Speaker 1: Good morning, peep sin. Welcome to bokay f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody back in my home bunker um, folks.
Speaker 1: Let's start off with something that I never get to
Speaker 1: start off with, which is some good news. As of
Speaker 1: the time of this recording, Secretary Blinkin has announced that
Speaker 1: there is a substantial deal that was placed on the
Speaker 1: table to Russia in order to get back Britney Griner. Now,
Speaker 1: for those of you who obviously have been paying attention,
Speaker 1: Britney Griner has been in custody with Russian officials since
Speaker 1: February on some bullshit trumped up drug charges because of
Speaker 1: vile of cannabis oil that were found in her luggage,
Speaker 1: which she says that she has a prescription for from
Speaker 1: a doctor, but the country of Russia has a zero
Speaker 1: tolerance on drugs. She has been on trial. We have
Speaker 1: seen glimpses of her looking at least physically well, being
Speaker 1: detained for this considerable amount of time. I am hopeful
Speaker 1: because over the last couple of months we have seen
Speaker 1: an uptick in attention and focus on her predicament. Right initially,
Speaker 1: when this first happened back in February, it got very
Speaker 1: little press. And part of that, at least from what
Speaker 1: I heard, was because the State Department officials work through
Speaker 1: back channels, They work through avenues that are not dealt
Speaker 1: with in the public eye. And it was said not
Speaker 1: to bring, not to draw so much attention to her,
Speaker 1: because then the Russians would want to do some other maneuvering. Well,
Speaker 1: things have changed over the last several months. Her wife
Speaker 1: has taken to calling the White House. She has been
Speaker 1: on Good Morning America and other outlets pleading for the
Speaker 1: safe return of Brittany Griner. So right now Britney has
Speaker 1: basically pled guilty because by virtue of the Russian courts,
Speaker 1: you are not seen to be innocent, and she has
Speaker 1: testified on her own behalf to plead guilty and to
Speaker 1: convince the judge that she should be released. Word is
Speaker 1: that any exchange with regard to an exchange of prisoners,
Speaker 1: which is what the State Department is working on, we
Speaker 1: have no timeline for that. But folks are saying that
Speaker 1: she needs to be convicted and then sentenced and then
Speaker 1: we will see where we go from there. But folks,
Speaker 1: one of the things that has troubled me, I think
Speaker 1: the most about this case other than the fact that
Speaker 1: you know, the Russians do anything right. Everything is about
Speaker 1: political gain. Everything is about a political strategy. It is
Speaker 1: all bullshit maneuvering so that they can get out heinous,
Speaker 1: horrible people from prison, so that they can get sanctions.
Speaker 1: You dropped like everything is a fucking political game. But
Speaker 1: what has really gotten me in particular about this case
Speaker 1: is that Britney Griner should have never had to be
Speaker 1: in Russia in the first place, and that is a
Speaker 1: failing of the United States. Why do I say that, Well,
Speaker 1: because the women who play basketball in the w NBA
Speaker 1: do not even make half of what NBA players make
Speaker 1: in this country, which requires them then to go ahead
Speaker 1: and play abroad right in the American off season so
Speaker 1: that they can continue to make money. Brittany Griner was
Speaker 1: in Russia because she plays basketball for a living, and
Speaker 1: we don't really particularly give a shit about women in
Speaker 1: sports and how much they get paid. Look at what
Speaker 1: has happened the lawsuit that the women's soccer team had
Speaker 1: to bring against the Soccer Association for the inbound the
Speaker 1: inequity in the pay between men and women in soccer. Right,
Speaker 1: these are the same cases that we have heard brought
Speaker 1: up with tennis players and the Tennis Association, namely with
Speaker 1: the Williams sisters and what they have had to go
Speaker 1: through in order to get again equal fucking pay. So
Speaker 1: this is, you know, so many layers of this Britney
Speaker 1: Griner trial. An issue is layered with how we treat
Speaker 1: and value women in this country, plain and simple. If
Speaker 1: Britney Grinder was making as much money as you know,
Speaker 1: whatever other top NBA player who is in her same positioning,
Speaker 1: do you think that she would have been in Russia. No,
Speaker 1: she would be enjoying her off season as NBA players
Speaker 1: enjoy their off season right, being able to provide for
Speaker 1: their families amply right, and not have to travel around
Speaker 1: the world in order to do that. And so, you know,
Speaker 1: I bring that up because I think that it is
Speaker 1: really important that we recognize, I mean, and we know this, right.
