Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wikay F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Yesterday was day two of the Insurrection one six House
Speaker 1: Commission hearings. And what we learned from the jump from
Speaker 1: Liz Cheney, who props to her for basically calling Rudy
Speaker 1: Giuliani a drunk is this We learned several things from
Speaker 1: video testimony and then live testimony of people who were
Speaker 1: in Trump's inner circle. From a former Fox News executive
Speaker 1: who was in the room when they decided to make
Speaker 1: the call for Arizona based on all of their findings
Speaker 1: and saying that they knew that Donald Trump lost the election.
Speaker 1: They knew it then they said it, and they had
Speaker 1: no idea that it was going to cause such a fury.
Speaker 1: But the facts were the facts that they had posters
Speaker 1: that were working that were both Democrat and Republican and
Speaker 1: academics and all of these people, and they knew Arizona
Speaker 1: was called. Then you have you know, other folks who
Speaker 1: spoke to the fact that they also the night of
Speaker 1: the election, what was the mood? What do you understand?
Speaker 1: They understood that the election had been called and that
Speaker 1: based on the states that everyone had been tracking that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump lost the election. You heard that from Bill Barr,
Speaker 1: You hear it from Ivanka Trump. You hear it from
Speaker 1: all of the inner circle. You hear it from x
Speaker 1: Fox News executives. You hear it from the state attorney
Speaker 1: general from Georgia. You hear it from everywhere. The purpose
Speaker 1: of this right, the purpose of the way that this
Speaker 1: hearing is being laid out and day and day two
Speaker 1: is this. It is to show that Donald Trump knew
Speaker 1: that he lost the election, but that instead he decided
Speaker 1: to perpetrate a lie which, according to many reports from
Speaker 1: the One six Committee and NPR and others, he was
Speaker 1: able to grift get this, folks, a quarter of a
Speaker 1: billion fucking dollars on his stop the Steel, help us
Speaker 1: Stop the Steel two hundred and fifty million dollars he
Speaker 1: was able to bring in between the election right in
Speaker 1: November and like January sixth, that is extraordinary. You have
Speaker 1: Donald Trump Junior's girlfriend, Gilfoyle, who has paid sixty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for her handful of minute introduction to Donald Trump
Speaker 1: at this quote unquote stop the Steel rally, folks. The
Speaker 1: way that this is being laid out. Is what we've
Speaker 1: always known. Donald Trump is a fucking grifter. He's a
Speaker 1: fucking criminal, right. Even his own people they were willing to,
Speaker 1: you know, keep it going. But then once logic set in,
Speaker 1: they were like, yeah, so you lost, Like we got
Speaker 1: to move forward. And Donald Trump kept bringing up to
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, who he was using as his
Speaker 1: personal law firm, here are all of the ways that
Speaker 1: we should be tackling this quote unquote steal. And when
Speaker 1: Bill Barr, who we all know is a fucking liar,
Speaker 1: who we all know is a criminal and should be
Speaker 1: indicted for his offenses against the American people, and in
Speaker 1: collusion with this White House, when he's the one that says, yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is all bullshit, Like, then you know that
Speaker 1: you have literally jumped the shark. The other way to
Speaker 1: know that you've jumped the shark is when you've decided
Speaker 1: that the person who you're taking advice from is shit faced.
Speaker 1: Everyone who was interviewed who was in the White House
Speaker 1: on the day of the election has testified to the
Speaker 1: fact that Rudy Giuliani was half in the fucking bag,
Speaker 1: but yet it wasn't. All the other paid advisors and
Speaker 1: polsters and folks that Donald Trump was listening to. He
Speaker 1: was listening to the one drunk right who is Loizidou saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: we can make this up in a recount. You had
Speaker 1: several people testify to the fact that when we are
Speaker 1: talking about recounts, and the biggest recount being the two
Speaker 1: thousand election, when we allowed the Supreme Court of these
Speaker 1: United States to decide the fucking election, you were talking
Speaker 1: about a margin of five hundred and eighty seven votes
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. In the states that were being hotly contested,
Speaker 1: you were talking about at minimum ten thousand votes. You
Speaker 1: do not make that up in a fucking recount. So
Speaker 1: what are we looking at in the big big picture
Speaker 1: when we're trying to see Donald Trump in an orange
Speaker 1: jumpsuit to match his orange face. We are looking at intent? Right?
