1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Bokay f Daily with 2 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:19,480 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: I want to introduce you to a new season right 4 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: that we are in. It is called Fuck Around and 5 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 1: find Out Season. If you were not aware of the 6 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: beginning of that season, it happened on Sunday when Will 7 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 1: Smith smacked the shit out of Chris Rock. Why do 8 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 1: I say that, because, folks, we are in a wake 9 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 1: up call moment, not because I condone violence, but because 10 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 1: we are in a wake up call moment for Democrats, 11 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: for the Party, for our democracy, for the upcoming midterms, 12 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:58,720 Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty four election cycle. Now what has 13 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: me in this Fuck Around and find Out Season? Well, 14 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: when I saw the headline of a new pole in 15 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: The Hill in the Hill dot com and the title 16 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: read this pole Colin Trump leads Biden Harris in twenty 17 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:20,440 Speaker 1: twenty four matchups. And here's what is said. Former President 18 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: Trump is leading President Biden in a hypothetical twenty twenty 19 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: four matchup, according to a new Harvard Caps Harris poll 20 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:34,160 Speaker 1: surveyed released exclusively to The Hill. If the twenty twenty 21 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:38,480 Speaker 1: four presidential election were held right now, The poll finds 22 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: Trump getting forty seven percent compared to Biden's forty one percent. 23 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 1: Twelve percent of voters are undecided now. Vice President Harris's 24 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 1: performs even worse. In a hypothetical matchup with Trump, forty 25 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: nine percent said that they would choose Trump, while thirty 26 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: eight percent said that they would support Harris. The poll, 27 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: while very early, pretends trouble for Democrats in twenty twenty four. So, folks, 28 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: you have been watching me right and listening to me 29 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: long enough to know that I don't necessarily put a 30 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,079 Speaker 1: lot of merit in polls. I say that they are 31 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:25,680 Speaker 1: like reading tea leaves right, that you can't definitively understand 32 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: where people's mindset is. But it does provide a snapshot, 33 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:33,520 Speaker 1: and if the polls are not working in your favor, 34 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 1: a window, right, a snapshot, and a window into some 35 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: of the pivots and moves that need to be made 36 00:02:40,680 --> 00:02:42,880 Speaker 1: in order for you not to careen off of a 37 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 1: fucking cliff. Well, here's what I will say about this pole. 38 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:52,520 Speaker 1: This is a major fucking or should be should be 39 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 1: a major fucking wake up call for Democrats. Why do 40 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: I say that because last year, right in twenty twenty one, 41 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:06,520 Speaker 1: the election for Virginia's governor, many said, was going to 42 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: be like a canary in the coal mine, right, Like 43 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 1: a canary in the coal mine, that race in Virginia 44 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:22,360 Speaker 1: between Yuncan and Terry mccauloff was going to signal to 45 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: Democrats one way or another what needs to be done. 46 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,839 Speaker 1: And what I realize about Democrats is they look at 47 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: polling in the wrong way with Yuncan and mccauloff. They said, oh, well, 48 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 1: here we have this white guy in a vest from Patagonia, 49 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: so we'll get another white guy that has some name 50 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:47,320 Speaker 1: recognition in Virginia because he was already governor. But he 51 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: was governor during a long begotten time, a long bygone time, 52 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 1: right twenty fourteen, when the world was much different than 53 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: it is right now. The thing that Democrats weren't paying 54 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 1: attention to, however, was how critical race theory and quote 55 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 1: unquote parental control was actually doing in the state of Virginia. 56 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 1: Democrats scoffed, right, scoffed at the idea that book burning 57 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: was going to return and that Yancan was going to 58 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: be able to win on the idea of parental control 59 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: and on this made up idea around critical race theory 60 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:27,560 Speaker 1: being taught in K through twelve schools. All he needed 61 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: to do, right again, don't let the truth get in 62 00:04:30,839 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: the way of a good story, is Republicans Moniker, because 63 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: we know and they know that critical race theory is 64 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: not taught in K through twelve schools. But the polling 65 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,000 Speaker 1: was showing that more and more parents, those that are 66 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: quote unquote reasonable, we're going to be swayed by this 67 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: messaging because there has always been a fear, whether whether 68 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: you are a staunch conservative or some middle of the rotor, 69 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:06,200 Speaker 1: that public schools have the opportunity to quote unquote indoctrinate children. Well, 70 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: you know me and I've said that absolutely, public education 71 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: has all been about indoctrinization as well as gas lighting. 