WEBVTT - Mourning the Democratic Party 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.440 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.279 me your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Bunker, Folks, 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:23.320 I want to start off today with being a bit 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.000 vulnerable with all of you. You know, I'm a person 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:32.240 that has spent their career working in democratic politics and 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:39.120 democratic policy advancing the equity of marginalized communities, particularly the 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.720 LGBTQ community, particularly the Black community, but by virtue of that, 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:53.600 all other intersectional spaces. And when I criticize this administration, 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.960 when I criticize the Democratic Party, what it seems to 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:01.880 be getting lost with the trolls on social media who 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.560 lack the ability to understand nuance and lack the ability 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:09.000 to understand the grief that people feel in this moment 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.399 is that it comes from a place of deep sadness. 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.440 My anger and rage, as I've come to understand, it 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.600 isn't just anger and rage. Rage comes from a place 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:31.800 of deep emotion. And I went to Washington, DC, worked 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.959 on Capitol Hill, worked in the classroom, did policy work, 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.880 advocated for same sex marriage, and did all of these 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:49.000 things because I believed in the possibility of this country. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.360 What does it mean to believe in possibility? It believes 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.400 that we don't just throw people away. We don't just 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.800 throw whole fucking communities away. We don't toss up our 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.600 hands and say, what do you want me to do? 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.000 When we're in power, it means that you utilize every 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:09.360 tool in your fucking toolbox. It means that you work 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.000 for the betterment, and that when you see things that 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:17.760 are so tragically wrong that you call them out not 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:21.400 just as a call out to wag fingers, but as 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.839 a call out to open up people's eyes to recognize 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.560 the power that they have to make this country better. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:34.639 But without eyes being opened, without people being able to 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:41.040 turn their rage right into the possibility into working towards progress, 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:46.200 and not just being ostriches and burying our heads in 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.000 the sand or laying down our accouch and saying that 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.080 we're too exhausted to move, Which is okay, It is 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.880 okay to break down, because the moment is calling for 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:59.679 the heightened emotions that we are all experiencing that we can't. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:06.600 But the very idea that to be critiquing this administration 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:10.040 and calling out their apathy and their inaction is somehow 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.240 me advocating for people not to show up at the 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.520 polls is somehow me advocating that I don't believe in 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.639 this country just goes to show me how little people 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:26.120 fucking know in general. Right, But what is disheartening is 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:32.480 how much you can work and dedicate and advocate and 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:38.720 how in small moments people cease to silence you. And 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.920 this is what I know to be true about me. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:44.720 Is in the coming week or so, I'm taking a 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:50.960 break from Twitter in particular because I think that much 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.560 as many guests have come on the show and said, 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.440 and many people I know have experienced after they've experienced 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:01.600 a considerable amount of backlash that results in people calling 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.640 for your rape or your death or for you to 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.520 be silenced, is that clearly you've hit a fucking nerve. 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:12.480 And I'm okay with that. But what I'm not okay 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:16.040 with is putting my own emotional health and mental health 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.400 and well being up for target practice to fucking trolls. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:25.119 But what I realize is that the more that other 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.880 people are listening to you, the more that other people 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:33.000 are connecting with your message, the scarier the dissenters become. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.560 And so what I want to offer to folks is 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:42.280 that we will all in our own platforms in our 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:46.040 own spaces receive a lot of pushback. We'll receive a 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.960 lot of pushback because that's what happens when you speak 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.360 the truth. That's what happens when you challenge the status 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.880 quo and you challenge norms. So I'm not just going 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.159 to tell people, oh, just get out the vote and 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.719 just vote more is if that is going to solve 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.800 our problems. It's not voting sure as fuck is not 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.400 going to solve our problems. But I do say that 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.560 I understand now for those that have reasoning behind not 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.400 showing up at the polls why they don't, But that 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:17.520 to me is just casting a ballot for Republicans because 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.520 they're sixty five and older crowd always votes. They never 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.800 miss a fucking election, not from the Schoolhouse to the 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.640 State House and to the White House. They don't miss one. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.600 So what I will say is that I need for 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:38.200 this administration to offer up something, even it is to 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.760 lay out in no uncertain terms, where the fucking blame 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.320 and rage that we are feeling should be pointed. Right, 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:51.560 our economy is struggling. Why is that because of decisions 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:57.760 that Republicans and Donald Trump made, So say that right, 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:02.240 women and people with uterus are angry because they've lost 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.320 bodily autonomy and now they are in fear for their 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.840 lives and the fear for the lives of their family right, 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.680 So say that, and say who was able to steal 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.400 to Supreme Court seats and put three Republicans on the 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.080 bench that would have us in this moment, Tell the 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:24.480 fucking truth. That's all that I am advocating for is 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:29.080 for this administration to turn on their microphone, to turn 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.080 on their bully pulpit, and instead of continuing to make 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:39.440 fucking deals with Mitch McConnell and this rabid, fucking radicalized cult, 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.839 to engage the people and tell them the truth. You 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.320 cannot just tell people to vote and not tell them 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.120 who to vote for. You cannot just say, oh, you 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.760 must choose me because the other guy is bad. You 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.000 need to say, in no uncertain terms, why the other 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.359 guy is bad, Why they are not only bad, but 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.760 they are a danger to democracy, That they are a 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:01.960 danger to your ability to put food on the table, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.200 that they are danger to your safety. But if you 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:11.560 are not while you have this platform called the White House, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:16.200 using every opportunity to tell the American people the fucking 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.200 truth about who they are dealing with, and that we 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:21.720 are set up in two camps right now. And it 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:26.240 isn't Democrat and Republican, right, it is patriot and it 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.280 is traitor. That is what somebody had sent to me 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.720 that apparently Ulysses S. Grant had said at one time, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.080 that is the world that we are living in. So 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.040 tell the fucking truth. Don't tell me that I have 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.160 friends from across the aisle, because those motherfuckers try to 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.920 build a gallows and kill there are other friends from 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:50.560 across the aisle that Donald Trump said, oh, they're not 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.960 here to harm me at the Stop to Steel rally 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.560 when he knew that he was sending people that were 0:07:56.640 --> 0:08:01.080 hyped up on racial animus and racism and misogyny and 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:05.320 toxic masculinity armed and directing them towards the Capitol building. 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.480 So tell the truth. Don't think that by doing so, oh, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.960 somehow you're impeding on an investigation that we don't even 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.600 really know is happening outside of what is happening in Georgia. 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:21.000 Thank god for a G. Willis, who seems to be 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:26.559 the only person working right now. So what I say 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.640 when I am angry, when I am filled with rage, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.920 which is on a daily so much so that it 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.880 is exhausting, so much so that I am waking up 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.760 in tears and going to bed in tears, because if 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:42.120 I have to hear about one more shooting of a 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.160 black person, if I have to hear about one more 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.120 story of a young girl who was raped and is 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.160 now have to figure out where they're going to get 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:52.880 an abortion, if I have to hear one more of 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.680 these things, I'm going to lose my fucking mind, because 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.320 they're all happening, and they're all happening at the same 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:04.040 goddamn time, and this administration still thinks that we are 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:08.120 in this twentieth century rational place when we are clearly 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:17.960 not so. 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Folks, I want to welcome our friend back, 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:36.119 host of Make It Plain, our friend, Reverend Mark Thompson, 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:42.640 on our monthly conversation with regard to the upcoming midterms, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.960 the current cultural climate in this nation, which is to 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:52.000 use the word fraught, Mark would be at the understatement 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.839 of the year. You have been back and forth to Washington, 0:11:55.960 --> 0:12:01.680 d C. Protesting with regard to a portion protesting with 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.760 regard to voting rights. Mark, I just want to start 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:11.600 off with the you know, with asking you this. You 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:14.800 have been doing this a long time. You have been 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:20.520 on the front lines literally marching for your entire professional career. 