Speaker 1: We know this by virtue of the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Speaker 1: We know this by virtue of the fact that in
Speaker 1: this country we have yet to be able to pass
Speaker 1: an equal Pay Act. Right, we know that white women
Speaker 1: make probably seventy two cents. I think it was the
Speaker 1: last time that I saw to the dollar of a
Speaker 1: white man, and that the number is lessened as you
Speaker 1: add on race, as you you know, for people black
Speaker 1: women making less and being yet more qualified, right in
Speaker 1: terms of the number of professional degrees, in terms of
Speaker 1: certifications and all of these things. And so again, if
Speaker 1: we were to actually take a strong look and give
Speaker 1: a shit in this country about equity, then we would
Speaker 1: have passed an Equal Pay Act a long long time ago,
Speaker 1: because the days are gone of you know, heteronormativity and
Speaker 1: the male going into the workforce in the job and
Speaker 1: the boss saying, oh, your wife is pregnant, so here's
Speaker 1: a raise for the family. Type of bullshit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know that that's what the Republicans want to drag
Speaker 1: us back to, where women are needing to be reliant
Speaker 1: on their spouses because they're trapped into pregnancy and parent
Speaker 1: that they don't want to be in right, and that
Speaker 1: forces this vicious cycle of women and people with uterus
Speaker 1: is being forced out of the workforce, clearing the way
Speaker 1: for white men clearly to be able to not only
Speaker 1: rule the workforce, but also rule their nest and women
Speaker 1: not have any outlet whatsoever. That's the goal of the
Speaker 1: Republican Party. It's to turn women back into a servile
Speaker 1: positioning in our country, and you know how easy it
Speaker 1: is being done right. So I think that it is
Speaker 1: always important that when we look at these cases with
Speaker 1: that are gaining national attention, that we look at the why,
Speaker 1: that we ask ourselves the why about those things and
Speaker 1: don't just assume them to be by face value, just
Speaker 1: one thing about foreign affairs and the United States and
Speaker 1: their geopolitical war that they like to play. Folks. We
Speaker 1: are now also six months into the war in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: which is just fucking crazy to even think about the
Speaker 1: devastation that Russian aggression and war crimes have caused in
Speaker 1: the country of Ukraine. This week, if you pay attention
Speaker 1: to the likes of Vogue magazine, both Zelinsky and his
Speaker 1: and his wife First Lady are on the cover, the
Speaker 1: digital cover of Vogue magazine, and they are talking about
Speaker 1: the horrors of war, what what this has done to
Speaker 1: their own families, to their country, and you know, to themselves.
Speaker 1: I said something the other day to a friend of
Speaker 1: mine with regard to President Zelinsky, and I said, man,
Speaker 1: if you look at photos from six months ago of Zelinsky,
Speaker 1: and you look at photos now, it is evident that
Speaker 1: the man has must have aged at least ten years
Speaker 1: in six months. You know, I've been thinking a lot,
Speaker 1: as Republicans continue to wage war against democracy and against
Speaker 1: decency in this country, about whether or not those of
Speaker 1: us who do believe in democracy are actually willing to
Speaker 1: fight for it in the way that people are fighting
Speaker 1: for it in Ukraine. Now, I'm not going to make
Speaker 1: any comparisons to being in a maternity ward and the
Speaker 1: hospital being blown up, or being in sitting in my
Speaker 1: apartment and the apartment building being blown up, or any
Speaker 1: of the things the heinous acts that we have seen
Speaker 1: at the hands of Russians. But the question that we
Speaker 1: should all really truly be asking ourselves is, if America
Speaker 1: continues on this anti democrat slope that we are on,
Speaker 1: what are each of us actually willing to do to
Speaker 1: defend democracy? You know, I think about the people in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I think about people all over the world who are
Speaker 1: forced into extraordinary situations because of power, greed, right violence
Speaker 1: that plagues their countries. We have largely as a nation
Speaker 1: been shielded from that right. Not since the Civil War
Speaker 1: the Revolutionary War have we seen, outside of the bombing
Speaker 1: of Pearl Harbor, fighting on our own soil. And what
Speaker 1: has really gotten me in this realm of thinking, obviously
Speaker 1: is because we pay attention every single day to the news.