72 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 1: Why do I say that, Well, because you have a 73 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:22,840 Speaker 1: very narrow story of America is that is taught through 74 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: one specific lens, which is that of white America. They 75 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,880 Speaker 1: have set themselves up as the conqueror. They have set 76 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,600 Speaker 1: themselves up as the hero. They have set themselves up 77 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,840 Speaker 1: as you know, the strength and the power all by 78 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 1: virtue of white men, the founding fathers. Right, Well, critical 79 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: race theory in law school elective classes offers up theories 80 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: that are through a non white lens right ideology and 81 00:05:56,400 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: thinking and narrative that does not center white men and 82 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: whiteness in the American story. It tells other stories. But 83 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 1: when Pauling started to show that even the most reasonable 84 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: person was saying, well, I don't want my child indoctrinated, 85 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 1: and I should have the ability to say what should 86 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,400 Speaker 1: and should not be taught in my child's schools, I'm uncomfortable. Right. 87 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: It goes back to how Virginia and Texas and Florida 88 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: have been running in tandem with one another, which is 89 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: about white comfort. Well, the reality is is that anybody 90 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:41,839 Speaker 1: with eyes in a brain could have seen that this 91 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:46,800 Speaker 1: was going to be the new rallying cry for Republicans. 92 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: And if you didn't have eyes and ears and could 93 00:06:50,040 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: interpret what was going on, Donald Trump once again said 94 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud when he told his followers 95 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: at a recent rally that they needed to quote lay 96 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 1: down their lives for critical race theory, meaning that they 97 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,880 Speaker 1: need to show up at these school board meetings, They 98 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: need to show up at their kids' school. They need 99 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: to threaten these teachers and threaten the administration into continuing 100 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: to brainwash their children into believing that whiteness is superior 101 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:24,280 Speaker 1: and that anything that deviates from that narrative is dangerous. 102 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:30,000 Speaker 1: Right that we don't want a society of critical thinkers? Right, 103 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: what would that mean? What would that do? So we 104 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: need to make sure that they continue the tradition of 105 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: generational brainwashing and make that their rallying cry. Well, guess what, folks, 106 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: it worked. And Democrats, throughout that entire campaign, when they 107 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:54,720 Speaker 1: could have used Virginia as a testing ground for messaging 108 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 1: to see how it was going to land, decided to 109 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:03,200 Speaker 1: do what just completely ignore it, say that it was ridiculous, right, 110 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 1: shrug and make jokes. Well, while we were busy as 111 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,800 Speaker 1: Democrats being glib and taking the quote unquote high road, 112 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 1: those motherfuckers were in a belly crawl to call anything 113 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,680 Speaker 1: and anyone right racist and instead of us calling out 114 00:08:21,720 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 1: the idea of white comfort above all else. And how 115 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:30,000 Speaker 1: it should not be that history is taught solely through 116 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: the lens of the oppressor, but that the oppressed also 117 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: have a narrative in this story of how America came 118 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,439 Speaker 1: to be and how many of the policies that marginalized 119 00:08:42,480 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: communities endure today stem from the origination of America. But 120 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:54,760 Speaker 1: you see, you don't want people to connect those dots, 121 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: so you continue to gaslight the public into believing that 122 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: parental voices the way to go. And when you have 123 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 1: no alternative narrative to go on, then you continue to 124 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: do what my favorite movie, the American President said, in 125 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: the absence, in the absence of substance, people will drink 126 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: the fucking sand. So what the Republican Party offers to 127 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: America is a mirage. It is a mirage of morality 128 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: that is being offered to the public that they are 129 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: couching in parental control. Right, you have the bill which 130 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 1: was just signed into law in Florida that don't say 131 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: gay bill that has you not speaking anything about gender, 132 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: gender identity, right difference, LGBTQ, people, transfu, all of it. 133 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: They sign that shit into law. So when you have 134 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 1: kids who are coming into the classroom that have two 135 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,319 Speaker 1: moms two dads, right, that have a trans DAT or 136 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: a trans mom, that are not going to see themselves 137 00:10:08,280 --> 00:10:11,280 Speaker 1: or hear themselves in the projects that are being done. 138 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: Because what the Santists wants to do is to ensure 139 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:22,240 Speaker 1: that the mainstream that heteronormativity and that overt sexualization of 140 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: children is okay so long as it is in hetero. 