Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to book a f daily
Speaker 1: with me your girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker.
Speaker 1: You know, folks, last week I received a considerable amount
Speaker 1: of pushback on social media on a number of accounts,
Speaker 1: one of which being that I go way too hard
Speaker 1: on the Democratic Party and because of me, apparently solely,
Speaker 1: that Biden is going to lose in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: and Democrats are going to lose in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: and that I need to be a better cheerleader for
Speaker 1: the administration as opposed to telling people the truth. And
Speaker 1: you know, here's the thing that I feel right now
Speaker 1: about blind cheerleading. No one is stupid. It's not helpful.
Speaker 1: What is helpful or clear steps and clear action. What
Speaker 1: is helpful is getting people into a state of rage that, frankly,
Speaker 1: they should have been in in twenty fifteen when Donald
Speaker 1: Trump descended down the fucking escalators and into our lives
Speaker 1: and into the center of ruining our democracy. And here's
Speaker 1: the thing is that I listen to people on every
Speaker 1: day social media, people out in the streets. You listen
Speaker 1: to all of you who DM me and comments, and
Speaker 1: I am not the only one who is outraged. I
Speaker 1: am not the only one who is beside themselves right
Speaker 1: with the inaction that this administration has been showing. And
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I understand that the steps that need
Speaker 1: to be taken, they're not easy. That the steps that
Speaker 1: need to be taken can be pushed back in court.
Speaker 1: The thing that people need more than ever right now,
Speaker 1: as they are losing faith, as they believe that they
Speaker 1: literally are being pushed up against a corner, is that
Speaker 1: somebody is fighting for them. That even if it is
Speaker 1: that the Biden administration unleashes all of its top speakers,
Speaker 1: including the Vice President of the United States, puts out
Speaker 1: all of its spokespeople, and they start attacking the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: they start connecting the dots about why women and people
Speaker 1: with uteruses in this country are now up against the
Speaker 1: clock in terms of whether or not they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to maintain their bodily autonomy if they live
Speaker 1: in a blue state or how long they have in
Speaker 1: the red states. Right that they need to come out
Speaker 1: and say, you know, the reason why we have inflation
Speaker 1: is because of what Trump did when he was in office.
Speaker 1: Do you know the reason why that you now if
Speaker 1: you were living in a state that was actually providing
Speaker 1: free COVID tests, that you are no longer going to
Speaker 1: be able to act because the Republicans did not come
Speaker 1: forward and support a COVID relief package. Do you know
Speaker 1: why more people in America are going to get sick
Speaker 1: in the coming weeks as we are learning more and
Speaker 1: more about BA four and BA five, the next iteration,
Speaker 1: the fourth wave of COVID nineteen oh, because Republicans told
Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the population that COVID is a hoax.
Speaker 1: They don't need to wear a mask. Oh, it's their
Speaker 1: body and their choice when there's a deadly virus that
Speaker 1: they can spread to their community. But when I'm making
Speaker 1: a choice about my bodily autonomy and when and if
Speaker 1: and how I want to start a family, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, that's the government's decision. And call out the
Speaker 1: fucking hypocrisy. I think that the Democratic Party underestimates quite
Speaker 1: often how important telling the truth and hammering Republicans are. Instead,
Speaker 1: they want to compromise. Instead, they want to see what
Speaker 1: can we come to the table on. And I'm just like,
Speaker 1: what is it that you need to see that you
Speaker 1: haven't seen already? About Republicans. What is it that you
Speaker 1: need to hear that you haven't heard so far in
Speaker 1: the last six hearings of the one six House Commission,
Speaker 1: hearings that we have been privy to that have told
Speaker 1: us that it wasn't just a handful of people in
Speaker 1: the Trump administration, that it was essentially every single Republican
Speaker 1: in the House right that was working overtime to overthrow
Speaker 1: a free and fair election. That they were working in
Speaker 1: coordination with white supremacist groups, the Oath Keepers and the
Speaker 1: Proud Boys, and using white supremacist groups as their security.
