1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,880 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: you know, the pundit said set that the primary results 4 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,640 Speaker 1: were going to be foreshadowing for where Democrats and Republicans 5 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:36,239 Speaker 1: are with midterm elections, and they are right, and it 6 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 1: is for once, for once, for the love of fucking God, 7 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: in our favor Kansas. I can't believe I'm about to 8 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:51,120 Speaker 1: say this is the saving grace the state of Kansas, Folks, 9 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, where you know it is a majority 10 00:00:56,560 --> 00:01:00,319 Speaker 1: white state, and you know that I have been very 11 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: vocal about my frustration with the lack of accountability and 12 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:10,720 Speaker 1: responsibility that white women take for upholding our democracy that 13 00:01:10,760 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: when things are not affecting them personally, right, that you know, 14 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: they're good to vote alongside their husbands and their boyfriends. 15 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: And you know, I was Lee of ye of little faith, 16 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: because I'm going on twenty sixteen election results, I'm going 17 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: on twenty twenty election results, and I'm going on the 18 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: fact that Republicans have been really fucking suspect in their 19 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: you know, under the cloak of darkness, maneuvering that they 20 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 1: have been doing in order to get these abhorrent ballot 21 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: measures on the box. You know, we all know that 22 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 1: I think that the twenty twenty election was I believe 23 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 1: the highest turnout that we have ever had, and I 24 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: still don't think that it reached seventy percent. Right, we 25 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: are still at a pace where supposedly everybody who is 26 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,119 Speaker 1: a citizen of these United States and above the age 27 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,079 Speaker 1: of eighteen and older are eligible to vote. And what 28 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,160 Speaker 1: we all have always found and have always seen is 29 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: that there is a pretty much about forty percent of 30 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 1: the population that doesn't vote, let alone, and that's in presidentials, 31 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: let alone in mid term elections. Well guess what Republicans 32 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:35,200 Speaker 1: did not count on. Or maybe they thought that we 33 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: would just lay back and take their push towards authoritarianism 34 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 1: and stripping away one right after the other. Maybe we 35 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: would take that just lying on our backs. Maybe we, 36 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: you know, wouldn't notice that now women and people with 37 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: uterus is in a majority of states in this country 38 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: have no recourse to an abortion. That not only do 39 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: they have no recourse in the state and have to 40 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,239 Speaker 1: pay the penalty of being able to travel take off 41 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: time from work, but in some instances like we've seen 42 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: in Texas. They have criminalized, right, criminalized abortion. We saw 43 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 1: what happened with the state of Indiana, who was the 44 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: state that in Ohio ten year old rape victim needed 45 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 1: to travel to in order to seek an abortion from 46 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: a rape victim at six weeks and three days. And 47 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: let me pause for a minute on that note, because 48 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: I heard something the other day that, again, if I 49 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: was running messaging for the Democratic Party, this ship would 50 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: be light work. Right. So I heard the other day 51 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: that Republicans are tripping over themselves to talk about the 52 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 1: ten year old rape victim as if she was in 53 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 1: a relationship with a grown ass man, right, referring to 54 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: it as a relationship, talking about teen and tween girls 55 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,480 Speaker 1: as if they have the capability to be able to 56 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 1: become parents and deal with the physical not even speaking 57 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,760 Speaker 1: of the emotional, but the physical trauma to their bodies 58 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:24,080 Speaker 1: of pregnancy, right, that they are literally doing mental gymnastics. 59 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:27,440 Speaker 1: This group that is all about following the qan on 60 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: bullshit theories around pedophilia and the lies that they fucking spread, 61 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: and they see no hypocrisy whatsoever in the bullshit that 62 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 1: they would spew at Democrats. That are supporting trans kids, right, 63 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,920 Speaker 1: because this is where this all came from. Is LGBTQ 64 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 1: people right being inserted into oh, I don't know, American history, 65 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: American education and curriculum, going so far as to pass 66 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 1: bills that don't say gay because we don't want to 67 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: have groomers. But then these same people, these very same 68 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,640 Speaker 1: fucking people, turn around and want to tell you