WEBVTT - State of Grace 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.480 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Okay f Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:18.880 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:25.600 you know, the pundit said set that the primary results 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.640 were going to be foreshadowing for where Democrats and Republicans 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:36.239 are with midterm elections, and they are right, and it 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.479 is for once, for once, for the love of fucking God, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:45.279 in our favor Kansas. I can't believe I'm about to 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:51.120 say this is the saving grace the state of Kansas, Folks, 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.800 ladies and gentlemen, where you know it is a majority 0:00:56.560 --> 0:01:00.319 white state, and you know that I have been very 0:01:00.440 --> 0:01:06.080 vocal about my frustration with the lack of accountability and 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:10.720 responsibility that white women take for upholding our democracy that 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:16.000 when things are not affecting them personally, right, that you know, 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.240 they're good to vote alongside their husbands and their boyfriends. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.600 And you know, I was Lee of ye of little faith, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:27.760 because I'm going on twenty sixteen election results, I'm going 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.520 on twenty twenty election results, and I'm going on the 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:36.920 fact that Republicans have been really fucking suspect in their 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.720 you know, under the cloak of darkness, maneuvering that they 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:46.320 have been doing in order to get these abhorrent ballot 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.160 measures on the box. You know, we all know that 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:54.120 I think that the twenty twenty election was I believe 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:59.240 the highest turnout that we have ever had, and I 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:03.920 still don't think that it reached seventy percent. Right, we 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:08.760 are still at a pace where supposedly everybody who is 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.119 a citizen of these United States and above the age 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:15.079 of eighteen and older are eligible to vote. And what 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.160 we all have always found and have always seen is 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:21.000 that there is a pretty much about forty percent of 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:25.760 the population that doesn't vote, let alone, and that's in presidentials, 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:31.079 let alone in mid term elections. Well guess what Republicans 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.200 did not count on. Or maybe they thought that we 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:40.880 would just lay back and take their push towards authoritarianism 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.040 and stripping away one right after the other. Maybe we 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.680 would take that just lying on our backs. Maybe we, 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:52.040 you know, wouldn't notice that now women and people with 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.840 uterus is in a majority of states in this country 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.720 have no recourse to an abortion. That not only do 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.560 they have no recourse in the state and have to 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.239 pay the penalty of being able to travel take off 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:08.040 time from work, but in some instances like we've seen 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:14.040 in Texas. They have criminalized, right, criminalized abortion. We saw 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:18.840 what happened with the state of Indiana, who was the 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:22.600 state that in Ohio ten year old rape victim needed 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.840 to travel to in order to seek an abortion from 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.480 a rape victim at six weeks and three days. And 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:32.000 let me pause for a minute on that note, because 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.360 I heard something the other day that, again, if I 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.680 was running messaging for the Democratic Party, this ship would 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:43.480 be light work. Right. So I heard the other day 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:48.520 that Republicans are tripping over themselves to talk about the 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.200 ten year old rape victim as if she was in 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:59.200 a relationship with a grown ass man, right, referring to 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:06.160 it as a relationship, talking about teen and tween girls 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.480 as if they have the capability to be able to 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:14.480 become parents and deal with the physical not even speaking 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:17.760 of the emotional, but the physical trauma to their bodies 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:24.080 of pregnancy, right, that they are literally doing mental gymnastics. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.440 This group that is all about following the qan on 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.640 bullshit theories around pedophilia and the lies that they fucking spread, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:41.920 and they see no hypocrisy whatsoever in the bullshit that 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:47.920 they would spew at Democrats. That are supporting trans kids, right, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.920 because this is where this all came from. Is LGBTQ 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:57.239 people right being inserted into oh, I don't know, American history, 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:02.200 American education and curriculum, going so far as to pass 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.040 bills that don't say gay because we don't want to 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.640 have groomers. But then these same people, these very same 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:11.640 fucking people, turn around and want to tell you that, oh, 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.760 it's gay people and drag queens reading stories that are 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.480 grooming your kids. But they're talking about a ten year 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.599 old in a fucking relationship with a grown ass fucking man, 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.359 and they're talking about a thirteen year old girl being 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.839 totally able to become a parent, Like, are we in 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:31.280 the nineteenth fucking century? Because again, if I'm doing messaging 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.360 for the Democratic Party, all I'm taking are these motherfucker's 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.520 own soundbites, right, and putting that over an ad that 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:44.640 says they don't see you as people, You are incubators, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:52.400 you are ovens, right for the purpose of authoritarianism and patriarchy, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:57.240 that's it, right, they don't care. It's amazing to me 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.559 that they have the audacity at times to once again 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:05.280 go after places in the Middle East, right, places on 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.160 the continent of Africa and talk about the treatment of 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.920 women and girls, right, and stand on some fucking high horse. 