141 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,480 Speaker 1: It's steeped in heterosexuality. Because here's the thing that always 142 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: gets me. And again, without pushback, they take this narrative 143 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: and run. Why do I say the oversexualization of children? Well, 144 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,800 Speaker 1: because you can walk into any major big box store 145 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,199 Speaker 1: you're going to buy a gift for your friend or 146 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 1: your friend or your sister or your family member's new child. 147 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,160 Speaker 1: You can walk into any store that sells baby clothing 148 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:07,600 Speaker 1: and you will come across onesies newborn clothing that says 149 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: things like lady Killer right, that says things like you 150 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 1: know heartbreaker right, that says things like you know Daddy's Princess. Right. Folks, 151 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:31,520 Speaker 1: We teach children before they are even able to hold 152 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: their heads up what blue stands for, what pink stands for, 153 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: what masculinity looks like, and what femininity should look like, 154 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 1: and that you should not color outside those boxes are lines. 155 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,800 Speaker 1: And we tell little girls that when a boy likes you, 156 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 1: he abuses you, he assaults you physically. All Look at Johnny, 157 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: he hit Susie on the head. He must like her. 158 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 1: You see, straight parents sit a baby boy and a 159 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: baby girl on a blanket together, and people are like, 160 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: oh my god, look at the cutest couple hashtag couple goals. 161 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:21,080 Speaker 1: Do you think that that shit is normal? Because in 162 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:24,840 Speaker 1: all honesty, when you look at it, when you pull 163 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: yourself out and you zoom in and you're like, huh, 164 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: what are we doing here? That's what it means to 165 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:41,840 Speaker 1: begin to sexualize babies. But we think that what sexualizes 166 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: them is to teach them that not everybody falls into 167 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:54,680 Speaker 1: these binaries. Right then, instead of having exploratory conversations, what 168 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:57,600 Speaker 1: the Descantises and the Trumps of the world and the 169 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:00,560 Speaker 1: Abbots of the world would rather you do is be 170 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:09,480 Speaker 1: threatened and pushed back into a closet to be feared, right, 171 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: the fear of standing into your wholeness as a human being, 172 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,960 Speaker 1: because they have now set up legislation that makes you 173 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: a target. And dare you be a teacher these days 174 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: who is progressive or just believes that education is about 175 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: critical thought and conversation, you can be sued. I can't 176 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: tell you how many times over the past couple of years, 177 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: whether it was from virtual schooling or now the threats 178 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,640 Speaker 1: of lawsuits in having open conversations, which is which is 179 00:13:43,679 --> 00:13:48,680 Speaker 1: the point? Right should be the point of education that 180 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: people are leaving the teaching profession in droves because one 181 00:13:55,360 --> 00:14:03,079 Speaker 1: they're underresourced and overworked. And then thirdly, you can now 182 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:08,080 Speaker 1: be the target your school, your administration, your person of 183 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 1: frivolous lawsuits because little kids will go home and say, oh, 184 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: Johnny has two dads, Well, how did you learn about that? 185 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: That's not what I sent you to school for, or 186 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: send you to school to learn your ABC's folks. The 187 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: fact is that anyone you do not have to be 188 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 1: an analyst or a strategist for the Democratic Party to 189 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: recognize that the creation of parental control and the boogeyman 190 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: of critical race theory was going to be set up 191 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:50,080 Speaker 1: by Republicans to stir the pot, hype up their base, 192 00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:54,080 Speaker 1: give them red meat to say that the Left has 193 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 1: gone too far and now they want to indoctrinate your children. 194 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:05,480 Speaker 1: And the biggest fear of any white evangelical Christian is homosexuality, 195 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:11,720 Speaker 1: is being transgender, is any of these wild things. Because 196 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:16,760 Speaker 1: instead of actually learning from and speaking two members of 197 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 1: the LGBTQ plus community, instead of having conversations about how 198 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: we hyper genderize and hyper sexualize our children before they're 199 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: able to actually roll over in the onesie that we 200 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: bought that says lady killer and man crusher, right before 201 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,960 Speaker 1: they're able to even do that. We have now shut 202 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: down the ability to have conversation about it. We saw 203 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:48,480 Speaker 1: this coming a mile away, but Democrats in charge, we're 204 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:55,360 Speaker 1: caught with there what heads down, hands in their pockets. Oh, 205 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,480 Speaker 1: I guess maybe if I don't see it, maybe if 206 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:00,960 Speaker 1: I pretend, it'll go away. And it didn't, it morphed 207 