1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: Good morning, keeps, and welcome to WOK a f daily 2 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:19,280 Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Danielle Moody. Recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:24,439 Speaker 1: So happy Woke Wednesday. I hope that you enjoyed, first 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: of all, the content that we rolled out last week 5 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 1: and a lot of the interviews that we had each 6 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: and every day, you know, some legal folks and conversations 7 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 1: politicos and some of our faves while it was out 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: on vacation. But I gotta tell you, I just have 9 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: like some reflections of where the news cycle is right 10 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 1: now and just where my mind is right now on 11 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 1: this Woke Wednesday one. I honestly just I don't get 12 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: it in terms of mainstream media and their desire to 13 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: try and humanize Ron DeSantis. I don't get NBC News 14 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:10,080 Speaker 1: and Nightline deciding to do this long form interview with 15 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:16,000 Speaker 1: DeSantis and his wife, right his wife that has been 16 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,679 Speaker 1: rolled out because the man doesn't know how to laugh, 17 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 1: eat pizza, talk to children, talk to people, talk to reporters, 18 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,600 Speaker 1: talk to anyone. And so his wife is his secret weapon. 19 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 1: And I just want us to think about the role 20 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: that conservative, Republican, racist white women have played throughout history 21 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: in this country. We oftentimes talk about the slaveholder, right, 22 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: the master, the man. We don't often talk about the woman, 23 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 1: the mistress of the house, the one that perpetuated the 24 00:01:55,720 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: violence that she saw right, The way in which white 25 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: women have weaponized their femininity and their whiteness to the 26 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:14,640 Speaker 1: extent that would have black men lynched, beaten, tortured, set 27 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: a fire right like hung It is just so you 28 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: look at this, and what I realized as we watch 29 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: this DeSantis reboot for the thirty fifth time since he's 30 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:34,600 Speaker 1: announced his presidency, is that white women are consistently used 31 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 1: to soften white supremacy. You look at the Moms for Liberty, right, 32 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 1: which are the modern day daughters of the Confederacy that 33 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 1: rewrote the story of the Civil War. Oh, it wasn't 34 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 1: about slavery and the ability to own people and have 35 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: forced labor for free in order to you know, in 36 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: order to elevate the wealth of white slave holder ripe 37 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: and in order to continue to have agriculture be the 38 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 1: major output. That it was because of forced slave labor. Oh, no, 39 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: it was it was. It was a rebellion. It was 40 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 1: a story about states rights. It was whatever it was 41 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: that they decided to reimagine their reality. So it's not 42 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: new what white Republican racist women are doing now versus 43 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: what they did in the twentieth century, the nineteenth century, 44 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: the eighteenth century, and so on and so forth. It's 45 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: the same shit. Right, So when you look at DeSantis's wife, 46 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 1: and I honestly, Casey DeSantis makes me sick in so 47 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 1: many fucking ways, right, like, so many ways. And when 48 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: I look at her and how even the reporters in 49 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,760 Speaker 1: that interview, you know, what does it mean? And all 50 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:12,200 Speaker 1: of these things, and she's emoting and you know, has 51 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: forcible tears and all of this bullshit. I'm just like, 52 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: you're a performer. You're a craven, power hungry person, right, 53 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:28,919 Speaker 1: who knows how to work inside of this white supremacist, 54 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: patriarchal fucking web that is the Republican Party, because you 55 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: would probably do better running on your own ticket, right, 56 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:45,520 Speaker 1: which would probably be a disaster for Democrats, because there 57 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: is nothing that this country eats up more than the 58 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: softening the feminization of white supremacy. Right. Then you have 59 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: names like a Mom's for liberty, right, you have things 60 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:06,960 Speaker 1: that are you know, uh, telling women other women, telling women, oh, 61 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: don't go into professions, just have babies, marry the right man. Look, 62 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: you don't want to be called one of those feminists, right, 63 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 1: You don't want to be thinking for yourself. You