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Speaker 1: Good morning, peepson, and welcome to wikay f Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker. By
Speaker 1: now you have no doubt heard the horrendous story of
Speaker 1: the ten year old girl, Ohio girl who was raped
Speaker 1: and was found to be six weeks and three days
Speaker 1: pregnant and had to travel to Indiana in order to
Speaker 1: receive an abortion. The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and
Speaker 1: other Republicans had the audacity to say that her story
Speaker 1: her trauma was quote unquote too good to be true.
Speaker 1: The President of the United States used her story while
Speaker 1: enacting an executive order that just frankly and I take
Speaker 1: my queue from abortion Rights activists on the ground just
Speaker 1: doesn't go far enough. They can go further. And I
Speaker 1: sit here as we are heading into the first full
Speaker 1: month of people with uterus is not having bodily autonomy
Speaker 1: in this country, and we are hearing horrendous story after
Speaker 1: horrendous story, and you have the Texas Attorney General suing
Speaker 1: the Biden administration to ensure that Texas has the right
Speaker 1: to kill people right. HHS has released guidelines that say
Speaker 1: that when the life of the pregnant person is at risk,
Speaker 1: that an abortion can in fact be used as a
Speaker 1: life saving procedure. Texas says, nah let him die. Indiana,
Speaker 1: which has abortion, their attorney general, who is a Republican,
Speaker 1: has decided to go after the doctor who gave life
Speaker 1: saving medical treatment to this ten year old so that
Speaker 1: she wouldn't have to be a mother at ten to
Speaker 1: her fucking rapist. This country is so fucking sick and distorted,
Speaker 1: and by the day I become increasingly disgusted. Today I'm
Speaker 1: once again joined on wogay f by the founder and
Speaker 1: CEO of We Testify, Renee Bracy Sherman, who you know.
Speaker 1: I will tell you, folks that there are times when
Speaker 1: doing interviews for me, really hit me in the moment
Speaker 1: right where, you know, I become overwhelmed with the despair,
Speaker 1: with the anguish, with the pain that people are so
Speaker 1: willing to share, that are on the ground doing the
Speaker 1: necessary work to help people, particularly in this case, help
Speaker 1: people get the treatment that they need, the healthcare that
Speaker 1: they need in order to have a say over their
Speaker 1: own goddamn lives. And Renee started off the conversation, you know, emotional,
Speaker 1: and how could she not be She is still going
Speaker 1: to airports and picking people up and taking them on
Speaker 1: long journeys to go and receive the care that they
Speaker 1: should be able to get in their own fucking communities,
Speaker 1: right that they shouldn't need to reach out to an
Speaker 1: abortion fund to be able to get the funding that
Speaker 1: they need in order to fly, drive, go to different
Speaker 1: states to get their care. One of the things that
Speaker 1: Renee brings up in our interview is that, you know,
Speaker 1: nothing was mentioned in the executive order that would allow
Speaker 1: funds to be given to people that need to travel
Speaker 1: in order to get an abortion. And I say something
Speaker 1: that I'm going to say at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: show that you will hear me say later on, which
Speaker 1: is that I don't believe that Joe Biden actually is
Speaker 1: pro choice. I believe that abortion runs in complete and
Speaker 1: total conflict with his religion, and it is why he
Speaker 1: has been pulled, kicking and screaming to do the least
Speaker 1: with regard to protecting the right to bodily autonomy. It
Speaker 1: took him weeks to even come out and say anything
Speaker 1: for full He still doesn't utter the word abortion, and
Speaker 1: he still is not using the full force of the
Speaker 1: federal government in order to protect women and people with
Speaker 1: uterus is. And the question that I keep asking is why.