Speaker 1: Did Donald Trump intent to defraud the people? Was Donald
Speaker 1: Trump aware right that he had lost the election? Because
Speaker 1: the only defense has been laid out by a number
Speaker 1: of lawyers on cable news. The only defense that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's lawyers really have is to say that he believed
Speaker 1: that he didn't lose the election, and so he was
Speaker 1: going to do everything in its power well, when everyone
Speaker 1: inside of your inner circle has testified to the contrary,
Speaker 1: not only did they tell you, they told you that
Speaker 1: what you were scheming to do was in fact that
Speaker 1: crazy and a scheme. So what pisces me off, though,
Speaker 1: is that you have now these Trumpers right who wanted
Speaker 1: to create this distinction on the inside between the kooks
Speaker 1: of Rudy Giuliani and then everybody else. But the thing
Speaker 1: is is that they were all aboard the insurrection train.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump had been talking about this election being stolen
Speaker 1: well before the Stop the Steel rally, ahead of our
Speaker 1: capital going up in smoke. He started making those claims
Speaker 1: before the election in fucking August. Oh, the only way
Speaker 1: that we lose is if is if the election is stolen.
Speaker 1: The only way that we lose is if the election
Speaker 1: is stolen. No, the only way that you lose is
Speaker 1: if the American people decided that they want off the
Speaker 1: Trump fucking crazy train and they want some type of
Speaker 1: return to a normalcy. So I personally think right now
Speaker 1: after watching day two, that this committee is doing exactly
Speaker 1: what it needs to be doing. My only critique is
Speaker 1: that every single hearing, every single public hearing, should be
Speaker 1: happening in prime time. There should be no hearing that
Speaker 1: is happening at ten o'clock in the morning, when the
Speaker 1: American people are at work. Every single hearing should be
Speaker 1: happening at seven pm, from seven to ten, every you know,
Speaker 1: for every single one, because that is when you know
Speaker 1: that people are home, when they have finished dinner or
Speaker 1: they're making dinner, and they're watching what's going on. Right,
Speaker 1: We need eyeballs, We need people to recognize that not
Speaker 1: only did this grifting ass criminal president No No, that
Speaker 1: he was lying, He whipped these people up into a
Speaker 1: frenzy to tell them that if they were really patriots,
Speaker 1: that they would go and take their country back by
Speaker 1: any means necessary. So he knowingly put his own base
Speaker 1: in harm's way to square up against the police. Not
Speaker 1: only that, but from the previous day one of the hearings,
Speaker 1: what did we learn that Donald Trump was nowhere to
Speaker 1: be found, and that his own chief of staff was
Speaker 1: trying to change the outside perception that he wasn't in
Speaker 1: charge of the White House or of a country, and
Speaker 1: that it was really Mike Pence talking about to General Millie,
Speaker 1: we got to change the narrative, said Meadows. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that it wasn't politics that was leading that moment.
Speaker 1: It was more so, Oh my god, the capital is
Speaker 1: being overthrown and people are trying to overthrow our democracy.
Speaker 1: That's what I think a general would be paying attention to.
Speaker 1: But what do I know. What we also found out
Speaker 1: yesterday is that in a pressor that the absentee Attorney
Speaker 1: General was giving and by absentee Attorney General of course,
Speaker 1: referring to sleep at the wheel Merrit Garland, that he is. Indeed,
Speaker 1: he was asked by a reporter, are you watching right
Speaker 1: our folks watching these hearings, and he said, I am
Speaker 1: absolutely watching the hearings, as are the prosecutors at the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice. Well that was a good sign, because
Speaker 1: you've had this committee do all the fucking hardlifting for you,
Speaker 1: all of the heavy lifting. So maybe maybe that is
Speaker 1: a glimpse into the fact that we will, at some
Speaker 1: point in time, god willing, be moving forward with a
Speaker 1: slew of indictments that Glenn Kirshner and I have been
Speaker 1: talking about on woke F for the last year and
Speaker 1: a half. Folks, I gotta tell you, you know, somebody
Speaker 1: asked me yesterday if I was encouraged, right because they
Speaker 1: wanted to have cautious optimism, and they're like, are you
Speaker 1: encouraged by what you are seeing and hearing? And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: do I have hope? Not really, because this country continues
Speaker 1: to show its ass on a regular fucking basis. So
Speaker 1: do I have hope that this doesn't just turn into
Speaker 1: primetime entertainment and that by the time that we get
Speaker 1: to election midterm elections, that it's just one big nothing burger.