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 1: into something bigger. I say this because in my mind, 208 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: certainly we are a couple of years away from the 209 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four presidential race. But folks, we are only 210 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:20,160 Speaker 1: a couple of months away from midterms. And like I 211 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: continue to say, this administration has no wins right. The 212 00:16:25,560 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: only thing that they are fucking winning on is their 213 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 1: funding of Ukraine. That's where they're putting all of their energy, 214 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:42,280 Speaker 1: their talking points, and their resources. Biden yesterday announced that, oh, 215 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 1: we really need Congress to fund COVID nineteen because we 216 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: are entering a new season of this pandemic which will 217 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: never go away. Where be a point to the subvariant 218 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: of omicron is now is now the dominant strand in 219 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,760 Speaker 1: the US at a time when you have states that 220 00:16:59,800 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 1: are suing the CDC to roll back public transportation mask mandates. 221 00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: It's like we live in fucking crazy town. But instead 222 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: of being able to preempt to preempt what we already 223 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: know Republicans are going to use to attack us, and 224 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,920 Speaker 1: instead use their same methods to spread truth the way 225 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:28,240 Speaker 1: that they spread lies. We sit around and we come 226 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,040 Speaker 1: up with no defense whatsoever because we think that that's 227 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,960 Speaker 1: taking the fucking high road. Well, let me be then 228 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:38,960 Speaker 1: the first to sound the alarm the same way that 229 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 1: I read you all the quotes from Alexandria Ocasio Quartez. 230 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:51,000 Speaker 1: Democrats are in fucking trouble. And given what the Biden 231 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:57,679 Speaker 1: administration walked into in January twenty twenty one, post the 232 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:02,360 Speaker 1: fucking insurrection, you would think that Americans never in their 233 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:06,120 Speaker 1: wildest dreams would give a gabble or the Oval Office 234 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: back to Republicans. But here the fuck we are and 235 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:15,199 Speaker 1: why is that it isn't enough to just say that 236 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: it is easier for Republicans to spread lies than it 237 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: is for us to tell the truth, That it is 238 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:24,200 Speaker 1: easier to unite under a monolith than it is with 239 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:27,359 Speaker 1: such a diverse and big tent. That is the same 240 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: excuse I have heard Democrats make for decades. And guess what, 241 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,800 Speaker 1: the size of the tent and the diversity of the 242 00:18:34,840 --> 00:18:43,440 Speaker 1: tent isn't changing. Right, The desire to pander two white 243 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:47,120 Speaker 1: America is not going to get them to vote Democrat. 244 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: So it's best then that you would focus on the 245 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,880 Speaker 1: growing numbers of people of color in this country who 246 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,880 Speaker 1: have told you, in no uncertain harms, what the fuck 247 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:07,639 Speaker 1: they need? Voting rights, police reform, universal healthcare, relief in 248 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:15,680 Speaker 1: student loan debt, dealing with the climate crisis, a living wage. 249 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: These are all things that Alexandro Alcasio Cortez had laid 250 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: out and said, Look, you have margins in the Senate 251 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: that are way too close. In order for Biden's agenda 252 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,440 Speaker 1: to actually have gotten done right, we would have needed 253 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 1: a sixty threshold, right, meaning that there were the Senate 254 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: was divided with sixty Democrats and forty Republicans. And even 255 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:57,760 Speaker 1: still then, folks, I don't trust fucking Joe Mansion or 256 00:19:57,880 --> 00:20:03,639 Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema, So you really need to have the safety 257 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 1: of about sixty three so that those two motherfucker's votes 258 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,000 Speaker 1: wouldn't matter if they decided to jump ship like they 259 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 1: normally do and walk themselves over to the Republican tent. 260 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,600 Speaker 1: But that's never gonna happen. And why is that never 261 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 1: gonna happen? Oh, I don't know, because we put no 262 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:29,280 Speaker 1: effort into trying to gain ground over years right into 263 00:20:30,440 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: harder to win redder states by seeding them decades in 264 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 1: the making, the way that Republicans have always played the 265 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: long game. They are getting ready to celebrate a victory 266 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 1: that they have been fighting for for fifty years, which 267 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:59,120 Speaker 1: is the rollback of Roe v. Wade. Fifty years they 268 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: have been working on this, and for fifty years we 269 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: have told ourselves the lie Roe v. Wade is codified 270 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: and it's never going to go anywhere. But we did 271 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 1: no work in the courts to make sure that that 272 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:17,880 Speaker 1: was the case. And even even as Mitch McConnell during 273 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 1: the Obama years again said the quiet part out loud, 274 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you a one term president. I'm gonna 275 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: hold this Supreme Court seat hostage, which had never been done. 276 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 1: It's like, you know what, I you know what I 277 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:39,760 Speaker 1: think it is akin to, It's akin to dating somebody, right, 278 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:43,919 Speaker 1: being in a new relationship, and you seeing red flag 279 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 1: after red flag after red flag after red flag, but 280 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: you keep telling yourself, oh, no, they're good. You know 281 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: they have a good heart. They mean well, red flag, 282 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 1: red flag, red flag. Oh you know, they don't really 283 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: mean it right until then there's a huge blow up, 284 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: and then you want to say, oh, I was caught 285 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 1: off guard. I don't know where this came from. It 286 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 1: came out of the blue. Why, because you didn't pay 287 00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,200 Speaker 1: attention to the series of red flags that were going 288 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 1: up in front of you. That's why you're caught off guard. 289 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: That person had been showing you who they were, but 290 00:22:20,320 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: you decided to write a new story about their truth 291 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,920 Speaker 1: other than the truth that they were showing you. That's 292 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 1: what we do as democrats with the Republicans. They continue 293 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:36,160 Speaker 1: to tell us Democrats, you ain't shit. You're a bunch 294 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 1: of socialists, right, You're a bunch of lgbt Q loving 295 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 1: Muslim huggin, tree hugging liars that all belong in jail, 296 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:54,520 Speaker 1: that are throwing orgies and sniffing cocaine. According to Representative Cawthorne. Right, 297 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 1: So they tell you what they believe and think about 298 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. But we continue, as a Cassier Cortez said, 299 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,480 Speaker 1: to believe that we are dealing with a political landscape 300 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: that only requires two glasses of bourbon and a shared cigar. 301 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 1: We are so far removed from that reality. And frankly, 302 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: that reality should have never existed. It should have never 303 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 1: existed that two white men walk into a room, which 304 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:30,959 Speaker 1: sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke, and 305 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,879 Speaker 1: come out with some compromise. But always the compromise is 306 00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: always on black people and women's backs. That's always the 307 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:47,639 Speaker 1: compromise because they don't care. So when I see these 308 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: initial polling reports coming out, I want to ring an 309 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: alarm for every single Democrat, and people want to say 310 00:23:57,760 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 1: to me, as I posted it on Twitter, oh that 311 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: poll is bullshit, and oh blah blah blah blah blah, 312 00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: we shouldn't be who's getting pulled. Yes, those are all 313 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: the right questions to ask, but it doesn't make this 314 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:14,719 Speaker 1: any less truthful. Joe Biden. Joe Biden's approval ratings folks 315 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:22,640 Speaker 1: have sunk below Trump's lowest. That motherfucker put kids in cages, right, 316 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,280 Speaker 1: told people that he can grab women by the pussy 317 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 1: called the marchers in Charlottesville that killed a woman good people, 318 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:39,760 Speaker 1: that told the Proud Boys and the oath keepers to 319 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 1: stand back and stand by, that orchestrated an insurrection that 320 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:50,119 Speaker 1: cost people police officers who they say that they care about, 321 00:24:50,359 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 1: cost them their lives with hundreds more injured, and Joe 322 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: Biden is polling below Donald Trump. Now you can tell me, oh, Danielle, well, 323 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: we have more time to get things done, and what 324 00:25:12,359 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 1: I'm saying to you is that we don't. I want 325 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:22,119 Speaker 1: to hear from those of you in wokaf Nation who 326 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: live in Red states, and I want you to tell 327 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 1: me what you were seeing in terms of commercials right 328 00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: on television, and what you were hearing in terms of 329 00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,960 Speaker 1: commercials whether they be on your podcast or your radio 330 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: stations with regard to the upcoming midterms. I want you 331 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,560 Speaker 1: to tell me what you're seeing in your local newspapers 332 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: in these red states, because what I am saying to 333 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: you is that Republicans never stop campaigning, that they find 334 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: their latest thing to scare the shit out of white 335 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: people and get them wrapped up into a tizzy feeling like, 336 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:06,760 Speaker 1: oh my god, we're gonna lose our power. Oh my god, 337 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: we got to do something with these darkies and these 338 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: gays and these trans folks. And there's no pushback until when, 339 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: until what September October? And people will say, oh, well, 340 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,200 Speaker 1: most people don't dial into midterms until, you know, right 341 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: when they're getting ready to walk into the booth. And 342 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 1: what I'm saying to you is, no, they are fucking 343 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: tapped in. They're