that, oh, 69 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: it's gay people and drag queens reading stories that are 70 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,480 Speaker 1: grooming your kids. But they're talking about a ten year 71 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: old in a fucking relationship with a grown ass fucking man, 72 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,359 Speaker 1: and they're talking about a thirteen year old girl being 73 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: totally able to become a parent, Like, are we in 74 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 1: the nineteenth fucking century? Because again, if I'm doing messaging 75 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: for the Democratic Party, all I'm taking are these motherfucker's 76 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: own soundbites, right, and putting that over an ad that 77 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: says they don't see you as people, You are incubators, 78 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: you are ovens, right for the purpose of authoritarianism and patriarchy, 79 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: that's it, right, they don't care. It's amazing to me 80 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:00,559 Speaker 1: that they have the audacity at times to once again 81 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:05,280 Speaker 1: go after places in the Middle East, right, places on 82 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 1: the continent of Africa and talk about the treatment of 83 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: women and girls, right, and stand on some fucking high horse. 84 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:15,359 Speaker 1: And yet you have Republicans now trying to convince the 85 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:20,440 Speaker 1: populace that ten year olds should be parents. How does 86 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 1: that even make sense? Right? But again, this is the 87 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:26,640 Speaker 1: party that produced a man that talked about rape and 88 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: legitimate rape the fuck. So nonetheless, in a turn of 89 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: events that makes me you have to consider what this 90 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 1: feeling is that I'm having, what this glimmer is that 91 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: I'm having? And friends, dare I say, I believe it's hope? 92 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:52,160 Speaker 1: Because Kansas people turned out at presidential voting levels to 93 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:59,520 Speaker 1: smack down that ballot measure that would have extinguished access 94 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: to a board in the state of Kansas. Now, if 95 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,760 Speaker 1: you listen to my conversation yesterday with our friend doctor 96 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: Jonathan Mezo, Jonathan had pointed out to me, He's like, look, 97 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 1: Kansas isn't like Texas. Kansas isn't like Alabama or Mississippi. 98 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 1: It's actually a fairly moderate state. And because you know 99 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: of my prejudices, which I'm fine to say, you know, 100 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: living on the East Coast and being a product of 101 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,520 Speaker 1: New York, and then you know, of Washington, DC being 102 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: the furthest fucking South that I went in my life 103 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,600 Speaker 1: to live. I have a distorted view, you know. I 104 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: don't have the same view or understanding of what is 105 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: moderate and what is just you know, Trump country. So 106 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: Jonathan was in fact right when he said, you know, 107 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,239 Speaker 1: this is going to be something to watch. It isn't 108 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 1: just a given that the people of Kansas are going 109 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: to sit back and allow their access to abortion and 110 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,760 Speaker 1: their rights to be taken away. And they didn't. So 111 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,240 Speaker 1: let me read you a little bit of this article 112 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 1: from CNN which reads this thunderclap ballot box victory on 113 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: abortion rights in Kansas gives Democrats a potent midterm issue. 114 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,120 Speaker 1: And I'll get into the reason why they are saying 115 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 1: that now. It is a potent issue for Democrats because, remember, friends, 116 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:28,880 Speaker 1: abortion is something that has been the third rail in politics. 117 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: While Democrats have always pronounced themselves to be pro choice, 118 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,320 Speaker 1: they also are the ones that came up with the 119 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: terminology around abortion needing to be you know, safe and 120 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: rare right, And the pushback from progressives over the last 121 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: decades plus has been abortions need to be safe and 122 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,720 Speaker 1: whenever the fuck you need one right, But it was 123 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:58,800 Speaker 1: this distinction again falling into this stereotype in trope that 124 00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: abortion is something that people with uterus is use as 125 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: birth control, which if you actually cared right about numbers 126 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,480 Speaker 1: and statistics and truth and facts, you would know that 127 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:16,480 Speaker 1: we had been experiencing a significant decrease, like decades of 128 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: decades decrease in the amount of abortions that are even 129 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: done in this country. Why because we have robust access 130 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: to contraception, right, and those things go hand in hand. 131 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,080 Speaker 1: But when you have Republicans wanted to strip away abortion, 132 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: wanted to strip away access to birth control, well, what 133 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: are they saying? Women are nothing women and people with 134 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: uteruses are nothing more than incubators. We don't give a 135 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: fuck if you are able to be in the workforce. 