Speaker 1: And the only thing that keeps floating up to my
Speaker 1: mind is because he's a Catholic right and he's only
Speaker 1: going to do but so much and he believes oh well,
Speaker 1: and I said, you know the reason why, I don't
Speaker 1: believe that this is a political move, because his poll
Speaker 1: numbers are in the fucking trash and the poll numbers
Speaker 1: for abortion are still in the seventy and probably now
Speaker 1: high seventy, low eighty percentile now that the right is gone,
Speaker 1: And so what is stopping Joe Biden and this administration
Speaker 1: from taking the urgent action that is necessary. And frankly,
Speaker 1: you know what you will hear from Renee is her
Speaker 1: feeling about the decisions that are being made and the
Speaker 1: executive orders that are being pushed out as like milktoast.
Speaker 1: All it is is asking for more research and reports
Speaker 1: and she goes. Movement leaders put together those reports before
Speaker 1: Biden even put his hand on the fucking Bible, Right,
Speaker 1: So you don't need an EO to say that we
Speaker 1: need more research. You know, we've had fifty fucking years
Speaker 1: of research that's been done. Also, you've had a considerable
Speaker 1: amount of fucking lead time given the fact that we
Speaker 1: had saw that leaked draft weeks prior to the decision
Speaker 1: being final, and there was no action that was taken.
Speaker 1: If anything, there should have been action that had been
Speaker 1: taken once Biden was sworn in, and we saw that
Speaker 1: Amy Coney Barrett was yet the second seat that was
Speaker 1: stolen from Democrats, they should have come in solidifying, right. So,
Speaker 1: you know, people ask why do you go so hard
Speaker 1: against Democrats? Because Democrats are the one out here promising
Speaker 1: people shit and not delivering. And frankly, for many people
Speaker 1: who have dedicated their lives to the advancement of equity,
Speaker 1: bodily autonomy, and justice for all people in this country.
Speaker 1: Their fucking slow walking is getting a little tired. Coming
Speaker 1: up next, my full conversation with our friend, Renee Bracy Sherman, Folks,
Speaker 1: I am happy to welcome back to Woke f Daily,
Speaker 1: Renee Bracy Sherman, who is the founder and an executive
Speaker 1: director of We Testify, an organization dedicated to the leadership
Speaker 1: and representation of people who have abortions, focusing on the
Speaker 1: intersection of race, class, and gender identity, and centering those
Speaker 1: who've experienced financial and logistical barriers to abortion. Renee, it's
Speaker 1: been a hell of a last three weeks. When we
Speaker 1: had you on last it was the conversation around the
Speaker 1: leak draft, what if, what if? What if? Well, the
Speaker 1: what if is here? All of the things that we
Speaker 1: thought that we feared that you have spent your life
Speaker 1: working to ensure the protection thereof is now gone. And
Speaker 1: so before we dive into any specifics on what your
Speaker 1: organization and you as an advocate and leader, have been
Speaker 1: experiencing and how quickly things have devolved, how are you doing.
Speaker 1: I'm a little more emotional today than I am most days.
Speaker 1: I'm tired. I'm really tired, and I'm not even as
Speaker 1: tired as the folks who are in the clinics on
Speaker 1: the ground, the abortion funds, As the clinics are closing
Speaker 1: abortion funds, they have to stop operations. We're just all
Speaker 1: really tired, and it's really exhausting, not only because of
Speaker 1: everything that's going on that you know, we've warned about
Speaker 1: it for ten years and no one listened to us.
Speaker 1: And even now it's still with the ideas where we're like,
Speaker 1: here's what we need to be able to move forward.
Speaker 1: The response is, well, we can't do that, and here's why.
