1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to lokate f Daily with 2 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:20,120 Speaker 1: me your girl, Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks. 3 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 1: So it is the final day of Pride, and I 4 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:28,720 Speaker 1: want to shout out my fabulous producer Andrew for putting 5 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 1: together such an amazing slate of guests and conversations that 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: I was able to have this month. As our theme 7 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:43,520 Speaker 1: was you can't ban Queer Joy. And you know, as 8 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: I reflect on the last month and I will get 9 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:55,600 Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court's decision momentarily, it's been a really 10 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: long haul, folks. It has been a really difficult and 11 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:07,520 Speaker 1: tough several years. But I have to say that, you know, 12 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: I long for the days, like I said yesterday in 13 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 1: my conversation with Andrew, I long for the days when 14 00:01:14,280 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 1: we were lamenting about the corporatization of Pride, when we 15 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: were you know, having conversations about how companies can engage 16 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: in a more authentic way. That Pride doesn't end at 17 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: the end of June, that it is something that you 18 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:34,120 Speaker 1: should be investing in all year long, that LGBTQ plus 19 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:39,600 Speaker 1: organizations people you know, need that investment, and that it 20 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:44,560 Speaker 1: isn't just like check the box that we can do more, right, Like, 21 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:48,000 Speaker 1: we can all do more and be better. And that's 22 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,400 Speaker 1: not where we are right now. We're not even in 23 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: the we can be better and be more. It's like, 24 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 1: can we hold on to the bare fucking minimum? And 25 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 1: so for me, this Pride season has been a mixed 26 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 1: bag in a lot of real ways. I have felt 27 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:11,799 Speaker 1: really sad and really distraught at what I am seeing 28 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: in the news every day, the attacks on trans youth, 29 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 1: the attacks on non gender conforming people. And I know 30 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,120 Speaker 1: that I've said this before, but it bears repeating that 31 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 1: these attacks right are coming at a time when America 32 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: was becoming more inclusive, more accepting, and more understanding, where 33 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 1: people had critical thought around you know, why have we 34 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,079 Speaker 1: been fed this binary right? Like? How did we all 35 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,560 Speaker 1: get roped into this? I mean I started having issues 36 00:02:49,680 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 1: when my you know, younger cousins were being born and 37 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: I was going into stores to just buy basic fucking 38 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 1: toys like let me go get a teddy Bear? Why 39 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 1: does a teddy Bear need to be pink or blue? 40 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: Let me go get you know, a set of Legos? 41 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:09,360 Speaker 1: Why does the legos that are for boys, why are 42 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 1: they primary colors but for girls. They're pastelle and I'm 43 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 1: only building princess castles like you are. You want to 44 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: talk about indoctrinization, We are indoctrinated from birth about what 45 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 1: your role is in our society. From birth. You come 46 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,840 Speaker 1: out of you to row and they slap a pink 47 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 1: or blue hat on you. Now they have the you know, 48 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: the white with the pink and blue stripes, but it's 49 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: still the same thing. This is to designate a boy, 50 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: and this is to designated girl. Leaving no room for 51 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:51,120 Speaker 1: self actualization number one and two, just leaving no room 52 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: for what that actually means. Again, you go to stores 53 00:03:55,520 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: like Target and Walmart, and you're going and you're buying 54 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: you know, baby shower gifts or what have you, and 55 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: you're seeing onesies that say lady killer. You're seeing onesies 56 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: that say, you know, I love to shop right, And 57 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 1: who are the you like? I don't need to tell 58 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,839 Speaker 1: you who they are geared towards. So from a very 59 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 1: young age, you're taught as a girl, what do you like? 60 00:04:18,880 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: You like pink, you like fluffy things, you like strollers, 61 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: you like baking, you like jewelry. And if you don't 62 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:31,400 Speaker 1: measure up to what it is that society tells you 63 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,840 Speaker 1: that you're supposed to like and how you're supposed to look, well, 64 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: then you're the problem, not society's dictation. And similarly, for boys, 65 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:44,400 Speaker 1: what are you told? Boys don't cry, you need to 66 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: be tough, We don't hug, we don't you know, do 67 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 1: girly things. That the feminization of anything is to be 68 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: taken as an insult or an affront to your masculinity. 