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I am ye of little faith.
Speaker 1: I want to be proven wrong. I do not want
Speaker 1: to be proven right in this instance. I want to
Speaker 1: be proven wrong. I want the Department of Justice to
Speaker 1: come out with guns blazing. I want the Democrats to
Speaker 1: get their shit together and realize that if they are
Speaker 1: not messaging about who this opposition party really is and
Speaker 1: what they have been attempting to do and what they
Speaker 1: continue to do at the state and local level, if
Speaker 1: they are not making this clear distinction, we're gonna fucking lose.
Speaker 1: It isn't it doesn't have to be inevitable, but if
Speaker 1: Democrats don't at least pretend to try, then that is
Speaker 1: where this is going to end up, You know it is.
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you the other thing, and let me
Speaker 1: make this transition real quick between our slow moving coup
Speaker 1: and our dying democracy and other things that I'm noticed.
Speaker 1: Sing I tweeted this yesterday, folks. I went on Amazon because,
Speaker 1: as we are all seeing, following the baby formula shortage,
Speaker 1: there's another production shortage tampons right which, by the way,
Speaker 1: according to CNN and other news reports, are up ten
Speaker 1: percent in price, as is fucking everything because inflation. There's
Speaker 1: a tampons shortage. So my mother says to me yesterday, Danielle,
Speaker 1: I think that you need to start just like just
Speaker 1: start buying, like when you're out and about, which I'm
Speaker 1: not really out and about because them in a boot.
Speaker 1: But when you're out or you know, looking on Amazon
Speaker 1: and doing your orders, make sure to put in an
Speaker 1: order for tampons. So I decided, they said, okay, let
Speaker 1: me go ahead and do that. I bought two boxes
Speaker 1: of tampons. Each box has supposedly ninety six tampons in them, right,
Speaker 1: for seventy eight dollars, essentially eighty dollars when it all
Speaker 1: comes around, it up eighty dollars. Now, I have wonderful
Speaker 1: people on two who were sending me links at Walmart
Speaker 1: and other places for tampons that are not that expensive.
Speaker 1: But other folks are saying, yeah, I've seen the price
Speaker 1: gouging happening already, and this is not great. What kind
Speaker 1: of fucking country are we living in right now where
Speaker 1: we can't get baby formula or tampons and everybody wants
Speaker 1: to talk about, Oh, it's a supply chain issue, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, is it really? Did we not fucking learn
Speaker 1: anything during COVID that this interdependence that we have on
Speaker 1: other countries, that maybe we should start figuring out how
Speaker 1: to have production in this country. Right, Since Republicans wanted
Speaker 1: to sign away you know, corporation's ability, right so that
Speaker 1: they get all the tax breaks and have all the fucking,
Speaker 1: you know, safe harvards for their money overseas, we don't
Speaker 1: have fucking production in the way that we used to
Speaker 1: in this country, right, And that has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with as the Republicans would love to tell you, Oh,
Speaker 1: people coming in and not wanting to work or stealing jobs. No,
Speaker 1: they gave corporations tax breaks to take their businesses elsewhere.
Speaker 1: That's what fucking happened. That's why we're in the predicament
Speaker 1: that we're in, and that's why we are basically doing
Speaker 1: a fucking nose dive into being a developing fucking nation.
Speaker 1: I'm paying eighty dollars or tampons and hoping what that
Speaker 1: I don't run out for some of something that I
Speaker 1: need every goddamn up. That on top of the fact
Speaker 1: that the Dow Jones fucking closed down more than nine
Speaker 1: hundred points. Right, we have gas, the new norm level
Speaker 1: of gas, new median gas price is over five dollars,
Speaker 1: and in some places like California, which has always had
Speaker 1: high gas prices, you're talking about seven dollars a fucking gallon. Dude,
Speaker 1: What are we doing here? This place is beyond a
Speaker 1: fucking shit hole. And it doesn't look like there are
Speaker 1: any signs of any of these things changing for the
Speaker 1: better at any time. And on top of that, you
Speaker 1: have a Democratic party that says they want to concentrate
Speaker 1: solely on kitchen table issues, and I'm saying to you,
Speaker 1: the kitchen table don't matter. Right. If we don't have
Speaker 1: a democracy, you can't vote, you can't access an abortion,
Speaker 1: you can't live life free of abject violence. Like I
Speaker 1: just you know, I hate to say this because people
Speaker 1: always want to come from me, and they always want
Speaker 1: to say I'm doing a disservice to the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: which is like the new fucking talking point for people
Speaker 1: to post underneath my videos, And I'm just like, I'm
Speaker 1: doing a disservice or Democrats have done a disservice to
Speaker 1: themselves by believing that this radicalized party is somehow working
Speaker 1: together to preserve democracy, somehow that they believe in the
Speaker 1: rule of law. When these people continue to show them
Speaker 1: who they are, It's just mind boggling to me. I'm like,
Speaker 1: how do you win elections? You win elections by proving
Speaker 1: that you are better than the other guy, the other person.