Speaker 1: How much more information do you need because I haven't
Speaker 1: heard not one Republican in leadership, either Mitch McConnell or
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy come out strongly against the Proud Boys and
Speaker 1: the Oathkeepers as so far as I know. When it
Speaker 1: was brought up to list this groups, these groups as
Speaker 1: white supremacist groups as terrorist organizations, they backed away from that,
Speaker 1: Which leads me to this thought that I have been
Speaker 1: having for a while. You know that the United States
Speaker 1: has no distinction for domestic terrorism. They never have because apparently,
Speaker 1: in the eyes of the United States, the only people
Speaker 1: that are terrorists are black and brown people that are foreign, right,
Speaker 1: it is not the homegrown terrorists that they have been
Speaker 1: nurturing through their through Fox News, through public education system,
Speaker 1: through the Trump administration, through the Bush years, through Reaganism,
Speaker 1: like that we have in this country. We've just after
Speaker 1: one hundred years, recognized the Tulsa massacre. It took a
Speaker 1: century to do so. That was an rabid white mob
Speaker 1: that murdered three hundred black people and destroyed an entire town.
Speaker 1: And that's just one of the many that you will
Speaker 1: never learn about and hear about because our public education
Speaker 1: system and history is not set up that way to
Speaker 1: actually educate the public. What we are learning right over
Speaker 1: this pushback with CRT among other things that has happened,
Speaker 1: By the way, just a reminder that critical race theory
Speaker 1: is not something that is taught in K through twelve schools.
Speaker 1: But I digress. What we are learning is what a
Speaker 1: tool the public education system has been for the sustainability
Speaker 1: of white supremacy. Because when you are only teaching history
Speaker 1: and civics through the eyes of white cis header own
Speaker 1: Christian men, you are only going to get their point
Speaker 1: of view. And do you think that they're going to
Speaker 1: showcase themselves in a negative light. Do you think that
Speaker 1: the white manufacturers of these textbooks, right, and curriculum are
Speaker 1: going to showcase themselves in the wrong light. No, You
Speaker 1: get bills that came out of Florida, like Descantis's White
Speaker 1: Discomfort Bill. You get bills that come out of Texas
Speaker 1: and Alabama and Mississippi, right, all of it to protect
Speaker 1: white people from the truth, because you see, the reality
Speaker 1: is that black and brown people, bipoc people, black indigenous
Speaker 1: people of color across this nation have always had to
Speaker 1: educate their own young because the public education system was
Speaker 1: not designed for us, right, It was designed for white
Speaker 1: people and their preservation and their celebration of self. And
Speaker 1: so when you know that, then you have to ensure
Speaker 1: that your own kin will understand that the world is
Speaker 1: not safe for them, that this country is not safe
Speaker 1: for them, that there is rabbit anti blackness, that there
Speaker 1: is rabbit anti immigrant, anti indigenous people. Right. I was
Speaker 1: watching a video the other day on TikTok and it
Speaker 1: was by a Native American man, and he was talking
Speaker 1: about out all of these bills that are coming into
Speaker 1: play in places like Arizona. Not bills, but actual laws
Speaker 1: that were overrun by the Supreme Court and this last
Speaker 1: session that would take away the rights again, right of
Speaker 1: Native American people, who, as this video was proclaiming, have
Speaker 1: only had rights for the last fifty years. So it
Speaker 1: isn't just black people that they are coming for. It's
Speaker 1: everyone who does not fit into the white supremacist ideology.
Speaker 1: And you have that coming at you from the Supreme Court,
Speaker 1: you have that coming at you from Republican legislatures, you
Speaker 1: have that coming out from the entirety of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: So my question then is if Democrats can't do anything legislatively,
Speaker 1: if apparently the presidency is the weakest and the executive
Speaker 1: branch is the weakest branch of all of the three
Speaker 1: co equal branches of government, then the very least that
Speaker 1: you can do is begin a media campaign and education
Speaker 1: campaign that gets people riled up, that begins to start
Speaker 1: with connecting all of these dots instead of focusing on
Speaker 1: siloed issues. As the Republicans throw everything that they can
Speaker 1: at the wall because they're getting their wish list right,
Speaker 1: they're check in boxes. Right now, you have the Pennsylvania
Speaker 1: legislature in both the House and the state Senate that
Speaker 1: are about to amend their constitution in order to make
Speaker 1: it certain that people with uteruss in that state will
Speaker 1: never be able to access an abortion. Now, all of
Speaker 1: the laws that they have been trying to push the
Speaker 1: Democratic governor there has been vetoing, but they can't veto
Speaker 1: a constitutional change, right. So now this is going out
Speaker 1: to the people of Pennsylvania. But you combine that with
Speaker 1: voter suppression and maybe not, it's a motherfucking toss up, right.
