WEBVTT - Zero Sum Reality 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.520 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 0:00:14.680 --> 0:00:18.439 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from my Long 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:25.280 Island bunker. Democrats are acting like people give a fuck 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:29.160 about the policies that they put out. Democrats are acting 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.920 as if you know, free and fair elections are just 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.600 assumed and not necessarily things that need to be safeguarded 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:41.879 and are for you know, I tweeted over the weekend 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.720 because I woke up in the morning to my sister 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:51.040 sending me the Bill Mahr clip, and then I tweeted 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:55.120 over the weekend and I said, you know, here's the thing. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.600 This is a thing that is incredibly troubling to me. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:13.559 Is this Joe Biden has been so focused on being 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.560 the comforter in chief, on showing that he is a 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.520 statesman and can deal with the toughness on the right 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:25.360 as well as the infighting within his own party. Joe 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.800 Biden is a president for a different time. Joe Biden 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:35.040 is a great presidential choice for a time when we 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:40.840 had two political parties that adhered two laws and a constitution, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.880 that believed in the oaths that they took, that came 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:51.960 together in order to create or perfect our most imperfect union, 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:57.400 and that we believed that the Senate was the deliberative body, 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:03.960 not a pollssy graveyard that Mitch McConnell has turned it into. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:11.320 You see, Joe Biden would be a great president for 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.560 the early aughts. He would have been a really great 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:23.440 president for the late nineties. But now after four years 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:29.840 of Donald Trump, after a successful coup, one that is 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.519 gaining more momentum and force as the days and weeks 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:39.400 go on, where we are still waiting on multiple hearings 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.720 by the Insurrection Committee, where we are not seeing the 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:47.360 full force of Congress's power to be able to enforce 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:53.400 subpoenas that Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon, Cashpital and others have 0:02:53.520 --> 0:02:56.400 just shrugged at and are looking at it as if 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.200 they have the choice whether to RSVP for the party 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:07.640 or not. You have Democrats talking about the cost of 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.680 a three point five trillion dollar plan to actually build 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:16.120 America back, but not having any of the messaging available 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.600 or understanding how to message the contents of said plan. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:28.640 You have two Democrats who are really just Republicans in 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:33.239 DEM's clothing that are more concerned with their own greed, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.839 their own pockets, and their own names and lights than 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.080 they are about preserving our democracy. So this is the 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:46.200 thing that I tweeted over the weekend. What do you 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.000 think would happen if at Potus began to ring the 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.120 alarm on our democracy instead of telling us we can 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:58.440 build back better? What would happen if Democrats began to 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.000 talk about the constitutional crisis we are in rather than 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:09.360 trying to negotiate with traders. You see, as I'm here 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:13.520 on Long Island this weekend, I've been in conversation with 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.440 both of my parents about the current state of affairs. 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.359 And you know, my mother said to me something that 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:24.360 I say on air often. She goes, you know, Danielle, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:28.400 I'm listening to the news as we're sitting here, and 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.160 this is one thing that I know to be true. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.680 And I said what, And she says, Democrats have no 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:38.200 idea how to message. She's like, they are literally failing 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.880 at something that should be very easy. Why can't they 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:46.880 coalesce around one message in the way that Republicans do? 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.000 And I said, well, because Democrats love to be full 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.200 of excuses, and one of those excuses are the fact 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.920 that we have such a big tent with so many 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:00.760 diverse views and opinions that it's very difficult to coalesce 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:05.880 around one particular issue when each faction has its own priorities. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.320 That's the lie that is told. There is only one 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:16.279 priority that this administration and this Congress should have had 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:22.640 from jump, and the insurrection days before the inauguration should 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:26.840 have solidified what the fuck that priority was, But here 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.159 we are nine months in and it isn't. The one 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.520 priority should have been to preserve and strengthen our democracy 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:40.960 by any fucking means necessary. It should have been to 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:46.280 paint Republicans not as their friends from across the aisle, 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:53.480 not as in a actual political party, but as in 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:59.880 a group of elected insurrectionists that are interested in only 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.360 one thing, power for powers sake, and the ushering in 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:09.720 of authoritarianism, and that every strategic move that was going 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:15.159 to be made between inauguration day and the twenty twenty 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:20.760 two midterms should have been about getting one fucking thing done, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:30.320 a comprehensive and thorough piece of voting rights legislation that 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:37.160 would not only safeguard our ability to elect our officials 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:41.599 and have them beholden to we the people, but to 0:06:41.760 --> 0:06:48.480 also expand and make those quote unquote political norms, actual 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:55.279 laws on the books. Everything else comes after that. Because 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.720 you cannot fight climate change, you cannot build infrastructure. You 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:04.279 can and not strengthen our public school systems, our healthcare system. 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:08.920 You cannot target programs to end poverty, you cannot strengthen 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.920 our nation's HBCUs. You cannot do any of these things 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:20.800 if we the people are unable to fucking vote. But 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.040 the one thing, the one thing that should have been 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:30.360 what all Democrats, progressives and these quote unquote fucking moderates 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.880 to coalesce around, was to ensure that a figure like 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:39.520 Donald Trump A could never run for president again because 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.040 he would be in an orange fucking jumpsuit, because we 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.640 would have a Department of Justice that actually had a 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.440 backbone and teeth that would be going after those that 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:55.920 were responsible and accountable for the insurrection that took place, 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.960 that were responsible for the over one hundred and sixty 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:09.680 police officers who were attacked, harmed, a few of which 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:13.880 committed suicide, and those of which we have resigned their 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:18.240 positions because of trauma. They would have made it their 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:23.280 number one mission to make sure that America would never 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:28.560 forget this day. They would have made it the rallying 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:34.760 cry not for just Democrats, but for Republicans and independents 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:40.160 who believed in upholding our democracy, whether or not you 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.800 liked the current occupant of the White House or not. 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:52.920 When you look at the pieces of this memo that 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:57.600 John Eastman put together, and I'm telling you it is 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:04.560 actually quite significant, right, And again, we're really not having 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:08.760 these conversations right now. This came out why because of 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:13.320 the book peril, because of Bob Woodward, right, and the 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.359 fact that he was very privy to the inside conversations 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.480 that were happening to the memos that we're going out, 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.480 And the only reason why we're talking about it is 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:27.120 because of that motherfucker's book tour, right, and the promotion 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.040 of his book tour. But as soon as that has 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.640 faded into the distance, we seem not to be continuing 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:39.920 this conversation in mainstream media. Our friend who was on 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:44.440 the show last week, washahat Ali, tweeted over the weekend 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:50.080 and said, it is evident that many people in mainstream 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:54.439 media want Donald Trump to become president again, want him 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.080 to actively begin running for reelection in twenty twenty four 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:03.160 because it's good for ratings and ratings equal money, And 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.960 I said, in a response to that very clear and 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:12.439 very correct statement, that capitalism is going to be our downfall. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.199 That it isn't going to be aliens coming in from 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.320 out of space, that it isn't going to be quote 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:24.960 unquote foreign terrorists. No, it is going to be greed 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:33.839 coupled with racism, coupled with apathy. That will be our downfall. 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.640 Because you see, folks, when you look around right now, 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.600 when you look around at all of the things, all 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:49.239 of the ills that America is dealing with, with an 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:56.480 unstable economy, jobless numbers that are quite high, the lie 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:02.080 that employers got to bread within this administration that we 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:07.920 needed to, you know, end jobless benefits because you know, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:14.960 people were just collecting checks at home, which was bullshit. Right. 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.120 They wanted to tell you that, oh, twelve hundred dollars, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:23.959 you've had an extraordinarily difficult nineteen plus months living in 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:27.520 this global health pandemic that is never going to go away. 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:33.000 So here's twelve hundred dollars that should do you, right? 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.520 What is that giving me two three dollars a day? 