1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Good morning, peepson. Welcome to bok F Daily with Meet 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody reporting from the Bunker, Folks. I 3 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: want to start out with a New York Times article 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: that went up yesterday with regard to Joe Biden and 5 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: the fact that new polling has shown that his approval 6 00:00:31,520 --> 00:00:35,320 Speaker 1: ratings are pretty much in the gutter. Now, given all 7 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: of the things that this man has inherited from the 8 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: trash compactor that was the Trump presidency, it's not a surprise. 9 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 1: But I will say this, I don't disagree with the 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: fucking polls this time. Like, the reality is people in 11 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,000 Speaker 1: this country are suffering, right. They're suffering because they are 12 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: losing rights left in right, and they don't know what 13 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,040 Speaker 1: to do about it. That they're dollar is no longer 14 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:03,960 Speaker 1: stretching as far as it used to. That while we're 15 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:08,040 Speaker 1: seeing gas prices received, inflation is still at an all 16 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,440 Speaker 1: time high. And you know, the fact is Republicans are 17 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,800 Speaker 1: a terror group, a terrorist organization that is receiving very 18 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: little pushback at the state and local and federal level 19 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:23,959 Speaker 1: for the actions that they are taking to oppress people, 20 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:28,680 Speaker 1: particularly LGBTQ people, particularly women and people with UTERUSS particularly 21 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: black people, and this Democratic Party Joe, which Joe Biden 22 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: is the leader of, is doing fairly little to show 23 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: that they have the ovaries to get this shit done. 24 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 1: So here's where I am. You know, I talked about 25 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: this last week that I received a lot of pushback 26 00:01:50,080 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: and a lot of fucking just nastiness on social media. 27 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,840 Speaker 1: So I appreciate those of you who had reached out 28 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: and DMed and you know, left comments to uplift me, 29 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:03,320 Speaker 1: because I will say that my spirits were indeed quite 30 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: low last week, that you know, and it wasn't low 31 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: because necessarily I take what trolls say, and I'm not 32 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,680 Speaker 1: saying that it was all trolls, because there were people 33 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: who were actual, real people who were like, I'm on 34 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 1: following you because you know, you're not a cheerleader for 35 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. And what I will say is read 36 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: my fucking bio. I never said I was. I am 37 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,640 Speaker 1: not a spokesperson for the Biden administration. I am not 38 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 1: a spokesperson for the DNC. But I'm not going to 39 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: sit around and say that Joe Biden is doing a 40 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:35,679 Speaker 1: bang up job when in fact I don't think so. 41 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: And if you can't take what your party is saying 42 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: to you about how you need to change course. Then 43 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: how are you going to go up against Republicans that 44 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: don't give a fuck about truth, don't give a fuck 45 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:49,440 Speaker 1: about science, and frankly, don't give a fuck about safety 46 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: or the constitution. So if you can't take the pressure 47 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: that is coming at you from within your own party, 48 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: how are you going to take on the white supremacist 49 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: terrorist cult that is now the Republican Party. The reality 50 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: here is, you know, there was pushback last week because 51 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: a White House spokesperson who has since went to go 52 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: spend more time with her family and I'm using air quotes, 53 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: basically said that Biden is not going to acquiesce on 54 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,200 Speaker 1: abortion rights to appease a group of activists that are 55 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,079 Speaker 1: quote unquote out of step with the Democratic Party. So 56 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:31,080 Speaker 1: the Biden administration thinks that their best bet to get 57 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: people activated to vote in mid terms is to discredit 58 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: and admonish the activists that are actually getting supplies and 59 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: help on the ground to women and people with uteruses 60 00:03:42,920 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: that need abortion. Right now, did I get that right? 61 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,800 Speaker 1: Because if that is your motherfucking tactic, then I might 62 00:03:47,840 --> 00:03:49,480 Speaker 1: as well hand you the gun so you can shoot 63 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 1: yourself in the foot right literally. The reality here is 64 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 1: that these numbers should worry this administration, and they should 65 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: worry all of us because people are losing hope. And 66 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 1: where do you get hope from. You get hope from 67 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 1: messaging coupled with action, neither of which this Democratic Party 68 00:04:07,360 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: is doing right now. Case in point, Lawrence Tribe, famed lawyer, 69 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,400 Speaker 1: tweeted and said that Joe Biden does not need to 70 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 1: ask his staff whether or not he can call a 71 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: public health emergency for abortion right now, which by the way, 72 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: would open up more funds through HHS for them to 73 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: take considerable measures to protect the right to abortion in 74 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 1: this country. And this is Lawrence fucking Tribe that is 75 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: saying this. Forbes magazine wrote this, and I want to 76 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: read it verbatim. President Joe Biden said Sunday he has 77 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,560 Speaker 1: asked his staff to see if he has quote the 78 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 1: authority to declare a public health emergency to address abortion access, 79 00:04:53,279 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: a move that could release additional funding and give federal 80 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: health officials more power to respond to state level abortion 81 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 1: and restrictions. Following calls from progressive Democrats to take sweeping 82 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 1: action to protect abortion rights after the Supreme Court's overturning 83 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: of Roe v. Wade. Folks, it's been over two weeks. 84 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: By the time that we get to the end of 85 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: this week, it'll be three weeks since Rovie Wade was overturned. 86 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 1: But it has been several fucking weeks, several months in fact, 87 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:25,480 Speaker 1: since we knew that this was coming on the horizon. 