Speaker 1: So if you are still referring to these people who
Speaker 1: are literally trying to ruin our country as your friend,
Speaker 1: how are you making the distinction between what the American
Speaker 1: people need to do and whose behalf they need to
Speaker 1: do it on. It's so mind boggling. But I gotta
Speaker 1: tell you that this week is going to just be
Speaker 1: another week in hell here. And we got Supreme Court
Speaker 1: decisions that are supposed to be coming down. Some came
Speaker 1: down yesterday, another batch is coming down on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: we are getting closer and closer to the official overturning
Speaker 1: of Roe v. Wade. And I got to tell you.
Speaker 1: You know, you have Homeland Security coming out talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: we have a rise in domestic violence threats. You have
Speaker 1: thirty one members of a white supremacist group that was
Speaker 1: arrested over the weekend, right because they got tipped off
Speaker 1: that this group was getting ready to riot at a
Speaker 1: Pride parade. My head, it feels like it is on
Speaker 1: a swivel, feels like it is on a swovel, just
Speaker 1: from one bad headline to the next. And again I'm saying,
Speaker 1: how is this Democratic Party not connecting the dots between
Speaker 1: the criminality of the Republican Party, white supremacy, rise in
Speaker 1: domestic violence, and like all of the economic issues that
Speaker 1: we are having. How are we not connecting this back
Speaker 1: to Trump and the Republicans? How is this not part
Speaker 1: of your narrative? Oh not all Republicans. Wait, stop saying
Speaker 1: so many words when you don't need to. If you
Speaker 1: would identify with the Republican Party, you stand with Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: which means that you stand with white supremacy, misogyny, patriarchy, islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia,
Speaker 1: and the rest of it. There is no room between
Speaker 1: these groups now, So stop tripping over yourselves Democrats and
Speaker 1: trying to prove otherwise. Just tell the fucking truth. Speaking
Speaker 1: of truth, friends, coming up next, my conversation with the
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Speaker 1: and we get into a conversation about where we are
Speaker 1: headed in this country as it pertains to the rights
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Speaker 1: Adrian Lawrence, who is the host of the Young Turk
Speaker 1: show Overruled, is author of the book Staying in the Game,
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Speaker 1: awful that we need a playbook, among many things. Adrian,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for making the time to join us.
Speaker 1: I don't even know where to what catastrophe, what tragedy
Speaker 1: to begin with to discuss with you, but let us
Speaker 1: start with the one that has been in the news
Speaker 1: since the leaked decision came down, which is the inevitable
Speaker 1: overturn of Roe v. Wade. As we see and as
Speaker 1: we have read in the ninety eight page leaked draft decision.