136 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:47,160 Speaker 1: We certainly are not going to support you with paid 137 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:50,200 Speaker 1: maternity leave or paid parental leave. We certainly are not 138 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: going to support you with having to pay for childcare 139 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 1: services or making it even so that the companies that 140 00:09:55,880 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: you do work for are required to have daycare right, 141 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 1: are required to offer you these things. They don't want 142 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: to put the burden on anyone but the people, the 143 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 1: citizens of this damn country, right, because as sure as 144 00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,000 Speaker 1: fuck don't want to put the burdens on employers. They say, 145 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: oh no, no, no, you know won't That won't allow 146 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: them to make the robust profits that the shareholders and 147 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,720 Speaker 1: CEO's need. Right. But at the same time, you turn 148 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,440 Speaker 1: around and you realize everything, all of it is about 149 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: punishing women and people with uteruses. It is also about 150 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:36,040 Speaker 1: taking away power, right, taking away bodily autonomy, taking away 151 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:40,800 Speaker 1: the ability to map out your own economic future. Because 152 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,640 Speaker 1: you see, if I can't decide when, where, and if 153 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: I want to become a parent and I'm not in 154 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,600 Speaker 1: the financial situation to be able to become a parent 155 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:55,719 Speaker 1: that can support another mouth to feed, then you are 156 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,800 Speaker 1: robbing me of my ability to set up my economic 157 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: future in a way that is stable. There's a reason 158 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: why people wait later in life to have kids now. 159 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: It's one because women in particular are still penalized from 160 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:18,040 Speaker 1: leaving the workforce for pregnancy. Even if you are given 161 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: a sizable maternity leave. That then you got a cobble 162 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,920 Speaker 1: together with disability leave, and got a cobble together with 163 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: something else to be able to have the first six 164 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: months of your fucking child's life with them at home. 165 00:11:31,040 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 1: Getting back into the workforce, you're still looked down upon. 166 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: I don't care what people say. You have missed time 167 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: and now when you were taking time, whether it's to 168 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:44,240 Speaker 1: take your child to the doctor's appointment, to take them 169 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: to the dentist as they get older, to be able 170 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 1: to go to parent teacher conferences. It's men that are 171 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: celebrated from being able to take that time. But women 172 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: in the workforce, you are completely looked down upon and 173 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:00,360 Speaker 1: become a burden to set employer. And again, we have 174 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: recourse now that allows you not to be fired if 175 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,760 Speaker 1: in fact you are pregnant, but that doesn't mean that 176 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: the culture and the climate is set up for your success. Right, So, 177 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: when we look at the pushback that happened in Kansas, 178 00:12:17,320 --> 00:12:22,239 Speaker 1: this is what was said as Republican controlled state legislatures 179 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,800 Speaker 1: around the country race to outlaw the procedure in the 180 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:28,199 Speaker 1: aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. 181 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:34,040 Speaker 1: Traditionally conservative Kansas, given the chance to directly respond at 182 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,560 Speaker 1: the ballot box, denied their own elected leaders the chance 183 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: to revoke a right that has broad support across swaths 184 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:46,239 Speaker 1: of independent polling. They go on to say the rejection 185 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,120 Speaker 1: of the measure highlighted the increasingly stark divide between the 186 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 1: activities of Republican state lawmakers, often in legislature's gerrymandered to 187 00:12:55,160 --> 00:13:00,040 Speaker 1: effectively guarantee GOP control, and the political and policy desires 188 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:04,000 Speaker 1: of American voters in more immediate terms. The ballot measures 189 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: defeat on a day of extraordinary turnout also provides a 190 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 1: clear indication that the desire to defend abortion rights could 191 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 1: be a potent issue for Democrats in the coming midterm elections. 192 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: And folks, I'll tell you, let me read this little 193 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:24,080 Speaker 1: point and then give you my thoughts. The polling from 194 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: a variety of sources is unambiguous and consistent across party lines. 195 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:34,200 Speaker 1: Abortion rights are popular, and the Supreme Court's ruling is not. 196 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: The most recent CNN poll found that sixty three percent 197 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 1: of Americans disapproved fifty one percent strongly of the Court's decision. 