88 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:29,440 Speaker 1: So the question that infuriates me, and that many voters 89 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,720 Speaker 1: are asking themselves, is why was there no fucking plan 90 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: when these scooby Doo fucking evil villains are organizing and 91 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 1: play goddamn sight and they are literally announcing what their 92 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 1: fucking plans are. Why has there been no action that 93 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,840 Speaker 1: was taken. Why are we all standing around looking up 94 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:50,280 Speaker 1: at the sky saying I can't believe that this has happened. Now, 95 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 1: I get that for the average American that is fucking shook, 96 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:56,960 Speaker 1: but not by this administration that should not have been 97 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: caught off guard. But of course you would be caught 98 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 1: off guard because you still have this fucking president believing 99 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: that he can work with Republicans that literally wanted to 100 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,440 Speaker 1: kill their own form of vice president last year. I 101 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: want to read some key facts that Biden can take 102 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,920 Speaker 1: and these key facts that were put out this week 103 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 1: with regard to what a public health emergency would do 104 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: and with regard to the executive order that Joe Biden 105 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 1: has put in place. So one, a public health emergency 106 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,039 Speaker 1: is typically declared by the federal government following a natural 107 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: disaster or infectious disease outbreak, and it gives the Department 108 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,599 Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services additional funding and flexibility to 109 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: respond to an emergency. Number two, Biden's executive order directs 110 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,599 Speaker 1: HHS to protect emergency medical care for pregnant people, but 111 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:54,279 Speaker 1: declaring an emergency could also give HHS Secretary Xavier Biserra 112 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: the power to ensure healthcare providers can prescribe and dispense 113 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:03,920 Speaker 1: abortion medication out of state to patients whom home states 114 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,640 Speaker 1: have restricted abortion centers. For reproductive Rights, President Nancy Northrop 115 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 1: wrote in The Washington Post. This article goes on to 116 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: say this White House, AIDS and HHS officials way declaring 117 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: a public health emergency after the Supreme Court's ruling, but 118 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 1: they decided against it at the time due to question 119 00:07:22,720 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: about its effectiveness and possible legal challenges. Folks, And this 120 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 1: is the kind of shit that drives me crazy. Why 121 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: the fuck were you waiting until Rove Wade was overturned, 122 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: when in fact, the draft decision told you it was 123 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 1: going to be overturned for you to figure out whether 124 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:43,800 Speaker 1: or not declaring a public health emergency would be the 125 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: help that people would need. Because here's the deal, folks. 126 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: And I've talked to our friend Danielle Campamore, the abortion 127 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: rights advocate and also writer at todayshow dot com, who 128 00:07:55,160 --> 00:08:00,440 Speaker 1: has stated that every minute, every second that can be 129 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:05,800 Speaker 1: bought right for these people who are literally running up 130 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: against the clocks in their state, is time that we 131 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: cannot waste. And so why the fuck this administration would 132 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,160 Speaker 1: wait three weeks almost after this decision and a month 133 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,239 Speaker 1: and plus after the leak draft was put out to 134 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,120 Speaker 1: think about the ways in which they need to activate. 135 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:29,119 Speaker 1: Is why the fuck Biden's numbers are low. So people 136 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: want to tell me, no, Danielle's about the economy. It's 137 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: about this, that and the other thing. And again I 138 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,800 Speaker 1: will say what I said on MSNBC a couple of 139 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,679 Speaker 1: weeks ago. There is no more pressing issue for people's 140 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: kitchen table than whether or not they have enough money 141 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 1: and resources to be able to feed the fucking mouths 142 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: at that table. And if you are forced to birth 143 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 1: yet another mouth that you cannot afford, you tell me 144 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 1: how that's not an economic issue. This administration, I know 145 00:08:56,679 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 1: people don't love for me to say it needs to 146 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: get their fucking shit together and actually should be paying 147 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,200 Speaker 1: attention to the polls and be concerned that ninety four 148 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: percent of young people that are polled don't want Biden 149 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 1: to run in twenty twenty four. So what does that 150 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:15,040 Speaker 1: mean for their turnout enthusiasm right for midterms and for 151 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, it means that it's going to be 152 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: fucking low. And guess what, we don't get another bide 153 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:23,000 Speaker 1: at this apple. This is the last midterm election. This 154 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: will be the last presidential election in twenty twenty four. 155 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: If and when Republicans take power, because they are not 156 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,520 Speaker 1: looking back, they are not looking for negotiations, they will 157 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,240 Speaker 1: rewrite the rules, rewrite the constitution, call a constitutional convention, 158 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: and I may be broadcasting from a cotton field near you. 159 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: That's the fucking reality on the ground. And it would 160 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: be great if our administration would get on board with 161 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: the urgency that it's being expressed by the constituents and 162 00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:52,520 Speaker 1: the citizens across this country. 