WEBVTT - 051323 The Two Parties are Not the Same…Where is Right-Wing Accountability? (Part 2) 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:05.600 And now watching my mic back like. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:12.040 We can strikes from headquarters behind. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.920 In those of you just tuning in the civic because 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.560 if I'm your host, Rams's job is Ram's job. I 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:24.159 am now back again as ken mister. We still got 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.000 more free to stick around for the show. We're talking 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:31.000 about the difference in the political parties. In fact, the 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:35.120 two parties are not the same. Again, we had a 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.880 interesting conversation with a dear friend of ours who basically 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:41.400 told us that the political parties were the same in 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.480 this country. And we had a long conversation to the contrary. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:49.279 And we're trying to share some points with you if 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.240 in fact, you or someone you know feels that way. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.040 So we're gonna be talking about that. We're also gonna 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:58.440 be dedicating our way Black History fact to a white allies. 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.440 There's a rarity around here. You definitely want to hear 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.440 about this guy. He's awesome. White allies are not a rarity. Well, 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.480 dedicating a white subject in the way black history fact, 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.000 that's that's definitely rare. We try to highlight, you know, 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.959 black folks for that, but this one is worth it, 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.600 I promise. So first and foremost, we're going to discuss 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:19.400 ba BA becoming a better ally baba. 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Stop aap I Hate is heartbroken and 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.360 devastated by the horrific act of violence in the Texas 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.280 mall that claimed the lives of at least eight people, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.600 including three young children, and wounded seven. We now know 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.000 four of the lives lost were Asian people, three members 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:08.960 of a Korean family, as well as an Indian woman. 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.400 Most of the eight killed were people of color. You 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:15.680 also know that investigators are examining the alleged gunman's apparent 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:19.560 adherence to white supremacist and neo Nazi ideologies. This tragedy 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:21.919 is yet another reminder of the dangerous consequences of hate 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.399 and bigotry. The ongoing normalization and amplification of white supremacy 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.639 and far right extremism poses a growing threat to communities 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.600 of all stripes across the nation, and inaction on the 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.680 issue continues to destroy lives. It's pastime for our leaders 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.720 to step up and take swift, decisive action to address 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:40.440 the root causes of racism, enophobia, and other forms of hate. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.120 We also join other Asian American groups in calling on 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:45.760 lawmakers to take immediate and decisive action to address the 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.840 rising tide of gun violence, which is increasingly terrorizing aapi communities, 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.320 from the shootings in Atlanta to Monterey Park to Allen 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.160 We are outraged and they should be two. It is 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.280 unacceptable that someone influenced by white supremacy and extremist ideology 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.760 is allowed to possess and use firearms design for war 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.240 to carry out violent and tacks against innocent people. Our 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.040 leaders need to prioritize the safety of our communities over 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.160 the interest of gun manufacturers and lobbyists. We cannot afford 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.480 to wait for the next tragedy to act. Our elected 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.040 officials need to break this cycle of hate fueled violence. 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:17.200 Because of the safety and welfare of all depends on it. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.799 And because it is indeed possible, I want you to 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.840 visit STOPAAPI hate dot org so that you can support 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.320 them toward this end. And I do believe that they've 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.880 organized something for the little boy that was left behind, 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.400 if you feel so inclined as to help this child 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:40.200 who now has lost his entire family. Okay, the two 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.800 parties are not the same. So now we're going to 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:51.800 talk about right wing accountability. Excuse me exactly, I'll begin. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.200 I didn't know we were making things up for the show. 0:03:56.320 --> 0:04:01.240 So the title is where is right that makes a 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.120 lom So that's why we're talking about it, or it's 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.040 a right wing accountability or the lack thereof all. Right, 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:15.160 this past week, former president, former president was found liable 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:21.880 for sexual abuse. Okay, this means to civil suit, which 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.920 I'll see it in entirely that it doesn't have as 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.719 much weight as a criminal suit. The burden of proof 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:34.839 is lower all those things, right, But again, let's talk accountability. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:40.640 There's a pattern of behavior here, indeed that was started 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.480 by him himself in my mind, when he was on 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.400 that tour bus being recorded in his own voice, and 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.080 then subsequently admitted to saying that it's okay to walk 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.280 up to women, and not just his own voice. Though 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.480 this is a video, so you can see him saying this. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.520 This wasn't doctor, This wasn't Alio added to images later 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:58.120 like no this. 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.839 I saw the bus, but I okay, so go ahead. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:03.679 No, no, just there's it's a video of him saying 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:07.599 these things. It's not just you know, some audio from 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.880 an encountery he had. You don't have to use your 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.080 imagination because you said in his voice, well you could 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:13.880 see him saying it, so you don't even have to. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.479 So this is this is something. I never saw that part, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.479 but I did see the audio and there was a 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.080 photo of the bus, and I was like, oh my god, 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:28.680 this is years ago. So anyway to this point, however, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.400 despite it, you know, the burden proof being lower, and 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.120 you know the bar rather I guess, being a little 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.960 bit easier to clear or a civil case than a 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:43.239 criminal case. There is something to be said here, Okay. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:49.440 First off, the jury has to be unanimous. That means 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.080 everybody who heard what should have been both sides of 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:58.320 the story. Donald Trump didn't himself show up. He committed 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.440 to testify and decided he wasn't going to do it 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.080 at the last minute, and then but he had his 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:07.600 lawyer's present. They presented what evidence they had. A unanimous 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:14.480 panel of jurors decided that Donald Trump was liable for 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:19.440 sexual abuse, not liable for rape. Okay, So when he 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.920 says later on in the story, when he says, oh, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:25.599 it's politically motivated, it's a witch hunt, I would think that, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.520 you know, if they're going to take him down, they're 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.920 going to tie a word to his name, that would 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:33.040 probably be the one they would do. So any reasonable 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.440 thinking individual would see this and say, it's not like 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.520 people to split the difference if they're really politically motivated 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.200 and trying to sink somebody somebody's ship. Right. But again, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.640 that that that shred of doubt, that that little bit 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:55.440 of deniability that's introduced into these conversations frequently, these right 0:06:55.480 --> 0:06:59.800 wing conversations, is enough to keep everybody who subscribes to 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:05.240 that party. I don't want to say the philosophies, but 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:11.760 that particular party. It allows them to live in a 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.040 shared delusion among other folks who subscribe. You know, the 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.280 part that's even more discouraging is that some of them 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.080 don't even need a delusion in the wake of that 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.640 story breaking while he was campaigning, which is insane, And 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:32.040 this happened while he was campaigning and he was still elected. 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.360 That's a good point. There was a young lady on 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.640 the news with her two daughters letting them know that 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:44.200 sometimes you're just gonna get groped, like, yes, that is okay. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:45.440 Sometimes that just happened. 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:51.120 In order to stay true to her outward political beliefs 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:55.400 and support of this man, she told her daughters on 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.120 television that the things that he were saying were not 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.520 just true, but that they were okay. So some of 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.320 them don't even need the doubt or the delusion or 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:08.080 the you know, that space for them to retreat into 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.400 and say, hey, well maybe it was this. Some of 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:16.480 them blindly support no matter what, to their own detriment, 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.640 to the detriment of their children. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.000 And to the rest of us too. 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:23.440 Well, I'm sure, but a lot of people would do 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:28.560 things for their own benefit if it hurt everybody else, 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.560 they wouldn't care. But I'm saying, to their own detriment 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.000 and the detriment of their children, you didn't have to 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:36.199 make it so broad as to. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.040 You know, really really have a bleeding heart and really 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:44.080 want the best for your countrymen, for her daughters. In 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.880 order to stay in line with her president, and you know, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.560 she couldn't waiver on TV. She had to say to 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.040 her daughters on television that the things that he just 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.839 said with regards to where he could just grab women, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:02.320 that that was okay? Who said this? Who said which part? 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.840 To her daughters? She was just a random supporter of his. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.439 I'm not a celebrity or no, no, I'm sure we 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.040 could find that video. It was just a random supporter, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.080 you know, make America great. 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:18.680 And when presented with that information, after shed just for 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.000 several minutes talked about how great a man he was, 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:25.560 he couldn't say, oh my god, he's disgusting. So to 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:28.360 stand true to what she'd been saying already, she had 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:32.080 to turn to her children on live television, her two daughters, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.120 her two young daughters, get that off and tell them 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.200 that the things that he just said were okay. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:44.720 How about this? So, as if that weren't enough, here's 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:50.600 another trick. So, first off, the former president himself says 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.559 he never met the woman he's now found liable for 0:09:56.120 --> 0:10:00.480 sexual abuse. Her name is EJ. And Carol says he's 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.960 never even met her. Right. If you read the story 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:07.240 about how she recalls the interaction between the two of them, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.000 you see that's it feels very un rand for this dude. 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.440 But for him to say he never met her, that's 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.040 all his followers need. It's his way and that's it. 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.080 Everybody else is out to get him. Doesn't matter that 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:28.560 a jury voted unanimously to h to find him liable 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.480 for this and not liable for rape. That doesn't matter 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.920 as long as what he says. It's almost like he's 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:37.920 like a deity. It's like a cult, right. I think 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:41.120 you've said that before, but I'll add to that. He 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:48.000 plans to appeal this jury's decision, which further puts distance, 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:53.000 put puts more distance rather between him and accountability. Right, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.840 And that's his right. You know, that's everybody's right. If 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.960 you've got a decision that you feel the trial wasn't 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:00.880 right or whatever, you can't appeal it. I don't see 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:04.720 how he's going to approach this and get that, but 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.240 you know it is it is. You're right if you 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:07.520 can figure out a way to do it. And he's 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.840 got a team of lawyers still somehow after firing and 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:15.240 people quitting and whatever. But I expected to definitely see that. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:20.080 And so the impact of this story is weakened because 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.840 he says, I don't know her. Well, first off, it's 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.920 a civil suit. I've never been he says, good. Oh yeah, 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:32.000 so it's just insane. Yeah yeah. And there's photos of 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:36.080 them together. There's photos of them. So so anyway, so 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:43.480 this is a person that we already know, is he 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.600 There's no accountability for this person. He claimed that the 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:51.400 election was stolen from him, right, and then really messed 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:56.280 up the whole country further divided of extremely divided country 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.160 over that one issue. Where we are in Arizona, we 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.839 had our fair grounds out here. We have a place 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.760 called the Arizona Fairgrounds. It's this huge like place where 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.120 everyone goes. The Arizona State Fair is a big deal 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.600 for folks that don't come to Arizona. Forgive us. It's 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.440 just like that here. They occupied the fairgrounds to recount 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.920 the election. You guys, remember this, the election recounts, You 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.640 know what I mean? Because this guy couldn't take that 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.319 l the way that he should have. We heard him 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.200 trying to get up the votes and trying to you know, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:32.880 had court cases across the country, wasted everybody's time, wasted, 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:37.480 millions of dollars, duped money out of his supporters, millions 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:43.080 from people who are very poor, no accountability. And then 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:49.360 after every single court case resulted in a loss for 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.240 his administration, everyone or the case just being thrown out, exactly, 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.000 every single one in every state that he challenged in 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.040 across everything, they could not substantial one claim, could not 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:06.040 prove one claim. Oh it's a mass conspiracy. Indeed, including judges. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:10.400 They reappointed everyone, right, not just people that are on 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:12.920 the left, but people in his own party. He has 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:15.880 a name for them, are called Rhinos Republicans in name only. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:22.520 It's an acronym. So no accountability for that. Let's take 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:28.520 it a step further. Every single suit brought against him 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:33.480 is politically motivated. It's a witch hunt. Mar A Lago documents, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:37.880 all that stuff in Georgia, indeed, the the Stormy Daniels stuff. 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:44.160 Now this, even when we have overwhelming proofs and black 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:49.720 and white evidence that points to the contrary and his 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:53.200 mind and the mind of those who support him, it's 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:53.920 all nonsense. 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.200 It's all no need to hold this guy accountable at all. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:02.199 So We'll take it even further. What has this man? 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:08.480 What did he campaign on? Build the wall? No wall? 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:14.840 Sadly enough that build that wall was enough, but to 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.880 stoke the fire of his supporters, not any promise of 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:26.320 anything that he'd do for you. Ran his campaign on 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:30.600 the foundation of I'm going to kick those people out 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.760 and keep them from ever coming back here. Yeah, you 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.840 voted for him based on that. So and he did 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:44.040 nothing to that end. So watch this, no bolder wall. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:55.920 And he had a Republican Senate and a Republican House, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:15:00.640 I believe at a point in his presidency and could 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.000 not get that across the line. I suspect because it 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:09.680 was an empty promise among many no accountability. Let's move 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.240 it on because we can pick on that guy all day. 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.960 We're not talking about where's the accountability for the former president. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.880 We're talking about right wing accountability. So let's talk about 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:28.640 another guy, George Santos. I know George Santos. Now you 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:30.200 may not know who this guy is if you don't 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.440 follow the news very closely, your politics very closely. But 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.040 I'll give you a little bit about him. I'm gonna 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:38.520 read from CNN the Justice Department on Wednesday unsealed federal 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:43.200 charges against Representative George Santos and the New York republic 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:49.400 and the New York Republican is in custody. Okay, Santos, 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:54.960 who's astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications stunned even hard 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.200 Politicos has been charged on a thirteen count indictment, including 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.120 seven counts of wirefraud, three counts of money laundering, one 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.200 count of theft of public funds, and two counts of 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:10.600 making materially false statements to the House of Representatives. You 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.240 can be charged for that. So here's here's where I'm 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.960 going with this. I know that you know, if you're 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:20.680 listening to us, you may not know who this is. 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.960 Maybe you don't know this story, but belong. The short 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:27.480 of it is, this guy basically lied his way into 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:30.800 the House of Representatives. He lied about where he went 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:35.280 to school, He lied about everything, who his parents were, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:41.520 how he got his money, what connections he everything of 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:44.200 this stuff, you know what I'm saying, that he could 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.720 use to embellish and then, after being pressured four months 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:54.720 after the election, admitted that he made some embellishments and 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:57.200 that he was sorry, but he really intended to serve 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:03.160 the people of where's this place Staten Island in New York? Right, 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.400 He made some embellishments on his resume, and he tried 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:12.840 to like downplay. Sure. Now, the House of Representatives has 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:17.000 a Republican the way there's a long Island. So the 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:22.640 House of Representatives has a Republican majority, okay, And this 0:17:22.880 --> 0:17:27.359 Republican majority has the capacity to hold this man accountable, 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:36.200 to expel him from the House, to maintain some semblance 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:41.720 of integrity among their ranks, and to ensure that the 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:45.359 people who put their trust in them know that that 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:49.720 trust is well placed. Have the House of Representatives done 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:56.680 anything whatsoever to move to make this right? I would 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.439 say no. And what they have done real quickly. What 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.600 they have done is they've removed him from like a 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:04.760 committee assignment or something like that. Why because he was 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:08.000 a distraction. My question she's still a sitting member, though. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:12.840 My question question to you is why would they There's 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.480 no accountability, there's no consequences if they don't. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:20.159 Great point, but why hote someone accountable when your supporters 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.960 have shown you that blind solidarity is really what they're 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:23.480 here for. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:26.800 That's what they're here for. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.159 I saw that when our principles and our people, no 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:32.680 matter what they do or say. 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:36.720 I saw that with the Raphael Warnock versus herschel Walker 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:42.719 campaign in Georgia. Everybody said, I don't care, I will vote. 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.240 Everybody on the right said, I don't care, I will 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:52.840 vote for herschel Walker, who cannot read, he cannot talk. 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:58.000 He is Everything he says is nonsensical. He has lived 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.120 in a moral life, he does not believe, he does 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.400 not live by what he says that he lives by. 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:06.600 And I couldn't care less if he's going to get 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:09.879 in there and do Republican bidding. He's our guy. It 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.840 does not matter that Rafael Warnock is a minister, that 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.080 he's actually you know, none of that stuff matters. Preaches 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:17.960 that I think it was doctor King's church, doctor Martin 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:21.360 Luther King's church, all this stuff out the window, Warnock, 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:23.919 is it okay? So this is the party of you know, 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:27.000 God and Christian values and so forth, and you're not 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:28.320 going to vote for the minister in labor. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.400 You can do a whole show on the idea of 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:36.960 Christianity and nationalism and the intersection that they've met at 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:40.560 and the way that they've used that to manipulate those 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:44.080 who are less politically educated into thinking that they're some 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:45.160 bidding of the Lord. 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.359 And you know where we start them. Where we start 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.280 is slavery. That Bible was used to keep us all 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.520 in chains, all right, well, us, me and you and 0:19:54.800 --> 0:20:01.080 us all in chains to the benefit of other folks anyway. 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:06.280 So it wasn't the Republicans that held this gentleman accountable. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.199 It was the justice system. Indeed, what we see with 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:14.080 the former president the justice system, and those wheels turn 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:14.880 very slowly. 