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:45.559 What are jobless benefits doing, unemployment benefits doing making sure 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.440 that you don't lose the roof over your head. But 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:55.880 the purpose here was to force people back into the 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:03.600 grind of a capitalist structure that would have them just 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:08.679 be grateful for less than minimum wage. Just be grateful 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.880 that they can put some food on their table. Who 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.679 cares if they have healthcare benefits? Who cares if they 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.320 are unable to organize and sue their employer for better 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:23.439 working conditions. Workers should just be grateful for having a job. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:28.880 That is the attitude of employers, That is the attitude 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:37.880 of the one percent. There's a reason why, in particular 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:42.600 in this country, we don't teach financial literacy, right, we 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:46.720 don't teach young people in school that's not a mandatory class. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:54.120 Why because everybody is in on the predatory loans. Because 0:12:54.160 --> 0:13:00.319 schools receive kickbacks. These businesses receive kickbacks, and so much 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:04.600 in the same way of healthcare and pharmaceutical companies that 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.640 there is no money in a cure, There is no 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.680 money in prevention. That they need to keep you sick 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:17.160 so that you can remain a part of the machine 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:25.280 that is grinding you to a pulpe. So you look 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.000 at these things that are happening, folks, and you think 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:33.200 to yourself, oh, well, this is just entertainment. We are 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.560 the entertainment for the rich. Our struggles are the entertainment 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:47.280 for them. Everything that we see is essentially Maria Antoinette 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:52.920 telling us let them eat cake, the bottom of the band, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:58.760 the crumbs, because we equate worth with wealth, and if 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.080 you don't have that, well, than you are not worthy 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.959 of anything. You shouldn't be supported, you shouldn't have social 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:10.839 safety nets. Your current economic state is measured by how 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.840 hard you're willing to work. We read bullshit success stories 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.440 from the ultrawealthy, from the CEOs and the shareholders, from 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:22.480 the philanthropists, who leave out of their stories of hard 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.000 work and just waking up and having passion and all 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.520 of those things about the loans that their families were 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:31.760 able to give them, about the hand up that they 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:37.760 were born into, about how they were able to build 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:45.560 wealth because they have teams of lawyers and accountants that 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:49.480 help them navigate the major loopholes that were created for 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:57.000 their success. The Pandora papers that were released that showed 0:14:57.000 --> 0:15:03.640 the ways that legally from royalty to our own politicians 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.760 and celebrities are using tax shelters as a way not 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.880 to pay their fair share, but they're not really breaking 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:15.480 the law, they're using it to their advantage. And we 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:20.400 don't have politicians that are interested in fixing those laws 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:27.120 because those loopholes help fund their fucking packs. And then 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:30.920 they're not beholden to you, their constituents, they're beholden to 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:37.880 the donors. We've been having this conversation, friends, for decades, 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.400 except we're getting to the place, the moment in the 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.840 story where everyone is looking around and they're like, fuck, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:54.720 this really is not working. We're out here campaigning for 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.480 fifteen dollars an hour thinking that that's going to solve 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:01.360 every fucking problem. How is that when gas right now 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:04.040 in many places is above three dollars an hour. When 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.120 I just read another report in the New York Times 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.960 that tells me that a majority of Americans are paying 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:20.480 more in childcare double what their mortgages are. But right now, 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:25.040 Republicans and Kirsten Cinema and Joe Mansion don't want a 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:31.600 human infrastructure bill that would help level out childcare payments 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.840 to be only seven percent of your income as opposed 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:41.040 to damn near fucking half, if not more. Those decisions 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.040 that then force women, not men, in heterosexual dynamics out 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:50.560 of the workforce. And on top of that, dear friends, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.840 while they are making sure that they do everything in 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:57.600 their power to weaken what is left of our social 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.720 safety nets, then on the other hand, they're rolling out 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.440 anti choice, anti abortion policies that will all but drive 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.760 women out of the workforce, creating room in their minds 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:15.080 for the white aggrieved men who don't want women there 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:21.879 in the first place. And what this does it doesn't 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.040 harm wealthy white women or middle class, white suburban women. 