198 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,360 Speaker 1: The Kaiser Family Foundation came to a similar conclusion, with 199 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: sixty one percent of respondents to their surveys saying they 200 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,520 Speaker 1: wanted their state to guarantee access to abortion, only twenty 201 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 1: five percent them to restrict it. So I want you 202 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,240 Speaker 1: to think about that for a minute, right because that 203 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,800 Speaker 1: twenty five percent is what is important, because when we 204 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: think right again, let's think about this all, folks, as 205 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: like a fucking ven diagram right now, when you think 206 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:19,240 Speaker 1: about the one circle of people who voted for Donald 207 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 1: Trump in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, put that on 208 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,840 Speaker 1: top of the people who also believe the big lie. 209 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: Put that on top of the people who refuse to 210 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 1: get vaccinated, right, Put that now on top of the 211 00:14:31,840 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 1: people who believe that America should turn into a Christio 212 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 1: fascist state. It's that twenty five percent, right, It is 213 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 1: twenty five damn near thirty percent of the population that 214 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: is on board with this bullshit. Where our problem comes in, 215 00:14:47,760 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: as the fucking majority, is that we are not at 216 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: the decision level, right, And what is the decision level 217 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, oh, the Supreme Court, the nine lords 218 00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:03,640 Speaker 1: of this country who are not elected by anybody but 219 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: instead appointed by the President of the United States. Well, 220 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: in the last two Democrats that we've had, right, each 221 00:15:13,160 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: of them has gotten one appointment, with Donald Trump getting 222 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 1: three because Mitch McConnell stole one of them and jam 223 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:26,040 Speaker 1: through another one with absolutely no pushback whatsoever other than 224 00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: finger waves. So The reality here is that when you 225 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:37,400 Speaker 1: care about polling because you are trying to vie right 226 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,280 Speaker 1: for the people's favor, then you don't make decisions like 227 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:45,160 Speaker 1: how Republicans have moved and made decisions to turn America 228 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: into their moral Disneyland. But you see, folks, there's something else, 229 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,560 Speaker 1: And this is why we need to consistently talk about 230 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: voting rights and access to voting and jerrymantoring right because 231 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 1: what this article said at the top is that you're 232 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: talking about Republican controlled state legislatures that have been jerrymandering 233 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: the fuck right out of their states and precincts to 234 00:16:11,760 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: make sure that they are able to choose their voter 235 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: as opposed to the voter being able to choose their leader. 236 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,240 Speaker 1: So when we are doing right conducting all of these 237 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 1: polls about where the American people are, well, if you 238 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: no longer need to actually rely on convincing the voter, 239 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: but rather just making sure that the right voter votes 240 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:38,000 Speaker 1: for you, and that you're closing down precincts or you know, 241 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: erasing voter roles, or you know, doing everything that you 242 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: can to make it impossible for people of color and 243 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,080 Speaker 1: young people and people that are disabled to actually be 244 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: able to vote. Well, then you don't need to be concerned. 245 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: You won't trouble yourself with fucking poll numbers because that 246 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 1: doesn't matter because you don't care. And again, if I 247 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: were leading messaging for the Democratic Party, this is what 248 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 1: I would be making the case explicit. Right, I would 249 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:13,200 Speaker 1: make this case explicit. Republicans don't care about polls. They 250 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,399 Speaker 1: don't care about your desires. They don't care about your future. 251 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,600 Speaker 1: They don't care about making the world and this country 252 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,200 Speaker 1: a better place for you. They care about their own comfort, 253 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: their own wealth, and their own power and access. How 254 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,320 Speaker 1: do I know that to be true? Because a majority 255 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 1: of people do not want the bullshit that Republicans are 256 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,000 Speaker 1: trying to jam down their throats, but because they have 257 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: been allowed in broad fucking daylight to jerrymander the fuck 258 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 1: out of their states. This is where we are indisputable 259 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,120 Speaker 1: with Doctor Rashid Ricci is one of the latest shows 260 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:57,560 Speaker 1: on the TYT Network and also the fastest growing news 261 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:01,199 Speaker 1: show in America. 