tapped into areas that Democrats are not 344 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 1: playing in. One of the reasons, folks, I'll tell you this. 345 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:49,800 Speaker 1: I've gone on TikTok right after my protest against TikTok 346 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: and feeling too old and this is for young people, 347 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: and what am I going to go on there and 348 00:26:54,359 --> 00:26:58,159 Speaker 1: do some dances? Well, guess what the reality is is 349 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 1: that the attention span, right, our attention span as humans 350 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: has shrunk, right. I used to make the joke that 351 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 1: people don't want to read. People don't want to read, 352 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: so you need to if you are writing writing an 353 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: opinion piece, it needs to be six hundred words are less, 354 00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 1: which is pretty much impossible when you're actually trying to 355 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:26,359 Speaker 1: dive into layered and complex issues. Six hundred words is 356 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,440 Speaker 1: not a lot of space. Then they'll tell you Okay, 357 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,560 Speaker 1: well launch a podcast, right, so you do that, then 358 00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: they tell you, well, people don't really listen for longer 359 00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:43,439 Speaker 1: than thirty minutes, right, So then okay, well we have Twitter, 360 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: so we'll give hot takes. Ooh, character count doesn't seem right, Okay, 361 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:56,400 Speaker 1: so then we'll do We'll go live, We'll go on 362 00:27:56,440 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: Instagram reels. Oh, sixty s and TikTok's and now sixty 363 00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 1: second tiktoks are being cut into like fifteen second tiktoks, 364 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,440 Speaker 1: three second tiktoks because that's how long you can hold 365 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:15,040 Speaker 1: people's attention for. So tell me how you convey to 366 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 1: people that democracy is dying right in front of your 367 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: very eyes while you're busy changing avatars to the Ukraine flag, right, 368 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 1: that we got American oligarchs here that are going unchecked. 369 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 1: Why we're fighting for other people's democracy, which is necessary. 370 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 1: We have decided that we don't need to fight for 371 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: our own at home, and in that time spent, people's 372 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:46,719 Speaker 1: attention span is shrinking. I went on TikTok because I'm like, 373 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 1: oh my god, so what do you do? Okay? You 374 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,120 Speaker 1: write for the people who still want to read, which 375 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,640 Speaker 1: is a shrinking number. You do long form audio right, 376 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: then they tell you, no, you got to do video 377 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: because people need to see. Then they tell you, oh, 378 00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: it's too long. But for those that are successful, they 379 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:17,000 Speaker 1: continue to adapt. Republicans have always adapted. They've always found 380 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:23,680 Speaker 1: a way to spread their lies far and wide. They 381 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:29,640 Speaker 1: got the best celebrity endorser of their bullshit, Donald Trump. 382 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,640 Speaker 1: Because what do Americans love above everything else? Wealthy people. 383 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 1: We want to be them and we want to hate them, right, 384 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: We want to know what it's like to walk through 385 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:48,160 Speaker 1: life and have people open doors for us and never 386 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 1: have to lift a finger, don't have to worry about 387 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,440 Speaker 1: a resume because the nepotism will catapult you anywhere that 388 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,400 Speaker 1: you need to go. Or your complexion because you have 389 00:29:56,480 --> 00:29:59,440 Speaker 1: the bank account to match, will get you into wherever 390 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: you go. There is We are so enthralled, right, we 391 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:12,560 Speaker 1: are enthralled. Enchanted with wealth in this country and celebrity. 392 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, what would it be like to have 393 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,840 Speaker 1: millions of people, millions of adoring fans, millions of people 394 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: walking into a stadium chanting your name, so we deitize them. Well, 395 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: with Donald Trump, the Republicans got all of the things 396 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:33,520 Speaker 1: that Americans love and love to hate rolled into one 397 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: disgusting orange package. What do democrats counter with another septanagarian 398 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: that's on their way to being an octanagarian that has 399 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: trouble connecting with people through communication. And this is not 400 00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: let me let me just stop right there, because this 401 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: is not a slight or a disc at anybody's speaking impediments. 402 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: I'm saying as the ability to gain energy for folks. 403 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,480 Speaker 1: You can stutter, you can do all of these things, 404 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 1: but if you don't know how to collect, you're connect right, 405 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: If you don't know how to connect with people, and 406 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,640 Speaker 1: you're still using words like malarkey, which is from like, 407 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 1: I don't even know what the fuck error that is from, 408 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,360 Speaker 1: to be honest, is it the swing error? I have 409 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 1: no idea, But again, the beautiful thing and and and 410 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,280 Speaker 1: here's here's where one of our many problems came in 411 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:50,040 Speaker 1: to play, is that why was Obama so successful? Right? 