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Folks, I am very excited 191 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 1: to welcome to woka F Daily for the very first 192 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:55,120 Speaker 1: time Rhode Island State Senator Senator Tara Mack, who has 193 00:11:55,200 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: made headlines right because this is what happens in the 194 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:03,920 Speaker 1: age of the inter net. For doing a video to 195 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:08,680 Speaker 1: get out the vote in your state, Senator Mac tworking 196 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:15,720 Speaker 1: and subsequently Fox News has come out with a target 197 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: on you. There's been tons of pushback. You wrote a 198 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 1: piece in Newsweek, and so I want you to tell us. 199 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: Just let's start from the beginning. What prompted the twrking video, 200 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 1: and were you at all anticipating that there would be 201 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 1: you know, backlash and not just like, oh h a 202 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:45,959 Speaker 1: fun like a fun funny video. So no, So to 203 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 1: explain the video, I have to go back maybe like 204 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 1: a week before that. I started my TikTok under my 205 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 1: mac District sixth account to raise awareness after the overturning 206 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 1: of Rovi Wade about access to abortion in the state. 207 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: Many people had no idea where to turn in my state, 208 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: and they were saying things like, we must give our 209 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,559 Speaker 1: money to politicians, or we must fund this campaign, or 210 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,840 Speaker 1: let's start our own abortion fund. I'm an abortion funder. 211 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: I've been a member of my state's abortion fund since 212 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. I'm one of the board members, and I've 213 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,560 Speaker 1: been working on issues for abortion access. I've worked on 214 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:28,240 Speaker 1: our state's twenty nineteen campaign to codify rob Wade, ensuring 215 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: that Rhode Island will always have access to abortion no 216 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: matter what happens federally. And I've been working currently on 217 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,760 Speaker 1: the Equity and Abortion coverage, which addresses the fact that 218 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 1: one third of Rhode Islanders who are either state employees 219 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: or on Medicaid do not have access to abortion. And 220 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: so i started that I believe it's my eighth video 221 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: says I am trying to go viral to talk about abortion. 222 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:51,080 Speaker 1: I am trying to go viral. There might be some 223 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:53,720 Speaker 1: thirst traps, It's going to be Rhode Island specific, and 224 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,360 Speaker 1: I'm going to uplift body, autonomy and abortion. And so 225 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:00,960 Speaker 1: when I took those videos, the context was this is 226 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: it's a silly account. It talks a little bit about 227 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: Rhode Island politics, the state of abortion access, what folks 228 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: can do instead of donating to politicians, what they can 229 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,680 Speaker 1: do to ensure that their abortion fund in their local 230 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:17,840 Speaker 1: area is funded and because the need will be there, 231 00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:20,320 Speaker 1: and also explaining some of the ways that blue states 232 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:23,360 Speaker 1: are not safe when it comes to abortion access. Many 233 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: people are like, well, I live in Rhode Island and 234 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 1: we just codified roh V. Wade so we don't have 235 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: to worry about access to abortion. That is extremely untrue. 236 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: There are three hundred thousand Rhode Islanders at least who 237 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: don't have access to abortion. And so when I created 238 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: those videos, I think it's a series of three videos 239 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 1: of me and my bathing suit with a small group 240 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:42,480 Speaker 1: of friends, and the first video says silly days off 241 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: the second video is another video that says silly days off, 242 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,680 Speaker 1: and then the third one is the viral sensation of 243 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 1: Tiara to working. So I did not expect it to 244 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: go pretty. I didn't expect to go further than my 245 00:14:55,240 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: community of Rhode Islanders, let alone become a national GOP campaign. 246 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: But also, this is not the first time I've gone 247 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 1: viral on the alt right. This is the second time 248 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:10,080 Speaker 1: that the alt right has tried to silence me and 249 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: have tried to make me afraid of whatever power they 250 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:17,080 Speaker 1: think they have over a strong, opinionated, unapologetically black queer 251 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:20,480 Speaker 1: person that stands up for the causes that she believes in. 252 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: I went viral back in February, and no one was 253 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 1: worried about my body. They were not worried about my safety, 254 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 1: and they sure as hell weren't worried at about the 255 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 1: policies when the alt right took my comprehensive queer inclusive, 256 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:34,800 Speaker 1: age appropriate pleasure based sexual Health bill that was also 257 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,080 Speaker 1: paired with the Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights. When 258 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: they took that bill and had thousands of people, hundreds 259 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,280 Speaker 1: of thousands of people in bots and their troll farm 260 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: calling me a pedophile and a groomer. For months, no one, 261 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 1: no one in Rhode Island, no one at the national level, 262 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 1: reached out and said, tr are you okay? They didn't 263 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: care about my mental health, they didn't care about my 264 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: black my black queer self receiving those messages from hundreds 265 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: of account to daily and no one reached out. No 266 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,520 Speaker 1: one said this is a smear campaign. No one even 267 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,400 Speaker 1: stood firmly in the fact that everything that they were 268 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:12,480 Speaker 1: saying about my bill was completely untrue, was not rooted 269 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:14,800 Speaker 1: in their opposition, was not rooted in wanting to protect 270 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,080 Speaker 1: young people. It was not rooted in wanting to have inclusion. 271 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,520 Speaker 1: It was about creating a divisive topic for them to 272 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 1: mobilize their base. And so then when this video goes 273 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: viral of my body, me having full agency and autonomy 274 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 1: over my body, being proud of what my body can do, 275 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: a headstand, of being on the beach, celebrating that I 276 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 1: have a day off on America's Birthday, as I like 277 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,360 Speaker 1: to call it, the fact that they took my body 278 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: and tried to make it a meme and tried to 279 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:43,920 Speaker 1: shame me and tried to degrade me. When no one 280 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,440 Speaker 1: was concerned about tr mac before, not my mental health, 281 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: not my wellness, not my body. They were more concerned 282 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,520 Speaker 1: about the idea that a liberated black queer person felt 283 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: comfortable in her skin and felt that she could have 284 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 1: a day off and felt that she could have liberation. 