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.800 How do you see, if you see it at all, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:35.040 this time different than the decades before. Wow, We're first 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.400 of all, always good to be with you and the 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:41.680 Woka family. It's funny. I was just talking to someone 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:48.760 about this earlier today. In the past, we had some 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.679 insurmountable victories as well. I mean I came along at 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:56.480 a time when we forced Ronald Reagan to sign the 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:01.920 King Holliday Bill, where we stopped, when we stopped the 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:07.840 nomination of Robert Bourke, when we forced the Congress past 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.600 sanctions on South Africa and then forced the Congress to 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:17.280 override Reagan's veto. That's a power that we had as 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:20.560 a movement, as an African American movement, as a civil 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.800 rights movement, as a human rights movement, as a progressive 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.079 or liberal movement. I think the difference now is is 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.880 that finally America and we all are faced with the 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:40.080 reality that the government is practically no longer functional at all. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:49.880 The filibuster has nullified both Houses of Congress, the politicization 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.680 of the Supreme Court and its appointments. The Supreme Court 0:13:54.120 --> 0:14:02.760 has become an absolutely partisan body. And the executive branch, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.360 I think people are learning for the first time, really 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:10.160 without the legislative branch has very little power. There's only 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.520 so much a president can do with executive orders. So 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:19.000 if the president can do much, if Congress has been nullified, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:28.760 if the Supreme Court is now become a hyperpartisan, right 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:33.440 wing white supremacist institution, going back to the days of plessing. 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:41.080 If not earlier, then what can be done. There's nothing 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:46.360 that can be done unless we replace everyone in office. 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:53.680 But it's hard to do that without motivation. And I 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:59.400 think that the onus has fallen upon Democrats to give 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.360 us some of the nation. They just haven't been very 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:04.040 good at it and have not shown a lot of 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.000 interest in doing it. I think there's a level of 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:14.359 intellectualism there. Well. The Democratic Party, franklies run by consultants, 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:19.320 and the consultant class is intellectual, and so they're thinking 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.480 is everybody knows and understands what they know that if 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.520 people don't get out and vote, it's going to get worse. 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.720 But people like you and me, Danielle, people who listen 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:33.480 to our shows are not like everyone else. You know, 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.600 we have a keen interest in this. We follow it. 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.920 Most people don't. Most people are living their lives trying 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.320 to make it and they don't know. And all they 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:48.880 see is high gas prices, and for black people, all 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.760 they see is a sister in jail and Russian nothing 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:53.680 big done about it. So what does that look like? 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:58.560 That looks like nineteen eighty high gas prices, people in jail, 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:04.240 hostages in Iran and you've I've learned from that. Jimmy 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.680 Carter couldn't turn that around. They might have been a 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.480 way to do it, but was every avenue exhausted to 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.080 prevent it? Probably not. And I think that's part of 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.720 the Democratic Party culture, just kind of you know, well 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.240 hoped and you know, you know, kind of use I 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.600 guess the rhythm method, thinking that that's kind of motive 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:35.000 they voted rather than actually organizing more. And you know, 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.240 consultants will say to Biden, well, you don't want to 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:39.840 look too radical and you don't want to offend independence. 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.120 But I think there's a way to have both. People 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:48.240 want to see some strength, psyche something. And you know, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:52.040 I even had people who would never criticize the Democratic president, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.080 never criticized your baby, come and say, man, why don't 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.760 he say something? Why don't he just you know, and 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:04.280 it's it's not happening, unfortunate. And those who would think 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:09.280 that that type of criticism is anti party or discouraging 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.520 people from voting, No, Because I'm telling you something else too. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:17.159 NFL just cut a deal with ice Cube. Ice Cube 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.080 is being paid to suppress voters. We aren't supressed voters. 