69 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:00,080 Speaker 1: So to make sure that people don't think that that 70 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 1: I'm a girl, or don't think that I am gay, right, 71 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: and I use air quotes and don't think anything negatively 72 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: about my masculinity, I must soup myself up right. And 73 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 1: you know, when you think about the way the messages 74 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 1: that we have taken in it's only in the last 75 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 1: twenty sumid years that we're really starting to do a 76 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 1: deep reflection on the why. And I think that why 77 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:37,520 Speaker 1: trans and non binary people are such an affront to 78 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 1: white evangelical Christians is because they don't want you to 79 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 1: have critical thought, because then you start to question them. 80 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: You start to question the Bible, you start to question 81 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: their interpretation of right from wrong, You start to question 82 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,560 Speaker 1: where their thoughts originated from right and how conflicting they 83 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: are to with Jesus that is supposed to be right, 84 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:07,280 Speaker 1: loving and caring and accepting and doing all of this 85 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:12,120 Speaker 1: missionary work right. But your Bible tells you that you 86 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: should discard people, you should hate people, you should shame people. 87 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: This shit just doesn't line up. But it only lines 88 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,720 Speaker 1: up if you go along with it, if you get 89 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:26,960 Speaker 1: along for the gut along. And so trans people and 90 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 1: non binary people, by their very existence are questioning the 91 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:37,480 Speaker 1: systems that we've all been bought into because them saying, 92 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: you know what I do not. My feelings do not 93 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:50,919 Speaker 1: coincide with the gender that I have been assigned at birth, 94 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:57,159 Speaker 1: these expectations, these physical presence of myself, like, I am 95 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: not aligned, And we should all have the power and 96 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 1: the ability to say I do not feel aligned with myself. 97 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,680 Speaker 1: And if I do not feel aligned with myself, then 98 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: I can't give myself to anything. And if I am 99 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: asking you to respect me, to respect my body, why 100 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:28,400 Speaker 1: should the response be anything other than Okay, whatever it 101 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 1: is that you need, I can do because it's not 102 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:39,040 Speaker 1: that big of a lift. But that's beyond where we are. 103 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: There is a attorney general in Kansas who has taken 104 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: it upon himself to decide that trans people who had 105 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:05,920 Speaker 1: their birth identification and their licenses changed to match their 106 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: gender identity will go back, will be reversed. Doesn't matter 107 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: how much it's going to cost the state for these 108 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,440 Speaker 1: fiscal loving Republicans. It's cruelty, is the point. And people, 109 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: and he said had the fucking audacity to say, I 110 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: don't think it's going to change anything. Fuck you, it's 111 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: not changing anything for you. You're just looking for a 112 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,840 Speaker 1: fucking win. You're looking to have your name in the headlines. 113 00:08:34,840 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: So for me, as I reflect on this month, it 114 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: has been a lot of ups and downs. You know, 115 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 1: we just celebrated on June twenty sixth. What was it? 116 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:52,720 Speaker 1: Let me think, let me do the math in my head, 117 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: the seven year anniversary of marriage equality, which is so incredible, Right, 118 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: it's been seventy years. But what do we know about 119 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,320 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court with the decisions that they've been making 120 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:08,760 Speaker 1: and the one that they just made this week, that 121 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: doesn't mean shit. Precedent doesn't matter to this court. So 122 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,240 Speaker 1: this court is going to be known for the Roberts Court, 123 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: all of the rights that they've taken away from Americans 124 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 1: in this country, all of the rights of bodily, autonomy, 125 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 1: of affirmative action that allowed for decades for campuses in 126 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: this country, for education, for workplaces to become more diverse. Right, 127 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,000 Speaker 1: And what every single report has said is that diversity 128 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 1: is good for the bottom line. It's also good for 129 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: the country. But now the Supreme Court, just in the 130 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,040 Speaker 1: same way that they overturned a woman's right to choose, 131 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: they have now overturned college emissions ability to use race 132 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 1: as one of the reasons that they would admit people 133 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: into school. And it was beautiful. I will say this 134 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:12,319 Speaker 1: that the descent that was offered up by Justice Katansi 135 00:10:12,360 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: Brown Jackson just encompasses the way that I feel, and 136 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,760 Speaker 1: I want to read it for all of you. She 137 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:26,440 Speaker 1: wrote this in the twenty nine page descent with let 138 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: Them Eat Cake obliviousness. Today the majority pulls the ripcord 139 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 1: and announces colorblindness for all by legal fiat. But deeming 140 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. 