1 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,720 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Willkate f Daily with 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from my Brooklyn Silarium. Folks, 3 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 1: today is a very important day, not just for people 4 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:28,600 Speaker 1: in Virginia who should be voting right now, but also 5 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: for the country. Essentially, where we are is that we 6 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: have a critical governor's race in Virginia between Republican Glenn 7 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: Yunkin and Democrat Terry mccauliffe. Why is this race so critical, Well, 8 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: because all elections these days are absolutely critical and spell 9 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,839 Speaker 1: for us the future of what our democracy and the 10 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: country is going to look like. Or a better way 11 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: to say that is to give us a signal as 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 1: to where things are going to go in the twenty 13 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: twenty two midterm elections. Now here's the thing that I 14 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,960 Speaker 1: find really interesting about this Virginia race. One is that 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: as the days go on, that the race gets tighter 16 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: and tighter, and for us to be able to say 17 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: comfortably that Terry mcculloff is going to win is not 18 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:18,839 Speaker 1: something that we can say right now. I mean, look, 19 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,920 Speaker 1: you know that I can't stand poles, pole watchers and 20 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: reading the tea leaves because I don't think that after 21 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen we can affirmly say that, oh, yes, these 22 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: numbers are correct. We just don't know, right, we don't. 23 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: Polls essentially determine whether or not how far ahead a 24 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: candidate is or how far behind they are. But it's 25 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: also about the questions that are asked, how those questions 26 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: are asked, who those questions are asked, right, And so 27 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: here's the problem with that. We know that the numbers 28 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: are tightening, but among who and who is really being asked? 29 00:01:53,560 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 1: Right now? We know that already over a million votes 30 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: have been cast in Virginia, which usually bodes very well 31 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: for Democrats, why because we favor mail in voting, early voting, 32 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 1: and all of the things that should in fact just 33 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 1: be the norm across the country. But thank you so 34 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 1: much to the three hundred and some odd voter suppression 35 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 1: laws that have been rolled out and for the Supreme Court, 36 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,160 Speaker 1: you know, not giving a fuck about our democracy. But 37 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 1: I digress. What I'm finding most interesting about this race 38 00:02:20,880 --> 00:02:25,679 Speaker 1: right now is what Glenn Yunkn is deciding that he's 39 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: going to be paying attention to education is on the 40 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: top of his docket, but not education, as in, here 41 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: are the things that Republicans are going to offer to 42 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: make our public school systems better, right, or what he's 43 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: going to do to make education in Virginia top notch? 44 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: Right in comparison to other states across the country. No 45 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,760 Speaker 1: education is number one because of Fox News. Danielle, what 46 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: is this connection that you're making. We'll let me walk 47 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 1: you through it. Over the summer, we heard what term 48 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,200 Speaker 1: became part of our lexicon, critical race theory. This made 49 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 1: up right title for essentially talking about and teaching history 50 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: in a way that isn't just through the lens of 51 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:14,519 Speaker 1: white supremacy, isn't just through the lens of false white exceptionalism. 52 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:18,000 Speaker 1: It is history that is taught and the truth about 53 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: the founding of this nation that is about everyone, right, 54 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: not just the conquerors, right, but those that were conquered. 55 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 1: It is history taught through the lens of non white people. 56 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: But here's the kicker. In Virginia, it's not even being taught. 57 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: And in most places, critical race theory is something that 58 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: is taught in higher education. But you see the right 59 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: wing glabbed globbed onto this as a part of their 60 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: ongoing culture wars, right, because white grievance is so fucking strong. 61 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:58,839 Speaker 1: Nine points is the number that this particular issue has 62 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: jumped to the top of everyone's minds in Virginia education. 63 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 1: But again, it's not education. It is about white grievances, right, 64 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: And the fact that essentially what white people are using 65 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 1: in Virginia as code for their racism is the fact 66 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: that they don't want their grandchildren or their children to 67 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: be taught to feel bad about themselves. But it's totally 68 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 1: okay that we have designed an entire curriculum that is 69 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,360 Speaker 1: about making black and brown children feel like shit, and 70 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: so that should just be customary. And what do I 71 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: mean by that, Well, here's what I mean is that 72 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:38,800 Speaker 1: if you think back to your own public school education, 73 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 1: think back for a moment that outside of February, outside 74 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 1: of Black History Month, who did you learn about, right, 75 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: What black people were you taught about in your school? 76 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: What did you learn about the founding of this country 77 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: that the pilgrims came over and they were so friendly 78 00:04:57,400 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: and nice and then poof, you know, the Native America 79 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: just started dying off. Did you learn about slavery and 80 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:09,520 Speaker 1: how it built the entire economy and infrastructure and capitalism 81 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 1: not only of this country, but around the world. Did 82 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 1: you learn about that? What people did you learn about 83 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: that were significant as innovators as scientists in this country. 84 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: Was it a slew of people that helped to move 85 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 1: our country forward, that helped to create what we know 86 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: now as America? Or was it a small group of 87 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 1: white people that get celebrated every single year, year after year, 88 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,719 Speaker 1: decade after decade to perpetuate the idea of white excellence. 