Speaker 1: So what Republicans are letting us know is that it
Speaker 1: isn't just about their own states and states rights. It
Speaker 1: is a national agenda and they are going to see
Speaker 1: that through regardless of whether or not they take back
Speaker 1: the White House. Because what we are seeing over the
Speaker 1: past year plus, right that Biden has been in office,
Speaker 1: so let's call it the last eighteen months, what we
Speaker 1: are seeing is that you don't need the White House,
Speaker 1: you don't need the majority in the House and the
Speaker 1: Senate in order to be destructive. So how is it
Speaker 1: that Republicans have always known this and Democrats have always
Speaker 1: told their voters that, oh, we need the White House,
Speaker 1: And now the White House comes out and says, no,
Speaker 1: we need you to give us two more senators. That
Speaker 1: is my frustration. It's my frustration because I'm like, are
Speaker 1: we learning from this moment right now? Because frankly, we're
Speaker 1: not getting another bide at the apple. We all know that.
Speaker 1: And I keep saying it, and I keep using the
Speaker 1: same phrase because I still believe that there is a
Speaker 1: large swath at the population on top of these old
Speaker 1: school legislatures who are legislatures from another fucking time who
Speaker 1: believe that, oh, we'll lose this election in mid terms
Speaker 1: because that's always the way, but we'll get them again.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty four. There are multiple stories, multiple headline
Speaker 1: stories in major papers that are talking about how disgruntled
Speaker 1: and disheartened Democrats are with this administration that is not
Speaker 1: voting well for turnout. Now, we can hope and pray
Speaker 1: as we see numbers begin to shift that the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: the cult that they are, have finally overreached right, that
Speaker 1: they've gone a step too far in their quest for
Speaker 1: this crysto fascist, fundamentalist new world of America. That you
Speaker 1: can only push people so far before they begin to
Speaker 1: push back and burn shit down. I mean, that's just facts.
Speaker 1: That's not me advocating for violence in any which way.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying for a country who has been the
Speaker 1: barometer for what human rights, civil rights, and democracy look
Speaker 1: like around the world, and the rest of the world
Speaker 1: is seeing us have our rights rolled back, one Supreme
Speaker 1: Court decision at a time. There is only so much
Speaker 1: that the people are going to take before real action
Speaker 1: in the streets is taken. Because we've seen it over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. The Republican Party has been
Speaker 1: waging a silent civil war for over a decade. It
Speaker 1: began with the Tea Party. It began with Mitch McConnell
Speaker 1: saying that Barack Obama was going to be made a
Speaker 1: one term president. It began with the questioning the legitimacy
Speaker 1: and the birthright of our nation's first black president. All
Speaker 1: of this that we are experiencing right now is the
Speaker 1: white lash to the audacity of a black person to
Speaker 1: ascend to the highest office in this country. Now, while
Speaker 1: we were all busy celebrating and turning the White House
Speaker 1: rainbow in celebration of getting marriage equality, passing getting healthcare,
Speaker 1: and getting all of these big things done in those
Speaker 1: eight years, we were also never thinking, in our lives
Speaker 1: mean either that everything could be rolled back in just
Speaker 1: a couple of years, and I mean everything, like every
Speaker 1: rite that had been gained over nearly six fifty to
Speaker 1: sixty years would be done, and that the Supreme Court
Speaker 1: would come out by virtue of Clarence Thomas's concurrent opinion,
Speaker 1: where he would state in no unequivocal terms that every case,
Speaker 1: every landmark case, every case that had been precedent that
Speaker 1: had been about codifying our privacy as citizens of this
Speaker 1: free nation is up for graps. So the Republicans are
Speaker 1: telling you, oh, if we can overturn abortion, then we
Speaker 1: are absolutely going to come for birth control. We are
Speaker 1: absolutely going to come for same sex marriage. We are
Speaker 1: absolutely going to come for gay sex and once again
Speaker 1: criminalize the very existence of LGBTQ people in this country.