Speaker 1: But there was a recent article in the Washington Post
Speaker 1: that there were interviews that were done of Republicans and
Speaker 1: you know, looking at candidates at the local, state and
Speaker 1: national level that are running for office. And in this article, folks,
Speaker 1: these people are not holding back. They are saying that
Speaker 1: they are prepared for a civil war. They are ready
Speaker 1: for a civil war, and that a majority of Americans
Speaker 1: outside of the Republican Party believe that this will come
Speaker 1: in the next couple of years. Namely, there have eyes
Speaker 1: on twenty twenty four. If Republicans take back the House
Speaker 1: and the Senate in the fall, they are going to
Speaker 1: do some really egregious, underhanded ship. We already know that
Speaker 1: because they've told us. If a Republican, whether it be
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Ron de Santis or Mike Pence, become President
Speaker 1: of the United States in twenty twenty four, you can
Speaker 1: kiss every single right. You can kiss the Constitution goodbye altogether.
Speaker 1: In these polls that have been done with Republicans, many
Speaker 1: of them have said that, you know, forty percent of
Speaker 1: the population hell, I'll give up on democracy so long
Speaker 1: as we have a strongman at the helm of this country.
Speaker 1: Not only were we registered last year as a backsliding
Speaker 1: democracy for the first time in the history of the
Speaker 1: United States, people are talking about a civil war. People
Speaker 1: are talking about wanting a strongman instead of democracy. These
Speaker 1: are regular conversations that are happening, right and not just
Speaker 1: with the politically astute or those that pay attention. It's
Speaker 1: happening with everybody around everybody's kitchen table. So I think
Speaker 1: about the images coming out of Ukraine, and I think
Speaker 1: about the trauma that has been inflicted on these people
Speaker 1: who have done nothing other than trying to live their
Speaker 1: lives right as best they could in a country that
Speaker 1: they were born in, in the country that they love,
Speaker 1: only to have everything that they've ever known upended, to
Speaker 1: lose loved ones, to lose their homes, to lose their
Speaker 1: futures right, pick up with whatever it is that they have,
Speaker 1: and literally cross borders into other nations with nothing but
Speaker 1: what they have on their backs to start over. And
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, while I was really aggravated
Speaker 1: by the way that the Ukrainian people have been presented
Speaker 1: in the news, as if like we should all have
Speaker 1: empathy for these people. But we don't have empathy for
Speaker 1: people in Afghanistan. We don't have empathy for people in Syria.
Speaker 1: We don't have empathy for people in Iran, right, we
Speaker 1: don't have empathy for people in the Congo. We don't
Speaker 1: have empathy for people who are not black, who are
Speaker 1: not white with blue eyes and blonde hair, And that
Speaker 1: is by virtue of white supremacy. And who runs the news,
Speaker 1: who runs everything right? White people in power. Hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: there is something to think about when we are on
Speaker 1: the verge of so much right Like, when we are
Speaker 1: on the verge of so much that is happening on
Speaker 1: the brink of just it feels like remember playing on
Speaker 1: the seesaw as a kid on the playground. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if they have seesaws anymore, but playing on
Speaker 1: a seesaw and you know, the other person would get
Speaker 1: up and you would be slapped down to to the ground.
Speaker 1: That's how I feel about this country right now, Like
Speaker 1: we're trying to both stay even and in the air
Speaker 1: with our emotional well being, with our understanding of democracy.
Speaker 1: We're just up and we're down. We're up and we're down,
Speaker 1: and I'm just waiting for the moment where the Republican
Speaker 1: Party completely gets off of the seesaw and they're just like,
Speaker 1: fuck it, We're drawing our guns and we're done. Because
Speaker 1: I feel like this is imminent, right, when you have
Speaker 1: Republicans that are running for office and they're doing so
Speaker 1: holding their ar fifteens, when they are talking about the
Speaker 1: use of violence against political opponents, when they are and
Speaker 1: rising in the polls doing it, right, when they are
Speaker 1: continuing to spread lies. When you could say that, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I was at the insurrection and run for governor like
Speaker 1: Doug Mastriana was doing in Pennsylvania, and that be okay,
Speaker 1: you not be in jail, right because you would think, oh, no,
Speaker 1: this man is going to be charged with a federal
Speaker 1: crime and he would never be able to run for office.