Speaker 1: This is setting in place a reality for many people
Speaker 1: who never thought that this could happen, even though Republicans
Speaker 1: have been working to overturn Roe v. Wade out in
Speaker 1: the open for fifty years. Why do you think that
Speaker 1: so many people are caught off guard by this moment
Speaker 1: and this decision and how heinous it is. First off,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me. It's so unfortunate
Speaker 1: the reasons that I'm here. But yes, I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of people were caught off guard because it
Speaker 1: had to some extent become somewhat of an institution when
Speaker 1: we're talking about rowing weight that access to abortion, even
Speaker 1: though the GOP has been working for deck aids to
Speaker 1: whittle it down to bear bones and to continue to
Speaker 1: strip the rights of primarily women and other childbearing people
Speaker 1: as well, but to strip those rights down because it's
Speaker 1: impacting bodily autonomy, and bodily autonomy is one of the
Speaker 1: essences of humanity. And so what we do definitely know
Speaker 1: is that this is really just an effort to remove
Speaker 1: women from the workplace, to continue to control our bodies
Speaker 1: and to subjugate us, and to take it back to
Speaker 1: that nineteen fifties flip where we didn't necessarily have all
Speaker 1: the rights that we have today. This is removing competition
Speaker 1: in the workforce, but ultimately this is going to end
Speaker 1: up hurting the nation in Toto if Roe v. Wade
Speaker 1: is reversed, as that leaked opinion indicate, will definitely be
Speaker 1: the hostility. You know, one of the things that I
Speaker 1: wrote about this a week or so ago for The
Speaker 1: Daily Beast about the connection between the Republicans belief in
Speaker 1: the replacement theory, low birth rates, the manifesto that was
Speaker 1: put out by the Buffalo terrorists that took ten black lives,
Speaker 1: that all of this is actually a convergence of everything
Speaker 1: that the Republican Party has stood for for quite some time.
Speaker 1: Do you think that Democrats are missing an opportunity to
Speaker 1: make this connection. Do you think that there is a
Speaker 1: better way that the media needs to be making the
Speaker 1: connection between all of these insidiary policies that are passing
Speaker 1: and the overarching goal. You know, well, Danielle, what you
Speaker 1: just raised is a lot of complicated issues, almost very
Speaker 1: much intertwine though, because reality is the media is still
Speaker 1: considerably white and male. We're talking about around seventy percent,
Speaker 1: which is similar to law enforcement in our country, and
Speaker 1: regardless of whether somebody has a D or an RNX
Speaker 1: to their name, when it comes to politics, there is
Speaker 1: still this almost bipartisan thought when it comes to oftentimes
Speaker 1: white men in our society about white male supremacy, and
Speaker 1: so they're not going to get from the media the
Speaker 1: wholehearted truth about what is going on. And we see
Speaker 1: that every day when we see the fact that they
Speaker 1: are willing to say things like racially tinged or these
Speaker 1: comments as opposed to simply calling it what it is,
Speaker 1: which is racist. So when you consider that factor, you
Speaker 1: have to realize that the media is definitely going to
Speaker 1: be giving very I guess you'd say saturated versions of
Speaker 1: this or in some way it is watered down to
Speaker 1: the point where you're not necessarily going to get that connection.
Speaker 1: You're not necessarily going to get the truth of the
Speaker 1: fact that this is about controlling the bodies of women.
Speaker 1: And it does definitely have ties to this replacement theory.
Speaker 1: And we know that also from the history of abortion
Speaker 1: laws in the United States of when they have been
Speaker 1: enforced and how they've been enforced. Also with immigration laws
Speaker 1: and how they've been enforced, and this fear that they're
Speaker 1: going to have black and brown people or people from
Speaker 1: other countries primarily black and brown, who are going to
Speaker 1: have babies at certain rates and numbers. And so this
Speaker 1: is all tied together in this fear that there aren't
Speaker 1: going to be a population of white people in the
Speaker 1: United States at the numbers that there have been in
Speaker 1: previous years, and thus being a minority and apparently, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe these white to individuals realize that minorities aren't treated
Speaker 1: that great here in the US and their fear being born.
Speaker 1: You know, It's always so funny to me because I
Speaker 1: say to myself, I don't understand why they have all
Speaker 1: this fear around the demographic shift. If they believe that
Speaker 1: white privilege doesn't exist, right, if we all as people
Speaker 1: of color, have been making it up right and we're
Speaker 1: just so sensitive, I don't understand why there would be
Speaker 1: any fear on there on their side whatsoever. I also
Speaker 1: don't know why nobody ever asked them that question. You know,
Speaker 1: you brought up something earlier with regard to the economic
Speaker 1: ties between abortion rollbacks and removing women from the workforce,
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about that because Janet Yellen,
Speaker 1: when she just recently sat before Congress was not a
Speaker 1: hearing about abortion. It was a hearing with regard to inflation.
Speaker 1: But she made the connection between our economic stability and
Speaker 1: the ability to have abortions. And so I just want
Speaker 1: you to talk a bit about the connection that she made.