Speaker 1: And if you think that they're going to stop there,
Speaker 1: they are not. And So if this administration, if there
Speaker 1: are no real concrete steps that can be taken, the
Speaker 1: one step that they can take is alerting the American
Speaker 1: people to the evil that the Republican Party is. Is
Speaker 1: alerting the American people to point the finger at the
Speaker 1: reason why you are waking up every day not sure
Speaker 1: if you are dealing with anxiety depression, fear, what have you?
Speaker 1: That if there is no other issue right, if abortion
Speaker 1: is the issue that is just so you know, polarizing.
Speaker 1: How about this, how about you are no longer safe anywhere,
Speaker 1: and that a majority of the country, just like a
Speaker 1: majority of the country that believes that people should have
Speaker 1: bodily autonomy, also believe that you should be able to
Speaker 1: leave your house with your family or on your own
Speaker 1: and not fear for your life and wonder whether or
Speaker 1: not this trip to the grocery store, this trip to church,
Speaker 1: this trip to the synagogue and the mosque, this trip
Speaker 1: to the park, to the parade, to your main street
Speaker 1: is going to be your last. That if I were
Speaker 1: running the communications for the Democratic Party and for this
Speaker 1: White House, you wouldn't be able to look away from
Speaker 1: your phone from the television because I would start running
Speaker 1: ads and running a fucking campaign outright that equates the
Speaker 1: violence that we are seeing in our streets with the
Speaker 1: Republican Party. And I would begin to showcase, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: so and so who voted against being able to have
Speaker 1: an actual, real bipartisan gun legislation with teeth that would
Speaker 1: also take off assault rifles from the streets. Here they
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Speaker 1: They repeated the same lie about COVID nineteen being a hoax,
Speaker 1: which is why we only have close to seventy percent
Speaker 1: of the population that has been vaccinated, because there'll be
Speaker 1: twenty five to thirty percent that will never be vaccinated
Speaker 1: because they believe the lie about COVID nineteen. And as
Speaker 1: we get ready to prepare for yet a fourth wave right,
Speaker 1: we know that these new variants are once again worse
Speaker 1: than the last set of variants. So if you are
Speaker 1: not hammering in who is responsible for where we are
Speaker 1: right now, then all people are going to think is
Speaker 1: that I voted and my vote didn't matter. I voted,
Speaker 1: and honestly, my life is worse off now than it
Speaker 1: was a year ago. And there are way too many
Speaker 1: fucking people that are saying that right now, because take
Speaker 1: a look, we are starting to see, thank god, gas
Speaker 1: prices go down right gas in some places was that
Speaker 1: damn near six dollars a gallon? So who are they
Speaker 1: blaming for that? They're gonna blame Joe Biden. Why because
Speaker 1: Joe Biden ain't giving them somebody else to blame for it.
Speaker 1: This is a pr game as much as it is
Speaker 1: a real life game. Because if you are not talking
Speaker 1: and your opponent is doing all of the talking, and
Speaker 1: they got all of the lies and all of the
Speaker 1: gas light on their side, but you are armed with
Speaker 1: the truth, but you don't utilize, you don't weaponize that
Speaker 1: truth in a way that goes hard, then what the
Speaker 1: fuck are you doing? And this is what I continue
Speaker 1: to say, and people are coming from me from every
Speaker 1: fucking Engle talking about it. Don't come after Kamala, and
Speaker 1: don't come after Joe Biden, and don't do this and
Speaker 1: don't do that. Well, bitch, I tell the fucking truth.
Speaker 1: That's who the fuck I am. I am somebody that
Speaker 1: is not going to mince words because, guess what, no
Speaker 1: organization and no administration fucking owns me. So that's why
Speaker 1: I say it like it is because again, setting up
Speaker 1: abortion clinics on federal lands really difficult. Right going after
Speaker 1: and declaring essentially a guess a public health emergency is
Speaker 1: also really difficult because they're should be a public health
Speaker 1: emergency and this administration said, oh, well, they've toyed with
Speaker 1: that idea, but they don't want it to go through
Speaker 1: the courts, right, because this Supreme Court, of course, is
Speaker 1: going to take away all of their rights the same
Speaker 1: way that they just did with the EPA. The EPA
Speaker 1: was gutted during the Trump administration, and now the Supreme
Speaker 1: Court took away their ability to regulate emissions. So everything
Speaker 1: from abortion to climate change to voting rights and coming
Speaker 1: up coming up in the next session, right, is another
Speaker 1: case that is going to essentially make it so states
Speaker 1: once again get to make the decision about a national election.
