WEBVTT - F*** Around and Find Out Season 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Bokay f Daily with 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:19.480 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.599 I want to introduce you to a new season right 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:27.000 that we are in. It is called Fuck Around and 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.520 find Out Season. If you were not aware of the 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:35.840 beginning of that season, it happened on Sunday when Will 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.640 Smith smacked the shit out of Chris Rock. Why do 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:43.239 I say that, because, folks, we are in a wake 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.200 up call moment, not because I condone violence, but because 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.360 we are in a wake up call moment for Democrats, 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:54.280 for the Party, for our democracy, for the upcoming midterms, 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:58.720 for the twenty twenty four election cycle. Now what has 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.800 me in this Fuck Around and find Out Season? Well, 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:06.200 when I saw the headline of a new pole in 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.600 The Hill in the Hill dot com and the title 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:15.319 read this pole Colin Trump leads Biden Harris in twenty 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:20.440 twenty four matchups. And here's what is said. Former President 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:24.360 Trump is leading President Biden in a hypothetical twenty twenty 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.560 four matchup, according to a new Harvard Caps Harris poll 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:34.160 surveyed released exclusively to The Hill. If the twenty twenty 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:38.480 four presidential election were held right now, The poll finds 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:43.480 Trump getting forty seven percent compared to Biden's forty one percent. 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:49.160 Twelve percent of voters are undecided now. Vice President Harris's 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:54.200 performs even worse. In a hypothetical matchup with Trump, forty 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:57.800 nine percent said that they would choose Trump, while thirty 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:02.280 eight percent said that they would support Harris. The poll, 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:08.240 while very early, pretends trouble for Democrats in twenty twenty four. So, folks, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.360 you have been watching me right and listening to me 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:16.520 long enough to know that I don't necessarily put a 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:20.079 lot of merit in polls. I say that they are 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:25.680 like reading tea leaves right, that you can't definitively understand 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:30.120 where people's mindset is. But it does provide a snapshot, 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.520 and if the polls are not working in your favor, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:38.240 a window, right, a snapshot, and a window into some 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:40.480 of the pivots and moves that need to be made 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:42.880 in order for you not to careen off of a 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.760 fucking cliff. Well, here's what I will say about this pole. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.520 This is a major fucking or should be should be 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.080 a major fucking wake up call for Democrats. Why do 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:02.160 I say that because last year, right in twenty twenty one, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:06.520 the election for Virginia's governor, many said, was going to 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:12.080 be like a canary in the coal mine, right, Like 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.760 a canary in the coal mine, that race in Virginia 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:22.360 between Yuncan and Terry mccauloff was going to signal to 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.680 Democrats one way or another what needs to be done. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.839 And what I realize about Democrats is they look at 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:36.080 polling in the wrong way with Yuncan and mccauloff. They said, oh, well, 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.560 here we have this white guy in a vest from Patagonia, 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.880 so we'll get another white guy that has some name 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.320 recognition in Virginia because he was already governor. But he 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.400 was governor during a long begotten time, a long bygone time, 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.320 right twenty fourteen, when the world was much different than 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.520 it is right now. The thing that Democrats weren't paying 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.040 attention to, however, was how critical race theory and quote 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.800 unquote parental control was actually doing in the state of Virginia. 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:13.200 Democrats scoffed, right, scoffed at the idea that book burning 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:15.480 was going to return and that Yancan was going to 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.440 be able to win on the idea of parental control 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.520 and on this made up idea around critical race theory 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:27.560 being taught in K through twelve schools. All he needed 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.800 to do, right again, don't let the truth get in 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:35.800 the way of a good story, is Republicans Moniker, because 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.880 we know and they know that critical race theory is 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.320 not taught in K through twelve schools. But the polling 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:46.000 was showing that more and more parents, those that are 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.120 quote unquote reasonable, we're going to be swayed by this 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:54.279 messaging because there has always been a fear, whether whether 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:58.880 you are a staunch conservative or some middle of the rotor, 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:06.200 that public schools have the opportunity to quote unquote indoctrinate children. Well, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:10.040 you know me and I've said that absolutely, public education 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.960 has all been about indoctrinization as well as gas lighting. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.720 Why do I say that, Well, because you have a 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.840 very narrow story of America is that is taught through 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:28.240 one specific lens, which is that of white America. They 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.880 have set themselves up as the conqueror. They have set 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.600 themselves up as the hero. They have set themselves up 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:39.840 as you know, the strength and the power all by 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:45.600 virtue of white men, the founding fathers. Right, Well, critical 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:50.760 race theory in law school elective classes offers up theories 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:56.200 that are through a non white lens right ideology and 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.200 thinking and narrative that does not center white men and 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:07.880 whiteness in the American story. It tells other stories. But 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.719 when Pauling started to show that even the most reasonable 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.360 person was saying, well, I don't want my child indoctrinated, 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.960 and I should have the ability to say what should 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:23.400 and should not be taught in my child's schools, I'm uncomfortable. Right. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:30.200 It goes back to how Virginia and Texas and Florida 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.240 have been running in tandem with one another, which is 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:38.960 about white comfort. Well, the reality is is that anybody 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.839 with eyes in a brain could have seen that this 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.800 was going to be the new rallying cry for Republicans. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.840 And if you didn't have eyes and ears and could 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:54.920 interpret what was going on, Donald Trump once again said 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.680 the quiet part out loud when he told his followers 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.640 at a recent rally that they needed to quote lay 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:06.279 down their lives for critical race theory, meaning that they 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.880 need to show up at these school board meetings, They 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:10.960 need to show up at their kids' school. They need 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.760 to threaten these teachers and threaten the administration into continuing 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:19.080 to brainwash their children into believing that whiteness is superior 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:24.280 and that anything that deviates from that narrative is dangerous. 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:30.000 Right that we don't want a society of critical thinkers? Right, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.720 what would that mean? What would that do? So we 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.200 need to make sure that they continue the tradition of 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:44.160 generational brainwashing and make that their rallying cry. Well, guess what, folks, 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:49.360 it worked. And Democrats, throughout that entire campaign, when they 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:54.720 could have used Virginia as a testing ground for messaging 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.680 to see how it was going to land, decided to 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:03.200 do what just completely ignore it, say that it was ridiculous, right, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.080 shrug and make jokes. Well, while we were busy as 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.800 Democrats being glib and taking the quote unquote high road, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:16.640 those motherfuckers were in a belly crawl to call anything 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:21.680 and anyone right racist and instead of us calling out 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.240 the idea of white comfort above all else. And how 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:30.000 it should not be that history is taught solely through 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:33.640 the lens of the oppressor, but that the oppressed also 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:38.480 have a narrative in this story of how America came 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.439 to be and how many of the policies that marginalized 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:50.480 communities endure today stem from the origination of America. But 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:54.760 you see, you don't want people to connect those dots, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:59.240 so you continue to gaslight the public into believing that 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.040 parental voices the way to go. And when you have 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:08.199 no alternative narrative to go on, then you continue to 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:12.120 do what my favorite movie, the American President said, in 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:17.720 the absence, in the absence of substance, people will drink 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:23.040 the fucking sand. So what the Republican Party offers to 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:31.120 America is a mirage. It is a mirage of morality 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.960 that is being offered to the public that they are 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:39.760 couching in parental control. Right, you have the bill which 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.680 was just signed into law in Florida that don't say 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.200 gay bill that has you not speaking anything about gender, 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:52.960 gender identity, right difference, LGBTQ, people, transfu, all of it. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.920 They sign that shit into law. So when you have 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:00.199 kids who are coming into the classroom that have two 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.319 moms two dads, right, that have a trans DAT or 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.920 a trans mom, that are not going to see themselves 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.280 or hear themselves in the projects that are being done. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:15.680 Because what the Santists wants to do is to ensure 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:22.240 that the mainstream that heteronormativity and that overt sexualization of 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:27.480 children is okay so long as it is in hetero. 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:32.480 It's steeped in heterosexuality. Because here's the thing that always 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:37.080 gets me. And again, without pushback, they take this narrative 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:42.520 and run. Why do I say the oversexualization of children? Well, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.800 because you can walk into any major big box store 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.199 you're going to buy a gift for your friend or 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.640 your friend or your sister or your family member's new child. 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:00.160 You can walk into any store that sells baby clothing 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:07.600 and you will come across onesies newborn clothing that says 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:14.560 things like lady Killer right, that says things like you 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:26.600 know heartbreaker right, that says things like you know Daddy's Princess. Right. Folks, 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.520 We teach children before they are even able to hold 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:39.120 their heads up what blue stands for, what pink stands for, 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.760 what masculinity looks like, and what femininity should look like, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.240 and that you should not color outside those boxes are lines. 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.800 And we tell little girls that when a boy likes you, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:59.280 he abuses you, he assaults you physically. All Look at Johnny, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.120 he hit Susie on the head. He must like her. 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:08.240 You see, straight parents sit a baby boy and a 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:12.160 baby girl on a blanket together, and people are like, 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:16.000 oh my god, look at the cutest couple hashtag couple goals. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:21.080 Do you think that that shit is normal? Because in 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.840 all honesty, when you look at it, when you pull 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:30.280 yourself out and you zoom in and you're like, huh, 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.360 what are we doing here? That's what it means to 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:41.840 begin to sexualize babies. But we think that what sexualizes 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:47.160 them is to teach them that not everybody falls into 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:54.680 these binaries. Right then, instead of having exploratory conversations, what 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.600 the Descantises and the Trumps of the world and the 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.560 Abbots of the world would rather you do is be 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:09.480 threatened and pushed back into a closet to be feared, right, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.400 the fear of standing into your wholeness as a human being, 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.960 because they have now set up legislation that makes you 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.960 a target. And dare you be a teacher these days 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:25.120 who is progressive or just believes that education is about 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:32.280 critical thought and conversation, you can be sued. I can't 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.920 tell you how many times over the past couple of years, 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.040 whether it was from virtual schooling or now the threats 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:43.640 of lawsuits in having open conversations, which is which is 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:48.680 the point? Right should be the point of education that 0:13:48.880 --> 0:13:54.400 people are leaving the teaching profession in droves because one 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:03.079 they're underresourced and overworked. And then thirdly, you can now 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:08.080 be the target your school, your administration, your person of 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.840 frivolous lawsuits because little kids will go home and say, oh, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:18.800 Johnny has two dads, Well, how did you learn about that? 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.640 That's not what I sent you to school for, or 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:28.120 send you to school to learn your ABC's folks. The 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:33.120 fact is that anyone you do not have to be 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.920 an analyst or a strategist for the Democratic Party to 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:42.880 recognize that the creation of parental control and the boogeyman 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.840 of critical race theory was going to be set up 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.080 by Republicans to stir the pot, hype up their base, 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.080 give them red meat to say that the Left has 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:58.440 gone too far and now they want to indoctrinate your children. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:05.480 And the biggest fear of any white evangelical Christian is homosexuality, 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:11.720 is being transgender, is any of these wild things. Because 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:16.760 instead of actually learning from and speaking two members of 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:22.280 the LGBTQ plus community, instead of having conversations about how 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:27.560 we hyper genderize and hyper sexualize our children before they're 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.720 able to actually roll over in the onesie that we 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:35.440 bought that says lady killer and man crusher, right before 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.960 they're able to even do that. We have now shut 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.760 down the ability to have conversation about it. We saw 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:48.480 this coming a mile away, but Democrats in charge, we're 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:55.360 caught with there what heads down, hands in their pockets. Oh, 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.480 I guess maybe if I don't see it, maybe if 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.960 I pretend, it'll go away. And it didn't, it morphed 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:07.240 into something bigger. I say this because in my mind, 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:12.000 certainly we are a couple of years away from the 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.920 twenty twenty four presidential race. But folks, we are only 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:20.160 a couple of months away from midterms. And like I 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:25.520 continue to say, this administration has no wins right. The 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.440 only thing that they are fucking winning on is their 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:34.560 funding of Ukraine. That's where they're putting all of their energy, 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:42.280 their talking points, and their resources. Biden yesterday announced that, oh, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:46.880 we really need Congress to fund COVID nineteen because we 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.400 are entering a new season of this pandemic which will 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.040 never go away. Where be a point to the subvariant 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.960 of omicron is now is now the dominant strand in 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.760 the US at a time when you have states that 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:05.760 are suing the CDC to roll back public transportation mask mandates. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.240 It's like we live in fucking crazy town. But instead 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:16.760 of being able to preempt to preempt what we already 0:17:16.800 --> 0:17:20.040 know Republicans are going to use to attack us, and 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:24.920 instead use their same methods to spread truth the way 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.240 that they spread lies. We sit around and we come 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.040 up with no defense whatsoever because we think that that's 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.960 taking the fucking high road. Well, let me be then 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.960 the first to sound the alarm the same way that 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:44.159 I read you all the quotes from Alexandria Ocasio Quartez. 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:51.000 Democrats are in fucking trouble. And given what the Biden 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:57.679 administration walked into in January twenty twenty one, post the 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:02.360 fucking insurrection, you would think that Americans never in their 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.120 wildest dreams would give a gabble or the Oval Office 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:10.359 back to Republicans. But here the fuck we are and 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:15.199 why is that it isn't enough to just say that 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.320 it is easier for Republicans to spread lies than it 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.359 is for us to tell the truth, That it is 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:24.200 easier to unite under a monolith than it is with 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:27.359 such a diverse and big tent. That is the same 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.560 excuse I have heard Democrats make for decades. And guess what, 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:34.800 the size of the tent and the diversity of the 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:43.440 tent isn't changing. Right, The desire to pander two white 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:47.120 America is not going to get them to vote Democrat. 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:53.760 So it's best then that you would focus on the 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.880 growing numbers of people of color in this country who 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.880 have told you, in no uncertain harms, what the fuck 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:07.639 they need? Voting rights, police reform, universal healthcare, relief in 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:15.680 student loan debt, dealing with the climate crisis, a living wage. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:21.840 These are all things that Alexandro Alcasio Cortez had laid 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:26.600 out and said, Look, you have margins in the Senate 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:32.880 that are way too close. In order for Biden's agenda 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:37.440 to actually have gotten done right, we would have needed 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:47.600 a sixty threshold, right, meaning that there were the Senate 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:54.080 was divided with sixty Democrats and forty Republicans. And even 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.760 still then, folks, I don't trust fucking Joe Mansion or 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:03.639 Kirsten Cinema, So you really need to have the safety 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:09.200 of about sixty three so that those two motherfucker's votes 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:12.000 wouldn't matter if they decided to jump ship like they 0:20:12.040 --> 0:20:15.560 normally do and walk themselves over to the Republican tent. 