Speaker 1: Even though we know that you can, we're just choosing
Speaker 1: not to. And so I think that's adding to the
Speaker 1: disappointment and the frustration. Like many activists across the country,
Speaker 1: I still do what's called practical support, so I picked
Speaker 1: people up from the airport and drive them to their
Speaker 1: hotel or to their abortion appointment. And so I'm still
Speaker 1: very much seeing the impact of what's happening on the
Speaker 1: ground with people who are traveling from states where abortion
Speaker 1: is now a crime, and they're feeling really defeated and
Speaker 1: frustrated and upset because they were so close and yet
Speaker 1: you know, just missed it. Though, everyone is just really
Speaker 1: really tired, and I don't I don't know how we
Speaker 1: keep this up. I really don't, you know, no, dope,
Speaker 1: please do not apologize. Emotions are extraordinarily raw and for
Speaker 1: you and the people like you who are in this
Speaker 1: work every single day have been on my mind since
Speaker 1: the leak draft and the stories that are floating up
Speaker 1: that we are seeing in the headlines are so disturbing,
Speaker 1: are so heartbreaking, are so alarming as of you know,
Speaker 1: just a few days ago, Texas Attorney General, who by
Speaker 1: the way, is under his own indictment charges, has decided
Speaker 1: to file suit against the Biden administration stopping HHS from
Speaker 1: enforcing guidelines that say that in the matter of a
Speaker 1: pregnancy affecting the life of said pregnant person, that abortion
Speaker 1: can and should be used as a procedure in order
Speaker 1: to save their lives Texas, says Jenna. And so when
Speaker 1: we recognize that there is no common ground with these people,
Speaker 1: there is no exception, right, there is no carve out
Speaker 1: it is. I don't care if you're ten years old
Speaker 1: and you have been traumatized multiple times, We're going to
Speaker 1: traumatize you again and again and again. And now we're
Speaker 1: gonna disrupt and maybe put the doctor who lawfully treated
Speaker 1: you out of business right for saving essentially saving the
Speaker 1: life of a ten year old, because that's what that
Speaker 1: doctor did. Um, I just I guess I will. I
Speaker 1: will ask you this. Biden has been underwhelming in this area.
Speaker 1: He has been underwhelming, and I am and I am
Speaker 1: being nice response. I'm being very nice. I'm choosing my words,
Speaker 1: and I want to get your reaction to uh the
Speaker 1: executive order UH that was put into effect, and what
Speaker 1: you felt about the content of that executive order and
Speaker 1: what should if you think it was not enough, which
Speaker 1: I'm assuming you do not, what should have been in there,
Speaker 1: and what still can be done. Well, First, I want
Speaker 1: to go back to the original point you were saying
Speaker 1: about the little girl. Yes, all of the folks in
Speaker 1: Texas and we have always known that our lives did
Speaker 1: not matter to them. That is why they could not
Speaker 1: just say black lives matter. They have actually never cared
Speaker 1: about our lives, our health, our safety. It's always been
Speaker 1: about control. But I do think it's really scary for
Speaker 1: people to see that in real life. And they have
Speaker 1: been hearings all week this week on Capitol Hill where
Speaker 1: now the anti abortion movement knows that they're so out
Speaker 1: of step, and it looks really bad that you are
Speaker 1: denying this this young girl her autonomy and with her parents'
Speaker 1: support that they're they're now changing it and saying, well,
Speaker 1: that's not an abortion. If it's happening on a ten
Speaker 1: year old survivor, it's quote not an abortion. It's what
Speaker 1: the head of AUELL said yesterday. What is it now?
Speaker 1: It was changing. They're changing the definition of an abortion.
Speaker 1: And also when you terminate a pregnancy that's an ectopic pregnancy,
Speaker 1: they're now saying that's also not an abortion. So again,
Speaker 1: what they're doing is they're changing the definition of what
Speaker 1: an abortion is. But actually, to me, it's always been
Speaker 1: the same thing because what to them, abortion is not
Speaker 1: a medical procedure. It is about controlling people, both freedom
Speaker 1: and atom. And so to them, they're making the definition
Speaker 1: of an abortion anything that someone freely chooses to terminate
Speaker 1: a pregnancy that they that they did not want, and
Speaker 1: that is actually about the control. And I think people
Speaker 1: really really need to see that. That's why they can't
Speaker 1: say abortionist healthcare because then they'd have to say, yes,
Speaker 1: we believe in healthcare, right, but it is the what
Speaker 1: abortion symbolizes is our freedom and our own decisions to
Speaker 1: make our own futures in our own lives. To get
Speaker 1: to the Biden EO. I am so tired of fighting
Speaker 1: pro choice politician. I'm so tired of it. And people
Speaker 1: keep asking me, why don't you yell at the Republicans,
Speaker 1: Because you know what, the Republicans never promised freedom and
Speaker 1: autonomy and access to abortion. They never promised us that.