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So I think 281 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: that it is, you know, folks, really important for us 282 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: right to pay attention and to tell the truthful story 283 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:35,199 Speaker 1: right about where this country is and where it is 284 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: right now and rightfully so is in a place of 285 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:45,120 Speaker 1: pure rage. The question that has been being asked since 286 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,800 Speaker 1: the overturning of the Dabs case, which was effectually overturning 287 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: Roe v. Wade that the Supreme Court and Justice Solito did, 288 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 1: and then in the concurrent opinion and the concurrent decision, 289 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:59,760 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas put a big spotlight on what else they 290 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:02,720 Speaker 1: are coming after When they readjourn right when they come 291 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:08,080 Speaker 1: back together, the American people are saying, not on my 292 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:12,560 Speaker 1: fucking watch. And that is what is giving me hope. 293 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: Nine hundred thousand people in Kansas turned out to vote. 294 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: That is on par with who came out to vote 295 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:24,239 Speaker 1: in the presidential election. These people not only did they 296 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:28,440 Speaker 1: sneak this ballot and mission measure on right, not only 297 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 1: did they sneak this measure on in the mid terms 298 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,639 Speaker 1: when they know that turnout is low and attention is low, 299 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 1: but then they sent out right all of these like 300 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: wrongly worded questions and robo calls that were just spreading 301 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: lies to confuse people so that they would not show up. 302 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:53,120 Speaker 1: And again, if you are spreading fucking bullshit and lies right. 303 00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,399 Speaker 1: That means that you know your shit ain't popular, because 304 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 1: if it was, and you would be singing it from 305 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 1: the tops of every hills and mountain, knowing that the 306 00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:06,840 Speaker 1: people would flock to you, regardless of the nefarious strategies 307 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:08,719 Speaker 1: that you're going to put in place to try and 308 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: make sure that either they don't know the right day 309 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 1: to vote, they don't know if a yes is actually 310 00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: the yes that they want, or if it's to know right. 311 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:23,399 Speaker 1: You wouldn't do any of those tactics. So you know, 312 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 1: as as the many pundits and polsters, we're covering the 313 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,360 Speaker 1: returns and we're still waiting on some other big races. 314 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: And you know, we know that the Trump backed folks 315 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: in Arizona and in Michigan did really well, right. We 316 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 1: know that those that were in other places did not. 317 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:53,280 Speaker 1: But the fact is is that Trump still has considerable 318 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: power over the Republican Party. It doesn't matter that the 319 00:21:56,640 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 1: man is a full on criminal, it doesn't matter that 320 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:02,160 Speaker 1: he has multiple court cases against him. It doesn't matter 321 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 1: that the man who is so disgusting fucking buried his 322 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:10,680 Speaker 1: first wife on his goddamn golf course, Like what the fuck. Nonetheless, 323 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:16,040 Speaker 1: I think that this is a pivotal moment for Democrats 324 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:24,480 Speaker 1: to not mince words, to not play it fucking safe, right, 325 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: and to recognize that, guess what, it just so happens 326 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: that taking away bodily autonomy from a majority of this 327 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: country is not a good idea, and that now more 328 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:40,920 Speaker 1: than ever, if you are running for office, I don't 329 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:44,440 Speaker 1: care what level of office you are running for, if 330 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:48,560 Speaker 1: you are not being fervent in your opinions about what 331 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: this country needs and who is trying to destroy it, 332 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:58,159 Speaker 1: if you are not speaking feverishly about abortion, bodily autonomy, power, 333 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 1: and the ability to chart one's own course, which is 334 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: the tenant foundation of what it means to be an American, 335 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,920 Speaker 1: what it means to actually be free. And if we're 336 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:13,679 Speaker 1: not tying the words liberty and justice and freedom to 337 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:19,120 Speaker 1: these things, we are missing an opportunity because the people 338 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: are showing us exactly where they are, and they are 339 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:26,640 Speaker 1: not going to go quietly into the cold, dark night 340 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 1: as Republicans had hoped. And I tell you, folks, that 341 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: pressure creates two things. It can create an explosion, it 342 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:41,840 Speaker 1: can create a diamond. And I'm saying right now that 343 