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.600 But that's never gonna happen. And why is that never 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:22.840 gonna happen? Oh, I don't know, because we put no 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:29.280 effort into trying to gain ground over years right into 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:36.639 harder to win redder states by seeding them decades in 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.280 the making, the way that Republicans have always played the 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:47.680 long game. They are getting ready to celebrate a victory 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:52.399 that they have been fighting for for fifty years, which 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:59.120 is the rollback of Roe v. Wade. Fifty years they 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:02.320 have been working on this, and for fifty years we 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:06.200 have told ourselves the lie Roe v. Wade is codified 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:09.560 and it's never going to go anywhere. But we did 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:13.439 no work in the courts to make sure that that 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.880 was the case. And even even as Mitch McConnell during 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:21.960 the Obama years again said the quiet part out loud, 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.560 I'm gonna make you a one term president. I'm gonna 0:21:24.600 --> 0:21:28.800 hold this Supreme Court seat hostage, which had never been done. 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:33.840 It's like, you know what, I you know what I 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:39.760 think it is akin to, It's akin to dating somebody, right, 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:43.919 being in a new relationship, and you seeing red flag 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:46.919 after red flag after red flag after red flag, but 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:51.760 you keep telling yourself, oh, no, they're good. You know 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:56.040 they have a good heart. They mean well, red flag, 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:58.680 red flag, red flag. Oh you know, they don't really 0:21:58.760 --> 0:22:04.440 mean it right until then there's a huge blow up, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:06.480 and then you want to say, oh, I was caught 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:08.359 off guard. I don't know where this came from. It 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.640 came out of the blue. Why, because you didn't pay 0:22:10.680 --> 0:22:13.200 attention to the series of red flags that were going 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.960 up in front of you. That's why you're caught off guard. 0:22:18.000 --> 0:22:20.240 That person had been showing you who they were, but 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:24.600 you decided to write a new story about their truth 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.920 other than the truth that they were showing you. That's 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:31.880 what we do as democrats with the Republicans. They continue 0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:36.160 to tell us Democrats, you ain't shit. You're a bunch 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:42.359 of socialists, right, You're a bunch of lgbt Q loving 0:22:42.600 --> 0:22:47.359 Muslim huggin, tree hugging liars that all belong in jail, 0:22:49.040 --> 0:22:54.520 that are throwing orgies and sniffing cocaine. According to Representative Cawthorne. Right, 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:59.640 So they tell you what they believe and think about 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:05.240 the Democratic Party. But we continue, as a Cassier Cortez said, 0:23:05.240 --> 0:23:09.480 to believe that we are dealing with a political landscape 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.440 that only requires two glasses of bourbon and a shared cigar. 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:20.360 We are so far removed from that reality. And frankly, 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.480 that reality should have never existed. It should have never 0:23:24.520 --> 0:23:27.640 existed that two white men walk into a room, which 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:30.959 sounds like the beginning of a really bad joke, and 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:34.879 come out with some compromise. But always the compromise is 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:39.240 always on black people and women's backs. That's always the 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:47.639 compromise because they don't care. So when I see these 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:53.640 initial polling reports coming out, I want to ring an 0:23:53.680 --> 0:23:57.720 alarm for every single Democrat, and people want to say 0:23:57.760 --> 0:23:59.840 to me, as I posted it on Twitter, oh that 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:02.800 poll is bullshit, and oh blah blah blah blah blah, 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.760 we shouldn't be who's getting pulled. Yes, those are all 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.080 the right questions to ask, but it doesn't make this 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:14.719 any less truthful. Joe Biden. Joe Biden's approval ratings folks 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:22.640 have sunk below Trump's lowest. That motherfucker put kids in cages, right, 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:26.280 told people that he can grab women by the pussy 0:24:27.560 --> 0:24:34.240 called the marchers in Charlottesville that killed a woman good people, 0:24:35.600 --> 0:24:39.760 that told the Proud Boys and the oath keepers to 0:24:39.920 --> 0:24:45.600 stand back and stand by, that orchestrated an insurrection that 0:24:45.760 --> 0:24:50.119 cost people police officers who they say that they care about, 0:24:50.359 --> 0:25:00.240 cost them their lives with hundreds more injured, and Joe 0:25:00.240 --> 0:25:09.760 Biden is polling below Donald Trump. Now you can tell me, oh, Danielle, well, 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.320 we have more time to get things done, and what 0:25:12.359 --> 0:25:17.600 I'm saying to you is that we don't. I want 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:22.119 to hear from those of you in wokaf Nation who 0:25:22.640 --> 0:25:26.240 live in