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:30.840 Know the punishment alone will fall on the backs of 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.080 the low income and the black and brown who aren't 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:40.119 able to afford the flights and the two hundred and 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.240 fifty some odd miles to drive in order to be 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:47.040 able to create an economic future for themselves by being 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:50.560 able to decide when and how and if they start 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:58.399 a family. Every single thing right now is at play 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:05.639 in our real world, real life squid game. The decisions 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.720 that are being made right now are in fact about 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.159 life or death. Except it's not schoolyard games that we 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:18.840 are playing. We are the pawns in the much bigger 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:26.879 game that has been at play for decades. These things 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:33.639 are not happening by accident or in silos. But you see, 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:40.639 that's the way that we cover them. We allow mainstream 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:45.040 media to create a false dichotomy, a false set of choices. 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.960 Oh well, it's too much money to invest in the 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.840 American people, but they have no problem investing in war. 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:58.200 Billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan for failed attempt at 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.640 the creation of a democracy in a land whose culture 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:06.080 you don't fucking understand and whose history you don't care about, 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.520 modeling after the false idea of what democracy is, in 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:15.639 a country where women don't make equal pay, where black 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.800 people are still being murdered in the street, where a 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.680 majority of Americans can't afford a four hundred dollar bill 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:27.200 that would come up, where inflation is not on pace 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:34.040 with income, where climate change is not oh, in our future, 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:41.560 but in our now. It's no wonder that when people 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:44.199 are pulled right now on what direction they think that 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:47.119 the country is headed in, that a majority of Americans, 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.679 regardless of party, are saying, yeah, we're not headed in 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:58.879 the right direction. We can't tackle any one of these 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:03.600 issues because we don't tell the fucking truth about the 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:07.600 plan that is in place to keep people in their place. 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:13.200 We don't have an actual cast system in these United States. No, 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.439 we love to uphold those that are able to break 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:22.520 out of the confines of the economic systems that they 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:27.200 have been born into, about the racist structures that they 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.959 have been forced to abide by. But we love to 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.200 hold up these people as if they've won the lottery 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:38.399 of life, recognizing that if we were to actually build 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:44.719 systems for the benefit of all people, there wouldn't just 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:52.600 be a handful To point too, we are living in 0:20:52.640 --> 0:21:02.160 a zero sum reality right now. I spend time each 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:08.280 and every day of my career to try and ring 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:15.199 the alarm to wake people up, recognizing that many Americans 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.000 are forced into a predicament where they don't even have 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:21.440 the time or the space to worry about anything other 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.840 than their immediate needs. You see, that is also how 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:35.440 they keep you stuck. Because this country, the wealthiest, one 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:38.160 of the wealthiest nations in the world, has more than 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:44.200 enough to provide for people's basic needs so that they 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:50.040 can grow from there. But we don't want to because 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:54.040 how dare the working class, the low income class believe 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:57.680 that they can aspire to be anything else? Let them 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:00.320 blame each other, let them fight for the scrap apps, 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:08.159 because time is a privilege. I recognize that I have 0:22:08.280 --> 0:22:14.160 time each and every day to read multiple news reports, 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.240 to watch and research and interview and talk to people 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:22.400 about the direction that we are headed in. Well, guess 0:22:22.480 --> 0:22:27.200 what if I'm pushing out an eighty hour workweek on 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:33.280 multiple jobs because one is not enough for me to 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:35.879 pay for childcare as well as put food on the table, 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:37.800 as well as pay my mortgage and my rent and 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.800 my car note and my utilities and at the end 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.600 of the day put food on the table. If I'm 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:49.040 running from job to job to job, do you think 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:52.400 I have time to see or point the real fingers 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:57.600 at who is bamboozling me. No, I'm going to make 0:22:57.600 --> 0:23:00.200 the assumption that they are smarter, they are better, they 0:23:00.200 --> 0:23:02.720 know what they're doing. So when they tell me instead 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.159 to point the finger on my neighbor down the street 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:13.080 as to the reason why I'm living in such despair them, 0:23:13.119 --> 0:23:15.920 I can touch and feel and hurt and put pressure 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:22.120 points on. Not the people that are up in their 0:23:22.119 --> 0:23:26.600 ivory towers like in squid games, putting pawns on the 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:29.520 board and moving them around for their own fucking enjoyment 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:41.240 and wealth building. We should be scared. We should be 0:23:41.359 --> 0:23:44.639 scared right now because those that are in power that 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:49.000 we elected in twenty twenty are not woke, They are 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:55.520 not conscious, they are anything. But they are trying to 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.160 sing song America to sleep with a bunch of fucking 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:02.000 nursery rhymes. But if you actually pay attention and understand 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:08.520 where nursery rhymes actually come from, right, there's songs about despair, 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:13.320 There's songs about the troubled times, but they lull us 0:24:13.600 --> 0:24:20.480 because they have a soothing beat behind them. Don't worry. 