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:26.760 There's an active movement to suppress voters. Us saying, Biden, 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:31.919 speak up more, exhaust everything at your disposal is not 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.280 voting suppression. That's to help get the vote out. It's 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:35.439 one of the things I'll say, and I think I've 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:40.399 said this to you before and to others, even a 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.399 show of strength, even if he didn't go through with it, 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.040 to say that he's gonna do what was done during 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:54.639 reconstruction and what was done during but eisenhow did Little Rock, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.600 Arkansas did de serregate schools. He's going to send federal 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.800 troops into the South to make sure everybody has the 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.160 right to vote exercise. If co Voting Rights Act isn't gone, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:10.000 there's still things that can be enforceable, right because we 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.200 are in in a seditious moment, We're in an insurrectionist moment, 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.040 so why not do that? Just like you know, there's 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:19.480 been the consideration, as there should be as to whether 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:24.440 or not military basis can provide reproductive and abortion services 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:27.479 to women beyond what the Supreme Court has done. I mean, 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:29.840 I think everything has to be on the table. Even 0:18:29.920 --> 0:18:34.879 for that to be discussed out loud by the White 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:38.920 House would at least I think give people some reason. Okay, well, 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.359 you know they're still fighting. We can fight too, there's 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.920 still something to fight for. We haven't all because I 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.200 otherwise I think people are going to be demoralized. I mean, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.320 and I think to that point that people are all 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:54.080 ready demoralized. I think that you know, what I have 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.800 been advocating for and getting a tremendous amount of pushback in, 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:04.280 is this stand up and say something, Say something other 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.800 than we find out that Joe Biden is still fucking 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:12.040 cutting deals with Mitch McConnell right to put in another 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:17.680 forced birth federal judge in Kentucky, and you're hearing rumors 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:23.239 about that happening. How does this president still negotiate with 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.960 Mitch McConnell, who is in the minority, who has shown 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:31.520 himself to be a bad faith actor. When you hear 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:36.600 when the people who aren't paying attention all the time, 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.240 and so they have two clips, mark, they have the 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:42.480 clip of the Supreme Court saying women and people with 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.760 uter says you no longer have bodily autonomy. Boom, that's 0:19:45.800 --> 0:19:48.600 one clip. Then they got another clip where you hear 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:52.159 that the President of the United States is negotiating with 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:56.120 the man that stole two Supreme Court seats. Mitch McConnell 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.960 didn't ask to negotiate with a damned person during the 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:01.640 Obama administration. As a matter of fact, he said, I'm 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.400 going to make you a one term president and then 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.199 set it again to Joe Biden. Joe Biden's response to 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:09.639 that is negotiation and saying that Mitch McConnell is a 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:13.040 rational Republican. So if I'm a person that is not 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.560 readily paying attention every day because I'm struggling to put 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:19.119 gas in my tank and food on my table and 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:24.240 medicine in my medicine chest, then how is it that 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.520 this Democratic Party thinks that they are going to win? Right? 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:31.240 They keep saying, well, we're going to concentrate on kitchen 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:33.960 table issues, and I said, well, I said this the 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:37.560 other day on MSNBC. There is no other kitchen table 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.639 issue than the strength of our democracy and then the 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.080 ability to actually have set people around the kitchen table, 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.960 because the kitchen table is about economy. And if people 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:50.680 are being forced out of the workplace because they're being 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:53.560 forced to birth children that they cannot afford and do 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:58.040 not want, how is that not a kitchen table issue. 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:01.840 How is not something that you are willing to stand 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:05.520 up forcefully, even if it's in words only. But to 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:12.639 your point, exhaust every avenue. Yeah, those those are valid points. 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:20.080 And again, you know, I think that the structure in 0:21:20.119 --> 0:21:24.480 the White House is may very well be be failing 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:29.479 Joe Biden. Here's an opportunity that I think that they're missing. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:34.479 Though the party in power power, the party in power 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:39.680 always loses in the midterms. The opportunity that I think 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.080 the consultant class which is running the White House is 0:21:42.119 --> 0:21:47.840 missing is that Democrats aren't the party in power. Even 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:52.800 though Democrats hold the White House and both houses, we're 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.800 the ones taking all the hits. The power is coming 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:59.520 from Republicans controlling the filibuster, with the help of Mansion 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:03.119 in cinema, and from the Supreme Court. So if people 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.679 are more motivated in the mid terms because they're in 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:11.720 the opposition, then you know, it may it may cause 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.760 some people to put their pride aside. But maybe Democrats 0:22:14.800 --> 0:22:16.240 need to make it clear in the message. You know, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:17.719 we even though we got the White House, we are 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.680 the party still in opposition. We're the opposition party because 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.320 everything is happening over and above us. What Supreme Court 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:26.720 did that last week was devastating. They just they flurried 0:22:28.240 --> 0:22:36.600 on the public miranda, state gun laws, the EPA. No, 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:42.399 you're not in power. We are not in power, and 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.840 so we should act like that rather than act as if, well, 0:22:44.880 --> 0:22:47.000 because Joe Biden's a president, we're in power, we might 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:50.919 lose some of the midterms. That's not right being in power. 