Speaker 1: They have not gone back on any of their promises.
Speaker 1: They told us exactly what they were going to do.
Speaker 1: They never said they were going to save us. They
Speaker 1: said they were going to save the babies. Yep, that
Speaker 1: is it. Democrats are the ones who said that they
Speaker 1: would save us, that they would be there for us,
Speaker 1: that they would make sure Row didn't fall. They are
Speaker 1: the ones that are are really being frustrating. I was
Speaker 1: in a meeting where someone described I think a Republican
Speaker 1: who's quite ultra right as as as a moderate and
Speaker 1: who's really trying to bring the party back, and I
Speaker 1: think they're so out of touchage with what is actually happening. Hey,
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Speaker 1: and yet they tell you right there was It was
Speaker 1: just the other day with the outgoing White House communications
Speaker 1: director who said that you'll are the ones that are
Speaker 1: out of step with the mainstream of the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: that it's the activists, right, those that are on the
Speaker 1: fucking ground doing the work shuttling the people, trying to
Speaker 1: keep these funds going, trying to protect people's autonomy. But
Speaker 1: you're the ones that are the problem for identifying the
Speaker 1: fact that they sold us a bag of bullshit that
Speaker 1: they had no intention of backing up, right right, And
Speaker 1: I'll I'll say to her on that, Kate, your president,
Speaker 1: your boss's approval ratings are in the thirties. Abortion has
Speaker 1: been seventy and higher, come on since nineteen seventy three.
Speaker 1: So you can say whatever you want to, excuse your
Speaker 1: milk toast response, but the facts are the facts. Just
Speaker 1: because we're being sold, as you rightfully put it, a
Speaker 1: bag of bullshit, doesn't mean we have to accept it.
Speaker 1: And we are not out of step for telling you
Speaker 1: what is the solution and you batting it away as
Speaker 1: if we don't know what we're talking about, and then
Speaker 1: giving us this executive order that does very little. Most
Speaker 1: of the executive order is ordering more reporters from HS
Speaker 1: that'll be due in thirty days. It's a delayed response.
Speaker 1: You know what they have, the reports you and I
Speaker 1: know why because our movement has put them together for
Speaker 1: the last eighteen months. We have reports put together way
Speaker 1: before Biden even was inaugurated. So spare me that you're
Speaker 1: doing something. We've asked for a public health emergency? Where
Speaker 1: is it? We have asked for protections for providers so
Speaker 1: they don't become criminalized. Exactly what has happened as what's
Speaker 1: happening with the doctor with doctor Bernard in Indiana. I
Speaker 1: will also say what has been really painful and on
Speaker 1: my heart when President Biden announced that executive order, which
Speaker 1: I want to be clear, the timing of it was
Speaker 1: announced that it was going to happen overnight. The other
Speaker 1: thing was that they had been notified that Bloomberg News
Speaker 1: was doing an article. They had a scoop that the
Speaker 1: White House, they had talked to White House sources and
Speaker 1: sources at HHS that the President had considered a public
Speaker 1: health emergency and said yep. So the timing of that
Speaker 1: executive order seems like it is to cover up the
Speaker 1: fact that they had are not doing what we had
Speaker 1: specific pacifying, So I want to I want to be
Speaker 1: clear about what that was. And then the Saturday after
Speaker 1: when we did not accept their executive order and we
Speaker 1: said this is not what we asked for and sent
Speaker 1: it back. That's when we got called out of steps.