don't 64 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: need bodily autonomy. So they roll out these soft faces, 65 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: you know, literally putting lipstick on a pig and sending 66 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:32,240 Speaker 1: them out. Who do I blame for the latest incarnation 67 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,679 Speaker 1: of white Republican racist women, John McCain. Had he never 68 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:42,799 Speaker 1: introduced the fucking world to Sarah Palin and her six 69 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: pack Joe and her like around the way type of folksism, 70 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,159 Speaker 1: a lot of this shit we wouldn't be seeing. It 71 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: wouldn't have become a part of just everyday lexicon and 72 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:04,160 Speaker 1: Republican culture, and so well, you know again, this story 73 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: has kind of been sticking with me as Rohn DeSantis 74 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: has just fired his campaign manager. The man announced like 75 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,040 Speaker 1: two and a half three months ago. We've been speculating 76 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:19,880 Speaker 1: on his run for the presidency for a while, But 77 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 1: when you think about how many fucking reboots this bullshit 78 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,880 Speaker 1: campaign has been through, it's like, give up the ghost. 79 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: You have to be asked point blank whether or not 80 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,360 Speaker 1: Donald Trump won the election. 81 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 2: Oh, of course he did holda la la right, Like, okay, 82 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: you have to be asked to explain your thoughts on 83 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 2: slavery again, which you clearly bumble. 84 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,320 Speaker 1: Actually you don't bumble, because what you said is how 85 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: you feel. Enslaved people who were raped and tortured and 86 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: hung and abused and maimed right and murdered. Oh, but 87 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: they learned skills. It was really a jobs program. It 88 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: was an internship, if you will. What you fail to 89 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: know because you don't believe in learning history, you fucking 90 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,240 Speaker 1: puppet of a man, Ron de Santis, is that those 91 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: black people, those enslaved African people, came with skills right 92 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 1: because they were already part of community. They weren't just 93 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: a bunch of empty headed like I don't know animals 94 00:07:40,280 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: roaming around West Africa and South Abuna. They were people, brothers, sisters, mothers, aunts, cousins, friends, weavers, farmers, 95 00:07:55,320 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: right blacks men like they had roles and jobs, and 96 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 1: you stole them from their communities. So they didn't learn 97 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: skills during slavery. They actually brought those skills with them 98 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: and were forced to utilize those skills for free. But again, 99 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: I don't expect white reporters to follow up with questions 100 00:08:26,080 --> 00:08:30,080 Speaker 1: that like would actually have this motherfucker look as stupid 101 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: as he fucking sounds. So that's like it with my 102 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 1: thoughts on DeSantis right now. I would really just like 103 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 1: this motherfucker to go away. 104 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 3: I really would you have Greg Abbott in Texas who 105 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:53,040 Speaker 3: is just as bad as Ron DeSantis, but like just 106 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,160 Speaker 3: can't seem to I guess Garner the amount of the 107 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 3: tension and headlines. 108 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,679 Speaker 1: So it's just like he tries to one up him 109 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: with his cruelty. So apparently come to find out, which 110 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 1: I did not know, but I want to share with 111 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: all of you, and maybe you did know. Do you 112 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: know that people in prison have to pay for water, 113 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: so the water that they get like let's say a 114 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: cup of tap water. We know that we don't have 115 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 1: basic apartment buildings and communities right like in Jackson or 116 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: Flint with good running water, right, so we think that 117 00:09:33,679 --> 00:09:40,920 Speaker 1: prisons have them, so they have to pay for bottled water. Now, 118 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,440 Speaker 1: we know that there have been prisoners that have been dying, 119 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: just as there have been people who are not prisoned 120 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,319 Speaker 1: in Texas that have been dying because a fucking state 121 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: in some areas has reached like over one hundred and 122 00:09:55,120 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: twenty degrees climate change, but you know, we don't talk 123 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:07,080 Speaker 1: about that in Texas. So now grab that Gabbott. Not 124 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 1: only did he this summer pass legislation that would make 125 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:19,520 Speaker 1: it okay to deny workers, construction workers, field workers, whatever, 126 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: water breaks in one hundred and plus degree weather, but 