Speaker 1: But not in these United States, right, not nowadays. But
Speaker 1: you think about the fact that these people are literally
Speaker 1: getting everything that they have ever wanted. Their wish list
Speaker 1: right for America is literally being checked off one box
Speaker 1: at a time. And yet when you listen to Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: which by the way, I did not listen to the
Speaker 1: whole speech is bullshit speech. I was only listening to
Speaker 1: pieces of it because I can't stomach that bullshit. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump talking about America has got to be one of
Speaker 1: the most scary things that I've ever heard. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: sees nothing good in this country even when Republicans are winning.
Speaker 1: It's not even about them touting the reversal of Roe v.
Speaker 1: Wade or touting all of the gun legislation that is
Speaker 1: across this country now, where you can just get a
Speaker 1: gun as easy as you can, you pick up a
Speaker 1: thing at ictas, where you can, you know, deny curriculum
Speaker 1: and burn books and don't say gay, and all of
Speaker 1: these things that they have won. You would think that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would then stand before his legions of sycophants
Speaker 1: and tick down all of those wins. But no, Donald
Speaker 1: Trump stands before the American public and says that the
Speaker 1: streets are filled with bodies and guns and you know,
Speaker 1: and oh not guns because he would love that with drugs,
Speaker 1: and that we should execute drug dealers, and that there's
Speaker 1: just mayhem and carnage and terror everywhere. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: America is pretty much a shit show. It's a shit
Speaker 1: show because of all of the things that Republicans and
Speaker 1: the likes of Joe Mansion and Krsten Cinema have continued
Speaker 1: to allow to happen in this country right to make
Speaker 1: this country unsafe. But the idea that we're all walking
Speaker 1: out of our front doors into type to Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: healthscape is like is laughable. Right, And so I'm like,
Speaker 1: even when they are winning, they still run on fear,
Speaker 1: which means to me that they're never going to be satisfied. Right,
Speaker 1: They're never going to be satisfied until every right is gone,
Speaker 1: until every person is living in fear, until the hope
Speaker 1: and the will of America is taken from everyone's eyes
Speaker 1: and souls, until it's just drained from all of us.
Speaker 1: Because they don't even celebrate their victories. They just continue
Speaker 1: to cry foul and play victim, right, Like Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is talking about all of the carnage and the mayhem
Speaker 1: in the street and then saying, and they don't want
Speaker 1: me to lead you bitch, where did you lead us?
Speaker 1: You almost led us into multiple Twitter fucking like real
Speaker 1: world wars with I ran and with North Korea. You
Speaker 1: know you're being The government is being sued by several
Speaker 1: families who were separated at the border under your bullshit policies, right,
Speaker 1: and they will most likely win because what the Trump
Speaker 1: administration did to undocumented people and their children was so
Speaker 1: fucking heinous and disgusting. But I'm like, how do you
Speaker 1: counter this horrible vision and dream of America that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and Republicans have. You have to give something to
Speaker 1: the people to have hope in And this is a
Speaker 1: thing that I understand, you know now more than ever
Speaker 1: about Democrats in the Democratic Party. While I say that
Speaker 1: a healthy dose of fhere is good, Do you want
Speaker 1: Trump's America or do you want the Biden version of
Speaker 1: America that we're all fighting for? Right? Like that, to
Speaker 1: me is a very simple ad. You know, run down,
Speaker 1: play over Donald Trump just recently talking about the mayhem
Speaker 1: and the lack of law and order, and just run
Speaker 1: the visuals from the insurrection as Donald Trump is speaking today,
Speaker 1: five hundred and some odd days after he incited an
Speaker 1: entire crowd to attack his vice president and the capital
Speaker 1: of the United States, and say, do you want this
Speaker 1: version of America or do you want the one over
Speaker 1: here that we are all fighting for for better schools,
Speaker 1: right that don't burn books but actually seek to educate
Speaker 1: and uplift our nation's children so that we can be
Speaker 1: globally competitive. Do you want Donald Trump's version of America
Speaker 1: where you are not safe anywhere? Or do you want
Speaker 1: a version of America that we're fighting for where you
Speaker 1: can go to the grocery store, your synagogue, your mosque,
Speaker 1: and your church and a movie theater right with your
Speaker 1: family and to a parade and not be worried about
Speaker 1: being mowed down because we can do something about assault
Speaker 1: weapons weapons of mass destruction that are on our streets.