89 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:43,039 Speaker 1: So when we are talking about our education system and 90 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,680 Speaker 1: our education curriculum and what kids are learning, right, this 91 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: was all brought on by the success and brilliance of 92 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 1: the sixteen nineteen project that it gave us a greater 93 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: picture and window into how America evolved and on whose 94 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: back it evolved on and who story was erased from 95 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: the history of this country. It's like, oh, there were 96 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,559 Speaker 1: black people, we stole them. They arrived in the United States. Oh, 97 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,159 Speaker 1: they were fed three meals a day and worked really 98 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: hard for fucking free. Right. Tortured, abused, beaten, raped, all 99 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 1: of these things children ripped from them, literally ripped from 100 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: their bodies, then forced to throw them on their back 101 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: and continue working in the fields where they were raped. Right. 102 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: So like when we think about the reality of this 103 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: fucking country. The sixteen nineteen project brought into our purview 104 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,960 Speaker 1: the truth, and do you know what Republicans do not 105 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:54,000 Speaker 1: like facts and truth. And so they decided that they 106 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: were going to make critical race theory their next boogeyman. 107 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,479 Speaker 1: That it wasn't just going to be abortion, and it 108 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: wasn't just going to be transgender children, or wasn't just 109 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 1: going to be the bathroom issue and not to allow 110 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: transgender people into bathrooms. Know that they were going to 111 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:13,120 Speaker 1: find yet another boogeyman to use to get white people 112 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: on their side, because what the right knows inherently is 113 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: that white people are racist, Right. They don't want their 114 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: children to learn about their past and their history. They 115 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: want the status quo to be maintained. So if we 116 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,880 Speaker 1: scare them just enough, if we utilize Fox News as 117 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:36,280 Speaker 1: the scaremongering tool that it is, then we continue to 118 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: have these quote unquote white conservatives on our side. So 119 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 1: what's really funny to me is that if you're watching 120 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,120 Speaker 1: the news reports right as we build up to this 121 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,800 Speaker 1: election today and probably just be very clear, we probably 122 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 1: won't know right at the end of tomorrow who the 123 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: next governor of Virginia is okay that let's just be 124 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: really clear about that that we are now in a 125 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: space where we will no longer find out on the 126 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: day of an election who actually fucking won. I say 127 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 1: all that to say that the right is really good 128 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: at one thing, which is creating a fear campaign, and 129 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 1: so the idea that white people don't want their kids 130 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 1: to feel bad, the idea that we need to continue 131 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: to perpetuate the lie of white American exceptionalism, and the 132 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,720 Speaker 1: fact that none of this is actually being taught in 133 00:08:30,800 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: Virginia schools at all. Glenn Yuncan has successfully taken over 134 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: the narrative and allowed for the poll numbers in the 135 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: concern around education to rise nine points. And what is 136 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 1: Terry mcculloff doing in response that? What are Democrats doing 137 00:08:47,200 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: in response to that? Nothing? And so again without direct 138 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: and total contrast right, without offering the contrary, without telling 139 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: the truth, without taking these issue who's head on you 140 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: give Republicans all the fucking runway that they need. It 141 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,320 Speaker 1: is infuriating to me that this is where we continue 142 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: to be That Republicans get to offer nothing, they get 143 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 1: to provide no policy platform, they get to just essentially 144 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: you know, use Fox News talking points and their poll 145 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: numbers fucking rise, and so I ask you, it's like, 146 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: what are Democrats doing? What are you paying attention to? 147 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:36,720 Speaker 1: Because it sure as fuck is not what the people 148 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: actually want. And then, to make matters even worse, if 149 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 1: I hear one more person get on television to talk 150 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 1: about how black voters are not motivated and so black 151 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 1: voters are going to cost right the Virginia Democratic candidate 152 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: the election. No, no, no, no, no, let's not even 153 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:02,960 Speaker 1: start with the fuck scapegoating bullshit. The fact of the 154 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: matter is is that the only reason why Joe Biden 155 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,800 Speaker 1: is sitting in the goddamn White House is because of 156 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,560 Speaker 1: Black voters. The only reason why most politicians are sitting 157 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:15,080 Speaker 1: any fucking place is because of black voters, and particularly 158 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 1: black women that come out in large numbers all the 159 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: time and get the fucking job done, knowing, knowing sadly 160 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: that they're never going to have any of their fucking 161 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: needs met. Right, But we're just so accustomed to this 162 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,600 Speaker 1: as black people in America that we're the one that 163 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: have to bear the burden when everything fucking goes left, 164 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: but that nobody provides us with any of the attention 165 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: with any of the policies that we actually need, and 166 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 1: then when we decide that we may sit home and 167 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:48,720 Speaker 1: not vote, that all of a sudden, it's now our problem. 