Speaker 1: So what the fuck do you think that people in
Speaker 1: the battleground states that are run by Republican governors going
Speaker 1: to do you think that they're going to let their
Speaker 1: constituents voices be heard? I don't fucking think so. So
Speaker 1: everything is on the table. We are literally moving to
Speaker 1: a situation where we got nothing else to lose, right
Speaker 1: that if we do not fight, and if you can
Speaker 1: only use words and fucking pull out charts and info
Speaker 1: like I want the Biden administration to get everybody. I
Speaker 1: want them to get the people who are the top
Speaker 1: fucking messengers who are not afraid to tell the truth.
Speaker 1: I want them to get the people at Facebook, the
Speaker 1: people at TikTok, the people at Twitter, blanket fucking social media,
Speaker 1: blanket the airwaves. Right call in the big guns, because
Speaker 1: we're not getting another shot. So if you are not
Speaker 1: at a place where you are ready to leave it
Speaker 1: all on the fucking floor, then again, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: And that's the question that people keep asking themselves, and
Speaker 1: while Republicans funny enough, because he was another a funny
Speaker 1: thing that I saw recently where people are like, you know,
Speaker 1: what's crazy is that you have Republicans right now literally
Speaker 1: getting their wish lists presented to them every single week.
Speaker 1: They're wish lists of things that they have always wanted
Speaker 1: to eliminate and put women back in shackles. Put damn sure,
Speaker 1: put black people back in shackles, right, put everybody back
Speaker 1: in their place so they can stay at the place
Speaker 1: that they believe which is at the top, that they
Speaker 1: believe that they are owed. Right, that they are getting angrier,
Speaker 1: so they're winning, but they're also getting crazier. Right. They
Speaker 1: are running ads, political ads in places where Republican candidates
Speaker 1: are using their opponents as target practice, the pictures of them,
Speaker 1: that they are advocating for violence. I mean, did you
Speaker 1: hear that Representative Les Goo who got on the floor
Speaker 1: of the House talking about if the only way to
Speaker 1: keep her grandchildren safe would be to shoot them, she
Speaker 1: would because that's how much she believes in the Second Amendment,
Speaker 1: that she would shoot her own grandkids. That literally came
Speaker 1: out of her fucking mouth. They are getting so wild,
Speaker 1: They are getting so wild and so dangerous, and so
Speaker 1: I'm like, if you were not calling that out, if
Speaker 1: you are just seeking to ignore it and you think
Speaker 1: that that is going to stop them, will folks, then
Speaker 1: no one is fucking paying attention. Things are getting worse, right,
Speaker 1: these people. This is what I find so fucking rich
Speaker 1: right now too. So last week Brett Kavanaugh found himself
Speaker 1: at Morton Steakhouse in DC, and while he was dining,
Speaker 1: apparently waiting on his soufflet or whatever the fuck he
Speaker 1: was going to get for dessert, over a hundred protesters
Speaker 1: showed up at the restaurant and he ran out the
Speaker 1: back door because he's a fucking punk, right, And you
Speaker 1: have Republicans talking about civility and how people should not
Speaker 1: be protesting. He has a right to eat, And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you don't have a right to do shit, because you see,
Speaker 1: your decisions have turned this country upside down. So if
Speaker 1: you think that you're going to be able to dine
Speaker 1: or exist in peace, you have another fucking thing coming.
Speaker 1: So when I say that people need to be as
Speaker 1: motherfucking disruptive as possible, that's the hot shit that I'm
Speaker 1: talking about. Like, why should Brett Cavanaugh and the Thomases
Speaker 1: be able to exist in their peace right? Why should
Speaker 1: they be able to go about their normal day to
Speaker 1: day behavior. They should feel just as uneasy and unwell
Speaker 1: as they have caused for the of the fucking nation.