Speaker 1: So I want to be clear, you don't seem to
Speaker 1: have the time to go after Joe Mansion and Kurson Cinema,
Speaker 1: who were holding up the racist philibuster, but you got
Speaker 1: time for me who. I want to be clear. When
Speaker 1: I heard about that out of step comment, I was
Speaker 1: in the middle of helping someone get an abortion, so
Speaker 1: excuse me that I don't time for them. But with
Speaker 1: this speech, Biden spoke about that ten year old who
Speaker 1: needed an She's been on my mind and my heart
Speaker 1: for so long, right since the story came out, because
Speaker 1: I don't know if she is going on the internet
Speaker 1: or parents are going on the internet trying to use
Speaker 1: the Internet and seeing their daughter's story being debated, where
Speaker 1: she has almost been dehumanized by all sides because she's
Speaker 1: she's a talking point, or she's a fake story or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. She's a human being. And as someone
Speaker 1: who has shared my abortion story, I know what that's
Speaker 1: like to see people talk about you like that, and
Speaker 1: it's extremely dehumanizing, and I don't know what it's going
Speaker 1: to be like for her as she continues to grow
Speaker 1: up and then looks at the history books of that
Speaker 1: time and sees herself talked about in this way. I
Speaker 1: hope she is being surrounded by love and support, and
Speaker 1: I hope that she has they. But also, as Biden
Speaker 1: was using that story to just by his executive order,
Speaker 1: he talked about the freedom to travel, and yet he
Speaker 1: did not announce any financial support for someone like her
Speaker 1: or anyone who has to travel for an abortion. He
Speaker 1: could do that with a stroke of his pen. That's
Speaker 1: not covered by the High Amendment, and yet he's choosing
Speaker 1: not to. So how is it that you're willing to
Speaker 1: use this little girl's experience, her trauma, or her story,
Speaker 1: but not do anything to help her and her family
Speaker 1: get from Ohio to Indiana for that abortion. I will
Speaker 1: also say that those of us who had abortions have
Speaker 1: been asking for months to meet with the president so
Speaker 1: he could hear our stories, and he has refused. His
Speaker 1: staff continues to not respond to us. And this is
Speaker 1: not unheard of Clinton met with people who had abortions
Speaker 1: ahead of vetoing a later abortion. And so my question is,
Speaker 1: is President Biden, at what point will you actually meet
Speaker 1: with us and listen to our stories. Our stories are
Speaker 1: not props for you to justify your milk toast response.
Speaker 1: We are real people. Several week testify storytellers have been
Speaker 1: testifying before Congress, including one who testified just earlier this
Speaker 1: weekend on Wednesday. Right, they put themselves up, share their stories,
Speaker 1: make their voices heard. They get called murderers, they get
Speaker 1: harassed by Fox News and all the conservative outlets for
Speaker 1: weeks on end. And yet our pro choice president can't
Speaker 1: be bothered to meet with us and to thank us
Speaker 1: for what we are doing in service of our nation.
Speaker 1: He meets with every other impacted group when they're being harmed.
Speaker 1: He meets with all the union organizers as they're trying
Speaker 1: to get workplace rights right. You know who else is
Speaker 1: doing that? People have abortion because part of those union
Speaker 1: contracts are access to abortion care. So it's so frustrating
Speaker 1: that he will meet with everyone else but us. And
Speaker 1: my question is, what are you afraid of? Because I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure, I'm just I'm gonna say it. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that this president is actually not pro choice. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that his religious beliefs absolutely supersed where he
Speaker 1: is willing to go. I do not think that this
Speaker 1: is a political maneuver. I don't and I never have because,
Speaker 1: to your point, the poles are on our side. The
Speaker 1: poles are on the side of people who believe that
Speaker 1: bodily autonomy should be a part of our constitutional rights. Right.
Speaker 1: So this isn't about oh, well, how will Republicans use it?
Speaker 1: It's that he doesn't believe in it, so he will
Speaker 1: do the bare minimum. What can I What can I
Speaker 1: do that will allow me to seem as if I'm
Speaker 1: making moves towards protection without actually doing the heavy lifting.
