1 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to book a f daily 2 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,160 Speaker 1: with me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker. 3 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:24,200 Speaker 1: You know, folks, last week I received a considerable amount 4 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 1: of pushback on social media on a number of accounts, 5 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: one of which being that I go way too hard 6 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,919 Speaker 1: on the Democratic Party and because of me, apparently solely, 7 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,960 Speaker 1: that Biden is going to lose in twenty twenty four 8 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: and Democrats are going to lose in twenty twenty two, 9 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:46,919 Speaker 1: and that I need to be a better cheerleader for 10 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:51,640 Speaker 1: the administration as opposed to telling people the truth. And 11 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing that I feel right now 12 00:00:55,680 --> 00:01:02,040 Speaker 1: about blind cheerleading. No one is stupid. It's not helpful. 13 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,640 Speaker 1: What is helpful or clear steps and clear action. What 14 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,959 Speaker 1: is helpful is getting people into a state of rage that, frankly, 15 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 1: they should have been in in twenty fifteen when Donald 16 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:18,399 Speaker 1: Trump descended down the fucking escalators and into our lives 17 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 1: and into the center of ruining our democracy. And here's 18 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: the thing is that I listen to people on every 19 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,920 Speaker 1: day social media, people out in the streets. You listen 20 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: to all of you who DM me and comments, and 21 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: I am not the only one who is outraged. I 22 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: am not the only one who is beside themselves right 23 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: with the inaction that this administration has been showing. And 24 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: here's the thing. I understand that the steps that need 25 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 1: to be taken, they're not easy. That the steps that 26 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: need to be taken can be pushed back in court. 27 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: The thing that people need more than ever right now, 28 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: as they are losing faith, as they believe that they 29 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:09,480 Speaker 1: literally are being pushed up against a corner, is that 30 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:14,079 Speaker 1: somebody is fighting for them. That even if it is 31 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: that the Biden administration unleashes all of its top speakers, 32 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:23,079 Speaker 1: including the Vice President of the United States, puts out 33 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: all of its spokespeople, and they start attacking the Republican Party, 34 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 1: they start connecting the dots about why women and people 35 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 1: with uteruses in this country are now up against the 36 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:36,600 Speaker 1: clock in terms of whether or not they're going to 37 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: be able to maintain their bodily autonomy if they live 38 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,680 Speaker 1: in a blue state or how long they have in 39 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 1: the red states. Right that they need to come out 40 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:48,519 Speaker 1: and say, you know, the reason why we have inflation 41 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: is because of what Trump did when he was in office. 42 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,760 Speaker 1: Do you know the reason why that you now if 43 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:57,120 Speaker 1: you were living in a state that was actually providing 44 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 1: free COVID tests, that you are no longer going to 45 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: be able to act because the Republicans did not come 46 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: forward and support a COVID relief package. Do you know 47 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,359 Speaker 1: why more people in America are going to get sick 48 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:11,520 Speaker 1: in the coming weeks as we are learning more and 49 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 1: more about BA four and BA five, the next iteration, 50 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,200 Speaker 1: the fourth wave of COVID nineteen oh, because Republicans told 51 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the population that COVID is a hoax. 52 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,799 Speaker 1: They don't need to wear a mask. Oh, it's their 53 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 1: body and their choice when there's a deadly virus that 54 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: they can spread to their community. But when I'm making 55 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 1: a choice about my bodily autonomy and when and if 56 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:37,440 Speaker 1: and how I want to start a family, all of 57 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: a sudden, that's the government's decision. And call out the 58 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,480 Speaker 1: fucking hypocrisy. I think that the Democratic Party underestimates quite 59 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 1: often how important telling the truth and hammering Republicans are. Instead, 60 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 1: they want to compromise. Instead, they want to see what 61 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: can we come to the table on. And I'm just like, 62 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,640 Speaker 1: what is it that you need to see that you 63 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: haven't seen already? About Republicans. What is it that you 64 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: need to hear that you haven't heard so far in 65 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: the last six hearings of the one six House Commission, 66 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: hearings that we have been privy to that have told 67 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: us that it wasn't just a handful of people in 68 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: the Trump administration, that it was essentially every single Republican 69 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: in the House right that was working overtime to overthrow 70 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,440 Speaker 1: a free and fair election. That they were working in 71 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: coordination with white supremacist groups, the Oath Keepers and the 72 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 1: Proud Boys, and using white supremacist groups as their security. 