141 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: And having so detached itself from this country's actual past 142 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:46,319 Speaker 1: and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into 143 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions 144 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:54,480 Speaker 1: of higher learning are doing to solve America's real world problems. 145 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 1: No one benefits from ignorance. Although formal race linked legal 146 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: barriers are gone on, race still matters to the lived 147 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: experiences of all Americans in innumerable ways, and today's ruling 148 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: makes things worse, not better. The best that can be 149 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: said of the majorities perspective is that it precedes ostrich 150 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: like from the hope that preventing consideration of race will 151 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: end racism. No, it won't. To saying bullshit that Justice 152 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: Roberts said when he gutted the Voting Rights Act, Oh, 153 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: we have moved past race in America. And then right 154 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,720 Speaker 1: after that ruling, what did all of the racist ass 155 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: states do right who were under preclearance that in order 156 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 1: to change their voting rules they needed to go and 157 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 1: go through illegal proceeding in order to get the okay 158 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,880 Speaker 1: to make sure that it wasn't racist. What happened after 159 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: that is the same fucking thing that happened when they 160 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: reverse Roe v. Wade, everything just reverts back. The clock 161 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 1: went back to the nineteen fifties. Here in America was 162 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,880 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four, right nineteen seventy three that Roe v. 163 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: Wade was passed. Right, Affirmative action has been around for 164 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 1: four decades. Similarly, so, every bit of progress that had 165 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: been made in my fucking lifetime is now erased by 166 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,520 Speaker 1: a weaponized grif thing asked criminalized Supreme Court that the 167 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,920 Speaker 1: Democrats don't have the fucking backbone or the fucking ovaries 168 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 1: to do dick about. When asked by a reporter after 169 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:34,520 Speaker 1: his speech, Right, what did Joe Biden say? Is this 170 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: a rogue Supreme Court? He said, it's not a normal 171 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 1: Supreme Court? Well, you're the president of the United States. 172 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: What the fuck you gonna do about it? You're not 173 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: asking the Department of Justice to investigate? Right, Oh, it's 174 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 1: separate and I don't want to seem But it doesn't matter. 175 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,720 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the perception is, because they are 176 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:54,800 Speaker 1: always going to perceive you as doing something that you 177 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 1: shouldn't be doing. So why not just do the right thing? 178 00:12:57,679 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: Why not speak out so that the people who voted 179 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: for you know that they're on you, You're on their side. 180 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,920 Speaker 1: Don't tell me about separation when they are trying to 181 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: reinstill right that there is no separation of church and state. 182 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:13,120 Speaker 1: I'm just waiting. I'm looking at the countdown clock until 183 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 1: slavery comes back, and people will say, well, Clarence Thomas, 184 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:19,080 Speaker 1: will you know, never go along with that. Well, he 185 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:24,600 Speaker 1: already has his massa. His name is Harlan Crowe, right, 186 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 1: he just prays that he will continue to be benevolent. 187 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: But let me tell you, good, good people, that nothing 188 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: is protected, nothing is safe, There is no precedent. This 189 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 1: is their America. I was not eager to find out 190 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,480 Speaker 1: what it was going to be like to live inside 191 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:48,240 Speaker 1: of Jim Crow and segregation. But albeit, we're gonna find 192 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: the fuck out, aren't we, Because that's where we're headed, 193 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: where companies no longer have to hire people of color 194 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: or meet any benchmark, and there will be no legal recourse, 195 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 1: so black and brown people will be stuck in the 196 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: invisible cast system that is racism and discrimination in America. 197 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: I hope the fifty three percent of white women, when 198 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:14,200 Speaker 1: there are more white women that have benefited from affirmative 199 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: action than any other group, I hope they feel good today. 