168 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,520 Speaker 1: How about democrats, how about white politicians that you do 169 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,960 Speaker 1: something out of the ordinary, What about you actually deliver 170 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: on the things that the black community and brown communities 171 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 1: need so that they want to vote for you, right 172 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: the same way that we are so fucking interested each 173 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 1: and every single day of going into the white working 174 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: class communities and Biden is in Scranton, or he's in Ohio, 175 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: or he's in these places, but never going to densely 176 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: populated black rural areas or suburban areas or cities to 177 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: talk to them about what you are going to do 178 00:11:28,280 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 1: for them. I'm so fucking tired of using the same 179 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,560 Speaker 1: coded bullshit language that has been used for decades to 180 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: deny black people right what they are fucking do. And 181 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:47,520 Speaker 1: so once again, if Flora, if Virginia, excuse me, if 182 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: Virginia goes to junkin, then who do you think that 183 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 1: they are going to blame their service? Fuck not going 184 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: to blame democrats for not having a clear message. They're 185 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 1: not going to blame Joe Mansion for not eaving the 186 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: president in a win for which can be campaigned on. No, no, no, no, no, 187 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: it's either going to be blamed on black people or 188 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: blamed on progressives, but never laying the blame where it 189 00:12:10,559 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: fucking goes, right, which is understanding that what the right 190 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:23,000 Speaker 1: is doing is constantly, constantly preying on white resentment, white rage, 191 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,559 Speaker 1: white backlash. And why are they able to do that, 192 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: because it's ever fucking present. And what do Democrats do 193 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: in response to that? No, they don't broaden out their base. 194 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 1: They don't try and get people on their side. They 195 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: try and play Kate to white people, right too, right, 196 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:49,959 Speaker 1: to the fucking disadvantage of everybody else. So where Virginia 197 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 1: goes later today or early Wednesday, Lord only knows. The polls, however, 198 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: don't look good and should be the writing on the 199 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:01,720 Speaker 1: wall for Democrats. But as I'm coming on air to 200 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,360 Speaker 1: deliver this to you once again, guess what Joe Mansion 201 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: delivered yet another blow to President Biden's fucking infrastructure agenda 202 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: and again wanting to place the blame on progressives and 203 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: on the Progressive Caucus that is being run by a 204 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,080 Speaker 1: woman of color. And led by women of color to 205 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,080 Speaker 1: blame them and not the fucking old white guy who 206 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:29,280 Speaker 1: is so out of touch with what is going on 207 00:13:29,360 --> 00:13:32,040 Speaker 1: in the country, but very much in touch with what 208 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,400 Speaker 1: is going on in his own pocket right in terms 209 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: of getting all of these paybacks by big coal, right 210 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: and also pharmaceuticals and anyone that is anti climate change 211 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,560 Speaker 1: or anti family leave. Because right now, Joe Mansion decided 212 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,120 Speaker 1: that he was going to have a press conference to 213 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 1: essentially say that he's not going to vote for reconciliation 214 00:13:56,320 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: because he needs to know where the money is coming from, 215 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 1: how this is going to affect the debt. Let me 216 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: tell you something about America right now. If you don't 217 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: understand the sense of urgency and the place of urgency 218 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,160 Speaker 1: that we are in, then you're not paying attention. If 219 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,200 Speaker 1: you are more concerned with the debt and these fucking 220 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 1: rules of the filibuster, then you are with the day 221 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: to day lives of the American people. You are fucking 222 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: out of touch. And what I'm tired of being told 223 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,440 Speaker 1: is that, oh, the President doesn't have this power. Oh, 224 00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:30,800 Speaker 1: it's all up to the Senate. No, do you know 225 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,600 Speaker 1: who these things are up to? Fucking Chuck Schumer, it 226 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:40,640 Speaker 1: is time that you start casting penalties right for Mansion 227 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:43,920 Speaker 1: and Cinema that the majority of America didn't have the 228 00:14:43,960 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: opportunity to vote for. They voted for Joe Biden and 229 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:51,000 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, not fucking President Joe Mansion and Vice President 230 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: Kersen's fucking cinema. And much in the same way that 231 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell has always been able to get his fucking 232 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: team in line and have them shut the fuck up 233 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: and vote in accordance because they understand power for power's sake, 234 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: we still have motherfucker's wanting to get on television and 235 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 1: do this soft euphemism and negotiation with our two right, 236 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: with our two very own obstructionists. Where are the penalties. 237 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: Where is the fear that Chuck Schumer is putting in? 238 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: Where is the threat to say, we're stripping you of 239 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,160 Speaker 1: your committee assignments like you are not a team player, 240 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: right And if you want to go ahead and switch 241 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 1: your party and be a Republican, then fucking do that. 242 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 1: But you're not going to continue to hold up progress 243 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: for over three hundred million Americans because you don't like 244 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,880 Speaker 1: right different parts of this bill, or you want to 245 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: see a pay for Where was this fucking outrage when 246 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: Donald Trump was raising our debt right when was adding 247 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: to it by trillions of fucking dollars? I'm you know it? 248 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: Just and then when when will you offer up a 249 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 1: path to be able to pay for this legislation to 250 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: pay for the expansion of social safety nets? You have 251 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,480 Speaker 1: Kirsten Cinema that's like, oh, I don't want the billionaire tacks. No, no, no, no, no, 252 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: Well why not, right, because the last time I checked, 253 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: there were no fucking billionaires in West Virginia. Right. I 254 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,400 Speaker 1: don't know how many billionaires exist in Arizona, but I 255 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:28,760 Speaker 1: will tell you this that if the rich in this 256 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,840 Speaker 1: country were to actually pay for their fair share, then 257 00:16:31,840 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: we wouldn't have to be concerned with how much is 258 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: being added to the debt. Speaking of the fucking rich, 259 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:42,200 Speaker 1: let me tell you what is rich Elon Musk right 260 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: making a statement to the UN that he would provide 261 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 1: six billion dollars in order to fight world hunger if 262 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: in fact they told him how they were going to 263 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: be spending the money. This is some patriarchal, like fucking 264 00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: white suprema bullshit. The fact that you would have six 265 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: billion dollars to spare right, that isn't going to hurt 266 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,960 Speaker 1: your pockets, and you dangle it like a fucking carrot. 