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.359 And yet you have Republicans now trying to convince the 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:20.440 populace that ten year olds should be parents. How does 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.960 that even make sense? Right? But again, this is the 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:26.640 party that produced a man that talked about rape and 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:33.160 legitimate rape the fuck. So nonetheless, in a turn of 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.960 events that makes me you have to consider what this 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.160 feeling is that I'm having, what this glimmer is that 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.680 I'm having? And friends, dare I say, I believe it's hope? 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:52.160 Because Kansas people turned out at presidential voting levels to 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:59.520 smack down that ballot measure that would have extinguished access 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.680 to a board in the state of Kansas. Now, if 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.760 you listen to my conversation yesterday with our friend doctor 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.800 Jonathan Mezo, Jonathan had pointed out to me, He's like, look, 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:15.960 Kansas isn't like Texas. Kansas isn't like Alabama or Mississippi. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.600 It's actually a fairly moderate state. And because you know 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:22.760 of my prejudices, which I'm fine to say, you know, 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.480 living on the East Coast and being a product of 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.520 New York, and then you know, of Washington, DC being 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.800 the furthest fucking South that I went in my life 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:35.600 to live. I have a distorted view, you know. I 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.120 don't have the same view or understanding of what is 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.560 moderate and what is just you know, Trump country. So 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.640 Jonathan was in fact right when he said, you know, 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.239 this is going to be something to watch. It isn't 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.520 just a given that the people of Kansas are going 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.560 to sit back and allow their access to abortion and 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.760 their rights to be taken away. And they didn't. So 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.240 let me read you a little bit of this article 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:08.480 from CNN which reads this thunderclap ballot box victory on 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:13.520 abortion rights in Kansas gives Democrats a potent midterm issue. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:17.120 And I'll get into the reason why they are saying 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:22.880 that now. It is a potent issue for Democrats because, remember, friends, 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:28.880 abortion is something that has been the third rail in politics. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:34.120 While Democrats have always pronounced themselves to be pro choice, 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.320 they also are the ones that came up with the 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.920 terminology around abortion needing to be you know, safe and 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:48.160 rare right, And the pushback from progressives over the last 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.760 decades plus has been abortions need to be safe and 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.720 whenever the fuck you need one right, But it was 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.800 this distinction again falling into this stereotype in trope that 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.000 abortion is something that people with uterus is use as 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:06.959 birth control, which if you actually cared right about numbers 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.480 and statistics and truth and facts, you would know that 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:16.480 we had been experiencing a significant decrease, like decades of 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.520 decades decrease in the amount of abortions that are even 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:23.760 done in this country. Why because we have robust access 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:30.120 to contraception, right, and those things go hand in hand. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.080 But when you have Republicans wanted to strip away abortion, 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.120 wanted to strip away access to birth control, well, what 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.760 are they saying? Women are nothing women and people with 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.640 uteruses are nothing more than incubators. We don't give a 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.560 fuck if you are able to be in the workforce. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.160 We certainly are not going to support you with paid 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.200 maternity leave or paid parental leave. We certainly are not 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.880 going to support you with having to pay for childcare 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.800 services or making it even so that the companies that 0:09:55.880 --> 0:10:01.480 you do work for are required to have daycare right, 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.079 are required to offer you these things. They don't want 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.240 to put the burden on anyone but the people, the 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:09.480 citizens of this damn country, right, because as sure as 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.000 fuck don't want to put the burdens on employers. They say, 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.080 oh no, no, no, you know won't That won't allow 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.720 them to make the robust profits that the shareholders and 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:22.720 CEO's need. Right. But at the same time, you turn 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:27.440 around and you realize everything, all of it is about 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.040 punishing women and people with uteruses. It is also about 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:36.040 taking away power, right, taking away bodily autonomy, taking away 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:40.800 the ability to map out your own economic future. Because 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.640 you see, if I can't decide when, where, and if 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.480 I want to become a parent and I'm not in 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:51.600 the financial situation to be able to become a parent 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.719 that can support another mouth to feed, then you are 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:00.800 robbing me of my ability to set up my economic 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:05.480 future in a way that is stable. There's a reason 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:09.040 why people wait later in life to have kids now. 