Red states, and I want you to tell 0:25:26.320 --> 0:25:31.200 me what you were seeing in terms of commercials right 0:25:31.320 --> 0:25:34.520 on television, and what you were hearing in terms of 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.960 commercials whether they be on your podcast or your radio 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:41.480 stations with regard to the upcoming midterms. I want you 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:44.560 to tell me what you're seeing in your local newspapers 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.960 in these red states, because what I am saying to 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:55.000 you is that Republicans never stop campaigning, that they find 0:25:55.080 --> 0:25:58.280 their latest thing to scare the shit out of white 0:25:58.320 --> 0:26:03.240 people and get them wrapped up into a tizzy feeling like, 0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:06.760 oh my god, we're gonna lose our power. Oh my god, 0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.800 we got to do something with these darkies and these 0:26:09.880 --> 0:26:19.080 gays and these trans folks. And there's no pushback until when, 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:24.040 until what September October? And people will say, oh, well, 0:26:24.080 --> 0:26:28.200 most people don't dial into midterms until, you know, right 0:26:28.200 --> 0:26:30.080 when they're getting ready to walk into the booth. And 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:33.400 what I'm saying to you is, no, they are fucking 0:26:33.400 --> 0:26:38.800 tapped in. They're tapped into areas that Democrats are not 0:26:38.880 --> 0:26:42.480 playing in. One of the reasons, folks, I'll tell you this. 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:49.800 I've gone on TikTok right after my protest against TikTok 0:26:49.920 --> 0:26:52.800 and feeling too old and this is for young people, 0:26:52.920 --> 0:26:54.320 and what am I going to go on there and 0:26:54.359 --> 0:26:58.159 do some dances? Well, guess what the reality is is 0:26:58.359 --> 0:27:03.560 that the attention span, right, our attention span as humans 0:27:03.840 --> 0:27:07.320 has shrunk, right. I used to make the joke that 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:10.359 people don't want to read. People don't want to read, 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:14.000 so you need to if you are writing writing an 0:27:14.040 --> 0:27:17.439 opinion piece, it needs to be six hundred words are less, 0:27:18.520 --> 0:27:21.639 which is pretty much impossible when you're actually trying to 0:27:21.680 --> 0:27:26.359 dive into layered and complex issues. Six hundred words is 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:30.440 not a lot of space. Then they'll tell you Okay, 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:34.560 well launch a podcast, right, so you do that, then 0:27:34.600 --> 0:27:37.320 they tell you, well, people don't really listen for longer 0:27:37.359 --> 0:27:43.439 than thirty minutes, right, So then okay, well we have Twitter, 0:27:43.600 --> 0:27:50.800 so we'll give hot takes. Ooh, character count doesn't seem right, Okay, 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:56.400 so then we'll do We'll go live, We'll go on 0:27:56.440 --> 0:28:03.280 Instagram reels. Oh, sixty s and TikTok's and now sixty 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:06.800 second tiktoks are being cut into like fifteen second tiktoks, 0:28:06.840 --> 0:28:10.440 three second tiktoks because that's how long you can hold 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:15.040 people's attention for. So tell me how you convey to 0:28:15.160 --> 0:28:18.040 people that democracy is dying right in front of your 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:25.280 very eyes while you're busy changing avatars to the Ukraine flag, right, 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:30.280 that we got American oligarchs here that are going unchecked. 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:36.760 Why we're fighting for other people's democracy, which is necessary. 0:28:36.960 --> 0:28:38.920 We have decided that we don't need to fight for 0:28:38.960 --> 0:28:42.400 our own at home, and in that time spent, people's 0:28:42.400 --> 0:28:46.719 attention span is shrinking. I went on TikTok because I'm like, 0:28:46.760 --> 0:28:49.280 oh my god, so what do you do? Okay? You 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.120 write for the people who still want to read, which 0:28:52.200 --> 0:28:56.640 is a shrinking number. You do long form audio right, 0:28:56.840 --> 0:28:58.840 then they tell you, no, you got to do video 0:28:58.920 --> 0:29:02.200 because people need to see. Then they tell you, oh, 0:29:02.280 --> 0:29:09.880 it's too long. But for those that are successful, they 0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:17.000 continue to adapt. Republicans have always adapted. They've always found 0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:23.680 a way to spread their lies far and wide. They 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:29.640 got the best celebrity endorser of their bullshit, Donald Trump. 0:29:30.160 --> 0:29:34.640 Because what do Americans love above everything else? Wealthy people. 0:29:36.920 --> 0:29:42.440 We want to be them and we want to hate them, right, 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:44.840 We want to know what it's like to walk through 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:48.160 life and have people open doors for us and never 0:29:48.240 --> 0:29:50.400 have to lift a finger, don't have to worry about 0:29:50.400 --> 0:29:53.440 a resume because the nepotism will catapult you anywhere that 0:29:53.520 --> 0:29:56.400 you need to go. Or your complexion because you have 0:29:56.480 --> 0:29:59.440 the bank account to match, will get you into wherever 0:29:59.480 --> 0:30:05.240 you go. There is We are so enthralled, right, we 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:12.560 are enthralled. Enchanted with wealth in this country and celebrity. 0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:15.320 Oh my goodness, what would it be like to have 0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:19.840 millions of people, millions of adoring fans, millions of people 0:30:19.960 --> 0:30:26.320 walking into a stadium chanting your name, so we deitize them. Well, 0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:30.040 with Donald Trump, the Republicans got all of the things 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:33.520 that Americans love and love to hate rolled into one 0:30:33.960 --> 0:30:47.240 disgusting orange package. What do democrats counter with another septanagarian 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:50.920 that's on their way to being an octanagarian that has 0:30:50.960 --> 0:30:56.680 trouble connecting with people through communication. And this is not 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.280 let me let me just stop right there, because this 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:06.160