127 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: now in prison people, he's gonna raise the price of 128 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: bottled water on them. It's like, you can't make this 129 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:41,120 Speaker 1: shit up, right, Like if you were to think about 130 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,360 Speaker 1: I don't know, like a Bond movie in creating the 131 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:48,520 Speaker 1: next villain, It's like, you could not create this right, 132 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 1: Like it's just absurd. The lack of humanity, empathy, compassion 133 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: towards anybody is just wild to me. Like these people, 134 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 1: these people that are in charge, they are really the 135 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,920 Speaker 1: true animals. They are the app I mean, they are 136 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: devoid of compassion, empathy, heart, spirit, right morals values. So 137 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 1: this is the kind of legislation that he's passing. As 138 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: well as Texas is being taken to task this week 139 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:34,559 Speaker 1: on their abortion band being unconstitutional and two fucking extreme. 140 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: The case is being brought by a number of women 141 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: who were already mothers who needed medical interventions because their 142 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: babies were going to be born with half a skull 143 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: or dead or what have you. And we listen to 144 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 1: some of those women provide testimony before Congress and they're 145 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: suing the state. So instead of doing things to actually 146 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 1: help people, whether it is in Florida or it is 147 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 1: in Texas, these fucking governors are like, what is the 148 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 1: next cruel thing that we can imagine and then let's 149 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 1: institute it. It's fucking insane, is what it is. And 150 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: I'm just like, the messaging against Republicans is actually really easy. 151 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: There is no compassionate Remember when George W. Bush had 152 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 1: come out with like what was it the compassionate conservative 153 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:32,200 Speaker 1: or whatever it was that he was offering, as he's like, 154 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:38,480 Speaker 1: tagline that doesn't exist. It's the cruel conservative. Cruelty is 155 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: the point, and that's all you need to message. And 156 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: what I find really interesting as we're as we're you know, 157 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: we're watching an election play out, and by the time 158 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:51,080 Speaker 1: that you guys listen to this, we may know the 159 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,240 Speaker 1: outcome in Ohio with the Republicans trying to change the 160 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 1: constitution because there are enough votes to enshrine abortion into 161 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: the constitution, and so now Republicans not listening to the 162 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:05,800 Speaker 1: will of the people in Ohio are now trying to 163 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:10,319 Speaker 1: change the Constitution and make any amendment require sixty votes 164 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:14,960 Speaker 1: as opposed to a simple majority, which is fifty plus one. 165 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,440 Speaker 1: And this is all about abortion. Abortion is not specifically 166 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: on the ballot in Ohio that they are voting on 167 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:24,840 Speaker 1: as I'm recording this, but that is the goal. And 168 00:13:24,880 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 1: what I think is really interesting is that you are 169 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: finding that white folks now who may have felt themselves 170 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 1: to be neutral. Oh, you know, I'm socially you know, liberal, 171 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: but fiscally conservative, know all that bullshit language that allows you, 172 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: as Martin Luther King used to warn us, to be 173 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: neutral in the face of injustice, right, is that they're like, 174 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 1: wait a minute, So it's not just black and brown 175 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: people whose votes you're trying to suppress and whose voices 176 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:02,000 Speaker 1: you're trying to silence, Like, it's ours too, And so 177 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,440 Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, folks are just like whoa whah, whoah, 178 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:08,600 Speaker 1: whah whah. Maybe all Republicans going a little too fucking 179 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: far now, Mind you, this same group of people has 180 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:20,080 Speaker 1: been doing this for decades upon decades, centuries upon centuries. 181 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,120 Speaker 1: If you really want to get into the history of it, 182 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:26,280 Speaker 1: but when it comes to abortion, which also affects said 183 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: white woman. Now all of a sudden, these folks are 184 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: waking up and starting to say, oh, no, I have 185 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 1: a voice. This is a democracy, and you know, if 186 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: the people at the majority say that they want to 187 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: enshrine abortion access into our constitution, then we should rock 188 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:42,080 Speaker 1: with it. 189 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:43,440 Speaker 2: Right. 