285 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: And so the conversation spiraling out of control online has 286 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,040 Speaker 1: only been able to help me uplift the issues that 287 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,120 Speaker 1: I care about further, talk about bodily autonomy and call 288 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: attention to the ways in which the alt right and 289 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 1: their supporters are trying to create a narrative and strategically 290 00:17:13,840 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: target opinionated people on the left, including black people, including 291 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 1: peer people, including one of color in office, and create 292 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: a hostile environment. So they think so that they create 293 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,879 Speaker 1: in themselves this idea or need to shrink and to 294 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,280 Speaker 1: shrug away from the issues, or not stand as firmly 295 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: in their beliefs. But did that. I say, if they 296 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:35,120 Speaker 1: want to come after me, which they already have once 297 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: twice and they'll probably be another, I am not afraid 298 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,720 Speaker 1: of their smear campaigns, and I'm not afraid of standing 299 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: firmly in my belief that everything I stand for is 300 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 1: about people centered communities. And so I think more people 301 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,760 Speaker 1: on the left need to be paying attention to these 302 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: tactics that they're using, because we see what they're doing. 303 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: They're creating false campaigns, They're creating and mobilizing their base 304 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:01,320 Speaker 1: around these like inflammatory lies, and we are not fighting back, 305 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: We are not pushing back on the reality that everything 306 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:08,359 Speaker 1: they stand for is um is regressing back to this 307 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 1: idea that we can't have inclusive community. Well, let's talk 308 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: about that for a minute. Um, which is the pushback, 309 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: right the ability to as I continue to say on 310 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 1: you know, on social media, on all of my platforms, 311 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: to fight fire with fire, which you know you're talking 312 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,840 Speaker 1: specifically at you know, as as you are running for 313 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: reelection uh in Rhode Island. And I'm also you know, 314 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,680 Speaker 1: pulling back to think about the ways in which national 315 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:40,200 Speaker 1: U nationally Democrats are not fighting back against these tactics. 316 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:46,120 Speaker 1: And so um, you know, senator tell me, like, what 317 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:49,439 Speaker 1: what do you perceive to be the best way to 318 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: fight back to you know, because I am no longer 319 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:56,240 Speaker 1: in the camp of when they go low, uh, we 320 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:00,280 Speaker 1: go high. I love Michelle Obama and will will forever. 321 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 1: That was a tactic of a different time. I'm more like, 322 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: when they go low, we scuba dive like I am beyond, 323 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,560 Speaker 1: and so, what are some of the ways in which 324 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: you believe that we need to be fighting back at 325 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,199 Speaker 1: the national, state, and local level, And what are some 326 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:20,879 Speaker 1: of the tactics that you have implored that you have 327 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: found successful in the fight that you're in right now. Yeah, 328 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,640 Speaker 1: one of the ways that I found successful is when 329 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:32,119 Speaker 1: they were repeatedly calling me a pedophile and a groomer. 330 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,479 Speaker 1: I ignored all those comments. I didn't engage, and I 331 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,840 Speaker 1: pushed back, and I said comprehensive queer inclusive, pleasure based 332 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:41,960 Speaker 1: sexual health attation. More, I said comprehensive queer inclusive, age 333 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,880 Speaker 1: appropriate pleasure based sex side even more, when they're coming 334 00:19:44,920 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: after me for t working upside down, I made it 335 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: into a hashtag. I have more people now, I have 336 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,679 Speaker 1: thousands of followers. I'm a Rhode Island State senitter and 337 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,720 Speaker 1: I represent twenty thousand people, and I now have people 338 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: all across the country who were inspired by a young, 339 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: unapologetically queer person saying the word abortion, not saying reprodictive 340 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:06,280 Speaker 1: health access, not saying choice, saying abortion, and saying that 341 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:09,040 Speaker 1: we should have access to abortion for every single person 342 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,720 Speaker 1: in our communities. I'm also talking about trans flights, I'm 343 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: talking about intersex rights, I'm talking about body autonomy for 344 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,680 Speaker 1: every single person in our communities. And they want me 345 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:19,960 Speaker 1: to back down. They want me to feel as if 346 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,160 Speaker 1: they can control my narrative. They want me to be afraid, 347 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 1: they want me to fear their troll farm. And it's 348 00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,760 Speaker 1: not working. And I'm saying it louder, and I'm saying 349 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,120 Speaker 1: it more proudly, and I'm bringing more people into my message. 350 00:20:32,119 --> 00:20:33,760 Speaker 1: I have people who've reached out to me like I 351 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,120 Speaker 1: would have never known about you. I would have never 352 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,159 Speaker 1: known that we had a senator in my state, and 353 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: so wild it is, yes, and so it is. It 354 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 1: is still something that I'm grappling with because we have 355 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 1: waited too long to fight back. I really resonated with 356 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,119 Speaker 1: what you've said when you said when we got a 357 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 1: scuba dive, like they are literally pulling all of the 358 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:00,280 Speaker 1: stops and we are watching. I've in my own state house, 359 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 1: we have people who are not willing to stand firmly 360 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,719 Speaker 1: in the belief that our communities need action now. I 361 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: was championing bills including an eviction moratorium, adjustments to our 362 00:21:14,359 --> 00:21:18,600 Speaker 1: probation period, sexual seals of Ivery's Bill of Rights, sealing 363 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: evictions for folks who have those on their records, and 364 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 1: those bills did not get heard this year. I had 365 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,280 Speaker 1: bills that were introduced last year and had hearings and 366 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: that were not heard because people were afraid that, Oh, well, 367 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: Tiarra mac has already caused enough of stir, She's already 368 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,640 Speaker 1: mobilized people against her, and we're afraid. And so to that, 369 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: I say, what are you afraid of when you're standing 370 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,840 Speaker 1: up for your communities? Why are you afraid to stand 371 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: firmly in all of your beliefs that what they are 372 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: saying is not only very true, but it's not justified, 373 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,360 Speaker 1: and it's not the narrative that we want our young 374 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,439 Speaker 1: people to be living up to. And we should not 375 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:54,680 Speaker 1: shrink in the light of their criticisms and their fabricated attacks. 