magazine that lay out exactly
Speaker 2: what the straightforward in tent of Project twenty twenty five is.
Speaker 1: A nine hundred fifty page document, and if.
Speaker 2: You're not into legalese and you don't understand how to
Speaker 2: read policy, there's parts in there that make it very
Speaker 2: very simple what their intentions are. A white supremacist, Christian
Speaker 2: nationalist nation led by a king who's immune from criminal
Speaker 2: project prosecution, who can do whatever he wants in the
Speaker 2: name of the presidency and it be forgiven criminally, who
Speaker 2: will make very, very literal changes to the way that
Speaker 2: you live your everyday life. So I get that you
Speaker 2: are uninspired by Joe Biden as a client as a candidate.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I get it. I often wish that we
Speaker 2: were less informed, because there's a reason why there are
Speaker 2: no MAGA candidates encouraging voter registration. Ooh, because they could,
Speaker 2: They could encourage more people to register to vote to
Speaker 2: vote for them. What you'll also notice is that when
Speaker 2: many people do push voter registration, they do not also
Speaker 2: include the client I keep saying client. They do not
Speaker 2: also include the candidate they want you to vote for.
Speaker 2: They just want you to vote because they feel like
Speaker 2: the more people that show up to vote, the better
Speaker 2: the outcomes will be for the country. Ironically, those better
Speaker 2: outcomes are not for MAGA Republicans, so there is a
Speaker 2: reason that they are not in your communities encouraging you
Speaker 2: to register to vote. They know that the outcomes would
Speaker 2: not be in their favor if more of us participate it.
Speaker 2: But that's why they don't want you to participate. That's
Speaker 2: why they're making it harder to vote. That's why they're
Speaker 2: encouraging you to throw your hands up. That's why they're
Speaker 2: encouraging you did not participate, And we do this thing
Speaker 2: where we wait until we get to the finish line
Speaker 2: to then try to voice all the things that were
Speaker 2: frustrated about instead of participating all along the way. So
Speaker 2: when it gets to this point, all of your work
Speaker 2: can be rewarded. Those local, state, and federal people that
Speaker 2: you voted for can now do the job you elected
Speaker 2: them to do. Now do they always do it, of
Speaker 2: course not. But there is one party present that will
Speaker 2: at least allow you to continue to participate, and there
Speaker 2: is one that will make it their business to ensure
Speaker 2: that you cannot. And I don't need to tell you
Speaker 2: which is which you can actually take the words I
Speaker 2: just said in Google them. Which party will make it
Speaker 2: illegal for me to be a part of the process,
Speaker 2: will make it illegal for me to have autonomy over
Speaker 2: the decisions I make for myself, for my children, for
Speaker 2: my family, And which won't. Google's AI will do the
Speaker 2: rest of the work for you. Yeah, it'll fill in
Speaker 2: the rest of the search. So I did not mean
Speaker 2: to kind of clumsily take over this segment and sidetrack me.
Speaker 2: You want to speak about. However, we are not gaslighting you,
Speaker 2: because I keep seeing friends of mine say that the
Speaker 2: Democrats need to stop gaslighting us. Listen, folks, this is
Speaker 2: not that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not the same. This is very different.
Speaker 2: That I don't have a candidate that I work for.
Speaker 2: We don't have a campaign that sponsors us or that
Speaker 2: we endorse. So I'm not here to tell you how
Speaker 2: to think and what to do. I am, however, here
Speaker 2: to tell you that the idea. I'll stop that thought
Speaker 2: and say this, this is a binary decision. This is
Speaker 2: a zero sum decision. We do not get to sit
Speaker 2: this one out because there will be a president. There
Speaker 2: will be one, and there's going to be one of
Speaker 2: those two. It's going to be one of those two.
Speaker 2: I don't need to say the names, because you know.
Speaker 2: So to prove a point this time, I'm going to
Speaker 2: vote third party for Ramsey's jah is a mistake, or
Speaker 2: to hold one party accountable, I'm going to vote for
Speaker 2: the other one that is a mistake. Pay attention. I
Speaker 2: know you're mad me to I know you discouraged me too.
Speaker 2: I know you're exhausted and tired of the same old
Speaker 2: me too, But never in our history, even when America
Speaker 2: was great, Because they want America to be great again. Right,
Speaker 2: once upon a time a man told a nation to
Speaker 2: make Germany great again. I'm talking about the exact words
Speaker 2: I just said, make Germany great again. It should sound familiar.