190 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: So they are starting to see very clearly Martin Neamuhler's poem. 191 00:14:52,880 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: First they come for right. First they come for the 192 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: queer people. But I'm not queer, so I don't say anything. 193 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: Then they come for the black people, but I'm not black, 194 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: so I don't say anything. Then they come for the 195 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: Latino people, the Asian people, the Indigenous people. I don't 196 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:15,040 Speaker 1: say anything, right, and then they come for me. This 197 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: is the situation that we are beginning to find ourselves in. 198 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: And if I'm doing the messaging for the Democratic Party, 199 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 1: that's what I'm talking about. I'm saying, oh, so, first 200 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: they come for queer books, Then they come for books 201 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: written by and for black people and black culture. Then 202 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 1: it's Asian Americans, and it's this. Then it's curtailing what 203 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: you can talk about, where you can say it, what 204 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: you can read, how you can think that is about 205 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: as anti American and as anti democratic as you can 206 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,920 Speaker 1: possibly be. Who does that serve? Right? So it was 207 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: all finding good when you all are hating the same people, 208 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:01,120 Speaker 1: but recognize that they will turn on you too, and 209 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,000 Speaker 1: I think that that is what folks are starting to 210 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: get hip to and to recognize. So we'll see how 211 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,240 Speaker 1: things turn out in Ohio and whether or not. As 212 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 1: you know, mainstream media loves to say whether it's a 213 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,440 Speaker 1: bell weather for what is going to happen in twenty 214 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: twenty four, Like does American want fascism that we seem 215 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,640 Speaker 1: to be feeding to them, you know, like ice cream 216 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,080 Speaker 1: little by little. And I'm just like, if the media 217 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 1: actually did their job, maybe they would be raising an 218 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 1: alarm and not just doing softball interviews with one of 219 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: the main fascists, Ron de Santis and his fascist wife. 220 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:49,840 Speaker 1: But these are the same people, right, same industry that 221 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: interviewed Hitler about the long walks he liked to take 222 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:56,120 Speaker 1: and put him in the Home and Gardens section at 223 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: the same time that he was putting Jewish people on 224 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:05,680 Speaker 1: trains to gas chambers. That's what the mainstream media did. 225 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 1: What is old is new again? Just like the child 226 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: labor laws that Sarah Huckabee Sanders just passed right that 227 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 1: allows for child labor. Don't need any papers, don't need anything, 228 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: and we're seeing young people die at these factories, get 229 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: caught in machines that they shouldn't be operating. We fought 230 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 1: against child labor for decades, and now they are smiling 231 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:44,119 Speaker 1: while they're signing legislation again. Because guess what, it's not 232 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,360 Speaker 1: their fucking kids or their grandkids that are the ones 233 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:50,360 Speaker 1: that are going to be forced to work, right, It's 234 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:52,399 Speaker 1: going to be the ones that no one is paying 235 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: attention to, the ones that need to help provide for 236 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 1: their families, and so nobody's going to be looking out 237 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: for their protection, for their well being. It's just you 238 00:18:07,119 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: know this, You know. There's also to this obsession with 239 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:22,679 Speaker 1: the Oppenheimheimer movie Oppenheimer. I didn't see it. I'm not 240 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,480 Speaker 1: really interested at all. I know that it's supposed to 241 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:27,320 Speaker 1: be good and the acting is supposed to be great, 242 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: but I'm just like, I'm not interested in the story. 