Speaker 1: And again, how we have only ever talked about abortion
Speaker 1: access as a right to bodily autonomy and not an
Speaker 1: equity issue and not an economic issue. Can you speak
Speaker 1: to that? Absolutely? So. In addition to being an attorney
Speaker 1: and being the host at the Young Turks, I'm also
Speaker 1: a vice president at Jennifer Brown Consulting, where we do
Speaker 1: workplace inclusion training and I just did a training conversation
Speaker 1: on reproductive health as a diversity, equity and inclusion issue.
Speaker 1: That's d EI, and it is very much the case
Speaker 1: because when you look at business and how business operates,
Speaker 1: this is about the advancement of a company and the
Speaker 1: ability to have human capital your workforce. And if you
Speaker 1: force individuals to have babies that they do not want
Speaker 1: to have, what you're ultimately going to do, because our
Speaker 1: society essentially puts the weight of childcare on women, is
Speaker 1: you're going to put women in an even greater position
Speaker 1: to not be in the workforce. That lost participation also
Speaker 1: career trajectory starts to spin out of control. In the
Speaker 1: adverse way, people stop being able to participate in the
Speaker 1: workforce when their obligations have to go elsewhere, when they
Speaker 1: have to take care of children. So we know that
Speaker 1: it has significant financial impacts on women, emotional psychological impacts
Speaker 1: on women as well as just the ability again to
Speaker 1: contribute to the workforce. And Yellen is absolutely correct because
Speaker 1: we know that even just the abortion restrictions that are
Speaker 1: in place right now, that we are losing one hundred
Speaker 1: and five billion dollars toward just our GDP as a nation,
Speaker 1: and that's per the Institute of Women's Policy Research. We
Speaker 1: know that there is so much incredible economic loss just
Speaker 1: by virtue of the fact that women are restricted from
Speaker 1: being able to dictate their bodily autonomy. And it really
Speaker 1: is mesmerizing how a lot of these companies out here
Speaker 1: who talk about diversity, equity, inclusion, they talk about fairness
Speaker 1: and ensuring that women are uplifted on an equal platform
Speaker 1: and workplaces, yet they are dead silent. Now, this is
Speaker 1: about equity, This is about an opportunity to contribute to
Speaker 1: the workforce, to be able to fulfill your obligations as
Speaker 1: an employee, as a worker to contribute at optimal performance,
Speaker 1: which you cannot do if you are forced to bear
Speaker 1: a life and to take care of it, and you
Speaker 1: also do not have the social supports to uplift that
Speaker 1: life to nurturing or even as we're seeing right now
Speaker 1: with a formula shortage to thee it you know, it's
Speaker 1: incredible to me the President just put together a plan
Speaker 1: to open up our Defensive Production Act in order to
Speaker 1: alleviate the loss right now of people unable to get
Speaker 1: formula for their children. One hundred and ninety two Republicans
Speaker 1: voted against it in the House. That's all of them
Speaker 1: voted against providing baby formula at the very same time
Speaker 1: that they are voting for and applauding the rollback of
Speaker 1: abortion access. How make that make sense about how we
Speaker 1: are again? As people that work in media, I do
Speaker 1: not see the questions being asked to these leaders about
Speaker 1: addressing their blatant hypocrisy. How do you refer to yourself
Speaker 1: as the party of family values but tell people to
Speaker 1: allow their babies to starve. I think what they're telling
Speaker 1: us is they are okay with babies starving as long
Speaker 1: as they are black babies, brown babies, and people who
Speaker 1: do not have the means to be able to travel
Speaker 1: or to ship formula. In this is not only an
Speaker 1: issue of class, it's definitely one of race as well.
Speaker 1: And we damn sure no, it's about gender. It is
Speaker 1: all the top tier systems of oppression at play here.