200 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 1: You know, Ugh, we're in a really dark and dangerous place, 201 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: and I would love to tell you that I believe 202 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: that good will win out. But this is not a 203 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: DC comics This is not Marvel, you know, this is 204 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,440 Speaker 1: not a fairy tale where good wins out in the 205 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,880 Speaker 1: end and we just have to, you know, ride the 206 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,600 Speaker 1: bad times. I don't think that good is going to 207 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:56,000 Speaker 1: weigh out in the end, you know. I after the 208 00:14:56,040 --> 00:15:00,960 Speaker 1: decision came down, frankly, I burst into tiers two and 209 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: three times. And this is not me being hyperbolic, Like 210 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: America is being destroyed right before our eyes by people 211 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:14,080 Speaker 1: that have been bought and sold by white Cis head billionaires, 212 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:16,720 Speaker 1: and no one is doing anything about it. Right, they're 213 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: calling these things ethic violations when they're not ethics violations. 214 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: They're bribes, their bribes to do exactly what it is 215 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: that they've done. You were brought in to overturn Roe v. Wade. 216 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:29,840 Speaker 1: You were brought in to demolish the Voting Rights Actor. 217 00:15:29,840 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: You were brought in to demolish affirmative action. You were 218 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: brought in to make certain that white cis hetero men 219 00:15:36,960 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: remain on top, and that there is no legal recourse 220 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 1: for anybody else to make an inch or headway in anywhere. 221 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 1: That's where we are. So when folks are talking about, oh, 222 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: all we need to do is vote, well, I did 223 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:58,120 Speaker 1: not vote for any of those justices. Right, we vote 224 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: for the president of the United States, and because fifty 225 00:16:00,760 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: three percent of white women didn't want to vote for 226 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 1: one of their own, Donald Trump, a man that has 227 00:16:06,120 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: been twice indicted, right is guilty of defamation and libel 228 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:15,680 Speaker 1: for sexual assault, and you know, is a national security threat. 229 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:18,200 Speaker 1: Got to pick three Supreme Court justices. The man is 230 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,040 Speaker 1: illegitimate as a human. The least we could do is 231 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:25,080 Speaker 1: fucking investigate those justices. But no, we don't do that. 232 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,640 Speaker 1: We're not even investigating Clarence Thomas. And all that shit 233 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:33,359 Speaker 1: is now out in the open. Thank god for journalism 234 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 1: as it remains right now, because the next decision is 235 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: gonna come down and is gonna gut the ability to 236 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: have free speech in this country and a free press. 237 00:16:46,120 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: These are not hyperbolic statements. I said this back in 238 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:55,720 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen before the election, that if Donald Trump became 239 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: president of the United States, it was the beginning of 240 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:04,199 Speaker 1: the end of America. This is where we are, and 241 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 1: people still scratching their heads like thinking that we're going 242 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 1: to operate as normal. None of this is fucking normal. 243 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:15,000 Speaker 1: But they're lulling us into believing that, like Oh, elections 244 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: are fair and people still have a voice. No, you don't. 245 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 1: You don't have as much of a voice as Paul 246 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: Singer or Harland Crowe, the billionaires that bought members of 247 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,399 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. You don't have as much of a 248 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: voice or as much of a sway as Donald Trump, who, 249 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,280 Speaker 1: if anybody else had as much evidence against them, would 250 00:17:32,320 --> 00:17:34,399 Speaker 1: already be in jail and would not be out on 251 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: anybody's bond, and would have gotten mug shots done. So 252 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: don't talk to me about equity and justice in America. 253 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: That is a misconception. It is a fabrication. So here 254 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: we are, you know, at the end of Pride Month, 255 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 1: right on the cusp of the fourth of July high 256 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:05,359 Speaker 1: which is to celebrate America's independence from Great Britain. And 257 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: I'm like, America doesn't even know who it is or 258 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: who it wants to be. It's been filled with so 259 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:19,320 Speaker 1: much fairytale euphemism and lies. I don't know what there 260 00:18:19,359 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: is to fucking celebrate. In three years, America is supposed 261 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: to turn two hundred and fifty years old, and I 262 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 1: don't even know if twelve months from now we're going 263 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 1: to have a democracy. I don't know if twelve months 264 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: from now we won't have slavery back. We're already reinstituting 265 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: child labor laws. Greg gabbittt just passed legislation that denies workers' 266 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:51,040 Speaker 1: water breaks. It's as hot as the devil's ass in 267 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,520 Speaker 1: Texas right now. There are places that are hitting one 268 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five degrees and this motherfucker saw fit 269 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: to pass legislation to make sure that people don't have 270 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: to have water breaks. Are you crazy? This is where 271 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: we are, and it isn't just Texas, it isn't just Florida, 272 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:15,920 Speaker 1: it is everywhere. The final nail in the coffin of America, 273 00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: as you know, it is a twenty twenty four election. 