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:57.200 It's not just what's on paper, but what's real. And 0:22:57.640 --> 0:22:59.680 some of those conversations I've been having on my show 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.879 really ought to go to that mobilizing people understand. You know, folks, 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:06.080 we I know what this looks like, but it really 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:10.320 ain't what it seems to be. And how do you expect? 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:13.240 But I think that that is such that is such 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:18.200 a valid point mark and one that I will say 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:22.320 that I have not been thinking about because they may 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.960 have quote unquote Democrats may have control of these chambers, 0:23:26.320 --> 0:23:29.400 but they actually do not have the power. But if 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:33.840 by perception, we have always been told, right, we've always 0:23:33.880 --> 0:23:36.600 been told that you need to vote because the president 0:23:37.000 --> 0:23:40.879 is the leader of the free world, that the president 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:43.119 is the one that can do this, that and the 0:23:43.119 --> 0:23:46.639 other thing. And then we're remembering what Donald Trump was 0:23:46.720 --> 0:23:51.359 able to do right, and we say, well, wait a minute, 0:23:51.359 --> 0:23:54.960 why did he have such outsized power in that same position? 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:58.640 And yet we have a democratic president now that's saying, oh, 0:23:58.680 --> 0:24:01.680 I don't have any power. Don't remember Donald Trump ever 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:04.600 saying that. I don't remember when Mitch McConnell, now being 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:07.359 in the minority, has said that. So how do we 0:24:07.520 --> 0:24:11.679 message that to people to understand the difference between power 0:24:11.720 --> 0:24:15.320 and control? That's what I'm hearing you say, Well, I 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.280 think we just have to speak directly as to what 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:26.920 the facts are that we suffered a tremendous setback when 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:31.200 Donald Trump was elected president, and now we actually have 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:37.359 one a Senate with a rule, a Senate that supported 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:46.280 him fully implementing a rule that prevents the Democrats from 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:51.440 governing or really preventing Congress from functioning, and a Supreme 0:24:51.480 --> 0:24:57.919 Court appointed by someone who choked out one of his 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:03.240 Secret Service agents encourage people with arms to storm the Capitol. 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:06.480 That's the mentality, and I think people need to under 0:25:06.560 --> 0:25:08.760 I think the January six Committee is doing a good job. 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:16.520 They brought in the right consultants all right in terms 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:17.680 of how to do it, and they didn't try to 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:19.560 do it all in one week. This is gonna be 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:22.800 spread out, you know, and you kind of need that 0:25:22.840 --> 0:25:24.600 because it takes people a minute to take it all in. 0:25:25.040 --> 0:25:26.920 It's probably gonna take another week or so more. That's 0:25:26.920 --> 0:25:29.240 why they pushed the other one to next week for 0:25:29.240 --> 0:25:36.680 people to recover from Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony. You know, Danielle, 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.920 in the movies, when somebody's driving, you grabbed the stairwheel, 0:25:39.960 --> 0:25:41.640 they normally calls us the car to wreck. They should 0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:43.280 just let the car rick grab him to a treat 0:25:43.359 --> 0:25:46.240 or something, or they should have let him gone up there. 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:48.280 They're trying to save his Like if he had gone 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:50.359 up there with them people with them guys, they would 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:52.040 have been a cross fire and he probably might have 0:25:52.080 --> 0:25:56.600 been shot. So now I think that I think that 0:25:56.640 --> 0:25:58.639 in all the reason why they didn't let him go 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:01.040 up there is because there's save in their own asses. 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:05.800 That's why you have uh sipolone getting ready to testify, 0:26:06.040 --> 0:26:09.200 uh this that the testimony is happening. I think it's 0:26:09.200 --> 0:26:12.320 happening uh this week and then we have the hearing 0:26:12.400 --> 0:26:14.520 next week, so we'll hear what it is that he said. 0:26:14.640 --> 0:26:17.880 And why is he testifying? Because Cassidy dropped more bombs 0:26:18.000 --> 0:26:20.680 than I think that we have seen as of yet 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:23.680 come out of this administration. And they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa. 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:26.280 I don't think it was so much. I know that 0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:29.959 their job is to protect the physical body of the 0:26:30.000 --> 0:26:33.520 president and protect like the White House, But they were 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:36.720 protecting their own asses when they didn't allow that man 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:39.320 to go there, because, as he said, they're not here 0:26:39.320 --> 0:26:42.520 to hurt me, which was just I mean, the President 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:47.240 of the United States saying that let him in. They're 0:26:47.280 --> 0:26:49.679 not here. They didn't bring guns to kill me, right, 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:54.840 is an admission that they here to kill somebody, to 0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:59.560 hurt somebody. They're just not here to harm me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, no, 0:26:59.640 --> 0:27:01.600 I just I literally, man, I mean the secret. I mean, 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:03.119 once you've done your job and said you can't go 0:27:03.200 --> 0:27:05.840 up here and he overrules, just let him go, y'all, 0:27:05.880 --> 0:27:08.800 don't go. Don't I'm not going. I got COVID, I'm 0:27:08.800 --> 0:27:14.160 out you topyboy, yourself a knock yourself out, um and 0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:16.840