267 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: But much in the same way that nonprofit organizations have 268 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,520 Speaker 1: to do a step and fetch it for fucking philanthropic 269 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 1: organizations so that they can get their general operating funds. 270 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: This is what Elon Musk is doing to the United Nations. 271 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 1: And you want to tell me that there is nothing 272 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,960 Speaker 1: wrong with capitalism when one man, one man who is 273 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 1: not a fucking elected world leader, can make demands of 274 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:41,080 Speaker 1: the United Nations. When I tell you that we are 275 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:44,440 Speaker 1: living in black mirror, when I tell you that squid 276 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,480 Speaker 1: games is about to be fucking real, because you have 277 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: these ultra rich right who are either bored and going 278 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 1: into outer space, or maybe they will develop their own 279 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,560 Speaker 1: real world squid game where they get to watch the 280 00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: rest of us kill each other for their enjoyment. Because 281 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 1: that's the world that we have lived in. That is 282 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 1: the world that are imbalanced fucking capitalistic structure has created 283 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:15,080 Speaker 1: where you have people that are so fucking wealthy, so 284 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 1: fucking wealthy that they could end some of the world's 285 00:18:18,359 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 1: problems in a blink of an eye. But choose not to, 286 00:18:21,680 --> 00:18:24,320 Speaker 1: and if they choose too, they're going to be able 287 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:26,800 Speaker 1: to be in a position to be able to dictate 288 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: how that money is spent. So we're we're what're do 289 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:36,280 Speaker 1: we live in a democracy? Is the world is kleptocracy? Like? 290 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,800 Speaker 1: What the fuck is going on? And if you're not 291 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 1: having a conversation or outraged about the utter imbalance in 292 00:18:45,320 --> 00:18:50,960 Speaker 1: the world right now, then you're not paying attention. So 293 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:55,680 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here and unlike, So, on one hand, you 294 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 1: have Joe Mansion, who is a man that is elected 295 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:05,919 Speaker 1: by I don't even know. West Virginia isn't even the 296 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:11,560 Speaker 1: size of Brooklyn. I've said that before, right, Like West Virginia, 297 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,719 Speaker 1: this state doesn't have nearly as many people, is not 298 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: as population dense as one borough in New York. But 299 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,560 Speaker 1: yet you have this man who also has a population 300 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: of people where the demographics do not look like the 301 00:19:29,040 --> 00:19:33,040 Speaker 1: changing demographics of America, where it is over ninety five 302 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: percent white, being able to stop voting rights right, being 303 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: able to stop any work on climate change, which by 304 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: the way, adversely affects low income black and brown people 305 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 1: because guests who has homes in low lying areas, right 306 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,080 Speaker 1: that are oftentimes flooded or or in tornado zones. Guests 307 00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:59,800 Speaker 1: who is living in conditions where there is diesel f 308 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: and unclean and unsafe drinking water, low income and people 309 00:20:05,400 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 1: of color. But you have this man with a demographic 310 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: makeup of a state that looks nothing like the America 311 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,400 Speaker 1: that we live in now being able to flex without 312 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:22,560 Speaker 1: any fear of any retaliation. Why do you think that 313 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:28,520 Speaker 1: he continues on this destruction path because who's pushing back 314 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: against him? No one. He gets all the fame, all 315 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: the headlines, all the flashing lights and cameras in front 316 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 1: of him in the way that this fame Hohr wants, 317 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,520 Speaker 1: and he faces no consequences. But we know this in 318 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,879 Speaker 1: America that white men in power and are never going 319 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 1: to face consequences for a fucking thing. Ever, that's just 320 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,679 Speaker 1: the reality of what it's like to live here. And 321 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:59,000 Speaker 1: every day I think to myself, Wow, you know, we 322 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:03,919 Speaker 1: really are a shiitthole country when you look around. I 323 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:10,080 Speaker 1: think somebody had put up a slide infographic where it 324 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: was measuring all of the countries in the world that 325 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 1: have paid family leave and to see how many days 326 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: people get in other countries, other developed nations that don't 327 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 1: have a GDP of our size, right, and you are 328 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: providing in some places almost two hundred days a paid 329 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:41,240 Speaker 1: leave and America has zero. But we have the audacity 330 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,480 Speaker 1: to go around the world and talk about how great 331 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: we are. Joe Biden being abroad right now talking about 332 00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: his plans for the world and how America is going 333 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: to work in partnership, and I'm like, if I am 334 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,360 Speaker 1: a foreign leader, I'm saying, you can't even get your 335 00:21:57,359 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 1: own fucking house in order. So what do you doing 336 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: over here telling us what your plans are for the world. 337 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: You can't even get an infrastructure bill passed, you can't 338 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,639 Speaker 1: even get voting rights passed. Who is America right now? 339 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 1: That's the question that we really should be asking, who 340 00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 1: are we? Because we are getting no work done, let 341 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: alone Joe Biden being able to say to foreign leaders 342 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: like America is back? Is it? Because it doesn't seem 343 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:31,719 Speaker 1: back to me? Right, It doesn't seem that with a 344 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,400 Speaker 1: little bit of time that we had with the Presidency, 345 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:37,639 Speaker 1: with the Senate, and with the House, that we have 346 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: gotten anything done. We have spent the last ten eleven 347 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 1: months just fighting amongst ourselves because you have two stunts, 348 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,360 Speaker 1: obstructionists right, who don't want to see progress, who barely 349 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: want to uphold the status quo. But then you want 350 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,960 Speaker 1: to turn around and blame the fact that we can't 351 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 1: get things done on progressives because what because they are 352 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: listening to their constituents that put them in office in 353 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 1: the first place, who want to see action on climate change, 354 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: who want to see paid family leave, who want to 355 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,360 Speaker 1: have broadband, who want to see stronger bridges and tunnels 356 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: that are able right, that are able to withstand every 357 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:33,000 Speaker 1: single season's thousand year storm. I tell you that all 358 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 1: of this, to me, is not even about Republicans obstructionism. 