73 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: How much more information do you need because I haven't 74 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 1: heard not one Republican in leadership, either Mitch McConnell or 75 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,480 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy come out strongly against the Proud Boys and 76 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,039 Speaker 1: the Oathkeepers as so far as I know. When it 77 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 1: was brought up to list this groups, these groups as 78 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 1: white supremacist groups as terrorist organizations, they backed away from that, 79 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: Which leads me to this thought that I have been 80 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:15,360 Speaker 1: having for a while. You know that the United States 81 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:21,120 Speaker 1: has no distinction for domestic terrorism. They never have because apparently, 82 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: in the eyes of the United States, the only people 83 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: that are terrorists are black and brown people that are foreign, right, 84 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: it is not the homegrown terrorists that they have been 85 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 1: nurturing through their through Fox News, through public education system, 86 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:40,000 Speaker 1: through the Trump administration, through the Bush years, through Reaganism, 87 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:47,520 Speaker 1: like that we have in this country. We've just after 88 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: one hundred years, recognized the Tulsa massacre. It took a 89 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:56,440 Speaker 1: century to do so. That was an rabid white mob 90 00:05:56,960 --> 00:06:00,919 Speaker 1: that murdered three hundred black people and destroyed an entire town. 91 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 1: And that's just one of the many that you will 92 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: never learn about and hear about because our public education 93 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: system and history is not set up that way to 94 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 1: actually educate the public. What we are learning right over 95 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: this pushback with CRT among other things that has happened, 96 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,040 Speaker 1: By the way, just a reminder that critical race theory 97 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,799 Speaker 1: is not something that is taught in K through twelve schools. 98 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: But I digress. What we are learning is what a 99 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: tool the public education system has been for the sustainability 100 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: of white supremacy. Because when you are only teaching history 101 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: and civics through the eyes of white cis header own 102 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: Christian men, you are only going to get their point 103 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 1: of view. And do you think that they're going to 104 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,760 Speaker 1: showcase themselves in a negative light. Do you think that 105 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: the white manufacturers of these textbooks, right, and curriculum are 106 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: going to showcase themselves in the wrong light. No, You 107 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:00,320 Speaker 1: get bills that came out of Florida, like Descantis's White 108 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,120 Speaker 1: Discomfort Bill. You get bills that come out of Texas 109 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: and Alabama and Mississippi, right, all of it to protect 110 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 1: white people from the truth, because you see, the reality 111 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 1: is that black and brown people, bipoc people, black indigenous 112 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:17,960 Speaker 1: people of color across this nation have always had to 113 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: educate their own young because the public education system was 114 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 1: not designed for us, right, It was designed for white 115 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:31,360 Speaker 1: people and their preservation and their celebration of self. And 116 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 1: so when you know that, then you have to ensure 117 00:07:35,640 --> 00:07:39,120 Speaker 1: that your own kin will understand that the world is 118 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: not safe for them, that this country is not safe 119 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 1: for them, that there is rabbit anti blackness, that there 120 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: is rabbit anti immigrant, anti indigenous people. Right. I was 121 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: watching a video the other day on TikTok and it 122 00:07:55,520 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 1: was by a Native American man, and he was talking 123 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: about out all of these bills that are coming into 124 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:07,280 Speaker 1: play in places like Arizona. Not bills, but actual laws 125 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 1: that were overrun by the Supreme Court and this last 126 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: session that would take away the rights again, right of 127 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 1: Native American people, who, as this video was proclaiming, have 128 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 1: only had rights for the last fifty years. So it 129 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:27,280 Speaker 1: isn't just black people that they are coming for. It's 130 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: everyone who does not fit into the white supremacist ideology. 