Speaker 1: That's where that's that's where this administration is. And so
Speaker 1: you know when when we when we listen to or
Speaker 1: read the quote from the outgoing White House Communications director
Speaker 1: and saying that we're out of step, it's like, this
Speaker 1: is what this is My problem with Democrats, the democratic
Speaker 1: establishment and leadership altogether, is that you all are out
Speaker 1: of step. Right, that this is why nine of the
Speaker 1: people who are thirty and below don't want to fuck
Speaker 1: with you. This is why they are not engaged with
Speaker 1: wanting to vote for you, because they see the bare
Speaker 1: minimum that you're doing. Right. They are tokens and they
Speaker 1: are stories, but they are not right. Policy measures that
Speaker 1: need to actually be put in place to protect those
Speaker 1: very people that you say that you're a courting into
Speaker 1: your party. Renee tell us a few minutes. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: please have been real quick there, because what is so
Speaker 1: frustrating is that for them to call us out of step.
Speaker 1: I didn't have to be dragged kicking and screaming into
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty primary campaign to support the High Amendment.
Speaker 1: He did. The Democratic Party removed supporting the High Amendment
Speaker 1: from the platform the party platform in twenty sixteen. It
Speaker 1: wasn't until activists pushed and pushed and pushed that Biden
Speaker 1: finally reversed his stance. He was out of step with
Speaker 1: his own party for four years, and it basically wasn't
Speaker 1: until he was already going to be the nominee that
Speaker 1: he changed his position to be in line with the
Speaker 1: party and in line with everyone else. With the exceptional
Speaker 1: Telsea Gabert, who was on that stage, who is out
Speaker 1: of step, It is not. I am ahead of step.
Speaker 1: My colleagues and I we saw what was happening. So
Speaker 1: you want to call us out of step, we're out
Speaker 1: of step because we're ahead of you and we're come on,
Speaker 1: we are not out of step as in we're being
Speaker 1: dragged kicking and strength, screaming behind, asking to being left behind. Yes,
Speaker 1: our ideas are new, but Paul, so that they support them.
Speaker 1: We're not behind the times. And if that's what you
Speaker 1: mean by out of step, being ahead, yes, yes we are.
Speaker 1: But actually no, you're out of step. And that is
Speaker 1: exactly why we now have senators and we had a
Speaker 1: whole letter from black representatives congresswoman calling on him to
Speaker 1: do the public health emergency. He is officially out of
Speaker 1: step with his party even right now, with something that
Speaker 1: activists have been asking for for weeks. I will also
Speaker 1: say on that comment, there's the comment that kind of
Speaker 1: flies under the radar. There was UM advisor Jennifer Palmieri's
Speaker 1: comment where she said, you know, these activists, what is
Speaker 1: Biden supposed to do in two weeks? Honey, it hasn't
Speaker 1: been Come on, it's been nearly fi It's been fifty
Speaker 1: years and two weeks. How about that. Biden has been
Speaker 1: in office only I think three months longer than Roe
Speaker 1: had been the law of the land. So it has
Speaker 1: not been two weeks. It has been fifty years. But
Speaker 1: you know what, let's let's start it he was inaugurated.
Speaker 1: So it's been eighteen months. You want to go to
Speaker 1: when the league happened. It's been six weeks and no
Speaker 1: calculation has been been two weeks. To stop acting like
Speaker 1: this is a tornado. Nobody saw it coming get out
Speaker 1: of here. But that I mean, but that's it, that's
Speaker 1: what That's what pisses. But that's what gets people so
Speaker 1: pissed off. And then when you have the audacity to
Speaker 1: come out and talk and speak against this administration, and
Speaker 1: I love what you said earlier, Renee, which is like
Speaker 1: when people say, well, why don't you go I get
Speaker 1: the same bullshit. Why don't you go hard on Republicans?
Speaker 1: I go hard on Republicans all day long. But Republicans
Speaker 1: didn't promise us shit right. Republicans have contented continually and
Speaker 1: consistently shown us who they are. It is the party
Speaker 1: who tells us that they are better, that they have
Speaker 1: the shared the shared values with us, that continue to
Speaker 1: lie to us. Right. So like, I can't I can't
Speaker 1: go after the person that is telling me to my face,
Speaker 1: you ain't shit right and I don't even see your humanity.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna allow the person who tells me no, no,
Speaker 1: no rainbows, black fists, all of these things. We're with you,
Speaker 1: but we're with you for a slogan and then go away.