Speaker 2: Google is free even when America was great. According to them,
Speaker 2: the president was not immune even then. So if you
Speaker 2: think this tyrannical regime stops at abortion, stops at denying
Speaker 2: gay people the right to marry, stops at allowing minorities
Speaker 2: to go to college. If you think it stops there,
Speaker 2: you are mistaken. I told friends of mine years ago
Speaker 2: that they would do the types of things that they
Speaker 2: are doing now, and they laughed at me because I
Speaker 2: was being hyperbolic or ridiculous. So when I'd say they're
Speaker 2: trying to take us back pre Jim Crow, i am
Speaker 2: not just talking out of my rear end. A conservative
Speaker 2: supermajority on the Supreme Court has now in just the
Speaker 2: last few years, overturned Roe v. Wade, overturned affirmative action,
Speaker 2: federal attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Former presidents cannot
Speaker 2: be held accountable for criminal acts as long as they
Speaker 2: say it was in the name of the presidency and
Speaker 2: what they thought was in the best interests of the country.
Speaker 2: They are not even doing these things undercover anymore. They're
Speaker 2: doing them in front of you, in our face. Watergate everyone.
Speaker 2: I wish we were not so informed. I wish I
Speaker 2: knew less so I could just be frustrated and not participate.
Speaker 2: I understand those frustrations. I am not saying they are
Speaker 2: not valid, I promise, but now is not the time.
Speaker 2: We did this last time, and that's why we're here.
Speaker 2: You're unhappy with the candidate that we have. We we
Speaker 2: had some better ones, but you didn't like their email
Speaker 2: folder in box. The other gentleman is a thirty four
Speaker 2: time convicted felon and gided on over ninety charges that
Speaker 2: have not seen convicttions yet adjudicated rapist. He said out
Speaker 2: loud on a bus. He's recorded that he does exactly
Speaker 2: what he's been convicted of, walk up to him and
Speaker 2: grab him by the blank. He said that while running
Speaker 2: for president, and Americans still elected him. We must wake up, folks.
Speaker 2: Unless you have some alternative country where you have citizenship
Speaker 2: that you can go to. You got to live in
Speaker 2: this one and your normal human rights and liberties are
Speaker 2: at risk. Democracy as we know it is at risk.
Speaker 2: We are not gas lighting you. I do not work
Speaker 2: for the Democratic Party. I want to say this too
Speaker 2: while we're here, if I may. That was poignant. That
Speaker 2: was everything that we needed to say. We covered all
Speaker 2: our bases well, said, Q. You are on eleven today.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what I'm doing here. I see
Speaker 2: why you got all the fan mail. But you know,
Speaker 2: we saw the debate Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We
Speaker 2: had to watch it.
Speaker 1: We had to do this show, We had to do
Speaker 1: Black Information Network, we had to do everything British Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1: With all these things that we end up having to do.
Speaker 1: We know that that was a very uninspired performance and
Speaker 1: we know that there are concerns about Joe Biden's fitness
Speaker 1: for office movies.
Speaker 2: Shame on our colleagues for not calling out the lies
Speaker 2: of the other guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was another other part of it. However, Joe
Speaker 1: Biden is the name on the administration. It's the administration
Speaker 1: that carries out the functions of government. Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: the name on the administration. The administration is the carries
Speaker 1: is what carries out the function of government, and as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Project twenty twenty five is an effort to
Speaker 1: rewrite what an administration is, what the roles are, how
Speaker 1: much more expansive those roles can be, and how much
Speaker 1: more control those individual roles will have underneath the commander
Speaker 1: in chief. And so rather than looking at okay, do
Speaker 1: I vote for this guy or that guy, it might
Speaker 1: be easier to take a step back and ask yourself,
Speaker 1: do I want to vote for this administration or that administration?
Speaker 2: This policy versus that policy? You see what I mean?
Speaker 1: And so these are really important things to consider moving
Speaker 1: forward the Supreme Court, where you know, I feel like
Speaker 1: Democrats need to get a spine. I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of Joe Biden because of all the stuff that happened
Speaker 1: in Gaza, but I recognize one of those two men
Speaker 1: have to be the president. One of them changes the
Speaker 1: country forever for the worst, and the other one at
Speaker 1: worst leaves it the same. So we'll leave it right there.
Speaker 1: And ended up getting tough at parts, but we got
Speaker 1: through it. So I didn't mean to hijack. No, that's
Speaker 1: what we needed, man. I needed to hear that I'm
Speaker 1: upset Man, No, No, You're right where you need to be.
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Speaker 2: Peace, peace,