131 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:35,439 Speaker 1: And you have that coming at you from the Supreme Court, 132 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: you have that coming at you from Republican legislatures, you 133 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: have that coming out from the entirety of the Republican Party. 134 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: So my question then is if Democrats can't do anything legislatively, 135 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,040 Speaker 1: if apparently the presidency is the weakest and the executive 136 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:52,960 Speaker 1: branch is the weakest branch of all of the three 137 00:08:53,240 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: co equal branches of government, then the very least that 138 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: you can do is begin a media campaign and education 139 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 1: campaign that gets people riled up, that begins to start 140 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: with connecting all of these dots instead of focusing on 141 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 1: siloed issues. As the Republicans throw everything that they can 142 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 Speaker 1: at the wall because they're getting their wish list right, 143 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: they're check in boxes. Right now, you have the Pennsylvania 144 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,640 Speaker 1: legislature in both the House and the state Senate that 145 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 1: are about to amend their constitution in order to make 146 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 1: it certain that people with uteruss in that state will 147 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: never be able to access an abortion. Now, all of 148 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 1: the laws that they have been trying to push the 149 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,000 Speaker 1: Democratic governor there has been vetoing, but they can't veto 150 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 1: a constitutional change, right. So now this is going out 151 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,719 Speaker 1: to the people of Pennsylvania. But you combine that with 152 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: voter suppression and maybe not, it's a motherfucking toss up, right. 153 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: So what Republicans are letting us know is that it 154 00:09:56,800 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: isn't just about their own states and states rights. It 155 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: is a national agenda and they are going to see 156 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: that through regardless of whether or not they take back 157 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: the White House. Because what we are seeing over the 158 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:14,040 Speaker 1: past year plus, right that Biden has been in office, 159 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: so let's call it the last eighteen months, what we 160 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: are seeing is that you don't need the White House, 161 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: you don't need the majority in the House and the 162 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: Senate in order to be destructive. So how is it 163 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: that Republicans have always known this and Democrats have always 164 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: told their voters that, oh, we need the White House, 165 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: And now the White House comes out and says, no, 166 00:10:36,040 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: we need you to give us two more senators. That 167 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,760 Speaker 1: is my frustration. It's my frustration because I'm like, are 168 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 1: we learning from this moment right now? Because frankly, we're 169 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 1: not getting another bide at the apple. We all know that. 170 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: And I keep saying it, and I keep using the 171 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 1: same phrase because I still believe that there is a 172 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 1: large swath at the population on top of these old 173 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: school legislatures who are legislatures from another fucking time who 174 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: believe that, oh, we'll lose this election in mid terms 175 00:11:10,480 --> 00:11:13,240 Speaker 1: because that's always the way, but we'll get them again. 176 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four. There are multiple stories, multiple headline 177 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:24,359 Speaker 1: stories in major papers that are talking about how disgruntled 178 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:28,839 Speaker 1: and disheartened Democrats are with this administration that is not 179 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 1: voting well for turnout. Now, we can hope and pray 180 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,320 Speaker 1: as we see numbers begin to shift that the Republican Party, 181 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 1: the cult that they are, have finally overreached right, that 182 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: they've gone a step too far in their quest for 183 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:51,520 Speaker 1: this crysto fascist, fundamentalist new world of America. That you 184 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: can only push people so far before they begin to 185 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 1: push back and burn shit down. I mean, that's just facts. 