376 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 1: We should not shrink when they have these platforms that 377 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: are literally misinformation. We need to push back continually and consistently, 378 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 1: and we need more people, more allies to say this 379 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,199 Speaker 1: is ridiculous. I've had to create my own document. No 380 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,960 Speaker 1: one knows how to support a black queer woman in 381 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: this moment, literally, no one. I have to create my 382 00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:17,640 Speaker 1: own resources and sample tweets for what to say when 383 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: someone calls Tarmac a pedophile, a groomer, something misogynistic, something 384 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:25,600 Speaker 1: that's race based. You know, we have seen this tactic, right, 385 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,320 Speaker 1: this return to the eighties, right is what I refer 386 00:22:29,440 --> 00:22:32,960 Speaker 1: to it as, because in the eighties we did not 387 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 1: have in this nation the care and or consideration for 388 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,320 Speaker 1: LGBTQ people. I mean, the Reagan administration allowed people to 389 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,320 Speaker 1: die in the street from aids because they thought that 390 00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: it was God's will, because it was only at that 391 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: time affecting the gay community. And so, you know, we 392 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:55,080 Speaker 1: understand because these tactics are patterns that have historical roots 393 00:22:55,119 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: in discrimination and oppression. And yet Democrats find themselves, whether 394 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 1: at the state or local level or at the national level, 395 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 1: seemed to be deers and headlights without the ability to 396 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:12,639 Speaker 1: fight back. And we saw, you know, a significant push 397 00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:18,040 Speaker 1: back by a state representative in Michigan who came out 398 00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,000 Speaker 1: on the house floor, I don't know, on her house 399 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,920 Speaker 1: for if you remember that, where she came out against 400 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: her Republican opponent for calling her a groomer. And she 401 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 1: stood in her truth as a white suburban Christian mom 402 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: who is a progressive right who believes, you know that 403 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: women should have bodily autonomy minded right. I was, yeah, 404 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 1: I was raising the red flag. But because it's a 405 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,680 Speaker 1: white woman saying, look at what they're doing to me 406 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 1: and say, oh, no, it's me, and they're like, well, 407 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: they can't do that to our own people. But when 408 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: it's a black queer woman saying, look at what the 409 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 1: fuck they're saying about me, And I'm not saying I'm weak, 410 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: I'm not saying that I need their protection, but I'm saying, like, 411 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: why is it okay? And why is it viral news? 412 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: I had people sending me her video. They're like, this 413 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,359 Speaker 1: reminds me of you, and I was like, no, I 414 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:09,080 Speaker 1: remind me of me because they're giving her attention. They're 415 00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 1: not covering tr Matt. I got mails into my home 416 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,400 Speaker 1: from an unaddressed place in Michigan, and that fucking scared me. 417 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, so my address legally wants to be 418 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: on my website because I'm a public official, and folks 419 00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: now are radicalizes on the right and so many different 420 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: platforms and so many different group chats, we already have 421 00:24:27,800 --> 00:24:30,320 Speaker 1: folks that don't believe that black people deserve rights. We 422 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,280 Speaker 1: have a growing narrative across our nation that LGBTQ plus 423 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,240 Speaker 1: people don't deserve their rights and are a direct harm 424 00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:39,720 Speaker 1: to young people in communities in this Great American Convention 425 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,200 Speaker 1: that some people have fabricated in their minds. And then 426 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: we also have on that the attack on women, that 427 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:48,720 Speaker 1: women don't deserve autonomy over their body, the fact that people, 428 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: queer people, trans people, non binary people don't deserve gender 429 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: affirming care and pronouns and being addressed in ways that 430 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 1: feel authentic and affirming to them. And so being a 431 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 1: black queer person experiencing all of those things in the 432 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,880 Speaker 1: faith in a public arena and having to say, I'm 433 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,639 Speaker 1: fucking shrug it off because I know exactly what they're doing, 434 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,080 Speaker 1: but having to explain to people I had to explain 435 00:25:12,119 --> 00:25:14,679 Speaker 1: to the FBI or to the our state troopers um 436 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: when they were making a um their case when I 437 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 1: sent them the letter, they were like, well, how is it, 438 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,159 Speaker 1: How is it dangerous they're calling you a grumor how 439 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 1: is it dangerous that they're calling you a pedophile? And 440 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,720 Speaker 1: I'm like, do you not see that this is a 441 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: tactic to literally stoke fear. It's the same as calling 442 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: me the N word. It's the same thing. They are 443 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:34,240 Speaker 1: trying to belittle me. They are trying to create fear, 444 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: and you know, but what what troubles me to on 445 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:42,880 Speaker 1: so many different levels is that, you know, we're going 446 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: to these police outfits, right, who have never seen us 447 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: having the right complexion for the protection. Right, So you 448 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:57,080 Speaker 1: were going to these outlets to say, oh, look, I'm 449 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: in harm's way, and they don't care because they literally 450 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: put us in harm's way all the time. And what 451 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,359 Speaker 1: we are seeing by virtue of all of the coverage 452 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, these type of 453 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:13,280 Speaker 1: white supremacist groups, is that they have tentacles in every 454 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: part of our government and every part of our agencies 455 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:21,400 Speaker 1: and police, you know, departments across this country. And so, 456 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:26,879 Speaker 1: you know, senator, how do you one, how do you 457 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:31,080 Speaker 1: raise this to your people, to your twenty thousand constituents 458 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:35,520 Speaker 1: to understand the violence and the threat not just facing you, 459 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 1: but people like you in the in their you know, 460 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,960 Speaker 1: and what they can do to activate Because what I 461 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 1: still see is that we believe on this larger scale, 462 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,000 Speaker 1: or at least the voters believe that there is you know, 463 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: oh we're still having these ideological debates between Republicans and Democrats, 464 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,360 Speaker 1: and that's not the case. Right You have a rabid 465 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 1: right wing call that it's taken hold at the state, 466 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 1: local and national level, and then you have a Democratic 467 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:09,520 Speaker 1: party that in many ways is like fighting for survival 468 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: because it doesn't have the tools and the equipment available 469 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: to deal with the evil that we're being presented with. 470 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 1: So how do you, as your campaigning on the myriad 471 00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: of assaults and issues, raise the alarm to your own constituency. 472 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,679 Speaker 1: Is there something that we know that folks on the 473 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 1: national level can learn from. What it is that have 474 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: activated your own constituents in Rhode Island. Yeah, and I 475 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 1: still struggle with that question every day. But one thing 476 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,960 Speaker 1: that I've been doing on the doors is raising awareness. 477 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: We have folks in Rhode Island who've been in office 478 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 1: since before I was born. I'd be the thirty year incumbent. 479 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,280 Speaker 1: I'm supporting another candidate in reconcentis who's going against another 480 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: thirty plus year incumbent. Our Senate president in Rhode Island 481 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: who has been in the Senate for thirty seven years. 482 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 1: We have stronghold in communities and folks are saying, well, 483 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,320 Speaker 1: the same old, but same old has not got us chained. 484 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 1: These are the same people who are upholding the norms 485 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,440 Speaker 1: and narratives. And because I've gotten to the State House 486 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 1: and I've pushed back and I've voted no when I 487 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: needed to, and I've stood up and said I'm not 488 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 1: voting for that, and I've gone to our prisons. I've 489 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,080 Speaker 1: taken a tour of our adult correctional facility and I've 490 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: said this place is not safe. They tried to say 491 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:24,480 Speaker 1: it is clean, it is quiet, and I'm like people 492 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: who are being abused and in a space that is 493 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,760 Speaker 1: literally designed to break the psyche, that doesn't It can 494 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,320 Speaker 1: be clean, it can be quiet, it is still abuse. 495 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: And we have to raise that flag every single time. 496 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 1: And then when people say, well, we're not going to 497 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,480 Speaker 1: get be able to pass the equity and abortion coverageack 498 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: to get the coverage for the thirty three percent of 499 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,200 Speaker 1: Rode Islanders who don't have it, and I say, why, 500 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,000 Speaker 1: We've got twenty three sponsors. We have twenty three out 501 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,720 Speaker 1: of thirty eight centers in the Chamber who say we 502 00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 1: want this to pass. But because we have three powerful 503 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,440 Speaker 1: people in leadership, they determine what bills go to the 504 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,560 Speaker 1: floor and what bills do not. Yea, they determined that 505 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: my bills, the ones that were heard last year when 506 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,239 Speaker 1: I wasn't a problem, and the ones that are being 507 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 1: heard that were not heard this year because TRRA MAC 508 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: is a problem. They didn't make it pass that. They 509 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,960 Speaker 1: didn't make it pass committee, they didn't make it to 510 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,280 Speaker 1: a committee floor, let alone the floor for a full vote. 511 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 1: And so I'm teaching people and educating them because another 512 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: thing that folks don't realize is that we have so 513 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,040 Speaker 1: much power in the General Assembly. And that's another reason 514 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,560 Speaker 1: why I've created those tiktoks. We have judges that are 515 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:29,840 Speaker 1: appointed to these commissions who are just high school friends 516 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 1: of current senter. We have people who are appointed to 517 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,479 Speaker 1: commissions to determine our environmental impact developing our port that 518 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 1: are leading to environmental racism and the highest asthma rates 519 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 1: in the country in a predominantly black and brown community. 520 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: We're assigning more people who side with the fossil fuel 521 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:52,680 Speaker 1: corporations to be on those committees and appoint new new 522 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: places that are going to be major polluters into our backyards. 523 00:29:56,360 --> 00:30:00,720 Speaker 1: We're appointing people to redevelop the highway district that will 524 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: determine for the next twenty fifty years what our urban 525 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: corps looks like and who it caters to, and what 526 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: are affordable housing looks like and what housing looks like 527 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 1: around those areas. We're appointing people to boards for jerrymandering, 528 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,000 Speaker 1: literally creating their own districts. We appointed so many political 529 00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:21,719 Speaker 1: insiders to our redistricting committee, and the public didn't even know. 530 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: These are not people who were elected. These are not 531 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: people who have a public face or have a public persona. 