412 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 1: This man who had the name nobody could pronounce the 413 00:31:55,280 --> 00:32:00,560 Speaker 1: middle name that's spelled terrorism for most Americans of a 414 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: certain age. Who's saying, right? Who was black? Right? Which 415 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:11,640 Speaker 1: we know a majority of Americans hate by virtue of 416 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,120 Speaker 1: the anti blackness that we see run rampant in this 417 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:20,720 Speaker 1: country every single day, all day long. Why was he 418 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,760 Speaker 1: so successful because he was able to connect because he 419 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,920 Speaker 1: knew and he built a team and an engine of 420 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:32,120 Speaker 1: people that knew how to engage in culture, how to 421 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 1: engage in conversation, how to bring people along, make them 422 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:40,080 Speaker 1: part of community, make them want to feel like they 423 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,720 Speaker 1: are a part of something that is bigger than themselves. 424 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,040 Speaker 1: But we allowed that to be wrapped up in one 425 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,320 Speaker 1: person and one family and one moment, and then eight 426 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: years and it's gone. It's like it never happened. Because 427 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: instead of Democrats using this incredible energy and person and 428 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: turning it into their ideology, understanding how to utilize whatever 429 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: new platforms are gonna be popping up for people to connect. 430 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,400 Speaker 1: It isn't just enough right to take one clip over 431 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,040 Speaker 1: here and put it on a platform. No anyone will 432 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: tell you that who understands social media or at least 433 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:30,960 Speaker 1: tries to understand social media like I do, Because it 434 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:36,480 Speaker 1: is about how are people creating community, how are they 435 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 1: connecting through conversation? What does that look like? These are 436 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: the questions that Democrats don't ask and Republicans have figured out, 437 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,960 Speaker 1: how do they build their community? Through hate? How do 438 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:59,480 Speaker 1: they drive their voters to the poll through fear? What 439 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,640 Speaker 1: did Trump tap into that white people are pissed about 440 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 1: the demographic shift, that white people feel like the more 441 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,360 Speaker 1: folks that are allowed equity in this country, the lesser 442 00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,040 Speaker 1: of the pie that they get because they work from 443 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:20,760 Speaker 1: a scarcity ideology, and instead of us realizing that is true, 444 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:24,000 Speaker 1: democrats lie to themselves and say, no, where are people 445 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:29,360 Speaker 1: of great abundance? Know the fuck we're not? Actually where 446 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: the pull them up by the bootstraps, folks? Where the 447 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,080 Speaker 1: I did it on my own folks. There was no 448 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:41,920 Speaker 1: village behind me. I'm great because I'm great, As Donald 449 00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 1: Trump said, I alone can fix this toxic masculinity mixed 450 00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 1: with white supremacy, which is with the sprinkling right of 451 00:34:52,640 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: misogyny and a dollop of racism because they own stand 452 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:06,920 Speaker 1: their audience. And that is the key to success pretty 453 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,160 Speaker 1: much in anything that you were trying to sell, And 454 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. If you are in politics, you 455 00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:20,160 Speaker 1: are a fucking salesperson. You are trying to sell your ideas, 456 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: You're trying to sell your policies, You're trying to sell 457 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:31,360 Speaker 1: your ideology. And if you do not know what makes 458 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: people click yes, add to cart, what makes them say 459 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: I like this and now I want to comment and share. 460 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: If you don't understand how people tick, how can you 461 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 1: sell to them? You can't. And it isn't enough, folks 462 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:55,000 Speaker 1: to put people in. You know, back in the day, 463 00:35:55,120 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: in the beginning of my communications career, focus groups were 464 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:07,440 Speaker 1: like a big thing, right, and politicians, particularly those that 465 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 1: are from marginalized communities and I mean women, I mean 466 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,880 Speaker 1: people of color, I mean queer people, and anyone that 467 00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:21,640 Speaker 1: has overlapping identities, people with disabilities, and anyone with overlapping 468 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: identities rely on these focus groups where you pick a 469 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:32,839 Speaker 1: bunch of people from Middle America or real Americas as 470 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: folks like to say, because apparently the rest of us 471 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,960 Speaker 1: that live on the coast that fund Real America don't 472 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: get to be called actual Americans. I digress. We give 473 00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,600 Speaker 1: them a bunch of questions and then we tell them 474 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: to give us our opinion, give us their opinion. They 475 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:52,319 Speaker 1: provide their opinion, and then we take that information and 476 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,760 Speaker 1: we put together right like mister and missus and the 477 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:01,600 Speaker 1: potato person. We put together a candidate right based on 478 