Speaker 1: The contrast, to me is so very clear to paint,
Speaker 1: even without any real major policy wins from this administration.
Speaker 1: And yet here we sit but a handful of months
Speaker 1: before midterms, crossing our fingers and toes and hoping to
Speaker 1: God that the Republican White Supremacist Party doesn't take hold
Speaker 1: over this entire nation, even though, by the way, they
Speaker 1: pretty much have a really fucking tight grip. So I
Speaker 1: sit here and I wonder most days as I look
Speaker 1: at the destruction that the rubble that most of Ukraine
Speaker 1: has turned into now, and I wonder how many of
Speaker 1: us would be willing to fight for this nation as
Speaker 1: opposed to dusting off our passports and saying, fuck it,
Speaker 1: I'm starting over someplace else, which, by the way, I
Speaker 1: have those fantasies on a regular goddamn basis. My sister
Speaker 1: just came back from living abroad for the last twelve years. Right.
Speaker 1: I know that it can be done. I know that
Speaker 1: you can make a good living and you can travel
Speaker 1: the world. But what does it mean to no longer
Speaker 1: have a home base? Right? What does it mean to
Speaker 1: be a stranger in every land that you traverse because
Speaker 1: the one that you were born in is no longer recognizable.
Speaker 1: These are the things that kind of keep me up
Speaker 1: at night on a regular basis, wondering and worrying about
Speaker 1: what the future is going to look like here. And
Speaker 1: I don't want the future of America to look like
Speaker 1: Ukraine with millions of us, you know, either heading south
Speaker 1: for Mexico or north for Canada, right and figuring out
Speaker 1: how to start over. But that's the America that Republicans want.
Speaker 1: They want to drive everybody that looks like me, praise
Speaker 1: different looks, different loves, different out of this country. You know,
Speaker 1: just the other day, what was making the news, Doug
Speaker 1: Mastriano's like campaign lead talking about the fact that America
Speaker 1: is a Christian nation, a white Christian nation. Marjorie Taylor
Speaker 1: Green found herself saying that she's a nationalist and she's
Speaker 1: a Christian and she's a Christian nationalist and there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. Rachel Maddow, because of her comments, did
Speaker 1: a major, a major deep dive into Christian nationalism and
Speaker 1: what that looked like in the United States. This push
Speaker 1: for it, it is Nazism, It is the KKK, it
Speaker 1: is burning crosses. This man was on national television talking about, Oh,
Speaker 1: we won't expel the Jews, but they'll need to, you know,
Speaker 1: they'll have the benefits of living in a Christian nation.
Speaker 1: The fuck. I don't know what constitution they're all reading,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure or that America was founded right
Speaker 1: air quotes on religious freedom right. They were fleeing persecution.
Speaker 1: So the very idea that then the descendants of those
Speaker 1: who came here would turn around and say that no
Speaker 1: one else has the ability to practice their own faith,
Speaker 1: because their belief is that America should have one faith
Speaker 1: that we all abide by and one rule of law,
Speaker 1: which is that white supremacy runs all things and is
Speaker 1: all things. You have the Lauren Boberts and the Marjorie
Speaker 1: Tailor Greens that are sitting in Congress talking about there
Speaker 1: should be no separation between church and state, you have
Speaker 1: a Supreme Court that is just eroded further this separation
Speaker 1: between church and state. And so again, when I say
Speaker 1: to you, what are you willing to fight for if
Speaker 1: in fact it comes to pass, which again the polls
Speaker 1: are saying it is more likely than not to come
Speaker 1: to pass. What are you willing to stand up and
Speaker 1: fight for? These are the questions that we need to
Speaker 1: be asking each other around our kitchen table, because it
Speaker 1: isn't just going to be enough to tweet about it.