186 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: That's not me advocating for violence in any which way. 187 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: But I'm saying for a country who has been the 188 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:12,640 Speaker 1: barometer for what human rights, civil rights, and democracy look 189 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,320 Speaker 1: like around the world, and the rest of the world 190 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:20,000 Speaker 1: is seeing us have our rights rolled back, one Supreme 191 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: Court decision at a time. There is only so much 192 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:27,320 Speaker 1: that the people are going to take before real action 193 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:31,400 Speaker 1: in the streets is taken. Because we've seen it over 194 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: and over and over again. The Republican Party has been 195 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 1: waging a silent civil war for over a decade. It 196 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 1: began with the Tea Party. It began with Mitch McConnell 197 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 1: saying that Barack Obama was going to be made a 198 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 1: one term president. It began with the questioning the legitimacy 199 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:59,880 Speaker 1: and the birthright of our nation's first black president. All 200 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,800 Speaker 1: of this that we are experiencing right now is the 201 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: white lash to the audacity of a black person to 202 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: ascend to the highest office in this country. Now, while 203 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:16,040 Speaker 1: we were all busy celebrating and turning the White House 204 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:20,920 Speaker 1: rainbow in celebration of getting marriage equality, passing getting healthcare, 205 00:13:21,080 --> 00:13:23,839 Speaker 1: and getting all of these big things done in those 206 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:27,760 Speaker 1: eight years, we were also never thinking, in our lives 207 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: mean either that everything could be rolled back in just 208 00:13:32,080 --> 00:13:35,240 Speaker 1: a couple of years, and I mean everything, like every 209 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,800 Speaker 1: rite that had been gained over nearly six fifty to 210 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: sixty years would be done, and that the Supreme Court 211 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: would come out by virtue of Clarence Thomas's concurrent opinion, 212 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: where he would state in no unequivocal terms that every case, 213 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: every landmark case, every case that had been precedent that 214 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: had been about codifying our privacy as citizens of this 215 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: free nation is up for graps. So the Republicans are 216 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:16,600 Speaker 1: telling you, oh, if we can overturn abortion, then we 217 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: are absolutely going to come for birth control. We are 218 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 1: absolutely going to come for same sex marriage. We are 219 00:14:23,680 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 1: absolutely going to come for gay sex and once again 220 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:32,160 Speaker 1: criminalize the very existence of LGBTQ people in this country. 221 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: And if you think that they're going to stop there, 222 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:40,160 Speaker 1: they are not. And So if this administration, if there 223 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,840 Speaker 1: are no real concrete steps that can be taken, the 224 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,920 Speaker 1: one step that they can take is alerting the American 225 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: people to the evil that the Republican Party is. Is 226 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: alerting the American people to point the finger at the 227 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:01,960 Speaker 1: reason why you are waking up every day not sure 228 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: if you are dealing with anxiety depression, fear, what have you? 229 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: That if there is no other issue right, if abortion 230 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: is the issue that is just so you know, polarizing. 231 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: How about this, how about you are no longer safe anywhere, 232 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,840 Speaker 1: and that a majority of the country, just like a 233 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 1: majority of the country that believes that people should have 234 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: bodily autonomy, also believe that you should be able to 235 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 1: leave your house with your family or on your own 236 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,720 Speaker 1: and not fear for your life and wonder whether or 237 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,040 Speaker 1: not this trip to the grocery store, this trip to church, 238 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 1: this trip to the synagogue and the mosque, this trip 239 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: to the park, to the parade, to your main street 240 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: is going to be your last. That if I were 241 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: running the communications for the Democratic Party and for this 242 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,080 Speaker 1: White House, you wouldn't be able to look away from 243 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: your phone from the television because I would start running 244 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:05,960 Speaker 1: ads and running a fucking campaign outright that equates the 245 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:09,560 Speaker 1: violence that we are seeing in our streets with the 246 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:14,840 Speaker 1: Republican Party. And I would begin to showcase, oh, you know, 247 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,480 Speaker 1: so and so who voted against being able to have 248 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: an actual, real bipartisan gun legislation with teeth that would 249 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 1: also take off assault rifles from the streets. Here they 250 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 1: are along with how much they take from the NRA right, like, 251 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:36,320 Speaker 1: if you can do nothing that is going to keep 252 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:41,400 Speaker 1: us safe, then educate the people, because education at this 253 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:46,680 Speaker 1: point is power, and we know repetition works. Why Because 254 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:51,200 Speaker 1: the Republicans have been repeating the same fucking lie since 255 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: twenty twenty about the election being stolen from Donald Trump, 256 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: and the numbers of Republicans who believe that lie are 257 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: going up. It's no secret that the news is horsepill 258 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: hard to swallow. 