00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:08,080 Speaker 1: what this select group of people says about this, we 479 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:14,640 Speaker 1: don't allow it to be nimble, to be malleable. We 480 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 1: take it as gospel. And I say that those focus 481 00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: groups only matter, right if you are focusing all around 482 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,960 Speaker 1: different places, because people think differently, have different perspectives, if 483 00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:36,439 Speaker 1: you're coming from multi backgrounds. So if you don't know 484 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 1: what is getting people to add to cart, to like, 485 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,200 Speaker 1: to share, to show up to the polls, how do 486 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:53,400 Speaker 1: you message to them? You think that just shaming and 487 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:57,880 Speaker 1: blaming is going to do it, It doesn't. It doesn't. 488 00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:04,080 Speaker 1: You think that taking the moral high ground is going 489 00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:09,759 Speaker 1: to do it, It won't. And I'm not saying. You know, 490 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:14,760 Speaker 1: the funniest thing. If you guys ever want a funny 491 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:20,680 Speaker 1: Instagram account to follow, you should follow actress Gabrielle Union 492 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:26,800 Speaker 1: and former NBA star player Duane Wade's daughter, Kasia James, 493 00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,359 Speaker 1: who I think is like three years old right now, 494 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: and her her name, They referred to her as a 495 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:36,120 Speaker 1: shady baby because this little girl gives looks and shade 496 00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,160 Speaker 1: and at it and it's just the funniest fucking thing 497 00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:43,480 Speaker 1: since birth. And she's the one that came up with 498 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,040 Speaker 1: the when they go, when they go low, we belly 499 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,880 Speaker 1: crawl right, and it was like a funny thing to say, 500 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,840 Speaker 1: you know, coming out of the mouth of a baby, 501 00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 1: right like, And I gotta tell you that's how I feel. 502 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,879 Speaker 1: I remember when Michelle Obama said, when they go low, 503 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:09,400 Speaker 1: we go high. The higher road, without informed calculation and 504 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 1: a good understanding of who your audience is is not 505 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:18,120 Speaker 1: necessarily the road that you should be fucking taking. It 506 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,239 Speaker 1: just really isn't if you see the things that are 507 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:25,520 Speaker 1: trending right now, it is not niceties. So every single 508 00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,759 Speaker 1: time that Joe Biden wants to refer to Mitch McConnell 509 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:33,600 Speaker 1: as his friend, every single time right that Democrats want 510 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,440 Speaker 1: to refer to Republicans that literally would call you everything 511 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,560 Speaker 1: but a child of God as your friend, you are 512 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:44,120 Speaker 1: telling on yourself. You are telling the public that you 513 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,680 Speaker 1: do not know who your real enemy is. And if 514 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:49,040 Speaker 1: you don't know who your enemy is and you're the 515 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,000 Speaker 1: one on the battlefield, how the fuck am I supposed 516 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:56,040 Speaker 1: to know what makes you any different from the other guy. 517 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,560 Speaker 1: If this person is still your friend and they're doing 518 00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,279 Speaker 1: all of this hot shit, then what you're telling me 519 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:07,799 Speaker 1: is that there's no real difference between you two. We 520 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: have to tell the truth, and we have to figure 521 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,520 Speaker 1: out how to message that truth in a variety of 522 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,800 Speaker 1: packages for people to consume. And what the recent polling 523 00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:26,840 Speaker 1: shows me about where Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Kamala 524 00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:31,560 Speaker 1: Harris are right now should scare the shit out of 525 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:35,560 Speaker 1: everyone who gives a fuck about democracy. Now. I have 526 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:38,080 Speaker 1: said before I don't believe that Donald Trump will run. 527 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: But if Donald Trump is pumped up enough, right, if 528 00:40:44,160 --> 00:40:47,080 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice continues to be missing on a 529 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,920 Speaker 1: milk carton, if there are no indictments that come down 530 00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:56,080 Speaker 1: between now and midterms, between now and twenty twenty four, 531 00:40:57,280 --> 00:41:02,319 Speaker 1: Democrats are fucked. Are fucked in a I mean, it 532 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: is incomprehensible. There will be no return from this because, 533 00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:13,640 Speaker 1: like I've said before, when Republicans get the gavel back, 534 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:17,440 Speaker 1: they are going to break it and burn the Constitution 535 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 1: in a fucking bonfire at one of their rallies. That's 536 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:28,200 Speaker 1: what will happen. They are telling you right now they 537 00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:31,719 Speaker 1: want a Putin like figure to be their last and 538 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:36,560 Speaker 1: final president of these United States. So we do our 539 00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:41,440 Speaker 1: damnedest to pay attention to all of the fucking sirens 540 00:41:41,440 --> 00:41:50,440 Speaker 1: that are going off before it is too late. That 541 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,000 Speaker 1: is it for me today. Folks on woke f as always, 542 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,720 Speaker 1: Power to the people and to all the people. Power, 543 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:01,720 Speaker 1: Get woke and stay woke as fuck.