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:14.280 It's one because women in particular are still penalized from 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:18.040 leaving the workforce for pregnancy. Even if you are given 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:21.080 a sizable maternity leave. That then you got a cobble 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.920 together with disability leave, and got a cobble together with 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.640 something else to be able to have the first six 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:30.000 months of your fucking child's life with them at home. 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.720 Getting back into the workforce, you're still looked down upon. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.440 I don't care what people say. You have missed time 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.840 and now when you were taking time, whether it's to 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.240 take your child to the doctor's appointment, to take them 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.560 to the dentist as they get older, to be able 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.560 to go to parent teacher conferences. It's men that are 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.720 celebrated from being able to take that time. But women 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.200 in the workforce, you are completely looked down upon and 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.360 become a burden to set employer. And again, we have 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.000 recourse now that allows you not to be fired if 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.760 in fact you are pregnant, but that doesn't mean that 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.520 the culture and the climate is set up for your success. Right, So, 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:17.280 when we look at the pushback that happened in Kansas, 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:22.239 this is what was said as Republican controlled state legislatures 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.800 around the country race to outlaw the procedure in the 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.199 aftermath of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:34.040 Traditionally conservative Kansas, given the chance to directly respond at 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:37.560 the ballot box, denied their own elected leaders the chance 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.160 to revoke a right that has broad support across swaths 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:46.239 of independent polling. They go on to say the rejection 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:50.120 of the measure highlighted the increasingly stark divide between the 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:55.040 activities of Republican state lawmakers, often in legislature's gerrymandered to 0:12:55.160 --> 0:13:00.040 effectively guarantee GOP control, and the political and policy desires 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:04.000 of American voters in more immediate terms. The ballot measures 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:08.480 defeat on a day of extraordinary turnout also provides a 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.199 clear indication that the desire to defend abortion rights could 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.640 be a potent issue for Democrats in the coming midterm elections. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.280 And folks, I'll tell you, let me read this little 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:24.080 point and then give you my thoughts. The polling from 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:29.000 a variety of sources is unambiguous and consistent across party lines. 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:34.200 Abortion rights are popular, and the Supreme Court's ruling is not. 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.720 The most recent CNN poll found that sixty three percent 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:46.280 of Americans disapproved fifty one percent strongly of the Court's decision. 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.360 The Kaiser Family Foundation came to a similar conclusion, with 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:54.440 sixty one percent of respondents to their surveys saying they 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.520 wanted their state to guarantee access to abortion, only twenty 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.680 five percent them to restrict it. So I want you 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.240 to think about that for a minute, right because that 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.800 twenty five percent is what is important, because when we 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.640 think right again, let's think about this all, folks, as 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.040 like a fucking ven diagram right now, when you think 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:19.240 about the one circle of people who voted for Donald 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.760 Trump in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty, put that on 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.840 top of the people who also believe the big lie. 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:28.600 Put that on top of the people who refuse to 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.800 get vaccinated, right, Put that now on top of the 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.720 people who believe that America should turn into a Christio 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:39.040 fascist state. It's that twenty five percent, right, It is 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:43.440 twenty five damn near thirty percent of the population that 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.640 is on board with this bullshit. Where our problem comes in, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:52.640 as the fucking majority, is that we are not at 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.160 the decision level, right, And what is the decision level 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.640 I'm talking about, oh, the Supreme Court, the nine lords 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.640 of this country who are not elected by anybody but 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.840 instead appointed by the President of the United States. Well, 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:13.120 in the last two Democrats that we've had, right, each 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.200 of them has gotten one appointment, with Donald Trump getting 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:20.360 three because Mitch