359 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 1: It's not even about their desire to win at their 360 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: slow moving coup and just ushering fascism and authoritarianism. It's 361 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,679 Speaker 1: part of it. But what this really boils down to, 362 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,880 Speaker 1: and what the American people are thinking right now as 363 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,400 Speaker 1: they go to the polls in Virginia and in New 364 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: Jersey and another jurisdiction around the country, is what have 365 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 1: Democrats done? What is the messaging here right? What are 366 00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:12,360 Speaker 1: we selling? Why are we better? It is not just 367 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 1: enough right to say that we're not the Republicans when 368 00:24:17,280 --> 00:24:20,640 Speaker 1: you have nothing else to offer. The only thing that 369 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 1: Democrats can run on right now is their botch vaccination rollout, 370 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,199 Speaker 1: where we are still stuck right in the high fifty 371 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: percentile fifty seven fifty eight percentile of the amount of 372 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,640 Speaker 1: people that have been vaccinated in this country. And again 373 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:42,040 Speaker 1: when you measure us against other industrialized, high wealth nations, 374 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:47,320 Speaker 1: we are last in terms of vaccinations. So again I 375 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 1: ask you, how is it that we think that the 376 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,879 Speaker 1: rest of the world is looking at us and thinking 377 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,119 Speaker 1: that we are the leaders that are swooping in that 378 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 1: they've needed after four years of Donald Trump. If I 379 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,440 Speaker 1: am a for and leader and I'm looking around and 380 00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: I'm saying, America, have a fucking seat, get your own 381 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,359 Speaker 1: house in order before you want to come out the 382 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 1: gate and start dictating to us about what it is 383 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: that we need to do in order to preserve democracy 384 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 1: when you don't even have free and fair elections in 385 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: your country anymore. I just you know, every great empire 386 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: right falls. History has shown us that some last for 387 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: hundreds and thousands of years, right, but they all eventually fall. 388 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:44,399 Speaker 1: We are living inside of America's decline. Everywhere you look, 389 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: and you're measuring the United States against other countries right 390 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,560 Speaker 1: now and we are coming in dead last. So what 391 00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,359 Speaker 1: does that say about us? How do you not stop, 392 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:01,080 Speaker 1: pivot and reflect on how you got here and figure 393 00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:04,960 Speaker 1: out where you're going. I listened to Joe Biden speaking 394 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: and I'm like, again, you sound like a president for 395 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:13,359 Speaker 1: the twentieth century, not the twenty first century. After we've 396 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,920 Speaker 1: lived through and are continuing to live through, a global 397 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 1: health pandemic, racial uprisings, white resentments, right voting rights that 398 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:31,360 Speaker 1: have been gutted, abortion bands that are rolling out all 399 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:36,160 Speaker 1: over the country, and the threat to our democracy has 400 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,600 Speaker 1: never been stopped because you have Merritt Garland sitting somewhere 401 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,919 Speaker 1: in the Justice Department doing what exactly? Because if you 402 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,680 Speaker 1: are not holding people accountable for attempting to overthrow this government, 403 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,440 Speaker 1: then what the fuck are you doing. You can't call 404 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: yourself an institutionalist. You can't say that you're protecting an 405 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 1: institution above protecting our democracy. Everyone else seems to see 406 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: this except for the people that are in power. And 407 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,679 Speaker 1: Democrats are sure as fuck going to stay home. And 408 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,680 Speaker 1: I'm not going to blame them because I don't know 409 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:17,439 Speaker 1: what democrats are running on. What have you done that 410 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:20,240 Speaker 1: you can say to the American people that you deserve 411 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 1: a sixty threshold in the Senate, that you deserve to 412 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:28,400 Speaker 1: have a larger margin in the House of Representatives. What 413 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: are you saying? Nancy Pelosi always wants to talk about 414 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: all of the bills that have passed through the House. 415 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: They mean nothing. It's like walking into a department store 416 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: or fucking going bringing up online at your favorite online 417 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:47,920 Speaker 1: shopping place and using what monopoly money and saying, oh, well, 418 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,680 Speaker 1: here's the money. That's what she's doing with these bills. 419 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, look at all we've done. They mean nothing. 420 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,440 Speaker 1: If they're not going through the Senate, they mean nothing. 