Speaker 1: So I think that it's rich that Republicans are talking
Speaker 1: about somebody's decorum when their constituents are the ones that
Speaker 1: have murdered and bombed abortion clinics. What right? The ones
Speaker 1: that stand outside, the ones that target women and people
Speaker 1: with uterus is the ones that literally are targeting trans
Speaker 1: kids across this country and criminalizing queer people. Oh but
Speaker 1: we should allow Brett Kavanaugh to finish his fucking meal.
Speaker 1: That's sexual predator rapist. Yeah, I don't think so. If
Speaker 1: that is the least that we can do, then I
Speaker 1: want all of these motherfuckers to be uncomfortable. I don't
Speaker 1: want them to walk through an airport to a restaurant,
Speaker 1: walk down the fucking streets, right because guess what, Unlike
Speaker 1: lady miss Ruby right from Georgia, who Donald Trump made
Speaker 1: a target of her and her daughter Shay who now
Speaker 1: we'll never touch an election in Georgia again, our damn
Speaker 1: near getting run out of the state. You see, these
Speaker 1: people can't afford protection, they can't afford security, and none
Speaker 1: is being provided to them. So if they have to
Speaker 1: live their lives in fear, I'm confused about why the
Speaker 1: people that are causing damage are supposed to be left
Speaker 1: with a world of ease. That's not how this works.
Speaker 1: If you decide to declare war on more than half
Speaker 1: of the country, you better knuckle up right. That's where
Speaker 1: I am, you see, because they are showing their hand.
Speaker 1: And this is why none of us should be walking
Speaker 1: around unprepared. We know what's coming. So if you have
Speaker 1: the resources to be able to fund local abortion clinics
Speaker 1: so that women and people with uteruses can at least,
Speaker 1: at the very least be able to access medical abortions right,
Speaker 1: be able to access abortion pills, then do so. Fund that.
Speaker 1: If you are able to organize protests right on a
Speaker 1: regular fucking basis, do that. Organize, get people registered to vote,
Speaker 1: ensure that people who thought they were on the roles
Speaker 1: in the last election actually remained there, because we know
Speaker 1: what Republicans do in between these elections. They just purge people.
Speaker 1: And we know that they particularly do it in states
Speaker 1: where you think, oh, I'm good, I voted in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: so I must be good to vote in twenty twenty two. No,
Speaker 1: you should be seeking out that ship now because nobody
Speaker 1: has same day registration. I'm just I find myself in
Speaker 1: such a place of extreme anger and also extreme numbness
Speaker 1: because every week I feel like we are just guarding ourselves,
Speaker 1: like in the fetal position, hoping that we don't take
Speaker 1: in another major hit. And what we want is for
Speaker 1: this administration and the Democratic establishment to be the one
Speaker 1: that is standing before us blocking those hits. And if
Speaker 1: you can't block it with actual action, then I want
Speaker 1: you to block it with words. I want you to
Speaker 1: come with the fucking fire right, I want you to elevate.
Speaker 1: Then those voices like AOC like Elizabeth Warren right, who
Speaker 1: are coming up with their plans and people will say, well,
Speaker 1: their plans won't work, then something's got to give people
Speaker 1: at least let us try, because if we try and fail,
Speaker 1: that is so much better than not trying at all.
Speaker 1: It gives people that are literally grasping for straws something
Speaker 1: to hold onto. And that's the thing that I don't
Speaker 1: feel like the establishment understands, is that you have to
Speaker 1: give people something because unlike the Republican cult, it isn't
Speaker 1: just the negation of the thing that gets Democrats to
Speaker 1: the polls. That's something that we know, right, people go
Speaker 1: to the polls, Democrats, Progressives, they go to the polls
Speaker 1: because they are hopeful about the change that will incur
Speaker 1: once they've been able to cast their ballot. But if
Speaker 1: you are basically saying that, well, there's nothing that we
Speaker 1: can really do, then what you were saying to people
Speaker 1: is that their vote is not enough. And if my
Speaker 1: vote is not enough, then why am I troubling myself
Speaker 1: in the first place. That's the line of thinking that
Speaker 1: needs to be readily disrupted. So if all you can
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