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If you like what you hear, 279 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. 280 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: They repeated the same lie about COVID nineteen being a hoax, 281 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:42,280 Speaker 1: which is why we only have close to seventy percent 282 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: of the population that has been vaccinated, because there'll be 283 00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,440 Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty percent that will never be vaccinated 284 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: because they believe the lie about COVID nineteen. And as 285 00:18:53,600 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: we get ready to prepare for yet a fourth wave right, 286 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 1: we know that these new variants are once again worse 287 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,800 Speaker 1: than the last set of variants. So if you are 288 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 1: not hammering in who is responsible for where we are 289 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 1: right now, then all people are going to think is 290 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:19,040 Speaker 1: that I voted and my vote didn't matter. I voted, 291 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: and honestly, my life is worse off now than it 292 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,600 Speaker 1: was a year ago. And there are way too many 293 00:19:25,640 --> 00:19:31,280 Speaker 1: fucking people that are saying that right now, because take 294 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,719 Speaker 1: a look, we are starting to see, thank god, gas 295 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:39,480 Speaker 1: prices go down right gas in some places was that 296 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: damn near six dollars a gallon? So who are they 297 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:47,160 Speaker 1: blaming for that? They're gonna blame Joe Biden. Why because 298 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: Joe Biden ain't giving them somebody else to blame for it. 299 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 1: This is a pr game as much as it is 300 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: a real life game. Because if you are not talking 301 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:03,400 Speaker 1: and your opponent is doing all of the talking, and 302 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,159 Speaker 1: they got all of the lies and all of the 303 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: gas light on their side, but you are armed with 304 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 1: the truth, but you don't utilize, you don't weaponize that 305 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: truth in a way that goes hard, then what the 306 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,840 Speaker 1: fuck are you doing? And this is what I continue 307 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,200 Speaker 1: to say, and people are coming from me from every 308 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:25,479 Speaker 1: fucking Engle talking about it. Don't come after Kamala, and 309 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:27,959 Speaker 1: don't come after Joe Biden, and don't do this and 310 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,719 Speaker 1: don't do that. Well, bitch, I tell the fucking truth. 311 00:20:31,320 --> 00:20:33,960 Speaker 1: That's who the fuck I am. I am somebody that 312 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,600 Speaker 1: is not going to mince words because, guess what, no 313 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:41,160 Speaker 1: organization and no administration fucking owns me. So that's why 314 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:46,400 Speaker 1: I say it like it is because again, setting up 315 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:51,919 Speaker 1: abortion clinics on federal lands really difficult. Right going after 316 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,639 Speaker 1: and declaring essentially a guess a public health emergency is 317 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:01,120 Speaker 1: also really difficult because they're should be a public health 318 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 1: emergency and this administration said, oh, well, they've toyed with 319 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,360 Speaker 1: that idea, but they don't want it to go through 320 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:13,719 Speaker 1: the courts, right, because this Supreme Court, of course, is 321 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,360 Speaker 1: going to take away all of their rights the same 322 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:19,399 Speaker 1: way that they just did with the EPA. The EPA 323 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,840 Speaker 1: was gutted during the Trump administration, and now the Supreme 324 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 1: Court took away their ability to regulate emissions. So everything 325 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,040 Speaker 1: from abortion to climate change to voting rights and coming 326 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: up coming up in the next session, right, is another 327 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: case that is going to essentially make it so states 328 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: once again get to make the decision about a national election. 329 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: So what the fuck do you think that people in 330 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: the battleground states that are run by Republican governors going 331 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: to do you think that they're going to let their 332 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 1: constituents voices be heard? I don't fucking think so. So 333 00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 1: everything is on the table. We are literally moving to 334 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: a situation where we got nothing else to lose, right 335 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 1: that if we do not fight, and if you can 336 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,359 Speaker 1: only use words and fucking pull out charts and info 337 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 1: like I want the Biden administration to get everybody. I 338 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: want them to get the people who are the top 339 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 1: fucking messengers who are not afraid to tell the truth. 