243 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:32,840 Speaker 1: And the reason why I'm not interested in stories because 244 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,480 Speaker 1: the Hollywood version, like most things, is a lie. There 245 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: was no empty land that this testing of nuclear weapons 246 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 1: was happening. It was indigenous land. People were living, their communities, 247 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:55,400 Speaker 1: tribes were living there, and they forced them out, gave 248 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: them twenty four hours notice. And the packs physical emotional, 249 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:10,040 Speaker 1: mental impacts of that explosion had never been paid out 250 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,480 Speaker 1: by the United States. And so Hollywood makes a story 251 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: and says, oh, look, there was nobody here, just the 252 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: same way that what Rick Scott said a couple of 253 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,360 Speaker 1: years ago. Oh, when the ships came, there was nobody 254 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 1: in America. Was just an empty parking lot. Apparently, No, 255 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 1: there was just no one you cared about that was here. 256 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 1: It's just like, you know, the more you learn, the 257 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: more you just your stomach turns. You know. It's I 258 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:52,120 Speaker 1: don't know how any president really talks about America being 259 00:19:52,160 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: the greatest country. And I know that they have to, 260 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: but it's just like, how do you honestly, you can't 261 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 1: possibly believe that, right, Like, can't possibly believe it when 262 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: you are going to other countries and you're seeing their infrastructure, 263 00:20:06,800 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: you're seeing universal health care, you're seeing their treatment of workers. 264 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:14,919 Speaker 1: You're seeing other countries that are industrialized that have a 265 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: month off in the everyone has a month off in 266 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 1: the summer that people have healthcare people have, you know, 267 00:20:21,560 --> 00:20:25,120 Speaker 1: bullet trains and clean streets and you know, and look 268 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: out for one another. You can't possibly look at that 269 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,720 Speaker 1: as you travel this globe and come back and say, 270 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:37,840 Speaker 1: but America is the greatest place. How I'm not saying 271 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:39,919 Speaker 1: it's the worst, but it's sure as fuck is not 272 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: the best. Not when you, as a black person, can 273 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:52,120 Speaker 1: be shot in your car for rolling through a stop sign, 274 00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 1: or if you've stopped at the stop sign and the 275 00:20:55,119 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: cop just doesn't give a fuck that day, right, Not 276 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 1: if you can guesstimate the life expectancy of an entire 277 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: community based on their income tax. It just, you know, 278 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:22,440 Speaker 1: folks like it just doesn't make sense to then turn 279 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: around and say, but where the greatest, the greatest? At 280 00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: what exploitation? I just you know, sometimes I look at 281 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:35,439 Speaker 1: this country and I look at its leaders, and I think, 282 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: imagine having the power, the wealth and the access to 283 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:45,479 Speaker 1: do good for so many and just choosing not to 284 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: give a fuck that the greed and the power is 285 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:57,639 Speaker 1: just that's just all consuming, that you've lost all eyes 286 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 1: on humanity, on the collective. No, when I think about 287 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,239 Speaker 1: America these days, and I tell you all, I'm in 288 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:15,080 Speaker 1: the midst almost finished with reading Bell Hooks All about Love, 289 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,600 Speaker 1: which is an incredible, an incredible piece of work because 290 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 1: you realize that like she talks about love in terms 291 00:22:24,119 --> 00:22:27,679 Speaker 1: of so many different forms, but really like in the 292 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:34,239 Speaker 1: body politic and how you can't possibly have capitalism and 293 00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: center love at the same time. There's just no way. 294 00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: They're contradictory. 295 00:22:38,640 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 3: Right. 296 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:44,400 Speaker 1: One is about over consumption, materialism and greed, making sure 297 00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:46,320 Speaker 1: that there is a class that is always going to 298 00:22:46,359 --> 00:22:50,199 Speaker 1: be at the bottom. Right, Like, you can create a 299 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:56,280 Speaker 1: compassionate society because capitalism, just like democracy, was made the 300 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,359 Speaker 1: fuck up by a group of people in a room, 301 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,000 Speaker 1: So why is it so inconceivable for us to design 302 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 1: something better? So when people sit around and they're just like, well, 303 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,000 Speaker 1: there's nothing that we can do, Like this is the 304 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: way that it was, It wasn't always the fucking way. 305 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: And it's just like the more you know, you have 306 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: the ability to do things better, except there's an entire party, 307 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:26,639 Speaker 1: you know, in thirty percent of the population that doesn't 308 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 1: want better for the whole, So you need to air 309 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: that shit out. 310 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 2: Ugh. 311 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:41,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm just like it doesn't have to be this hard, 312 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: It truly doesn't. It doesn't have to be this