Speaker 1: And it is so incredibly hypocritical for individuals to say
Speaker 1: they care so much about children, especially since we're seeing
Speaker 1: so much of this quote unquote groomer narrative, which is
Speaker 1: just completely out of control and ridiculous. And yet when
Speaker 1: you actually have an opportunity to protect children in a
Speaker 1: way that is one of the most basic fundamentals of
Speaker 1: getting them new Christian and food, you say no, no,
Speaker 1: That shows me who you really are. That truly shows
Speaker 1: me who you really are, which, as far as I'm
Speaker 1: concerned at damn pool, I mean and just vial right like,
Speaker 1: because it is. It is really when we think about
Speaker 1: the ways in which the Republican Party has decided to
Speaker 1: not support a child tax credit, not support the production
Speaker 1: of baby formula, not to support universal pre k, not
Speaker 1: to support any of the mechanisms that would allow people
Speaker 1: in this country, all people in this country, including the
Speaker 1: only people that they care about, which are white families,
Speaker 1: to be able to have safe, healthy families, right, and
Speaker 1: they vote against this all the time. What do you say, though,
Speaker 1: again to Democrats who are not pushing back with the
Speaker 1: kind of urgency and force that they need to in
Speaker 1: order to pay the picture right now of our dystopian present,
Speaker 1: because it's not even a dystopian future, because the future
Speaker 1: is actually here, right And if you've been living in
Speaker 1: these red states and our person of color who is
Speaker 1: also low income or from another marginalized community, you've already
Speaker 1: been experiencing this. What are they missing? You know? I
Speaker 1: think so much of the frustration with the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: is the fact that they're fighting with kid gloves. It's
Speaker 1: you know, the GOP has had gloves off for a
Speaker 1: long time. They're out here in the octagon doing all
Speaker 1: sorts of nonsense and mess. They have dropped any kind
Speaker 1: of gentleman's agreement or sense of decency, and yet the
Speaker 1: Democrats are still here acting like it's a tea party
Speaker 1: and nobody have time for that. The fact is we
Speaker 1: need people who are heavy hitters, who are out here
Speaker 1: willing to take the gloves off, who are willing to
Speaker 1: fight at the level that's necessary to not only save
Speaker 1: our democracy because as far as I'm concerned, that stuff
Speaker 1: is gone, but at least to avoid that dystopian reality
Speaker 1: that is standing right in front of us. And the
Speaker 1: fact is, if we don't get heavy hit in positions
Speaker 1: to disrupt the status quo, then what we're going to
Speaker 1: end up is with the status quo that's more a
Speaker 1: reflection of a Handmaid's Tale dystopia, or we're just going
Speaker 1: to end up quote, We're going to position ourselves so
Speaker 1: that we completely totally implode as a nation. Do you
Speaker 1: think that there is an opportunity to turn this Titanic around?
Speaker 1: Or Adrian is this is the decision with Rowe, the
Speaker 1: pending decision with Row, just the tipping point to where
Speaker 1: you think and how far you think that this Republican
Speaker 1: Party is willing to go. I want to say, I
Speaker 1: don't have an answer. I think with this Titanic, I
Speaker 1: just think it's going to sink because unfortunately, I don't
Speaker 1: think that the Democrats have enough in them to actually
Speaker 1: push back of the force that's necessary, and I think
Speaker 1: that the GOP is just preserving its pockets in terms
Speaker 1: of campaign contributions and the organizations and the companies that
Speaker 1: continue to fund that. I think that the thing that
Speaker 1: will make things change is Boycott's is public pressure, because
Speaker 1: the companies are the ones really running the game, and
Speaker 1: so if the ones that are paying these lawmakers in
Speaker 1: terms of the decisions that they make, if those payments stop,
Speaker 1: or if there are threats that come with those payments,
Speaker 1: then that's the only way that the laws are going
Speaker 1: to change. But as of right now, I can't see
Speaker 1: us going anywhere but down. I worry for and I
Speaker 1: want to pivot for a moment to the massacre that
Speaker 1: happened in Buffalo, to ten black people going about their
Speaker 1: black lives on a Saturday, the murder, the deaths ranging
Speaker 1: from thirty two years old to eighty six years old,
Speaker 1: right to a father that was picking up cupcakes for
Speaker 1: his son's third birthday, to a grandmother that was going
Speaker 1: to be preparing Sunday dinner gone. The only reason why
Speaker 1: the media, I believe, is even talking about this as
Speaker 1: an act of racism is because the shooter, the terrorist,
Speaker 1: said so himself in a hundred and eighty page manifesto.
Speaker 1: If he had not offered though all of those pages
Speaker 1: that pretty much read like segments on Fox News. Do
Speaker 1: you think that the media would have come to that
Speaker 1: conclusion or we again are allowing the perpetua, the perpetrators
Speaker 1: of violence, to be able to tell us why they
Speaker 1: have done this violence as opposed to listening to the
Speaker 1: victims of said violence. I don't think that the media
Speaker 1: would call him a racist if he didn't call himself that.