421 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:00,760 Speaker 1: If the President is not signing them into law. It's 422 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 1: you doing busy work and presenting that busy work to 423 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: the American people and saying, see, we can get things done. 424 00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:10,879 Speaker 1: But they don't see the effects. The effects are not 425 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: trickling down to them because what you are doing is 426 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:19,439 Speaker 1: performing politics, not providing the people with the solutions that 427 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: they need to better their own lives. This is the 428 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: problem is that when you are on the right, you 429 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,480 Speaker 1: don't need to offer anything. There is no expectation of 430 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:36,160 Speaker 1: offering something new. It is always about taking away what 431 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: has been established. Think about that. Republicans don't offer anything 432 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:47,120 Speaker 1: new over in Virginia. Juncan isn't offering to have a 433 00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:51,320 Speaker 1: overhaul to our education system. Know what he is doing 434 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: is telling white people, Oh, we're not going to teach 435 00:28:55,080 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: this black business over here, because it doesn't matter, because 436 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: that's not American history. Our American history is draped in 437 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: the Confederacy and our ability to conquer and oppress right 438 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: and then say yeay national anthem, yeay patriotism, and not 439 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: understanding what the meaning of that word is. It is 440 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,640 Speaker 1: always about taking something away, taking away women's rights, denying 441 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: LGBTQ people their full humanity, taking away right the ability 442 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: to vote, right, and reinforcing your right to have a gun. 443 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: They don't offer anything, and so it's easy for them 444 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 1: to run on all of the things that they're going 445 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,240 Speaker 1: to take away. And frankly, frankly, without having the House 446 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,719 Speaker 1: or the Senate or the presidency, Republicans seem to be 447 00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: doing really fucking well right now across the country. They 448 00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,239 Speaker 1: are doing really well with all of the pieces of 449 00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 1: state legislation that they're rolling out, and we're sitting around 450 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: twiddling our thumbs, worrying about the federal level, and meanwhile 451 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,920 Speaker 1: they are applying all of the tactics that Trump put 452 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,080 Speaker 1: into play at the local and state level. That is 453 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 1: what should be scaring the shit out of all of us. 454 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 1: But for some reason Democrats are like, you know, we 455 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,840 Speaker 1: just need to play the long game. We'll get them 456 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,000 Speaker 1: next time, folks. There is not going to be a 457 00:30:26,160 --> 00:30:31,280 Speaker 1: next time following midterms, following twenty twenty four. There is 458 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:35,640 Speaker 1: no next time we lose it is it. It's a rap, 459 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:40,320 Speaker 1: that is not hyperbole, that is reality. Look at what 460 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: is happening. And I just wonder, I'm like, where the 461 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 1: fuck is the Biden Harris administration's sense of urgency right 462 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,320 Speaker 1: Where is the forceful fucking language coming from Joe Biden 463 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,400 Speaker 1: saying yeah, Joe, Mansion, Kursten Cinema, have a fucking seat 464 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,520 Speaker 1: in the Oval office right there now, Because I'm going 465 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 1: to ensure that you lose your next election. I am 466 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,680 Speaker 1: going to ensure that your money drives the fuck up. 467 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,239 Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, we are going to 468 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 1: run an aggressive and aggressive campaign against the two of 469 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: you unless you get the fucking line. Where's that Where's 470 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:27,400 Speaker 1: that heat? I see it? Nowhere? All I see is 471 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: you know, tepid responses of We're going to get this 472 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,760 Speaker 1: done for the American people, really, because it doesn't show 473 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: any signs of getting things done when you have Joe 474 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: Mansion holding press conferences that essentially give the entire administration 475 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:52,200 Speaker 1: the finger moving on folks. So another story caught my eye, 476 00:31:53,320 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: which is that a gunmaker is selling pieces in AAR 477 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: fifteen with Joe Biden's face by the trigger and using 478 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: a term that is used in right wing circles, used 479 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:28,000 Speaker 1: in these white supremacy circles, and it's being championed by 480 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 1: members of Congress. And the idea is whether or not 481 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:39,880 Speaker 1: this gunmaker and his use of you know, fuck Joe 482 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:44,680 Speaker 1: Biden phrases and having the trigger with his picture by it, 483 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 1: if that is breaking the law. And I'm saying to myself, man, 484 00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:55,040 Speaker 1: once again, white people can really do whatever the fuck 485 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,240 Speaker 1: they want. They can threaten to kill the vice president 486 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: of the United States. They can now make equipment and 487 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,719 Speaker 1: machinery to threaten to kill the president of the United States. 488 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,360 Speaker 1: And the rest of us are sitting around and going, oh, 489 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 1: I wonder if that's illegal. I wonder if that's considered 490 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: a threat. Oh, I guess it's free speech when it's 491 00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:16,920 Speaker 1: happening out of white people's mouth. But let me let 492 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 1: a black manufacturer make anything with any kind of innuendo 493 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,600 Speaker 1: to threatening violence, and see what the fuck happens. It's 494 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: just so apparent, how racist, how prejudice, how uneven our 495 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,680 Speaker 1: justice is in this country. And the fact that this 496 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:44,600 Speaker 1: manufacturer is making this and it's not being abruptly stopped 497 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 1: by the federal government, that it's not being seen by 498 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 1: the FBI or the CIA as a threat to national 499 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,440 Speaker 1: security because it is threatening the president of the United 500 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: States is beyond me. It's really beyond me. You know 501 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,160 Speaker 1: what isn't beyond me? Let me tell you this. So 502 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:10,160 Speaker 1: right now in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Kyle Rittenhouse case is 503 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 1: selecting jurors. Now. I've talked about Kyle Rittenhouse at NASEM 504 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: because I think that this case, among many others that 505 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: America is watching, is going to dictate what our future 506 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,799 Speaker 1: looks like. And it doesn't look bright. But you know 507 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:33,640 Speaker 1: that because you listen to wokaf so. Rittenhouse killed two 508 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:38,719 Speaker 1: people and wounded one at the age of seventeen when 509 00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:44,279 Speaker 1: he decided to drive from a different state to Wisconsin 510 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:50,680 Speaker 1: to participate or, as he has said, to arm himself 511 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:56,240 Speaker 1: within R fifteen to protect businesses. Who does that sound 512 00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,040 Speaker 1: like that's what Donald Trump was telling people to do 513 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:03,319 Speaker 1: to get arm to protect businesses. He was unloading the 514 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: Coastguard and all of these military groups and outfitting the 515 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:13,319 Speaker 1: police and the latest military gear in order to protect businesses. 