McConnell stole one of them and jam 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:26.040 through another one with absolutely no pushback whatsoever other than 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:31.800 finger waves. So The reality here is that when you 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:37.400 care about polling because you are trying to vie right 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.280 for the people's favor, then you don't make decisions like 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:45.160 how Republicans have moved and made decisions to turn America 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:49.680 into their moral Disneyland. But you see, folks, there's something else, 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.560 And this is why we need to consistently talk about 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:57.280 voting rights and access to voting and jerrymantoring right because 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:00.840 what this article said at the top is that you're 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:07.040 talking about Republican controlled state legislatures that have been jerrymandering 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:11.680 the fuck right out of their states and precincts to 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.680 make sure that they are able to choose their voter 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.640 as opposed to the voter being able to choose their leader. 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:21.240 So when we are doing right conducting all of these 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.880 polls about where the American people are, well, if you 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:30.040 no longer need to actually rely on convincing the voter, 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:34.160 but rather just making sure that the right voter votes 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.000 for you, and that you're closing down precincts or you know, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.400 erasing voter roles, or you know, doing everything that you 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.840 can to make it impossible for people of color and 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.080 young people and people that are disabled to actually be 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:52.280 able to vote. Well, then you don't need to be concerned. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:55.400 You won't trouble yourself with fucking poll numbers because that 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.560 doesn't matter because you don't care. And again, if I 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:04.000 were leading messaging for the Democratic Party, this is what 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:08.680 I would be making the case explicit. Right, I would 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.200 make this case explicit. Republicans don't care about polls. They 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.399 don't care about your desires. They don't care about your future. 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.600 They don't care about making the world and this country 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.200 a better place for you. They care about their own comfort, 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.920 their own wealth, and their own power and access. How 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:29.320 do I know that to be true? 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Each week, 0:18:57.640 --> 0:19:00.680 on the Gapfest, John Dickerson, Emily Bathlon and I decipher 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.200 the headlines, break down the races, and tell you what 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:07.720 issues really matter. We do not always agree, We definitely 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.359 do not always agree, but we always deliver thoughtful debate 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.159 and we always have a good time. So subscribe to 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:19.600 Slate's Political Gapfest, new episodes every Thursday. So I think 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:24.520 that it is, you know, folks, really important for us 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:30.359 right to pay attention and to tell the truthful story 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:35.199 right about where this country is and where it is 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:39.040 right now and rightfully so is in a place of 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:45.120 pure rage. The question that has been being asked since 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.800 the overturning of the Dabs case, which was effectually overturning 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.320 Roe v. Wade that the Supreme Court and Justice Solito did, 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.720 and then in the concurrent opinion and the concurrent decision, 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:59.760 Clarence Thomas put a big spotlight on what else they 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.720 are coming after When they readjourn right when they come 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:08.080 back together, the American people are saying, not on my 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:12.560 fucking watch. And that is what is giving me hope. 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.280 Nine hundred thousand people in Kansas turned out to vote. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:19.840 That is on par with who came out to vote 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:24.239 in the presidential election. These people not only did they 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:28.440 sneak this ballot and mission measure on right, not only 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.840 did they sneak this measure on in the mid terms 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.639 when they know that turnout is low and attention is low, 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:38.480 but then they sent out right all of these like 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:44.320 wrongly worded questions and robo calls that were just spreading 0:20:44.400 --> 0:20:47.560 lies to confuse people so that they would not show up. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:53.120 And again, if you are spreading fucking bullshit and lies right. 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:57.399 That means that you know your shit ain't popular, because 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.560 if it was, and you would be singing it from 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:03.040 the tops of every hills and mountain, knowing that the 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.840 people would flock to you, regardless of the nefarious strategies 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.719 that you're going to put in place to try and 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.200 make sure that either they don't know the right day 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.600 to vote, they don't know if a yes is actually 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.040 the yes that they want, or if it's to know right. 0:21:17.600 --> 0:21:23.399 You wouldn't do any of those tactics. So you know, 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:29.199 as as the many pundits and polsters, we're covering the 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:32.360 returns and we're still waiting on some other big races. 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:36.720 And you know, we know that the Trump backed folks 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:43.240 in Arizona and in Michigan did really well, right. We 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:48.040 know that those that were in other places did not. 