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: I need fucking Democrats to be mining right, to be 344 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: following taking the lead from the voters, taking the lead 345 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 1: from the voters who are telling you stand up for us, 346 00:23:55,880 --> 00:24:01,080 Speaker 1: fight for us. I said this the other day on 347 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: Mary Lle Trump. I have joined her round Table of 348 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 1: Avengers what she calls the nerd Avengers, and they Mary l. 349 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: Trump does a show on that is live on YouTube 350 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 1: every Tuesday that I'll be joining with an amazing panel 351 00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,399 Speaker 1: of people. Many of the guests have been on woke 352 00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: Ay app. But one of the things that I was 353 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:32,960 Speaker 1: asked this week was, Danielle, what can democrats do? What 354 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:35,600 Speaker 1: should democrats do? It's a question, folks that I am 355 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,719 Speaker 1: asked every single time that I am being interviewed. And 356 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,280 Speaker 1: what I say and what I continue to say and 357 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,640 Speaker 1: what I will say again, tell the fucking truth right, 358 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: do not mince words, do not half step, do not 359 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 1: not say things with the full throatedness and the puffing 360 00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,480 Speaker 1: out of your chest. We are in the fight for 361 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: our lives. The people of Kansas got that fucking memo right. 362 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 1: And I cannot believe once again that I'm using the 363 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 1: people of Kansas as an example of what it means 364 00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:16,440 Speaker 1: to show up and show the fuck out but I am, 365 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,600 Speaker 1: and I will applaud people where they need to be applauded, 366 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: and these good people need to be applauded. I have 367 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: also continued to say to my lovely white listeners, particularly 368 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: white women right, use this what happened in Kansas as 369 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 1: your rallying cry to get your sister and together right. 370 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: Do not assume that your book club, your soul cycle class, 371 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:52,199 Speaker 1: your plant group, you know, is on board with abortion 372 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: and willing to fight for it. You got to ask 373 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: the hard questions, You got to offer the hard probes, 374 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:02,400 Speaker 1: and you got to tell people young and old are 375 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: you registered to vote? Have you checked your registration lately? 376 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: If you know that you are in a red state 377 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:13,800 Speaker 1: that likes to play fuck around with the roles, we 378 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: need you to be as activated and engaged not only 379 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 1: on issues that affect you, but use your power and 380 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:29,120 Speaker 1: your privilege to uplift the issues of others whose voices, 381 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,479 Speaker 1: sadly are not given as much weight and power as yours. 382 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 1: Is what would it look like if, in the way 383 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:42,040 Speaker 1: that we are seeing white women galvanize around abortion, if 384 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:46,800 Speaker 1: they did that around voting rights as well. What would 385 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:50,120 Speaker 1: it look like if they did that around police reform 386 00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: as well, that instead of something needing to personally affect you, 387 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: that you say to yourself, what kind of world do 388 00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,880 Speaker 1: I want to live in? Do I want my family 389 00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 1: to live in? And what power do I have to 390 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: actualize that for them? Because I can't imagine that a 391 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: majority of people in this country want their kids to 392 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 1: inherit air that they can't breathe water that they can't drink, right, 393 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,720 Speaker 1: that are never going to be in the economic position 394 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,440 Speaker 1: to be able to buy a home, to own a car, 395 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 1: to go to college. Right, everybody wants the same goddamn things, friends, 396 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:43,200 Speaker 1: and it is the ability to feel safe, to live free, right, 397 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: and to pursue your own American dream without obstacle or oppression. 398 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:56,160 Speaker 1: So can we give these people all right the benefit 399 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:01,360 Speaker 1: of the doubt and say your struggle is my struggle, 400 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: recognizing that we are all linked, right, that all of 401 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:09,359 Speaker 1: us have the same desires. We may go about the 402 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 1: tactics differently, but we have the same desire to live 403 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: free and safe and healthy and to pass on those 404 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,000 Speaker 1: tenants to our children. So if you are in a 405 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:28,479 Speaker 1: place of power and privilege, access it, use it, and 406 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:36,199 Speaker 1: not just only for your own benefit. That is it 407 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,440 Speaker 1: for me today? Dear friends on Woke a f as always, 408 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people. Power, 409 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.