516 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:17,400 Speaker 1: Not people right, but property, but white property in particular. 517 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:21,919 Speaker 1: This is the same line of defense that is being 518 00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:26,400 Speaker 1: used right now by Kyle Rittenhouse and his team, which 519 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:32,680 Speaker 1: is that, oh, we are going to say that he 520 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:35,799 Speaker 1: was acting in self defense. I don't see how it 521 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:40,239 Speaker 1: can be taken as self defense to go ahead and 522 00:35:40,360 --> 00:35:44,520 Speaker 1: put yourself purposefully in harm's way in a state that 523 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:48,080 Speaker 1: you don't live in, arming yourself and then saying that 524 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:51,360 Speaker 1: that is self defense after you shoot and kill people 525 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,279 Speaker 1: that you don't agree with politically. But this is where 526 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,080 Speaker 1: we are, and in fact I talked about this last week. 527 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: Circuit judge who is hearing this case, Bruce Schroeder, has 528 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:10,560 Speaker 1: decided that we are not allowed in this courtroom, in 529 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:14,400 Speaker 1: his courtroom to refer to the people, to the victims, 530 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:18,280 Speaker 1: to the people that were murdered and injured by Kyle 531 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:23,800 Speaker 1: Rittenhouse as victims but that instead they can be referred 532 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:27,480 Speaker 1: to as rioters and looters if the defense can prove 533 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,720 Speaker 1: that they were in the act of rioting and looting, 534 00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:31,440 Speaker 1: which I don't know how you would be able to 535 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 1: do that, because, mind you, once again, this is right 536 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: wing rhetoric that was being spread on Fox News and 537 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,520 Speaker 1: on Newsmax and on QAnon and all of these things 538 00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:49,040 Speaker 1: that people that were protesting against unarmed black people being shot, right, 539 00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:53,000 Speaker 1: and Jacob Blake being paralyzed. He was the black man 540 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: that was trying to break up a fight, was walking 541 00:36:56,160 --> 00:37:00,160 Speaker 1: away from police officers when they unloaded seven rounds his 542 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,800 Speaker 1: fucking back, right, But those cops didn't lose their job, 543 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 1: and protests broke out, and Kyle Rittenhouse decided to grab 544 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:17,640 Speaker 1: his AR fifteen, drive to a state that he doesn't 545 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:21,120 Speaker 1: live in and insert himself into a situation he did 546 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,000 Speaker 1: not belong in and then unload on those people. And 547 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,800 Speaker 1: you know what the cops did. The cops offered him water. 548 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 1: What do you need, son, Hope you are okay? Do 549 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:35,600 Speaker 1: you need any rest? As he's walking past police officers 550 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:42,600 Speaker 1: within AR fifteen slung over his fucking shoulder. But in America, 551 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,560 Speaker 1: that is okay. So long as you were male, so 552 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:50,640 Speaker 1: long as you were white. Because the cops are on 553 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,480 Speaker 1: their side, not on ours, Which is why you have 554 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,880 Speaker 1: the people in Minneapolis who are going to decide whether 555 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:04,239 Speaker 1: or not they want police in their cities anymore, right 556 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 1: following the murder of George Floyd. That is on the 557 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 1: ballot today as well, is whether or not they should 558 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,320 Speaker 1: defund the police and put that money towards social services 559 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:22,160 Speaker 1: and different departments right to actually aid the people and 560 00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:29,799 Speaker 1: work in partnership with them. Even the decision by this 561 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:36,080 Speaker 1: judge to refer to people that were murdered who were 562 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:41,160 Speaker 1: exercising their fucking right to protest, be referred to as 563 00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,080 Speaker 1: looters and rioters when that is not who they are. 564 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: I just I can imagine, I cannot imagine how the 565 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:56,239 Speaker 1: family and the friends of these victims feel. Right. So, 566 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,280 Speaker 1: we always want to talk about the fact that justice 567 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:05,799 Speaker 1: is blind and it is anything fucking but it is racist, 568 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:13,920 Speaker 1: it is misogynistic, it is steeped in patriarchy, it is 569 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:19,160 Speaker 1: anything but neutral. And this judge's actions already show us 570 00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,359 Speaker 1: where this case is headed. Kyle Rittenhouse will get off 571 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:28,560 Speaker 1: just like all of the people who decided to storm 572 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:32,240 Speaker 1: the Capitol Building with only a handful getting a couple 573 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:36,400 Speaker 1: of months of sentences in federal prison. But the large 574 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,560 Speaker 1: majority of white folks deciding to rage against this made 575 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,920 Speaker 1: up machine, they get to go on with their lives. 576 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,359 Speaker 1: But the Jacob Blakes of the world, yeah, they either 577 00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:51,360 Speaker 1: find themselves in a wheelchair because of police officers or 578 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:59,000 Speaker 1: in a casket like George Floyd and Brianna Taylor. It 579 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: is really hard to continue to have faith in this 580 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:10,400 Speaker 1: country when you spend time just paying attention, it is 581 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:17,440 Speaker 1: really hard to be woke, to be conscious of all 582 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:20,480 Speaker 1: of the injustice that is happening. And that's why I 583 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:24,359 Speaker 1: continue to say that being woke as fuck isn't just 584 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,680 Speaker 1: about being in a state of rage, as James Baldwin 585 00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,880 Speaker 1: talked about all the time. It is not just about 586 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:33,320 Speaker 1: being in a state of rage, but it is finding 587 00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:39,600 Speaker 1: balance in your life, finding ways right to create balance 588 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:42,240 Speaker 1: where you can both be at rage and at rest 589 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:48,560 Speaker 1: and not just opervacillating between those two extremes. Being conscious 590 00:40:48,560 --> 00:40:51,160 Speaker 1: to the fact that the leaves are changing if you're 591 00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:56,120 Speaker 1: on the East Coast and you're in you know, fall right, 592 00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,200 Speaker 1: to being conscious to the beauty, to the good you 593 00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,600 Speaker 1: come across in your feed and not just focusing on 594 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 1: the bad. Because I'm telling you, after a few hours 595 00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,480 Speaker 1: a day each day of watching news, reading news, you 596 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:15,279 Speaker 1: want to give up, right, because it's a self fulfilling 597 00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,720 Speaker 1: prophecy in a lot of ways, because all the news 598 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,600 Speaker 1: does is highlight everything that is bad. It's not like 599 00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 1: we have daily segments each and every hour that are 600 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:31,879 Speaker 1: dedicated to even five minutes worth of good news. That 601 00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:37,399 Speaker 1: doesn't sell. What sells is pain. That's what Facebook knows, right. 