Speaker 1: It isn't going to just be enough to vote. I
Speaker 1: think that this is going to come down to actual
Speaker 1: fucking hand to hand combat. I think that it is
Speaker 1: going to come down to a whole lot of things
Speaker 1: because I don't believe that this version of the white
Speaker 1: nationalist of Republican Party is going away. Right, we had
Speaker 1: an opportunity to cut off the head of the snake
Speaker 1: Donald Trump twice with two impeachment trials, and Republicans said, nah,
Speaker 1: this is our guy. Right, you have Matt Gates, that
Speaker 1: fucking pedophile piece of shit, disparaging women, but making it
Speaker 1: clear that no Republican is going to vote for Mike
Speaker 1: Pence because Donald Trump is their guy. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: wants Donald Trump back in office so that he can
Speaker 1: get pardoned for his sex trafficking charges. I just want
Speaker 1: Democrats right now to do a better job of laying
Speaker 1: out to the American people that the version of America
Speaker 1: that Republicans have isn't just one that is about white supremacy.
Speaker 1: It is also one that is about vigilante violence, right
Speaker 1: political violence, where it is going to be the norm
Speaker 1: that you're going to have people's lives threatened, the lives
Speaker 1: of their families threatened, because you decide to run for office.
Speaker 1: But this is what they want, because then it will
Speaker 1: keep away good people, right, people who want to do
Speaker 1: good by this country, and it'll make way for the crazy,
Speaker 1: fucking zealots. Let me turn to climate change. The pictures
Speaker 1: that have come out of Saint Louis more rain in
Speaker 1: five hours than they've gotten in like a month. The
Speaker 1: brush fire that sparked an entire neighborhood to be burned
Speaker 1: down in Texas. The triple digit heat that we have
Speaker 1: been living in across a majority of this country and
Speaker 1: around the world. Folks, Joe Mansion voted against any climate legislation.
Speaker 1: One man who is taking millions of dollars each and
Speaker 1: every year from the dirty coal industry is the one
Speaker 1: that is deciding whether or not you get to breathe
Speaker 1: clean air, whether or not you have the ability to
Speaker 1: fight back against raging fire seasons, whether or not you
Speaker 1: are going to be able to air condition your way
Speaker 1: out of climate change, which none of us are going
Speaker 1: to be able to do. We have got to figure
Speaker 1: out how to fight these people who don't give a fuck.
Speaker 1: You know, I tweeted the other day, I said, you know,
Speaker 1: it is insane to me. That is people that are
Speaker 1: in their seventies and their eighties that are making decisions
Speaker 1: about inaction around climate change that they're not even going
Speaker 1: to be around in another twenty years to deal with
Speaker 1: the continued fallout from the decisions that they're making now
Speaker 1: that are solely based in greed. And so if we're
Speaker 1: not calling these people out and letting the public know
Speaker 1: exactly why right, we are going to be living under
Speaker 1: so many different kinds of threats, the threats of voter suppression,
Speaker 1: the threats of having more rights taking away, the threats
Speaker 1: of climate change. We're just living under threat because of
Speaker 1: people like Joe Manchin and Kursten cinema. Right. The Republicans
Speaker 1: have already told us who they are. They've consistent they
Speaker 1: been who they have been. But it is Democrats who
Speaker 1: pretend to say that we're not like the other guy.
Speaker 1: We can give you all of the things that you want,
Speaker 1: and then they fall short because they have people who
Speaker 1: are really Republicans in sheep's clothing. So I'm hoping over
Speaker 1: the next couple of months that we are going to
Speaker 1: see the largest number of Generation Z vote in mid
Speaker 1: term elections who are in their early twenties right, who
Speaker 1: are over the age of eighteen, just entering into the
Speaker 1: workforce or entering into school, and saying, these people need
Speaker 1: to get the fuck up out of the way, because
Speaker 1: that's who we need to be invigorating right now. And
Speaker 1: I hope that we are by virtue of the administration
Speaker 1: signaling the fact that they are telling student loan debtors
Speaker 1: to back up right that they are going to be
Speaker 1: extending or maybe finally canceling student loan debt, and this
Speaker 1: will engage a whole host of people, over forty million
Speaker 1: of the population that is dealing with crippling debt. But
Speaker 1: I know that we need to do something to activate
Speaker 1: the American people, and it isn't just going to be
Speaker 1: fear right, but we have to provide some type of
Speaker 1: hope because if you don't have hope of a brighter day,
Speaker 1: then why would you wake up? That is it for me,
Speaker 1: dear friends on Woke f today, as always, Power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fuck.