Speaker 1: Then after that you become a problem. And that's where
Speaker 1: that's where my other point, right, kind of one other point.
Speaker 1: The two who were speaking, who said this in the article,
Speaker 1: calling us out of step, I want to be clear
Speaker 1: that they's are white women. Those are white women speaking,
Speaker 1: two women of color who have been the backbone of
Speaker 1: not only this party but the abortion rights movement for
Speaker 1: so long. Come on, how do you call yourself an
Speaker 1: ally to folks of color and to black folks when
Speaker 1: we ask you for something and you shut us down,
Speaker 1: calling us activists as if that's some sort of derogatory word.
Speaker 1: Who's out of step? Activists are the only ones that
Speaker 1: I've ever gotten anything done in this country. I like
Speaker 1: the levels to how disrespectful those comments were. On a
Speaker 1: race level and on this like a cilevel, Yes, on
Speaker 1: a race level, on a class level, yep, yep. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're in the right. Yes, on the ground. Yes, and
Speaker 1: at some point, at some point, those decision makers in
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party will follow along. And I want to
Speaker 1: be clear there are some super badasses in the Democratic
Speaker 1: Party who are doing the work. And that is happens
Speaker 1: to actually be a whole bunch of the representatives who've
Speaker 1: had abortions, right, Representative Corey Bush, Representative Barbara League. Right,
Speaker 1: then we've got Representative Iada Presley, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representative
Speaker 1: alc Right, Like, we've got folks who are doing the work.
Speaker 1: And I think that's huge and important, and so I
Speaker 1: don't want to paint them all day, call them out
Speaker 1: and not paint people with a bribe brush. But the
Speaker 1: reality is is how often in every other issue, not
Speaker 1: just proportion, they are also told they're out of step
Speaker 1: when it comes to immigration, when it comes to racial justice,
Speaker 1: when it comes to voting rights. You know, and it
Speaker 1: marked my words when in November they don't get the
Speaker 1: turnout that they want because historically that's what happens in
Speaker 1: mid terms. But also because you didn't do anything about
Speaker 1: erasing student debt, you didn't do anything to make it
Speaker 1: easier for people to vote, You didn't do anything on
Speaker 1: pay leaves. You got none of it because John Mansion
Speaker 1: and Kirsen Cinemas did in the way, not activists. I
Speaker 1: didn't even really like the build back better. I thought
Speaker 1: it was milktoast, but you know what was helping on
Speaker 1: it made the phone calls. I don't even have to
Speaker 1: senators because I live in DC. I feel like I
Speaker 1: don't even have representation, and I'm still doing the work
Speaker 1: of it because you don't do anything about sayhood, I
Speaker 1: would love it, but you don't do anything about stayhood.
Speaker 1: So they don't do anything about all these things, right,
Speaker 1: and then when they get, as historically happens, the low
Speaker 1: turnout in the midtterm, they're going to blame the board
Speaker 1: because they've always done that. And I even there's an
Speaker 1: article that came out in Vice this morning where Barbara
Speaker 1: Boxer said that people were it's because you know, people
Speaker 1: sat at home and didn't vote. And I'm so glad
Speaker 1: that the reporter, Paul Blessed, he's real good. Um the
Speaker 1: piece of advice. He pointed out that she's actually wrong
Speaker 1: in that some of the highest voting numbers have happened
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen and twenty twenty. So don't sit here
Speaker 1: and blame the voter turnout. Yeah, actually, you all not
Speaker 1: actually doing anything with the power that you have. People
Speaker 1: are voting and you are not making it easier for
Speaker 1: more people to vote. So I'm not going to accept
Speaker 1: it because the numbers. The numbers don't lie people politicians do.
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Speaker 1: know that you are tired, but let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: By the end of this interview, you were clearly not
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Speaker 1: you know, use that as the call that you need
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Speaker 1: fire me up because I stay on ten. I appreciate
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