602 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,799 Speaker 1: They know that as long as people stay enraged, as 603 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,720 Speaker 1: long as people stay in their tribes, then they stay 604 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,120 Speaker 1: online and they make more money. Capitalism and greed is 605 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:52,279 Speaker 1: going to be what kills us and what destroys our 606 00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:57,600 Speaker 1: democracy because we have leaders like Mansion and Cinema that 607 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:06,080 Speaker 1: are bought and sold, right, bought and sold by big corporations. 608 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:11,600 Speaker 1: Because we've allowed so much money, so much bullshit to 609 00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,879 Speaker 1: be a part of our politics, that our voices don't 610 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:22,120 Speaker 1: even make it up to the top. It's hard. I know, 611 00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 1: I find myself some days, and I've been finding myself friends. 612 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:30,319 Speaker 1: I got to tell you quite emotional these days, right, 613 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,080 Speaker 1: And I'm not beating myself up about it because frankly, 614 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:36,840 Speaker 1: I think that tears are helpful, right. I said to 615 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,480 Speaker 1: a friend the other day, I said, you know what 616 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:43,560 Speaker 1: crying is like mini baptismals. Right, It's just a kind 617 00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:48,680 Speaker 1: of you know, rebirth in a way, allow it to 618 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:54,319 Speaker 1: to wash through you. But at the same time, I'm 619 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,759 Speaker 1: just like the I have to balance the amount of 620 00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:06,440 Speaker 1: bad with a lot of good and even overdue the good, 621 00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:10,720 Speaker 1: overdue acts of service and kindness and joy and looking 622 00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:17,799 Speaker 1: actively searching for those things because the alternative is just 623 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,160 Speaker 1: too much. The last thing that I want to touch 624 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:25,040 Speaker 1: on on today's will Gate app is this, which is 625 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,560 Speaker 1: on top of you know, cases that are being heard 626 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,360 Speaker 1: in states and at the federal level with regard to 627 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:38,640 Speaker 1: the insurrectionists, we also have the abortion ban that is 628 00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:43,720 Speaker 1: being heard, the Texas abortion ban. Oral arguments happened today 629 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:49,200 Speaker 1: and that ban was written in a very sneaky way 630 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:57,480 Speaker 1: where the power of deciding who gets charged with whatever 631 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,080 Speaker 1: it is that they're trying to charge people within Texas 632 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,359 Speaker 1: is that the states have let their hands go, right, 633 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:08,920 Speaker 1: have put their hands up and essentially deputized every member 634 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,400 Speaker 1: of Texas and every member of the United States to 635 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,400 Speaker 1: be able to bring charges against anyone that they like 636 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,080 Speaker 1: at any time, So in a de facto way, shutting 637 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,640 Speaker 1: down all abortion clinics because these people who are providers 638 00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:28,160 Speaker 1: do not have the bank roll to be able to 639 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,360 Speaker 1: be subject to ten thousand dollars bounties by each and 640 00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:34,920 Speaker 1: every individual that chooses to do so, so they have 641 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,680 Speaker 1: forced them to close down. That was the point. But 642 00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,200 Speaker 1: what the Supreme Court and what some of even the 643 00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:44,640 Speaker 1: conservative justice are saying, are how dangerous it is if 644 00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:48,799 Speaker 1: this is allowed to stand, because you can then use 645 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:54,520 Speaker 1: that same bit of logic on anything, right, deputize people 646 00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,800 Speaker 1: in this country to do a whole host of things 647 00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,479 Speaker 1: on policies that you don't like, which is and putting 648 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,760 Speaker 1: the authority into the people's hands, not our voting of course, 649 00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:11,319 Speaker 1: and turning America back into the wild, wild West. But 650 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:16,000 Speaker 1: that is how they are making these incredibly precarious laws. 651 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,600 Speaker 1: So we're watching that case. Later on next month is 652 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,399 Speaker 1: going to be the Mississippi case with a fifteen week 653 00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:29,440 Speaker 1: abortion ban. And I said over the weekend on Reverend 654 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:34,320 Speaker 1: Owl's show on MSNBC that effectively we are gutting Roe v. Wade. 655 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:39,279 Speaker 1: It will just be in name only, because once you 656 00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:44,279 Speaker 1: allow a fifteen week ban to stand. Right now, we're 657 00:45:44,280 --> 00:45:47,880 Speaker 1: at twenty four weeks. If you allow that to decrease 658 00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:51,160 Speaker 1: to fifteen, we know what is going to happen again. 659 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,359 Speaker 1: There are a number of reasons why people who are 660 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,759 Speaker 1: pregnant do not know that they are pregnant right at 661 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:00,360 Speaker 1: that time. And when you crunch in the time line 662 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,879 Speaker 1: with the effective you know, oh, you need to come 663 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:06,120 Speaker 1: back after a day when you go to the clinic, 664 00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,560 Speaker 1: you need to come back because there's a waiting period 665 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:11,040 Speaker 1: in some states. And then when you have to drive 666 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,279 Speaker 1: cross states, write or change states in order to go 667 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:18,319 Speaker 1: to these places, it's just more time. And that's what 668 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:24,080 Speaker 1: these anti choice, pro force birth people want to happen. 669 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:26,759 Speaker 1: So those are the cases that we are going to 670 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:30,040 Speaker 1: be watching, along with the Written House case and others 671 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,400 Speaker 1: that we will be keeping our eyes on here on 672 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:36,279 Speaker 1: Woke af And now that we're in video, please do 673 00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,880 Speaker 1: share your comments and thoughts under how you think that 674 00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,600 Speaker 1: it's going, if you are enjoying it, and what else 675 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,719 Speaker 1: you would like to see. We love to hear from 676 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 1: all of you as always, dear friends, Power to the 677 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:57,480 Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and 678 00:46:57,600 --> 00:46:59,040 Speaker 1: stay woke. As fuck