Speaker 1: But I also don't think that all of the media
Speaker 1: is calling him racist. Some of them are out here
Speaker 1: trying to label him as mentally unstable, trying to suggest
Speaker 1: that racism is a mental health issue as opposed to
Speaker 1: a choice. People are completely and totally sane when they
Speaker 1: decide that because of your Melano account, you are lesser
Speaker 1: than I am. That is not a mental health issue,
Speaker 1: and it also does a disservice to individuals who have
Speaker 1: mental health issues. Let's talk about racism as it really is,
Speaker 1: because it sits in so many people's hearts in this nation,
Speaker 1: and so many people are trying to avoid that label
Speaker 1: because they just don't want to be branded that way.
Speaker 1: But it does not mean that they aren't that way,
Speaker 1: and that their behavior isn't a reflection of racist rhetoric
Speaker 1: that we often see, unfortunately also spewed by the media. So,
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, it's not getting the level
Speaker 1: of just attention that it deserves and also to be
Speaker 1: cast in the correct light. Last question for you is this,
Speaker 1: this is a connection. And again, I'm not a lawyer.
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, I'm not a lawyer,
Speaker 1: but I know enough to ask the right questions. Rittenhouse
Speaker 1: drove hundreds of miles across two different states within AAR
Speaker 1: fifteen over his shoulder, went to Wisconsin, shot and killed
Speaker 1: two people, wounded a third. Federal judge let him off
Speaker 1: right because apparently Kyle Rittenhouse was in fact standing some
Speaker 1: type of ground. I have no idea. What when you
Speaker 1: insert yourself into a peaceful protest and open up fire.
Speaker 1: What's the difference legally, in all honesty, between the Buffalo
Speaker 1: terrorists driving two hundred miles with an AAR fifteen and
Speaker 1: other weapons and opening up fire in a grocery store,
Speaker 1: right Like, it's the same behavior. And so I just
Speaker 1: want to I want you to explain to to to
Speaker 1: my audience it is there a difference? Am I? Am? I? Am? I? Crazy,
Speaker 1: So you know, I would say it's the same kind
Speaker 1: of sentiment definitely there in terms of I believe it's
Speaker 1: definitely racially backed, racially motivated, without question. The thing is,
Speaker 1: the facts are just so incredibly different in terms of
Speaker 1: Written House, because Written House was in a situation where
Speaker 1: he did have that completely unnecessary firearm with him. But
Speaker 1: there was a gentleman, one of the gentlemen. I believe
Speaker 1: it is the one who lost his life, that he
Speaker 1: had become to some extent, the aggressor in the situation.
Speaker 1: But I still very much of the mindset that if
Speaker 1: you show up to a party with a gun in
Speaker 1: some way, and you show up to a rout, you
Speaker 1: have that mindset that what happens is a product of
Speaker 1: your doing. But also too, when we look at what
Speaker 1: happened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, especially with the judge and that
Speaker 1: interaction with the judiciary, that was not a reflection of
Speaker 1: justice as far as I am concerned. For example, that
Speaker 1: judge making the decision in terms of the applicability of
Speaker 1: the law, leading until the last minute to make that
Speaker 1: decision so that the prosecutors couldn't appeal it. Those kind
Speaker 1: of things were strategic actions that I believe they robbed
Speaker 1: the state of justice and we have the results as
Speaker 1: we have them. And the thing is is that something
Speaker 1: again democrats being able to truly value that third branch
Speaker 1: of government, the judiciary, and ensured that there are judges
Speaker 1: on the bench who truly are a reflection of society
Speaker 1: and aren't not looking to protect individuals who have this
Speaker 1: racist mindset and show up to protests talking about shooting
Speaker 1: people and bringing guns. Our society is so incredibly broken
Speaker 1: and through and there are too many people who are
Speaker 1: not here for democracy, are not here for justice, and
Speaker 1: do not in any way intend on applying that whole
Speaker 1: life liberty in pursuit of happiness in an equitable way
Speaker 1: across society, but are very much in terms of selective enforcement.
Speaker 1: And so again I don't think there's necessarily a way
Speaker 1: to write the ship. I just think that the ship
Speaker 1: going down. Oh, Adrian Lawrence, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: making the time to join us on woke F The
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Speaker 1: game of folks, So be sure to check those two
Speaker 1: things out. Adrian. I hope that you'll come back and
Speaker 1: join us again soon. Hey, I'm David Plots of slates
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