532 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 1: Oftentimes they have no name, they have no resume, they 533 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:35,120 Speaker 1: have no public track record that you that you can follow. 534 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,680 Speaker 1: They have nothing that you can say, who is this 535 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,640 Speaker 1: person and what do they stand for? Because they're invisible names. 536 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 1: But then they have so much power in our states 537 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: and we appoint them, and so by telling people and 538 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,719 Speaker 1: showing people that we can take that power back, we 539 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: can use their own game against them. We have a blueprint. 540 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 1: They have showed us the blueprint. Take power at the 541 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:59,440 Speaker 1: local and state level to create an overwhelming majority so 542 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: that we can get the state and the community help 543 00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,240 Speaker 1: that we need. We have the blueprint. We know exactly 544 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: what to do. But we're unwilling to do that because 545 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 1: some people do not want to concede power on the left, 546 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 1: some people are not truly on the side of the left, 547 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: and some people do not realize that black and brown 548 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: voices are sick and fucking tired of waiting for change incrementalism. 549 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:23,480 Speaker 1: There is no time for incrementalism anymore. Being told to 550 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,320 Speaker 1: compromise for what my right to my body, to my 551 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 1: right to take hast, right to food, my right to 552 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: a living wage. I won't fucking concede that. And so 553 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:37,000 Speaker 1: when people say that we need to work together and 554 00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:38,840 Speaker 1: we need to build, I'm like, no, y'all work with me, 555 00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,520 Speaker 1: Work with the left, and work with the people who 556 00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,719 Speaker 1: ran because they were tired of the current leaders we had. 557 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 1: Work with the people who have seen their communities literally 558 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: struggle for generation after generation, who don't see any hope 559 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 1: in the system, who know that their politicians literally do 560 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,600 Speaker 1: not care about them because they do not know what 561 00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,720 Speaker 1: it's like to be a low income black or brown 562 00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,280 Speaker 1: person or a queer person who faces many realities across 563 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: this nation. So those are all the ways that we 564 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,040 Speaker 1: have to do better, and I'm trying to do better. 565 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: Civic engagement, trying to mobilize people and show them that 566 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,080 Speaker 1: there is real power in our voices, there is real 567 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: power in our numbers, and with people coming into our 568 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,240 Speaker 1: steakhouses and taking that space and taking the air away 569 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:20,840 Speaker 1: from the folks who don't want to move, even if 570 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,080 Speaker 1: they are quote unquote on our side. Let me ask 571 00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,880 Speaker 1: you this last question, which is, you know we have 572 00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,240 Speaker 1: polls coming out that and I trust me, I believe 573 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 1: that polls are akin to reading tea leaves right, So 574 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,400 Speaker 1: take with them, you know, with a grain of salt. 575 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 1: But the reality is that people are tired, They are depressed, 576 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: they have anxiety, they are stressed the fuck out. There 577 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,120 Speaker 1: is inflation, everything costs more, and their money is not 578 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,000 Speaker 1: going as far as it used to. How what what 579 00:32:53,080 --> 00:33:00,239 Speaker 1: do you say to that voter, to that Democratic voter, right, 580 00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,080 Speaker 1: whether it's in your state, as we're looking at midterm 581 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: elections nationally, as we're headed into a which will probably 582 00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,240 Speaker 1: be our last presidential election um in these United States? 583 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:18,760 Speaker 1: So what do you say to that? Not even disgruntled. 584 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,120 Speaker 1: I just think that people are beat down, right, So 585 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: what what? What? What? In you know, what what message 586 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:30,239 Speaker 1: do you think would resonate to get folks to the 587 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,440 Speaker 1: polls in a way to see that like there is 588 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: still a mustard seed of hope somewhere to hold onto. 589 00:33:40,680 --> 00:33:44,400 Speaker 1: I say my campaign slogan hope in action. We must 590 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,520 Speaker 1: always have hope, but we have to have the audacity 591 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: and the bravery to put that hope into action. Every 592 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,719 Speaker 1: single day, I have been literally beat down, and luckily 593 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: I have a really great uh support system. I have 594 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 1: a therapist. I play rugby, so I'm allowed to hit 595 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,880 Speaker 1: people legally when I want to. I crochet, I do all. 596 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,479 Speaker 1: I do all the things that I need to do 597 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:08,040 Speaker 1: and take care of myself, but it's fucking hard. I 598 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:10,480 Speaker 1: have a full time job outside outside of being a 599 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 1: state legislator. So when people say my voice doesn't matter, 600 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 1: I say, I had hope that it would matter, and 601 00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:20,160 Speaker 1: I won, and I'm working on these issues and in 602 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,439 Speaker 1: my community, I have at least ten candidates that I'm 603 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,400 Speaker 1: mentoring and getting them into office and having them build 604 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:30,279 Speaker 1: up to replace the existing power structures. So when people say, well, 605 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, I'm like, it will matter. And that's 606 00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:35,880 Speaker 1: why we need new voices. Do young voices, black people, 607 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,360 Speaker 1: queer people, Latino people. We need so many new voices 608 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,439 Speaker 1: in different people in those spaces, and I have hope 609 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: that this next generation is tired the fact that I 610 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: was trking upside down, and it broke the Internet, and 611 00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:51,920 Speaker 1: it broke the minds of people who were afraid to 612 00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,000 Speaker 1: see a liberated black, queer person whose body has been 613 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: told its entire life that it is, that it's sex, 614 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: literally said, and they weren't listening to my message before. 