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:23.480 Joe Biden keeps saying we'll build back together as his 0:24:23.920 --> 0:24:30.800 approval numbers fall into the basement. This is not who 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:36.000 we are, says Vice President Kamala Harris. We're better than this. 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.000 When she's given a plate of issues to deal with 0:24:39.160 --> 0:24:41.919 that are not set up for her success, as is 0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:45.520 the case with most black women that are placed in power, 0:24:53.480 --> 0:24:57.680 no one is being set up for success. But so 0:24:57.720 --> 0:25:00.480 long as you are given somebody else to point out 0:25:00.560 --> 0:25:03.800 and blame and say, if we were to just get 0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:11.600 rid of them, then everything would be okay. If we 0:25:11.760 --> 0:25:13.920 just bury our heads in the sand and don't teach 0:25:13.960 --> 0:25:18.359 our kids about America's past or America's present, then we 0:25:18.400 --> 0:25:24.360 can continue living in this haze, living in this dreamscape, 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:30.800 pretending that there are just a few bad actors, as 0:25:30.800 --> 0:25:37.440 opposed to the fact that this is actually who we are, 0:25:38.600 --> 0:25:42.720 that America has been built on violence and lies and bloodshed, 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:50.359 that it is economic beneficial for a few that we 0:25:50.480 --> 0:26:00.600 stay at each other's throats and create factions, breeding right 0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:05.760 and harboring the energy of hate that just is bubbling up. 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:15.000 You think that we're not being set up right now 0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:19.200 when you're seeing literal fights, fist fights break out at 0:26:19.200 --> 0:26:23.280 school board meetings, where you're seeing Republican legislators sweep in 0:26:24.480 --> 0:26:29.359 and assume control over your school boards, screaming on one 0:26:29.400 --> 0:26:33.080 hand that any talk about race or racism is indoctrinating 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:36.399 their children to what hate themselves, when in reality, it 0:26:36.520 --> 0:26:39.199 is setting them up to be critical thinkers about the 0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:41.520 kind of world that they want to live in and 0:26:41.560 --> 0:26:43.520 how they can be a force for change in it. 0:26:45.840 --> 0:26:50.200 The same people that try to keep black and brown 0:26:50.320 --> 0:26:56.720 people out of integrating their schools are the same people now. 0:26:56.720 --> 0:27:00.720 The children are those people that were shouting down, spitting down, 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:03.280 and beating black people. Now they don't want you to 0:27:03.320 --> 0:27:11.440 know what their parents and their grandparents did. I watched 0:27:11.920 --> 0:27:17.320 as a Trumper said, our ware of our way of 0:27:17.359 --> 0:27:22.960 life is slipping away. Gotald Trump is the only person 0:27:23.200 --> 0:27:28.640 that can save us, save you from what the fact 0:27:28.640 --> 0:27:35.080 that you have been under educated, the fact that you 0:27:35.160 --> 0:27:38.199 have been told a lie your entire life that you 0:27:38.200 --> 0:27:41.280 don't need an education, but somehow you'll be able to 0:27:41.320 --> 0:27:43.639 afford a house, in a car, and vacations and do 0:27:43.720 --> 0:27:46.640 all of these things on your fucking factory job, when 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:51.040 you yourself have decided to vote to disband labor unions 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:55.240 that would give you the protections, the healthcare benefits and 0:27:55.359 --> 0:28:00.960 a living wage, just so you can feel really good 0:28:01.680 --> 0:28:04.960 that you're in all white spaces where you're all broken, 0:28:05.000 --> 0:28:08.760 miserable together. But you know what, at least, at least 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:21.960 I'm better than that negro down the street. To say 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:32.800 that America is in the danger zone would be a euphemism. 0:28:32.960 --> 0:28:37.880 To say that the upcoming midterms are consequential would be 0:28:38.160 --> 0:28:42.160 the understatement of the year. To believe even in the 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:50.080 fact that our election right now isn't already decided is 0:28:50.080 --> 0:28:57.720 to live inside of a fairy tale. We are not 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:04.560 prepared for this moment. We don't have elected officials that 0:29:04.640 --> 0:29:12.240 are prepared for this moment. Our forefathers, those slaveholding, rapist, misogynist, 0:29:12.360 --> 0:29:16.280 racist pigs, could only see but so far into the future. 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:20.560 The assumption that they had is that in each decade 0:29:22.040 --> 0:29:24.400 that we would get better, that we would get stronger. 0:29:24.520 --> 0:29:34.120 They didn't think about the rollback, the pushback. We believed, 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:40.760 and we the people, we believed that that little grace 0:29:40.840 --> 0:29:43.600 period called the Obama era was going to be our 0:29:43.760 --> 0:29:48.920 future instead of a glimpse. We believe that democracies just exist, 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:50.840 that you don't actually have to work for them, or 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:59.880 fight for them, or reinforce them. We are, dear friend, 0:30:00.360 --> 0:30:07.360 living in a dream world, and we like to stay 0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:11.480 in this place and watch these shows and tune out 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:17.360 in lying to ourselves, well, at least we're not that 0:30:17.400 --> 0:30:23.240 bad or that's so crazy that could never happen. It 0:30:23.440 --> 0:30:25.560 is all a distraction from the fact that we are 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:38.960 already in that game. But whether or not we understand 0:30:38.960 --> 0:30:49.479 the rules know how to play is an entirely different story. 0:30:49.560 --> 0:30:53.960 But it helps when you're put in these life or 0:30:54.080 --> 0:30:59.480 death games to recognize that you haven't been set up 0:30:59.520 --> 0:31:13.120 for success. You are a pawn, and recognizing that and 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:17.480 being able to plan from there is the first fucking step. 0:31:17.520 --> 0:31:22.160 But friends, my fear is we've run at a time. 0:31:26.720 --> 0:31:30.600 That is it for me today on Woke af AS 0:31:30.760 --> 0:31:34.760 always power to the people and to all the people power, 0:31:35.200 --> 0:31:37.520 get woke and stay woke as fuck.