hard. 313 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: We have more resources, more access to information. But I 314 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,440 Speaker 1: believe that we are living in a time of more 315 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 1: greed than I think we've ever seen. Tell me if 316 00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: I'm wrong, get at me on the socials. Is this 317 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:05,960 Speaker 1: time that we're living in greedier than any other time? 318 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 1: I feel like it. I feel like the wealth gap 319 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:14,160 Speaker 1: is so obscene in comparison to where it has been. 320 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: I don't know, y'all, but you know, sometimes I take 321 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,000 Speaker 1: these breaks and I come back and I'm super fired up, 322 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,439 Speaker 1: and I'm happy to be happy to be back, and 323 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:31,080 Speaker 1: I just like look around, and it's just how do 324 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:37,399 Speaker 1: you get yourself off of the hamster wheel? Right? Because 325 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,639 Speaker 1: it is this, it's this constant desire to have to consume, 326 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,720 Speaker 1: recognizing that we ain't leaving this world with it, right, 327 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: So shouldn't everybody have some? Like imagine if the government 328 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,159 Speaker 1: was actually structured in a way where everyone had a 329 00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:00,639 Speaker 1: basic income level, right, Like, there will always be those 330 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:06,560 Speaker 1: that do more what have you, but that basic income 331 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:18,000 Speaker 1: level so that food shelter, healthcare was covered. You're telling 332 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:23,639 Speaker 1: me we can't, we can't do that, right, Like we 333 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 1: want to write articles about oh my god, the corporate 334 00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:31,160 Speaker 1: real estate industry is taking a nosedive because people don't 335 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:32,960 Speaker 1: want to go back to work because people don't want 336 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: to be fucking exploited. And what COVID opened up for 337 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: those that were privileged to stay home is that I 338 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:40,679 Speaker 1: don't have to go into this cubicle. I don't have 339 00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: to go into this office to do this job. I 340 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 1: can do this job, and I can cook dinner and 341 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:47,680 Speaker 1: make it for my family, and I can like fold 342 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:51,159 Speaker 1: laundry while I'm on this fucking call, right, Like, I 343 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: can live a life. I don't have to be chained. 344 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 1: So I'm like, we can't think about what a basic 345 00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 1: income level would look like so that people have their 346 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:10,880 Speaker 1: basic needs met, so that we can do away with homelessness, 347 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: child poverty, food insecurity. Like, imagine if the people who 348 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:25,439 Speaker 1: were put in charge of our government came from a 349 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:33,480 Speaker 1: place of compassion. Oh, we don't have money for that. Bullshit, bullshit, 350 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 1: we don't have money for that, and we fall for 351 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:43,360 Speaker 1: the fucking ropodope And it's a fucking lie. Oh if 352 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,200 Speaker 1: I had to suffer, then that person should suffer. That's 353 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,920 Speaker 1: not coming from a place of community and love. It's 354 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:57,880 Speaker 1: just like when you know better, fucking do better. These 355 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:01,760 Speaker 1: are the things that I'm ruminating on. I believe that 356 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:10,360 Speaker 1: we are at a really reaching, a really incredible tipping 357 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 1: point APEX moment in our country, in our world, and 358 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, like I say, sometimes things 359 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,639 Speaker 1: need to you know, you need to have a breakdown 360 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: in order to have a breakthrough all of these strikes, 361 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: the shift in working. You know, something's got to give, 362 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 1: but it cannot be our mental health. That is it 363 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,120 Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends, on this woke Wednesday, Get 364 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,119 Speaker 1: at me on the broke down Twitter, which is x 365 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:57,760 Speaker 1: so whatever the fuck people are calling it now, I 366 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,320 Speaker 1: have no idea. I barely go on there. At me 367 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 1: on threads. Get at me on Instagram at D two 368 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,600 Speaker 1: cent d E T W O c E N t F. 369 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 1: If you are one of my fabulous patrons and you're 370 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,640 Speaker 1: watching this video, then get at me in the comments 371 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: section and let me know what you are getting woke 372 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 1: to this week. That is it for me today, dear friends. 373 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,960 Speaker 1: As always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, 374 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.