274 00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: That's when they have finished the job. But frankly, I 275 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: don't know if twelve months from now, from this, even 276 00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 1: this fucking moment, if there's gonna be anything worth saving. 277 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,919 Speaker 1: We're in such hard times and I am not gonna 278 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: pretend to you ahead of you know, a holiday where 279 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,240 Speaker 1: a lot of people travel and take the week off 280 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:47,960 Speaker 1: and what have you, that like all is hunky dory. 281 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,679 Speaker 1: It's not staying positive, staying in joy, staying balanced is 282 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,959 Speaker 1: like a full time fucking job at this point. You know, 283 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 1: I am doing the very that's that I can, and 284 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:05,400 Speaker 1: I still break down because I don't even have kids. 285 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,080 Speaker 1: But I can't imagine looking at your children and thinking 286 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:14,359 Speaker 1: that they have a future in this country, particularly if 287 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 1: they're black or brown, particularly if they're queer, Like, how 288 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: are you looking at your kids and telling them that, 289 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 1: like they can be anything that they want to be 290 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:26,000 Speaker 1: when you have a Supreme Court and an entire Republican 291 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: Party that is going to ensure that they are nothing 292 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,159 Speaker 1: more than what they want them to be, which is 293 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:35,479 Speaker 1: of service to them. I don't know, folks, I you know, 294 00:20:35,720 --> 00:20:40,840 Speaker 1: I really I am struggling, as I know that many 295 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: of you are as well. I don't know. All I 296 00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:49,960 Speaker 1: can say is that we need to take some time 297 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:57,040 Speaker 1: to rest as a holiday approaches, and you know, take 298 00:20:57,160 --> 00:21:02,919 Speaker 1: really good care of ourselves because my own emotional and 299 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 1: mental health is kind of hanging on by a thread. 300 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,560 Speaker 1: I'm spending trying to spend at least ninety minutes outside 301 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: a day to connect with nature, to just move my body, 302 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: to look out at the water and see something that 303 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:25,240 Speaker 1: is greater than myself, because right now the world, this 304 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 1: country feels very small like suffocating for many of us 305 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,480 Speaker 1: who live at the intersection of multiple identities. We are 306 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,200 Speaker 1: being told that we need to go back into the closet, 307 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: that we need to step off the curb. When you know, 308 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: miss white so and so or mister white so and 309 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:49,040 Speaker 1: so passes, that we don't matter right, that we shouldn't exist, 310 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,479 Speaker 1: And that is a really tough pill to swallow and 311 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: try and slap a smile on your face and keep 312 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: your head up day in and day out. Yeah, take 313 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: good care of each other and yourselves, because we're really 314 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 1: in for a very, very long long haul. That is 315 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,760 Speaker 1: it for me today, dear friends. On this wok F 316 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: coming up for the holiday week, I'm really excited about 317 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 1: wok F cookout, where we're bringing in some of our 318 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: faves to have conversations about liberty, about justice, about equity 319 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:32,840 Speaker 1: and freedom and what that means to us in these 320 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: perilous times. And so I hope that you all, while 321 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: resting by a pool or at a beach, or taking 322 00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 1: a walk, or gardening or playing with your PEPs or 323 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,600 Speaker 1: your kids, you know, take a listen and shout me 324 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,920 Speaker 1: out on the socials, or if you are a Patreon 325 00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 1: and you're watching this video right now, shout me out 326 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: in the comment sections, but I'm saying fuck it to everything, 327 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,000 Speaker 1: to all things. This whole show was one giant, just 328 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:03,159 Speaker 1: bucket to where we are right now as always, dear friends, 329 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,320 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 330 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:14,200 Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck. Take care.