340 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 1: I want them to get the people at Facebook, the 341 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,359 Speaker 1: people at TikTok, the people at Twitter, blanket fucking social media, 342 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 1: blanket the airwaves. Right call in the big guns, because 343 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 1: we're not getting another shot. So if you are not 344 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,199 Speaker 1: at a place where you are ready to leave it 345 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: all on the fucking floor, then again, what are you doing? 346 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:56,560 Speaker 1: And that's the question that people keep asking themselves, and 347 00:22:56,720 --> 00:23:00,439 Speaker 1: while Republicans funny enough, because he was another a funny 348 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,639 Speaker 1: thing that I saw recently where people are like, you know, 349 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 1: what's crazy is that you have Republicans right now literally 350 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: getting their wish lists presented to them every single week. 351 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,560 Speaker 1: They're wish lists of things that they have always wanted 352 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,360 Speaker 1: to eliminate and put women back in shackles. Put damn sure, 353 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: put black people back in shackles, right, put everybody back 354 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: in their place so they can stay at the place 355 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,480 Speaker 1: that they believe which is at the top, that they 356 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:36,080 Speaker 1: believe that they are owed. Right, that they are getting angrier, 357 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: so they're winning, but they're also getting crazier. Right. They 358 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:48,959 Speaker 1: are running ads, political ads in places where Republican candidates 359 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: are using their opponents as target practice, the pictures of them, 360 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,760 Speaker 1: that they are advocating for violence. I mean, did you 361 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: hear that Representative Les Goo who got on the floor 362 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:05,600 Speaker 1: of the House talking about if the only way to 363 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: keep her grandchildren safe would be to shoot them, she 364 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: would because that's how much she believes in the Second Amendment, 365 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 1: that she would shoot her own grandkids. That literally came 366 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: out of her fucking mouth. They are getting so wild, 367 00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: They are getting so wild and so dangerous, and so 368 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: I'm like, if you were not calling that out, if 369 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 1: you are just seeking to ignore it and you think 370 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,080 Speaker 1: that that is going to stop them, will folks, then 371 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 1: no one is fucking paying attention. Things are getting worse, right, 372 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 1: these people. This is what I find so fucking rich 373 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:53,320 Speaker 1: right now too. So last week Brett Kavanaugh found himself 374 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:59,320 Speaker 1: at Morton Steakhouse in DC, and while he was dining, 375 00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:02,679 Speaker 1: apparently waiting on his soufflet or whatever the fuck he 376 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 1: was going to get for dessert, over a hundred protesters 377 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: showed up at the restaurant and he ran out the 378 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,560 Speaker 1: back door because he's a fucking punk, right, And you 379 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:19,399 Speaker 1: have Republicans talking about civility and how people should not 380 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,399 Speaker 1: be protesting. He has a right to eat, And I'm like, 381 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 1: you don't have a right to do shit, because you see, 382 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:30,280 Speaker 1: your decisions have turned this country upside down. So if 383 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: you think that you're going to be able to dine 384 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: or exist in peace, you have another fucking thing coming. 385 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: So when I say that people need to be as 386 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: motherfucking disruptive as possible, that's the hot shit that I'm 387 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:47,200 Speaker 1: talking about. Like, why should Brett Cavanaugh and the Thomases 388 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: be able to exist in their peace right? Why should 389 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 1: they be able to go about their normal day to 390 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:58,240 Speaker 1: day behavior. They should feel just as uneasy and unwell 391 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,119 Speaker 1: as they have caused for the of the fucking nation. 392 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: So I think that it's rich that Republicans are talking 393 00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 1: about somebody's decorum when their constituents are the ones that 394 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: have murdered and bombed abortion clinics. What right? The ones 395 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 1: that stand outside, the ones that target women and people 396 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,280 Speaker 1: with uterus is the ones that literally are targeting trans 397 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:27,240 Speaker 1: kids across this country and criminalizing queer people. Oh but 398 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 1: we should allow Brett Kavanaugh to finish his fucking meal. 399 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:36,480 Speaker 1: That's sexual predator rapist. Yeah, I don't think so. If 400 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,040 Speaker 1: that is the least that we can do, then I 401 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: want all of these motherfuckers to be uncomfortable. I don't 402 00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: want them to walk through an airport to a restaurant, 403 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:48,920 Speaker 1: walk down the fucking streets, right because guess what, Unlike 404 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:55,160 Speaker 1: lady miss Ruby right from Georgia, who Donald Trump made 405 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:59,920 Speaker 1: a target of her and her daughter Shay who now 406 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,000 Speaker 1: we'll never touch an election in Georgia again, our damn 407 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,200 Speaker 1: near getting run out of the state. You see, these 408 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 1: people can't afford protection, they can't afford security, and none 409 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 1: is being provided to them. So if they have to 410 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 1: live their lives in fear, I'm confused about why the 411 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 1: people that are causing damage are supposed to be left 412 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,680 Speaker 1: with a world of ease. That's not how this works. 413 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: If you decide to declare war on more than half 414 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:31,960 Speaker 1: of the country, you better knuckle up right. That's where 415 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,720 Speaker 1: I am, you see, because they are showing their hand. 416 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,000 Speaker 1: And this is why none of us should be walking 417 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: around unprepared. We know what's coming. So if you have 418 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 1: the resources to be able to fund local abortion clinics 419 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: so that women and people with uteruses can at least, 420 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:55,120 Speaker 1: at the very least be able to access medical abortions right, 421 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: be able to access abortion pills, then do so. Fund that. 422 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: If you are able to organize protests right on a 423 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 1: regular fucking basis, do that. Organize, get people registered to vote, 424 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 1: ensure that people who thought they were on the roles 425 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: in the last election actually remained there, because we know 426 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: what Republicans do in between these elections. They just purge people. 427 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: And we know that they particularly do it in states 428 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,440 Speaker 1: where you think, oh, I'm good, I voted in twenty twenty, 429 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,040 Speaker 1: so I must be good to vote in twenty twenty two. No, 430 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 1: you should be seeking out that ship now because nobody 431 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:48,840 Speaker 1: has same day registration. I'm just I find myself in 432 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: such a place of extreme anger and also extreme numbness 433 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:01,760 Speaker 1: because every week I feel like we are just guarding ourselves, 434 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,680 Speaker 1: like in the fetal position, hoping that we don't take 435 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: in another major hit. And what we want is for 436 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:14,680 Speaker 1: this administration and the Democratic establishment to be the one 437 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,320 Speaker 1: that is standing before us blocking those hits. And if 438 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,240 Speaker 1: you can't block it with actual action, then I want 439 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,719 Speaker 1: you to block it with words. I want you to 440 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 1: come with the fucking fire right, I want you to elevate. 441 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: Then those voices like AOC like Elizabeth Warren right, who 442 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: are coming up with their plans and people will say, well, 443 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:41,360 Speaker 1: their plans won't work, then something's got to give people 444 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: at least let us try, because if we try and fail, 445 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,960 Speaker 1: that is so much better than not trying at all. 446 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: It gives people that are literally grasping for straws something 447 00:29:53,800 --> 00:29:56,760 Speaker 1: to hold onto. And that's the thing that I don't 448 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 1: feel like the establishment understands, is that you have to 449 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 1: give people something because unlike the Republican cult, it isn't 450 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 1: just the negation of the thing that gets Democrats to 451 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: the polls. That's something that we know, right, people go 452 00:30:15,800 --> 00:30:18,840 Speaker 1: to the polls, Democrats, Progressives, they go to the polls 453 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: because they are hopeful about the change that will incur 454 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 1: once they've been able to cast their ballot. But if 455 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: you are basically saying that, well, there's nothing that we 456 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 1: can really do, then what you were saying to people 457 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: is that their vote is not enough. And if my 458 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: vote is not enough, then why am I troubling myself 459 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 1: in the first place. That's the line of thinking that 460 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 1: needs to be readily disrupted. So if all you can 461 00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:55,080 Speaker 1: do is fire with fire, then do that. Because frankly, 462 00:30:55,120 --> 00:31:00,600 Speaker 1: dear friends, doing nothing shouldn't be a fucking option right now. 463 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: It should never be, particularly when the Republican cult has 464 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: declared war. 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