615 00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: And now people are coming to my platform like I 616 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 1: just knew you was a twerking senator, and now you 617 00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 1: have things to say. You can do both what Yeah, 618 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,719 Speaker 1: they're saying, there's so much hope in seeing someone who 619 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,839 Speaker 1: is not backing down, who is not saying sorry. They 620 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,480 Speaker 1: wanted me to be ashamed, they wanted me to be embarrassed, 621 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 1: and they wanted to take away whatever sense of empowerment 622 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:23,640 Speaker 1: they thought they could take from me. And to that, 623 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,120 Speaker 1: I said, fuck no, I'm a twerk on anyway. I'm 624 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,840 Speaker 1: going to fight anyway. I'm going to say abortion, Louder, 625 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,520 Speaker 1: I'm going to say trans writes Louder. I'm going to say, 626 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: protect our intersects, youth, Louder, I'm going to say, I'm 627 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,799 Speaker 1: going to say, abolish the police. I'm going to say, 628 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 1: defend our communities. I'm going to say all of the 629 00:35:41,120 --> 00:35:45,879 Speaker 1: things that I believe in strongly, more convincingly, and I'm 630 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,239 Speaker 1: going to bring people into that camp. I've been on 631 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:50,680 Speaker 1: the doors, I've been knocking, and it is hard for 632 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 1: people to see that hope, but to see people who 633 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,880 Speaker 1: are still invested, and to see people who are actually 634 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 1: fighting and who have whatever little results that we can get, 635 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,000 Speaker 1: who are saying that this system is broken and we 636 00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,719 Speaker 1: need more voices. It can't just be one of us. 637 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,000 Speaker 1: It has to be all of us running. And that's 638 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:08,799 Speaker 1: one of the things that I think the Democratic Party 639 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: also has missed. We have to have so many new 640 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,920 Speaker 1: voices coming in and taking those seats. It's not about 641 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 1: one win, it's not about two wins. It's not about 642 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: the federal level. Like I've said this in a different interview, 643 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:22,720 Speaker 1: but like fuck being the next AOC, Be the next 644 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,200 Speaker 1: AOC in your town government, be the next AOC in 645 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:30,719 Speaker 1: your state legislature, be the next change maker in your community. 646 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:33,320 Speaker 1: Because that's what it goes down to. We're not getting 647 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,200 Speaker 1: shit done up at the federal level, and it's coming 648 00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:40,480 Speaker 1: down to states making sure their communities are taking care 649 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:42,839 Speaker 1: of that, they have the resources that they need. And 650 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: so when people say, well, donate to this cause, like 651 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: donate to this campaign, do that, I'm like, start your 652 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,440 Speaker 1: own fucking campaign. Let's do it. People were like, let's fund, 653 00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 1: let's go send our money to politicians who support abortion. No, 654 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,759 Speaker 1: don't donate to politicians. Donate to an abortion fund. That's 655 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 1: where it's going to matter, matter who wins that next election, 656 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,319 Speaker 1: abortion still is not going to be guaranteed for the 657 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: people who need it most. And so trying to build 658 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,880 Speaker 1: that distrust in the system and that inherent belief that 659 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,960 Speaker 1: we can have a whole new system in people. It 660 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,719 Speaker 1: is hard, it is ruling. But by doing the work 661 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:19,880 Speaker 1: and showing up every day with authenticity, with love, and 662 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:23,440 Speaker 1: with hope for people, I think that is what inspires 663 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,799 Speaker 1: and that is what motivates people to see that there 664 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:28,760 Speaker 1: is changed because we have people who are not backing down. 665 00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:33,080 Speaker 1: And yes, it is hard, and at times I has 666 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,880 Speaker 1: a black person every felt safe in the United States, 667 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,080 Speaker 1: Like if you have like let me know your secret, 668 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 1: but like don't feel safe, don't feel love, don't feel 669 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 1: cared for, and don't feel community. But I'm showing up 670 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:50,279 Speaker 1: for it anyway, Senator TIERA. Mack, You're fantastic. I am 671 00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,280 Speaker 1: really glad that you made the time to join Woke. 672 00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,480 Speaker 1: I hope that you will come back because you know, 673 00:37:57,840 --> 00:38:02,280 Speaker 1: I am looking for energy, I am looking for hope, 674 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:07,920 Speaker 1: I am looking for something someone somewhere, all of those 675 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:12,359 Speaker 1: peoples to let us know that this fight is not over. 676 00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 1: And you were one of those people. You were one 677 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,919 Speaker 1: of those warriors on the front lines. And fuck them 678 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,839 Speaker 1: if they are going to be doing their advertisements with 679 00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,920 Speaker 1: aar fifteens and all of this like violence and bullshit, 680 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,359 Speaker 1: you can absolutely to work as much as you God 681 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,360 Speaker 1: damn well please and absolutely should. So we here on 682 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,759 Speaker 1: Woke AF appreciate you, thank you, and we'll hope you 683 00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,759 Speaker 1: come back soon. Get up behind the scenes look at 684 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 1: Comedy Central's The Daily Show on Beyond the Scenes, an 685 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,879 Speaker 1: original podcast from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Every week, 686 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: host Roy Wood Junior goes deeper with the notable guests 687 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:50,480 Speaker 1: and experts from the Emmy Award winning series. Together, they 688 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 1: use comedy to tackle current topics from gentrification to gun 689 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,839 Speaker 1: laws and take a closer look at how and why 690 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,400 Speaker 1: these topics matter. Listen to Beyond the Scenes from the 691 00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,360 Speaker 1: Daily Show with Trevor Noah on the iHeartRadio app, Apple 692 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:12,720 Speaker 1: Podcast or wherever you get your podcast, New episodes every Tuesday. 693 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:15,920 Speaker 1: That is it for me today here on Woke App 694 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,480 Speaker 1: as always, Power to the people and to all the people. 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