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.760 And then when the justice system steps in and law 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:23.280 enforcement steps in, now they're screaming defund and now they 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.040 stand opposed to the same how about that? And the 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:31.639 same people go ahead scream back the blue now stand 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.040 opposed to them, because how dare they try to hold 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:36.159 us accountable for something? 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:43.240 There? It is? All right? Now, I want to circle 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:45.400 back to the person we talked about in the first 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.720 part of the show, the person with the RWDS patch 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.840 on his willet prove Best or whatever he was wearing, 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.199 the tactical thing that he was wearing as he was 0:20:55.200 --> 0:21:00.160 shooting up that Aldrmal and Dallas or in the Dallas area. Oh, 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:07.880 accountability all right, So casting doubt on the RWDS slash 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:15.560 Nazi shooter. So rather than accept that this one is 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.760 on us, indeed, many of these mass shootings, the majority 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.840 of these mass shootings is on us instead of instead 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.800 of some right, instead of some accountability. What have we 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:29.480 done that has birthed this? What has what connections is 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:33.639 this person making to what it is I believe should 0:21:33.640 --> 0:21:37.600 be our principles and values instead of doing some soul 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.919 searching and figuring out what the what is, what we 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.240 end up with is what I believe to be more 0:21:44.280 --> 0:21:48.080 toward the opposite. So, first off, this guy posted on 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:52.320 Russian message boards, where you know, it's not moderated for 0:21:52.760 --> 0:21:56.439 hatred and racism, that sort of stuff. But people are 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:58.120 trying to cast out because they're like, this dude doesn't 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:00.320 even speak Russian, why is he posting on Russian message 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:04.400 boards without you know, trying to find the real truth 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.320 of the matter. The fact is that their English forum 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:12.960 or English pages on this Russian Russian website or whatever. 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:17.920 English is the international language. So if you speak Russian 0:22:18.040 --> 0:22:21.320 and the other person speaks Spanish, more than likely you'll 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:23.879 communicate in English because it's the English. It's the language 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:27.400 most folks know, so most foreign websites have a place 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.600 to interface with other English speakers, like this I found. 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.879 And indeed the Russian message board that this guy was 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:36.920 on does have that. But if they on the right, 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.600 if the reporters and pundits and folks say, well, how 0:22:40.680 --> 0:22:42.879 was he on a Russian message boards if he's a 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:47.760 Mexican and he doesn't speak Russian, again, to cast doubt 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:53.119 rather than accept some sort of accountability or trying to 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:58.000 do some soul searching. Like I mentioned, now, this guy 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:01.359 also has the same name. This mass shooter has the 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:06.120 same name as a known drug cartel gang member, and 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:08.160 folks are trying to say that he was a drug 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:13.119 a cartel gang member rather than a far right Nazi shooter. Right, again, 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:15.440 trying to cast out just has the same name as 0:23:15.440 --> 0:23:17.520 the guy. You know, a lot of times people have 0:23:17.600 --> 0:23:23.719 the same names, and again the idea is to cast 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:28.600 doubt on this person's Nazi ties. So Elon Musk even 0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:30.520 weighed in on this like, well, I don't know, I'm 0:23:30.560 --> 0:23:34.679 just asking questions this type of post, right, And this 0:23:34.840 --> 0:23:36.879 is why Q and I don't have Twitter anymore. We 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:39.600 deactivated our Twitter. We are not going to be party 0:23:39.720 --> 0:23:45.240 to that guy. That guy there. Yeah, and I implore you, 0:23:45.280 --> 0:23:48.560 if you're a listener, I know there's information shared there, 0:23:48.600 --> 0:23:51.400 but I don't know that the good outweighs the bad. There, 0:23:51.920 --> 0:23:54.040 we invite you to come over to our side, delete it, 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:57.080 join fan base. Let's roll, all right, I want to 0:23:57.119 --> 0:24:00.439 say real quick, the BBC confirmed independently that this shooter 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:03.800 was behind his post on Facebook, even though folks tried 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:07.560 to cast out on the authenticity of his Facebook account 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:09.760 as well. And of course this list goes on beyond 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:13.359 these three. Clarence Thomas, you know that list is very long. 0:24:13.480 --> 0:24:18.560 So where's right being a right wing accountability knows. But 0:24:18.600 --> 0:24:21.240 for now it's time for the Way Black History Fact. 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:24.480 Today's Way Black History Fact is sponsored by Underground Beach 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:27.200 Club From the beach, from the streets to the beach, 0:24:27.520 --> 0:24:31.880 the finest in Beachware. Visit Underground Beach Clubs dot com. 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:36.080 All right, today we are talking about the man John Brown. 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:42.040 He was born May ninth, eighteen hundred and he lived 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:46.760 until December second, eighteen fifty nine. He was an American 0:24:46.800 --> 0:24:51.399 abolitionist leader. This is from Wikipedia. By the way, he 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:57.160 first reached national prominence for his radical abolitionism and fighting 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:01.639 in Bleeding Kansas was eventually captured and executed for a 0:25:01.680 --> 0:25:06.440 failed incitement of a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry preceding 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:12.720 the American Civil War. An evangelical Christian of strong religious convictions, 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:16.560 Brown was profoundly influenced by the Puritan faith of his upbringing. 0:25:17.200 --> 0:25:20.800 He believed that he was an instrument of God, raised 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:24.360 up to strike the death blow to American slavery, a 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:28.560 sacred obligation. Brown was the leading exponent of violence in 0:25:28.600 --> 0:25:32.480 the American abolitionist movement, believing it was necessary to end 0:25:32.520 --> 0:25:36.119