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:53.280 But the fact is is that Trump still has considerable 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.600 power over the Republican Party. It doesn't matter that the 0:21:56.640 --> 0:21:59.159 man is a full on criminal, it doesn't matter that 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.160 he has multiple court cases against him. It doesn't matter 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.280 that the man who is so disgusting fucking buried his 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:10.680 first wife on his goddamn golf course, Like what the fuck. Nonetheless, 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:16.040 I think that this is a pivotal moment for Democrats 0:22:16.760 --> 0:22:24.480 to not mince words, to not play it fucking safe, right, 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:29.000 and to recognize that, guess what, it just so happens 0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:33.280 that taking away bodily autonomy from a majority of this 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:38.080 country is not a good idea, and that now more 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.920 than ever, if you are running for office, I don't 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.440 care what level of office you are running for, if 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:48.560 you are not being fervent in your opinions about what 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:52.080 this country needs and who is trying to destroy it, 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:58.159 if you are not speaking feverishly about abortion, bodily autonomy, power, 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:01.159 and the ability to chart one's own course, which is 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.800 the tenant foundation of what it means to be an American, 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.920 what it means to actually be free. And if we're 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:13.679 not tying the words liberty and justice and freedom to 0:23:14.000 --> 0:23:19.120 these things, we are missing an opportunity because the people 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:22.520 are showing us exactly where they are, and they are 0:23:22.640 --> 0:23:26.640 not going to go quietly into the cold, dark night 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:31.520 as Republicans had hoped. And I tell you, folks, that 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:38.240 pressure creates two things. It can create an explosion, it 0:23:38.320 --> 0:23:41.840 can create a diamond. And I'm saying right now that 0:23:42.000 --> 0:23:46.720 I need fucking Democrats to be mining right, to be 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:52.400 following taking the lead from the voters, taking the lead 0:23:52.440 --> 0:23:55.520 from the voters who are telling you stand up for us, 0:23:55.880 --> 0:24:01.080 fight for us. I said this the other day on 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:08.639 Mary Lle Trump. I have joined her round Table of 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:14.560 Avengers what she calls the nerd Avengers, and they Mary l. 0:24:14.640 --> 0:24:17.919 Trump does a show on that is live on YouTube 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:23.199 every Tuesday that I'll be joining with an amazing panel 0:24:23.240 --> 0:24:25.399 of people. Many of the guests have been on woke 0:24:25.440 --> 0:24:28.480 Ay app. But one of the things that I was 0:24:28.600 --> 0:24:32.960 asked this week was, Danielle, what can democrats do? What 0:24:33.080 --> 0:24:35.600 should democrats do? It's a question, folks that I am 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:39.719 asked every single time that I am being interviewed. And 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:42.280 what I say and what I continue to say and 0:24:42.280 --> 0:24:47.640 what I will say again, tell the fucking truth right, 0:24:48.200 --> 0:24:53.280 do not mince words, do not half step, do not 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:58.120 not say things with the full throatedness and the puffing 0:24:58.160 --> 0:25:01.480 out of your chest. We are in the fight for 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:06.560 our lives. The people of Kansas got that fucking memo right. 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:09.280 And I cannot believe once again that I'm using the 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:13.600 people of Kansas as an example of what it means 0:25:13.640 --> 0:25:16.440 to show up and show the fuck out but I am, 0:25:16.720 --> 0:25:19.600 and I will applaud people where they need to be applauded, 0:25:19.640 --> 0:25:24.040 and these good people need to be applauded. I have 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:29.680 also continued to say to my lovely white listeners, particularly 0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:36.000 white women right, use this what happened in Kansas as 0:25:36.040 --> 0:25:41.200 your rallying cry to get your sister and together right. 0:25:41.440 --> 0:25:47.080 Do not assume that your book club, your soul cycle class, 0:25:47.280 --> 0:25:52.199 your plant group, you know, is on board with abortion 0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:55.000 and willing to fight for it. You got to ask 0:25:55.040 --> 0:25:58.480 the hard questions, You got to offer the hard probes, 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:02.400 and you got to tell people young and old are 0:26:02.440 --> 0:26:06.000 you registered to vote? Have you checked your registration lately? 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:07.960 If you know that you are in a red state 0:26:08.000 --> 0:26:13.800 that likes to play fuck around with the roles, we 0:26:13.920 --> 0:26:19.720 need you to be as activated and engaged not only 0:26:19.760 --> 0:26:23.399 on issues that affect you, but use your power and 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:29.120 your privilege to uplift the issues of others whose voices, 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:34.479 sadly are not given as much weight and power as yours. 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:38.440 Is what would it look like if, in the way 0:26:38.600 --> 0:26:42.040 that we are seeing white women galvanize around abortion, if 0:26:42.080 --> 0:26:46.800 they did that around voting rights as well. What would 0:26:46.800 --> 0:26:50.120 it look like if they did that around police reform 0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:57.240 as well, that instead of something needing to personally affect you, 0:26:57.400 --> 0:27:01.320 that you say to yourself, what kind of world do 0:27:01.359 --> 0:27:03.880 I want to live in? Do I want my family 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:08.399 to live in? And what power do I have to 0:27:08.560 --> 0:27:13.480 actualize that for them? Because I can't imagine that a 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:17.680 majority of people in this country want their kids to 0:27:17.720 --> 0:27:23.520 inherit air that they can't breathe water that they can't drink, right, 0:27:24.359 --> 0:27:26.720 that are never going to be in the economic position 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:29.440 to be able to buy a home, to own a car, 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:38.240 to go to college. Right, everybody wants the same goddamn things, friends, 0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:43.200 and it is the ability to feel safe, to live free, right, 0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:49.840 and to pursue your own American dream without obstacle or oppression. 0:27:51.359 --> 0:27:56.160 So can we give these people all right the benefit 0:27:56.240 --> 0:28:01.360 of the doubt and say your struggle is my struggle, 0:28:02.160 --> 0:28:06.800 recognizing that we are all linked, right, that all of 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:09.359